{"id":490,"date":"2019-03-01T20:22:15","date_gmt":"2019-03-01T20:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/our-world\/?page_id=490"},"modified":"2019-03-01T20:31:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-01T20:31:00","slug":"russia-offers-little-comfort-to-embattled-venezuela","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/patrickcarpen.com\/our-world\/the-venezuelan-collapse\/russia-offers-little-comfort-to-embattled-venezuela\/","title":{"rendered":"Russia Offers Little Comfort to Embattled Venezuela"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last updated: March 1, 2019 at 20:31 pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"426\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/patrickcarpen.com\/our-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/e835b1072af7033ecd0b470de7444e90fe76e7d018b5164093f3c8_640_war-plane.jpg?resize=640%2C426&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-491\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/patrickcarpen.com\/our-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/e835b1072af7033ecd0b470de7444e90fe76e7d018b5164093f3c8_640_war-plane.jpg?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/patrickcarpen.com\/our-world\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/03\/e835b1072af7033ecd0b470de7444e90fe76e7d018b5164093f3c8_640_war-plane.jpg?resize=300%2C200&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">President Nicholas Maduro has time and time again boasted that Russia would back Venezuela in a military conflict against the United States, and President Putin has time and time again confirmed those claims.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">But with a Washington-sponsored military invasion right on the horizon, Russia&#8217;s strengthless responses show that it is backing down on its promises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;As for the US plans to provide weapons to militants to destabilize the situation in Venezuela &#8211; frankly speaking, for invading this sovereign country &#8211; they certainly cause us concern,&#8221; said Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Such indecisive words offer little confort to the Maduro Regime in Venezuela. 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