Except there was no regime change in Iran. They just rattled their swords for the crowd, which is all they’re doing now.
And for the record, the US has a long history of losing to so-called “weaker countries”, when asymmetrical warfare is involved. The only war they actually managed to “finish” recently, was the invasion of Iraq…and that was largely because the Iraqi population wasn’t actually trying to fight back. Venezuela would not be the same.
And I’m not trying to say this would be a smart move by Maduro…just desperation. Right now, half the population in Venezuela don’t even believe the government when they say there’s an American fleet parked offshore. The government has been saying shit like that every other week for the last 12 years, and it always turns out to either be totally overblown, or straight up bullshit. People there just aren’t buying into the propaganda like they used to. Which is never a good sign for a dictatorship that relies on fear mongering, in order to maintain loyalty.
Except there was no regime change in Iran. They just rattled their swords for the crowd, which is all they’re doing now.
And for the record, the US has a long history of losing to so-called “weaker countries”, when asymmetrical warfare is involved. The only war they actually managed to “finish” recently, was the invasion of Iraq…and that was largely because the Iraqi population wasn’t actually trying to fight back. Venezuela would not be the same.
And I’m not trying to say this would be a smart move by Maduro…just desperation. Right now, half the population in Venezuela don’t even believe the government when they say there’s an American fleet parked offshore. The government has been saying shit like that every other week for the last 12 years, and it always turns out to either be totally overblown, or straight up bullshit. People there just aren’t buying into the propaganda like they used to. Which is never a good sign for a dictatorship that relies on fear mongering, in order to maintain loyalty.