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Maduro needs to launch air strikes on the border. Demolish the bridges if necessary. One should never let invaders into your country. Without borders you are not a country. Maduro, build that wall!

The moment of truth :

Trucks are now being loaded with Humanitarian aid and are being prepared to cross the border into Venezuela

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The army soldiers are beefy, seems like they are being fed. Were. not as defectors. but they have guns now, and knowledge of the Venezuelan government and vulnerabilities.

It's not easy to sit on the fence, I see it from two views...

Yes the situation needs to change in Venezualea and I believe there is a large movement towards new governance as there is in pretty much every other nation, there's always an opposition to the top, but I also believe that it's being steered in a bad direction by outside forces...

As is said, they do not have to fight the war they merely have to sell the war.

Nothing will happen. Remember the failed decapitation strikes on Saddam during Iraq 2003?

Ground forces will have to go in to get him. Maduro is not going to go easily. The only way this will be solved peacefully is if the Venezuelan military gives up supporting Maduro or removes him from power.

But anyway if we want to get him, we will have to go in and there will be some casualties. The terrain is more difficult than the Middle-East (Air-power wont be so effective) and the Mestizo/Pardo fighters are as violent as the Arabs/Muslims.

The US invasion of Grenada in 1983 cost 19 US troops killed, and their military was much smaller and weaker than Venezuela's.

Grenada's military in 1983 - 1200 (mainly Blacks plus some Cuban advisers). 7300 US troops sent in, 19 killed.

Venezuela is 350,000 strong (mainly Amerindian Mestizos/Pardos & mixed-Middle-Easterners) - who have a higher IQ, more violent and brutal. It will need a much larger invasion force.

There will be easily be over a 1000 US troops killed, perhaps upto 5000. Is it worth so many lives lost? Further countless more refugees will end up here.