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He only has to notify Congress within 48 hours, and if they don't approve it, those troops can stay deployed for up to 60 days. I'm just saying, he has already shown he's very interested in finding every loophole possible.


For people who may not know about this, it is in fact law.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/War_Powers_Resolution


“Finding every loophole” implies he cares.

Whatever they say always appears to be post-hoc rationalization to explain what would otherwise be illegal actions.

They seem to have mostly given up on caring to find such things ahead of time.


Oh, but isn't that law just for 'special military operations'? It's not proper 'war'?

(I agree that in practice, a war is a war, whether your nation's laws officially call it as such or not doesn't make much of a difference.)


The last time America formally declared a war was 1942. Every war since then has been various shades of "special military operation".

At least the American public does recognize them as wars, so there's that at least.


> At least the American public does recognize them as wars, so there's that at least.

I'm not sure this is accurate.

We have plenty of "wars" that aren't wars. Such as the annual "war on Christmas".

Do we recognize them as "wars"? Or do we just use the word?


Metaphors are a thing. People can (mostly) tell the difference between a literal war and a metaphorical war.

I say '(mostly)' because while the 'war on Christmas' and WWII are clear cut cases, the war on drugs is an example that sometimes skirts closer to the border. Though it's still very much a metaphorical war.




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