There's several reasons. Trump wants a war with Venezuela so he can use the Enemy Aliens Act to round up all migrants into camps, and he chose Venezuela specifically because they're the second largest oil producer in South America and have the largest oil reserves in the world. Those factors, in addition to wanting to be a popular wartime president, are what's driving this.

Now, with all of this in mind, do you think it would be a good thing if Trump removed Maduro from power?

"domestic considerations are the main drivers of geo-politics" Is this not an idealist argument? Material conditions would be, no?

Either way, the US has absolutely no right to interfere with Venezuela.

Sir, you are doing a big oversimplification of how politics in real life works, and this is why many of your comments look silly to many people in this community.

First of all, Trump is not an all powerful single person. He represents many different interests, be them big oil billionaires, Zionists, arms industry, big tech and the financial sector. Distraction of US domestic politics is a minor concern, as the US has always been participating in wars in the last century. Please do an exercise and count how many years the US existed without participating in a war, a coup or a plot in a foreign country. The US has always been an warmongering country and its industrial prowess had always been tied to its ability of waging war on foreign soil.

Secondly, the reason why domestic politics is bad in the US is because of the same parties that like waging war abroad. These parties, the capitalist plutocracy, are responsible for many unpopular domestic policies. The capitalist plutocracy does not give a single shit about the will of the people and this is why the situation of Americans get bleaker at every passing day. US citizens serves only a few purposes, such as consumers, labor power for the industry, rent extraction from the financial capital and as cannon fodder for the military adventures of big capital. They see your rights only as a nuisance, therefore their grand objective is to have them removed from you, so you can be more effectively dominated. However, they need to do in a way so you won't notice, this is why you have two parties, Democrats and Republicans, which have different approaches of reducing you to an object, but with the same goal in mind.

Third of all, there are many different motivations. Please take some time to understand your own country's history. Study about what is Manifest Destiny, the Monroe doctrine, operation Condor, the war on drugs, the war on terror, the Jakarta method, the real reasons behind the expansion to the West, the Spanish-US war, the many independence moves of Cuba, US failed invasion of Canada etc. The US has always been an imperialist country, meaning it always acted in a way to submit other countries to its economic interests, by securing markets or cheap raw resources and to prevent other global powers from accessing the same resources or markets.

Please read about your country's imperialist past, because your ignorance is so blatant that it's almost offensive in this instance. Many people here belong to countries which were invaded or couped in the past with US direct or indirect involvement. So your statement about distracting from domestic policy sounds extremely annoying.