S-300VM and T-72: what will Venezuela hold back the US invasion
For the second week in Venezuela, the confrontation between the legitimately elected President Nicolas Maduro and the self-proclaimed Juan Guaido, which, without hiding, are the United States of America, continues. The country, despite the world's largest oil reserves, has come to an economic collapse and has actually already split. Many representatives of the Venezuelan elite openly began to cross into the camp of Guaido, but the army is still on the side of Maduro. Venezuela can be pulled out of precarious balance by an external intervention, about the possibility of which they say in the USA.
So, on the eve of a rather original information leak in Washington. Assistant to President Trump John Bolton “lit up” his notebook with the press, where he wrote his own note:
Colombia borders with Venezuela, and on its territory there are already American bases and a military contingent of 500 people, most of whom are contract soldiers. US security officials assisted Bogota in the fight against rebels and drug cartels. Major General Mark Stammer, Commander of the US Armed Forces in South America, also arrived in Colombia, which may indicate the transition of the US military presence in this country to a qualitatively higher level. True, the Colombian authorities were astonished at this, saying that they have no such plans.
It can be assumed that such a "light" of a notebook by Bolton is not a manifestation of age insanity, but a subtle political "Performance", designed to put pressure on the official Caracas so that he went to the re-election, where at present, President Maduro has virtually no chance. But what if Trump really decides to launch a military intervention in Venezuela? What will the 5000 US military in this Latin American country really be capable of?
The Pentagon will have to face a fairly strong Venezuelan army. Of course, it is orders of magnitude inferior to the American one, but it will fight on its own land. Part of the Venezuelan officers was trained in our country. The rank and file is recruited from the social lower classes, where anti-American sentiments are very strong, so the Venezuelan army will be motivated by a defensive war against foreign interventionists.
It is also necessary to consider that Venezuelans are not some savages with bows and spears. Caracas equipped its army with Russian-made weapons: there are modernized T-72 tanks in the amount of 200 pieces, 300 BMP-3 and many BTR-80 of various modifications. Venezuela has its own military aviation, as well as air defense systems, including the S-300VM. Hugo Chavez at one time acquired a license to manufacture the legendary Kalashnikov, because Venezuelans will be armed with these local-made assault rifles. It has its own MLRS, artillery, ground-to-air missiles, and armored vehicles. Some weapons were purchased from China.
Thus, for 5000 Americans, this will not be an easy walk in any case, even if they begin, as usual, with air strikes and shelling of the Tomahawks. Therefore, the Libyan and even Syrian scenario is more likely, with the declaration of a no-fly zone over Venezuela and the invasion not of the Americans themselves, but of their allies from Colombia and, possibly, Brazil. The Americans may well be accommodated in the territory of Venezuela in a border province that has broken away from official Caracas and from there moderated the process.
In this situation, Maduro’s affairs will be very “sour,” but if he finds the right words for his people, the United States and its “proxies” will not work out a blitzkrieg, and everything may take a very long time. It is enough to look at Bashar al-Assad, who was debited from the accounts many times, but to this day he is at his post. It must be remembered that the war with many participants in the "backyard" of the United States may well be a prologue to the beginning of the Third World War.
So, on the eve of a rather original information leak in Washington. Assistant to President Trump John Bolton “lit up” his notebook with the press, where he wrote his own note:
5 thousand military personnel to Colombia.
Colombia borders with Venezuela, and on its territory there are already American bases and a military contingent of 500 people, most of whom are contract soldiers. US security officials assisted Bogota in the fight against rebels and drug cartels. Major General Mark Stammer, Commander of the US Armed Forces in South America, also arrived in Colombia, which may indicate the transition of the US military presence in this country to a qualitatively higher level. True, the Colombian authorities were astonished at this, saying that they have no such plans.
It can be assumed that such a "light" of a notebook by Bolton is not a manifestation of age insanity, but a subtle political "Performance", designed to put pressure on the official Caracas so that he went to the re-election, where at present, President Maduro has virtually no chance. But what if Trump really decides to launch a military intervention in Venezuela? What will the 5000 US military in this Latin American country really be capable of?
The Pentagon will have to face a fairly strong Venezuelan army. Of course, it is orders of magnitude inferior to the American one, but it will fight on its own land. Part of the Venezuelan officers was trained in our country. The rank and file is recruited from the social lower classes, where anti-American sentiments are very strong, so the Venezuelan army will be motivated by a defensive war against foreign interventionists.
It is also necessary to consider that Venezuelans are not some savages with bows and spears. Caracas equipped its army with Russian-made weapons: there are modernized T-72 tanks in the amount of 200 pieces, 300 BMP-3 and many BTR-80 of various modifications. Venezuela has its own military aviation, as well as air defense systems, including the S-300VM. Hugo Chavez at one time acquired a license to manufacture the legendary Kalashnikov, because Venezuelans will be armed with these local-made assault rifles. It has its own MLRS, artillery, ground-to-air missiles, and armored vehicles. Some weapons were purchased from China.
Thus, for 5000 Americans, this will not be an easy walk in any case, even if they begin, as usual, with air strikes and shelling of the Tomahawks. Therefore, the Libyan and even Syrian scenario is more likely, with the declaration of a no-fly zone over Venezuela and the invasion not of the Americans themselves, but of their allies from Colombia and, possibly, Brazil. The Americans may well be accommodated in the territory of Venezuela in a border province that has broken away from official Caracas and from there moderated the process.
In this situation, Maduro’s affairs will be very “sour,” but if he finds the right words for his people, the United States and its “proxies” will not work out a blitzkrieg, and everything may take a very long time. It is enough to look at Bashar al-Assad, who was debited from the accounts many times, but to this day he is at his post. It must be remembered that the war with many participants in the "backyard" of the United States may well be a prologue to the beginning of the Third World War.
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