Right-wing media outlets are claiming regime change in Venezuela would be easy. Evidence and history suggest otherwise.

The same month, The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh pushed to escalate in Venezuela based on what he referred to as “American chauvinism.” 

“They’re a small, weak, pathetic, puny, poor country, and so they just have to do what we say,” Walsh said. “A war with Venezuela would last about four minutes.” 

On September 10, following the Trump administration’s initial boat strike, Campos-Duffy appeared in a breezy segment with Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth aboard a U.S. naval ship in the region. 

“I was literally in awe of what I saw. And it’s not just the military equipment,” Campos-Duffy said. 

“It’s the soldiers. It’s how well-trained they are. How fit they are,” she continued. “How well-fed they are, which I say ‘well-fed’ because Maduro, of course, is threatening with his own militia, which we know is starving over there — they don’t have anything that even comes a fraction of close to what we saw here on the USS Iwo Jima.”