Regardless of what you think about it, saying it's just about wanting resources is an oversimplification on the level of claiming the Afghanistan and Iraq wars were motivated primarily by wanting resources.
#6 | Posted by sentinel 
The simple reason we face a war of Trump's personal choice in Venezuela is that he is grossly mentally ill.
That's the model you need to understand this, all of what he is doing (including, I hear, building a ballroom with stairs to nowhere, like the Winchester house).
What are Trump's motives?  How dark do you want to get?
MAGA damned itself to hunger.
And to war.