No US losses, not a single soldier?
7 soldiers were injured by shrapnel or gunshot wounds. There hasn’t been any announcement of US deaths.
Not a wall of bodyguards around Maduro?
The Cuban government provided elite guards for Maduro. They announced that 32 of them were killed in the raid.
yet they didn’t have any radars set up to detect air infiltration?
They certainly did. Detecting aircraft doesn’t mean you can do anything about it. This was a big operation with explosions all over the city. Many of those were knocking out air defenses and targeting air bases. Some of the aircraft used were stealthy and might have evaded detection before striking air defenses. 150 aircraft from the Navy, Air Force, and Marines were used.
All of the equipment shipped in from Russia and China leading up to this moment, no missiles that could’ve taken out those low flying helicopters?
I’m not familiar with China’s military aid. But IIRC, Russia flew one transport plane with “air defenses” which is more of a symbolic gesture than a solution. Let’s not forget that using advanced aircraft to strike deep within contested airspace is kind of the US military’s whole thing. By the time the helicopters showed up, any air defenses that could have brought them down were already dealt with.
They capture Maduro AND his wife? Why his wife, it just seems an unnecessary liability to add to the equation.
Yeah idk. That is weird.
but what they haven’t taken over Venezuela?
…yet. My guess is that they learned from Iraq. In Iraq, they did the same kind of thing to Saddam and then took over and tried to run the country. That turned out to be a huge political problem for the US for decades. They want Venezuela to essentially be a vassal of the US, which they can do without directly running the country. Likely they are using the threat of doing this again to push Venezuelan politics toward giving concessions to the US.
Feels like a psychological operation to make us believe the US hegemony is alive and just as invincible as it’s always been
At this point you are purely reaching for conspiracy to fit things within your preferred narrative. The rest of your post is very conspiratorial. A lot of parties are kind of shocked at the moment and waiting for some of the dust to settle before taking concrete action.
I see it as a gateway. A lot of people will go to the protest, talk to other people, and maybe get involved with something more meaningful.