The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford, deployed in Caribbean waters, in an image from 2023. | NATO
"All for war, but without war." That's how Antonio Legaz, defense and intelligence analyst at Indra, describes Washington’s strategy toward Venezuela: an "unnamed intervention" that combines maximum pressure, covert operations, and internal attrition. "Trump can honestly say he’s not planning a war," Legaz writes, "because he’s doing everything except what international law formally recognizes as an armed conflict."