> Trump is America’s biggest national security threat

Of all the responsibilities assigned to an American president, none is more important than keeping the country safe from its enemies. Yet, the U.S. has rarely, if ever, been as vulnerable as it is today under President Trump. He has become our greatest national security threat.

He launched an undeclared war of choice against Iran, a strategic and economic ally of Russia and China. The war for Israel quickly depleted America's supply of critical weapons. It will take at least three years to rebuild the arsenal. Iran has retaliated by attacking U.S. military facilities in Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Jordan. Those allies have seen that the US is incapable of protecting them.

Trump has alienated NATO allies France, the United Kingdom, Italy and Germany for not supporting his foolish attacks on Iran, even though NATO is a defense alliance, not a war alliance.

Trump has launched military operations against nearly a dozen countries during his two terms, including strikes against Syria, Somalia, Nigeria and Venezuela. He apparently is not inclined to stop; he has hinted that he'd like to control or annex Greenland, Cuba, the Panama Canal, and even Canada.

Trump has degraded our ability to anticipate and defend against attacks. Hundreds of America's top military, intelligence and security officials have either been fired or pushed out for political reasons, or because they considered the administration's orders unconscionable. Trump, who prefers to follow his fat gut rather than facts, has hollowed out the government's vital intelligence agencies and replaced career experts with incompetent political loyalists.

Trump is preoccupied with building monuments to himself and showing multiple signs of cognitive decline ("Islamic Republic of... Japan"). Insofar as he seems concerned about enemies, they are his imagined "enemies within," his political opponents and people on the left.

Under the circumstances, the most important thing Congress can do to strengthen national security is to remove Trump from office as soon as possible.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/art … 00573.html
with edits by NotMyPresident