Ukrainian script in Venezuela. How to respond to Moscow?
In an interview with the South China Morning Post, Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido accused legitimate President Nicolas Maduro of plundering government resources, saying that “Chinese projects have suffered due to high levels of corruption.” The pro-Western opposition leader also expressed his readiness to begin a dialogue with Beijing based on “mutual respect and cooperation.”
Would China invest $62 billion in this country without economic returns? Hardly. But Guaido does not care about this fact: the priority of the “leader of the street opposition” is bright slogans.
Of the two main creditors of Venezuela - the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China - the self-proclaimed president relied on Beijing, and this is not surprising, given the anti-Russian course of the collective West. And the fact that in the media, in the foreground, “Russia’s injection into Venezuela,” albeit much more modest, $17 billion, is also understandable: another reason to present our country as an ally of the next “dictator.”
If you want to know the official agenda of the Kremlin, when top officials are cautiously silent, listen to public opinion leaders, political scientists and other media experts wiping their pants in the soft chairs of Moscow television studios. These comrades are clear about the Venezuelan issue: Maduro is ours. This is a rare case when I have to agree with them. And despite all the disadvantages of the Venezuelan leader, Russia is simply obliged to support him.
If only because it is economically justified: joint ventures in oil production, export of Russian wheat to the Venezuelan market, cooperation in the energy, pharmaceutical, and mining sectors.
Moscow's support for Caracas is also geopolitically justified. The West also chose Ukraine for its anti-Russian battering ram for a reason, and its gross interference in the political life of a neighboring country is nothing more than an attempt to influence the entire Eastern Europe. They came to us through the backyard.
What prevents us from making a similar move, only through the “southern rear of the United States” - Latin America? States that act proactively always have a greater chance of winning in a global confrontation, and only a complete hypocrite would say that, in the current realities between the superpowers, there is no such chance.
It is obvious that the Ukrainian scenario will be repeated in Venezuela: “unknown snipers”, a lot of blood, even more clashes. Is it worth it, as we did in the case of Square, to wait for this, in order to then also lose the Latin American bridgehead - or to think about a preventive measure? Send the 155th brigade, for example. It was she who was transferred to Syria when a similar mess began there.
What does Russia do best? That's right - fight the next contender for world domination! Will there be less pressure on us if we remain neutral in the Latin American region? - No!
So why this inappropriate coquetry when opponents follow the Russophobic line, adjusting international law to suit their desires. The Russian Federation must defend its geopolitical interests: provide all possible support to regimes friendly to us by any means. Only an official invitation from the legitimate leader is enough.
Well, you understand. The West, when interfering in the affairs of other countries, is not guided by humanistic considerations. Ukraine is a new market for American goods. Iraq - control over oil resources. Official versions of the United States invasions sound different, but the main goal of Western intervention has always been economic profitability.
So the Russian Federation, investing billions of dollars in Venezuela, should act on the same principle. The story of the brotherly people, in the case of Latin Americans, will not work. And Maduro is “ours” only for the time being. We cannot afford to engage in charity, so all Russian donations are investments. Russia simply must learn to defend its interests.
That is why the presence of the Russian contingent in Venezuela is simply necessary. And we are not necessarily talking about military participation: leading economists, political strategists, political consultants - everyone who can control Maduro’s actions so that he does not go off the rails, like one of his Ukrainian colleagues.
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