I believe what Trump’s doing to Venezuela now may have something to do with Putin ignoring his calls to end the war with Ukraine.  Trump might be like “If you’re gonna do what you want with my ally on your side of the world, then I’m gonna do what I want with your ally on my side of the world.”

This makes Venezuela a bargaining chip for negotiations.

Worst case scenario Ukraine becomes part of Russia and oil rich Venezuela becomes the 52nd US state, after Canada.

The US military:

vs Venezuela:

I don’t think that theory holds up. Venezuela isn’t some easy pressure point the U.S. can just “use” in a geopolitical chess match. The country is larger than Vietnam, extremely difficult to occupy, and perfectly suited for long-term guerrilla warfare. Any attempt to strong-arm it would turn into a massive drain with no real upside.

The U.S. already struggled to control far smaller and less resilient regions — Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan — and Venezuela would be even harder. Regional neighbors like Colombia would quietly support resistance, and anti-U.S. sentiment across Latin America would explode.

And beyond that, the American public has no appetite for another foreign conflict. We’re nearly $39 trillion in debt, people distrust the government more than ever, and nobody is willing to die in a war with Venezuela over some geopolitical flex.

If Trump is trying to use Venezuela as a bargaining chip against Russia, it’s a reckless and unrealistic strategy that would almost certainly devolve into a quagmire.

And while a U.S. attack could actually boost Maduro’s standing at home by rallying nationalist sentiment against foreign intervention, I’ll admit that this dynamic isn’t universal. Saddam didn’t gain popularity when the U.S. invaded Iraq. But the context is completely different: Iraq had been devastated by sanctions and previous wars, and many Iraqis already viewed Saddam as illegitimate. Venezuela, on the other hand, has a long history of resisting U.S. influence, and foreign aggression tends to unify Latin American populations — even those who dislike their leaders.

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Rachel and Cory on the same photo.

In logic a false premise can lead to both true and false conclusions. We use words that we have no idea what they stand for. Clearly bullshit will follow false premises.This is demonstrated in this thread. Science advances without any appeal to the supernatural. Throw all religions in the philosophical garbage can and leave them there!

Science is great at describing what happens after a universe exists. It doesn’t tell us why there’s a universe in the first place, or how you get laws, energy, space, and time from a state with none of those things.

People often say, “There’s no evidence for a creator.” Fair enough — but the same applies to the idea that a universe can appear from absolute nothing. Not a quantum vacuum, not a field, not a fluctuation. Literal nothing. There’s no evidence for that either.

So we’re really looking at two philosophical starting points:

• A creative cause behind the universe, or
• A universe that appears from nothing with no cause at all.

Both are assumptions. Neither side has empirical data about the actual origin point.

And the “no evidence” line doesn’t really settle anything. The universe itself is the one thing we do have. Treating its existence as a non-issue is like walking past a functioning engine and insisting it assembled itself because you didn’t see the mechanic.

Nobody has to sign up for religion, but pretending the origin question has been answered — or doesn’t matter — just sidesteps the biggest unknown we’ve got.

ad hominem attacks are not an argument

you would be more of a man just to admit you were wrong

Oh, look! Someone learned a cool phrase. 

You may want to use that on yourself being that you attack quite a few on here for no reason....I think you are just hurt because that hit home.

Not wrong on this one.  While not 100% on every case of men vs. woman....its been shown. 

You would be less of a bitch if you stopped whining like one