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U.S. Admiral Refuses To Say If He’d Obey Order To Invade Canada (www.readthemaple.com)
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[–] 3 points 1 month ago (4 children)

War isn't actually illegal. I know it feels like it should be, but it really isn't. People say a war is "illegal" because I suppose they feel like it carries more weight than to just say it's "immoral". I guess it's somehow comforting to people to think that somehow some lawyers could prevent countries from going to war somehow.

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  • [–] 5 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    But there are illegal wars. Iran right now is illegal it wasn't approved by Congress. Trump is basically using legal bullfuckery and a lack of consequences to do that shit.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    He very clearly said that such an order from the POTUS would be illegal, and that no one in the chain of command would consider it as a legal order. The POTUS can not giver a legal order to attack a country that the US has a peace agreement with, and both countries are covered by the NATO agreement.

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