I agree. The cyberattack evidence I found also agree with this. A large cyberattack before the attack. It is a surprise rush.

I mean not placing manpads on high alert and old school ak47 with tracer rounds, because manana and not provoking is not a better explanation than treason. Once again, the problem is not radars or missile interceptors, i perfectly believe that seppos can blow them up (aside from the fact they were not even engaged, whatever). You can’t sead your way out of a dude with rpg round, you just can’t. They only have ir reflection signature during aiming, they don’t emit radiation, there is nothing to be targeted.

If i, a random commentator can see it, the average tacticool sergeant in venezuela can see it as well.

And you don’t launch fucking personnel helicopters with 20 troops on board, unless you are 99% sure you won’t meet a dude with rpg or igla round from some window in downtown caracas, like be real. Even 20 helicopters with 8 hellfires each can’t suppress 200 dudes with ak47, you will have to bombard your way through this.

And i can see how such a thing can be defeated by infiltration into chain of command, synthesized ai-voices into stand down commands and things of that nature. that’s the vulnerability of the centralized command, but we don’t have any evidence that this happened (it seemingly did happen in syria). Or swarms of drones, but those were not used as well

Crinsosad is the same person on X that says any explosion= tactical nuclear weapon. They are not serious.

I think there's a lot of of people looking for alternative explanations (you can call it "cope" if you want, but I dislike that term) because they don't want to admit that the technological gap between the USA, and the Russian air defence and Chinese search radars Venezuela has, is that big. The truth is the technological gap is that big, and this leads to some very uncomfortable questions, conclusions, and realities. China is well aware of these uncomfortable questions, conclusions and realities, which is why they're doing the military developments that they are doing. It's why the J-35 exists, it's why the J-20 exists, it's why the DF-ZF hypersonic glide vehicle and DF-17 and DF-27 exist. It's why China wants to build multiple nuclear powered aircraft carriers in the next decade. It's why China wants to build all kinds of flying wing stealth drones. They aren't wasting money, they are highly concerned about national security.

If you're a periphery nation though, the questions this raises are very uncomfortable. Venezuela bought the best they could realistically buy to defend their nation. They bought the S-300VM/SA-23, the most expensive Russian air defence system available for export. Egypt spent over $1 billion on their S-300VMs, these systems are very expensive. Venezuela had a whole brigade of Buk M2E/SA-17, a system that's relatively new (2008 initial operations in Russia) and the most advanced medium range air defence system Russia has exported. Venezuela has 4th generation Su-30 fighter aircraft with active radar guided/fox 3 air to air missiles. Venezuela have the YJ-27 Wide Mat Chinese "anti stealth radars", and a whole other bunch of Chinese search radars. If this is not enough to deter the US, what is? Even if only a third of the equipment was operational, it's still advanced technology.

So for periphery nations, unless they can get their hands on the latest advanced Chinese military technology, they're in a bad position. But periphery nations need to be wealthy enough to afford this Chinese military technology, which will require Chinese co-operation. Said economic co operation will require China to raise domestic consumption, as XHS talks about.