Not from The Onion : US asking Nicaragua, Venezuela, and Cuba for weapons against Russia
On Thursday, Gen. Laura Richardson, the head of the U.S. Southern Command ( #SOUTHCOM), acknowledged that
#Washington has asked several #LatinAmerican countries to donate military equipment purchased from #Russia to #Ukraine.
"Speaking to the Atlantic Council, a think tank backed by #NATO and funded by the U.S. weapons industry, Richardson stated that a total of nine Latin American countries have Russian equipment," outlet RT reported.She mentioned that the #Pentagon is working to replace the Russian equipment with U.S. equipment "if those countries want to donate it to Ukraine.”
Currently, #Argentina, #Brazil, #Colombia, #Cuba, #Ecuador, #Mexico, #Nicaragua, #Peru, and #Venezuela have Russian #weapons, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS).