Bah.
China has the most to lose. Huge sums.
Russia is there to protect China’s interests.
BTW though, the ‘new guy’ is a staunch socialist. Just more reasonable, for a sociaiist...
I assumed the new guy wasn’t conservative by any definition because he wasn’t in jail or exile.
Venezuela shares one problem with Cuba and many American cities: The cream of the crop has left, and many of those people remaining want a nanny state. In all three cases, many of the whites have left, and the non-whites remaining tend to be “socialist”. Over twenty years ago people from Venezuela’s upper and middle classes started moving their families here to the NYC area; they knew what was coming.