• Maduro accuses US in assassination attempt; Fears Brazil will invade Venezuela
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/dec/12/venezuela-nicolas-maduro-assassination-attempt-white-house-ultra-right-locos Venezuela’s embattled president, Nicolás Maduro, has accused the White House of playing a direct role in an attempt to assassinate him and claimed “ultra-right locos” within Brazil’s incoming government were plotting to invade his country. Maduro claimed the US hoped to install a rightwing dictatorship in Venezuela and accused the US media of waging an “incessant” media campaign against his government in order to justify a foreign military intervention in Venezuela. Venezuela’s president also lashed out at Brazil’s incoming president, Jair Bolsonaro, and his vice-president, Hamilton Mourão, who he claimed was obsessed with the idea of invading Venezuela.
In other news: Venezuela mysteriously collapses with Brazil offering 'support'.
Honestly anything would be better then Maduro. Some homeless guy who claims to be a seer, and judges decisions based on astral projections and horoscopes... Would be better then fucking Maduro.
Our military is deadly against garden weeds but not much else
i hate Maduro as much as the next guy, but having Brazil in its current state, especially with Brazilian Hitler in charge. Them attempting to """""""Liberate""""""" Venezuela will be a fucking clusterfuck.
But how effective are they against mosquitoes? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZvT3MHpffk
https://youtu.be/u1Et2iAptiY hue
This is the guy who claimed a propane tank explosion was actually a micro drone strike by a joint American-Colombian force.
Yeah, this sort of shows the problem. Venezuela is headed straight for collapse, and there's nobody who can really help soften it. I don't see any way to stop it at this point, it's just a matter of whether it turns into a year of tumultuous politics, or a massive refugee crisis and lengthy, bloody civil war. The US can't get involved. We've been the national enemy of Venezuela for multiple generations now, lingering Cold War wounds (and I can't 100% blame them). Even if we did go in with the best intentions, absolutely no plans to take over, just keep the country afloat for a year while they sort their own government out, we'd spark an insurgency that would never end. And after Afghanistan and Iraq, nobody here at home wants to get involved. Brazil is the logical regional power. They've got a large population and the conditions for a booming economy (though it's not doing so hot right now), and aspirations towards being the central power of South America. Part of that means guaranteeing stability for other countries in the region - including, if they're doomed to collapse, going in and keeping things from getting too bad. But, they just elected an outright fascist. So a Brazilian intervention would be less along the lines of NATO getting involved in Serbia, and more along the lines of Germany getting involved in Czechoslovakia. Again, long and violent insurgency ensues. Other South American countries are not great picks either. IIRC most of them sided with the west in the Cold War, so there's lingering hostility and suspicion there. And I don't know of any South American countries large enough to do this sort of mission. Maybe a coalition could, but you'd still run into the hostility problem. Venezuela's nominal allies could try to do it. Russia would have problems - 1 being they don't have much power-projection capacity, 2 being they're already bogged down in Syria and Ukraine so what little power-projection they have is in use, and 3 being that they've pissed off America and America would look very poorly on them getting involved in a war just a bit to our south. Cuba is honestly the best chance at this point - the optics of them going in to help their "socialist allies" is a hell of a lot better than anyone else doing the same. But, I'm not sure they have the military capabilities, nor if their economy could handle humanitarian aid on this scale. So yeah. Venezuela is fucked, and I don't see any way for them to un-fuck themselves. This is gonna suck.
Brazil has a debt to pay to the Venezuelan nation. All these years we've been supporting their dictators.
i donno, drones definitely exploded when he was talking https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/225943/442e9fe2-affe-480b-8f48-50143acb3fa0/203536c4e87ef4d9.mp4
I think that very unlikely.
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