Anonymous #1 1w

We’ve done quite a bit about Russia. With a mere fraction of NATO’s budget & arsenal we’ve helped to utterly decimate the Russian military, obliterating their forces without a single American soldier stepping onto the battlefield. And everyone knows we’d stomp them in an actual fight, but even that’s not what I’m suggesting. I’m merely asking that our leaders and national security establishment be aware of our true strategic priorities.

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Anonymous OP 1w

Venezuela isn’t a priority?

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Anonymous #1 1w

Of course not. For starters, in an era of renewed great-power competition, when our major adversaries are attempting to attack our allies and carve out spheres of influence through aggression, Venezuela is exponentially lower on the list of strategic priorities as opposed to the Indo-Pacific or Europe. And we can recognize that the issue of transnational drug trafficking and violent crime needs to be dealt with while simultaneously recognizing that it’s not a job for conventional military forces

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Anonymous OP 1w

But we should focus on our own house first, Venezuela is right on our border, they are causing issues with their neighbors, many of which have friendly relations with us and there is a clear candidate we can implement, the democraticly elected president before the dictatorship took over. The other fronts are stable or we can’t intervene anymore than we are so we should act while our attention is free

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Anonymous #1 1w

Well it isn’t so much right on our as it is separated from us by approximately 2,800 miles of ocean and other countries. Nobody disagrees that Maduro needs to go, nobody disagrees that the current government is good, but this isn’t the way to go about it and it sure as hell isn’t the time for distractions from our true priorities. And people tend to forget the last 20 years of counterinsurgency operations in the Middle East. We’d wipe out the military in a few weeks, no problem. But what after?

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Anonymous #1 1w

And our attention isn’t free at all, the other front aren’t stable at all. Russia is ramping up force placements on the borders with Baltic countries, China is expanding their capabilities for an invasion of Taiwan and becoming more aggressive with their neighbors in the South China Sea. The fronts are becoming LESS stable every day

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Anonymous OP 1w

But we have allies there that can deal with those, if we don’t deal with Venezuela, who will?

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Anonymous #1 1w

So what you’re suggesting is that we invade the country, destabilize it, install a new regime and then leave the surrounding countries to handle it? And this is your suggestion for HELPING our friends? Dude, what?

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Anonymous OP 1w

China and Russia will never stop being threats to our national security and if the balance of power is becoming less stable everyday then now would be the best time to do it

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Anonymous #1 1w

I’m not trying to be rude but what the hell are you talking about? Now is the exact time to NOT do it

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Anonymous OP 1w

No, we have allies in Europe and Asia that can check Russia and China, we don’t have a military alliance like that in South America, if someone is going to deal with Venezuela, it has to be us. And when is a better time to do it? After we roll tanks into Beijing?

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Anonymous #1 1w

Roll tanks into Beijing? What the fuck are you talking about? Nobody’s rolling anything into Beijing or Moscow. Dude I’m sorry but how old are you? We most certainly do not have allies that can “check” China in Asia, especially not if they attack Taiwan. No nation possesses the singular military capacity to deter or defend against China in that region at full scale, save for perhaps India but they’re sure as hell not intervening for Taiwan.

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Anonymous #1 1w

I mean no disrespect but before we go any further, how old are you and how much experience do you have in this field? I want to help you and I don’t want to come off as insulting you, but your comments are quite concerning

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Anonymous OP 1w

Exactly my point, we aren’t going to ever defeat China or Russia so we should clean house while they deal with their own problems because we can finish Venezuela before China invades Taiwan. And there is a whole system of alliances in Eastern Asia to deter Chinese aggression

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Anonymous #1 1w

There is no system of alliances in East Asia. There are loosely tied organizations of defense pacts and security agreements, none of which require the involved parties to militarily intervene on behalf of their friends, nor would they when faced with the superior force that is China in a conflict that most of these nations, even China’s adversaries, deem to be none of their business. I’m happy to provide resources, but I think you need to spend time familiarizing yourself with Asian geopolitics

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