Attacks on Iran, w/o warnings - to U.S. allies or the American people - began 2/28. POTUS is “Commander in Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States, and of the Militia of the several States, when called into the actual Service of the United States,” [FN1] 1/13

an authority Hamilton said is “nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the military and naval forces” and notes that “the declaring of war and [] raising of fleets and armies” under the Constitution “appertain to the legislature,” [FN2, 2a] i.e., Congress. [FN3] 2/13

We learned of attacks on Iran and Venezuela after the fact. trump, more brazen, says Cuba’s up next. [FN4] U.S. officials & far-right pundits use 1950s language to describe trump’s opponents & Cuba. [FN5] In 1959, Castro’s forces overthrew Batista’s dictatorship & [FN6] 3/13

organized crime lost out. “The Godfather, Part 2,” through the fictional Hyman Roth gives us an accurate assessment: “This kind of government knows how to help business. [] We have now what we’ve always needed. Real partnership with the government.” [FN7] 4/13

trump’s telling us what he’s going to do. THE CONSTITUTION DOES NOT GIVE POTUS POWER TO ATTACK ANOTHER COUNTRY. Also, the sinking of the battleship Maine on 2/15/1898 in Havana gave the U.S. an excuse to declare war on Spain. [FN8] 5/13

Some consider the Cuban Missile Crisis, in 1962, as the World has come to nuclear war. We were lucky that President Kennedy had read Barbara Tuchman’s “Guns of August,” [FN9] and how European powers had bungled the World into WW1. [FN9] 6/13

Tempers flare, people over-react, and things can rapidly escalate. We have 11 nuclear aircraft carriers. Ukraine has shown mass drone attacks are cheap and can sink most ships. China has had a 1,000-missile system to take out large ships. [FN10] 7/13

Aircraft carriers will be big targets. We need to remove them from areas of conflict. trump’s already saying where wants to attack. The loss of a carrier would be a huge loss of life. It would also be a reason for war, even if by U.S. leaders who need false flags. 8/13

Footnotes:
FN1. Const. Art II, sec 2.
FN2. “nothing more than the supreme command and direction of the military and naval forces, as first general and admiral of the Confederacy; while that of the British king extends to the declaring of war and to the raising of fleets and armies - all of which... 9/13

FN2a. by the Constitution under consideration, would appertain to the legislature.” The Federalist, No. 69 (Alexander Hamilton).
FN3. “The Congress shall have Power ... To declare War ... To raise and support Armies ... To provide and maintain a Navy.” Const. Art I, sec 8. 10/13

FN4. John Hudson and Adam Taylor, “State Dept. again deems Cuba a threat amid talk of U.S. push for regime change,” Washington Post, 7/20/26, accessed 7/23/26.
FN5. Maya Yang, “‘Front groups and fellow travelers’: state department attacks US left over Cuba,” The Guardian, 7/20/26, accessed 7/23/26. 11/13

FN6. Sarah Cameron, Cuba: Handbook,” (1998), p.10.
FN7. “Godfather, Part II,” (1974)
FN8. See, Robert W Merry, “President McKinley,” (2017), pp. 258-262. 12/13

FN9. See, Barbara W Tuchman, “The Guns of August,” (1962).
FN10. Steve Balestrieri, “How Do You Sink a $13,000,000,000 Navy Aircraft Carrier? A $15,000,000 Missile from China,” 1945, 12/29/25, accessed 4/13/26. 13/13