Seeing as how the Newsweek article is reporting on a TASS article, here is the original TASS article: https://tass.com/world/1874981

and in Archive form: https://archive.ph/1Pdw9

Kinda wish the US would let Israel drag it into a broad war in the Middle East already, so Russia could arm Iran and Syria with hypersonic missiles.

Article is full of insinuating he’s a Russian asset for stating his opinion.

Lots of :heartbreaking: in this article, but its pure hypocrisy since they will continue the whole thing on Jan 20.