One of many extra extraordinary facets of this turbulent begin to 2026 has been the close to silence over American adventurism from Russian President Vladimir Putin.
It is a man by no means beforehand shy to accuse the U.S. of being imperialist, decadent, deceitful, hypocritical and his restraint is telling. It ought to concern each Ukraine and Europe.
The primary alternative got here when U.S. plane broke into Venezuelan airspace, dropped particular forces into the guts of the capital and kidnapped President Nicolas Maduro, a Moscow ally, nominally protected by Russian S-300 air-defense batteries and bodyguards from one other Russian ally, Cuba. The S-300s weren’t working, the Cubans have been killed — and Putin mentioned nothing.
