So we should make the refugee crisis worse by deposing the president and starting a civil war in the country? Sounds great.
On no, we'll lose the expertise of *checks notes* people who have launched multiple regime change wars and have failed in every single one. Like I said, maybe it would be totally fine to lose that expertise. Clearly they aren't very good at the thing they're "experts" at.
The fentanyl problem that has nothing to do with Venezuela because fentanyl doesn't go through Venezuela?
As for "future drone attacks" no one is attacking America. At least no government.
Russia isn't attacking America, they don't stand to gain anything, and stand to lose a lot. In 3 years Russia hasn't been able to defeat Ukraine, one of their direct neighbors. They just don't have the resources and logistics to project power all that far outside of their borders. Russia may be a direct threat to parts of Europe, but they just don't have the capability to make a significant attack against the US, and even if they tried to there would be no upside for them to do it. They would gain nothing and lose everything.
China doesn't have a reason to attack the US either. As much as China is now a world superpower their economy is still largely reliant on the US, and they are also still reliant on US technology and will be for the foreseeable future. With Trump in the white house it's also highly unlikely that the US is going to come to the defense of Taiwan in a direct engagement with China should China choose to invade. There is literally no upside to China in attacking the US, so it's not going to happen.
The US can be attacked by terrorists, or non-state actors, but there is literally no upside for any country to attack the US. It's delusional fear-mongering to think otherwise.
Maduro's inner guard is made up of Cubans; he doesn't even trust his own military. It's doubtful whether there would even be a civil war given how unpopular he is, and how undersupplied and undermaintained his own military is.
I think a better answer would be that most fentanyl likely doesn't go through, or is made in Venezuela, but could be in the future, say if the US were effective in taking down the cartels in Mexico. And some of it has gone through Venezuela, since some of the boats that the US blew up were drug-running submarines from.... Venezuela.
Really, no government is attacking America; Iran did when Soleimani died, and against our troops in Iraq.
Russia has attacked the US in cyberattacks, and could in the future with drones, also, may I point you to this.
en.wikipedia.org
I don't agree that Trump may not defend Taiwan; I don't think it's 100%. He sent them 11 billion in weapons shipments, and his supporter CEOs, minus Elon, are either weapons manufacturers like Andruil or military contractors like Palantir. Plus he could be pushed to like in the case of attacking Iran, by his aides, since no man rules alone.
The US defense department doesn't think any of this is delusional, nor does the DIA, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, DEA, FBI, CIA, etc.
