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... or Putin is somehow playing Maduro -- giving him a false sense of confidence while manipulating 47 into a war with Venezuela that will topple Madura and enable a more reliable Russian asset to take control of the vast resources the country has.

I have no idea what is at play here, but even with my incredibly limited insight into the players, one thing seems obvious: Something is in the works that is intended to advance the cause of defeating the values of global citizenship -- values like human-rights, rule of law, religious freedom, self-governance, and economic justice, and the thinking underlying those values, among them rationality, compassion as a moral imperative, and scientific inquiry.