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52fighters@lemmy.sdf.org 1 day ago
There’s probably more than one reason, but an important reason I want to outline is the war that’s predicted to happen in 2027 or 2028: China vs. USA, sparked by Chinese invasion of Taiwan.
Venezuela is allied with China, has weapons, and is within range of the Panama Canal. The canal will be very important during the war, as it will be the route that Atlantic naval ships take to get to the war zone. China would lean on Venezuela to target, damage, and possibly shut-down the canal, dramatically increasing US supply lines and down-time for ship repairs & updates. Most of our ship capacity is on the east coast.
Everything the US does now is with an eye on this possible war. It is the reason why the Biden administration didn’t get more involved in the defense of Ukraine. The US fears getting bogged down in a second war when the war against China starts. Here, with Venezuela, we took out a significant threat quickly and made the canal more secure. Yes, there’s oil, ego, distractions, and other reasons … but don’t discount the role this future conflict plays.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Any War With China is fearmongering and a way to siphon even more funds to the military industrial complex.
There will be no war between the US and China. Neither country has the resources or staging ground to do any meaningful damage to the other. And in the (increasingly likely) event China attacks Taiwan or Japan? Russia invaded Ukraine how many times? And we STILL didn’t care until it looked like Ukraine could hold out for a bit. There will be tutting and calls for sanctions and that is it.
And if things DO escalate to the point of actual conflict between nations? That is when the nukes get launched.
pennomi@lemmy.world 1 day ago
They both have the capability of dealing immense damage to each other. There won’t be a war between China and the US because both have nukes and orbital class rockets.
NuXCOM_90Percent@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
No. I think it is very important to understand why. In large part because so much is all about funneling money towards the military industrial complex and folk like 52fighters are inadvertently supporting that narrative.
Because this is the same motivation behind “What if we completely restructure the marines for littoral combat because we are going to do endless deeply expensive beach landings” or “Hear me out. What if we have less bullets in heavier guns that are much worse for close range combat because we are going to fight snipers in high tech body armor?”