Years ago I read a book called, if I remember correctly, The Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight. It was about a group of incompetent New York gangsters. If those guys were around today they'd be in the Trump administration. The Maduro fiasco is yet another example of Trump minions (and Trump himself) thinking that cosplay is all it takes. Planning? Considering what to do besides providing news media with dramatic footage of things blowing up in Caracas? Not in their skill set.
I have been wondering just what they planned to charge Maduro with. There was a lot of blustering about a cartel. Rubio designated said cartel as a terrorist organization a couple months ago. Turns out said cartel does not exist. The "cartel" was a nickname South American journalists had coined to describe the loose collection of corrupt officials and businesses that were taking advantage of the system in Venezuela to enrich themselves. No actual organization, no coordinated narco trafficking, Just a conspiracy fantasy.
Then when you toss in the overall incompetence of the current crop of U.S. Department of Justice attorneys you know that any Maduro trial will be a shit show of stupidity of epic proportions. Does Court TV still exist? I smell a ratings boost.
As for more evidence that the whole escapade was meant as a squirrel and not to cause serious regime change in Venezuela, the only change is that Maduro is gone. Maduro's vice president is now president, the Maduro administration remains intact, and other than about 80 people being dead (killed in the attack on the Presidential home) nothing has changed in Venezuela.
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