
Y solo el 15% de sus aviones de guerra despegan
Jaime Bayly• 17:54
Hello, how are you? The most important news of today about Venezuela is brought to you by El Nacional, the daily newspaper I always read. A well-informed newspaper. The National Council of the United States of America consults several military experts on the possibility of a large-scale intervention or a brief, limited intervention by the US military in Venezuela. The most interesting thing is that these Venezuelan military experts describe the catastrophic ruinous state of the Venezuelan soldiers ready to fight.
In recent years, these experts say, the desertion of Venezuelan soldiers has been massive. It has been 45% from the average command down. Now there are not even 70,000 active Venezuelan soldiers. And those who are active, those who have not deserted, do not even work from Monday to Friday as soldiers, since the great Venezuelan military leaders, most of whom are deeply corrupted by the dictatorship,
do not have money to pay their salaries to the soldiers, nor food to feed them from Monday to Friday. That is why those who have not deserted are looking for another job and have permission to work in other areas or occupations outside of the military barracks up to five days a week, including Saturday and Sunday. So, for example, they only go to the barracks on Monday and Tuesday. And then Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday,
they don't go and work on anything else. This gives an idea that the Venezuelan Armed Forces are neither strong nor are they armed. There are hardly any soldiers. There are a lot of generals, fat, obese, eating little ones. of the solar card, in its good times of splendor, used to make a profit of 500 million dollars a month.
This in terms of soldiers. Now, the military experts, and I quote particularly one that I found very intelligent, Victor Mijares, say that the Venezuelan planes, almost none take off. of of the most insufferable, of the most useless, of the most useless, of the most useless, of the most useless, of the most useless, of the most useless, of the most useless, of the most useless, of the most useless, of the most useless, of the most useless, of the most useless, of the most useless, of the most useless, of the most useless,
of the most useless, of the most useless, of the soldiers want to work on something else, and those are the ones who have deserted, and they have deserted almost half of it. This is not going to be told by Maduro, or Cabello, or, of course, Godfather López, but this is the truth.
Add to that the Francisco Covid, who is a cunning businessman who has made a fortune and who is the financial operator, the one who moves the money to the biological children of Cilia Flores, who are three. And he had put him in the helicoid, no less, because apparently Covid was found on his cell phone with some suspicious conversations that could seem to be part of the conspiracy to take down Maduro. But he has managed to escape. How has COVID escaped?
This is wonderfully told by Ibellice Pacheco, the fierce and brilliant columnist of the Los Americanos newspaper. He has escaped by paying bribes. Everything in Venezuela is solved by paying bribes. COVID has paid a million dollars in bribes to its custodians and has escaped in good time. It is also said by Iveillice Pacheco that Maduro is spying on Néstor Reverol, who was the commander of the Bolivarian National Guard,
who obviously has very valuable information about Maduro's interference and Cabello's, the drug trafficking in Venezuela, in the Sol Sun Card, and that's why he's being watched and spied on. And apparently, suggests Mrs. Pacheco, always well informed, they have kidnapped a daughter, Reverol, to make him softer. In the National Chronicle, there is a reflection that I found very interesting. If a month, two, three passes and Trump does nothing, in Venezuela I mean,
if six months pass and Trump keeps his eight warships, his planes, his helicopters, his submarines, his four, five, six, maybe up to eight thousand soldiers and does nothing, then, Trump, according to says these experts would lose credibility. If Trump, after three months or six months, says, well, we're leaving, that the warships return to Norfolk, Virginia,
the operation has been concluded, and the United States withdraws all its powerful military deployment in front of the coasts of Venezuela without having done anything, without being able to display or show The truth is that all of this was a trick of Trump. Why did he send eight warships with planes, helicopters, submarines, and thousands of men, and naval infantry, ready to fight? In the end, he did nothing. And not only that, but they will make fun of Trump, they will make fun of him, and they
will give him tacos again. In other words, Trump always chickens out. Trump always gets scaredusta al final. Por eso estos expertos militares consideran que sí, que Trump algo va a hacer. Que Trump no puede darse el lujo de suspender y retirar todo este poderoso despliegue militar sin hacer nada. Porque entonces daría la impresión de que fue un puro teatro, ¿no? Y esto no le convendría a él, a Trump, desde el punto because then it would give the impression that it was pure theater, right?
And this would not be convenient for him, for Trump, from the point of view of his image. It is true that in today's news, the newspaper El Espectador de Colombia, an extraordinary newspaper, I publish there on Sundays, that the manager of business in Venezuela, the manager of business in the United States, John McNamara, told the Colombian chancellor, Petro's chancellor, Mrs. Rosa Villavicencio, and I quote, There is no intention by the United States to carry out a military intervention in Venezuela. On the one hand, Mr. McNamara says, we are not going to enter,
and on the other hand, the military experts, including Mr. Mijares, say, they are going to have to do something. Now, McNamara says there is no intention. If there was an intention, it would be secret, right? And he's not going to tell the Petro's chancellor. McNamara is not going to tell him the truth.
