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.
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.
All the more reason I think we'd lose.
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