“This is genius,” Donald Trump enthused. It was February 22, 2022. Vladimir Putin had just declared parts of eastern Ukraine to be independent and sent in Russian troops to serve as so-called peacekeepers. The once and future American president was impressed, even inspired. “We could use that on our southern border,” Trump mused.
Trump didn’t know then that he was speaking at the start of a full-scale invasion that has lasted nearly four years and inflicted upwards of 1.5 million casualties and counting. And Trump doesn’t know now what he has unleashed in Venezuela. The South American country is not Ukraine, nor, for that matter, is it Afghanistan, Iraq, or Libya. But by ordering military strikes to seize dictator Nicolás Maduro, Trump has thrown a country of around 28 million people into uncertainty and tossed aside the most obvious, hard-won lesson of decades of US foreign policy failures: regime-change wars are easy to start and hard to win, much less to turn into anything resembling genuine success.
Even if the best-case scenario transpires in Venezuela — if a stable, oil-gushing, pro-American democracy suddenly springs to life — success may embolden the administration to find out just how far it can go to remake the region to its liking.
But best cases rarely come to pass. More likely, Donald Trump’s luck with hit-and-run military strikes is about to run out. “Great nations do not fight endless wars,” he said in his first term. Then what kind of nation is Trump’s America?
The US can invade any, if not all countries in the world and win easily
However, in it’s history I don’t thing it even once managed to conquer a single country and keep it. Be it through direct invasion (Hello Iraq and “mission successful!”) or through pushing some revolution through using the CIA (Hello Iran, model of US succesful regime changes!), it always failed either immediately or in just a few years later, tops.
None of it works lasted, nothing was gained except boat loads of money for certain select company owners
Which is what this is about, again, imperialism because of oil. At least when the US did this 60 years ago, there was an actual need for the oil, now it’s just president dumbfuck McCheeto not understanding the world.
I keep saying this, but that sorry excuse of a man will launch nukes before ever admitting to fucking children.
The mango murderer is giddy. Everything is in play now . Greenland looks like the next heist.