US to Send Up to 5,000 Marines to Iran

  • frongt@lemmy.zip
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    3 hours 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

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      2 hours 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 But that AUMF has finally been repealed now.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.