VENEZUELA (includes army, navy, air force, national guard):
Regular troops: 115,000
Reservists: 280,000 (estimated, fighting capability unknown)
Hardware: 94 combat-capable aircraft including 68 fighter jets including Sukhois, F-16s and Mirages. Recent military purchases include 53 helicopters, two dozen SU-30 Sukhoi fighter jets and 100,000 Kalashnikov assault rifles. Six surface combat ships.
Defense budget in 2007: $2.56 billion
Tuesday, March 4, 2008
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The key thing is that in a protracted war, venezuelans would be fighting for themselves and for socialism AND for the colombian people too -- while the colombian oligarchy would be forcing people to fight in order to preserve their disgusting comprador capitalist neo-colony, in the interests of only the elite. It's no question which side would win -- especially when any insurgency the colombians could support inside Venezuela would have close to zero support, except from the oligarchy and the latifundistas, and would be easily routed by the citizen militias in both the cities and the countryside -- as opposed to the fact that the colombian FARC is socialism's ready-made army already in control of nearly 1/2 of Colombia at present.
ReplyDeleteLike I said -- no contest. Except for all the dying.
But bring it on, huh?