Second point, not so sure. They were successful in overthrowing Chavez after all and had some pretty powerful domestic support, this doesn't seem to be where they fell short. I expect a coup is always a calculated risk and they were pretty close to being correct. I'm not sure what you mean by the rest of this. Of course the US would be happy if a US-favorable scenario plays out. I expect Bulgaria would be happy when a Bulgaria-favorable scenario plays out... hypothetically, you know if one ever did. One of the leaked documents even says the CIA expected that the repeated US statements that a power change needed to be made by constitutional means likely worried the plotters.
The US' behavior after the coup was reprehensible, but this just seems consistent with Bush being kinda dumb when it comes to foreign affairs. The US didn't seem to do anything to strengthen the coup, they were initially successful but fell apart after a couple of days. You'd hope for better execution by the CIA, this wasn't exactly their first rodeo. I certainly know I'm dipping into speculation, so I'll stop before I start linking to commondreams and wikistuff.
Second point, not so sure. They were successful in overthrowing Chavez after all and had some pretty powerful domestic support, this doesn't seem to be where they fell short. I expect a coup is always a calculated risk and they were pretty close to being correct. I'm not sure what you mean by the rest of this. Of course the US would be happy if a US-favorable scenario plays out. I expect Bulgaria would be happy when a Bulgaria-favorable scenario plays out... hypothetically, you know if one ever did. One of the leaked documents even says the CIA expected that the repeated US statements that a power change needed to be made by constitutional means likely worried the plotters.
The US' behavior after the coup was reprehensible, but this just seems consistent with Bush being kinda dumb when it comes to foreign affairs. The US didn't seem to do anything to strengthen the coup, they were initially successful but fell apart after a couple of days. You'd hope for better execution by the CIA, this wasn't exactly their first rodeo. I certainly know I'm dipping into speculation, so I'll stop before I start linking to commondreams and wikistuff.
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