Reminder: France has nukes and is a NATO power.

I’d say that non-nuclear , non-NATO countries have more to worry about than France.

We are already on the verge of war with the EU over Greenland.
It's the perfect example actually. Murder/kidnap the leader of Greenland or Norway or France to make the point that US is taking Greenland no matter what they say.

You may think it sounds crazy but 12 months ago the idea that the US would unilaterally decide to kidnap and murder another country's leader was insane.
Not only without the consultation of other world leaders but not even with the consultation and agreement of Congress.
That is the actions of a dictator, no the leader of a democracy.

As crazy as Trump is, he doesn’t have the cajones to do that, and I don’t think any of his advisers, including Hegseth, would support it.

Both Mango Mussolini and his cabinet have repeatedly shown their disrespect and overt hostility toward EU leaders, in everything from Greenland to cutting them out of the ongoing peace negotiations between Ukraine and Russia.

Their arrogance and audacity knows no bounds and they fully believe that NATO is worthless without them.

You are free to feel how you want but I can say with 100% confidence that the repercussions of this are going to be stark and disturbing.
With this action we fully through the majority of the world into China's camp and we will never again been seen as a trusted partner or ally.

People keep debating political strategy and calculations as if that has anything to do with it.

Trump is mentally ill. Malignant Narcissists choose war. Frontotemporal dementia makes it worse. Both conditions progress with time and are worsened by positions of power.

The diagnosis of Malignant Narcissism was created to explain Hitler. Stalin wasn't prepared for Hitler's invasion of Russia, despite warnings by US intelligence and his own generals, because it was so illogical for Hitler to attack Russia at that time.

Trump want's to play with his toys. He doesn't listen to advisers. The people around him won't stand up to him. Malignant narcissism is contagious.

I don't think we are really prepared for what could happen. We have never been here before.

Unless Hegseth is a big fan of the video Game Fallout 4, I don’t think he would support the kidnapping or assassination of President Macron.

to pursue nuclear

Another country decides to do it to the US?

With our current regime it would be welcomed by most but...

Our security dynamics have changed and degraded our protections that I could see him being spirited away from magalaga, that place is like a sieve.

We left a vacuum in Iraq and look what happened. ISIS swept in and turned large swaths of the Middle East into nonstop executions and brutal rape.

I don’t think the USA has any plan to prevent that in Iran.

Iraq, Libya, Syria, etc.

My point is not to say that the Iranian leader isn't a bad person. They are.
My point is that no one country, however well intentioned, has the right to kidnap or murder the leader of another country.

Our current government is run by pedophile billionaire grifters putting Black and brown people in concentration camps, we have no moral or legal authority to dictate to others about their government or it's actions.

A government that unilaterally decides who can rule another country is not a democracy but a dictatorship.

would think differently, but it seems I’m wrong.

Quite a contrast from 20 years ago.

When Gaddafi fell, Libya ended up with a huge power vacuum. Look where that end up. Also, they have to understand that the IRGC still holds the government power regardless of if Khamenei is dead or not. They aren't going to give up power that easily.

But I feel that if Trump outlives his usefulness to Israel, and becomes a liability to them, he might get a visit from Mossad.

I don't advocate violence, but nothing surprises me these days.

someone acting on behalf of Trump's oligarch backers in the US.

I guess they could hire Mossad to do the job.

in another post. I so agree with you. Not content to bring down the US economically and socially, trump is determined to find a country that will bomb it back to the stone ages... much as Putin wants, and could never do himself.

trump is a Russian asset, a spy, and a traitor to our country. And every republican that put him back into office should be tried for the same traitorous behavior.

Maybe the world has just become numb to the actions of this administration, but I’m sure Russia did not want to lose its well cultivated relationship with Venezuela or their drone factories in Iran. I think whatever is happening in the diplomatic back channels are beyond my pay grade.

But other countries are not going to lump us in into the same pot.

We, the United States, are a terrorist nation.

To be honest there is no guarantee that even if we defeat Republicans this time that four years later we won't be right back here again.

That is exactly what other nations are faced with right now.

While some of us are good people, our country is not. And there is no guarantee that even if we vote them out that we won't be right back here..again and again and again.

the American people must use the Internet we put into the world to demand that it know we are not a monolith and that the psychopath does not and never will act in the name of 77% of Americans.

there are still 'horrible persons' aplenty, that the world would be better off, without.

No, this is just Trump's latest diversion. So people won't be talking about

those damning EPSTEIN FILES revelations included accusations of Trump's rape of (at least) one minor

and how is it that President Clinton and Hillary had to testify for hours, but not Trump or Melanoma, who actually knew Epstein

or how his tariff wars have failed Americans, infectious diseases are rising under his science denying quacks, and how they still have nothing by way of a substantial health care plan

not to mention their IN OUR FACE plans to "take over" the elections (based upon even more bullshiit lies) as if the very NOTION of it isn't something that should provoke widespread outrage and protests.

And I question the intent of anyone who thinks this Regime would not do it to any country they wanted to.

This is a group of extreme evil. Evil is capable of anything.