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How US was able to invade Venezuela and kidnap its leader in hours? (self.politics)

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Does Venezuela have no army at all?

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[–] freagle@lemmygrad.ml 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Your sense of the numbers are way off. $2Bn is a small price to pay for the largest known oil reserves in the world. Very very very small price compared to what the profits will be within a year. Venezuela in 2025 was already at a million barrels per day which is at least 2 billion USD in revenue monthly.