And the amount of gusanos willing to burn their country down only to get rid of Petro is sadly huge, too.
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My concern isn't that the gringos would be able to take over easily or maintain control over the country. I'm intimately familiar with Colombian geography and history, and I know the kind of insurgency that's been pretty much the rule for the past 80 years or so, and why it would be a worse Afghanistan if they chose to pull some shit. My concern was more that if Trump decides it's go-time, there are plenty of American troops and materiel on Colombian soil already to do some real damage,before the local military leadership (who, let's face it, are mostly foaming at the mouth right-wing psychos) would have a chance to react.
Compare to Vzla where there is a relatively coordinated network of self-defense cells, and where the US would actually have to go into the country if they wanted to pull some shit.
B-b-but it looks like the one from halo, and master chief isn't afraid of nothing
Idk there's approximately 4 billion of them. It's bound to happen
Any artifact is culturally relevant. Jewelry isn't the exception
Want gazans to not eat any animal that shows up on their shores? Easy, let them have the aid they need.
The Chinese most likely never bought the company to produce chips here in the EU. They bought it to pilfer the patents and R&D and relocate that knowledge and technology to China. They would have let the company go bankrupt in a few years.
This is what private equity does all the fucking time! But when Chinese people play the game we suddenly have a problem. I feel I'm taking crazy pills.
above 2009 levels

Colombia and Venezuela are not aligned in the slightest. Petro is far friendlier towards the bolivarian revolution than anyone before him, but there's still distrust and lots of pain points in their relationship.
All this to say, don't expect some kind of united front in the region to come in case of US aggression. At that point it'd become a free for all.
Venezuela is one thing, but Colombia is littered with US military bases. If they wanted they could just do whatever in Colombian territory and the Colombian military would be too shocked or dumbfounded to do something in time.
It's always been his MO. He'll say something outrageous and false about someone, act like it's true til either the other part gives in or he loses interest. He either gets what he wants, or acts like it never happened. His superpower is being completely inert to the concept of truth.

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