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.
Yes this.
The US Military is setup to fight and disable entire countries, not to sustain a ground occupation contested by native guerrilla forces.
Urban warfare and the fact that native attackers can hide in civilian populations will grind any army down. There are simply too many avenues of attack in an urban environment.
The Army wants to draw a line in the ground and completely dominate one side of the line and then deploy the capability to rain death on anybody within 100+ miles of that line. They don’t want to be clearing a neighborhood house to house and trying to detect every IED and ambush when any civilian could be holding a grenade or gun and any pile of rubble or trash could be an explosive.
The only way this has been avoided in modern times is when Israel completely flatted most of Palestine, killing a large amount of civilians in the process. I don’t think Donald Trump would try to avoid that option.
It always amazes me when someone thinks they will invade a country, and deal with the old guy, install their own guy, and the people will all just be okay with it? They may have hated the old guy, but their going to hate the new guy just as much. Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.
Unless the invading force is willing to get genocidal, which Stephen “PeeWee Himmler” Miller definitely is.
I don’t know. It’s not the 1960s anymore and Afghanistan is just an area built specifically to destroy empires. I fear that the modern war machine has capabilities now that it never had in the past. 24/7 satellite surveillance and AI monitoring. Digital forensics. Drones. Control of information networks and end points. They’d disappear these leaders in an instant and be able to trace their movement for the past month if they wanted. Any leader left to lead would be someone who is hurting their fight or leading them astray because it would be who America wanted to lead their revolution.