Trump can’t actually send troops in, or do anything more than Tomahawk some facilities (if even that). So I’m pretty sure Trump is just getting desperate with this “close the airspace” shit.
It’s like pretending to swing at someone hoping they will run away, knowing full well you won’t fight them if they don’t.
MAGA is already having a stroke trying to make everything make sense. Sending in troops and losing American soldiers’ lives for dubious reasons will only break MAGA more.
If they lose too much support, they will pull the plug on Trump.
But America also has a long history of being the bully on the block that no one should mess with … but the bully keeps provoking everyone and when someone hits back, even if it doesn’t hurt the bully, the bully’s going to bring his baseball bat and brass knuckles, beat up the person who fought back and argue that they were just defending themselves.
And as everyone knows, when someone throws a sprig of mistletoe at a bully they’ll come back with a chess set and eat them in front of you and then give you a turtle.
He is still afraid of consequences. Look at the reaction to Hegseth’s double tap order. “Didn’t happen”. That’s what someone who is afraid he has crossed the line would say.
If he was unstoppable you’d already see opposition jailed if not murdered. We’re not there yet.
A truly confident fascist power wouldn’t give two shits about pushback on an illegal order.
They care. They see the GOP involved in the investigation and they know without the full slate of the GOP complicit their grip on power is tenuous.
They are moving the pieces around to get to that point, and everyone sees it, and we’re all shocked they haven’t been dealt with yet, but we’re not quite there.
Here’s the thing: Never in US history has a US president (or any other member of the executive, though I could be wrong on this one) been prosecuted or otherwise suffered an adverse effect for war crimes. Hell, Obama repeatedly got away scot-free with this exact same war crime, and nothing I’ve seen these past few years tells me the US has gotten better at prosecuting war crimes. Hell, at this point he can literally just call it an official act.
It’s the US. The usual tactic is false flag, blame Venuzuala, send in troops. Considering how bad and unoriginal he is at deception, that’ll be the play.
While Maduro himself isn’t a very well liked leader, his party, the PSUV, and the social movement base that put Hugo Chavez and the PSUV into power to begin with, is very popular.
And that social movement base is made up of a network of communes and neighborhood committees which run their own infrastructure, train cadre, operate people’s militias, etc. In addition to the traditional, top-down organs of the Venezuelan military.
Plus, the opposition is even more unpopular than Maduro, within the country, and can’t even scrounge up anyone to represent them politically. Sure, right now it’s Machado, but does anyone remember Juan Guaido? A man that the US arbitrarily recognized as the real president of Venezuela, despite 80% of Venezuelans having never heard of him?
That’s much more significant than Sadam, who’s Baath party had no real social base by 2003, and was highly disconnected from the interests of most Iraqis.
Not to Mention that the geography is very different. Iraq, save for the northern mountains, is very flat. While Venezuela is very mountainous. The coasts aren’t flat, easy to land on, beaches. They’re giant mountains which give a lot of cover from naval artillery, and the rugged terrain means insurgents in the mountains who are nigh impossible to root out.
Maduro is calling Trump’s bluff I think.
Trump can’t actually send troops in, or do anything more than Tomahawk some facilities (if even that). So I’m pretty sure Trump is just getting desperate with this “close the airspace” shit.
It’s like pretending to swing at someone hoping they will run away, knowing full well you won’t fight them if they don’t.
Why can’t tRump send troops in?
MAGA is already having a stroke trying to make everything make sense. Sending in troops and losing American soldiers’ lives for dubious reasons will only break MAGA more.
If they lose too much support, they will pull the plug on Trump.
But America also has a long history of being the bully on the block that no one should mess with … but the bully keeps provoking everyone and when someone hits back, even if it doesn’t hurt the bully, the bully’s going to bring his baseball bat and brass knuckles, beat up the person who fought back and argue that they were just defending themselves.
Israel didn’t come up with the idea on their own.
I don’t think that is how bullies operate my friend.
And as everyone knows, when someone throws a sprig of mistletoe at a bully they’ll come back with a chess set and eat them in front of you and then give you a turtle.
Really? What’s stopping him?
He is still afraid of consequences. Look at the reaction to Hegseth’s double tap order. “Didn’t happen”. That’s what someone who is afraid he has crossed the line would say.
If he was unstoppable you’d already see opposition jailed if not murdered. We’re not there yet.
Absolutely no way double tapping is “the line.” America is way past that.
Disagree.
A truly confident fascist power wouldn’t give two shits about pushback on an illegal order.
They care. They see the GOP involved in the investigation and they know without the full slate of the GOP complicit their grip on power is tenuous.
They are moving the pieces around to get to that point, and everyone sees it, and we’re all shocked they haven’t been dealt with yet, but we’re not quite there.
When more people die on US soil, you’ll know.
Here’s the thing: Never in US history has a US president (or any other member of the executive, though I could be wrong on this one) been prosecuted or otherwise suffered an adverse effect for war crimes. Hell, Obama repeatedly got away scot-free with this exact same war crime, and nothing I’ve seen these past few years tells me the US has gotten better at prosecuting war crimes. Hell, at this point he can literally just call it an official act.
It’s the US. The usual tactic is false flag, blame Venuzuala, send in troops. Considering how bad and unoriginal he is at deception, that’ll be the play.
I would bet against troops in Venezuela if I had a way. That’s just me, and I’m sure I could be absolutely wrong. But I don’t think so.
I think a few bombs or maybe some assassinations but that’s it.
I’m not so sure, the last person that called the “bluff” was Saddam. I don’t think Maduro is in a better position.
While Maduro himself isn’t a very well liked leader, his party, the PSUV, and the social movement base that put Hugo Chavez and the PSUV into power to begin with, is very popular.
And that social movement base is made up of a network of communes and neighborhood committees which run their own infrastructure, train cadre, operate people’s militias, etc. In addition to the traditional, top-down organs of the Venezuelan military.
Plus, the opposition is even more unpopular than Maduro, within the country, and can’t even scrounge up anyone to represent them politically. Sure, right now it’s Machado, but does anyone remember Juan Guaido? A man that the US arbitrarily recognized as the real president of Venezuela, despite 80% of Venezuelans having never heard of him?
That’s much more significant than Sadam, who’s Baath party had no real social base by 2003, and was highly disconnected from the interests of most Iraqis.
Not to Mention that the geography is very different. Iraq, save for the northern mountains, is very flat. While Venezuela is very mountainous. The coasts aren’t flat, easy to land on, beaches. They’re giant mountains which give a lot of cover from naval artillery, and the rugged terrain means insurgents in the mountains who are nigh impossible to root out.
Which is exactly how wars start.