If your opinion-poll numbers are tanking, start a war you can win.
In the abstract and in principle, Venezuela should be an easy win. With these morons in charge, a whole lot of people (US troops as well as Venezuelans) are going to get killed. But victory is about as likely as the Russians in Afghanistan.
"A short, victorious war" is a fantasy of incompetents everywhere. I can think of only one case where it actually happened**. (And that time the war wasn't a domestic political operation.) Mostly it proves to be neither short nor victorious.
** Gulf I, taking Kuwait back from Saddam. But generals competent enough to pull something like that off? Not likely to be put in charge by Trump or Hegseth. More likely to get sacked for insufficient toadying.
2025-12-08 22:39:22
I've always known that most people can remember at least some of their dreams. But I've never done that. The closest I've come is the handful of times I've awakened full of adrenaline, apparently over something I dreamed. But with no clue what it might have been.
If your opinion-poll numbers are tanking, start a war you can win.
In the abstract and in principle, Venezuela should be an easy win. With these morons in charge, a whole lot of people (US troops as well as Venezuelans) are going to get killed. But victory is about as likely as the Russians in Afghanistan.
"A short, victorious war" is a fantasy of incompetents everywhere. I can think of only one case where it actually happened**. (And that time the war wasn't a domestic political operation.) Mostly it proves to be neither short nor victorious.
** Gulf I, taking Kuwait back from Saddam. But generals competent enough to pull something like that off? Not likely to be put in charge by Trump or Hegseth. More likely to get sacked for insufficient toadying.
I've always known that most people can remember at least some of their dreams. But I've never done that. The closest I've come is the handful of times I've awakened full of adrenaline, apparently over something I dreamed. But with no clue what it might have been.