Over the past two months, the United States has engaged in an alarming buildup of military capabilities in the Caribbean.
These capabilities vastly exceed the demands of even the most ambitious counter-narcotics program.
A report from the Miami Herald (quickly disavowed by the Trump administration) suggested that plans were in place for an extensive military campaign against Venezuela that would target military installations and suspected narcotics transit points on the way to a potential regime change campaign.
Nevertheless, official Trump administration statements have been frustratingly vague regarding the desired outcomes of policy towards Caracas. Are we at risk of drifting into war with Venezuela?
Trump stopped attacking Yemen because they threw enough stuff back that it made the US military look bad. Venezuela is way better armed than Yemen.
The US population expects invincibility, and that doesn’t exist on the real world.
TBH the most loses from Yemen were airplanes thrown into the sea from the air carriers.
The most expensive loses were from mistakes caused by the constant need to react to their attacks, and the most numerous loses were caused by throwing things at their attacks.
And that was enough to make the military look irredeemably incompetent inside the US. Imagine what will happen when they fight an adversary that may actually hit something once or twice. Under a different president, or if they had any non-criminal reason to go into war, the reaction would probably be different, but that’s not the case.
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