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- politics@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- politics@lemmy.world
On Monday, the president’s lack of a plan in Iran was outlined in stark terms in a letter to Congress obtained by CBS News officially informing lawmakers of the strikes.
“Although the United States desires a quick and enduring peace, it is not possible at this time to know the full scope and duration of military operations that may be necessary,” Trump said in the letter.
U.S. forces “remain postured to take further action… to address further threats and attacks upon the United States or its allies and partners,” he continued.
The letter was sent under the War Powers Act, a 1973 resolution requiring the president to notify Congress within 48 hours of deploying U.S. forces if Congress has not declared war. The deployment cannot last more than 60 days without congressional approval.
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Well, he has a concept of a plan, you see.
Wait… didn’t Vance say a few days ago that the wars before were fought badly because of dumb presidents, how the fuck is this different!??
Because this isn’t a war, as only Congress can declare war. This is just one of Trump’s special military operations.
/s
Says the department of… WAR. you can’t make this shit up.
Trumps dumber than dumb
He is literally demented.
adjective
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behaving wildly and irrationally on account of anger, distress, or excitement.
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affected with dementia.
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It’s different because it’s under a president he supports, duh. /s
60 days is so fucking long to be able to operate without congressional approval.
Yeah, it was made at a time when the concept of a war was a months long preparation of deploying troops and moving assets into place. They didn’t anticipate just attacking countries overnight.
This was a months- or weeks-long preparation. It’s been known for a while that the US was moving aircraft carriers towards Iran. This absolutely did not happen overnight.
Edit: and earlier, Military.com from 2026-01-29
Half of US state capitals are in the middle of states because they were created at a time when travel times were large enough that you wanted to minimise them for political centres. I’m assuming this was around the same time so maybe it even took time to get congress together?
People keep saying this is going to be America’s next forever war, but there’s a good chance we might just lose.
I’d like to expand on this thought. Its been bothering me.
Even when we “lose” wars we Americans do not experience the destruction we impart on other nations.
We bombed a school. No american school children will die in this war, but Iranian children already have.
Americans will disapprove of this war but it will only affect them in limited ways, making large protests feel foolish when many are trying to scrape by to make rent, and we live under a dictator.
I don’t know what there is to be done. It makes me sick.
I feel you, but honestly, with this administration, who fucking knows what will happen. The Secretary of Defense is an alcoholic, the President is sundowning, and JD Vance appears to already be in hiding. This might end with our unconditional surrender to the next Ayatollah after we lose a ground invasion.
