>The risk of nuclear escalation or various WWIII-esque scenarios, because at that point you have the US military directly killing Russians. Just as Soviet pilo

>The risk of nuclear escalation or various WWIII-esque scenarios, because at that point you have the US military directly killing Russians. Just as Soviet pilots have been killing Americans in Korea and Vietnam, despite not technically part of the war. There is no "simple legal trick" to start a war.