We are not the world police

The US govt seems to be working on that.

> But the overarching culprit here is the Venezuelan regime.

If you truly believed this why not also try to help the regime's victims rather than persecute them more?

Two wrongs don't make a right. The US was wrong to instigate Russia by violating Baker's verbal promise to not move NATO "one inch east" (and then playing the "nanny nanny boo boo, we were crossing our fingers / didn't sign it on paper, so it doesn't count" card). That did destabilize the pre-existing balance of regional power the region and pose an existential threat to Russia's security interests.

Russia responding by choosing to "take down the regime" in Ukraine by invading a sovereign nation was also wrong. There was justification, there was reason, but that doesn't make it right.

The US is playing the role of Russia when it comes to Venezuela. The US has real reasons to be unhappy with what's going on, even if it's not quite at the same level of the US' geopolitical adversaries positioning nuclear weapons just a few hundred miles from the US capitol. The US having justification and reason to support discontent with Venezuela is not license to invade Venezuela. This was also true for Libya, for Iraq, for Vietnam, for every victim of US imperial aggression.

The US has to stop. The US is not the world's policeman, and the US had no legitimate right to declare itself such.

Want to do something about black market drug smuggling? Try destroying the black market. Take the Portugal approach.