This is actually one of those gray areas in the Constitution - the President as the COC can basically command the military to do whatever he wants unilaterally from Congress, even though Congress is the sole entity with the power to “declare war.” The entire Korean War was waged without any declaration of war, for example.
Waiting for that 10th Mountain Division.
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I would rather they stay to help us here, after all, our country got attacked.
Its a reference to a Q post defining the RED4 marker. ;)
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One might wonder if the US military is going there to fight OR to keep OTHER entities from going hot.
🚨JUST IN: U.S. Defense Officials Confirm 2,500 Marines Are En Route to Israel-Gaza-Lebanon Region
Currently En Route:
Approx 2,500 Marines with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit
USS Bataan
USS Carter Hall
USS Mesa Verde
Source: USNI News
https://twitter.com/MarioNawfal/status/1713965370703262033
(Deployments broken out by region in link below)
https://news.usni.org/2023/10/16/usni-news-fleet-and-marine-tracker-oct-16-2023
Has Biden declared war? Doesn't Congress have to be apprised, first?
Not that I know of....
And yes, that's how it's supposed to work, but yanno 🤡🌎
Remember Libya?
Obama had some 60 days of military action, with a 30-day extension (if memory serves), before needing to go to Congress.
Which time?
Paul Newman 1983: https://media.128ducks.com/file_store/d53ced140baf39c29bacf5da934b1fef62645afb1eddab4d399620099adccc6d.mp4
This is actually one of those gray areas in the Constitution - the President as the COC can basically command the military to do whatever he wants unilaterally from Congress, even though Congress is the sole entity with the power to “declare war.” The entire Korean War was waged without any declaration of war, for example.
Infuriating.
Wth? They have their own well- funded military and defenses.