Strongman Nicolás Maduro should have been out of office by now. That was the whole point of internationally backed and legitimate interim president Juan Guaidó’s call to arms on Tuesday. Instead, protests turned to violent clashes and the soldiers that rallied around Guaidó weren’t enough to persuade the rest of the Venezuelan military to drop their support for Maduro.

In the U.S. the seemingly fizzled uprising and the threat of protracted instability or Maduro keeping his grip on power has promoted new calls for America’s favorite tactic: military intervention.