Is it really a anti-drug cartel move or an attempt at regime change? Regime change by force for a country the size of Venezuela is not going to go well if there are no internal saboteurs or participants from within the country’s political or military establishment.
Can powers like Russia or China prevent a regime change, if it was the aim? Russia has no functional aircraft carriers at present. But it has a bunch of submarines of the N type. China has 2 aircraft carriers along with other naval assets that it might be in position to deploy. Can a joint task flotilla with Russian submarines and Chinese above surface naval assets including aircraft carrier prevent a coup in the off chance that that is the plan. In the past USSR had in some cases deterred NATO intervention in conflicts around the globe. In some cases the deterrence was established by simple submarine groups.
I don’t see a credible European opposition to this.
Three Aegis cruisers and a handful of support ships are not “regime change”. Can we stop with this trash sensationalism? Actual attempts at regime change would involve at least two carrier groups and a LOT more propaganda leading up to it to gather public support. It wouldn’t be a surprise out of the blue. In addition the US wasn’t willing to deplete its ammunition stockpiles hitting the Houthis, they aren’t going to start a war with Venezuela if it means potentially weakening themselves against a potential fight with China.
It’s a small show of force that will lead to nothing substantial. It’s all just political theater. A strongly worded letter suggesting Venezuela do more to fight the drug cartels. The only reason this made the news at all is because any time a military asset moves people assume it’s the start of WW3 and trash news can’t resist attracting those sweet sweet clicks. This is nothing.
“No more wars”
I know on Reddit there’s very little knowledge of geopolitics outside of the issues that immediately affect the US but honestly, removing Maduro from power could genuinlly be the one geopolitically positive thing shit head Trump could do and he could do so, so easily.
No bloody invasion needed.
Heck, if you want to create even a tiny facade of “legitimacy” for military action just go back to Barbados Agreement, Maduro got significant concessions on the promise of fair elections and then wiped his ass with it.
Just have the US lob a few missiles at whatever Venezuelan S-300 and SU-30 still remain operational, even warn before it so the crews know and hopefully any deaths can be avoided.
Then give Maduro, Cabello, all their cronies and drug trafficking generals 24 hours to grab a plane filled with loot to Russia or wherever or they each starts getting a missile. These people aren’t Iranians, they don’t believe in jack shit and none of them have even the slightest disposition to die for anything, so chances are they take the offer. At most maybe you have to kill one general.
Then warn the army to behave, no more bullshit, no more drug trafficking and to accept the presidency of Gonzales/Machado and then its up to them how to handle the transition back to democracy.
And that’s it, 26 years of Chavismo’s cancer would finally be over. The average American Redditor just doesn’t understand what a pariah, rogue state Bolivarian Venezuela is. They’ve funded the worst of the worst criminals in Colombia for decades, they’ve ordered assassinations in Chile and the entire region is utterly done with the millions of Venezuelan migrants they’ve had to take, everyone would be happy if they could start sending Venezuelans back to Venezuela with a return to democracy.
And I do genuinely believe it would generally be this simply to get rid of them.
But Trump doesn’t really care about Latin America in any way, this whole thing is just political theater, probably he agreed to on the insistence of Marco Rubio but I doubt he has enough pull to get Trump to actually do something useful for a change.
And what did we send to Panama?
Because the US is the undisputed Western Hemisphere hegemon and it cannot accept independent countries in its sphere of influence.
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What are peoples speculations on this event?
Is it really a anti-drug cartel move or an attempt at regime change? Regime change by force for a country the size of Venezuela is not going to go well if there are no internal saboteurs or participants from within the country’s political or military establishment.
Can powers like Russia or China prevent a regime change, if it was the aim? Russia has no functional aircraft carriers at present. But it has a bunch of submarines of the N type. China has 2 aircraft carriers along with other naval assets that it might be in position to deploy. Can a joint task flotilla with Russian submarines and Chinese above surface naval assets including aircraft carrier prevent a coup in the off chance that that is the plan. In the past USSR had in some cases deterred NATO intervention in conflicts around the globe. In some cases the deterrence was established by simple submarine groups.
I don’t see a credible European opposition to this.
Three Aegis cruisers and a handful of support ships are not “regime change”. Can we stop with this trash sensationalism? Actual attempts at regime change would involve at least two carrier groups and a LOT more propaganda leading up to it to gather public support. It wouldn’t be a surprise out of the blue. In addition the US wasn’t willing to deplete its ammunition stockpiles hitting the Houthis, they aren’t going to start a war with Venezuela if it means potentially weakening themselves against a potential fight with China.
It’s a small show of force that will lead to nothing substantial. It’s all just political theater. A strongly worded letter suggesting Venezuela do more to fight the drug cartels. The only reason this made the news at all is because any time a military asset moves people assume it’s the start of WW3 and trash news can’t resist attracting those sweet sweet clicks. This is nothing.
“No more wars”
I know on Reddit there’s very little knowledge of geopolitics outside of the issues that immediately affect the US but honestly, removing Maduro from power could genuinlly be the one geopolitically positive thing shit head Trump could do and he could do so, so easily.
No bloody invasion needed.
Heck, if you want to create even a tiny facade of “legitimacy” for military action just go back to Barbados Agreement, Maduro got significant concessions on the promise of fair elections and then wiped his ass with it.
Just have the US lob a few missiles at whatever Venezuelan S-300 and SU-30 still remain operational, even warn before it so the crews know and hopefully any deaths can be avoided.
Then give Maduro, Cabello, all their cronies and drug trafficking generals 24 hours to grab a plane filled with loot to Russia or wherever or they each starts getting a missile. These people aren’t Iranians, they don’t believe in jack shit and none of them have even the slightest disposition to die for anything, so chances are they take the offer. At most maybe you have to kill one general.
Then warn the army to behave, no more bullshit, no more drug trafficking and to accept the presidency of Gonzales/Machado and then its up to them how to handle the transition back to democracy.
And that’s it, 26 years of Chavismo’s cancer would finally be over. The average American Redditor just doesn’t understand what a pariah, rogue state Bolivarian Venezuela is. They’ve funded the worst of the worst criminals in Colombia for decades, they’ve ordered assassinations in Chile and the entire region is utterly done with the millions of Venezuelan migrants they’ve had to take, everyone would be happy if they could start sending Venezuelans back to Venezuela with a return to democracy.
And I do genuinely believe it would generally be this simply to get rid of them.
But Trump doesn’t really care about Latin America in any way, this whole thing is just political theater, probably he agreed to on the insistence of Marco Rubio but I doubt he has enough pull to get Trump to actually do something useful for a change.
And what did we send to Panama?
Because the US is the undisputed Western Hemisphere hegemon and it cannot accept independent countries in its sphere of influence.
To get a Nobel Peace Prize, obviously
Because we let the Republicans back in the house.
Oil. Same reason as always.
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