RE:RE:RE:Gusher Pressure is BuildingRhertig, "where are they going to get the money?", Russia is a vast resource loaded country and Putin and his gang are sitting, literally on mountains of gold, etc. that could easily be used to finance things. Remember resource poor China is Russia's buddy.
As to Venezuela, this is one of the nuttier things yet. Their oil industry is in shambles and their oil of such poor quality that awhile back Texas had to send them some West Texas Intermediate for them to blend with their very poor quality oil to make some fuel for their hospital powering. I am no expert but even I know this is a poor stupid idea!