• 🔰Hurling⚜️Durling🔱@lemmy.world
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    28 days ago

    This sets an alarming precedent where a sitting us president can kidnap the acting head of another country (elected or not) which is an act of war, without the us being at war or having authorization from congress.

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      28 days ago

      see the logic is only the US can, anybody else cant even arrest netanyahu when he flies over their airspace cuz for some reason that would also be an act of war towards the US

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      28 days ago

      You seem to not understand the term precedent. Neither is that a new thing to do for the US nor is it actually requiring congress authorisation. They gave up that power long ago and now don’t need to autorise anything for up to 90 days.

      Also the US has not declared war once since WW2… They actually set the precedent for “military operations” and -again- not recently either.