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It's also rather telling that nobody in Caracas seems to have really tried to stop the US from doing this, it doesn't take all that much to shoot down at least
by monerozcash 10mo ago
It's also rather telling that nobody in Caracas seems to have really tried to stop the US from doing this, it doesn't take all that much to shoot down at least one helicopter.
You'd expect them to have air defenses on high alert 24/7 prepared to immediately respond to any US actions.
- Rebelgecko 10mo agoThey're using Russian air defense that don't seem like much of a barrier for the US military (iirc same hardware Iran has)
- monerozcash 10mo agoBig difference between helicopters in Caracas and fancy stealth aircraft over Iran. You could shoot down a helicopter with a WW2 AA gun.
- ceejayoz 10mo agoI would expect the F-35s that came in first took out every such gun on the route.
- monerozcash 10mo agoMuch of this stuff is incredibly easy to hide, hard to imagine that. Surely you'd want to have MANPADS distributed widely in preparation for a possible US strike too.
- kristopolous 10mo agoNo not really. Actual leftists (as opposed to authoritarians who have seized the language) have a tendency to cede power gracefully. Look at Dilma Rousseff who stepped down without much of a fight. Mujica, Allende, Morales, the left wing is really bad at holding on to power because they give into perceptions and affectations of mass sentiment regardless of their authenticity or accuracy. It's part of the praxis.