The very same argument was used for a little war in Indo-China. No sale.
I’m 99%* sure that Bolton’s statement is intended to simply make Maduro’s seat a bit hotter, therefor hopefully driving him to make that hop to Cuba sooner than later.
*You have to have that other 1% of uncertainty seriously in Maduro and his henchmen’s minds though, to have them thinking “What if Trump really would take me out...?” Ie., like the Iranian’s or Russian’s fear of “crazy Reagan, the threat has to be palpable.
That said, “all options” also should have Maduro fearing uncertainty in all regards, even “options” that might only exist in his own mind. “What if the US delivers half a million “Army surplus” old M16’s, abundant ammo, and a few million MRE’s, to the populace?”
The other side of this is that (partially due to our own previous blunders) that little war in Indo-China WAS necessary, and actually was in the larger context, successful, despite being horribly mismanaged and unnecessarily costly (esp. in lives lost) to us.
IF in the very unlikely event all else fails, and it would come as a last resort to US military action in Venezuela, do you actually think President Trump would fight there the way Johnson did in ‘Nam???