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Originally Posted by ZNPaaneah

There is evidence that he would crash our stock market to make his friends rich, and that he would attack some of our best high tech companies as payback for them giving him negative reviews. But what is the evidence that he would start a war to stay in office?

The article shows evidence Trump is already heading that way:

Upon taking office, [Trump] abandoned ...populist postures. Trump sent more troops to both Afghanistan, sustaining the United States' longest war into its 17th year, and Syria, with the Pentagon announcing that they would stay even after the Islamic State was defeated. He doubled down on U.S. support in Saudi Arabia's criminal assault on Yemen, while increasing the pace of drone bombings.

And now he has brought the most extreme and unreconstructed of hawks into the White House. New and more dangerous wars of aggression seem virtually inescapable. Bolton, supported by Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and Pompeo, will presumably push to tear up the Iran deal in May. An attack by Israel or the United States on Iran's nuclear facilities will be the likely result, as Bolton has urged in writing. Bolton, supported by Pompeo, likely will use unrealistic demands to blow up the North Korea talks. If Bolton succeeds, he'll push for far more than a "bloody nose" attack on Kim's regime.

Add to that Trump's unchecked ambition, unscrupulous tactics, lack of compassion, duplicitousness and cunning. He has as a model the recent fact of history that Dubya recently from unpopular to so popular that no one in Washington would oppose him publicly when he went to war with the middle east. All that is required is some trumped up act of provocation by North Korea or Iran. History is riddled with tyrants who use war as a strategy for staying in power. Seems it would be ideal for Trump to get us embroiled in a scary war this year before the midterm election so he can have maximal impact on the outcome.