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The US hasn’t fought a war since 1945. The Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 made war illegal. This pact was the basis for the war crimes tribunals after WWII, becaus
by ipnon 2y ago
The US hasn’t fought a war since 1945. The Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928 made war illegal. This pact was the basis for the war crimes tribunals after WWII, because Germany and Japan were signatories they were deemed to have violated the treaty by waging war. Likewise Congress has the sole authority to declare war, and this authority hasn’t been used since December 1945.
International law is weird.
- skhunted 2y agoAs the term “at war” is commonly used the U.S. has definitely been at war many times since 1945.
- MeImCounting 2y ago" The pact had no mechanism for enforcement, and many historians and political scientists see it as mostly irrelevant and ineffective." Regardless of international law (which is for the most part, not particularly effective at changing the behavior of nations) war has been waged throughout the 20th century and into the 21st