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Strelnikov_

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11. What does the US even control in Venezuela?

Reply to Blue_Roses (Original post)

Mon Jan 12, 2026, 01:39 PM

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Bunch of ships running around, but no meaningful (any other than SpecOps?) ground presence.

State just told everyone to bug out, like boy-howdy quick, cause the shit has hit the fan that even Lawyers, Guns and Money can't fix.

Probably going to throw his backing to Machado, which will just accelerate the Civil War.

Without a Iraq level occupation, in a jungle country (cover out the wazoo), and a number of years of 'pacification', probably still won't be calm enough to build shit that blows up real good just on it's own.

Oil CEO's see another Iraq, only with less profitable petroleum, if it can ever be extracted.

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