India, Jan. 5 -- President Donald Trump said that the United States would "run" Venezuela for an undisclosed period following the removal of President Nicolas Maduro. This assertion has raised numerous questions. Among the most pressing concerns is whether this plan would involve the deployment of US military forces to oversee Venezuela's future.

Trump said on January 3, "We're going to run the country until such time as we can do a safe, proper and judicious transition. We don't want to be involved with having somebody else get in, and we have the same situation that we had for the last long period of years," as reported by Newsweek.

On Saturday, Trump said the White House was "not afraid of boots on the ground" and that the US would "...