Shawnster

Why?

With the current US President, everything is about money. Any deal he makes, anything he agrees to, anything he rejects comes down to dollars and cents. This has been his manner of operation his entire life. Follow the money.

Ah yes. I knew that didn't sound right.

I did not know that was a Hookah pipe until I listened to the lyrics from the Stones song "White Rabbit"

That would solve the illegal immigration complaints.

Russian officials indicated in 2019 that the Kremlin would be willing to back off from its support for Nicolás Maduro in Venezuela in exchange for a free hand in Ukraine, according to Fiona Hill, an adviser to President Donald Trump at the time. The Russians repeatedly floated the idea of a “very strange swap arrangement between Venezuela and Ukraine,” Hill said during a congressional hearing in 2019. Her comments surfaced again this week and were shared on social media after the U.S. stealth operation to capture Maduro. https://apnews.com/article/russia-venezuela-putin-maduro-fiona-hill-b26a94ceaba69c6ddd9193e2b31cb97f

Nah couple of years ago a Russian Orthodox clergyman commented the war in Ukraine was “a crusade to safeguard Orthodox values and the unity of the faithful.” Of course, the Ukrainian Orthodox Church is also Orthodox and, prior to the war, was a suitable place to worship for a Russian Orthodox if they did not have a local church of their own to attend.

Why? What would happen if we don't?

You assume this was a change in plan.

See Alice in Wonderland The Caterpillar is a famous fictional character from Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, known for smoking a hookah and questioning Alice's identity, often appearing as a blue, hookah-smoking insect in adaptations like the Disney film. https://youtu.be/tf5nCPFBSHw?si=TIb-d0a4_hkGlHKk

From a legit news source or someone reporting live from their basement?

How would the U.S. "run" Venezuela? Secretary of State Marco Rubio suggested Sunday that the United States would not take a day-to-day role in governing Venezuela other than enforcing an existing “oil quarantine” on the country, a turnaround after Trump's Saturday announcement, https://www.wkyc.com/article/news/nation-world/how-will-the-us-run-venezuela-what-we-know/507-e8944293-e23f-4bd0-bd3c-aebc761ad1fa?fbclid=IwdGRjcAPIBf5leHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR6-czXWf4KcAIbELLq737BHgkcU9QiFVG7egcPhTiEkxgPea5iV14aWaa2cYQ_aem_aGenV-QYmIpXCfzTaAHY4g So much for running the country.

*** w16 April p. 29 par. 7 Maintain Your Neutrality in a Divided World *** 7 We obey God by never favoring any candidate or political party over another, regardless of whether they seem to support or oppose our interests. How might our neutrality be tested in this regard? Suppose that a popular uprising tries to oust an oppressive regime, one under which God’s people have also suffered. Although we would not march with the protesters, might we be with them in spirit? (Eph. 2:2) We must remain neutral not only in our words and actions but also in our heart. https://www.jw.org/finder?wtlocale=E&docid=2016288&srctype=wol&srcid=share&par=15 To rejoice about the change of government in Venezuela would be showing that we celebrate this change of government in our heart. Jehovah is not the one who overthrew the Venezuela ruler. This was one human ruler being replaced by another human ruler. All human rulers stand in opposition to Jehovah's Kingdom. We cannot rejoice because humans decided to change leaders. We are always happy and hopeful that the situation for our brothers and sisters improves. However, we hoped that would be the case no matter which human was ruling Venezuela. We don't rejoice over this change of leadership because they did not choose a leader Jehovah approves of. Besides, this could cause the situation for Witnesses in Venezuela to get worse, not better. How could we rejoice over this change in leadership when there is no guarantee it will improve life for the people there?

That's not what is happening in Venezuela, however. To this point all governments that have been destroyed have been replaced by other human governments. We all look forward to when Jehovah takes decisive action at Armageddon.

In a desperate bid to revive his abysmal peacetime approval rating, the president of the United States (Alan Alda) agrees to a scheme proposed by corrupt cabinet member Stu Smiley (Kevin Pollak) and launches a top-secret propaganda campaign to vilify Canada. As U.S. citizens get caught up in a xenophobic hysteria, a group of residents of Niagara, N.Y., wielding machine guns, organize a vigilante invasion that could trigger a real war with America's gentle neighbor to the north.