If you want peace, study war

Re:If you want peace, study war by ygjb on Thursday January 14, 2021 @01:41PM (#25780318)

That is straight up at odds with American (or Canadian, or for the most part, UK) history. In the United States Trump is the first "war-time" president to blow re-election during an active war, and his term was punctuated by attempts at troop draw down, coupled with inflammatory rhetoric towards Iran when he was low in polls.

Engaging in something that can be spun as a just war is a viable re-election tactic.

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Re:If you want peace, study war by SllX on Thursday January 14, 2021 @05:44PM (#25783935)

The important part here is that they are forced to actually take the steps of justifying the war to the public and consulting the legislature.

If you have the public’s support for the war, then a war isn’t going to hurt your election chances.

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Re:If you want peace, study war by scarmig on Thursday January 14, 2021 @01:48PM (#25780438)

I'm not sure I'd count Trump as a wartime President, though perhaps that's a result of appallingly low standards for what counts as peace.

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Re:If you want peace, study war by ygjb on Thursday January 14, 2021 @07:39PM (#25785309)

Yeah, it's sketchy, which is why I put it in quotes. The reason he is not really a war-time president is the only war he is even close to actually starting is a civil war :P

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