Retired U.S. Col. Douglas Macgregor has posted a long, detailed thread on his X account titled, “The Venezuela Trap. Washington’s Costliest Regime-Change Fantasy Yet?” Thinking, patriotic Americans should take heed, and act to stop this new war-by-choice leading to strategic disaster.
“The buildup of U.S. forces in the Southern Caribbean suggests a military intervention in Venezuela is imminent. For the neocons in Washington, regime-change wars are more exciting than for kids on Christmas Eve awaiting gifts from Santa,” Macgregor warns. He identifies the reality which Washington had better consider.
“Venezuela is an enormous and geographically complex prize (roughly the size of Germany and France combined, 2 times the size of Iraq), with over 1,700 miles of coastline and nearly 30 million people. Its defense apparatus is modest but hardened, resting on a core military buttressed by over 400,000 highly motivated Bolivarian Militia members whose sole mission is internal national defense…. The central question is not whether U.S. forces can defeat Venezuelan defenses and invade the country; they can. The question, echoing the fatal miscalculations of the past, is what will U.S. forces encounter once they are inside?”
Macgregor calls this “an operation designed to guarantee strategic failure.” He points to Venezuela’s development of a serious “asymmetrical ground defense” capability through militias which are “currently undergoing intensive training in urban centers … specializing in small-unit close combat and irregular warfare. Their explicit doctrine is attrition, using historical models from Vietnam and Afghanistan as a template to ensure an unacceptable U.S. casualty rate.”
