Venezuela’s oil is in the ground. And if the Russians found the place too corrupt to work, Dementia Joe’s little team of gnomes isn’t going to do any better.
The real enemy is the Beijing-Moscow axis, with its spokes in Tehran, Havana, Caracas, Pyongyang, etc. The Cold War never really ended, and Putin, Xi, Maduro, et. al., see this year as a great chance to knock the United States and its allies from dominance.