The claim doesn’t need to be substantiated, because it doesn’t matter whether they actually will control Venezuela, it only matters that it was their intent to do so, which Rubio and Trump have both admitted.
I am prepared to be wrong on this one, but I just don’t think that Trump & Rubio’s words after the fact are enough.
In fact, citing them as an authority leads to the transitive property applying to credibility in an argument.
All of us here know Trump is an unreliable person, why is he being cited to support definitive claims? And Yes His unreliably most certainly extends to his own aims, there is no question on that.
That’s pretty funny.
Fool me once shame on you, fool me twice shame on me, fool me 500 times, I want to be lied to”
Similarly no one believes Russia’s invasion of Ukraine was to “denazi-ify” it as Putin and the kremlin claimed many times among other things.
Neither was the troop building up in 2022 near Ukraine purely for training as repeatedly claimed by the top Russian officials.
Trump is equally credible.