The US will act “decisively” if Russia sends missiles to Venezuela or Cuba

U.S would answer “decisively” if Russia deploys missiles or military infrastructure in Venezuela or Cuba, announced Jake Sullivan, the national security adviser to the US president, Joe Biden.

He stated that this issue was not discussed during the talks that Washington and Moscow have had in the last week, and he thought that it could be a “bragging” of the Russian Deputy Foreign Minister, Sergei Riabkov, which should not be taken too seriously.

“If Russia were to move in that direction, we would deal with it decisively,” Sullivan said at a White House news conference, without elaborating.

Speaking to Russian international television channel RTVI, Riabkov said Thursday that the United States and NATO had rejected Russia’s demands for security guarantees and ruled out an early resumption of negotiations with the West.

When asked about Moscow’s response measures, the Russian diplomat did not rule out the deployment of military infrastructure in Cuba and Venezuela. “I don’t want to confirm anything or rule anything out,” he said.

Asked about it, the president of the NATO Military Committee, Admiral Rob Bauer, considered this Thursday “worrying” that Russia could transfer missiles to those Caribbean countries.

In Venezuela, the former opposition deputy Juan Guaidó affirmed that “Russia does not have to deploy any military force” in his country, because it is a “sovereign” nation.

Guaidó affirmed that the Venezuelan Constitution requires the Bolivarian National Armed Forces (FANB) to “ensure respect” for the national territory and indicated that Russia “intends to have an armed presence in the country and Cuba to make propaganda and destabilize the region.”

“This maneuver has nothing to do with hunger or the needs that Venezuelans suffer daily,” he concluded.

The negotiations between Russia, the United States and their allies had to do with accusations from the West that Moscow has concentrated around 100,000 troops on the border with Ukraine in recent weeks to prepare for a possible invasion, an intention that the Russian government denies.