Why US invaded Venezuela.
This is not just politics.
It's about resources.
Venezuela has a lot of gold.
About 161 tons, worth around $22 billion.
Gold is easy to store.
No pipelines.
No ships.
Then there is oil.
Venezuela has the largest oil reserves in the world.
Around 300 billion barrels.
Worth trillions of dollars.
There is also natural gas, mostly unused.
This move is about who controls real wealth, not just power.They are sitting on a great deal of heavy crude oil, which isn't the best grade but it will sell. The biggest allies Venezuela has are the Russians and Chinese, only because those countries have lent tens of billions of dollars to Venezuela. Turkey has also voiced support for Venezuela, but none of those countries can logistically support their Armed Forces operating in Latin America. Conducting a war is really about keeping the supply of beans, bullets, bombs, and bandages coming. They can’t do that (nobody does logistics like the United States of America, not even close, especially in our own backyard), so Venezuela is on its own with the possible exception of Bolivia and Cuba.
Russia’s army is bogged in the Donbass and its navy can barely get into the Black Sea without sinking. How it’s going to get to South America, teleport?
Russia can’t do shit, and wouldn’t do shit even if it could. Venezuela is not important enough to it to bother. If anything Russia would welcome America witlessly invading and occupying another country for totally illegal reasons and facing years of protest, economic drain, international condemnation and isolation and steadily rising troop losses from the inevitable insurgency before the inevitable embarrassing retreat. After all, they’ve had fun with those problems themselves in recent years.
