I don't think it will come to war, it looks like the population is sick and tired of incompetent socialists running their country, and with even army generals are starting to defect the writing is on the wall for Muduro.

Possibly? After all, Venezuela has the largest oil reserves! And anybody with half a brain knows what that means to America's corporations (leaders) and their (yes men) political puppets?

Moreover, Emporer Trump doesn't know from one minute to the next what Emporer Trump will decide or claim as true or false? Just depends on the audience and political convenience? And let's not mention the possible billions in it for whomsoever?
Alan B.

If you interfere in a civil war, you only prolong it.
See: Bolton : We're taking Venezeula's oil YouTube

Maduro is the democratically elected president of The country. Thee last election was fair and transparent, documented by an international election body which oversees elections as well as as documented by the country’s opposition election monitors. The puppet who is attempting a coup is financially backed by Trump, Bolton, and Pompeo. The US has been attempting ‘regime’ change for nearly 15 years.

Additionally, the US has placed enormously damaging financial saction on their government, including withholding over $6b of Venezuela oil revenue and stopping the country from repatriation of its gold reserves from the Bank of England. This is the prime reason behind the inability of the democratically elected government being able to finance its health, welfare and other domestic policies.

To make matters worse the Australian government has backed the US and other vassal countries in recognising a person who did not run in the most recent election as a candidate and who does not represent the majority of people in this independently democratic nation. We should be ashamed of our government and those others who flout international law all in the name of subjugating a free people and stealing their resources, primarily in this case oil. Nothing unusual for the yanks, yet again. You would think 18 years of losses in Iraq, Libya, Syria, Afghanistan, Somalia, and Yemen would be enough, but oh no, let’s just try it one more time and see if we can get it right. God help em.

I sure hope the USA does not do the right thing and remove those bumbling, incompetent socialists in Venuzuela, who managed to take the richest country in South America and turn it into a bankrupt basket case. I want Maduro and his clan to stay in power and let Venezuela continue to be an ongoing object lesson to anybody stupid enough to vote for socialists. Socialists who promise utopia but deliver only catastrophe.

"Democratic Socialism" means "One man, one vote, once." Although, perhaps Maduro has evolved from a Socialist into a Communist? After all, a "Socialist" is defined as a "Communist without gun." And Maduro's boys have plenty of guns. And they are using them.

What Venezuela needs is another General Pinochet of Chile, to sweep away these socialist idiots and bring democracy back to the Venezuelan people, who were stupid enough to vote for the tyrants who took democracy away from them. The Left can then spend the next fifty years bemoaning how their "popular, democratically elected" hero Maduro was overthrown by a horrible, US backed dictator.

At least Chile has learned it's lesson about socialism and the Chileans have not been stupid enough to vote in any more socialists since. It's a pity that the people in the USA cheering on Bernie Sanders and in the UK cheering in Jeremy Corbin are not as smart as the Chileans.

I think it is just great that China and Russia are backing Maduro. If they want that idiot, they can have him. One bunch of socialist totalitarians backing up another. When they look at what is happening in Venezuela, with Madoro's thugs shooting down protestors in the streets, even our western neo socialists must feel like Christian Scientists with appendicitis.

Oh yes the sort of marxism that our uni's and national broadcasters have worshipped and promoted. No doubt they will continue with their pig headed destruction.