Those Colombian guerillas have been hiding in the jungle for decades. When the main body of FARC surrendered in 2017, many of them had never seen a smartphone before. They've been living the asymmetric warfare life since god knows when, they would prove extremely difficult to root out.
It would be Vietnam all over again.
Yet another 20 year war the US will "win".
We don't even pretend we won in Vietnam.
Except that Venezuela & Colombia are a lot closer to the US and a lot of the US population already speaks Spanish and the fact that a decent portion of the military is Hispanic.
None of that matters.
It does actually, but against an invading army. There are reports of Russian fighters having trouble executing orders because the "enemy" also spoke Russian in some instances of the Ukraine/Russia war.
When there is a common language, the people sent to fight might notice there is more in common between them and the people on the other side than with the people in power that sent them there to die if needed.
Matters to what?
In the context we are talking about.
What point do you think youre making here? Everything you listed is a reason it would be tougher for the US than Afghanistan or Vietnam.
Being tougher than Afghanistan or Vietnam was the point I was trying to make. A war in Venezuela or Colombia would be even more of a quagmire than Vietnam.
I missread. My bad.
Just a reminder that America has not won an armed conflict since WWII, and they have been absolutely savaged by guerilla warfare strategies in multiple conflicts.
Everybody fears the American Military, and they will do a lot of damage when they come to your neighborhood, but ultimately, they can't get out of their own way.
And even saying they won WWII is generous in itself, they joined the winning side in progress.
Wow, it’s almost like repeating history causes history to repeat.
How the hell did a random Columbian Guerilla end up running a fucking DPMS Kitty Kat?! Of all the choices in the world, that certainly is one of them.
This reminds me of SOMETHING, I cant put my finger on it....
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