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Because it’s flying near Venezuela, who we’re currently fucking with militarily.
by ceejayoz 11mo ago
Because it’s flying near Venezuela, who we’re currently fucking with militarily.
- bdangubic 11mo agowe wouldn’t be doing that, we voted for President that will end all the wars, not start new ones
- Obscurity4340 11mo agoThank you for buying my bridge, no refunds asked and zero money back down
- foota 11mo agoIf you thought you were, you were tricked.
- ceejayoz 11mo agoI think your sarcasm detector needs calibrating.
- deleted 11mo ago[deleted]
- antonymoose 11mo agoNicolas, Uday, and Qusay Maduro have 48 hours to leave Venezuela. Until then, we have not launched a special military operation.
- malvim 11mo agoYes. The tanker plane with its turned off transponder off the coast is totally not a military operation.
- baq 11mo agoJust a flesh wound.
- komali2 11mo agoReal quick, I'm trying to remember a word, it's on the tip of my tongue. It's when one country uses military force in order to make another country have significant internal political changes. Just on the tip of my tongue....
- tpoacher 11mo agoWar on terror?
- saubeidl 11mo agoIllegal war of aggression?
- GoblinSlayer 11mo agoJihad?
- 1718627440 11mo agoAs if these kind of people care about such a threat. They do not care about "their" country, "their" country is a resource they control. They very much prefer to sacrifice the whole countries population until the tanks stand in front of their bunker and then they take the "clean self-exit".
- wrs 11mo agoI think you have "war" confused with "blowing up people we're suspicious of". It goes perfectly with "imprisoning and/or deporting people we're suspicious of".
- 3rodents 11mo agoit's only war if it's from the Middle East region of the world, otherwise it's just sparkling law enforcement
- Nextgrid 11mo agoSpecial law enforcement operation.
- pksebben 11mo agoI served. While in basic training, the drill sergeants taught us why we salute differently than other countries (probably apocryphal) - because we've "never lost a war". I'm cheeky now and I was then, so I asked about vietnam. "Police Action" came the terse reply. "We don't talk about that one." Course by then I'd already signed on the dotted, so...
- the_af 11mo agoCurious here, what's the different salute?
- pksebben 11mo agopalm-down. If you've ever seen the brits salute, it's palm-forward.
- mattmaroon 11mo agoWe’ve never lost a war but we’ve definitely failed to accomplish our objectives a few times along the way. We built the greatest hammer the world has ever seen then asked it to saw lumber and wondered why it failed.
- bdangubic 11mo agowe may need to look up a definition of “won” in the dictionary cause we didn’t win a war exactly 80 years :)
- testbjjl 11mo agoWe? Seems like a personal vendetta from my perspective. I in no way shape or form want to send Americans to Venezuela for the holidays to start an armed conflict.
- jacquesm 11mo agoVenezuelans also don't want you to send Americans.
- vkou 11mo agoI don't think anyone in the world besides the deranged fanbase wants to see this.
- YouAreWRONGtoo 11mo ago[dead]
- pksebben 11mo agoWe really need a decent channel to petition other countries, as the US public. Maybe we could write on a legal pad and hold it up in the rear window as we pass them on the highway.
- komali2 11mo agoOr you could make like the French and actually do something about the death and destruction your nation subjects the rest of the planet to.
- saubeidl 11mo agoIt's funny how the French are portrayed as cowards in American popular culture, when in reality the French would've gotten the guillotines out already while the Americans... cower.
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- isodev 11mo agoCan’t you do it safely, with transponder on? It’s not like it will get softer or anything.
- perlgeek 11mo agoThe proper action then would be to declare war, and announce that the airspace is no longer safe for civilian use. The whole "oh yes, our military is active, but we aren't at war, and yes, the president tweeted about that" spiel is just untenable and ridiculous.
- wartywhoa23 11mo agoWelcome to the Brave New World (Order) of post-truth, post-law and special military operations.
- CrossVR 11mo agoThey can't declare war, that would require approval from congress. They're relying on the post-9/11 authorization granted to the president to use the military to go after terrorists and those that harbor them. That is why this administration is leaning heavily into calling the drug traffickers "narco-terrorists" and calling fentanyl their "weapon of mass destruction". They're covering their ass legally so they can invade another country without congressional approval.
- whiddershins 11mo agocongresss did not declare war for any of the post wwii wars.
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- armada651 11mo agoEven without a deceleration of war, any use of the military requires congressional approval unless it falls within some authorization congress has already granted.
- mattmaroon 11mo agoWhile technically true, they did give authorization to both Iraq and Afghanistan as well as others.
- muragekibicho 11mo agoIs it an inside joke I missed? 'Militarily' here and another comment had 'Bigly'. Is it a Trumpism?
- ceejayoz 11mo agohttps://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/militarily https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/militarily
- padjo 11mo agoI believe the term of art de jour is “special military operation”
- the_af 11mo agoThat's the term in Russia. In the USA it's "War on Terror-drugism".