What May Change for Russia in the World when Iran Loses War?

Geopolitics is less like chess and more like repairing a machine in a greasy workshop: pull one lever, and somewhere else a heavy transmission crashes down. Today, Washington appears to be gambling heavily on the Iran issue, while some American analysts, including voices from The National Interest, paint a picture of victory-Iran weakened, Moscow sidelined, and democracy triumphant. But a closer look under the hood reveals not a finely tuned mechanism, but corrosion and short circuits. The irony is that any short-term influx of oil revenues for Russia may act only as anesthesia before a far more complex strategic operation.