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-somewhere over there
-what does ohio have, 7 million? same as that
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In light of the terms being offered? Yes.

If the president called the air force at 2 am and told them to bomb Copenhagen because they're not nice to him, then yes, everyone involved goes up for murder. This isn’t difficult.

I'm not sure we have a modern example of a war that is clearly illegal under domestic law, but there is no reasonable doubt here.

My personal view is that every officer involved in this adventure should be tried for murder under domestic law but they're mostly fine under international law.

You all know what I think must happen to everyone in this administration to the ninth degree.

But something that would make me think about staying home in November is a single Democratic vote for funding this war.

"But how does Miller, a civilian advisor in the Executive Office of the President, have authority to issue operational and tactical orders to the Secretary of Defense and combatant commands?"

He doesn't, just like he didn't have authority to order Hegseth to bomb Yemen last year. And yet, he did.

DoD readily leaking suggests the strike order came from very high up. For all Hegseth's crimes, I'm not sure he would knowingly order the murder of hundreds of schoolgirls. And I doubt Trump is picking targets.

But Miller would order it, and DoD wouldn't protect him.

None whatsoever, just as he had no authority to order Hegseth to begin the Yemen bombings last year.

Miller

Actually, probably not even Pete would knowingly order this, and Trump is not being consulted on targets. But I know someone else who is NCA level and would have ordered it, and whom Pete wouldn't protect.

National Command Authority level.

They wouldn't be leaking against CENTCOM.

This isn't serious, but even if it were, I don't think the main constraint to reopening the strait is concerns about direct financial losses in ships and cargos.

I don't know what that is, but it isn't a US victory.

It is starting to look like the most the US is going to get out of this is the damage to Iranian conventional capabilities already caused in exchange for a reconsolidated IRI and some other carrots like sanctions relief.

If Trump is going to claim assassinating Khamenei is "regime change" and leaving Khamenei in charge is fine, effectively already willing to offer status quo ante, why would Iran agree, before the pain has even begun? Why not keep Hormuz closed for a few weeks and get real concessions?

No, because that didn't happen.

from what base?

Crack on the counter

there's a thing I like to call "load-bearing assumptions", that you don't notice until they're suddenly gone (e.g the air you breath has oxygen in it).

the post-ww2 order is a load-bearing assumption for basically the entirety of american life. trump took a sledgehammer to it in the last 90 days.

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They prefer to be called pragmatic.

I'm skeptical the IRGC would allow a Trump/Netanyahu collaborationist supreme leader.

Yes.

I don't think Japan would have surrendered had there been no Potsdam Declaration and had the possibility of surrender included, for example, sending 20 million Japanese civilians into Chinese or American labor camps.

Trump would make no assurances at all.

Yes, and this was clearly stated in Article 10 of the Potsdam Declaration, and was also in the draft of the (unused) German government instrument of surrender.

The formal title of the Potsdam Declaration was, "Proclamation Defining Terms for Japanese Surrender."

The conditions of Japan's surrender in 1945 were more clearly defined than those of the German armistice in 1918.

"Unconditional surrender" is a meaningless term that dumb guys use to sound tough.

The US used those words but they did not mean the Axis powers were to submit to the mercy of the victors. The consequences of surrender were clear from all the diplomatic statements of Placentia Bay through Potsdam. Japan surrendered on that basis. The German government never did surrender.