US to Send Up to 5,000 Marines to Iran

  • Pavidus@lemmy.world
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    7 hours ago

    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.

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.world
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      42 minutes 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.

    • frongt@lemmy.zip
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      1 hour ago

      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

      • mkwt@lemmy.world
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        43 minutes 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 But that AUMF has finally been repealed now.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.

    • jontree255@lemmy.world
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      4 hours ago

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

      • Pavidus@lemmy.world
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        2 hours ago

        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.

    • Willy@sh.itjust.works
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      6 hours ago

      i mean, we haven been to war since wwii. i’m just surprised no-one has noticed before this.