February 6, 2019
VLAD WHO?:
Russia Starts to Worry Maduro's Grip May Slip in Venezuela (Henry Meyer and Ilya Arkhipov, February 6, 2019, Bloomberg)
"Unfortunately, time isn't on Maduro's side,'' said Vladimir Dzhabarov, first deputy chairman of the international affairs committee in the upper house of Russia's parliament. "In a situation of worsening economic crisis, the mood in society can quickly turn against him.''Moscow remains wary of Maduro's U.S.-backed opponents but is acutely aware how few levers it has to rescue a client who's too deep in financial distress for the Kremlin to bail him out and too far away for Russia to deploy significant military force to shore him up.
Posted by Orrin Judd at February 6, 2019 3:54 AM