Venezuela is a DS funding source. POTUS is Cutting the Supply Line to the DS. Very strategic. I'ts how Napoleon lost his war with Russia Venezuela is a funding source for the DS.  They were one of the first countries to announce they were changing their currency to crypto soon after Saudi Arabia seized assets of DS there Nov 2017.  The DS has its own control of this type of crypto and this was them consolidating their access to Venezuela's money.  In war, Generals always try to cut vulnerable supply line to the army.   He has frozen assets of DS through executive order for crimes against humanity (2018), and put sanctions/withdrawn US aid on countries funding them.   Remember, Q post saying US had found and seized their gold hidden  in Far East. POTUS isn't risking Am. lives to do it.  He is practicing regime change through a populace uprising.  Just as the  DS wants to do iN US with a populace uprising but POTUS made Americans fat and happy through restoring economy so no one rises up.  The US foot soldier will love him for not sending them. Venezuela would also have provided a safe haven for them to go to.  NoKo is their biggest funder because of the gold mines. Iran and Venezuela too because of Oil. The ppl there are starving while he allows the DS to take their money.  Venezuelan Monduro also just moved the country's gold out of the country.  Some see that as He is planning to flee. It could also be taking  away Trump's motivations to go after the country.   And DS would have ordered him to move the gold.  Trump was trying to prevent the DS from getting their gold, and it's no longer in the country.   That makes invasion less likely.   He is trying to starve the DS of gold & money for multiple reasons but one is that the US treasury, and presumably of other countries, can buy up the Federal Reserve Bank's debts and then call in the debts. If they fail to pay he can freeze and seize their assets. 1 source has said he just did this, this past week.   POTUS is smart trying to put pressure on the Venezuelan military to flip on Monduro rather than sending troops there to shoot the foot soldiers/everyday man of Venezuela and risk American soldiers lives.   I think it will work. There will be blood shed when Venezuela has their own revolution to free their country from Socialism, but less than if we invaded. Sanctions have slowed but not stopped their oil sales.