kinda crazy that just one guy can decide to wage a war. they should put it in the constitution that congress declares war or something.
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kinda crazy that just one guy can decide to wage a war. they should put it in the constitution that congress declares war or something.
@lain Im gonna be that guy I think maybe
kinda crazy that just one guy can decide to wage a war. they should put it in the constitution that congress declares war or something.
Or start a popular vote.
Voting "no" exempts from a potential draft.
@lain the workaround, which I think LBJ or Nixon first applied, is to start a war without making an official declaration.
this also happened at the start of WWII:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellogg%E2%80%93Briand_Pact
>However, it also helped to erase the legal distinction between war and peace, because the signatories, having renounced the use of war, began to wage wars without declaring them, as in the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia in 1935, the Soviet invasion of Finland in 1939, and the German and Soviet invasions of Poland.[23]
this also happened at the start of WWII:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kellogg%E2%80%93Briand_Pact
>However, it also helped to erase the legal distinction between war and peace, because the signatories, having renounced the use of war, began to wage wars without declaring them, as in the Japanese invasion of Manchuria in 1931, the Italian invasion of Abyssinia in 1935, the Soviet invasion of Finland in 1939, and the German and Soviet invasions of Poland.[23]
@lain Didn't congress agree to have a partnership with the Israeli military? That's basically them agreeing to it.