White House gives Maduro ultimatum as U.S. moves toward land operations

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62. "Maybe six days, maybe six weeks, certainly not six months."

Cheney's Defense Secretary of Defense, Donald Rumsfeld, after being asked how long he thought it would take to conquer Iraq.

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Hegseth and Trump must have only looked at a flat map of Venezuela. Any commander of an invading force looking at a topological map of the country would be ordering lots of trauma kits, antibiotics, and body bags, because an invasion of a country with Venezuela's terrain will mean that plenty of our guys will not be coming home, and plenty more will return in bad shape. After what our guys did to their people in those boats, they already know what our policy is on "enemy" combatants, so our troops shouldn't be expecting more lenient treatment, since they won't be expecting it from us.

If any of the American troops heading there have read up on what they are heading into, I doubt their enthusiasm level is very high.

Now that we're friends with Vietnam, there have to be some older local vets there in contact with our military people, telling them that they ought to have learned from our Vietnam experience that invading a country with that much jungle will not turn out well.

Refining the high-sulfur oil of the Maracaibo basin will be no picnic either. If the decide to do it in Louisiana instead of locally, then that is a state whose air I would not want to breathe in the near future.