There was this thing called the Monroe Doctrine designed to stop things like this. oops, another old white guy president, my mistake.
Unrelated, but one of my favorite Monroe quotes.
Posted on 02/04/2022 11:39:26 AM PST by Roman_War_Criminal
Venezuela is moving troops to the border with Colombia with technical assistance from Russia and Iran, Colombia's defense minister Diego Molano said on Thursday, calling the possible deployment "foreign interference."
Molano, citing intelligence sources, said troop movements were registered in Venezuela opposite Colombia's Arauca province, the scene of fierce fighting between guerrillas of the National Liberation Army (ELN) and FARC dissidents for control of the drugs trade.
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The Russians and Iranians need to be tortured.
I have a funny feeling that I should be making more ammo.
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1983 : (COLUMBIA : ) FARC’s war on America dates back to 1983 when the Marxist terror group took its first American hostage.
1996 : (COLUMBIA : ) Frank Pescatore, a geologist, was kidnapped and murdered by FARC in 1996. The Marxist terrorists packed his body with lime and formaldehyde and tried to pretend that he was still alive in the hopes of collecting a ransom for him.
1999 spring : (COLUMBIA : ) “Take them across the river and burn them.” That was how the lives of three left-wing American environmental activists had ended in the spring of 1999. Their killers were members of the FARC Marxist terror group. The victims were shot in the face after being tortured.
2008 :(THAILAND : Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout , Merchant of Death, is arrested — see Liberia’s Charles Taylor, Columbian narcoterrorists FARC)
2015 : (WASHINGTON, DC : -— see COLUMBIA) Obama administration says that it would not seek the extradition of FARC terrorists.
2016 : (COLUMBIA : FARC — see Obama, Biden Admin) Marxist rebels, formally known as the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, and the Colombian government signed a historic peace accord.
NOVEMBER 2021 : (WASHINGTON DC : Biden Admin announces plan to remove Columbian terrorist group FARC from list of foreign terrorist organizations — see COLUMBIA ) The Biden administration’s plan to remove a Colombian rebel group from a list of foreign terrorist organizations barely caused a ripple outside Washington when the news broke this week.
FEBRUARY 2022 : (RUSSIA, IRAN meddling against COLUMBIA -— see FARC)
AUGUST 2022 : (COLUMBIA : Former M-19 guerilla Gustavo Petro is sworn in as president -— see son Nicolas Petro, drugs,narcoterrorism)
Maybe the Russians are looking for a base to setup “defensive” nuclear weapons.
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