In terms of the US War Powers Act of 1973, a sitting president may not commit the country to an armed conflict without the “statutory authorisation” of Congress. On Trump’s orders, the US military has been bombing so-called “narco terrorists” in international waters in what some US lawmakers say are unlawful extrajudicial killings. Congressman Adam Smith of the armed services committee expressed his fears that there may be more to come after the Venezuela invasion as Trump and his sycophants implement their strategy to dominate the western hemisphere, the so-called Monroe Doctrine. American author Chris Hedges writes: “Violence does not generate peace. It generates violence. “If there is one lesson we should have learned in Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria and Libya, it is that regime change spawns Frankensteinian monsters of our own making.” The American leader is meant to be a unifier, a strong and soothing presence in the world. Trump is an anarchic toddler, constantly causing upheaval across the globe, transgressing and remaking everything in his helter-skelter image. He has no interest in fireside chats; he wants to set fires. He’s more about droit du seigneur than noblesse oblige. He feels entitled to whatever he wants, from Greenland to Canada to the Kennedy Center to a Nobel Prize he didn’t win. Unlike previous presidents, he isn’t countering Russia; he’s catering to it. He disparaged the NATO troops who died for us in Afghanistan and belittled our nicest neighbor, claiming that “Canada lives because of the United States.” Respected academic Professor Jeffrey Sachs says said Trump, with his unlawful actions, has positioned the US as a “global thug”. So who is going to stop the global thug? Russia is knee-deep in its invasion of Ukraine. Does it hold any moral authority to admonish Trump over Venezuela? China is champing at the bit itching to take Taiwan by force. India is just about one incident away from formally declaring war against eternal enemy Pakistan. What about the multi-lateral structures? The bad news is that almighty Trump is thumbing his nose at all of them. https://share.google/shFjZIx5Ciu3W7MGy Trump promised to end American adventures overseas, and reel in the involvement in more overseas conflicts, yet in the past year it would appear he has done the exact opposite of that. Does this mean he's abandoning his base and is betraying the ideals of MAGA? I'd be curious to look at a worldwide survey and see who the average world citizen is more afraid of at this point in time. Putin, Xi or Trump? My guess it would be Trump, since he has shown himself to be a War President, a warmonger, unafraid to break the law, and unafraid to act without congressional approval. He just might be the most dangerous man on the planet at the moment. And it's very likely Miller and Vance are number two and three.
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