00:01Emergency broadcast today because something extraordinary has happened.
00:07The United States has struck Venezuela and arrested the dictator Maduro.
00:11My name is Elvira Barry. I am not broadcasting from my studio but from a tiny island at the edge
00:17of nowhere,
00:18so the sound quality will be awful.
00:21Still, I have to tell you how Russians reacted to what happened in Venezuela.
00:25Ivan Yakovina, Russian journalist who supports Ukraine.
00:29Trump carried out a special Venezuelan operation in 30 minutes.
00:34Well, the active phase at least.
00:37And Trump pulled it off.
00:39I think Putin is reacting very painfully because the special military operation is what he's been believing for the last
00:48four years.
00:49Trump showed how it's actually done.
00:52I have just been reading the channels on Telegram.
00:55They are practically losing rage and envy.
00:58They are intensely jealous of the Americans for pulling this operation off without losing a single person,
01:04while the Russian army has been bleeding for four years straight.
01:09This is a vivid, living demonstration that Vladimir Putin is an utterly inept military leader.
01:16incompetent, talentless, incapable of conducting or planning any serious operations.
01:22Simply put, Putin is in the wrong place.
01:26A bad commander and a bad president.
01:30Even if we set aside the moral aspect of invading another country, he just does not know how to do
01:36it.
01:37Alec Teripasca, one of the most prominent Putin-era oligarchs.
01:41If our American partners get their hands on Venezuela's oil fields, and they've already reached those of Guyana,
01:50they will control more than half of the world's oil reserves.
01:54And apparently, their plan is to make sure the price of our oil doesn't rise above $50 a barrel.
02:04Margarita Simonian, one of the chief propagandists, wrote briefly on Telegram.
02:10We are jealous.
02:12Igor Holmogorov, nationalist and politician.
02:16Now either Russia quickly takes out Zelensky, or we are really entering a season of Trump-sanctioned hunting for Putin.
02:25Dmitry Medvedev, former president of the Russian Federation.
02:31Maximum strengthening, guaranteeing that the country will be reliably protected.
02:36Only the nuclear arsenal, long-lived nuclear weapons.
02:42Nizegar, one of the largest pro-Kremlin bloggers for the thinking audience.
02:47The text is long, but extremely revealing.
02:50The US forced operation in Venezuela, which ended with the change of power and the detention of Nicolas Maduro,
02:58deals a serious blow to the Kremlin's reputation, given that Moscow is losing yet another significant ally in Latin America.
03:06First, the overthrow of the Maduro regime sharply reduces Moscow's room for maneuver in influencing the situation in Latin America.
03:16Venezuela was seen as one of the key strongholds of Russia's presence in the region and as support for Cuba
03:25and Nicaragua.
03:25The loss of this direction is perceived as a geopolitical defeat, the probability of which had already been assessed as
03:35high.
03:35It should also be noted that Venezuela was a full-fledged proxy of China, and Russia used Venezuela's potential as
03:44a center for capitalizing its investments.
03:46Second, Russia's oil and gas interests in Venezuela are now under question.
03:53US control over Venezuela's energy sector enhances Washington's ability to influence the global hydrocarbons market, creating a serious instrument of
04:03pressure, including in relations with Russia.
04:06After the loss of Syria, just a year later, the Russian elite is losing a second zone for capital investment
04:14in oil projects.
04:15A separate risk concerns the financial losses of Russian companies, investments of around $18 billion.
04:22Another risk lies in possible testimony by Maduro regarding Russian involvement in great money laundering schemes, including the participation of
04:33certain Russians in drug trafficking and arms sales.
04:37The informational and political effect of the U.S. operation also attracts serious attention.
04:43A fast and effective special operation without losses among American military personnel creates undesirable comparisons and projections regarding the effectiveness
04:54of the special military operation.
04:56This factor is seen as potentially problematic for the domestic agenda and public sentiment and will require active adjustment of
05:07the information field.
05:09At the intra-elite level, rising tension is expected.
05:14The change of power in Venezuela strengthens fears related to loyalty and possible betrayals within Putin's inner circle.
05:24This, in turn, may lead to harming hysteria, demonstrative loyalty and mutual suspicion among elites, with long-term consequences for
05:36the governance system.
05:39Finally, yet another refusal to support a strategic ally, following the cases of Armenia, Iran and Syria, confirms Moscow's lack
05:49of real capacity to actively help its allies.
05:52This will lead to a narrowing of alliance ties and Russia's displacement to the periphery of Chinese interests.
06:01The Kremlin finds itself tightly squeezed in geopolitical vice grips.
06:08As you see, they understand perfectly well.
06:13And they also understand something else.
06:17If it comes to that, no one will stand up for Putin.
06:22That's why they are afraid.
06:24That really does seem to be a choic of central partido.
06:24But it's to be successful at looking at the level of technology.
06:24Let's 그러면서, at the right兹 kannst-climNE forward...
06:24It'll be a great deal.
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