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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCould trump simply start air strikes on north Korea
Wouldn't Congress flip out on him?
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Could trump simply start air strikes on north Korea (Original Post)
Watchfoxheadexplodes
Oct 2017
OP
At this point in time, you might as well try to predict what a bunch of bugs in a box will do.
Girard442
Oct 2017
#2
I wouldn't put anything past that demented fuck bastard of a Trumpster fire.
InAbLuEsTaTe
Oct 2017
#5
Could he claim that he's just ending the cease fire that ended the Korean War?
Tommy_Carcetti
Oct 2017
#8
get the red out
(13,466 posts)1. Democrats would
I actually think there are people in the Pentagon who would.
Maybe 3 or four Rs in Congress would.
Girard442
(6,075 posts)2. At this point in time, you might as well try to predict what a bunch of bugs in a box will do.
C_U_L8R
(45,003 posts)3. With Seoul destroyed within hours
Id think the world would flip out on him.
Building a wall across Mexico was the stupidest idea ever
but a unilateral attack on NK would take a supreme moron.
InAbLuEsTaTe
(24,122 posts)5. I wouldn't put anything past that demented fuck bastard of a Trumpster fire.
Bayard
(22,092 posts)4. I would think
Congress would have to approve an act of war.
Dave Starsky
(5,914 posts)7. The last war Congress declared was in 1941.
And we've been bombing the shit out of people around the world ever since.
Ignoring the Constitution when expedient is, unfortunately, not a new thing.
LuckyCharms
(17,444 posts)6. He can skirt congressional approval depending on what he does exactly and
how he justifies it.
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,182 posts)8. Could he claim that he's just ending the cease fire that ended the Korean War?
Just wondering. There was no treaty signed.
LuckyCharms
(17,444 posts)9. That's a good question.
Interested to see the answer to this.
MiniMe
(21,716 posts)10. Don't give him any ideas