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This week, amid the wreckage of what appeared to be his fizzled military coup, Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó tested a dangerous idea. In interviews with U.S. media, he said his self-declared interim government might be “open” to U.S. military intervention against the sitting president, Nicolás Maduro.

Here’s how the 35-year-old speaker of Venezuela’s renegade national assembly imagined he’d respond to an offer from U.S. National Security Advisor John Bolton, in an interview with the Washington Post’s Anthony Faiola:

“Dear friend, ambassador John Bolton, thank you for all the help you have given to the just cause h…