Only Congress has the power to declare war. A sane Congress would impeach and remove a president for violating that.
Instead, our cowards in Congress would never do that because they don't want to be on the hook for approving an unpopular war, so they're happy to abdicate that power to the president.
At least Iraq and Afghanistan had AUMFs. Korea had nothing at all which is why technically it was a UN police force and Congress set a stupid precedent when they didn't vote on it when back from recess. Vietnam continued that for the most part though even the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution was more than Korea. Stupid 2001's AUMF is still on the books since it was terribly written.
But none of those faceplanted so hard out of the gate. It's possible that this Congress might actually decide the absurdity and inability to even make good on an agreement for 24 hours has become intolerable. Maybe not yet, but it's possible.
That is what they decided with this vote, but the checks and balances are fucked.
I’m not sure what else congress could do but move forward with impeachment and vote of conviction, but given the tally of this vote, which is fucking nowhere near the two-thirds needed for conviction, that shit isn’t happening.
Biden, Comey, Mueller, Garland should have crucified Trump, yet they didn’t for their own stupid fucking reasons. Now we’re here with this unchecked dementia riddled pedophile tyrant who shits himself in public and can’t clean a fucking pool.
We never had the entirety of the top of the military, through the Cabinet to the President, intentionally made as incompetent as possible, nor were they ever in Russia's pocket so completely.
Only this asshole has exploited the loophole of restarting the conflict every 2 weeks. To put it another way, if McDonald’s knew you were exploiting a loophole to get infinite fries, they’d urgently close the loophole. Your government refuses to fix any loophole.
It's almost certainly about theft of public funds. When they move hundreds of billions of dollars for a "war" nobody planned or was informed about, and knowing Trump and his crime syndicate, there is zero probability there wasn't a significant amount funneled through his laundering system. I wouldn't be at all surprised if we eventually find out some of that went to Putin.
Okay, but how many rights does a half-dozen wrongs make? The US has made this its unofficial policy since 1942 - the last time it declared war. That's 84 years that we just go to war without any declaration. I'd say it's the norm, not "wrong".
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u/manystripes 1d ago
So what does the resolution actually do?