Russia will defend its "investments" in Venezuela in thinly veiled threat
Vladimir Zayemski: Russia will respond in the "hardest" way if Russian investments in Venezuela are threatened
By: Actualidad.RT | Tuesday, 05/03/2019 07:34 AM
4 March 2019 - "If attempts are made to deprive Russian companies of investments in the country's economy, we will react in the harshest way, resorting to all available measures of international law," the ambassador affirmed. Russia in Venezuela, Vladimir Zayemski, in an interview for Rossíiskaya Gazeta published on Monday.
This way Zayemski has pronounced itself on the possibility that the Russian entities want to deprive them of their investments in Venezuela. "As far as Russian investments in Venezuela are concerned, the risks undoubtedly exist, but they are linked, as the example with Citgo clearly demonstrated, to the conduct of Washington and not to the Venezuelan Government," the Russian ambassador said.
At the end of January USA it froze some 7,000 million dollars in assets of the Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA and also granted Juan Guaidó, who proclaimed himself president in charge of Venezuela until new elections are held, the control over certain assets of his country kept in accounts of the Central Bank of Venezuela or the Government of Nicolás Maduro.
The threat of a US military intervention in Venezuela "it's real"
Zayemski also affirmed that "the US and its allies are making various efforts to increase their military presence in some areas adjoining Venezuela."
"Unfortunately, the threat of military intervention in this Latin American republic is real for now," he said.
The Russian diplomat stressed that he can not predict "how Washington will act, that in the last three years it has violated all conceivable and inconceivable rules of interstate communication and international law with respect to Venezuela."
"One thing is certain, the consequences of a military intervention in the territory of an independent State will be the most deplorable, both for Venezuela, and for the entire Latin American region," he added.
https://www.aporrea.org/venezuelaexterior/n339088.html
Putin wants his money, dammit!
I'm not sure what they would do. Perhaps fly their two remaining BlackJack "nuclear capable bombers" around and drop parts on Venezuela? Fuel up their diesel belching aircraft carrier and lay out some thick smog on the beaches of Vargas?
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