The Limbo Rock?

How low can you go?

What is passing through my mind is:

• how far will a head of state be allowed to go before being stopped?
• And how is the stopping done?

Recent history about the stopping of modern day dictators :

Mussolini was lynched by his own people after Italy was invaded and vanquished

Stalin died in office of natural causes (maybe accelerated ?)

Idi Amin was exiled after attempting to take over his armed forces which had mutinied after invading their neigbour Tanzania.

Hitler shot himself in the ruins of Berlin with invaders at the door

Pol Pot was ousted after invasion by neighbouring Vietnam. He died under house arrest serving life imprisonment.

Robert Mugabe was ousted by his own party at age 93, after ruling for 37 years. He was a fan of ethnic cleansing.

Ceaucescu (and his wife) were executed after an uprising against his rule.

Saddam Hussein was hanged after arrest by US invaders. He was a bad boy.

Muammar Gaddafi was killed, probably by his own bodyguard, in a counter revolution.

Bashar Al Assad was ousted by a counter revolution and fled to Russia

but….

Fidel Castro died in his bed after ‘retiring’

Mao Zedong died in office of natural causes

Vladimir Putin, Kim Jong Un, Xi Jinping, Al Kameini, Erdogan, Lukashenko (“Europe’s Last Dictator” ?) are still alive and in office…

It seems that killing millions of citizens is not sufficient motivation for ouster:

Mao killed 30 million of his own people, Hitler’s score was about 21 million including 6 million Jews, Stalin’s death toll was only 6 to 9 million, Pol Pot killed about 2.4 million, mostly intellectuals and skilled workers, which was about 40% of the population.

Of the mass murderers, only Pol Pot was ousted from power.

The others died in office.

How far will the current most prominent autocrat go?

Instead of arresting and prosecuting, will he start bumpimg off illegal migrants, Democrats and those that don’t agree with him…?

What’s next? The invasion of Greenland with obliteration of NATO forces placed there. …

Hmm! Australia is strategically located and has lots of natural resources including rare earth metals…

Heyy! What about Canada…. I’ve always said it should be one of our states!

Who is going to stop him?

The military is already doing his bidding. (There has been a purge of some command staff)

Congress hasn’t checked his acts of war like bombing Iran, sinking boats in the open sea, kidnapping the president of a foreign state, bombing Nigerians…

It seems that the answer to my questions at the beginning are:

• Killing 40% of the population was the limit for Pol Pot
• Removal from office and indictment

or ….. Revolution, which is extreme, but not far fetched. I recently saw a movie of a modern day civil war in the US …

… or maybe just keep digging into the Epstein files…?