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At a press conference in the presidential palace, Maduro accused the US of seeking to remove him from office with a coup and ordered his armed forces to prepare to “defeat any imperialist enemy who dares to touch our soil”.

“Nobody wants [war]. But we will not surrender or betray our country if there is an armed conflict, be it localized, low-level, mid-level, high-intensity, generalized, in one region or a city,” said Maduro, promising to resist what he called efforts to transform Venezuela into a second Libya.

He concluded his address with a swipe at the White House. “Trump, Pompeo, Bolton, Pence: how are you, my friends?” Maduro said sarcastically in English.
During his address, Guaidó also boasted of the widespread international backing he had received, reading a long list of governments which had recognized him including those of the United States, Brazil and Colombia.

“A round of applause for the EU!” Guaidó shouted, although the bloc has yet to explicitly back him as interim president.
Guaidó claimed “the entire planet” was backing his movement to end Maduro’s “dictatorship”.

But there are two crucial exceptions: Russia and China, which both have massive military and economic interests in Venezuela, and have thrown their weight behind Maduro.
On Friday Guaidó said both countries would be welcome in the new post-Maduro Venezuela he was trying to build.

However, Moisés Naím, a Venezuela specialist from the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, said neither Moscow nor Beijing were likely to turn on Maduro, who came to power in 2013 and has led his country into economic collapse.

Russia would be loth to relinquish a “trophy” foothold in an oil-rich nation that is only a two-and-a-half-hour flight from Miami. China’s financial interests are also too great.

“The moment [Beijing says] they do not think Maduro is the legitimate president of Venezuela – that phrase will cost them $65bn,” he said, referring to the vast debt racked up under Maduro and his predecessor, Hugo Chávez.

With Donald Trump’s White House backing Guaidó, that means a clash between global powers is possible, Naím said.

“My main concern is that Venezuela becomes a football in this game between powers, where the interests of Venezuelans become secondary.”

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/j...na-support

Można uznać, że Guaido dostał wsparcie państw zachodnich; po stronie syfiastego Maduro musiała stanąć oczywiście Rosja i, co mnie smuci Chiny*.

Russian private security contractors have travelled to Venezuela to provide security to the embattled president Nicolás Maduro, the Reuters news agency has reported.
Citing three sources, the news agency said that the mercenaries are linked to the Wagner group, which has carried out missions in Ukraine and Syria and is now reportedly active in countries in Africa, too.

If it is confirmed that contractors from the group traveled to Venezuela, this would be their first known deployment in the western hemisphere.
Venezuela at the crossroads: the who, what and why of the crisis

“The order came down on Monday to form a group to go to Venezuela. They are there to protect those at the highest levels of the government,” Yevgeny Shabaev, a Cossack leader with ties to military contractors, told the Guardian by telephone.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/j...ontractors

Ruscy już wysłali do Maduro wsparcie militarne**

* Co do Chin jest to ważna nauczka na przyszłość - już wiadomo czego można się spodziewać po Chinach jeśli kiedyś zastąpią USA w roli światowego supermocarstwa.

Wspieranie gównianych rządów prowadzących gównianą politykę w sumie pasuje do tego, że w Chinach jednak mimo wszystko (mimo wprowadzenia u siebie częściowego kapitalizmu) rządzą dalej komuniści.

** Ciekawe jest to, że Maduro pierdoli o patriotyzmie i obronie ojczyzny przed imperialistycznymi USA, podczas gdy nie przeszkadza mu obecność ruskich wojsk na terenie swojego kraju.

Rosja ingerując w politykę obcych krajów zawsze pomaga im w patriotycznej obronie ich interesów przed krwiożerczymi imperialistycznymi USA. Rosja w żadnym wypadku, nigdy, ale to przenigdy, nie prowadzi polityki imperialistycznej, której cechą jest wspieranie marionetkowych rządów dyktatorów stojących po jej stronie. O nie, Rosja zawsze jest niewinna.