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Merged Peace President invades Venezuela,/U.S. Forces Capture Maduro

Jack by the hedge said:
Or perhaps the US military got messages to the right people in the Venezuelan military explaining that any defensive actions by them would be treated to overwhelming unpleasantness, and it might be better for everyone if they appeared to be taken by surprise as token attacks would be made, and then nobody need get hurt, the inevitable would happen anyway and at the end of it they could still have a military and thus a career.
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Doubt it, how could they guarantee that every unit would stand down?
 
theprestige said:
What gets me is how fast the Venezuelan military folded. Maduro must have had the softest praetorians in the western hemisphere.
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It was an in and out raid, apart from 40 people in Maduro's bodyguard and staff the military weren't involved.
Let's see what happens when American ground troops land at the airfields and docks and move in to the cities and oil fields to take over.
 
Andy_Ross said:
Doubt it, how could they guarantee that every unit would stand down?
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Opinion I've seen over on the Scrutable forum says it's really the army which calls the shots, so if the US says Maduro has to go then they're the people to strike a deal with.

Trump probably doesn't care who's in the president's office so long as the oil money flows so if the army want Maduro's deputy then Trump's support for the opposition can melt away like snow., from "70% support" to "she hasn't got the support".

IDK if this is true but it would likely mean the air strikes were a token and the abduction unopposed. It would also explain a lack of US boots on the ground taking charge of things.
 
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