Comment on Who decides when the US goes to "war"
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 6 months agoThere’s what’s legally possible, and what can be done in reality.
No one is going to let Biden unilaterally attack Canada; he’d be impeached AND thrown out under the 25th Amendment five minutes after he announced the attack.
originalfrozenbanana@lemm.ee 6 months ago
You say that but that isn’t how it would happen.
There would be months or years of prep work, spreading propaganda that Canada was the source of our woes, that they were wronging us. By the time we invaded there’d be just enough “legitimate discourse” about the invasion that the Presidents supporters could claim any effort to stop him was political.
There was a time not long ago where people said you couldn’t do lots of things or you’d get thrown out - then Trump did many of them, even got impeached (twice!) and stayed in office. In practice, these limits are at best inconvenient for a dedicated lunatic.
Dagwood222@lemm.ee 6 months ago
No analogy is going to be perfect.