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Russian Missiles in Venezuela: A Potential Disaster in the Making
https://nationalinterest.org ^ | July 19, 2021 | by Michael Peck

Posted on 07/19/2021 3:37:06 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19

ere's What You Need to Remember: That the Soviet Union withdrew its ballistic missiles from Cuba in 1962 is well known. And also well known is that in return, the United States quietly agreed to withdraw its Jupiter missiles from Turkey.

With the United States developing a new generation of cruise missiles in response to alleged Russian arms control violations, a response from Moscow was inevitable.

But Russian missiles in Venezuela? That’s what some Russian commentators are calling for in retaliation for the Trump administration withdrawing from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty. The Pentagon has already tested a new ground-launched cruise missile with a range of 500 kilometers (311 miles), which exceeds INF Treaty limits.

“Russia has legal grounds, in response to the emergence of new weapons from the USA after leaving the INF Treaty, to deploy their submarines and ships with medium and shorter-range missiles in relative proximity to the U.S. borders,” Major General Vladimir Bogatyrev, a reservist and chairman of the National Association of Reserve Officers, told Russian newspaper Nezavisimaya Gazeta.

(Excerpt) Read more at nationalinterest.org ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cuba; iran; opec; russia; venezuela
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1 posted on 07/19/2021 3:37:06 PM PDT by RomanSoldier19
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To: RomanSoldier19

Sorry but the Pentagon’s Enemy is now inside the US


2 posted on 07/19/2021 3:40:50 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: RomanSoldier19

They are just threatening in order to get the Xiden gang to caver in and hand them the keys to the store. They’ll get it too.


3 posted on 07/19/2021 3:48:22 PM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: RomanSoldier19

I do believe that when Reagan was resident, we learned that Russia never removed the missile from Cuba. It was after then that Reagan forced them to remove the missile.

The Russians hoodwinked JFK, but then again JFK was no better than Clinton in many ways.


4 posted on 07/19/2021 3:52:21 PM PDT by OneVike (Just another Christian waiting to go home)
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To: Seruzawa

Monroe Doctrine. Is dead as is JFK


5 posted on 07/19/2021 3:52:46 PM PDT by shadeaud (We have to discover the real truth and who did all the funding. This is American ....Defend it)
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To: shadeaud

I mourn Monroe much more than JFK.


6 posted on 07/19/2021 3:56:18 PM PDT by Scrambler Bob (My /s is more true than your /science (or you might mean /seance))
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To: butlerweave

To include those inside the Pentagon “woke personnel”


7 posted on 07/19/2021 4:10:21 PM PDT by grcuster
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To: OneVike

Russia is the eternal enemy. It is past time to put them away.


8 posted on 07/19/2021 4:10:28 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: shadeaud
"Monroe Doctrine. Is dead as is JFK"

Billy Jeff followed the Monroe doctrine in spirit.


9 posted on 07/19/2021 4:10:56 PM PDT by Rebelbase (Play with knives long enough and you will eventually bleed.)
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To: rrrod

How?


10 posted on 07/19/2021 4:11:40 PM PDT by TTFX ( )
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To: rrrod
Russia is the eternal enemy. It is past time to put them away.

Lets see the U.S. is completely divided, near the verge of Civil War and you say we should start a war with Russia?

11 posted on 07/19/2021 4:16:44 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: butlerweave

So true....I worry more about our military if the woke take over


12 posted on 07/19/2021 4:25:54 PM PDT by toddausauras (How far will the left go in terms of destroying our personal freedoms?)
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To: dragnet2

Nope. With Biden and the Democrats in power and allied with China/Russia we don’t have a chance.


13 posted on 07/19/2021 4:28:53 PM PDT by rrrod (6)
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To: RomanSoldier19
Do they need coordinates on select Democrat strongholds?

Can't get all worked up about those who want to vaporize my enemies. Biden was really flip about nuking his own citizens.

Well, guess what?

14 posted on 07/19/2021 4:35:18 PM PDT by jonascord (First rule of the Dunning-Kruger Club is that you do not know you are in the Dunning-Kruger club.)
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To: dragnet2

Don’t you think a nuclear exchange would be fun? After all, it’ll be just like WW2, when we all pull together!

I think?


15 posted on 07/19/2021 4:36:17 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
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To: RomanSoldier19
Russian Missiles in Venezuela: A Potential Disaster in the Making

In other news, the Brooklyn Bridge is for sale again.

16 posted on 07/19/2021 4:42:38 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (Celebrate Decivilization)
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To: toddausauras
So true....I worry more about our military if the woke take over

So true....I worry more about our military since the woke took over (edited for current day).

17 posted on 07/19/2021 4:49:03 PM PDT by redcatcherb412
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To: Rebelbase

JFK made it with hot, hot women. Clinton went for trash


18 posted on 07/19/2021 4:51:14 PM PDT by atc23
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To: RomanSoldier19

Joe Biden has already responded. He gave them a list of 16 targets in the U.S. that are off limits to Russian missiles.


19 posted on 07/19/2021 4:55:08 PM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: RomanSoldier19

**** And also well known is that in return, the United States quietly agreed to withdraw its Jupiter missiles from Turkey. ****

Not really that well known. Mostly the MSM goes with the narrative that Kennedy went eyeball to eyeball Khrushchev and Khrushchev blinked. Here’s what happened in chronological order:

a: USA sent missiles to Turkey
b: Soviets sent missiles to Cuba
c: Soviets withdrew missiles from Cuba
d: USA withdrew missiles from Turkey.

Only b&c are normally mentioned in a story about the “Cuban Missile Crises”, but Khrushchev got exactly what he wanted (d).


20 posted on 07/19/2021 5:04:41 PM PDT by libertylover (Our biggest problem by far: most of the news media is agenda driven, not truth driven.)
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