Warnings of Iran Invasion Grow as US to Send Up to 5,000 Marines, Sailors to Middle East

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[–] 43 points 6 months ago (13 children)

So far, we have been able to weasel out of every definition of war. I'm curious to see how that changes with boots on the ground.

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  • [–] 20 points 6 months ago (3 children)

    It’s a war. Call it what it is and not what the politicians tell you it is. Fuck their definitions. People are dying.

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  • [–] 7 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Oh I agree 100 percent. I'm also not worried about what politicians call it. I only want to see the administration defend their many broken laws in a court room one day.

    I know. I got jokes.

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  • [–] 11 points 6 months ago

    The US President and the US ministry of war have called it a war many times already. They call it a war pretty much all the time. If someone is still not calling it for what it is then they‘re probably high on Russian propaganda and didn‘t read the script. Again, the US president started a war to distract from his disastrous polling numbers and he doesn‘t even try to hide it. Unlike his close relationship to Jeffrey Epstein.

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  • [–] 8 points 6 months ago

    Let's be honest here, it's a war. You don't get to massively bomb another country without it being a war. And every piece of international law says so. The American government might disagree, but it is a war.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    I think Korea was the last time we called a war, and we never ended that either, just declared an armistace. Vietnam was a police action, all down the line, they authorized military force in 2001, never declared war, and they used that authorization for everything for a couple of decades or something.

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago (1 child)

    They're not going to Iran. We've had boots on the ground at American, joint, and foreign bases around the world for decades. Not to mention actual combat deployments to places like Syria without a congressional declaration of war

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  • [–] 1 point 6 months ago

    The Syrian deployments were covered by the 2001 AUMF. But that AUMF has finally been repealed now. It would be a serious escalation in claimed presidential powers to send ground forces into anything longer than approximately Grenada.

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