Trump won't rule out use of military force to take control of Greenland and the Panama Canal

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39. Worst case scenario ...

The part of me that always looks at worst case scenarios sees Trump starting a real shooting war, especially with a near neighbor, as a way for him to –

• Secure his power – never change horses mid-stream
• Allow him to declare an emergency to expand his powers.
• Use war powers to suspend habeas corpus
• Start a new state of forever wars that allow him to cancel the elections in 2026 and/or 2028 (not legal but who cares by then)
• Drop out of NATO and other bothersome alliances and gang up with Russia and China in the invade your neighbor club.

There would be lots of opposition to these acts, but we might not be able to stop them and once he has those powers we would be out of constitutional/judicial remedies.

A bleak picture.

I hope it does not happen.