Russia is lashing out as the United States moves aggressively to disrupt illicit oil networks that bankroll hostile regimes and criminal actors across the Western Hemisphere, a pair of national security experts told Newsmax on Thursday.
Earlier in the day, the Kremlin called for countries to show restraint toward Venezuela to avoid what it called unpredictable events, describing rising tensions as “potentially very dangerous.”
Retired Army Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer said Moscow’s anger has little to do with diplomacy or military posturing and everything to do with money, as U.S. enforcement actions hit the shadow economy Russia depends on to move oil covertly.
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