"You will die in our wars and you'll thank us for it."
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"I don't know if this is technically a war,” Senator Lindsay Graham said of the un-war in Iran on Meet the Press on Sunday.
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But it is not just Trump loyalists who are playing word games. Democrats also have a hard time calling this what it is, with the party’s top officials using terms like “Military attack,” “military operation,” “military assault,” and the like.
Sen. Chuck Schumer says the strikes are “risking wider conflict”; Rep. Hakeem Jeffries says the operation has “brought us to the brink of a possible war.”
What a revolting mass of spineless human worms.
Controlled opposition in full effect.
Turns out Killing All The Brown People was a bipartisan consensus.
If the Dems called it full-on war, you'd say they're stoking full-on war. They can do nothing right if you decided long ago they do nothing right... which is exactly what the GOP propaganda machine has been encouraging you to think.
It's not like the Dems are innocent when it comes to bombing the ME.
The Dems can do nothing right because they no longer work for the working class. They are beholden to their donors and that's clear as day to many of us.
Obviously it's a 'special military operation'.
Or a special police action to fight the Nazi's?
War is peace, don’t you know?
Don't worry, guys! If some country bombed, let's say for example, 2 of our buildings in NYC, would we treat that as act of war? Nah… probably not. Surely we'd just shrug and move on with peace negotiations!
Well, of course the US would declare war, but in their confusion they would pick two countries at random
I also heard that when just a single harbor was bombed, that too was considered an act of war?
No we would do the right thing and blame the religion that those people ostensibly used to justify their terrorism, become super Xenophobic and completely avoid thinking about what motivated the acts of terror or what the intentions of the attack were (which was to get us to do exactly what we did to a T).
We ran out of missiles, Lindsey
Republicans like to call what is developing in Iran a “специальная военная операция” or more commonly known as Special Military Operation comrades.
It's just Sparkling Conflict.
Oh, not technically a “war” but a submarine just sank one of their battleships in international waters. That sounds like a war to me.
I heard that the submarine captain said "no war" before the torpedoes were fired, so actually no, it's not a war.
This is either a war or an international war crime and you have to remove him plus Hegseth from office.
Decide you fleckless sycophants.
Yes yes, of course the US can do all the war stuff, including war crimes, but unless our sacred institutional leaders all agree to call it a war and then sign the sacred war parchment after the master of arms holds the staff of truth then obviously it's not a war. Great stuff, very compelling world we live in.
Schrodinger's war: it's only a war if they're confident in winning, otherwise it'll be some euphemism like police action.
To Trump and Hegseth there's no boots on the ground so no war. Trump doesn't want imagery of people being blown up by IEDs, he wants planes and maybe some special force operation.
I saw that dumbass Anna Paulina do a bunch of semantic games over "boots on the ground". It was a real WTAF moment.