It is not entirely clear what transformed Trump from a peace president to a war president, but there are clues.

He was never a peace president.

Also this kid loves regime changes, maybe he should get one he'll never forget.

Congress doesn't care. There's absolutely zero rule of law when it comes to Trump.

All these dipshit brushing off his threats to the midterms need to wake up real fucking fast. Trump never lies about his depravity when he's admitting to it.

Millions will die because stupid fucking Americans are too arrogant to take anything Trump threatens seriously, and are too fucking stupid to be able to understand how life is always worse under fascism than neo-liberalism.

Yeah, we know. The USA has done this for years.

(gone to war without congressional approval or declaration for a "preemptive" strike, which means first strike really)

The sad/ironic thing?

Much like with Iraq and Afghanistan, there actually ARE very good reasons to intervene. Iran has been murdering protestors by the thousands for the past year and a LONG history of human rights abuses before that.

But the plight of Brown People(TM) doesn't sell to the Left or the Right. So instead we focus on "uranium enrichment".

And then we see the same shit as with Venezuela where the complete lack of empathy for non-caucasians results in all the tankies deciding that anyone who actually IS happy that an evil fascist is gone/dead is too stupid to understand how things work.

And, of course, we have the republican chuds who similarly need to focus on this being about protecting white people rather than just... caring about human rights.

Of course, it is also hard to do that when you have two pro-genocide governments involved. But... we got how many decades out of thinking that The Allies actually cared about The Jews and The Romanis and so forth when we went to war with Germany?

That's been the case for all the other attacks, including the ones he has done WITHIN the United States. No mandate and no legal basis.

And Congress will do nothing about it. There hasn't been a war the oligarchy wasnt foaming at the mouth to get into

American imperialism never does Trump just tries less to hide it.

Le-gal? What does that mean?

"Ignoring your duty and responsibility to govern has downstream consequences." This and more lessons Congress will never learn, tonight at 11.

“The Board Bored of Peace Era”

Imagine if Republicans had enough of a spine to consider what is legal.

Americans are collectively responsible for the actions of their government because they have the right to bear arms and therefore the means to rise up and kill their leaders and they don’t.

“For Trump, who had far more success as a reality show character than a property developer, war began to look like a better distraction than peace. He was thrilled by a daring and successful raid on Venezuela in January, in which US special forces whisked the country’s leader, Nicolás Maduro, out of the country without a single US casualty.

Trump is clearly counting on spectacular success in Iran, broadcast live, to bring his country along with him after the fact. Before his overnight recorded statement, there had been no real effort by the administration to lay out a convincing case to Congress or to the nation, at a time when polls suggest only a quarter of the US electorate supports a new war in the Middle East.”

—The Guardian