• MoreAmphibians [none/use name]
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    262 years ago

    The US hasn’t declared a war since WW2, they’ve still gone to war. Neither the US nor Libya declared war on each other but it still counts as a war when the US bombs the absolute shit out of a country.

    • @[email protected]
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      -22 years ago

      “War” implies the US and Mexico mutually fighting. Libya was military intervention not war.

      • immuredanchorite [he/him, any]
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        362 years ago

        checkmate! it can’t be called a war if we simply lob misiles at a country and arm every lunatic we find, completely destroying it in the process smuglord

        • @[email protected]
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          -22 years ago

          Well yeah, you OBJECTIVELY can’t call what happened in Libya a “war”. It was bad and unnecessary, but by definition, not a war… You did not have US troops fighting Libyan troops.

          • brain_in_a_box [he/him]
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            292 years ago

            So because the US troops were using weapons the Libyan troops couldn’t effectively fight back against, it doesn’t count as a war?

            “It wasn’t a battle, it was a just a massacre, so it’s OK”

      • FALGSConaut [comrade/them]
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        282 years ago

        Of course, I forgot when you call it something other than war then it’s not a war! That’s why we have the Korean Police Action, the Vietnam Police Action, the Police Actions in Panama and Grenada, Desert Police Action 1 & 2 in Iraq, and the Global Police Action on Terror! None of those were wars, right?