Venezuela deploys troops to Guyanan border

[Open Source Intelligence]

The impetus appears to be Exxon earlier this week announcing plans for drilling in Essequibo region that Venezuela have historically disputed.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

They might as well go for it. We all know Biden's limper than a wet towel and is mentally out to lunch. If Putin can do it, why shouldn't Maduro try for it?

[CumbrianLefty]

People like you said that a few months ago.

[It’s so Joever]

They might as well go for it. We all know Biden's limper than a wet towel and is mentally out to lunch. If Putin can do it, why shouldn't Maduro try for it?

I also encourage this pathetic attempt to be made because Biden is not the person you conservatives make him out to be and will respond with full force to protect US oil interests. I expect Venezuela to fall apart pretty quickly tbh with both Lula moving in from the south and a US naval assault causing mass uproar in the already unstable and vulnerable Caracas.

I seldom do think as overwhelmingly optimistically in cases of interventionism, but Venezuela is the perfect storm. And if Maduro really wants to end himself, I will happily encourage it.

Oh and Sanchez+all other Maduro simps, there are literally no roads  from Venezuela to Guyana so have fun marching your exhausted troops through inhospitable jungle with no possible chance of resupply. (And don’t make me laugh about “naval action” the Venezuelan brigade is about as useful as a four year old child’s bathtub toys.)

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

I’m no Maduro simp or supporter at all. I’m just saying they’ll win, unless the British take the lead.

[It’s so Joever]

I’m no Maduro simp or supporter at all. I’m just saying they’ll win, unless the British take the lead.

This is easily one of the most delusional takes I’ve seen in a while.

You are literally comparing US reluctance to directly intervene in Ukraine (which you SUPPORT by the way) with the idea we wouldn’t directly intervene in Venezuela if they attacked Guyana.

Never mind centuries of foreign policy precedent, basic geography, the fact that one has bombs that can literally end the entire world and the other doesn’t…

[Green Line]

It would be a splendid little war, just what Biden needs.

[Absentee Voting Ghost of Ruin]

In 2020, a Venezuelan Coast Guard patrol boat sank itself after engaging a cruise ship.

(The patrol boat was trying to order the cruise ship to a Venezuelan harbor. When it refused, the Venezuelan craft fired its gun, and then collided with the cruise ship's bow during a further attempt to force it to change course. The cruise ship was designed for polar cruises and was barely scratched. The Venezuelan patrol boat Naiguata sank as a result of its collision with the cruise ship.)

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People acting like the Venezuelan army is just going to cruise past that border when there are no roads.

[SnowLabrador]

I hate this timeline.

[Red Velvet]

Zzzzzzzzz a conflict people here in this forum keep trying to happen but it’s not going to happen

[HillGoose]

Sounds like it's time for AMERICA to defend life & liberty in South America and protect Guyana + liberate Venezuela from communist tyranny!

[Damocles]

Sounds like it's time for AMERICA to defend life & liberty in South America and protect Guyana + liberate Venezuela from communist tyranny!

This but unironically

[It’s so Joever]

People acting like the Venezuelan army is just going to cruise past that border when there are no roads.

All the Venezuelan refugees crossing the Darien Gap were actually just secret military plants trying to simulate the crossing into Guyana #confirmed. (This is a joke and yet still more plausible than like half the takes on here)

[PSOL]

No one should do anything that would raise core prices or exacerbate things by joining after the fact.