Russian air force planes land in Venezuela carrying (100) troops: report

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Russian air force planes land in Venezuela carrying troops: report
Reuters

CARACAS (Reuters) - Two Russian air force planes landed in Venezuela’s main airport on Saturday carrying a Russian defense official and nearly 100 troops, according to a local journalist, amid strengthening ties between Caracas and Moscow.

A flight-tracking website showed that two planes left from a Russian military airport bound for Caracas on Friday, and another flight-tracking site showed that one plane left Caracas on Sunday.

The report comes three months after the two nations held military exercises on Venezuelan soil that President Nicolas Maduro called a sign of strengthening relations, but which Washington criticized as Russian encroachment in the region.

Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-venezuela-politics/russian-air-force-planes-land-in-venezuela-carrying-troops-report-idUSKCN1R50NB

Daily Star came out with an article on this and I thought, "oh, that's sensationalism" but apparently, there is something to it. Russia also griped in the past month about the big debt, Venezuela owes them. 

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If things get really serious (they are), we will set up some sort of ongoing thread.

In the meantime,  I think, this Professor Stephen Hanke, CATO institute, economist John Hopkins University is another good Conservative source to watch in all of this.

https://twitter.com/steve_hanke

Disclaimer, of course, this doesn't mean everything he says is proper....

wikipedia

Sounds like he worked for Reagan, sounds like he wants us out of Afghanistan, easier said than done.....I was just reading a tweet he made...