• @chunes@lemmy.world
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    19 days ago

    It doesn’t really matter what you call it. W. and Obama normalized not declaring war on the countries you bomb. Unless the US plans to invade, it won’t be a war in the traditional sense of the word.

        • @pissnshitworldwide@sh.itjust.works
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          19 days ago

          Korea was a UN “police action” and Vietnam was a “conflict.”

          Crucially, Congress did not formally declare war in either case, nor did they for the Gulf war, Afghanistan, Iraq, Grenada, etc.

            • Rhaedas
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              No, what it is is a war. What it is declared is whatever works best for the politicians. It’s semantics, but there were no declarations by any officials.

        • FerretyFever0
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          Korea was technically a UN peacekeeping effort. It was just led and mostly done by the US. Vietnam was just the US giving South Vietnam a “little” help. It was called a troop deployment.