A recent InSight report revealed that three of the ELN’s five main fighting divisions operate from Venezuelan territory, using it for logistics, training and cross-border movement
Colombia’s National Liberation Army (ELN) and dissident factions of the former FARC rebel group issued defiant statements following the U.S. military operation in Venezuela that led to the capture of Nicolás Maduro, framing the attack as a violation of regional sovereignty and vowing armed resistance against Washington.
In a statement released by its Eastern War Front, the ELN said that “once again U.S. imperialism violates the national sovereignty of the countries of Our America and the world,” and rejected what it described as a U.S. attack on the “Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.”
The group expressed “solidarity and support for the Venezuelan people and government” and called on Latin American nations to “reject the gringo aggression, defend national sovereignty, and embrace unity and popular resistance,” as Infobae reports.
Yet another 20 year war the US will “win”.
We don’t even pretend we won in Vietnam.
Oh you might be surprised how many think they did.
Same with Afghanistan
Because some people go: akshually, we inflicted more casualties on the Vietnamese than they did to us so technically we are not defeated.
It’s an often repeated excuse since the US signed the Paris Peace accords and agreed to pull out of Vietnam. A US official at the time told that to his North Vietnamese counterpart. The based North Vietnamese official quipped “that may be the case, but that is irrelevant.”
So dumb. Who’s in charge when the dust clears? There’s your winner.
Hint: It wasn’t America. It’s never America. We haven’t won an armed conflict since WWII. Guerilla Warfare is highly effective against a massive force that can’t get out of its own way.
After 20 years, and trillions of dollars, we left Afghanistan, and the Taliban was back in power within hours. What a waste.
Osa Bin laden won 9/11.
Also the defense contractors are likely happy that this happened, more moeny for them, and keeping the war going as long as possible even if there is no end in sight.
What scares me is Trump may actually “win”.
By this I mean, in Vietnam the US had an interest in installing a puppet government and having another state to oppose the Soviet Union.
Trump just wants the oil fields. He’s not above leveling the whole country just to ensure access to the oil fields. He’s flirted with the idea of nukes before and I don’t put it past him to indiscriminately nuke large swaths of the rainforest/interior of Venezuela.
He’s mad enough to do it too, and his base will support him. We’ve known a US that commits war crimes and then tries to ignore them. We’ve never seen a US willing to proudly and loudly commit war crimes to achieve its goals.
Now is it a victory to render nearly half the country unliveable for decades? I personally dont think so, but Trump does and that’s the issue
funny vietnam ended up being friendly/frenimies with the US overtime.