Day seven of Operation Epic Fury. The Washington Post reports Russia is providing Iran with satellite imagery of American warships and aircraft positions. The Kremlin declines to comment. This episode enters Russia's information environment, decision architecture, strategic calculus, and domestic discourse. State television, independent exile media, milblogger Telegram channels, diaspora voices, the partnership architecture, Putin's operating system, the intelligence-sharing threshold, the nuclear interregnum, and the diplomatic vacuum between the two largest nuclear powers. Twelve chapters. Seven perspectives steelmanned. Six frameworks applied. Episode 15. ~12,000 words.

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