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• b112 3y ago
  That's not threatening to invade. That's granting the US President powers to take acts, invasion being one of them, without congressional oversight. I'm a Canuck, but you need to call a thing what it is. For example, sanctions could be something done as part of this bill. Arresting a Dutch person on US soil. You may not like this bill, and I personally don't have much of an opinion on it, but it does not say "arrest and we will immediately invade and blow up cities and take control of your entire nation". It isn't even directed at the Netherlands directly, instead the court, wherever that may be now or in the future. Saying "The threatened to invade" is an effort to put the worst possible spin on it. And without context, it makes it sound like this happened 2 weeks ago, such as "The US moved a carrier group to the coast of the Netherlands, and they're threatening to invade!" The only way I would accept language like "threatened to invade" would be if it was actually threatened.