US wargames played out scenarios for Maduro's fall. None of them ended well for Venezuela

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1. A similar - though much more genteel - game plan was implemented in Argentina in 2011-15 to install Trump's pal Macri

The result? The country collapsed by 2018 under a wave of foreign debt-financed offshoring - just like during the last dictatorship (a regime Macri openly admired).

Trump has had to bail them out twice already: in 2019 ($45 billion) and this October ($20 billion) - but they're unlikely to ever recover.

The judiciary, in turn, has been turned into a Gestapo - whereby opponents were jailed and stripped of their properties (bought long before said defendants were elected) based on charges, as the prosecutor put it in his closing, "without proof - but with no doubt."

"Witnesses" who gave useful testimony have been openly bribed.

Meanwhile, the current president shares a lawyer with the country's top convicted narco...

Three amigos: Convicted Argentine drug trafficker Fred Machado, Trump-backed President Javier Milei - and their shared lawyer, Francisco Oneto.

Machado flashed a Trumpian thumbs-up in a Texas court last month.