That's a longstanding precedent. Pretty sure Clinton set that one, and every subsequent president has only expanded it.

The UN is not "above" the US, it has no power besides what its member states give it, which has always been not much. But thats the only way states would particpate at all

Always has been when it truly matters

un was always useless against usa, but now europe is even more complicit than usual (their media doesn't even try to feign outrage over usa behavior, which they did during iraq)

It's extremely interesting to me that the USA is inviting an asymmetrical warfare response from a neighboring country with a lot of potential agents blended into the USA population.

Nothing will happen. Nothing. The people who come here from Venezuela are not die-hard nationalists or communists. They're apolitical or liberal or reactionary and none of them are going to arm up and inflict pain on the USA.

And if they did it would be according to plan, script, and desires of the Trump admin. They would LOVE an actual, factual terrorist attack or extremist group composed of brown foreigners in the US to be able to expand the brutality and scale of ICE deportations under anti-terrorism auspices and reasons. To fearmonger on the news about the dangerous browns who hold "duel loyalties" or no loyalties to the US.

Plain and simple a country that shrugs off mass shootings weekly would not be shocked or moved to action by a shooting spree by a pissed off Venezuelan who is quickly gunned down. The whole thing would be massaged and spun by the media through a racialized lens to the advantage of the US security state and Trump admin policies. They'd cast the shooter as typical of "their type", call them a drug dealer, terrorist, etc.

There is no long history of religious radicalization and the promise of heaven and paradise for blowing yourself up like there is with Muslims, particularly Arabs thanks to groundwork a century ago by Britain and help from local Wahhabi stooges like Saudi Arabia. For all the conspiracy talk of Cuban hit squads for example in the 60s/70s US there's little actual there there and that was another era with actual radicalized, militant leftist groups and people everywhere. The environment today could not be more different. The very existence of such radicals and blow-back is purely because it suits US interests, they use them as tools for regional destabilization, they use them to divide unity, stir up sectarian tensions, strife, genocide, etc to keep an important part of the earth divided, in chaos and easily controlled or at least prevented from utility to geopolitical adversaries. There has been no Afghanistan (80s one) war to create these groups, no deliberate efforts by the US, no regional partner creating the ideological foundations, supplying arms, propaganda books for children, intelligence networks, etc, etc.

So sorry but I just don't see this happening short of the US deploying to Mexico and starting to openly and sadistically mass murder grandmas and newborns and upload the videos of it to the internet in incredible numbers. And even then, we've seen the level of response to the genocide in Gaza, I don't expect the US to explode or be torn apart at the seams by doing that though it might have a moderate insurgency problem.

I assume that the US thinks it's invincible. It probably is right now. And what's the worst that could happen, in the government's eyes? Another 9/11? That was the biggest gift to US imperialism since WW2. They would absolutely love another 9/11. It would remove any possible public barrier to all of the violent imperialism the US is trying to do carefully. It would turn all of the public dissatisfaction with the economy and military spending on its head.

I think the blowback is the point, honestly

But Venezuela is physically close the USA, is connected by a land corridor,

it's not connected by land for logistical purposes, there's no road all the way through.

The ~1 million Venezuelans already in the US are the reason that it is attempting to deport and terrorize as many as possible. Ethnic cleansing is actually part of the neo-Monroe doctrine, they need to get the immigrants from the neocolonies out of the imperial core to recreate that geographic and cultural distance. These feed into each other too, because a war would also be used as justification for deportations and internement camps - and resistance to deportations and internement camps would be used as justification for war.

It seems obvious that there will at minimum be some violent blowback, or actual cells ramping up for organized attacks and sabotage within the USA.

what? unlikely unless it's a false flag by the US or Israel

Yep, Washington screwing with Venezuela is obviously a terrible idea. Imagine, for a moment, if Iraq or Afghanistan had been located in the "Caribbean Basin"... LOL.

We live in a new age of both very sophisticated and very vulnerable economies. A single saboteur can do more today than at any point in history with enough funding and knowledge.

Most of that million people is okay with regime change, but surely not ok with USA's favorite passtime of bombing hospitals. So it all depends on how much restraint these nazis manage to have.

It seems like they are trying to create more violent pushback domestically and nearby so they can ramp things up, I do think the warhawks in the US are detached from material reality and believe they are invincible, and the people investing and set to make money from the conflict don't care how many people die on either side, the capitalists think they will profit anyway even if the US loses militarily. From my view it seems discontent is so high and material conditions worsening such that the US would have an insurgency if we went into open war, maybe that is just my optimism though.