So you have no issue with a Russian naval base, or other military presence, in our back yard?
“So you have no issue with a Russian naval base, or other military presence, in our back yard?”
They can’t maintain it or supply it. Their economy is in shambles. They are involved in several conflicts. They are suffering a demographic collapse that will cut their military in half by 2022. And, like those militarized islands in the South China sea, any base would be a small speedbump for US forces.
A base as remote as Venezuela would exhaust their limited logistics supply ability, making their overall remaining military weaker.