On Sat, Jan 3, 2026 at 5:18 PM Anthony Boynton via groups.io <[email protected]> wrote: Others are speculating that the Russians and/or the Chinese may have sold Maduro to Trump. At what price? Ukraine?
Trump Has Started Carving Up the World. Now It’s Putin and Xi’s Turn. <https://newrepublic.com/article/204892/trump-venezuela-carving-world-putin-xi-next>Fiona Hill warned in 2019 of a “strange swap agreement” involving Venezuela and Ukraine. Seven years later, here we are. "...This act has also sent a chilling message to the world that the United States is beginning the process of carving up the world into spheres of influence run by dictatorships (namely the U.S., Russia, and China). Russia was Venezuela’s benefactor and ally but has been strangely quiet. Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Fiona Hill testified to Congress in 2019 <https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/6543445/Fiona-Hill-Testimony.pdf> that Russia was “signaling very strongly that they wanted to somehow make some very strange swap agreement between Venezuela and Ukraine.” In other words, the U.S. could have Venezuela if we let Russia have Ukraine. This strongly suggests that the price for letting the U.S. go after Venezuela without any protest was, and will be, Ukraine..." *Russia’s Quid Pro Quo Offer on Venezuela for Ukraine <https://archive-yaleglobal.yale.edu/content/hill-deposition>* And the Russians at this particular juncture were signaling very strongly that they wanted to somehow make some very strange swap arrangement between Venezuela and Ukraine…. You know, you have your Monroe doctrine. You want us out of your backyard. Well, you know, we have our own version of this. You're in our backyard in Ukraine…. > -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Groups.io Links: You receive all messages sent to this group. View/Reply Online (#40017): https://groups.io/g/marxmail/message/40017 Mute This Topic: https://groups.io/mt/117059292/21656 -=-=- POSTING RULES & NOTES #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. #4 Do not exceed five posts a day. -=-=- Group Owner: [email protected] Unsubscribe: https://groups.io/g/marxmail/leave/13617172/21656/1316126222/xyzzy [[email protected]] -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
