Fast forward to this 2024 Wall Street Journal piece, which I can't even imagine trying to explain to 11th grade Tamara:
“The United States is concerned that Russian negotiations to acquire close-range ballistic missiles from Iran are actively advancing,” one of the U.S. officials said. “We assess that Russia intends to purchase missile systems from Iran.”
Delivery of the Iranian missiles could happen as soon as this spring if the purchase proceeds, but U.S. officials don’t believe the deal has been completed.
The Iranian missiles would add to Moscow’s recent acquisitions, which include ballistic-missile launchers and several dozen ballistic missiles from North Korea, the officials said.
On Thursday, National Security Council spokesman John Kirby said that Russian forces fired at least one of the missiles into Ukraine last week and that it had landed in an empty field.
Several days earlier, Russia had launched multiple North Korean ballistic missiles, which have a range of about 550 miles, and the U.S. was still assessing those attacks, Kirby said.
"Well, 1984 Me, it turns out that the Nineties are going to be unexpectedly faboo, but then stuff's gonna start getting weirder and weirder and you just aren't gonna be ready for 2016 and beyond."
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