@busillis and the amount of oligarchs they allow.

Covid has a better survivability rate than the common flue, the reason it is killing more people is because more people are getting it than the number of people who get the flue each year

@MatiLuc Correct.

@Repeat beign the president doesn't give the power to do that

@Doc yes exactly

@busillis, you just advanced to level 2!

One could say, every people at every time, constructs their reality completely as they like it, they just hate the fruits of the tree they love. @busillis

I believe you have to be in a time of war with a power to actually be able to control the nuclear arsenal. I could be wrong of course.\

But it's not just "The president can nuke whoever he wants willy-nilly."

It's the same thing with declaring war.

His gerneral will not allow him to just do whatever he wants. . Like that statement he made. Thar he doesn't follow no individual person.. just the constitution i think he said

IIRC The senate is the entity that controls declarations of war.

I don’t claim to be the expert on the powers of the president or how they must be executed through whatever protocols but we elect a president to do their job. Censoring a president is not wise and should be illegal IMO because it opens the door for a coup

@Maw those who loan money for war love war the most

@busillis For sure.

The biggest players in war are the the people who deal in arms.

Which is why many governments do that now.

@Repeat i understand ur point.

Not to mention the divisions between the governed take the focus off of the rulers.

Can the President say invade Cuba. And the Senate says no . Then who wins this argument

Suprene court

The senate holds that power.

Vietnam...

@William Dinan, you just advanced to level 6!

It's in the constitution.

Congress*

Sorry, not the senate.

@Maw thanks

@MatiLuc with the over classification of nearly everything plebs have no way of knowing what's really going on.

https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/h_multi_sections_and_teasers/WarDeclarationsbyCongress.htm @MatiLuc

So the iraq war was not declared by congress?

The investment banks that own the real equity are the true players. Just a guess they will not give that power up without a fight.

I was expecting more war declarations. Stop at 1942

Aye, things became... weird with Vietnam.

And the Iraq War.

"U.S. Senate: Official Declarations of War by Congress" https://www.senate.gov/pagelayout/history/h_multi_sections_and_teasers/WarDeclarationsbyCongress.htm#:~:text=The%20Constitution%20grants%20Congress%20the,war%20during%20World%20War%20II.

Wouldn’t a world without war be a far better place? Wishful unrealistic thinking over here, but it’s a shame that it is unrealistic

So the Iraq war falls into the same category as the Vietnam war.

For sure, if everyone believed in the same principles I'd fully agree. @Beth

@MatiLuc. "Use of Military Force" not a Declaration of War.

"speak softly and carry a big stick" well sometimes you have to use the stick