I think people have amnesia. How are they going to do this to Venezuela when it didn’t work on Yemen with its anti-ship missiles? Will they dare to bring this within range?
USS Ford, cost:
$12.8 billion + $4.7 billion R&D
(prob +5bn for the 5 destroyers & planes, etc)Venezuela, GDP:
$108.511 billionAt least the ratio isn’t as bad as with Yemen.
Well, I knew Ford cars were getting ridiculous, but I had no idea it was that bad.
Venezuela does not have anywhere near the same number and quality of anti ship missiles as Yemen. They have a single digit number of modern jets and SAM batteries. The US will be able to use ships and planes to bomb freely, it’s only if they try a full ground invasion that they start taking significant losses.
Good to know. Was wondering abt that, I’ll have to dig into the specifics. On the other hand, what strategic purpose does pressuring Venezuela even serve? Surely there must be some reason to act this way other than “blue balls”, but how could that measure up to the Red Sea, Israel, and the Gulf monarchies?
Who needs to cover a wider area of the sea with their ship missiles in such a confrontation?
Beside the point, but what doomers were saying about Iran holds too: successful regime change would initiate one of the bloodiest protracted guerrilla conflicts of all time. Is Guyana in anywhere near the shape of the UAE backed South Yemen govt to fight?
Easy answer is to get oil.
They want the oil
They want the Maduro government to collapse so they can replace it with right wing psychos that will turn the country over to rapacious pillaging
Theyve been working on this since chavez
Is that actually feasible at all?
I am sorry to report that feasability has never stopped them before
Does it even make sense for the US to deplete its ammunition against a weak country like Venezuela if it is also planning to go to war with China?
The US prefers to bomb people who struggle to fight back. They know China would pose a serious challenge and that’s too great a risk to take head-on. Just look at how quickly they gave up against Yemen, and they aren’t even close to the same level of military power as China.
Rather than engage with China directly, they will attempt to attack indirectly as they did with the Soviet Union. China can attack the US mainland, Venezuela would struggle to do so.
In general there is always something in it for the US when it comes to setting back the development of the global south. It’s the foundation of the neocolonial system, not just punishment.
Punishment world
They must have reached the conclusion that their surface fleet would just be a liability, it makes no sense to waste resources on this. But then again, they haven’t been able to stop the war in Ukraine so it’s unlikely they could do anything to China any time soon.
