Maduro and TrumPutin seem like such a likely match, a pair whose mutual admiration could take them to the heights the enfant terrible has reserved for Putin, the Crown Prince, Duterte, al Sissi, Kim, the new Brazilian autocrat, and other right-wing loons who are willing to stay at Trump Towers.

But Pompeo and Bolton won't allow a romance to bud between the Venezuelan dictator and their dictator. Though they are kindred spirits, Maduro and TrumPutin will never be allowed to date, to have state dinners and cordial meetings together, and then lovingly plan subsequent state dinners and cordial meetings. 

That wouldn't satisfy the base, whose antipathy to Kim can be set aside, as little rocket man and the senile dotard meet to plan how to avoid the nuclear conflagration that they invented by themselves to prove their manhoods. 

The base will not tolerate, at least not yet, a meeting between their own grifter and a grifter who espouses a socialist viewpoint. Neither TrumPutin, his base, any of his advisors, nor Maduro can define exactly what they disagree on. No matter, the optics are bad, and that is what matters to Fox State News, and what they tell the base to believe.

The Venezuelan socialist and the president with convenient and shifting beliefs simply illustrate the Yin and Yang of dictatorial energies. They see much to admire in each other, if only one would agree to give his oil to America, and the other would open his gilded hotels in South America. Then love could truly blossom.