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Comment by tsimionescu

4 days ago

Russia would be very happy to install a puppet regime in Ukraine, as long as they had some certainty this regime would be stable and subservient to their interests. We know for a fact that they don't care about necessarily invading other countries as long as those countries are subservient: they are not planning to annex Belarus, nor did they have any real problems with Ukraine as long as it was led by their preferred leaders and it was not making any overtures to NATO or the EU.

The exact same thing will happen in Venezuela: the USA will be happy with any leader that they have confidence will represent US interests, stop doing any business with Russia or Iran, and that they think will last. If instead another member of Maduro's party looks likely to win power, either now or in the near future, they will certainly not allow that to happen, even if it were to happen as a result of free elections.

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toenail  4 days ago

The Russians actually had a puppet regime, which was overthrown by a "revolution".

  • tsimionescu  4 days ago

    Yes, they did, and there was no attempt to annex Ukraine before that regime fell, I said as much in my comment.

    Note that this is not in any way an attempt to justify Russia's actions, quite the contrary. I'm using the comparison to Russia's obviously horrible actions in Ukraine to condemn the USA's equally horrible actions in Venezuela.

    • wiseowise  4 days ago

      > and there was no attempt to annex Ukraine before that regime fell, I said as much in my comment.

      They literally did. It's just they couldn't do it militarily before 2014 because of Chechnya and bad economic at the time.

      In 90s they already tried to take Crimea (via politics). In 2003 they tried to take Tuzla.

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jacquesm  4 days ago

> stop doing any business with Russia

No, they'd be fine with that, as long as they get their cut.