Historically the most dangerous tool of the US empire has been internal coups, but that has conclusively been defeated by Venezuela
As a result the US is grudgingly resorting to some bungled military attempt, likely a bigger version of that merc invasion several years ago, that was defeated by local fishermen
Aside from a few exceptions, US military invasions fail when targeting large countries; the jungles of southern and eastern Venezuela are impervious to US power projection, the Colombian border (which is only viable route to invade Venezuela) is closed and the northern coast is protected by a massive mountain range and dense, large, pro regime cities and towns
As a result the US will be forced to rely on air power and naval bombardment to damage the the revolutionary state
The logistical equation is fairly obvious in this case, it would require a decade of sustained warfare with the deployment of hundreds of thousands of troops to overcome the militia networks and the sheer geography of Venezuela
And the first dead Venezuelan child by a US bomb or bullet will gureentee the long overdue obliteration of the opposition for generations
The US could only invade those countries because they weren’t socialist and it literally bribed the majority of the armed factions not to fight, in the case of Iraq most of the army dissolved for the sake of dollars in briefcases, handed out in the greatest incident of mass bribery in human history
The socialist militias can’t be bribed and without boots on the ground, the US can’t fund, arm or train traitors and kulaks
The US has nothing but air and naval power over Venezuela, if that was enough, Yemen would’ve fallen by now