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Kremlin-linked contractors swoop in to guard Venezuela's Maduro
2019-01-26
[NY Post] Putin's Bitch, now

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Posted by:Frank G

#6  Perhaps Vlad should be reminded of the Monroe Doctrine.

To which he would reply "Ukraine".
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2019-01-26 14:30  

#5  I am opposed to any US intervention in Ukraine or Crimea. I am even more opposed to any Russian intervention in Venezuela.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-01-26 14:20  

#4  I missed this one before I posted my link to Austin Bay's quick note on the same subject, otherwise I'd have put it in the comments here, kept everything consolidated/aggregated.

Perhaps Vlad should be reminded of the Monroe Doctrine.

Perhaps everyone who thinks they're Fighting The Russians by supporting The Bureaucrats vs. Donald Trump need to be told there's a place they can go to fight _actual_ Russians, right in South America. And to take the Bureaucrats with them.
Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain   2019-01-26 13:28  

#3  Perhaps Vlad should be reminded of the Monroe Doctrine.
Posted by: Abu Uluque   2019-01-26 13:04  

#2  Strange. As often as they saved Oogo from US assasination attempts, you would think they were the premier protective agency on the planet.
Posted by: gorb   2019-01-26 09:18  

#1  The contractors are associated with the so-called Wagner group whose members — mostly former service personnel — fought in support of Russian forces in Syria and Ukraine, according to Reuters.

Syria -- Back on Feb. 7, 2018, it didn't turn out so well for some of them.
Posted by: Tyranysaurus McGurque5763   2019-01-26 09:17  

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