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[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

We don't want Venezuela to turn into a wasteland/battlefield like Ukraine has.

That's not going to happen unless the US finds a proxy willing to sacrifice itself for them like Ukraine has done. The US is far too casualty averse to directly engage in that kind of conflict themselves.

[–] rainpizza@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Sadly, the US has one willing proxy and that is Guyana. However, that one is still on the works from my point of view.

[–] cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml 0 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Guyana has a grand total of around 4,000 soldiers. Venezuela has at least 300,000. And i don't even need to mention the disparity in their military inventories, but you can imagine.

No, the only viable proxy in that region is Colombia, and that would require regime change. And Colombia has its own internal instabilities that they need to keep in check, and getting involved in a Ukraine-type conflict would destabilize and undo everything they've worked for the past decades to achieve.