The war on drugs was confronted with a potential major escalation as a Russian leader perceived “no obstacles” from supplying Venezuela with nuclear capable weapons.
Despite leftists bending over backwards to paint President Donald Trump as chums with Russian President Vladimir Putin, using their never-ending collusion claims, the Kremlin recently took a hostile posture against the White House’s America First agenda. Specifically, Russian State Duma member Alexei Zhuravlyov expressed his nation’s favor for Venezuelan drug runners could prompt their supply of hypersonic missiles to the “friendly country.”
The Telegraph reported that Zhuravlyov, leader of the nationalist Rodina party and deputy chairman of the parliamentary defense committee, sees no issue with arming Venezuelan dictator Nicolás Maduro’s regime with Russian missiles.
“I see no obstacles to supplying a friendly country with new developments such as the Oreshnik or, let’s say, the well-proven Kalibr missiles,” he reportedly told the Russian website Gazeta.Ru as he warned “the Americans may be in for some surprises.”
“The Oreshnik missile, translating as ‘hazel tree’, is capable of striking any target across the European continent in under an hour if launched from Russia or Belarus, according to Moscow,” the Telegraph detailed. Further, “The Kremlin claims the Oreshnik missile is impossible to intercept and can carry conventional and nuclear warheads.”
Zhuravlyov’s position followed reports alleging preparations for the launch of U.S. strikes within the South American country on military targets of Maduro’s regime following numerous strikes on vessels said to be transporting drugs in international waters.
“Unnamed sources don’t know what they’re talking about,” White House spokeswoman Anna Kelly had expressed in a statement Friday after the questionable reporting. “Any announcements regarding Venezuela policy would come directly from the President.”
Likewise, as President Donald Trump had asserted, “No, it’s not true,” and that the U.S. is not considering strikes within Venezuela, Secretary of State Marco Rubio had slammed the report from the Miami Herald by stating, “Your ‘sources’ claiming to have ‘knowledge of the situation’ tricked you into writing a fake story.”
Marco Rubio breaks bad news to Miami Herald over its reporting on strikes inside Venezuela https://t.co/SOVDDZrftw via @BIZPACReview
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As for the verified strikes against vessels that had been celebrated by the administration as part of the mission to restore national sovereignty and defend the nation from the deadly scourge of fentanyl and other drugs, Russian foreign ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova had voiced the Kremlin’s condemnation of “the use of excessive military force in carrying out anti-drug tasks” as Moscow maintained its “firm support” for Maduro.
Similarly, Zhuravlyov had described his nation as “one of Venezuela’s key military-technical partners” and that Russia “supplies the country with almost the full range of weaponry.”
In addition to the strikes on vessels, the U.S. had relocated the Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group to the Caribbean. Chief Pentagon spokesman Sean Parnell had said in a statement, “The enhanced U.S. force presence in the USSOUTHCOM AOR will bolster U.S. capacity to detect, monitor, and disrupt illicit actors and activities that compromise the safety and prosperity of the United States homeland and our security in the Western Hemisphere. These forces will enhance and augment existing capabilities to disrupt narcotics trafficking and degrade and dismantle TCOs.”
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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