{"id":43125,"date":"2019-01-24T09:01:16","date_gmt":"2019-01-24T14:01:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43125"},"modified":"2019-01-24T10:25:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-24T15:25:09","slug":"russia-warns-us-intervention-in-venezuela-would-have-catastrophic-consequences","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=43125","title":{"rendered":"Russia Warns US Intervention In Venezuela Would Have &#8220;Catastrophic Consequences&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2019-01-24\/russia-warns-us-intervention-venezuela-would-have-catastrophic-consequences\">Russia Warns US Intervention In Venezuela Would Have &#8220;Catastrophic Consequences&#8221;<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Russia has dismissed the political crisis engulfing Venezuela as an attempted coup while expressing concern over the role of external states and the potential for foreign military intervention, calling&nbsp;Juan Guaido&#8217;s move to&nbsp;declare himself president illegal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday, \u201cWe are very concerned by statements that don\u2019t rule out some kind of external intervention,\u201d as cited by&nbsp;<em>Bloomberg<\/em>.&nbsp;<strong>\u201cWe consider such intervention unacceptable,\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;Peskov added while describing the internal unrest spilling into the streets after the catalyst of Monday&#8217;s failed military revolt of 27 officers in an opposition neighborhood of Caracas an&nbsp;\u201cattempt to usurp power\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/Maduro%20and%20Putin.jpg?itok=QyF7AYCR\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/zh-prod-1cc738ca-7d3b-4a72-b792-20bd8d8fa069.storage.googleapis.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/Maduro%20and%20Putin.jpg\" alt=\"\"\/><\/a><figcaption><em>Prior meeting at the Novo-Ogaryovo state residence outside Moscow on December 5, 2018. Image source: AFP<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe width=\"3\" height=\"7\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>This follows\u00a0President Trump&#8217;s declaration that the US would only recognize the unelected head of the opposition-held National Assembly as\u00a0&#8220;the President of the Venezuelan National Assembly, Juan Guaido, as the Interim President of Venezuela.&#8221; A\u00a0senior Trump administration official followed\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/americas\/live-news\/venezuela-protests-2019\/index.html\">by saying<\/a><strong>\u00a0\u201call options are on the table\u201d<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Russian Foreign Ministry said further&nbsp;in website statement that Washington&#8217;s joining a growing list of about a dozen other countries to recognize Guaido&nbsp;\u201cis aimed at deepening the split in Venezuelan society, increasing the conflict on the streets,&nbsp;<strong>sharply destabilizing the internal political system and further escalation of the conflict<\/strong>.\u201d And in words eerily similar to the brief international exchange of words over prior US action in places like Libya and Syria the ministry said that&nbsp;external armed intervention would be&nbsp;<strong>\u201cfraught with catastrophic consequences.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The foreign ministry further described that the situation \u201chas reached a dangerous point\u201d and called on the international community to engage in diplomacy and mediation between the Maduro government and opposition.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp;\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Russia Warns US Intervention In Venezuela Would Have &#8220;Catastrophic Consequences&#8221; Russia has dismissed the political crisis engulfing Venezuela as an attempted coup while expressing concern over the role of external states and the potential for foreign military intervention, calling&nbsp;Juan Guaido&#8217;s move to&nbsp;declare himself president illegal. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov said Thursday, \u201cWe are very concerned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[22503,7844,24109,471,2422,694,827,851,24108],"class_list":["post-43125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-dmitry-peskov","tag-donald-trump","tag-juan-guaido","tag-kremlin","tag-nicolas-maduro","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-venezuela","tag-zerhedge"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=43125"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43126,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43125\/revisions\/43126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=43125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=43125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=43125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}