If there was an intention to do a lightning operation, to enter and exit, surgical extraction, to steal laboratory clues, installations of the Soles cartel in Venezuela. Magnamara is not going to tell Petro's chancellor, since Petro is an ally of Maduro,
look, yes, we have a plan, the secret plan, but I'm not going to tell you. We are going to enter that day and we are going to bomb such and such installations of the Soles cartel and we are going to try to arrest Maduro and Cabello, he is not going to tell you. Therefore, what Magna Mara tells the Petro's chancellor, no, no. It is not necessarily the plan. The plan so far is secret and has logic, the reasoning of Victor Mijares, that is, if the eight warships are there, watching, patrolling, and not doing anything else,
and months pass, and then they leave, people will say, Trump took our hair. Trump didn't do anything in the end. Trump got scared. Trump failed. They triumphed, mature and hair. Right? Now, what could Trump do specifically in Venezuela, according to those military experts consulted by National. It's interesting. They also believe that Trump is not going to enter the old way, in a conventional way, with boots on the ground in Venezuela, with thousands of soldiers, in a
military invasion in all the rule of Venezuela, as was the invasion of Panama in 1989. Despite that, experts say, if the Venezuelan army, in terms of power, of war capabilities, of men ready to fight, of technology, has a score of 2.5, the United States has a score of 10. In other words, in general, the United States is militarily four times more powerful than Venezuela. At this point, the force is deployed like this, right? So, what could the United States do if it is not going to enter Venezuela militarily?
It could, these experts say, shoot the Tomahawk missiles. the that since there is no anti-aircraft defense in Venezuela, because the planes don't even take off, Tomahawk missiles could be fired from the USS Gravely in international waters, aiming at concrete white spots on the Sun. What would those concrete white spots be? Air tracks, I mentioned it here, laboratories, military camps, etc. With which Trump would do in Venezuela a little bit what he did in Iran, right?
That is, one day, bombings, and we take the least risk, we put troops on the ground, we do not risk being killed by our soldiers, and we destroy the installations of the Soldiers' Cartel. That would be the least that Trump could do, experts say, before withdrawing to enter to capture Maduro and Cabello. This would be, for sure, a night operation, gathering opinions from people who really know, right? Who really know, and who come to the conclusion that Trump, having deployed all this immense military force near Venezuela, will be in a certain way forced, from the point of view of its image,
to do something.
No.
What is not supposed to be that Venezuela is going to invade and stay there indefinitely with 20 or 30 thousand soldiers, that is not going to be. But if maybe it can order selective and strategic bombing to points of the Sun Cartel, or even, Mexico's apuntos del cartel de los soles o incluso dios lo quiera or the Narca Viana por cabello maduro y padrino Lopez el diario el país de España es bastante pessimista en una crónica de alonso boleiro dice que el endurecimiento de trump respecto de venezuela se debe al
trabajo persuasivo de maria corina machado. The Spanish country attributes to Maria Corina all the merit that Trump has sent these ships near the Venezuelan coasts. He quotes Jorge Rodríguez, goose bumps, who says that all this is a psychological war of Trump. Trump wants to put pressure on with his ships, his planes, his helicopters, but that will not going to work
in Venezuela, says Rodriguez, and also quotes the vain, thug, god-given hair that says anyone who gets excited that Trump does something militarily in Venezuela deserves a condemnation for honor to merit, for being an idiot, that is, for being stupid. And the newspaper El País de España, unlike the National newspaper, believes that a military procedure that produces a change in power in Venezuela is a very difficult scenario to foresee, and I'm quoting textually. All that in terms of Venezuela. Then, and changing the subject, Macron, the French, and Merkel, the German, have met.
They are outraged by Putin's bombings at the Union's facilities in Kiev, destroying the building. They have told Trump, look, if Putin doesn't commit himself, doesn't come to meet Zelensky, then you, Trump, the United States, have to impose sanctions on him. Let's see if Trump stands firm and imposes economic sanctions on Russia.
I don't think that's going to happen. Putin, on the other hand, has insulted Macron and said that his name is a horrible vulgarity. I don't see it that way, right? The horrible vulgarity is to shoot 600 drones in one night in Kiev and kill four children, and in total 21 innocent civilians in without a back up to the former presidential candidate Kamala Harris, who is now living in Los Angeles and is about to launch a book titled 107 Days. She is going to go out and promote it all over the country and Trump withdraws Kamala Harris
from the back up, while Marco Rubio withdrawing the visas from the Palestinian authorities, who will not be able to enter to present themselves at the General Assembly of the United Nations. These are the news of today. I will rescue the most encouraging, the most positive, which is the one brought by the National of Caracas, which not only reveals the truly ruinous and catastrophic state of the Venezuelan Armed Forces, with planes that do not take off, with soldiers who have deserted, or with soldiers who are still active,
but who have other jobs and are no longer given by the barracks, because they are not even paid on time, nor are they given food, that is, a military force that is not really strong, the one from Venezuela. And with the reflection that I think is thrown, that if Trump lets the days, weeks and months pass, and has all that immense force close to the Venezuelan coast, and in the end does nothing, and says, we're leaving, it would be bad. So, he will have to do something and
So, he will have to do something and hopefully it will be soon and it will work. We continue.
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