Dec 09, 2023
A Russian politician has said that Venezuela’s threat to seize a region of Guyana signals a “new world order,” which could lead to future annexations by neighbors of U.S. territory that have faced their own historic disputes.
The comments from Sergey Mironov follow an attempted landgrab of Essequibo by Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. Mironov is leader of the A Just Russia faction that forms the country’s systemic opposition generally sympathetic to Vladimir Putin‘s foreign policy.
Venezuela has claimed the resource-rich area of its neighbor since Spanish colonial times and has contested the border set by international arbitrators in 1899, when Guyana was a British colony. In a referendum last Sunday, Venezuelans voted overwhelmingly to annex the 61,600 square-mile Essequibo, adding to regional tensions.
Senior intelligence analyst with security firm Global Guardian, Zev Faintuch, has told Newsweek that the chance of Venezuela invading Guyana is definitely plausible, although a smaller-scale military provocation was more likely.
Meanwhile, Mironov seemed to celebrate the move by Maduro, a Putin ally, in a post on X. “Did you want a new world order? Receive it and sign for it. Venezuela has annexed a 24th state, Guyana-Essequibo,” wrote the Russian lawmaker, without mentioning Moscow’s own annexations, which include Crimea and four regions of Ukraine.
“This is happening right under the nose of the once-great hegemon of the United States. All that remains is for Mexico to return Texas,” Mironov wrote. He was referring to the history of the state controlled by Mexico until 1836, when it became independent, before joining the U.S. in 1845.
Mironov, ex-chairman of Russia’s Federation Council between 2001 and 2011, added, “It’s time for Americans to think about their future. And also about Alaska,” which was part of the Russian empire before it was purchased by the U.S. in 1867 for $7.2 million.
Moscow has never formally asserted a territorial claim to Alaska, but comments by Russian politicians about retaking the state have become more common since Putin’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.
Sergei Mironov, Russian politician, believes it's time for Russia to claim its rights to Alaska:
— Anton Gerashchenko (@Gerashchenko_en) December 9, 2023
"Did you want a new world order? Here you go.
Venezuela is annexing its 24th state, Guyana-Essekibo. This is happening right under the nose of the once great hegemon USA. All that's… https://t.co/EA7FPFlkuZ
“Sergei Mironov, Russian politician, believes it’s time for Russia to claim its rights to Alaska,” wrote Ukraine’s interior ministry adviser Anton Gerashchenko.
Russia has not backed the move by Caracas. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova has said it was “a priority to reduce tension and build confidence in relations between Venezuela and Guyana,” who should “refrain from any actions that could unbalance the situation.”
However, James Stavridis, a retired U.S. Navy admiral and former supreme allied commander of NATO, described Venezuela’s claims as a move reminiscent of Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
“It is a good example of the kind of knock-on effect in the global community when nations making illegal land grabs are not stopped early,” Stavridis wrote in an op-ed for Bloomberg published Saturday.
Meanwhile, Washington has said that it fully backs Guyana against Venezuela’s threat, with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken saying the former has full sovereignty over Essequibo region, in a call with Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali.
“We’re living in an era of geopolitical chaos when every revanchist country sees now as the window of opportunity to rewrite history and redraw borders,” Faintuch said. He added that he expected a U.S. response to be “rhetoric but not much else—certainly nothing militarily.”
“If Venezuela does invade, it will be because of America’s de facto mini-rapprochement with Maduro, owing to the desire to keep down energy prices,” Faintuch added. “Should Venezuela invade, it will be because Maduro thinks he has the most leverage that he’ll have.”
https://www.newsweek.com/russia-guyana-venezuelan-mironov-alaska-texas-1851004
“It is a good example of the kind of knock-on effect in the global community when nations making illegal land grabs are not stopped early,”
This is what we’ve been warning about all along. No, not what’s happening in South America per se, but generally. This is what happens when we have very weak leaders in the West, who let shitholes like mafia land do as they please until we can no longer stand by idly. Yet, even when we help an innocent victim, like Ukraine, we do it very weakly. We ooze with weakness. We also let ourselves be infested with pro-mafia/pro-fascist creatures in politics and societies.
We learned absolutely nothing from the 1930s.
Now, we have not only war in Ukraine, but one in the Near East, and another one looming in South America. And, it is mafia land that is the common denominator in all of this.
The Pandora’s Box is opening, and this is happening at a time when a handful of rotten Republicans are holding Ukraine aid hostage while a massive fascist crime syndicate is doing what it can to destroy the entire nation. There is no honor, no shame, no dignity and no foresight in such deplorable behavior. They are not MAGA, they are a great danger to us all.
“They are not MAGA, they are a great danger to us all.”
That’s exactly what the MAGA cult is. Some people may have been fooled back in 2016, but anyone still in the cult today is anti-American.
Anyone still following the rat catchers of the MAGA gang are hopelessly stupid.
Interesting to hear from someone that sleeps with a statue of Karl Marx calling Americans that want to make America great again….anti American….lmao…
It’s delusional to believe that anyone not part of the radical right must be a Marxist.
For the record – I’m a liberal Democrat. No a Leftist, not a Marxist, and not a progressive. And I have no hatred for you, or your family or your pets. I simply post facts when someone posts long-debunked falsehoods. It’s about fairness.
Are these the “peaceful protesters” who want to “make America great”? LOL
You are far from fair, friend, but now that you’ve said it perhaps you will start. Start by apologizing for calling good people and supporters of Ukraine, cult followers. The truth is, Trump has SAID some dumb things about Ukraine but he has also helped Ukraine a lot. THAT is fair.
I’m sorry if there are any good people who still haven’t broken free of the trumpkov cult.
I’m sorry if people still believe that trumpkov wasn’t bailed out by Russia numerous times, despite tons of evidence that he was.
I’m sorry that people still claim that Hunter Biden got 3.5 million from Elena Baturina, even though that was disproven.
I’m sorry that those in the cult are either ignorant of the fact that the Kremlin-backed Internet Research Agency did its best to ensure that trumpkov got elected. (Or they just don’t care.) That’s not Democrats saying it – that’s the Republican-led Senate Intelligence Committee in 2019.
I’m sorry that those in the cult deny the reality of the Jan. 6 insurrection, pretending that it was non-violent (watch the video – lots of violence), that there were no weapons (lots of weapons were used, and there were caches of weapons cached nearby), and pretending there were “no crimes committed” while in reality over a thousand people were charged so far, and hundreds have received sentences – including hundreds sentenced to jail time.
And I’m really sorry that someone who says “if the election was today I would be voting for Biden” still continues to post baseless lies about our president, which can only benefit his anti-Ukraine opponent.
Your propaganda is boring me and most certainly noninfluential. If Trump loved Ukraine you would hate them. Your party and the propaganda owns you.
“propaganda”? Everything I wrote is a fact, and I’ve posted links before. Happy to do so again if you’ve forgotten already. E.g., Kremlin getting their puppet elected:
A Russian troll farm central to the election campaign supported “Donald Trump at the direction of the Kremlin,” the committee said.
“If Trump loved Ukraine you would hate them.”
More nonsense from you. My values are my own, and have nothing to do with trumpkov. His support for the COVID vaccine didn’t turn me into an anti-vaxxer.
You got to give credit where credit is deserved.
Russians are so full of shite. Their arrogant boasting has alienated allies and turned neutral countries against them.
After the naval losses they have suffered against Ukraine drones I doubt they have they means to even GET to Alaska much less take and hold it.
They are on drugs, and those who aren’t drugged up have brains soaked in alcohol.