destroying venezuela to fight drugs would be akin to destroying iraq to counter wmd;

As the United States blows Venezuelan boats out of the water, the Nicolás Maduro regime is jumping into the open arms of the Russians.

A new working agreement between the two nations includes a vow by the Russians to support Maduro against outside regime-change plots. Russian media reported on Friday that the agreement “aims to take cooperation to a new level, focusing on resistance to sanctions, multilateralism and defense of sovereignty against foreign interference.”

Venezuela’s National Assembly is set to approve the agreement, which will strengthen the communist nation’s already-existing relationship with the Kremlin. According to Spanish daily paper El País, the Law Approving the Strategic Association and Cooperation Treaty “establishes a legal instrument that would expand the scope for political and economic cooperation with Russia.”

Countering Trump

This recent development is widely seen as a way to counter U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration, which has been turning the screws on the Maduro regime in the name of halting fentanyl and cocaine trafficking into the U.S. homeland. Trump has so far ordered strikes on three boats that started out from Venezuela...........more..........