--- title: "Venezuela; BRICS vs Empire" type: "post" post_id: "12267" slug: "venezuela-brics-vs-empire" canonical: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2025/12/15/venezuela-brics-vs-empire/" markdown_url: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2025/12/15/venezuela-brics-vs-empire.md" json_url: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2025/12/15/venezuela-brics-vs-empire.json" txt_url: "https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2025/12/15/venezuela-brics-vs-empire.txt" published: "2025-12-15T14:13:00+00:00" modified: "2025-12-15T14:13:00+00:00" author: "penny2" categories: - "Uncategorized" tags: - "BRICS" - "US" - "Venezuela" site_name: "PFYT2" publisher: "" language: "en-US" generator: "easyPress Markdown" generator_version: "1.0.6" --- **Here’s where we tie in Russia, Venezuela, the Primakov Doctrine and the BRIC’s to the US holding onto it’s empire. The unipolar global order. If it can?** > [The Primakov Doctrine- Well this sheds some light on things!](https://pennyforyourthoughts2.ca/2025/12/13/the-primakov-doctrine-well-this-sheds-some-light-on-things/) **There have been reports claiming Russia has supplied Venezuela with certain missiles and there are Russian personnel involved in training Venezuelans to use this equipment**. **`Sort of like a replay of the Cuban missile crisis. Only then the US had a far smarter, less arrogant President.`** ##### **A good place to start might be this[ pdf](https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/trecms/pdf/AD1161282.pdf)** **Summarizing** **The Primakov Doctrine and New Generation Warfare** > **The Primakov Doctrine shapes Russia’s approach to establishing a multipolar world and influences its actions in Venezuela.** > > **The doctrine seeks to counter U.S. dominance and promote Russian interests globally.** > **It emphasizes the use of asymmetric warfare, combining military and non-military measures to achieve political objectives.** > **Russia’s military interventions in Syria and potential actions in Venezuela reflect this strategic framework.** **Economic and Geopolitical Interests in Venezuela** > **Russia’s partnership with Venezuela is driven by overlapping economic and geopolitical interests, making it a critical ally.** > > **Russia has invested approximately $20 billion in Venezuela’s oil sector through Rosneft. > Venezuela owes Russia $3.1 billion for arms sales.** [**Fortune.com**](https://fortune.com/2025/12/14/everything-trump-doing-venezuela-south-america-oil-maduro-regime-change) > **The U.S. seizure of a massive oil tanker offshore of Venezuela this week represented a brazen escalation of the Trump administration’s repeated military incursions in the area**. It’s also a broader sign of **the increasing involvement of the U.S. in South America’s petroleum politics.** ##### The corporate role > In July, **Trump granted Chevron a new, restricted license to produce oil in Venezuela**. As the only U.S. oil producer in the country—Chevron has worked in Venezuela for a century—**Chevron produces about 25% of Venezuela’s crude with state oil company PDVSA. However, Venezuela ships about 80% of its oil to China under deep discounts because of U.S. sanctions.** > > “***Getting involved in regime change in Venezuela would probably be the most ambitious military mission he would be involved in, which is why I don’t think he’s going to overcommit***,” Reed said of Trump. ***“I think what he wants to do is tighten the noose and make Maduro untenable—make sure everyone understands that maybe the U.S. and Venezuela can turn the page once he’s out of the picture.”*** **Does Trump want to commit or not? Because if he does “over commit”… he could definitely be biting off way more than he could chew**. **The Spectator World via[ Archive.ph](https://archive.ph/LaBrD)** https://thespectator.com/topic/putin-moves-troops-into-trump-backyard-venezuela/ > This time around, the US campaign raises the same question. What is the goal? > > “You can shoot all the little boats you want out of the water, and it’s not going to make any strategic difference,” says Farah. **Washington has positioned itself between choices without fully committing to any of them. A full-scale intervention is unrealistic, limited strikes risk looking symbolic and financial pressure remains only partial**. The result, Farah says, is ni quita ni limonada – neither fish nor fowl. **“If strategy remains undefined and pressure fades away, then the regime wins. And that’s a bad option. Maduro will say he defeated the United States.”** > > That is precisely what Moscow hopes for. R**ussia cannot rescue Maduro militarily, but it may not have to. If the US campaign withers away without an outcome, the Kremlin can score a victory and claim, once again, that even a war-drained Russia can out wait American attention span.** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhYAmS153SQ **All of this said, including in other reports. It seems to me controlling the oil resource is primary for the US. It’s practically all the Nobel Peace Prize, useful idiot, Marina Corrina Conchada speaks of. Not just for the simple reason of having primary or sole access but also for denying access to others. This could be far uglier then most might realize? Hard to say.**