Up to 400 Russian Military Contractors from Wagner Group Closely Linked to Russian Government Arrive in Venezuela to Provide Security for Maduro Regime

Not gonna happen. I despise what the USSR stood for as much as the other guy, but in 1962 Khrushchev was a WWII vet at the head of a Soviet Union at its peak. Putin is a two-bit mafiosi with some background in bullying East-Germans into submission, but yeah, he's got nukes, boo we're scared.

The US military has already smashed dozens of Wagner little green men when they tried to overplay their hand in Syria.

They're sent to Venezuela to reassure Maduro, not to deter the US. They're mercs, nobody gives a fuck if they die. If they go down, Russia will deny they were theirs, and tell their families it happened as a tragic accident during some training session in Siberia. And send them to some "mental hospital" if they don't shut up about it.

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