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    18 days ago

    There has to be a strong precedent that’s a lawful order.

    If invading a country that it seems like you can’t justifiably invade counted, several recent American wars would be remembered quite differently.

    AN order like “start bombing schools in Canada” would be a different matter. (Inb4 someone links a time they bombed a school, 'cause West bad)

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      18 days ago

      “Links a time”?

      Like at the beginning of the last illegal fucking war they started 6 months ago?

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          18 days ago

          Did you see a link?

          No, because it was recent enough you know exactly what I was talking about.

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                18 days ago

                Was it, or was it an obvious softball question you were supposed to get?

                For anyone reading, the point is actually to not talk to these people, since I don’t like having the same argument over and over again, and it’s messed up they care so much about “winning” in the first place.

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                  17 days ago

                  So stop arguing. It is very clear in American law that the POTUS can not issue a legal order to attack a country that America has a peace pact with, and both countries are members of NATO. Exactly what do you think he meant by the factual statement ‘preposterous’, as in ‘not possible’? For any military officer who follows and repeats such an order, they could be tried and if convicted imprisoned.

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                    17 days ago

                    I am, at this point. You have to respond somewhat, or you look like you can’t, since nobody else is keeping track of the other thousand times we’ve been over this.

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            16 days ago

            Lol no.

            That was actually a funny moment. It was supposed to be a 1/3 chance of no response or 2/3 of a different anti-Western canard. Instead, the internet decided to be extra dumb and walk into an obvious blunder.

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      17 days ago

      He clearly stated that such an order would not be a legal order. What exactly do you think the factual term ‘preposterous’ means? Under American law, it is illegal to attack a country that America has a peace pact with, and both counties are members of NATO. No ‘executive order’ can change that, and every officer in the American military knows that they can be charged and if convicted imprisoned for following an order that is not a legal order, no matter who gives it.