I thought Putin might becoming reasonable and not want to be enemy with the US.
But this was and is a very bad situation.
CNNIs Fake news
I think Putin was very measured in dealing with Obama’s promotion of ISIS more or less in his backyard. I can understand him not trusting the US, and wanting to get back at us by establishing a foothold in our backyard.
Maduro and Chavez were stupid, greedy, arrogant, and incompetent. They mortgaged their country to Russia, Cuba, and China. The mortgage holders don’t want to go away empty handed.
“I thought Putin might becoming reasonable and not want to be enemy with the US.”
Yeah, especially after we have treated him with such friendship and haven’t done anything to screw with him around his borders, falsely made him and his country the scapegoat for Hillary’s loss. Supported that farce with a raft of economic sanctions. Since we haven’t done anything like that, you’d expect he would support our national goals.
Weird.
If Venezuelans hadn’t given up their guns they would be able to oust the succession of dictators and foreign provocateurs that now plague them. Their predicament is a cautionary tale for those in America who would limit the Second Amendment.
he was ready to leave this morning as we understand it and the Russians indicated he should stay
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So the Russians are effectively in control of a country in our hemisphere. We need to apply more pressure. If we don’t they will see it as weakness and look for more places to cause trouble. Time for a display of our strength and raw power.
Or maybe Putin just didn’t want this kind of hot potato handed to him. Madura and his crimes and failures are going to have a lot of people pissed off at him, and the Russians don’t want to be seen as giving him sanctuary in Cuba. (Of course if they start actively trying to keep him in power, then maybe I’m wrong.)
Putin wants that military base in Venezuela. Not gonna happen.
... the Russians “indicated” he should stay - likely the barrel of a Spetsnaz trooper did the “indicating”.
French Guiana is just down the beach from Venezuela.
Let’s pay the Foreign Legion with Venezuelan oil to go there and throw the Cubans into the sea.
I don’t know.....50,000 barrels for each dead Cuban?
It sounds like Russia wants their money or they will feed Maduro to the Venezuela na.
“Claims”?
How about “says” or “stated”?
CNN headline writer means to imply SoS is lying.
Why aren’t we seeing any UN involvement?
Putin is a Russian. This is what they do.
I don’t believe anything that Pompeo says or that CNN reports. This approach has proven correct 9 times out of 10.
Keep Hope Alive!
Putin puffers wiil try to spin this into smone anti American B.S....won’t work because Putin has always been the enemy.
We should offer him a nice free condo in Rio Linda if that’s all it takes to Make Venezuela Great Again.
I assume Maduro has already shipped a chunk of his country’s gold supply to China or Russia ahead of his fleeing
Pompeo is probably a bigger liar than Satan. I have read the doc’s he authored on VZ from when he was @ CIA.
An interesting statement.
onald J. Trump @realDonaldTrump
....embargo, together with highest-level sanctions, will be placed on the island of Cuba. Hopefully, all Cuban soldiers will promptly and peacefully return to their island!
5:09 PM · Apr 30, 2019
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