most probable reason is malfunction. several Russian aircraft shot down by own SAMs. not easy to jam when SAMs are upgraded faster than aircraft. and why will they continue to develop helicopter beyond Mi-8MTPR-1 if aircraft can do it.
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Took a lot out of usa to beat up a country that line up at 5am for bread.
Imagine now that bully have to deal with a real challenge
OPEC+ has many millions barrel of spare capacity so how can small production of Venezuela make a difference. and i dont think Russia is in OPEC+ for oil price only and that price is irrelevant.
Its like 2 sides of antiCN narratives before... one is CN is collapsing, second is CN threat...
Can you share the source?
China just provided a radar to Venezuela, that radar has to be integrated to systems that are Russian with different hardware. Irrelevant at the end, from an asymmetrical perspective would have gone like Mogadishu with helicopters down by propelled grenades and US soldiers bodies dragged from motorbikes.
Machado cross the cardinal sin that is Trump’s Ego.
She took his Noble Peace Prize and Trump has a serious fucking grudge about it.
There are other news articles that Maduro did the same thing by dancing, which apparently triggered Trump into invading Venezuela shortly after.
Let suppose this was not a coup from the inner circle to get rid of Maduro. Caracas should have been an fortress of asymmetrical warfare packed with RPGs, MANPADs, Anti Tank weapons and small drones in every roof and corner, air power is great and all but regime change requires boots on the ground, you need armored vehicles, helicopters and tanks. Forget about the 3 or 4 BUK systems and the 20 Sukhoi fighter jets that they have because that won´t make a dent in the US, even if they use them properly, the only way that Venezuela could fight the US is asymmetrically and hope that the US suffer enough losses that they will pack and leave.
So if this was not setup to get rid of Maduro, then no matter how many weapons China and Russia deliver to them, Venezuelan and most Latin American militaries are too incompetent to fight real wars, symmetrically and asymmetrically, and are at the mercy of the US. China or Russia can give them nuclear weapons and will still fail in use them properly.
So if this was not setup to get rid of Maduro, then no matter how many weapons China and Russia deliver to them, Venezuelan and most Latin American militaries are too incompetent to fight real wars, symmetrically and asymmetrically, and are at the mercy of the US. China or Russia can give them nuclear weapons and will still fail in use them properly.
I don think its that.
Its just Machado and opposition are extremely unpopular, to the point where Rubio is ruling out elections as "Pre-mature". They need more time for sanctions, maybe bring a fresh face and put some distance between this blatant attack by a foreign country.