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Donald Trump and his administration just keep losing in court (see above). And yet, in an interview with Axios' Marc Caputo this weekend, the President said there are no limits on his power.
Actually, the Constitution spells out in some detail what his powers are, but we appear to be in a post-Constitution era now. He also claimed that the U.S. defeated Iran and that the MOU was an unconditional surrender. The latter point is probably true, but not quite in the way Trump meant it.
Sources report that privately, Trump understands that global oil supplies were running short and if the Strait of Hormuz stayed closed much longer, that could cause a global depression. He didn't mention it, but everyone knows that it would be called the Trump Depression and would be the biggest and most powerful depression ever. People would remember it for 1,000 years.
Still, many people are not comfortable with Trump saying there are no limits to his power. That was the view of George III and the colonists didn't like that very much. There is a holiday early next month that is related to their not liking it very much. It seems that 250 years later, we are back where we started.
Trump appears to understand that things are not really going so well in Iran and wants to change the channel. One way to do that would be to start another war somewhere else and win it quickly. In that way, the new war would push the old war off the front pages. Problem solved!
In the interview, Caputo lobbed a softball at Trump and asked him if he thought an invasion of Cuba would go as smoothly as the one of Venezuela. Trump said: "Possibly. It's possible." Cuba is vastly smaller and weaker than Iran and is on the brink of starvation due to the ongoing U.S. embargo and blockade of the island. Trump showed his knowledge of geography, telling Caputo how Venezuela and Cuba differ from Iran. He said: "These places are close by. Whereas if you look at Iran, that's a very long trip. You know, I flew to that area a few times and unrelated to this, but you're flying for 18 hours, you're flying for a long time. Venezuela is relatively close and Cuba is a hopscotch."
In addition those two countries have smaller populations and no Shahed drones. Cuba once had a strong military, but it has withered after the Soviet Union fell and Russia lost interest in it. So it is indeed possible Trump may soon order an invasion of Cuba to distract from Iran, which he attacked to distract from Jeffrey Epstein. (V)