Like, CIA troops are fighting Pentagon troops in Syria. Suppression of the political opposition and creeping hard power is being carried out by local police departments and unions. The historectomies in ICE camps were being carried out by a rogue contractor. It doesn’t even feel like a movement so much as the aggregate effort of thousands of disparate forces.
Yeah the Imperialist machine has come to an impasse where the only real targets left are extremely daunting hard targets, but Venezuela is for sure the weakest. The Imperial apparatus wants Venezuela, Iran, Russia and the grand prize China. All of these will result in massive casualties and destabilization. Unfortunately though I think in Venezuela the mass casualties would mostly be Venezuelans. They’d just use iron fisted fascism to rule it.
Given all the militias, the broad base of support, the loyalty of the military, and the support from Russia et al., I don’t think we’d be able to beat Venezuela even in an all-out war. I think it would be another Vietnam.
It would absolutely be another Vietnam. I don’t think we would get our hands dirty though. We’d give the Brazilians and Colombians a bunch of fancy weaponry, block any info from leaving the country and let them completely smash the population into submission. Like indiscriminate bombing of collectivos, burning crops, trying to starve people into submission etc.
