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by monerozcash 165 days ago
It's also rather telling that nobody in Caracas seems to have really tried to stop the US from doing this, it doesn't take all that much to shoot down at least one helicopter.

You'd expect them to have air defenses on high alert 24/7 prepared to immediately respond to any US actions.
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Rebelgecko 165 days ago
They're using Russian air defense that don't seem like much of a barrier for the US military (iirc same hardware Iran has)
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monerozcash 165 days ago
Big difference between helicopters in Caracas and fancy stealth aircraft over Iran.

You could shoot down a helicopter with a WW2 AA gun.

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ceejayoz 165 days ago
I would expect the F-35s that came in first took out every such gun on the route.
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monerozcash 165 days ago
Much of this stuff is incredibly easy to hide, hard to imagine that. Surely you'd want to have MANPADS distributed widely in preparation for a possible US strike too.
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kristopolous 164 days ago
No not really. Actual leftists (as opposed to authoritarians who have seized the language) have a tendency to cede power gracefully.

Look at Dilma Rousseff who stepped down without much of a fight. Mujica, Allende, Morales, the left wing is really bad at holding on to power because they give into perceptions and affectations of mass sentiment regardless of their authenticity or accuracy.

It's part of the praxis.

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