>>25593
It's a paradox. Those who can't afford military are the developed first world countries. Banana republics with low standard of living can spend more, since they spend less on everything else.
They don't need flashy gadgets in education, computers and projectors and whateverpads for kids to poke, or even whiteboard with black markers. They only need mudhuts with banana leaf roofing, some cheap chairs a blackboard and chalk. Education: check.
Etc.

>>25587
I mean
Here's that Guido guy making half-assed attempts to remove Maduro, but it's clear he doesn't want a coup, a revolution, a civil war, he just wants that people with power change their way and support a democratical regime, while the generals and such expecting him going Pinochet on Maduro. Which he won't. They want a strongman (or at least a semblance of one) whom they can stand behind.
Then there's Maduro who is ready to bail despite nothing happens. He is a corrupt idiot who can't even recognize the sheep needs to be fed if one wants to shear them.
Then there are all the officers, who can't just remove this incompetent fool and put one from among them forward. Those who could were probable dismissed long time ago, maybe executed too. They say a smart boss surround himself with even smarter subordinates. So I guess an idiot will hire even bigger idiots.

I wonder what will happen now that Russians start to influence things more directly.