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   John Quiggin (johnquiggin@aus.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Jan-2026 04:00:34 JST John Quiggin

   On the face of it, the Venezuelan regime has played Trump for a sucker. The details are murky but it appears that now-acting president Rodriguez convinced Rubio that she would accept a US take-over and that the US was given the location of Maduro (and his wife).

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     John Quiggin (johnquiggin@aus.social)'s status on Monday, 05-Jan-2026 04:00:34 JST John Quiggin

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     Now Maduro is Trump’s problem, the opposition has been thrown under the bus and the regime is carrying on business as usual. Another decapitation strike is unlikely to work, and (as I’ve argued many times in the context of Taiwan) a seaborne invasion will fail.