Russia touts itself as ‘anti-American’ world power
Russian warships were recently deployed to Venezuela to coincide with President Dmitry Medvedev’s visit to Caracas — the first ever by a Russian president. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Russia’s deployment of the naval squadron was “not a provocation,” but rather “an exchange between two free countries.”
Peter Brookes, a senior fellow for national security affairs at The Heritage Foundation, says Russia is signaling it has interests in Latin America.
“I think it’s to strategically distract the United States. I think it’s a bit of payback for American warships which went into the Black Sea — which Russia considers a Russian lake — during the Georgian crisis a few months ago,” he contends. “So I think that there’s a lot of symbolism here in terms of this ship visit. I think it also says that Russia sees itself as a world power; it’s not just a regional power.” (Read more from OneNewsNow.com)
There’s one word our war-mongering politicians, and their enablers in the press hate: BACKLASH.
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