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Venezuela. Just a couple of thoughts.
So the US considers a number of states as "enemy". As we defined here:  >>/54313/ an enemy is a non-client regime that deliberately chooses to oppose the US in key issues, in their foreign and domestic policies both.
Not sure about the current list of enemies. Iran, North Korea, and Venezuela is there. Perhaps couple of African countries? Not sure. Russia and China are rivals to the US, I think the US has some level Containment policy in effect against both, but they also do deals with them. The US with the Containment policy prefers to shut everything.
What I think is Trump going through the list, and tries to decide what policy options to pick against each. For now he prefers more active stance than just Contain, Persuasion or Engagement (some of the policies here  >>/54523/ are universally true, they differ in detail from enemy to enemy). In Iran's case they decided to combine the Israel option with their own bombing campaign. And now in Venezuela the again doing air raids, for now against boats and narcos and whatever.
I dunno what's the most current is, I think a number of warships and a small invasion force is grouped there. We'll see.
What I think that when the issue with Maduro gets stale (or solved, or the situation changes in a way that it can be presented by US propaganda as a WIN) then we're gonna start hearing about some other enemy, I assume North Korea. Perhaps Trump will visit again, he will say he knows the Little Rocketman well and they are great friends and they have great understanding and Ukraine is not his but Biden's war. There will be some saber rattling no doubt.
And then we'll move to the next one.

JFC Trump is not in office even a year, he was so fucking much. God! Less America!