frazwJan 4

Why does the US military obey an order to go to war despite Congress not having given their consent?

https://lemmy.world/post/41136002

Why does the US military obey an order to go to war despite Congress not having given their consent? - Lemmy.World

Sorry for the political question, but I’ve been hearing all the time that only Congress can declare war and therefore authorise the invasion of another country. Therefore, when the military receives orders to invade e.g. Venezuela, from the executive branch, not from Congress, why is the order followed, or why is there no corroboration of the order? It feels like there is an assumption of propriety, that the military assumes the executive branch followed proper procedural norms. Are the military exposed to prosecution for war crimes as a result of following such an order?

Show threadIAmLamp
Look up the War Powers Resolution. As long as congress is notified within 48 hours, there’s a free pass for 60 days with another 30 for withdrawal before any approval is granted.
Jan 4 at 11:45amWeb
Show threadfrazwJan 4
Now this is a proper answer, thank you.
Show threadWhatAmLemmyJan 4

And the Republicans fascists specifically voted against revoking those powers in the last couple of months.

They’ve know this was coming for months, because the United corporations of America already paid their political puppet class to steal Venezuela’s oil.

Show threadQuarterSwedeJan 4
They knew this was more than likely coming 3 years ago. There was a rush to buy the Venezuelan Bolivar Digitalis for when their shitshow of an economy turned around due to military force. Took longer than I expected but here we are.
Show thread「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)Jan 4

So… You could literally order the military to take over a country as a lame-duck president…

wow this is lame

Show threadPikaJan 4
on top of this, no Congress is going to use the withdraw aspect either, because what generally happens is the President sends the troops in, and then turns around and looks at Congress, so you’re going to support our troops or not, which puts the congressman in a really bad PR spot for an elected position
Show threadJohnnyEnzymeJan 4

Is that how it went down in Iraq? Because I seem to remember a significant amount of congresspeople who said “yes,” who in other circumstances probably would have said “no.”

Or something like that.