“Police action”. Bush bypassed Congress to invade Iraq under emergency powers, and since we’ve called fentanyl a WMD, all Trump has to do is EXACTLY THE SAME FUCKING THING: “it’s a matter of national security for us to take military action against Venezuela immediately”.
This only gets him a limited window to deploy troops before Congress has to weigh in, but that gives him time to manufacture more consent or get SCOTUS to tell him it’s totally OK to declare war via executive order.
“Police action”. Bush bypassed Congress to invade Iraq under emergency powers, and since we’ve called fentanyl a WMD, all Trump has to do is EXACTLY THE SAME FUCKING THING: “it’s a matter of national security for us to take military action against Venezuela immediately”.
This only gets him a limited window to deploy troops before Congress has to weigh in, but that gives him time to manufacture more consent or get SCOTUS to tell him it’s totally OK to declare war via executive order.