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Cake day: June 17th, 2023

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  • It would be better if the U.S. just waits a minute sees shat happens, and then congress votes to declare war and the executive branch would have to act based upon their vote or would be directly disobeying the legislature again. Congress declares war. Not the executive branch. And in the end we are the only country to enact article 5 in history, when 9/11 happened and NATO countries answered the call even though many probably did not wish too.

    The thing here would be that unless Russis initiates the attack, it wouldn’t trigger article 5 and congress could just ignore it.

    And a lot of people would like to ignore it even with the long term pitfalls, because all they care about is themselves and right this very second