American citizens are less safe so that Trump can keep murdering brown fishermen in the Caribbean. The administration knows this, and they're more than happy to make that tradeoff.

There's arguably no effective way for any future administration to undo the strategic damage being done to the U.S.'s relations with these and other states.

No matter what we do, the U.S. will be seen as an untrustworthy, craven & mercurial "partner"—something simply to be endured or hedged.

Also a likely outcome

I would like to know if you have strong opinions about Teddy Roosevelt and also Howard Zinn. (These are unrelated and should probably have been two different questions.)

Possibly; but he was using that power to shoot himself in the foot. So . . . maybe it was working.

Completely on board with the pedantic point, and I'm amazed that so few seem to see it.

My home insurance doesn't cover swapping out the air filters, etc etc.

Genuinely curious if he is this dumb or he just thinks that his voters are.

Then resign and let someone else try it.