Do I support an intervention? Yes, it's the shittiest solution but it's the only realistic way we'll get rid of the Chavistas.
I don't. For one simple reason:
Any intervention is going to result in the deaths/injuries of US servicemembers. To say nothing of the financial cost.
Venezuela has been going to deeper into shit for a decade. People were literally starving at one point, and the most there was some half-hearted, easily cucked protests.
If the people were set on Churroing The Maduro, they could raid armories. They could mug the Collectivos for their mosins. They could convince their own countrymen to turn on the corrupt and ineffective government. They don't, they just beg for someone else to fight for the freedom they are too lazy to obtain themselves, except by trying to illegal immigrate to countries not yet in full decay, and then import Venezuela's organized crime as soon as there more about 10 of them in an area.
So I don't see any reason for someone from another country to die for the freedom of a people too spineless, cucked, lazy, and useless to fight for it themselves. A people who view the quest for their liberation to start and end by begging for people from less dysfunctional countries to save them from the mess their families and countrymen have been creating for the past 30 years.
Don't ask the US to send the Marines. Become the Marines yourselves.
Now, if there was a popular uprising to Churro the Maduro? Yes I'd be in favor of supporting a people willing to overthrow their repressive and incompetent rulers.
Commies in the US support Venezuela because Chavez was one of the few socialist leaders in the Americas and he stood up to Bush twenty years ago.
The support him because he was one of the few Socialists to not be overthrown and/or have his regime crumple within hours of his death.
This is because Venezuela's Thats Not Real Communism had infinite money cheat via Oil and Drugs, so Chavez was able to play his stupid games despite how wasteful his programs were.
Maduro is so afraid of being churroed that he offered Trump all the swamp sludge they call oil there as well as kicking out all the Russians and Chinese businesses. Trump said, "lol, no".
1) The Maduro will never be Churroed. So Trump knew the offer was bogus.
2) "Venezuelan diplomats promised the US an infinite supply of gold and a hidden moonbase, plus a list of secret cheat codes for games given to them by Maduro's uncle who works for ninetendo. When asked to prove they could deliver these things, the diplomats said they 'left them at home'"
The narco issue is not an excuse and the USA is done playing nice with the cartels. Smuggling drugs too the USA is now an immediate death sentence without trial.
So this is the best part.
This is permitted because of the Narco fuck-fuck games. The Nacros are tracking and targeting gaps in the USN interdiction, so they are viable targets for getting drone'd.
Basically the US's argument is "We have proof that these boats are full of drugs, but because they are purposely avoiding our blockade, we cannot do law of the sea thing by ordering them to stand-to and be boarded. We can track them via drone, and thus are nuking the fuck out of them with drones. Our drones have no ability to fire a warning shot nor communication, so I guess if they don't want to die they can just not transport drugs. In venezuela doesn't want their citizens getting ACK'ed they can stop them in Venezuela. Everyone signed the global agreement to stop the trade in drugs."
Also no one gave a shit when Obama was executing American Citizens via drone.
Maduro is not popular. That's not the point.
What is being questioned if a conflict with Venezuela for regime change is a good idea. Saddam was a pretty bad guy, so was Gaddafi and look at how everything turned out due to intervention. I'm also listening to other people from the region. Other Latin American Countries, while also not fans of Maduro at all, also see with suspicion the parking of a mini-strike carrier group in the continent under bogus Narco excuses (Fent mostly comes from China, processed in Mexico, and Coke from Peru and Colombia) and wonder if they'll be the next ones. Tomahawks and F-35s used close to you are not things that inspire confidence and might make the region turn more to China.
Some things to consider before unsheathing the sword.
in addition to
@mindlessobserver 's point that the nacro thing isn't a bogus excuse, the military is in the pocket of the cartels. That's why no one other than the columbian commie retard, and Lulu weakly, is kicking that much of a fuss.
A strong response to a failing narco state is more likely to remove the desire to want to hedge their bets with China.