political conflict, and the losers, asalways, will bethe people ofVenezuela, exhausted bythe severe

President Maduro has shown two firm convictions. The first isthat hewill not cede the nation’s sovereignty tothe pressure ofillegal sanctions.

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The lack ofattention toRussian proposals and objections was the result ofadistorted perception inthe West about the goals ofRussian policy. The main assumption insuch aspeculative scheme was that Russia cannot behave rationally, that itisjust anever-expanding expansionist power without logic orprag