Compared to Iraq this was done in an excellent way.

Democrats and leftists getting mad is nothing new, you just know they wished ten or hundred thousands of the population died in a war so they could blame Trump and the Republicans like they love to do it, but the worst nightmare happened, almost no casualties, the Venezolano population (especially overseas) are happy; Sleepy Trump did what Sleepy Joe and the Democrats couldn't. Companies will invest and this will make US more strong and it will be beneficial for the US citizens; especially oil prices wise making US stronger and more competitive and thats what a US President should do.

Now the USA should send Kitty/Enterprise/nimitz and Ford

-To Panama who are still not listening,

To Greenland because EU is still not paying the 5% Norm and did not invested the 600$ Billion they promised. It is clear the EU are waiting till the next elections so the EU can F*ck US citizens again. I don't get it why do US citizens find it okay that they are used by EU.

To Okinawa the population was way better treated under US Rule while the mainland Japanese still saw Okinawa and its population as a vassal state even today.

You are doing the namecalling tho, not any of your post has provided a form of value in this discussion.

I have an idea if you want to sound like a country which just cares about the people and don't just want to steal: how about you let Venezuela decide how much oil they want to extract per year and you let Venezuela decide about the companies to be involved? And if USA and other countries will also stop the sanctions against Venezuela, it can be a rich country without Dollar signs in your own eyes.

That Venezuela will still get rich from this even if only US companies will be involved is just a side effect no Trump nor other Americans who support this care about. You just want to get rich from what other countries have. 

What would happen if the next president of Venezuela which USA will just decide would against all odds tell USA that they will only allow oil companies from some other countries?  Will USA just accept it? It wouldn't be worse for Venezuela so USA would just accept it as country which just cares about the people, right?

Btw if you want to talk about US citizens getting fucked by other countries you should maybe think about how US companies are worth more than all other companies on this planet avoiding to pay taxes in as example Europe and how you have more super rich people as any other country could dream of and still have so many problems for the "normal" people. Because in theory, every US American could live better as those in Switzerland and it's not the fault of other countries that many in USA have so many financial problems.

Trump also loves to talk about the unfair trade deficit between USA and other countries but he obviously "forgets" that this are only physical goods but many huge US companies sell high margin digital goods and services to print money. Companies like Microsoft almost don't happen in the trade numbers even though they collect hundreds of billions outside USA. That US citizens don't participate in this if they don't own shares of these money printing companies is your own problem. 

So yeah, nice that USA with their own logic to count what's fair black mailed the EU to have more investments in USA but reality is that USA with their companies already profit more with Sales to the EU as EU with their companies profit with sales to USA. But let's just act as if the money going from EU to USA paid for cloud services, software, licenses and so on doesn't exist...

USA with like 4% of the world population controls like 1/3 to 1/2 of this planets economy/wealth/trade one way or another but guys like you still think that people in USA don't live the life they should because of others and not because of your own countries politics so that USA needs to get even more of the cake and the other 96% of humans should get less. Why even stop there? Shouldn't we go back to "the strongest will get what he wants" in a country? I think your neighbor should also tell you to do what he wants or he will just force you to do it. Wouldn't that be nice? Or is that bad because you wouldn't profit from it? 

This is a joke post.. right?

Damn, you're coming up with excuses for going to war that would even make Putin shake his head. That's mighty impressive.

That's a unique way to say "Venezuela can now be exploited for their resources and remain in poverty + foreign control."

The bottom line is that Trump created a very dangerous precedent here.

Imagine Russia kidnapping Zelensky or China doing the same with Taiwan's government. Maduro may very well be an illegitimate ruler of Venezuela, but he was still the ruler of a foreign country.

Trumps action basically signaled to the dictators around the world that kidnapping foreign leaders is fair game now, so they can now do as they please.

Trump still only thinks as far ahead as the next quarter, long-term ramifications of his actions seem to never come into his mind.

Of course, they'd feel different about it. 

Because they're less driven by the idea that actions are good/bad.

And it's more about who does them. You can do whatever you want to bad guys. And good guys are allowed to do whatever they want. 

Make no mistake, Venezuela will likely remain a dictatorship so the USA can grab the oil. A free country's leader would be way more reluctant in most cases to hand over resources like that.