Trump builds case for Venezuela war as world's biggest aircraft carrier arrives

Maduro is is an autocrat, so he's constantly thinking that something will happen to him... So he needs to be very close to people, he needs to be very close to the other leaders within the regime, he needs to have the armed forces very close. The more that he plays this figure of a president that goes out and and says things like 'the Americans are about to invade us', 'we need to hold on, Venezuela', 'this is our country', and so on, that's just typical rhetoric of someone who's very cornered... Being an autocrat is such a fragile position... especially because you have the US largest aircraft [carrier] off your coast. It's not like you know you're dealing with Trump and he's sitting in Washington, and you are in Caracas, and everything is fine."