There's no other word for what is happening than appalling. And Trump's complete indifference to the bloodshed is chilling.

but I know that the House gets to define what the charges are in its Articles of Impeachment. "High crimes and misdemeanors" is left undefined in the Constitution for a reason. It covers all sorts of things, including tyrannical decisions that harm the United States.

Thanks for taking the time to reply!

What's worse is that it was all on whim, or all in service to another dictator's whim or interests. There wasn't any consultation with advisor's. There wasn't any negotiations. There wasn't any planning with the military. it was all just a talk with the Turkish dictator, and then almost immediate action. He deliberately, I think, didn't warn the Kurds and didn't give them time to prepare.

That's us the abuse of power .. bypassing all the deliberations and consultations to do what only he and his dictators wanted. He didn't care about what was good for the country and allies.

in every jurisdiction.

Trump's actions speak for themselves. He has put our allies in harm's way, deliberately and maliciously. And all without any deliberation or consultation with the military, State department, or the intelligence community. He deliberately did not seek their advice and counsel, because he knew they would have said, "Don't do that, Mr. President."

On the other hand Erdogan and Putin thought it was a great idea, I'm sure. So, he is acting on behalf of foreign government officials in ways that endanger others, including our own military forces in the region.

Hard to be sure.

Not as bad as abandoning Vietnam, which was bipartisan. (Nixon may be president, but denial of funding left him with only illegal options if he *had* wanted to help.)

Not as bad as helping to create chaos in Libya or Iraq.

Then again, there are a lot of bad implications from indifferent intentions. Just look at how illegal drug use in the US has led to so much murder and violence in Colombia and Mexico. We can blame those making it illegal, but ultimately it's the demand that's driving it.

it was intended to squelch Castro's takeover of Cuba using a CIA-directed guerilla group of Cuban exiles. The operation was discovered and quickly fell apart; as a result, Kennedy decided not to use any more military force in Cuba and risk starting WWIII (ref. the Cuban Missile Crisis a few years later). It was a mistaken, poorly-executed plan. Trump's action regarding the Kurds was worse than a mistake; it was done intentionally to satisfy Erdogan and ultimately Putin (and also, IMO, to show the world that he really has power even though the Deep State is trying to take him down. )