Comment by techterrier
4 days ago
there's footage of a half dozen US Chinooks over Caracas with no resistance being put up at all. Possbly a General has acquiesced to a US led coup. This isnt just lobbing missiles.
4 days ago
there's footage of a half dozen US Chinooks over Caracas with no resistance being put up at all. Possbly a General has acquiesced to a US led coup. This isnt just lobbing missiles.
Argentine newspaper Clarín reports some resistance.
https://www.clarin.com/mundo/respuesta-nicolas-maduro-explos...
These are not mutually exclusive propositions.
Your source, in translation, describes no specific responses, but largely that "The regime ordered the deployment of military and police commands throughout the country".
This is not inconsistent with, say, the US making an offer that Venezuelan military command in charge of air defences couldn't refuse, say, to stand down and not challenge US air supremacy.
I'm not saying that this did happen, but it's one plausible scenario, particularly for a country whose core competency is literally manufacturing US dollars, the most-prized currency worldwide.
If it was strictly a decapitation attack there probably wouldn't be multiple sites involved. They're claiming four states were targeted.
you dont send the choppers in until the air defence is neutered. What do you think a few dozen specaial forces are doing in Caracas?
I’ve seen videos of what are clearly MH-47s over Caracas.
Presumably there are SF and/or airborne units executing coordinated strikes on the ground right now. Most likely the 160th, as they were deployed there last I checked.
I don't presume to say, other than there can be a lot of possible missions other than decapitation. Their army has ~120K and they've been expecting stuff to go down for months. This "deal with a general" you're suggesting is very hand-wavey.
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