Subject: Re: Dope?
Nope.
By calling for Maduro’s VP to run the interim government, Machado - who is a very, very smart lady - accomplishes the following:

1. It actually keeps the existing government in place.

Think back to Bush43. The biggest mistake they made was in not following Jay Garner’s (IIRC) original plan to keep the government in place. They dissolved the entire Iraqi government and sent all the police and military home with their weapons. We know how that turned out.

By keeping the current government in place Machado avoids that (because not everyone is going to be a dyed in the wool narcoterrorist).

2. By keeping the existing government in place, we haven’t “toppled” anything. We merely executed some arrest warrants.

3. This buys Machado time to get her peeps around her, get organized and get ready for the national referendum that they’ll have, hopefully by May or so.

If you know what to look for (i.e. ignore what this board’s libs are saying) there are lots of patterns to see.

Trump hates nation building. Always has. He doesn’t mind using the US military but he understands the main game is China, not setting up a puppet regime in Venezuela.