17.10.2025, Moscow.
The US Armed Forces could destroy Venezuela’s Armed Forces through aerial bombardments, but once it invades the country’s territory, it would face defeat, philosopher, political scientist, and leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan said on October 17 on the Conversation with the Sage program.
According to Kurginyan, the US Armed Forces could easily wipe out Venezuela’s army through aerial bombardments. However, the situation would change drastically once US troops set foot on Venezuelan soil, where they would face immense risk.
Most Venezuelans, he noted, still support the Bolivarian government. In response to US military activity in the Caribbean, Venezuela has mobilized 12,000 militia members. Additionally, the country has pro-government paramilitary formations known as colectivos, while armed revolutionary groups in neighboring Colombia could also join the fight. These forces, combined with the dense jungle terrain, would make it nearly impossible for US troops to fight effectively.
“The US army can destroy Venezuela’s current army that’s not difficult. It will seize control of the skies, maybe do something else afterward. But once it gets in there — especially into the tropical, lushly vegetated regions — that will be the end of it. That will be its downfall,” Kurginyan said.
“The US army will bomb everything brilliantly — for now, given the current level of Venezuela’s armament. But once it invades, it will face around 15 million armed people, including Colombian revolutionary groups nearby. Fifteen million people who will resist. With what forces will [Trump] invade it?” the political scientist added.
Kurginyan also dismissed hopes pinned on Venezuelan opposition leader and 2025 Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado. According to him, she lacks any real domestic support, and even if installed as a result of US intervention, she would not be able to maintain power.
Kurginyan argued that Russia could, within a few years, equip Venezuela’s Armed Forces well enough to make US air superiority far less certain. However, Moscow, hoping for productive negotiations with Washington, has so far limited itself to “moderate friendship” with Caracas, which frustrates both Venezuela and the United States.
“If we truly decided to fully equip Venezuela’s army — and the Venezuelans have money, so why not? — we could, in two or three years, strengthen it to the point where even US air supremacy would become questionable,” he explained. “We could also test some of our own systems, starting testing is half the battle, we have the ‘Oreshnik’, some other things and so on. But we aren’t doing that; we’re maintaining a moderate friendship, irritating both sides with our restraint. China, too, is in no hurry to help Venezuela in a proper way.”
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
