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Iran, Russia, China To Run War Drills in Latin America
https://freebeacon.com/national-security/iran-russia-china-to-run-war-drills-in-latin-america/

Adam Kredo
July 5, 2022
Iran, Russia, and China are gearing up to run a series of major war drills in Latin America in a show of force meant to signal how these militaries can reach the United States.

Venezuela, under the leadership of anti-U.S. socialist president Nicolás Maduro, is scheduled to host the war games in mid-August, according to a report by the Center for a Secure Free Society, a think tank that tracks malign regimes. Along with 10 other nations, Russia, China, and Iran will move their militaries into the Western Hemisphere for war drills that will “preposition forward-deployed military assets in Latin America and the Caribbean.”

The war games, known as the Sniper Frontier competition, show that these malign regime from across the globe are uniting and “getting ready to make a loud statement that the region is ready to embrace the multipolar force,” according to the think-tank report, which focuses on Latin America’s embrace of authoritarian regimes. A key portion of Russia’s “military is prepping to bring, for the first time, some of these military games to the Western Hemisphere”—even as Moscow is bogged down with war in Ukraine.

The war drills are one of the starkest signs to date that Latin America’s coalition of anti-U.S. regimes is working to boost relations with Russia, China, and Iran. Maduro recently wrapped up a diplomatic tour of the Middle East in which he inked a 20-year strategic deal with Iran that laid the groundwork for an Iranian oil tanker to dock in Venezuela and offload Tehran’s illicit crude. “The strategic deal between Iran and Venezuela is meant to mirror similar strategic agreements that the Islamic Republic signed with China and Russia in recent years,” according to the think-tank report. Latin American regimes also are inking military pacts with Russia.

“Russia and its allies Iran and China are about to make a major show of force with the army games competition in August in Venezuela. But it’s important to understand that this force is molded by cyber-enabled, digital disinformation that is at the heart of how this kind of joint military exercise is used to legitimize authoritarian states and delegitimize democracies in the Western Hemisphere,” Joseph Humire, a national security analyst and executive director of the think tank, told the Washington Free Beacon. “By normalizing military movements of U.S. adversaries in the Caribbean, we run the risk of weakening the moral legitimacy of democracies in Latin America.”

There are also signs that Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the country’s paramilitary fighting force, is boosting its presence in Latin America.

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Thus is an interesting source, not seen before.

At the bottom of the article, it states: "This article was first published on the December 2021 issue of the Defense Dossier (The Americas Influx), a publication by the American Foreign Policy Council."

The magazine is published by the US Southern Command, through FWG Solutions in Washington DC, a private company well connected with the defense industry.

The domain was registered in the last year of the Clinton administration, in 1999, and operates until now. USASpending.gov shows its last contract from the government ended in November of last year, and so the current DOD under Secretary Hegseth, in line with cost reductions as the Trump-Vance administration moves forward, might affect FWG Solutions and Diálogo magazine, which oddly printed a disclaimer against its articles at the bottom of the page sourced.

This is not just China and Russia. The Maduro regime has followed the strategies of Hugo Chavez and uses Cuban, Iranian, Nicaraguan and advisors and security people from other terrorist/evolutionary states to act as strategic partners and enforcers for his regime.

All are looking at developing military bases and infrastructure in Venezuela as a staging ground against the US .

China has been the most aggressive and Russia typically uses Iran as a Proxy. Lula is doing the same in Brazil and the Chinese have been in the process of taking over the Panama Canal for a long time. America's

Democrats are not far behind.

Bill Clinton leased out the the Long Beach Naval Shipyards and the Long Beach point of entry in California to the Chinese in 1999 and Obama tried a similar scheme with various strategic US ports while he was in office.

The only thing that seems to change is that Republican Party seems to have become as bought off by the Chinese as the Democrats and present a united Uni Party front when it comes to selling access and influence to China and Chinese interests