USAF plane carrying humanitarian aid for Venezuela, February 22, 2019, US Air Force Photo by Maj. Wayne Capps via Gatestone InstituteBESA Center Perspectives Paper No. 1,115, March 18, 2019
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY: If Nicolás Maduro is removed from office in Venezuela, Putin might act as he did when a popular revolution overthrew Yanukovych in Ukraine in 2014. At that time, he launched a surprise invasion of Crimea. This time, he may launch a surprise naval and land attack on Mariupol, set up a land bridge from Crimea to Russia, and continue intensifying his attempt to strangle Ukraine’s economy in order to subjugate …read more