Reuters says the Jan 3 raid triggered strikes on military sites and power outages in Caracas, with Venezuelan officials reporting deaths. UN Secretary-General António Guterres warned this sets a dangerous precedent, and legal experts say there was no UN authorization or valid self-defense claim. That matters because once you normalize cross-border snatch operations against a sitting head of state, you hand every rival power a new playbook. The US can hide behind a Security Council veto, but that is a shield, not legitimacy. If Trump really means 'we will run Venezuela', that's occupation talk, and holy shit, the region will not take it quietly. You can hate Maduro and still hate the method, because the method outlives the target.