In Venezuela Juan Guaidó the head of the Parliament has self declared himself to be the new President in opposition to Nicolas Maduro who is ruining the country and dragging it towards a dictatorship. Most commentators agree that the deciding factor will be the reaction of the Army. My feeling is that if the deciding factor is the Army then the government is already demonstrating its illegitimacy. I don't really understand why or how "the Army" can be seen as a deciding factor. Why would soldiers obey their officers when they are being asked to turn on their own people. The last War that involved Venezuela and an external threat was in 1908. There are 22 countries in the world that do not have an army, most of them are quite small and are often island States. However in the 22 there is also Costa Rica and Panama which are not islands and which have populations of 4-5 Million people. I wonder at what population level does a country need an Army ? (none in my opinion) What if France gave up its Army (it's not as if we were so successful in wars anyway)? We would save €33 Billion and probably would end up safer than before. Especially if we used the 33 billion to give free education to 1,000,000 foreigners every year, so that they can go home and become advocates for a military free society.
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