Venezuela’s socialist president Nicolás Maduro has ordered a national call-up of militia, deployed drones and warships and told his countrymen to prepare for “imperial aggression” as the largest US Navy task force in recent history steams towards his country.
That, former administration officials and experts say, is what the Trump administration wants: to rattle Maduro and his oil-rich South American nation with a show of force, but not to risk US lives.
“Trump is much more comfortable with threatening the use of force than actually using force,” said Evan Ellis, who served on Mike Pompeo’s staff when he was secretary of state in the first Trump administration.
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