@conor64@Melle25313866@feelsdesperate It is a convincing argument except that Congress has surgically neutered itself and handed it's powers to the President over the last 50 years.
@conor64@feelsdesperate In no world in which Art. I; s. 8 has any meaning, is this legal. The Clause may not be practicable, given the speed at which world events happen now, and the 1973 Resolution may be weak, but the President cannot start a war and then say it isn't a war to avoid oversight.
@aj_inapi Why did Trump do this? Because he needed a distraction from the Epstein files and Bibi Netanyahu convinced him it would be an easy win. Generally the same recipe as every failed war in history.
@RealJamesWoods The DNI is an ineffectual and self-promoting liar who is getting kicked to the curb and released no new information but is trying to redo the headline. There are no weapons biolabs in Ukraine - never were. Trump trying - and failing miserably btw - to fix a pool is funny as hell.
@GrahamAllen "Arcane legal debates?" The Treaty obligates NATO to defend each other when attacked, not when one of their number goes off half cocked and starts a war. You don't do that to an Ally. If you want help doing something, tell us why we shoud help. We are not your vassals.
@ThisGuyyy7@4HumanUnity So has every other document Iran has signed, including the NPT and the JCPOA. How is this one any different? If Iran can be trusted, then the war was unnecessary. If they can't then the war accomplished nothing.
@DOWResponse@SecWar So ... WHO wasn't prepared to do WHAT again? WE didn't start a war we couldn't win for no reason other than Bibi said so and to avoid scrutiny of the Epstein files.
@andrewwdz@RadioFreeTom@JohnJHarwood And yet, the remaining ability to attack their neighbours and to close the Strait to shipping resulted in the United States of America utterly capitulating without gaining a single one of it's strategic goals.
Operational success --> Strategic failure on a colossal scale.
@BTC_clips The problem is that without traditions and institutions to hold things together you have nothing while at the same time, institutions that presume persons of good faith in power haven't proven sufficient to meet the challenge of a bad faith actor like Trump.