[aaron-santos]

Why would you conflate hostile foreign power and being at war? There is a difference here between necessary and sufficient conditions. The presence of hostile foreign powers with whom we are not at war is evidence enough.

[shukantpal]

The board of Facebook consists of Americans. They are helping a hostile foreign power ( Facebook).

[aaron-santos]

Help me out. How does that imply war?

[AlbertCory]

Getting back to your original posting:

First of all, my whole posting was tongue-in-cheek, which everyone else seems to have gotten.

Anyhow, does it makes sense that "A formal declaration of war" has somewhat more legal force than "An Atlantic headline writer declaring them a hostile foreign power" ?

[aaron-santos]

Thanks for explaining. Today was my day to not get a joke on the internet :)