He needs to land troops there to get Exxon to go there.
Do you think Exxon will commit billions if it needs military escorts for its workers? If we’re not prepared to occupy the country in force for years, what’s to keep a new Venezuelan regime in 2 or 4 or 5 years from claiming that the US illegally seized Venezuelan assets and expropriating those assets? (Venezuela has done that to Exxon twice before!)