Venezuela through Russian and Chinese eyes
In the previous post I suggested:
… the Venezuela adventure is … forcing Putin to eat more shit as he is lamely reduced to asking that his tanker crew will be nicely looked after. Yep, lots of random shit happens on Planet Trump ... both Russia and Xi are utterly dismayed, as ever, by the casual ease with which perfidious western nations sweep away years and even decades of patient strategic effort: this time Venezuela, the latest in a long series
- that series including Libya, Syria and Iran-as-Middle-East-counterweight (and supplier of arms to Russia).
Taking Russia first: Putin really had set a lot of strategic store by Venezuela – proportionately, a lot more than Xi, for whom these things are merely road-bumps, however annoying and tactically unpredictable. Ditto Syria, ditto Iran. Putin is beholden to N.Korea, FFS, at the same time as trying to project a superpower profile, so these setbacks are pretty hard to swallow. The Bear with the sore head is unlikely to cut anyone any favours on its western borders, witness the performative missile strike on Lviv; but he’ll be watching Iran with an awful sense of déjà-vue doom. Where to parade his plonker now, except in the Donbas?
China looks very different. Xi pretty much believes in regional hegemony! So Venezuela may be a bit of a setback to a maturing long-term plan, and oil is oil; but hey, Taiwan is the only thing he really cares about, period.
Also, he’s looking forward to wiping the floor with Trump – again – this year. He played Trump brutally last year. You say ‘tariffs’, Mr Trump? Nope, and we raise you rare earth metals. Now, hand over your very best chips, lots of them, before we reduce your remaining industries to rust and dust … That’s the way, Donald, there’s a good boy. Now run along.
And 2026 is the mid-terms … Venezuela, pffft. Trump and Xi are scheduled for a couple of summits this year, and the Chinese will be expecting to ream him again. What else of gigantic strategic value will Trump give away this time? The dawning of the Chinese era stands to be accelerated materially in just a few months. Scary stuff.
ND
Source: http://www.cityunslicker.co.uk/2026/01/venezuela-through-russian-and-chinese.html
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