🚨🇺🇸🇻🇪 This is how the U.S. bypassed Venezuela's F-16 fleet, Iranian, Russian, and Chinese air defense and radar networks during the operation. pic.twitter.com/Jhx6fQCAJp
A Strategic Betrayal: How Venezuela Exposed Russian & Chinese Air Defenses to the US
Article By Major Sammer Toorr (Infantry Combat Veteran)
(Urban Warfare Specialist)
This is bigger than Venezuela. Russian S-300 and Chinese HQ-9 air defense systems are now exposed not destroyed but decoded. That’s worse. Air defense isn’t metal and missiles. It’s radar logic, response time, software behavior, and operator doctrine. Once mapped, it’s neutralized everywhere.
战略背叛：委内瑞拉如何将俄罗斯和中国的防空系统暴露给美国
作者：萨默·图尔少校（步兵战斗老兵）（城市作战专家）
这远不止委内瑞拉的问题。俄罗斯的 S-300 和中国的
红旗 HQ-9 防空系统如今不仅没有被摧毁，
反而被解码了。这更糟糕。
防空系统并非仅仅是金属和导弹，而是雷达逻辑、响应时间、软件
行为和操作人员的作战理论。一旦掌握了这些系统，它们就能在
任何地方被摧毁。美军需要的不是战斗，而是情报、监视和侦察
（ISR）飞行、电子战探测、网络测绘和无人机模拟。
委内瑞拉给了他们这些机会。S-300的神话建立在恐惧之上。但
一旦其雷达频率、交战窗口和跟踪范围被记录下来，地球上的
每一套S-300系统都将变得可预测。HQ-9的说法则更加脆弱。它被
宣传为中国的“爱国者”导弹杀手，但其在现实世界中的暴露将导致
其在亚洲、非洲和中东的出口崩溃和信誉受损。
五角大楼不会仓促行事。它负责观察、记录、模拟并编写反制
战术，然后将这些信息共享给北约和印太司令部。这就是莫斯科
和北京感到被欺骗的原因。他们付出了武器、训练、石油交易、
外交庇护和否决权，却换来了战略泄露。
委内瑞拉原本不应该成为美国的试验场，而应该成为一个施压点。
马杜罗选择了政权存亡而非战略忠诚。现在，俄罗斯面临着一场
噩梦：任何未来与S-300的交战都可能被美国的算法预先破解。
中国的担忧则更为深远。如果HQ-9的性能缺陷暴露出来，巴基
斯坦、伊朗和出口客户将会提出一些棘手的问题。这就是现代
战争的残酷法则：你无法通过轰炸来击败防空系统，而是要通过
了解它来击败它。
委内瑞拉或许能够挺过制裁，但俄罗斯和中国可能
刚刚失去了价值数十年的威慑力量，
而这甚至没有发射过一枚导弹。
US forces don’t need combat. They need access ISR flights, EW probing, cyber mapping, drone stimulation. Venezuela gave them that access. The S-300 myth was built on fear. But once its radar frequencies, engagement windows, and tracking limits are recorded, every S-300 battery on Earth becomes predictable. The HQ-9 narrative is even more fragile. Marketed as China’s Patriot-killer, its real-world exposure risks export collapse and credibility loss across Asia, Africa, and the Middle East. The Pentagon doesn’t rush. It observes, records, simulates, and writes counter-tactics then shares them across NATO and Indo-Pacific commands. This is why Moscow and Beijing feel cheated. They paid in weapons, training, oil deals, diplomatic shielding, and vetoes and got strategic leakage in return. Venezuela wasn’t supposed to be a US lab. It was meant to be a pressure point. Maduro chose regime survival over strategic loyalty.
Now Russia faces a nightmare: Any future S-300 engagement risks being pre-solved by US algorithms. China’s worry is deeper. If HQ-9 performance gaps are exposed, Pakistan, Iran, and export clients start asking uncomfortable questions. This is modern warfare’s harsh rule: You don’t defeat air defenses by bombing them. You defeat them by understanding them. Venezuela may survive sanctions. But Russia and China may have just lost deterrence capital worth decades without a single missile fired.
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