Subject: Re: As Albaby says...
What's the reaction in Brussels and in other places if Trump and Machado are best friends? How does the press report it?

Why be best friends? Why not just be noncommittal? You can just say that we're evaluating our options or "I'm not telling the Fake News Media anything" or whatever.

Sabotaging Venezuela's opposition movement and "being best friends" are not the only two options.

Regardless, having publicly dismissed the opposition as being unviable - several times - the regime is now well aware that the Administration doesn't have an alternative to their continued control over the country.