Venezuela accuses the US of seeking ‘regime change’

https://www.dw.com/en/venezuela-accuses-the-us-of-seeking-regime-change/a-73840862

47 comments

  1. The ones who seek regime change are the Venezuelan people who suffer under the current Maduro tyranny.

  3. Yes. And i fully support it, as well as the Venezuelan voters.

  4. I mean, when you put a $50 million dollar bounty on a narco-dictator’s head, yeah regime change is kind of hinted at, you don’t need the naval ships near your waters to tell you that, Mr. Maduro.

  5. Ain’t the first or only country they can be considered “narcos…”

  7. U.S. needs to mind it’s own business and wipe it’s own ass first.

  8. I think Putin might bail him out. Wouldn’t it only take a single call from Putin to Trump?

  15. Im sure we can pull it off this time. Iraq and Afghanistan are doing so well after our last attempts.

  16. I mean the US has a $50 million bounty on his head so yeah.

  17. Yeah, sure the US want’s Maduro gone, But 4.5k marines and a handle of Destroyers isn’t the force we would send to do that. Unless pretty much everyone in the Pentagon and the entire part of the administration involved in Geopolitics has entirely lost their shit. Which, Trump notwithstanding, is VERY unlikely.

  19. US absolutely going to do a Regime change. Brazil, Colombia, and France will undoubtedly assist. The U.S sent a Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) in the region as a core part of the task force . Those MEUs are essentially a self contained combined arms brigade. They are meant to carry out very specific missions. Namely extractions, seizures, assassinations or force destruction requiring a small brigade sized force, fast track reinforcements, etc… They are a in and out in a short time period force. They will bring to bear all aspects of combined arms with their Navy partners to accomplish their mission before their enemy can organize.

    The assignment of a MEU wasn’t a giveaway as those are strategic units that are commonly part of task forces, but the bounty on the de facto head of state is extremely abnormal and indicative that this deployment will either be the force to conduct the regime change, or the building block that will see further force massing in the region.

    The 1983 invasion of Grenada saw the U.S deploy around 7300 troops.

    The 1989-1990 invasion of Panama saw the U.S deploy around 27,000 troops.

    I would likely expect more force massing to around 50,000-100,000 troops combined in the region. But Venezuela doesn’t have a modern military. So they could manage with a much smaller force if it’s just taking out Maduro.

    I’m just armchair generaling here. But based on similar deployments in the past, that’s just what I think.

  22. Wait wait

    Let me get this straight

    US purging immigrants/foreigners

    but then US wants to involve itself with foreigner issues?

  24. It’s about time.People are suffering and the government is corrupt.

  25. I hope they succeed. Venezuela’s regime is a nasty autocracy that won’t leave peacefully.

  28. Hopefully the US isn’t returning to imperialism. We have enough oil and we don’t need to go to war to help big oil in the US. That’s what it would be about since Venezuela hasn’t done anything to warrant military action and they are completely inconsequential. Invasion does help Putin justify Ukraine and China justify Taiwan though since there won’t be much of a difference in the eyes of the world.

  29. I have friends that managed to get out of Venezuela. Hearing their stories makes me want a regime change too.

  30. Yes that’s what the USA loves to do. overthrow democracies and install puppets.

  31. US has aspirations of adding colonies everywhere. It will not happen. Their fat keyboard warriors think everyone wants to join them and their army is going to just roll everyone with no cost.

      I hope some adults take control back before that happens.

  32. Well, the US certainly is seeking a regime cha- oh, you’re talking about Venezuela. Nm

  33. How else is Trump supposed to distract everyone from his pedophilia?

  35. Dude. **You should accuse Donny of trying to distract the world from discussing the extensive evidence linking him with Jeffrey Epstein.** Because that accusation is closest to the truth.

  37. What is he doing right that we are trying to prevent? Or is he actually evil?

  39. I mean. Maduro has been in power for how long now winning 99 percent every election ? Like 2 decades

    I feel as if I’ve been hearing of him for 20 years

  42. Why are we messing around in South America? Like honestly? Bigger fish and such.

  43. I think Venezuela will do something very stupid first.

  44. The US is saying they are heading to Venezuela because of drugs and the Cartels but that is far from what I think is going on here. Reducing Venezuela to a pile of rubble isn’t going to dent the profit margins for the cartels because they have money and resources to move around, create new transport links and trafficking routes they will simply evolve around the circumstances because there is a market and money to be made in drugs. This would be like trying to trying to cure brain cancer by cutting off the patients finger, great but we haven’t really addressed the root cause of the illness. This is not about drugs or cartels, Venezuela is a pit-stop in trafficking sure but has never produced drugs to such a degree like other South American countries so what is this about?

    If you ask me this is about Oil. Venezuela has the world’s largest oil reserves and their country also happens to be run by a guy in Maduro who is bonafide dictator and is blatantly corrupt enough to warrant regime change to most of the international community. The US is using the drugs and cartels as a smokescreen to most likely destabilise a country not that far off for off from collapse given time. They will swoop in, install a US friendly President to conduct what would basically be the corporate takeover of Venezuela and all of it Oil. Trump is a Businessman first and foremost, this guy strong-armed Intel into giving the US Government controlling interest of the US’s largest Chip and semiconductor manufacturer in August, do you think Trump is above some regime change in exchange for more oil than all BRICS nations, 885 years of oil production within a country that has no superior tactical advantage in tech or weapons, an already weak government and populace who would sacrifice Maduro to the wolves is a recipe for a hostile takeover.

    I have no sympathy for Maduro, if he gets popped in what will surely be a mess I’m not mad but I feel for the Venezuelan people because their home is going to be ground zero for a legit resource war and regime change that might do more harm than good. This will be a nightmare for the US in terms of Geopolitics.

  45. This guy is pretty perceptive. Was it the bounty we put on his head or the warships we parked off of the coast that gave it away?

  46. Venezuela wants to claim the off shore oil resources of Guyana. The US would like to prevent that from happening.

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