Russia is majorly bled due to the American support to Ukraine. In light of that, not using whatever leverage they can have to pressurize the Americans sounds stupid to me. But then I never thought the Russians were good strategic thinkers--they have immense resources and they throw in soldiers into meat grinders and often prevailed. Heck, the Americans were in their backyard for 20 years in Afghanistan until recently and Russia did diddly squat while the Americans were already bleeding Russia after the 2014 coup in Ukraine.
Well, I am not sure I can conclude the same
Twenty years ago Russia was on its knees right
During those twenty years Russia has recovered and NATO has fortified around it, Ukraine especially
Russia is regarding this war as defensive, though they are invading
So their strategic goal here is to neutralise Ukraine, that's plenty
Russia has always shown deference to Israel in Syria, there must be a reason why
you cannot expect them to fortify Iran, I don't know what other strategy they are capable of?
Let's say Russia supports action against Israel, NATO could green light polish involvement, I am just wildly guessing, things would get uncontrollable
I still find it curious that the USA runs off from Afghanistan in a hurry, then all these events happen, perfect synchronization