alt Hacker NewsInterestingly, this is not just flaunting international law. It is a blatant violation of federal domestic law in the USA itself: Congress is the only body that can declare war, and they have not done so. The Presidency has no right whatsoever to attack a foreign country without a declaration of war.
While yes, Congress authorized the "War on Terror", there is very obviously no possible justification for applying that to the case of Venezuela.
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pjc50 • last Saturday at 8:41 AM
> Congress is the only body that can declare war, and they have not done so.
People keep saying that, and it bears no relation to the actual post-WW2 US military history. How many declared wars have there been since then?
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JumpCrisscross • last Saturday at 11:10 AM
> It is a blatant violation of federal domestic law
War Powers Act of '73.
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> The Presidency has no right whatsoever to attack a foreign country without a declaration of war.
That’s… just not true.
George Washington himself authorized the US Navy to attack French vessels in the Caribbean in 1798 - with no declaration of war.