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I enjoyed the statement out of the Russian Foreign Ministry today
Maybe Trump is just protecting English speakers in Venezuela with this move…
Russia is in a tough spot here. On the one hand, they'd love to play the "see, everyone does it, so our little invasion is perfectly fine", but Maduro was a political ally, so they can't really do that. On the other hand, they look like the buffoons they are now because the US simply did to their ally what they couldn't do to a country without major alliances; that is quickly invade and get rid of the head of state.
Of course, they will say something like "Ukraine isn't actually a sovereign state but rather a Russian oblast, unlike Venezuela which is totally more legitimate, so what you did is totally different from what we're doing". Some doublethink will do, no need to actually state anything rooted in reality.