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FACT: It is unconstitutional for a U.S. president to declare war without the approval of the Knesset
That’s factually incorrect: all the POTUS needs is the approval of the Israeli PM.
That’s factually incorrect: all the POTUS needs is the
approvalcommand of the Israeli PM.A meaningful look works too.
True, true…
Wouldn’t it be more efficient to ask Ghislaine Maxwell directly?
I mean Netanyahu played a big role in getting him elected, so he really does owe him one or two.
The US is an Israeli vassal state. And if an American says they want their government’s independence back, you’re called an antisemite.
Honestly, it’s impressive how well Israel’s campaign to capture control of our Federal government has worked. Devious, disgusting, enraging, but impressive. And we just let them do it. Because we refuse to fight to change our pay-to-play political system.
I mean, a big part is that we actively let them do it too. The evangelical movement wanted this from Israel, so they can try and end the world. They literally do not care about anything else, and anything that moves the needle closer to what they think will trigger the end-times is great for them.
That’s true, Christian Zionists did open the door wide for Israel, but that didn’t happen in spite of Israel’s involvement. Israel sees Christian Zionists in the US as a useful ally in pursuing their goals. Christian Zionists gave Israel the keys, but it’s still Israel behind the wheel.
I’ve spent decades fighting against believing the conspiracy theory that “Zionists” control many levers of power in the world. It’s getting very difficult to keep that conspiracy theory at bay.
Starting to accept the idea that there is a global order between the major religions that acts as sort of an international deep state… And it’s this group that actually does control everything, everywhere.
Saying that Israel has a lot of power in the world isn’t a conspiracy theory. Your proposition that there’s a global order of major religions which controls everything is a conspiracy theory. I don’t know how you got from one to the other.
Because major world religions historically created the states we refer to today. Secular government replaced functions that religion would provide to the masses. The earliest forms of globalization were largely based on religious orders. The evolution of the God to King to Elected leader over a millenium or so. All I’m saying is that the old world is still very much functioning behind the facade that the modern world has created. It’s not just “Jews control the world”, it’s an axis of Evangelicals, Catholics, Muslims, Protestants, and Jews. These orders exist outside of elected positions and officially declared government power. And especially in the U.S. with the political power that Christian organizations have, seems to all go back to this rooted power that has always existed. Nearly every major power, except for China, has a form of a theocracy controlling it in varying degrees. And these groups all clearly operate globally. That’s why the Saudis get along so well with the Conservatives… Or why the heavily Orthodox Russia gets along so well with the Religious Right. Why Israel is so close with that block of the right wing. In fact, behind the recent political shift to the right in many countries, you’ll find their organized religion behind much of it.
Zionist are a lobby group like a lot of others. The error is in thinking they have more power than let’s say evangelicals or that they are doing it covertly.
Did he declare war? Myth and fact are about 2 different things.
It’s just a “special military operation” in the middle east. No War to see here.
Except for Trump calling it a war numerous times, and last year him changing the name to the department of war.
But totally not a war. He’s just planning on sending in troops on the ground for funsies.
It’s the same legal precedent America has used for every war since WW2. Regardless of legal limbo about “declaring war”, it’s probably more correct to call it a war than not.
Reminds me of the time when Clinton rebranded wars as ‘peacekeeping operations’, or when Obama rebranded soldiers as ‘advisors’, or the big ones Dubya’s ‘extraordinary renditions’ and ‘enhanced interrogations’.
As long as they call it something euphemistic, no one’s feathers get too ruffled.
Exactly. As it stands, Congress’ legal control of war exists in name only.
We’ve witnessed for decades now that a sitting president can absolutely wage war without congress’ approval, just as long as they don’t actually say the words “the US is at war with [country]”.
I’d be surprised that congress has never attempted to go after the blatant loophole of “what if I just don’t call it a war” - but I can’t remember the last time that Congress successfully enforced it’s control over anything.
Indeed.
I think what frustrates me most is that, even in the knowledge that Congress would authorize this war (and they absolutely would), they’re still too lazy to even have a token vote on it.
That we’re getting fucking reservists killed for this, and they won’t even vote on it, just feels insulting to the people who expected to be training on weekends instead of getting bombed in a desert.
This is you. This is how you think it works.
