While an American military attack on Venezuela is considered unlikely, escalating tensions between U.S. President Donald Trump and Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro have cast light on the disparities between the two countries' militaries.

Trump has warned that planes sent by Caracas will be downed if they threaten the U.S., and the Pentagon has decried the "highly provocative" deployment of Venezuelan aircraft near a U.S. Navy vessel in international waters.

Following the deployment of U.S. naval vessels and other military assets in the Caribbean, Trump said a strike on a jet boat belonging to Tren de Aragua , a cartel linked to Maduro, had killed 11 "narcoterrorists."

While Maduro has said his country is ready for "armed struggle in defense of the national territory" in t

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