[caww]

Well they certainly can’t function or live in these blackouts without basic water, food, electricity and communications all down in Venezuela..

BTW the first thing nations do before war is withdraw their Embassies....we should watch if others follow suite...though with the blackout continuing they may just the same.

[janetjanet998]

these words are interesting.....

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the presence of U.S. diplomatic staff at the embassy has become a constraint on U.S. policy.

[catnipman]

“BTW the first thing nations do before war is withdraw their Embassies”

indeed:

” the presence of U.S. diplomatic staff at the embassy has become a constraint on U.S. policy.”

[JennysCool]

Doubt there will be war. Like Liberals here in the US, the socialists in Venezuela simply can’t just admit they’re wrong, that they’ve failed. About anything. Ever. The Venezuelans are quickly realizing, however, that actual reality is here. And it sucks. They have no appetite for war.

[PA Engineer]

Been following this since the beginning. This looks like a total collapse including gamed scenarios of a world WROL and SHTF. The water issue is going to play out now including widespread disease. Watching the looting of pharmacies and collapse of hospitals was not unexpected. This will add to the human toll.

The grid failure was expected because of the flight of competent personal and replacement with Chavistas. Pure negligence and corruption.

I don't think they can bring the grid back up. Every time the power is restored to districts,major transformers are exploding. The slang is dirty power without safety systems. Could the US even bring the grid back up? I don't know.

Add to the misery the constant looting of warehouses and groceries, there is no capital to restock or restart. The dollar is the only currency accepted in the equivalent of barter situations.

Twitter hashtag #SinLuz has been valuable for monitoring.

There are lots of innocents suffering and of course the other half are ferals. I think this is going to get far worse in the short term. This should be a lesson to those that scoff at preppers. Even peppers should be paying close attention. Weapons and ammo is important. Water is life.

Best.