cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/22162
The following is an interview of Cuban internationalist combatant Yohandris Varona Torres, who was in the unit that confronted the U.S. imperialist invasion of Caracas on Jan. 3. The interview was done by Ignacio Ramonet (author of “100 Hours with Fidel”). Translation: Walter Lippmann, publisher of Cuba News, a daily . . .
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The other thing in their favor was that they seemed to know where everything was. So they fired at the barracks and dormitories where we Cubans were staying and managed to kill the leaders among the first.
This feels like the most important part of the article. Western imperialism’s biggest advantage at the momeny seems to be their insane hyper-orwellian level of surveillance and intelligence.
Fr it makes it sound like they had terminator vision to headshot all the leaders
I wouldn’t wipe the shit on my boot upon the corpse of an American “special forces” marauder scum, this man and all his fallen comrades are legitimate heroes in the global proletarian struggle against imperialism. Glory and honor to him.
Brave and honorable people. May they never forget what the empire did.“They had much more firepower than we did,” says Yohandris. “We only had light weapons. The other thing in their favor was that they seemed to know where everything was. So they fired at the barracks and dormitories where we Cubans were staying and managed to kill the leaders among the first.”
Yes they had it all mapped and had spent weeks drilling their entire routine.
“Despite their firepower advantage,” Yohandris added, “I’m sure we inflicted casualties on them. More than they admit. We fought hard. We kept shooting until almost all of us were falling, dead or wounded.”
Perhaps. Or they were well armoured? Quite possible to hit a target and not realise it didn’t wound them because of armour.
It was not a quick or easy battle, as Trump and his henchmen initially tried to make people believe. As the days have passed, it has become clear that only death and a lack of ammunition managed to quell the Cubans’ resistance.
I suppose a lesson to learn here is that your defence should have enough ammunition to hold off an attack until reinforcement arrives then.
I wonder if Maduro and his wife gave themselves up when the ammunition was out rather than have the building they were in stormed.
I suppose a lesson to learn here is that your defence should have enough ammunition to hold off an attack until reinforcement arrives then.
defenders disadvantage is never knowing when the attacker will strike if they ever do
Yes true but I think you can still account for this. The attacker has to strike at one of your places of routine if they’re going to plan as meticulously as the strike team did for this. If it’s a place of routine then you can place a large ammunition stash inside that building. If you can hold out for 30-60 minutes then reinforcements will overwhelm the attacking force.
What a fucking hero.
Regarding the armor and casualties, I’m not aware of any body armor that remains effective after taking one shot. Kevlar works by solidifying at the place of impact. So after you hit it once, the rest of it turns into a weighted vest. Fudging the numbers of how many casualties we took/inflicted has been a thing people have used to project power for ages now. Hell maybe the 300 spartans got into a fight with like ten fancy persian dudes who just wiped the floor with them.
US SOF is going to be wearing hard armor plates that are multi-hit rated against armor piercing rounds.
I don’t mean to “well akshually” reddit-reply to your comment but it is important to know what our good and Godly protectors are wearing.
Edit: Sorry I didn’t see someone else had already responded. Here is a little blurb on some Level IV plates that are available on the clear web to civilian scum like us, imagine what kind of spooky materials Delta has.
The LTC 28534 is a high end ballistic solution comprised of a hot pressed Boron Carbide Ceramic Core, supported by a lightweight polyethelene backer. The LTC 28534 is a military plate which is NOT governed under the civilian NIJ standard. This has a rough equivalent of Level 4 protection, however they are officially rated for three shots of .30-06 M2 AP and three shots of 5.56x45mm M995 Tungsten Core AP. … Leading Technology Composites is the current manufacturer for US SOCOM SPEAR plates, the LTC 25834 is literally a military plate.
Shit this is all really really good to know.
You’ve inspired me and I’m lowkey thinking of writing something longer on the civilian and LEO side of this topic later, I’ll tag you in if I actually follow through.Please do, comrade. That sounds like very important information that a lot of us would find very interesting right now.
Sparta had the best PR machine in the world. The guys sucked shit, got their asses kicked except for a brief 10-15 years and everyone still sucks their dicks about it. They weren’t good for anything other than hunting slaves and they sucked at that too.
They had a shitton of slaves with them to Thermopylae and a bunch of other greeks too. The only good thing that came out of that debacle was the fact some dumbass romans tried to make their last stand at Thermopylae many years later - Against other romans! Everyone knew the story then, so the guys got their shit kicked in, which was very funny.Or so I’m told
It’s not even that they had the best PR machine in the world, is was that Plato was a fascist little shit who was a Sparta-boo, and he was the primary source for most Greek history for a very very long time. Most Athenians thought Spartans were a joke because their ability to create a navy sucked (because they ran a slave economy).
I always love the Sparta story about Philip of Macedon saying “if I invade sparta you will be destroyed, never to rise again”
Spartas response? “If.”
Very cool.
What happened next was that they got invaded and destroyed. They’re like the original fascists with how much shit they suck
Ballistic plates can protect against multiple rounds depending on the plate and projectile, they’re standard issue body armor
Eternal glory to the heroes of the people!
I read this as if he was 23 years old at first
Damn the cubans treat 'em like they’re still in the 80’s I thoughtAnyway cool story, guy is brave as fuck. Can’t imagine getting bombed, getting all the leaders killed and still having the guts to fight
Shit, I haven’t been following the details of the kidnapping close enough, I thought the kidnappers killed everybody.
