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He isn't a threat to the US. He is a threat to Ameican oil companies that have holdings in Venezuela.
Of course, this sort of threat on American corporate interests has tended to lead to US intervention... either as full on war or clandestine subterfuge.
For evidence of this please read up on the Contras in Central America and the US supported ousting of Iran's democratically elected prime minister Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953, among other examples.
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