I’m not sure about the troop readiness these days, but afaik, USA is currently very close to its military capacity.
For everything it’s doing by having a quarter of 1 million troop stationed around the world and having between 3 and 5 Aircraft carrier groups floating around the world if they fully commit to an armed conflict with Venezuela they are basically spent.
That’s the moment any army can decide to do whatever the fuck they want and the USA can really basically only bark and look on. (Technically they could of course fight, but that would mean they sacrifice actual defence of homeland). So that would mean that China could take Taiwan, Russia could really take Ukraine or even poke further into Europe. Not to mention the Middle East would basically be without a guard dog.
If this happens this most likely would be the final nail in the coffin of the US Empire and almost analogous with how the Roman empire crumbled. (And of course the ultimate payoff for Vladdy to have helped Donnie get in the White House).
I don’t think there’s a whole lot of risk that the USA will try to take Canada or Greenland because of this.
There are people who are saying that we are at the same point as we were in Germany In the 1930s. I would argue this is much closer to Hitler having just taken all of Europe and now deciding to also go and take on The Russians.
Also don’t forget that Trump is truly one of the dumbest strategists we’ve ever had. The only success he’s having is because he has a very well oiled machine but even a well oiled machine has absolute nonnegotiable thresholds which Donald and Drunk Pete will probably try to ignore by renaming a department from defence to war and by hoping that will work.
Curious what others think about this situation?
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Nope.
I'm terrified to come to the realization that Trump took a gamble; rolled the dice on the idea that he could do whatever he wanted, and the rest of the world would be so terrified of economic chaos that they would just shut up and let him do it with only "sternly worded" statements to the contrary.
And the fucker was absolutely right. He know's he was right. The moment no one immediately did anything about Maduro, he knew it was okay to do it again to any other country that he wants to.
We're fucked. Not because of Trump. Trump could be done in fast and easy by a global embargo. His regime would last a week at most when faced with getting nothing from overseas.
We're fucked because the rest of the world is to feckless to do that.
I agree, I was also shaking my head at the various (lack of strong) responses.
At the end of the day, looking from EU or AU, the orange idiot is helping them too secure a more stable oil supply.
But that all the economic reality and political consequence, while I was initially just talking about military, but this does frame it too.