After the events of the past week, Venezuela seems ready to combust. With National Security Advisor John Bolton declaring that “All options are on the table” and powerful international blocs forming behind President Nicolas Maduro and his newly inaugurated rival Juan Guaido, it now seems possible that the U.S. might find itself drawn into a Venezuelan civil war, perhaps even to the point of putting boots on the ground.
What happens next is anyone’s guess. One set of predictions, which at this point is about as good as any other, can be found in the 2008 video game Mercenaries 2: World in Flames, writes Grayson Quay for Reason.
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