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Iraq style? No. This is far closer to home. Expect faster reprecussions.
Venezuela is way closer and has a functional, modern army and Air Force. They have the ability to hit targets inside the United States, unlike Iraq.
Venezuela has no functional ability to strike targets in the United States. Unless Russia gave them some hypersonic missiles, they have no mechanism by which to do that outside of terror attacks. Maybe they could launch a drone swarm, but a) I doubt they have the numbers for that and being able to defend their own airspace at the same time and b) they would all almost certainly be shot down on the Caribbean before they entered American air space. Their air force is not nearly modern enough to penetrate American airspace in the slightest, nor is their navy large enough to really do anything. The most they could do to realistically hit targets "inside" the United States would be using their one submarine to maybe sink some ships in an American harbor, a tall feat but not impossible. Their military is well positioned to defend Venezuela against all attacks outside of air strikes (the modern US air fleet has too much stealth capability for the Venezuelan anti-air to pose any real threat), but they have as much of a chance striking targets inside the United States as Iraq did.
extremely doubtful. at best they might get lucky and hit US military assets sitting off the coast
eh on the airforce, it will be gotten got, even if it were functional
Eh, I dont expect that they can counterstrike directly.
idk I really doubt they have the numbers to effectively do so unless they've been given some advanced Chinese shit, which would be kind of a problem on its own if they possessed it and used it (i.e. in terms of the U.S. using it as further pretext for WWIII)