Sahil Kapur: "Pres. Trump says: 'It’s war. We’re in war.'

Meanwhile, congressional Republicans continue to treat it as a non-war, to avoid holding a vote on declaring war, as is required by the Constitution."
#IranWar #IllegalWar #TragicMistake #politics copy: @renewedresistance

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Hungary’s election next week is likely to be the country’s most consequential since the fall of communism — but it won’t be a fair contest.

Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has seen to that.

https://www.politico.eu/article/hungary-unfair-election-viktor-orban/

“This brilliant no-strategy war they started has now been downgraded from ‘regime change’ to ‘Hey! Can anyone find our pilots? Please?’” Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf, the speaker of Iran’s parliament, wrote on social media on Friday.

- NYT

Aside from everything else, Trump, with his endless social media insults and rants, has forever changed the language of diplomacy (probably for worse). Other world leaders are deliberately mimicking him.