[aqme28]

> how does one legally justify a was anyways? it's extra-judicial almost by definition

What? There's a process for initiating an offensive war in the US and they didn't follow it. Legally, Congress must authorize it. Though that hasn't been followed for quite a few wars now.

[radu_floricica]

Isolated demand for rigor. When is the last time Congress did that?

[ahtihn]

Why isolated? There's people demanding it every single time it happened.

Just because it's ignored every time doesn't make this time okay.

[UncleMeat]

They've largely all been illegal.

But we did have an AUMF for the absolute disasters that were the afghanistan and iraq wars. Somebody who isn't american coming in and saying "whatever, fuck it, Trump just does what he wants" is terrifying to me.

Trump would prefer it if I were killed. Should I be shot?

[flyinglizard]

The president is legally able to authorize an offensive action though. Maybe not an "all out war" like Vietnam but what's happening in Venezuela is entirely legal from the US standpoint.

[embedding-shape]

Ah, US is doing a little special operation I suppose, inside another sovereign nation, and this of course shouldn't be considered an invasion.

[jonway]

Maybe? I don’t know there is an Authorization of Use of Force, and we’ve been conducting turkey shoots on civilian craft for lik 3 months now.

Seems on “Illegal” side of things, for whatever that matters in ‘26 huh?