[ExI] My prediction

[Adrian Tymes]

On Sat, Jan 3, 2026 at 1:22 PM John Clark via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 3, 2026 at 12:16 PM <spike at rainier66.com> wrote:
>> > the US military forces have already achieved their goal and left [venezuela]
>
> It doesn't sound like that to me! He Who Must Not Be Named has just decreed on nationwide television that the United States would “run the country” until a transition to local leadership in Venezuela is made. Historically have such strategies been quick and easy to implement? Have there never been any slight complications, like a decade of gorilla warfare?

He decrees a lot of things.  With American forces withdrawn from the
country, and Congress specifically told there will be no further
action (meaning that even the Republicans currently in Congress might
have grounds to impeach him if he sends major forces back in), he's
got no way to make that happen.