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US Deploys Special Forces To Puerto Rico, Colombia Ahead Of Venezuela Invasion, Russia Claims<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev told Argumenty i Fakty<\/a> <\/em>that the US is deploying military assets to Puerto Rico and Colombia for a future military intervention in Venezuela to remove President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro from power.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Showing sarcasm and arrogance towards the Venezuelan people, the United States is preparing a military invasion of an independent state,” Patrushev told the Russian newspaper.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to his statements, Washington is transferring “American special operations forces to Puerto Rico, the landing of US forces in Colombia<\/strong>,” which “clearly indicates that the Pentagon is reinforcing the grouping of troops in the region.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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As he explained, Venezuela rejected humanitarian aid imposed on it by the US because it recognizes<\/a> that Washington uses aid as a precursor to military intervention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“And the Venezuelan people understand this well. Hence, such a reaction, the refusal to accept cargo from the aggressor country and the support of their president,” Patrushev added.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

The Russian security official said that Washington recommended holding several talks on Venezuela, and Moscow accepted. However, Trump administration officials started using far-fetched pretexts to circumvent these discussions, Patrushev added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last week, president Putin said that Russia is militarily ready for a “Cuban Missile-style crisis”<\/strong>, commenting on nuclear first strike capability amidst growing tensions with the US. The remarks were given to Russian media following a prior speech wherein he warned Moscow will match any attempt by the US to station intermediate-range nuclear missiles in Europe in the wake of the now collapsing INF treaty.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Putin specifically threatened deployment of hypersonic missiles on ships and submarines which could enter US territorial waters without detection if American intermediate-range missiles move into Europe.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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US Deploys Special Forces To Puerto Rico, Colombia Ahead Of Venezuela Invasion, Russia Claims Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev told Argumenty i Fakty that the US is deploying military assets to Puerto Rico and Colombia for a future military intervention in Venezuela to remove President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro from power. “Showing sarcasm and arrogance towards the Venezuelan people, the United States is preparing a military […]<\/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":[8782,694,827,865],"class_list":["post-44077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-columbia","tag-russia","tag-united-states","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44077","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=44077"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44078,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44077\/revisions\/44078"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=44077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=44077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=44077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}