Venezuela has 5,000 Russian-made anti-aircraft missiles in “key air defense positions,” its President Nicolás Maduro claimed on Wednesday, amid growing tension over the United States’ military deployment in the Caribbean.
legit i was just thinking this. the headline reminded me of that line about how empires collapse inward from the periphery.
so the natsec apparatus having the door slammed on its junk trying to reassert itself over the largest oil reserves in LatAm would be on brand as hell.
now combine it with the constellation of the federal shutdown / uncertainty over troop pay + the AI bubble bursting taking out some big banks at the knees (another uncertain bail out?) just while some have extended loans to the randroid Milei and all bets are off. personally, if SNAP craters, i think the most populated state with the worst buffer and social support network is Florida, which is home to some pretty significant military bases in terms of projecting forces over LatAm. that’s a novel stew.
i was thinking earlier about how the resilience of the system here can probably weather 1-2 big problems at a time, but this administration seems content to not resolve them while pretending they don’t matter. so its pretty possible that we can enter a scenario where multiple structural problems interact to create a complex scenario that doesn’t have a linear solution.
and lets be real, i am not seeing anything going on with this administration that would imply they can respond competently to a novel problem. they have like one play (attack immigrants and minorities) and i dunno how much harder they can push that button before it breaks.
its pretty possible that we can enter a scenario where multiple structural problems interact to create a complex scenario that doesn’t have a linear solution.
so its pretty possible that we can enter a scenario where multiple structural problems interact to create a complex scenario that doesn’t have a linear solution.
This reminds me of the sinking of the Moskva in the black sea smh, spooky similar.
Side note: Russia and the US are eerily similar as well but also opposites in some ways (huge country by area, low population density yet urbanized, huge expensive army, …).
Oh man can you imagine if the first aircraft carrier the U.S. loses gets destroyed by Venezuela? Lol
legit i was just thinking this. the headline reminded me of that line about how empires collapse inward from the periphery.
so the natsec apparatus having the door slammed on its junk trying to reassert itself over the largest oil reserves in LatAm would be on brand as hell.
now combine it with the constellation of the federal shutdown / uncertainty over troop pay + the AI bubble bursting taking out some big banks at the knees (another uncertain bail out?) just while some have extended loans to the randroid Milei and all bets are off. personally, if SNAP craters, i think the most populated state with the worst buffer and social support network is Florida, which is home to some pretty significant military bases in terms of projecting forces over LatAm. that’s a novel stew.
i was thinking earlier about how the resilience of the system here can probably weather 1-2 big problems at a time, but this administration seems content to not resolve them while pretending they don’t matter. so its pretty possible that we can enter a scenario where multiple structural problems interact to create a complex scenario that doesn’t have a linear solution.
and lets be real, i am not seeing anything going on with this administration that would imply they can respond competently to a novel problem. they have like one play (attack immigrants and minorities) and i dunno how much harder they can push that button before it breaks.
This reminds me of the sinking of the Moskva in the black sea smh, spooky similar.
Side note: Russia and the US are eerily similar as well but also opposites in some ways (huge country by area, low population density yet urbanized, huge expensive army, …).
I can, and I love it.
I want ansar allah to do it though. American exceptionalism as CIA propaganda would be crushed immediately