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cross-posted from: https://scribe.disroot.org/post/6126095

Russian and Chinese support for Venezuela has largely dried up, with no prospect of real military or financial aid.

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[-] rikudou@lemmings.world 14 points 1 week ago

Wow, they're unreliable allies? No way!

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Which is so stupid for them,since it would serve their own imperalist interest to not let Venezuela fall

[-] RickyRigatoni@retrolemmy.com 1 points 1 week ago

Why would that be? Trump's america is part of their empire.

[-] mrdown@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Trump america is still imperliast america and wantt to profit from both sides of the russian war of agression

[-] P1k1e@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Yea but they stand to gain more by letting trump do what he wants. If we start a pointless forever war in South America Russia can have it's forever war in eastern Europe

[-] DragonTypeWyvern@midwest.social 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Not really, not in the terms that matter, ready access to oil not controlled by rivals. China has offered quite a lot of loans to Venezuela, secured in oil. Venezuelan oil production is, for whatever reason you want to blame, far below the Chavez days.

It's almost certain that China won't defend Venezuela by force out of pure ideology, they aren't the Soviets in that regard for damn sure, and they don't seem inclined to believe they'll recoup their investments under Maduro.

Short of Venezuela selling their sovereignty and putting Chinese bases everywhere to defend Chinese-managed oil production I'm not sure what they can offer for protection.

As for Russian guarantees...

Lol

Tl;Dr the rambling nonsense,

It's not in their interests for America to conquer more oil reserves, but Venezuela isn't offering enough incentives (sweet tasty oil) on their own to actually be worth stopping it either.

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