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Comment by notahacker

3 days ago

And apart from the usual destabilisation possibilities, with the current US leadership there's no guarantee the outcome isn't Maduro agreeing to pay some oil revenues into Trump's personal bank account, makes some vague symbolic promise to stop drugs and emigrants and gets released to carry on as he was, but maybe with a few more internal scores to settle

I definitely would not rule that out. This is very specific. I wonder how well Mark Carney sleeps tonight.

> there's no guarantee the outcome isn't Maduro agreeing to pay some oil revenues into Trump's personal bank account

Too late, Maduro is in custody - that bargain is for the next Venezuelan president to make

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