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Interestingly, this is not just flaunting international law. It is a blatant violation of federal domestic law in the USA itself: Congress is the only body that
by tsimionescu 10mo ago
Interestingly, this is not just flaunting international law. It is a blatant violation of federal domestic law in the USA itself: Congress is the only body that can declare war, and they have not done so. The Presidency has no right whatsoever to attack a foreign country without a declaration of war.
While yes, Congress authorized the "War on Terror", there is very obviously no possible justification for applying that to the case of Venezuela.
- pjc50 10mo ago> Congress is the only body that can declare war, and they have not done so. People keep saying that, and it bears no relation to the actual post-WW2 US military history. How many declared wars have there been since then?
- Ancapistani 10mo ago> The Presidency has no right whatsoever to attack a foreign country without a declaration of war. That’s… just not true. George Washington himself authorized the US Navy to attack French vessels in the Caribbean in 1798 - with no declaration of war.
- verzali 10mo ago> The Congress shall have Power... > To define and punish Piracies and Felonies committed on the high Seas, and Offences against the Law of Nations; > To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; > To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; > To provide and maintain a Navy; > To make Rules for the Government and Regulation of the land and naval Forces; > To provide for calling forth the Militia to execute the Laws of the Union, suppress Insurrections and repel Invasions;
- Ancapistani 10mo agoI’m quite familiar. My point is that —- regardless of appropriateness —- this is about as far from “unprecedented” as can be imagined. Congress didn’t declare ware on Syria, or Iraq, or Yemen, or Somalia, or any number of other African countries when the US attacked them during the Biden administration.
- verzali 10mo agoSo the constitution is worthless then?
- Ancapistani 10mo agoThat’s not what I was saying, but I didn’t argue when smarter men than I said exactly that: But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist. - Lysander Spooner
- mothballed 10mo agoLiberia has/had a nearly identical constitution and look at them. It was just a roadmap for what the US could become if we became even more savage like them. It was never the Constitution that made the USA special, in other hands you got what we're getting now. You always needed a populace that respected life, liberty, and property above all in order to have a prayer of it working out; that is long gone if it ever existed.
- JumpCrisscross 10mo ago> It is a blatant violation of federal domestic law War Powers Act of '73.
- moralestapia 10mo agoNah. Not war. It's some sort of DOJ operation. Wait and see.
- herewulf 10mo agoAh yes, using the Coast Guard's aircraft carrier, stealth fighters, and their famous "Delta Force" commandos. I bet they even got a warrant to kick in Maduro's door and read him his rights!