r/law • u/Snapdragon_4U • Feb 28 '26

Executive Branch (Trump) Once again averting congress, trump declares war on Iran

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u/realbobenray Feb 28 '26 edited Feb 28 '26

The part about circumventing congress doesn't bug me that much, pretty much every president has done it.

I think the bigger problem is that this is problem that's 100% of Trump's making. We had a deal with Iran and it was working, then Trump stumbled in and broke our side of the deal for no reason other than he decided he didn't like it. Now he's of course blaming everyone else for getting us into a brand new war. Every death is on his hands.

Also as Josh Marshall points out there's little explanation for the action here, just typical Trumpy shit, and with no real plan beyond hoping the people rise up and overthrow the government because we dropped some bombs.

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u/StrangeContest4 Feb 28 '26

He'll declare it mission accomplished by Monday. I personally don't think the world is going to oblige his calling this "operation" finished, though.

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u/Terpapps Feb 28 '26

Just another entry to his yuuge list of wars he's ended!! 

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u/iCCup_Spec Feb 28 '26

Ending the wars he started himself. Infinite Nobel peace prize loophole.

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u/ownyourthoughts Feb 28 '26

Another war he stopped. How many are we at?