• osanna@lemmy.vg
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    22 hours ago

    the US: BIGGEST MILITARY IN THE WORLD (probably)

    Also the US: pls halp.

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    7 days ago

    Ignore that fascist bastards whining. He dug his own ass into it let him dig himself out

  • Mark
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    7 days ago

    He should be pleading. But he is demanding. That’s the weird part. He does not have the cards for demanding.

    You break it, you own it. He attacked, without reason. Hell! According to them its not even a war. Get congress to declare war first, then we talk.

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      6 days ago

      Any US-aligned ships which go into the strait of Hormuz without Iran’s blessing will probably be hit by a bunch of drones and sunk. The US wants their puppet states to act as bullet sponges so that fewer Americans die.

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        6 days ago

        The US wants their puppet states to act as bullet sponges so that fewer Americans die.

        I see they’ve learned from the Israelis and the Saudis.

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      7 days ago

      Doubtful. But they probably can’t send more without officially having to declared a war. Which Trump alone can’t do. So they are asking other nations to come save him from his own domestic misconduct.

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        6 days ago

        Why wouldn’t he be able to send more warships? AFAIK the only legal limit imposed on the Presidency is a 60 day limit on how long they can deploy troops without declaring a war. However, this has been mostly ignored by US Presidents since the law was passed decades ago. The only part of that law they do follow is notifying Congress.

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          6 days ago

          I honestly don’t know. I can’t say I’m an expert, it was more of an educated guess. Maybe it’s difficult to justify sending more seeing as they’ve already declared victory…

      • phutatorius@lemmy.zip
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        6 days ago

        But they probably can’t send more without officially having to declared a war.

        There is no mechanism to enforce that, besides impeachment. And there are no guidelines in the Constitution about what the threshold is for declaring war.

        There’s the War Powers Act, but that only matters if Congress attempts to enforce it.

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    8 days ago

    Why would they join the war that is already won?

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    8 days ago

    My god he is such a fucking idiot. He just insulted them and told them their help wasnt needed. Just a stupid, pathetic, hatefull asshole.

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    8 days ago

    The only official response to him from the UK should be the direct quote about not needing the UK. No additional words. Don’t take any words out. Just the exact quote.

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        Then the UK has a problem to deal with as well.

        Ready in Canada if our government decides to help Trump out. Don’t care which team he’s on.

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        8 days ago

        Those wealthy elites know a thing or two about class solidarity. It means a few hundred extra poors to the chopping block, they’ll take it!

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    8 days ago

    “That’s OK, Prime Minister Starmer, we don’t need them any longer — But we will remember. We don’t need people that join Wars after we’ve already won!”

    Huh.

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    8 days ago

    Does he mean the strait that is only insecure because HE made it insecure ? Good job by the way !

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      because HE made it insecure

      i dont think the water is lacking confidence, you make it sound like trump is bullying a geographical feature and hurting its feelings