I'm appalled by Trump and worry about a lot of what he does but I don't think what you're saying is something to worry about. He's actually toned down the awful stuff he's been saying about Canada recently. If we were going to invade he'd be trying to convince at least MAGA but likely the American people in general of the cause by ramping up rhetoric.

If that was somehow a meaningful way of created regime change we wouldn't have spent 20 years in Afghanistan to failure.

Elections? The elections in that country are as honest as in Russia, why would it matter if they held those? His people are just going to make sure his people are still in charge just like when Chavez died there.

As for more extractions like this, I think we'd quickly discover those won't go nearly as well for us as this one did when they are expecting them.

What I want to see is if Trump's claims that the US will now be magically in control of Venezuela holds true because without that removing this guy is pointless. His VP (who is likely just as corrupt as Maduro is) will just come to power and then what's even the point of all this?

Maybe our government has infiltrated Venezuela's enough that we can follow this arrest with a coup that might actually change things there. I kind of doubt this administration planned that far ahead though.

This just points to how much MTV dropped the ball in regards to what was once their core business. The internet came about but they kept just plugging along with the old business model like the world wasn't changing around them. They didn't have to cede this part of their business to Youtube, they chose to by doing nothing to address changing consumer habits.

Oh please, it's well within Japan's power to amend its constitution to allow it to build its own military and free itself of American dependence. It's hardly a vassal, it's more like parts of Western Europe given their own dependence on the American military due to many of the countries there completely neglecting their militaries for decades. They depend on us but can certainly stop if they really want to and said dependence doesn't really stop them from doing their own thing most of the time.

What on earth does your question have to do with the article? Or did you just feel like promoting Trump for no reason?

Right, because sending Americans to third world countries to make them better has worked out so well for us in the past.

Thanks, I'm kind of rolling around in my head what options I have right now and that looks like solid advice.

You're comparing the more or less one time infrastructure costs that is transitioning to electric to the high costs that will likely always be there for efuels?

We know electric will work (and it keeps getting better) so paying for the one time cost of infrastructure makes much more sense than spending all the money that would be needed to go all in on efuels that likely won't be affordable any time soon. I say likely because the only reason oil is affordable is because we let nature create the basis for the high energy density fuels we use and save a ton of effort/energy/money in doing so. Making high energy fuel ourselves from the ground up is likely to always be massively less efficient and thus instead of the one time infrastructure costs of EVs we'll be stuck with a fuel we'll probably have to subsidize for as long as we use it and by a substantial margin.

There's also all the ladies I hear saying how much they absolutely love being so tall on the road without even thinking for a moment about the fact that their great view of the road means no one in a car can see road conditions beyond their oversized vehicle. Pain in my ass...

I would think the argument in favor of subsidizing electric vehicles over oil would be apparent. Global warming.

So when does everyone think this AI bubble is going to burst? Personally, I plan to do some major shifts in my 401k come the new year as while I've seen some great gains lately I feel like we don't have much time left until the crash happens.

More signs of a soft economy. This strikes me as scary because I really do think we're experiencing a major stock market bubble but usually with these big bubbles the whole economy gets a lift. We're not seeing that this time around which makes me think that when this current bubble bursts it's going to be especially bad for most of the economy. I guess we'll all see in the next couple years or so.

How about the ads where you have to drop what you're doing and hit the skip button unless you want to listen to said ad for the next 15 minutes. Can't imagine why anyone would use an ad blocker though!