Here’s what The Counteroffensive is reading today:
The U.S. backs European post-war security guarantees for Ukraine for the first time, amid ongoing peace talks with #Russia.
The U.S. has agreed to monitoring the ceasefire with drones but has not committed to providing troops. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/us-backs-security-guarantees-ukraine-summit-kyivs-allies-paris-2026-01-06/
Trump demands #Venezuela cut economic ties with Russia, China, Iran and Cuba and agree to work only with the U.S. in oil production and trade, before they start pumping oil again.
Sanctions and strikes on Russia's oil infrastructure have already dealt a blow to Russia's economy. https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-demands-venezuela-kick-china-russia-partner-us/story?id=128963238
Well heck. If this dumb Maduro caper splits Trump and Putin it won't be all bad. However, combining this with the Greenland saber-rattling, the general direction of travel is that we end up completely isolated internationally without a friend in the whole wide world. Wild times.
During Trump's first term, Russia offered to let the U.S. pursue interests in Venezuela in return for keeping Ukraine in its own sphere of influence, former Trump adviser, Fiona Hill said in 2019.
Hill's 2019 comments have resurfaced, as Trump attempts to strengthen control over #Venezuela. https://kyivindependent.com/russia-offered-to-swap-venezuela-for-ukraine-in-2019-trump-adviser-testimony-claims/
