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... is helping them get $17M not "giving Aid and Comfort"?
by abeppu 1y ago
... is helping them get $17M not "giving Aid and Comfort"?
- ceejayoz 1y agoWe are not presently at war with North Korea.
- eschaton 1y agoActually the Korean War hasn’t ended yet.
- ceejayoz 1y agoThe US never declared war on North Korea in the first place, and there are no active hostilities between the two. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason_laws_in_the_United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treason_laws_in_the_United_Sta... > The terms used in the definition derive from English legal tradition, specifically the Treason Act 1351. Levying war means the assembly of armed people to overthrow the government or to resist its laws. Enemies are subjects of a foreign government that is in open hostility with the United States.
- paradox242 1y agoThe Korean War was famously the first of many "police actions" the U.S. would become involved in after WW2, saving Congress the trouble having to turn up to authorize an actual war declaration.
- cosmicgadget 1y agoNor Venezuela, and yet the Alien Enemies Act has been invoked. You are right, of course, but it's not relevant to policy decisions.
- ceejayoz 1y agoI'd note that a Trump appointed judge just made that point about the AEA. https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/us/texas-judge-trump-alien-enemies-act.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/01/us/texas-judge-trump-alie... > He also found that the “plain ordinary meaning” of the act’s language, like “invasion” and “predatory incursion,” referred to an attack by “military forces” and did not line up with Mr. Trump’s claims about the activities of Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan street gang, in a proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act.
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