The US ran a war game on the aftermath of Maduro’s fall – it predicted chaos

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  When the US government captured Venezuela's President, Nicolas Maduro,

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  over the weekend, much of the world was shocked.

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  But behind closed doors, US officials had been gaming out what would happen if Maduro was ousted.

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  Even during President Trump's first term,

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  the government ran simulations almost like immersive theater,

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  with teams playing the US and its adversaries, each of them trying to win the game.

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  And we're told by one man who was in one of those rooms that every scenario had the same result.

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  Disaster.

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  From the BBC, I'm Asma Khalid in Washington D.C.

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  And today on The Global Story, why did the U.S.

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  capture Maduro if it had already foreseen the risk of chaos?

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  Douglas Farrah is a former journalist who covered Latin America for years for the Washington Post.

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  Since then, he's used his expertise in the region to advise the U.S.

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  government.

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  He's worked with the U.S.

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  government across the Obama, Biden, and first Trump administrations.

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  And he's participated in several so-called war games exercises.

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  So I started off by asking him to explain what these games are and why governments use them.

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  It's where you sit down and you look at, okay,

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  this is the situation in the case of Venezuela, okay, this is what we have now.

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