The United States is currently exerting control over Venezuela through its installed leadership to prevent a chaotic power vacuum.

“So, it's quite apparent that America is is in charge and they're saying to the Venezuelan government, this is enough. You are going to we're going to now operate and instruct Venezuela how to exist, how to live, how to be a country.”

The intervention in Venezuela was not motivated by human rights abuses but by the necessity of addressing a hostile force encroaching upon America's sphere of influence.

“The reason this happened was that Venezuela was becoming a hostile force within America's hemisphere, within America's sphere of influence, within America's sphere of dominance, you might say.”

The current US bipartisan push for regime change in Venezuela through CIA operations and sanctions is an ineffective strategy that will likely fail and potentially strengthen Maduro's grip on power.

“This is 150% a bipartisan regime change USAID CIA op. It will end in the same way that it always does.”

The current US military actions and attempt to rule Venezuela are likely to lead to a disastrous long-term insurgency and failure.

“The minute we go on the ground, we're screwed.”

Targeting Venezuela for regime change is driven by the desire to keep Chinese influence out of the Caribbean and Venezuela.

“Perhaps this is a way to keep the Chinese out of the Caribbean, to keep the Chinese out of Venezuela.”

The U.S. military action against Venezuela is an illegal, unprovoked attack conducted without Congressional approval that undermines international sovereignty.

“He is claiming the right to invade another country without provocation. I mean this idea that these are narot terrorists that are hurting the United States is a fantasy without provocation and without consultation with Congress.”

Brian Tyler Cohen contends that the invasion of Venezuela was conducted primarily for the benefit of oil companies rather than American interests.

“Trump's not looking to help regular people because remember, if he was, he wouldn't have engaged in a trade war that sent the cost of everything surging. He wouldn't have gutted food assistance to the tune of $186 billion. Wouldn't have stripped Medicare away from 17 million Americans.”

The recent US military action against Venezuela is motivated by the desire to control its oil reserves rather than democracy or anti-drug efforts.

“This war is not about drug trafficking. It is it is not about democracy. It is about stealing Venezuela's oil and dominating Latin America.”

The United States could have secured oil and resource deals with Venezuela through negotiation without resorting to military intervention or the kidnapping of a world leader.

“none of this was necessary. The deal was on the table like you didn't need to kidnap Maduro to secure this deal. It was not required at all. I mean the the oil deal was there for and whatever other natural resources which they do have other significant stockpiles of natural resources that was all on”

The recent intervention in Venezuela is a pretext for oil exploitation rather than a genuine effort to promote freedom.

“I mean, freedom is not on the march. Everybody, I know everybody's all excited. I live in Miami where there's a lot of V there's a lot of Venezuelans who are excited. I get it and I got the initial, you know, excitement, but freedom is not on the march in Venezuela.”

The U.S. military operation to capture Nicolás Maduro was a daring, sophisticated, and successful mission that removed a corrupt leader.

“I do think this is one of the most, you know, daring, maybe complicated, sophisticated missions this country has carried out in a very long time. Tremendous credit to the US military personnel who did it. It was unbelievable.”

The US invasion of Venezuela is a positive action that serves national security by checking China and Russia and dealing with the country's terrorist links.

“So, from my perspective, uh for the time being, I only see positives with the you know, Trump invading Venezuela situation. So, again, it gets China out of South America.”

The United States is justified in removing the Maduro regime because it represents a tyrannical government that harmed American interests and violated contracts.

“it does nobody any favors to act as though the people of Venezuela lived under anything other than tyrannical rule. So, that's a side benefit. It doesn't mean that we should free everybody in countries that have never gotten it right. Certainly the most oilrich country in the world, who by the way s”

The arrest and removal of Nicolas Maduro from power in Venezuela is a justified and beneficial action.

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The U.S. intervention in Venezuela was an impressive operational military success, although it creates significant long-term challenges for the region.

“it was a staggering military success operationally. Um the the Russians wish they could have pulled this off. We'd be having a very different conversation about Ukraine if their military had, you know, a fifth of the professionalism and and capabilities that the Americans do.”