Trump now says that Venezuela has stolen their land from the United States, and it needs to be "returned".
This will be Trump's Vietnam.
When the US fought the Viet Cong, the population of North Vietnam was 18 million. The population of Venezuela is 31 million. They have Su-30 fighter jets, a military of 337,000 soldiers, and they can mobilize 617,000 more soldiers every year.
Venezuela is three times the size of Vietnam
Seventy or so years ago during the negotiations that led to the Austrian State Treaty the issue of the control and ownership of oilfields in the zone then occupied by the #Sovietunion came up. These had been seized as #enemyproperty in 1945. The #us successfully insisted that they be returned to the ownership of the Austrian state, That was the #us that once commanded moral respect and possessed soft power - despite the best efforts of people like #roycohn . What a contrast!