Deploying U.S. Troops in Venezuela Could Become a ‘Force Protection Nightmare’ Amid Insurgency Threat, Retired Colonel Warns: ‘The Venezuelan military has had plans for years that indicate it would engage in guerrilla warfare’
Source: T_Shurt
Deploying U.S. Troops in Venezuela Could Become a ‘Force Protection Nightmare’ Amid Insurgency Threat, Retired Colonel Warns: ‘The Venezuelan military has had plans for years that indicate it would engage in guerrilla warfare’
Source: T_Shurt
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Trump’s Vietnam…?
Do we have active troops deployed there though?
He’ll do it to cover up the Epstein files
Lest we forget that Trump had [five draft deferments](https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-avoided-the-military-draft-which-was-common-at-the-time-vietnam-war-2018-12) to avoid fighting for his country, including getting his bone spurs diagnosis [from a doctor that rented his office from Trump’s father](https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/26/politics/trump-bone-spurs-vietnam-war).
Thank God the good old wars against the commies are back again, the lame wars against the desert peoples are over.
More dead “losers” and “suckers” to Trump I guess?
America deserves far more than it will actually get in terms of consequences.
This seems eerily familiar… Deposing a state leader (Saddam), not installing an interim government (Iraq), focusing on the extraction of oil and natural resources (Halliburton and Schlumberge), and facing an unknown and motivated group of insurgents (Shia and Sunni sectarian group made up of former military)…
I genuinely don’t think I or my daughter will experience a period of peace. Like it crazy to think about being in a country that isn’t in constant conflict.
Remember this gem from 2016:
“[Hillary the Hawk, Trump the Dove — New York Times](https://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/opinion/sunday/donald-the-dove-hillary-the-hawk.html)”
Yep. Our people are going to suffer, their people, all people.
I get why he would do it. Trump needs an access to South America and it’s a good place to stage his next move.
We’ll start hearing about how another country is causing some issue. Most likely Panama.
What a bastard.
Whelp. Trumps got his dump country for ICE all locked as well. Plus the resources.
Imagine if Bush had said in the lead up to the Iraq war, “Its okay, all you protestors can put down your picket signs. This is all on the up and up, cause we’re going to take all their oil and give it to multinational oil corporations, so nothing to complain about, folks!”
This action and indirect occupation entails significant risks that will have consequences for decades to come. There is no upside when it comes foreign relations in Latin America. We are already at war in the Middle East and Europe and a front may open up in the Taiwan Straits. We are overextended.
This is how no new wars become *no, new wars*.
The same military let them walk right in and capture their president with nary a shot fired. They’re probably on Trump’s pay roll
So we have invaded another nation to openly steal their oil in order to sell it to China and Russia.
Fuck the President. He’s a criminal and no one in our government will do a god damn thing about it.
When does it become the job of the people to set things right? Protest and make as much noise as possible. What’s being done is illegal and immoral.
Erk!
I guess some folks don’t remember Iraq and Afghanistan.
Maybe that’s an indication of memory loss? Let’s try that four-question cognitive test: Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria, ISIS. Maybe not just for POTUS but also for the Joint Chiefs?
Wait! Didn’t 47 negotiate the Afghan withdrawal? And wasn’t he going to negotiate that with the Taliban, at Camp David? Around Sept 11?
Huh!
“Will Venezuela be Obama’s Katrina?“
Well America always needs some war to fight. It’s just to draw attention to shortcomings of administrations but it always seems to work if we look at the larger picture.
Will Venezuelans keep “celebrating in the streets” if the guerilla warfare starts?
He talked about rebuilding their infrastructure for oil, how about instead of invading a foreign country and spending money there ( yet again…. ) we invest that money here to retool our refineries (at least some…) to be able to refine the sweet crude we have in abundance in the States rather than having to ship it out and import sour crude that we are setup to refine? Sounds like a strategically sound national security investment to me…
Dang I hope the people of Venezuela can set up a democracy with no issues with their military.
Has anyone explained why our laws and courts are so powerful, we can kidnap the president of a different country, and try them for crimes here, but too weak to try our own president for his obvious crimes?
so this is going to be a repeat of iraq and afghanistan and syria only thing is i doubt the us military is prepared this time.
Look how well guerrilla warfare has worked out for the U S in the past.
This is Pandora’s box. Iraq and Afghanistan were occupied by the US for NEARLY 20 years. That’s what it takes to replace a regime. What Trump did was simply kidnap one figurehead, but the regime still exists, indeed, the Venezuelan military still has all their weapons, nothing substantive has changed. Why would they kowtow to Trump? What is he gonna do? Launch yet another raid?
No fucking shit
Can’t believe he’s done this idiotic thing. Welcome to the latest Iraq.
Ukraine knows.
It isn’t even cold in Venezuela.
Maybe they should start sending Venezuela some tips on drone warfare.
Trump only wants oil
It’s going to be Eric Prince’s Blackwater gang taking tax dollars to supply troops on the ground and kicking back cash to Trump, much more profitable than using the U.S. military.
And that always ends well…
Venezuela is Pandora, this is Avatar.
Yet another dumpster fire of an idea from our Republican Party. Cool. Cool cool cool cool cool.
Yup, and the US military as proven to be pretty bad against guerilla forces.
Is the current army big enough for his ambitions? Maybe if we’re really lucky he’ll only draft maga to the frontlines since they love him so much
Oh and then there’s the really fun part – cartels can just pick off oil workers for ransom and repeat as much as they want. Even without a military, every human in Venezuela is a potential new combatant towards every westerner.