The US congress must approve a declaration of war.

[neuronautml@lemmy.ml]

The US congress must approve a declaration of war. Here is to hoping that there are enough sane senators left. Nobody wants this war.

[dragontypewyvern@midwest.social]

The Iraq War proved that Congress doesn't have the balls to insist on that point of order.

[shalafi@lemmy.world]

And Korea, and Vietnam, and...

[lifeinmultiplechoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

We haven't declared war since WW2. The President can launch an attack without needing Congress backing for ~90 days if I remember correctly. I'm hoping he isn't dumb enough to do so, but he may get drunk one night and set it off while bitching on truth social at 1 in the morning and make a drunken phone call because he's not mentally stable.

[nova_ad_vitum@lemmy.ca]

I don't think it'll start with a formal declaration. He won't get that.

I think he'll order the military to stop paying for the US military base in greebland without leaving, then have them expand operations outside of the agreement to provoke a response.

This will of course make every other country far less likely to renew or grant leases for US military bases are reduce global military hegemony. But nobody driving this is thinking that far ahead.

[comment105@lemm.ee]

Yeah, but we're talking about a potential Greenland War here, it's not gonna be just a little Vietnam tour, or like the Korea Kerfuffle. The exercises in Iraq and Afghanistan also don't really compare.

[rhombus@sh.itjust.works]

In a world where he is bound by laws he is also bound to uphold treaties ratified by Congress, and attacking Greenland is an immediate violation of our NATO treaties. So if Congress actually felt like flexing its authority they could shut down an invasion immediately, but I have little hope of that happening.

[zink@programming.dev]

every other country far less likely to renew or grant leases for US military bases are reduce global military hegemony. But nobody driving this is thinking that far ahead.

Oh I suspect some of the people driving this are getting exactly what they paid for.

[lifeinmultiplechoice@lemmy.dbzer0.com]

Only if the Senate would prosecute him does Congress have any real say. Would it be an offense that should have him impeached and removed immediately, yes. Would they do so... Doubt it.

The question is, "is there at least 33 scumbags and a JD Shit for Brians in the Senate?" The answer is easy. Absolutely. He likely could level their 3 largest cities with carpet bombs killing 25,000+ people and threaten to attack any country who moves to retaliate or protect them. Unless all of NATO/EU mobilized together, it they would just give it up. Hell, that's 20,000 people less than Israel has killed, and the world just watched. Suppressing 25,000 people scattered throughout the land are easy to suppress compared to the almost 50 million that were in countries like Iraq. He could end the war before Congress could potentially convene, and pass the impeachment documents to the Senate for a trial.

[tth4p@lemm.ee]

He doesnt drink, this is all his regular brainwaves.

[notmyoldredditname@lemmy.world]

The puppet masters sure, but the puppet has no idea.