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2019-01-26 Caribbean-Latin America

Kremlin-linked contractors swoop in to guard Venezuela's Maduro

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Posted by Frank G 2019-01-26 07:01|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top
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#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|| 2019-01-26 09:17|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-01-26 09:18|| Front Page Top

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

Posted by Abu Uluque 2019-01-26 13:04|| 2019-01-26 13:04|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-01-26 13:28|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-01-26 14:20|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2019-01-26 14:30|| Front Page Top

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