Rome, 15 Jan. (LaPresse) – ‘Those who today say that the US operation in Venezuela is legitimate should perhaps also re-evaluate Russia's intervention, which did not go there to take oil, but was there, and this is an objective fact, leaving aside the merits, a Russophile and Russian-speaking community in Donbass’. This was stated by M5S leader Giuseppe Conte in response to reporters on the sidelines of the Chamber of Deputies' Foreign Affairs Committee meeting. Regarding the division between the PD and M5S-Avs on sending weapons to Kiev, he added, "There is nothing new. However, I would like to say that, in foreign policy, unless you want to apply double, triple and quadruple standards, you have to try to be consistent, you have to help define rational paths. We have always condemned Russia from the outset as an aggressor country and we have always recognised that Ukraine is a country under attack. However, if we embrace the doctrine that unilateral military interventions can be carried out on the basis of the law of the strongest, today I wonder – we remain firm in our principles and continue our condemnation – but perhaps there is someone who needs to re-evaluate that intervention if they start from the assumption that the law of the strongest now applies'.