1) Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world;
2) Destabilize others nearby;
3) Closer access for espionage;
4) Faster military response to US.
1) Russia also has vast amounts of oil reserves, some likely not even discovered in remote areas of Siberia. Point 1 is dumb since it doesn't give them any strategic advantage.
You care to show where we did such a thing?
Please show me where the US is staging missiles in Europe. Meanwhile Russia is deploying nuclear capable Iskanders to Kaliningrad.
I mean two of the three articles he posted mentions selling equipment to the Poles and Ukrainians who will be the ones deploying and manning those systems and not Americans...