It is increasingly clear that the war the United States and Israel are fighting in Iran, however long it continues, will reverberate not only in the Middle East but in other regions as well. It has already revealed the U.S.' strategic incoherence when viewed through the prism of another conflict: Russia's war against Ukraine.

Since Iran's Islamist dictatorship has long been a Kremlin ally and partner — and a supplier of the Shahed drones Russia has been using in the war in Ukraine — the immediate take was that the Israeli-American assault on the regime in Tehran was bad news for Russian President Vladimir Putin and good news for Ukraine. But it turns out that the situation is more complicated. Iran's role in providing drones to Russia is much less important today than it was two or three years ago, since Russia now produces a domestic version of those drones. While Russia still has been receiving missiles and ammunition from Iran, losing........

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