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.
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.
Osama Bin laden won 9/11.
Theres Grenada and Panama.
Invading elementary schools doesn’t count.
We’re actually quite bad at that, see Uvalde.
And Parkland.
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.
That’s the point of ALL wars these days. The outcome never really works out, the people are never going to be pleased with the American invaders, even if they did take out the dictator. The likelihood is that they killed a whole lot of people doing that.
The big winner in any war is the military industrial complex, and they are always the ones shouting for more war.
They’ve been sitting around since the end of Afghanistan, restocking the shelves, but that’s finished, and everybody is itching to get back to production, so it’s time for a new war.