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tintory@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago

Ron DeSantis Proposes Unprovoked War on Mexico

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Ron DeSantis Proposes Unprovoked War on Mexico

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tintory@lemm.ee to World News@lemmy.ml · 2 years ago
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He’s the latest of many Republican imperialists to endorse another war of aggression.
  • MoreAmphibians [none/use name]@hexbear.net
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    The US hasn’t declared a war since WW2, they’ve still gone to war. Neither the US nor Libya declared war on each other but it still counts as a war when the US bombs the absolute shit out of a country.

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      “War” implies the US and Mexico mutually fighting. Libya was military intervention not war.

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        Libya was military intervention not war.

        not-hillary

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        A Special Military Operation, if you will.

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        checkmate! it can’t be called a war if we simply lob misiles at a country and arm every lunatic we find, completely destroying it in the process smuglord

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          Well yeah, you OBJECTIVELY can’t call what happened in Libya a “war”. It was bad and unnecessary, but by definition, not a war… You did not have US troops fighting Libyan troops.

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            So because the US troops were using weapons the Libyan troops couldn’t effectively fight back against, it doesn’t count as a war?

            “It wasn’t a battle, it was a just a massacre, so it’s OK”

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              You’re fighting with the air. I very clearly said Libya wasn’t ok.

              You’re right, massacres aren’t battles and we shouldn’t call them that. Of course that doesn’t make it any better but why call it a battle if it’s not?

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                So if Libyan forces had managed to shoot down a western bomber, you would consider it a war?

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                  Only when the US and Libya officially declare war on each other is it war.

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                    The US hasn’t declared war on anyone since WWII is it your opinion that it had not been at war since then?

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            Are us pilots not us troops?

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        Of course, I forgot when you call it something other than war then it’s not a war! That’s why we have the Korean Police Action, the Vietnam Police Action, the Police Actions in Panama and Grenada, Desert Police Action 1 & 2 in Iraq, and the Global Police Action on Terror! None of those were wars, right?

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        Oh my god dude. Come on.

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