The joint military maneuvers between Venezuela and Russia, from which the visit of this squad that would be until Thursday the 13th in Venezuelan lands, was defined by the Operational Strategic Command of Venezuela via Twitter, indicating that "they have the objective of raising the level of operation in the aerial media of both nations, in terms of military-technical cooperation and the exchange of experiences . "
Along with the planes came a hundred Russian military personnel who will participate with Venezuelan troops in the maneuvers.
The military alliance between Venezuela and Russia, which began in 2005, has in the Russian Federation the main supplier of military equipment to Venezuela, including the updating of the park of aircraft type hunting, with the incorporation to the Venezuelan Air Force of the Sukhoi- 30, considered among the best sizing aircraft in the world. These alliances, as is known, originated from the veto and blockade of the United States to the supply of spare parts to Venezuela for its fleet of F-16 aircraft that were acquired at a time when the Venezuelan Armed Forces were openly subordinated to the United States. .
According to the Venezuelan military authorities in the spokesman of the defense minister, Vladimir Padrino López, the Russian visit consists of a "show of force" that seeks "the integration of the aviation media". However, the Minister clarified that the presence of these Russian units should not concern anyone, "we are builders of peace, not war," he said.
Geopolitical connotations.
The expansion of military cooperation between Venezuela and Russia through this episode coincides only days after the visit of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro to Russia, where in his meeting with Vladimir Putin the road map of cooperation agreements on the subject was revitalized economic, especially in the energy and financial fields. In the political arena, Vladimir Putin pointed out the inconvenience of promoting and attempting the displacement by force of the current government of Venezuela, once again emphasizing the Russian position of rejection of any interventionist flirting on the country.
Days before the Venezuelan president had received in Caracas his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and just a few months ago, Maduro had been treated with honors of Head of State in China by his counterpart Xi Jinping.
Far from what might seem to be mere coincidence, the military exercises between Russia and Venezuela complement the repositioning of Venezuela on the international scene despite the consistent efforts directed by the United States to isolate the Caribbean nation. The Russian ambassador in Venezuela, Vladimir Zaemskiy, declared to the arrival of the Russian aircrafts that the technical-military cooperation between both countries "has developed very fruitfully in recent years".
In the same vein, the Venezuelan defense minister said that Caracas is waiting for a Russian delegation which is expected to discuss the strengthening of the Venezuelan arsenal. Question that deepens the type of strategic relationship between both countries, as it has been qualified by the leaders of both nations.
The reaction from the United States did not wait, reissuing the narrative of "Cold War" that has been used against Russia in other fronts, such as Eastern Europe and the Middle East.
The first statements came from the spokesman of the second line, the spokesman of the Department of Defense, Colonel Robert Manning, who pointed out that while Russia was sending bombers, the United States sent a hospital ship to Venezuela, in reference to the USNS Confort that sailed to Colombia to attend to Venezuelan migrants.
Manning, in the same vein as the Trump Administration, did not make reference to the role of his country in the economic and commercial blockade that has caused incalculable damage to the Venezuelan economy and that has favored the migratory phenomenon from Venezuela. On the contrary, he used the resource of demagoguery to reheat the storyline of placing Russia and Venezuela in the "axis of evil". "The most important thing is that we are on the side of the Venezuelan people in a time of need," he said.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo referred to the Russian visit in Venezuela as "two corrupt governments wasting public funds."
Venezuela responded through its foreign minister, Jorge Arreaza, pointing out the "cynical" dimension of US military occupation spending in the world, with more than 800 military bases in 70 countries. A peculiarity that is extremely outstanding from Venezuela, because only miles of Venezuelan soil are 12 US military bases, 8 of them only on Colombian soil.
The Venezuelan foreign minister pointed out the US criticisms as "unusual", since, as is well known, President Donald Trump "publicly threatened with military intervention" against Venezuela. Which makes clear the Venezuelan message of undertaking all military alliances that are relevant to face any intervention maneuver, such as those that have been poked by the erratic and unbridled US foreign policy.
Russia presented a response at two levels. Kremlin Press Secretary Dmitri Peskov called the gesture "undiplomatic," an "absolutely inappropriate" statement. Peskov noted instead that half of the US defense budget would be enough to "feed all of Africa."
For its part, the spokesperson of the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Maria Zajárova, said: "There were only two planes and the State Department is already hysterical," the Russian spokeswoman wrote on Facebook, who urged her US counterparts to "not put on nervous "and" get big again at once ".
The declarations of Zajárova despite its acid and provocative tone are not at all distempered, understanding that they are preceded, just days ago, by the tensions generated once Russia stopped a Ukrainian naval incursion in the Strait of Kerch, by orders of the government of Ukraine and in open provocation to the Russian naval forces. The government of Petro Poroshenko in Ukraine is considered by Russia a vassal extension of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) in its expansive plot with projection to Russia, therefore the tension between the Russian Federation with the West that develops in several fronts simultaneously, has in Venezuela an additional component.
In the same context of the Russia-Venezuela air exercises, there emerged the unbridled declarations of the Colombian Defense Minister, Guillermo Botero, who pointed out that "Colombia does not allow itself to be intimidated, but neither does it allow itself to provoke nor does it provoke the neighbors.2 Botero he also omits the consistent and constant military exercises that his country carries out with the US, making clear not only open contradictions, but deliberate ambiguities that would only have the purpose of stoking the tensions between his country and Venezuela, whenever the government of Iván Duque pointed out the break diplomatic ties with Venezuela from January 10, 2019, under the argument of not knowing the re-election of President Maduro and his new presidential term.
The Venezuelan question.
Although the military exercises between Venezuela and Russia have been developed in more than a decade, the peculiarities of the geopolitical moment of Venezuela set the tone and give them a particular distinction. To begin with, the agenda for the attempt to isolate Venezuela that set the tone during 2018 is expected to be deepened from January 10, 2019, at the end of the current administrative period of the presidential administration.
The infoxication in the media and voices of the region, aligned by the White House and from political devices such as the Lima Group, points to an upsurge in tensions and the declaration of an "illegitimate and de facto power" in Venezuela, which is not It is nothing new, but a reissue of accusations that have already been made against President Maduro himself.
However, the foreign agenda of Venezuela has given other signals, through which the displacement of Venezuelan diplomacy among countries of the emerging world has served to legitimize the position of Venezuela away from the approach of a country in a situation of political ostracism. What infers that these military exercises are, in essence, a component of active cooperation.
A message for elevation that derives from this Russian-Venezuelan approach, is the message underlying the role of Russia in collaborating in the stability of Venezuela, understanding that over the oil nation loom interests of endogenous and exogenous destabilization.
The Russian position would be for Venezuela a position opposed to the proliferation agenda of chaos and enslavement of the nation-states that characterize the West road map and that has served in other latitudes, for the propagation of the conflict and its designed "Arc de global instability. " Which assumes that far from any presentation and all overheated narrative of the Cold War, in reality these military exercises are signs of counterweights that in the turbulent world today are indispensable.
So, any people might that only US can make those kind of excercises with their 'little brothers'. Right? If Colombia can take afforded to have US military bases in their territory, then, Venezuela can take afford to do military excercises with Russia. What is good for the turkey is also good for the chicken and everybody happy at the end...
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