In this piece, Brian Fonseca, director of the Jack D. Gordon Institute for Public Policy; David J. Kramer, senior fellow in the Václav Havel Program for Human Rights & Diplomacy; and Frank O. Mora, director of the Kimberly Green Latin American and Caribbean Center explore Russian President Vladimir Putin's reaction to Venezuelan National Assembly speaker Juan Gauido's call identifying himself as the legitimate Venezuelan president - and the implications of Putin's stance for the U.S.
