Declarations of war are bad, but they were made hard to do in modern states. Almost every single countries have rules and procedures in place to make sure a hot head can’t do it over the weekend.
“Special Military Operations” undid all those efforts by putting all the powers back in the hands of a single person.
When there declarations of war we had two world wars. Are you really arguing that was better than special operations? And what started those wars? Some hotheads doing it over a few weeks. In the case of Japan, they didn’t declare war on the US until after they started dropping bombs on Pearl Harbor. How was this possible?
And you can’t mobilize a military over a weekend LOL. If you’ve been paying attention, even this air strike on Iran didn’t actually happen overnight. Just didn’t hear about it because telling your adversary your military plans in advance is generally seen as bad strategy and endangers service people. For once they didn’t tell a reporter in a signal chat, so we only heard about it after it happened. A declaration of war kind of gives away the game and makes it less likely for an operation to succeed. You never really had to do it (see Pearl Harbor) there was plenty of conflicts that happened without declarations, there was a low intensity war going on between Britain and the US right up to the declared war of 1812.
Really declarations of war were always stupid they only every really resulted in instant escalation as they’d automatically trigger allies to immediately declare war and after WWII and the invention of nuclear weapons it was finally decided to get rid of them because they’re stupid and have always been stupid.
Anyway there are authorization of use of force that applies. Congress could repeal these things but they won’t because sometimes there’s an immediate threat that can’t wait for legislation to deal with.
I hate Trump too, but arguing that he should be impeached over this is just another example of the left taking the losing side of an argument because they feel like they need to attack the other guys just because. There’s plenty of things impeach Trump for, but arguing Trump should be impeached over something that is actually legal for him to do but makes some people feel bad because declarations of war are a good thing (they aren’t) is just signing up for a losing battle.
Declarations of war are bad, but they were made hard to do in modern states. Almost every single countries have rules and procedures in place to make sure a hot head can’t do it over the weekend.
“Special Military Operations” undid all those efforts by putting all the powers back in the hands of a single person.
When there declarations of war we had two world wars. Are you really arguing that was better than special operations? And what started those wars? Some hotheads doing it over a few weeks. In the case of Japan, they didn’t declare war on the US until after they started dropping bombs on Pearl Harbor. How was this possible?
And you can’t mobilize a military over a weekend LOL. If you’ve been paying attention, even this air strike on Iran didn’t actually happen overnight. Just didn’t hear about it because telling your adversary your military plans in advance is generally seen as bad strategy and endangers service people. For once they didn’t tell a reporter in a signal chat, so we only heard about it after it happened. A declaration of war kind of gives away the game and makes it less likely for an operation to succeed. You never really had to do it (see Pearl Harbor) there was plenty of conflicts that happened without declarations, there was a low intensity war going on between Britain and the US right up to the declared war of 1812.
Really declarations of war were always stupid they only every really resulted in instant escalation as they’d automatically trigger allies to immediately declare war and after WWII and the invention of nuclear weapons it was finally decided to get rid of them because they’re stupid and have always been stupid.
Anyway there are authorization of use of force that applies. Congress could repeal these things but they won’t because sometimes there’s an immediate threat that can’t wait for legislation to deal with.
I hate Trump too, but arguing that he should be impeached over this is just another example of the left taking the losing side of an argument because they feel like they need to attack the other guys just because. There’s plenty of things impeach Trump for, but arguing Trump should be impeached over something that is actually legal for him to do but makes some people feel bad because declarations of war are a good thing (they aren’t) is just signing up for a losing battle.