Hours after the U.S. invaded Venezuela to seize President Nicolás Maduro, President Trump sent a warning to the governments of Mexico, Cuba and Colombia that their countries could be next.
Why it matters: The stunning attack on Caracas follows Trump’s recent assertion of his own version of the Monroe Doctrine, and the president’s comments that the U.S is not afraid to put “boots on the ground” in the country suggest that the administration won’t hesitate to have an ongoing presence in the region.
You could beat the entire armed population of the US with a small fraction of the US military. The power imbalance is crazy. One wiretap, one drone, and you don’t have to worry about anyone in that region fucking around again.
This doesn’t mean that the politicians can’t be killed, but it does mean that guns aren’t the way. We would need to get on board with letter bombs and ricin.
We would also be operating against the NSA and the militarized police state, so any action would have to be stochastic. Just like it takes time to boil water, it takes time to get an influential stochastic terrorism campaign going. Any truly organized rebellion would be stamped out almost immediately.
A hundred million people armed with rolling pins and bricks could topple any government on earth.