[mothballed]

The US is not a democracy. The majority did not want this war.

Though the majority will help bear the costs, and several family members will grieve dearly for the sacrifice of entertaining some brutal geopolitics that do not serve America first.

[repeekad]

America is a democratic republic, not a direct democracy. The only restriction is the president can’t declare war, only congress can do that.

They are pretending these strikes are “preemptive” in response to a nuclear bomb being developed, just like the “emergency” that was declared to enact the tariffs.

It’s all illegal

[jopython]

The United States is a Constitutional Republic.

[cr125rider]

When is the last war congress officially declared?

[mothballed]

If it were a democratic republic, as you say, the representatives would have to vote on war. Representatives would also have to vote before 190,000 pages of CFRs are created by unelected bureaucrats and then enforced as if they were law (sometimes, by the exact same bureaucrats that write the rules they enforce as law [ATF for example]).

Most of what people think they know about this country is a facade. They are living on lies, confirmed to them through the legitimization of a SCOTUS that lies to your very eyes about what the constitution says, so that people don't rebel when a politician tells them peace is war and love is hate.

[halJordan]

The majority absolutely voted for this war. You're attacking the democracy when you insist that the elected politicians following through on campaign planks are not representing the country. That's exactly how this works.

[keeda]

Wait, I'm confused, wasn't the campaign plank to end wars??

[SideburnsOfDoom]

> geopolitics that do not serve America first

IDK, "America first" is practically speaking, the financial interests of the current president and his ruling clique, nothing more. This does serve them by, among other things, distracting from the Epstein files and asserting lucrative control over petroleum-producing nations. These brave servicemen died for that.

[srean]

I have been quite impressed by UK politics.

Entertain paedophiles ... land up in jail. Be rude and patronizing to women, there goes your prime-ministership. Keep it that way please.

Accountability feels so rare in recent US politics.