Originally Posted by
ORAC
Folks, I can’t stress this enough.
If the US ‘does not’ intervene in any Venezuelan invasion of Guyana, Guyana and Brazil are ‘going’ to be steamrolled by the Venezuelan military.
The Venezuelan Air Force is simply qualitatively and quantitively superior to the Brazilian Air Force; the Venezuelan Army has a qualitative edge over the larger Brazilian Army (which can’t even supply its troops that far north because Brazil’s railheads terminate well south of Guyana — while Venezuela shares a land border with Guyana); and Brazil’s Navy is ‘extremely’ vulnerable to strikes from the Venezuelan Air Force.
Thank you, and just as may be.
However I am not going to allow S America to add to my worry list, and I certainly don't want the Uk government to do so either.
We were all happier when ignorant and ill-informed, "mental elf" hardly got a mention, now all the world and his wife is on diazepam or something stronger.
where ignorance is bliss, 'tis folly to be wise.
Nurse, pass the tablets.