Russia and China, as well as some Middle Eastern theocracies that hate the USA, are continuously taking advantage of the banana republics in South America. The real intention, of course, is to establish military posts to increase their own military effectiveness, bring in more supplies, and to assist those corrupt regimes in repressing and stomping on their own population.

I was a kid in the 80s, but I know that a movement like this back then would have been hard to imagine. Russia threatens a nuclear conflict and then quietly deploys troops to Central America a few weeks later?

Is there anyone naïve enough to believe this is some sort of "humanitarian aid" as we're being told?

The Nicaraguan Congress has given their blessing to a "joint training exercise", allowing Russian troops, navy ships, and warplanes into the country.

How long will they remain in Nicaragua?

The only positive point in all this is that Russia won't be able to sustain an invasion force for too long so far away. Military specialists could speak more about this than I, but it's one thing to invade a neighboring country, and another one to maintain bases overseas.

The reasons for such deployments are plenty. Let's face it: drugs are the slow-motion, poor man's atomic bomb. The drug-producing countries have been laundering money and shipping drugs to the developed countries as an effort to undermine their capabilities, steal technology, and destroy their economies. And they do all of this with the support of major countries.