Bernard at MoonofAlabama seems to agree with my speculation, as I told Dave Smith yesterday, that perhaps Maduro had his defense minister, chief judge and head of the presidential police pretend to change sides just to lure Guaido and Trump-Pompeo-Bolton into launching another premature and destined to fail coup to humiliate them.
Haha.
Update: Guaido calls for a general strike, population yawns.
Update: Funny NYT news story on how it all didn’t come together.
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