Mission? Hostilities? Don’t call it a war, say G.O.P. lawmakers grappling with the political and legal challenges of the operation in the Middle East.
Mission? Hostilities? Don’t call it a war, say G.O.P. lawmakers grappling with the political and legal challenges of the operation in the Middle East.
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shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works · 72 pts · 202d
"Journalist" immediately folds and calls it a conflict in the title
theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world · 33 pts · 202d
It's the New York Times. Even "journalist" in quotes is generous.
Bassman27@lemmy.world · 51 pts · 202d
“It’s not a war” - Department of war
daychilde@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 201d
Dr. Strangelove was not fucking supposed to be a manual of operations.
7112@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 202d
Where have I seen this before...
https://www.npr.org/2022/03/05/1084729579/russian-law-bans-journalists-from-calling-ukraine-conflict-a-war-or-an-invasion
wuffah@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 202d
The Department of Defense was changed to the Department of War, and its official website: www.war.gov has a front page propaganda piece for Operation Epic Fury, the military designation for the war in Iran.
The President literally can’t stop himself from calling it “War”.
Iranian parents pulling parts of their children from the rubble of collapsed schools.
We’re flying B-2’s on 36 hour missions around the world to drop 2,000 LB bombs on Tehran.
Trump criticized plans for wars of regime change, and then turned around and did it himself, calling on Iranians to help the US overthrow their government. This is what success looks like to this person.
The supermassive black hole of sheer mendacity here defies description. They seem to be unable to realize that you’re supposed to present a believable lie under which people can operate so that it becomes easier to choose to believe it than not. The Trump regime is composed of people who aren’t even competent fascists, it’s just egotistical chaos somehow still propped up by a 100 years of absurd American success.
Lasherz12@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 202d
Way to literally call it conflict after making it clear distraction is the goal. Joke of an institution
I_Jedi@lemmy.today · 11 pts · 202d
Aha! I've got it! The US is performing a humanitarian operation where they aid Iran with reducing their CO
2emissions.Dionysus@leminal.space · 6 pts · 202d
It's a "Special Military Operation".
See? He's learning from the best to make merica the bestest and biggestest in the world.
resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 201d
Da, ees spetziel military operation. Three days, tops, tavarish.
quick_snail@feddit.nl · 5 pts · 201d
Secretary of....special operations
oleastre@social.trom.tf · 4 pts · 202d
@silence7 Special military operation.
homes@piefed.world · 4 pts · 202d
All of these verbal gymnastics, and with the winter Olympics just ended…
Akasazh@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 201d
It's funny as Trump himself calls it a war al the time
nullPointer@programming.dev · 2 pts · 202d
vietnam was just a "police action", nothing new with this strategy.