Is Venezuela heading to civil war?

[dead0man]

Maybe, but if one does occur, it will be the the result of a United States-directed regime operation, with the blood on Trump's hands in particular

why do you think Trump would replace Maduro with another socialist?  Do you think Trump is competent enough to pull something like that off?  Is this like how the left from a decade ago convinced themselves that Dubya was both a total moron and an evil genius, depending on what they were blaming him for at the time?

[dead0man]

Most U.S. regime change operations tend to go poorly;

indeed

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wait, what?

[dead0man]

so, not "massing" then

[dead0man]

so, not "massing" then

mass /mas/
verb, gerund or present participle: massing
assemble or cause to assemble into a mass or as one body.

Yep, and a handful of transport planes bringing humanitarian aid is not that.

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what "military forces"?  I suppose you might be right and that is about to happen, but that memo doesn't say anything close to what you seem to think it says.

[dead0man]

Yep, and a handful of transport planes bringing humanitarian aid is not that.

To a country whose government they seek to topple. Led by one of the most notorious war criminals in American history. Okay, buddy

You really think there are US Military transport planes, full of things labeled "humanitarian supplies", but are really full of tanks, bazookas and machine guns heading towards Venezuela to "trick" them like bad guys do in movies?  Do you think we live in a cartoon?

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You don't think military aircraft qualifies being part of "military forces"?
[/quote]of course, but a C5/C17 can't do anything but carry stuff.  Sure, some of that "stuff" could be small arms and light weight equipment to assist in a potential coop, but it's NOT going to be full of US Marines, armor and heavy equipment needed to invade.



I should qualify, that you are right to worry due to who sits in the White House....pulling a trick bad guys pull off in movies certainly isn't out of this clown's wheel house.  But getting the DoD to go along with such a thing....quietly, seems rather impossible to me.

[dead0man]

So you're, again, saying that the US military is massing military gear on their border?  Where is there evidence?

FYI, you are not very good at this.

[dead0man]

Neither of those says the US is massing military gear.

[dead0man]

Neither of those says the US is massing military gear.

Nobody mentioned "gear" until you brought it up. What I said was military forces. Which is correct. See the articles above.

transportation planes carrying aid are not "forces", neither are recon planes


but this silly semantics BS has gone on long enough.  Let me know if, ya know, actual US "forces" "mass" at the border.....and I'd know before you would anyway, so, don't worry about it.