• LoafedBurrito@lemmy.world
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    6 days ago

    No he isn’t, he isn’t declaring war with mexico, that would be REALLY, REALLY stupid.

    This is one of his horrible attempts at negotiating with Mexico, but it just comes across as insanity.

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        6 days ago

        The US hasn’t “technically” been at war since WW2. We weren’t “at war” during the Korean War, the Vietnam War, the Gulf War…

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          6 days ago

          Only open war we’ve had since I can remember is the war on drugs and homelessness. Shows you were our priorities lie considering we haven’t done shit to address either.

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        5 days ago

        HW Bush proved a president can without any repercussions no matter how illegally the war is declared. We lost that power check a long time ago.

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            19 hours ago

            He clearly violated the letter and spirit of the law with the attack on Panama. According to historians. The prevailing analysis I’ve heard is that both parties didn’t want to impeach him because the fallout from Nixon was considered too big a national problem to revisit.

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        6 days ago

        Technically and laws don’t apply to this administration, if he were to declare war the Republicans would just predate a declaration of war and say it’s legal.