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Russian and Chinese support for Venezuela has largely dried up, with no prospect of real military or financial aid.

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[–] Skiluros@sh.itjust.works 30 points 2 days ago (4 children)

This is to be expected, Venezuela is not a strategic priority for either russia or China.

Not to mention that a US invasion of Venezuela would provide a good propaganda win for Russia and China particularly in the "global south" where at least the leadership of countries like Brazil and South Africa are openly supportive of russian genocidal imperialism.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

How the hell it's not? Venezuela send a lot of oil to china and russia

[–] chronicledmonocle@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Pretty sure Russia has a surplus of oil because of sanctions (not to mention they're already funding their own war right now) and China is trying to significantly electrify.

Neither has a financial incentive to help an oil producing country like Venezuela, so they're not interested.

[–] mrdown@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Despite electrification, oil is still critical to global military and economic power right now. Even the USA is electrifying but still want oil

[–] BarneyPiccolo@lemmy.today 3 points 2 days ago

Yeah, but Russia has tons of oil, due to sanctions by everyone, and China is right next door, and doesn't recognize sanctions. Sure, their need may be decreasing, but it's still significant. If Russia has lots of oil, and China is buying the surplus at a presumably lower rate (supply/demand), then Venezuela isn't an oil priority right now. If they had something else that Russia and/or China need, then they'd be higher priority, but right now they simply aren't important enough to confront America over.

And the MAGAs probably knew that BEFORE they started harassing Venezuela.

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