re: #193 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Iran is too much of a logistic and geostrategic mess. Venezuela is at our doorstep and offers all the same advantages: installing a US-friendly regime that will supply us with oil, supplying us with bad guys (South American terrorist-socialists) and an excuse to close off our border with a Wall of Steel.

re: #194 Dr Lizardo

Also, a potential chance to cooperate with the newly-installed RWNJ President of Brazil.

Good morning! I hate to interrupt the strategists on this board — particularly since I’m not one — but the distance from LA to our doorstep (Caracas) is nearly 4000 miles. Also, Brazil’s population is mostly on the eastern and southeastern coasts, and any military cooperation with Brazil would have to find its way through 1500 miles (by air from Belem) of mostly undeveloped jungle. (The road distance from Belem to Caracas, per the Internet Gods, is about 6200 miles.)