Venezuela - US Conflict: News, Updates

[Persian Gulf]

I called this months ago.

It was the easiest piece on the chessboard.

Largest oil reserves in the world and swimming completely naked.

This is what happens when you let corrupt politicians run the show who keep the army weak intentionally.

Colombia is next.

what is the next month for Iran please

 

[SolarWarden]

Alex Jones? .

No from the orange horses mouth or tweet. I'm not saying he didn't say this orange man will discard anyone that doesn't play ball but anything from CNN should be taken with a grain of salt.... or whatever the saying is.

 

[Toxic]

what is the next month for Iran please

Khomeini kicks the bucket after all the IRGC Fanboy brainrot finally gets to his brain, not before he tweets about how women are rose petals or something one last time.

 

[Persian Gulf]

1. Trump Doctrine. This operation was thematically similar to last summer's attack on Iranian nuclear facilities - billed as a masterstroke, collapses under scrutiny, and gives Trump cover to disengage from a foreign adventure.

2. As an initial matter, this was all flagrantly illegal aggression against a sovereign state on pretenses so flimsy they're not even legally cognizable. We're literally charging Maduro with violating the National Firearms Act. Dude is going to be a martyr for the Second Amendment, I can't wait to see gun twitter jump all over this lol.

3. This was not actually regime change. Maduro was not a totalitarian law unto himself, he's an eminently replaceable Latin American kleptocrat. The Venezuelan government (to include its senior leadership) and military appear to be almost entirely intact. At the moment they're discussing simply implementing the legal line of succession through the Vice President and moving on with business as usual! In any event Trump discussing somehow picking a new government in Venezuela or exercising authority over the country's governance is a fantasy at this point, we're occupying nothing and we have no leverage.

4. Tying back into the above, all of those senior leaders and that military seem to have gotten the memo to change their bed down locations and not show up for duty last night. The assault force, flying in slow and highly vulnerable helicopters, took desultory small arms fire coming in but not the antiaircraft buzzsaw they should have run into over Caracas given the Venezuelans have had four months to prepare for war. It's unclear whether they faced any resistance at all on the ground - for all we know by that point Maduro had already been arrested by his own military and was simply handed over to the commandos. Certainly the troops were in and out very quickly, suggesting actions on the objective were largely pro forma.

5. Trump has immediately pivoted to an offramp in the Caribbean despite the fact that absolutely none of the ostensible underlying causes of our intervention are remotely resolved at this point - drugs, oil, expropriation, etc. In fact he's been quite clear the Chinese will get their oil, so he seems to consider the operation entirely concluded. As I mentioned above, this is identical to his offramp from the 12 Days' War - conduct a strike on Iranian nuclear sites that was far less impactful than it was billed as to the American public and which was actually below the retaliatory threshold of the Iranians, and then immediately declare victory and leave. This operation feels exactly as choreographed as the denouement of the 12 Days' War - conduct a flashy raid while the Venezuelan Army takes a siesta, get a scalp, declare victory and leave, after which the Venezuelan government shrugs and moves on. Perhaps the Venezuelan government will be persuaded to give US companies some oil concessions going forward.

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sober analysis

 

[Ali_Baba]

Colonialism is back baby.. reminds me of this. Whole of South America has as of today, been declared to be a USA colony.

 

[mulj]

Every modern economy have debt (Assets = Liabilities), but there are different types of debt. You need to understand the debt in question. The USD have contributed to American debt because it is used worldwide for holdings and financial transactions. It is in the books but the US continues to meet its financial obligations worldwide because the American economy is not shrinking but expanding in time. The US also have largest gold reserves and might come up with a new financial system if the current financial system fails. The entire world have uncertain future due to the current financial system if this is your concern. But many countries are lacking in resources, options and contingency planning in comparison the US.

They are world currency and states are forced to trade in it, you do not believe me go check SWIFT system how it operates, simply they are the strongest thug in city and everyone have to obey otherwise they got beaten or worse.

 

[Distant_Observer]

Good news for Venezeula they will get F-35s but they will pay triple for each one in oil.

 

[Meengla]

and this is the same Trump our US-appeasing illegal regime had nominated for Nobel Peace Prize.

@Blain2 @Meengla @Pakistan Space Agency

Tagging people who actively defend the illegal regime in power.

Don't bring your non-sense Pakistani political propaganda into everything. Yes, I do support the current ruling setup of Pakistan and you are free to keep discussing that with me and others in other threads.

 

[Persian Gulf]

Khomeini kicks the bucket after all the IRGC Fanboy brainrot finally gets to his brain, not before he tweets about how women are rose petals or something one last time.

I think @Distant_Observer's job is safe.

 

[F-22Raptor]

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And another Buk was destroyed

 

[Viet]

Good news for Venezeula they will get F-35s but they will pay triple for each one in oil.

I just checked the data.
Venezuela is rich its natural resources are worth estimated 300 trillion USD. More than Russia natural resources 75 trillion USD. it can pay without a blink.
The people in Venezuela are dirty poor because they are ruled by a bus driver.

 

[Musings]

UK is not an ally of the UK, its an vassal state.

I know but the day has come that even the vassal state is avoiding standing anywhere near the US

 

[Distant_Observer]

Venezuela is rich its natural resources are worth estimated 300 trillion USD. More than Russia natural resources 75 trillion USD. it can pay without a blink.

Now you can estimate this down to 50 trillion. It's gone.

They are going to sell the oil to all the countries they renegotiated trade deals with while they stockpile their oil for a WW3 scenario.

 

[Viet]

Now you can estimate this down to 50 trillion. It's gone.

They are going to sell the oil to all the countries they renegotiated trade deals with while they stockpile their oil for a WW3 scenario.

Trump will take a big chunk from Venezuela. He can pay back 38 trillion USD debt.

 

[Musings]

The US is the wealthiest it’s ever been. Its share of world GDP is comparable to the mid 90s. Americans have the highest disposable incomes in the world. The US controls over half of the world’s market capitalization and the most important tech companies in the world which make it the world’s OS.

America in “decline” is a total hopium take.

It steals and wrecks others. Plunders and ruins others. Its a thieving scum of a nation. The only nation thats dropped a nuke. You portraying them as been something to look up to is embarrassing