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Re:Militarized Dolphins Protect Almost a Quarter of the US N... by antris on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @09:58AM (#30072451)
I didn't talk about casus belli, you're just making stuff up.

Sure, things happen all the time without a war breaking out. But it's not like you can "just kill" or "just attack" without repercussions. That's ridiculous thought. It's similar to saying "what's the reason to have a security guard in the shop, when you can just take a pistol and kill him". Security isn't about having an impenetrable defense; such a thing isn't possible. Anything can be destroyed in the end.

There's always a repercussion for attacking the military, be it diplomatic, economic or a military retaliation.

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Re:Militarized Dolphins Protect Almost a Quarter of the US N... by Emma_Goldman on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @10:03AM (#30072518)
The phrase 'an act of war' means an act which intends to and/or actually does give the target casus belli. I took it for granted that you knew that.

See, for example, the OED reference:

'An act by one nation intended to initiate or provoke a war with another nation; an act considered sufficient cause for war.'

https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20...

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Re:Militarized Dolphins Protect Almost a Quarter of the US N... by antris on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @10:32AM (#30072884)
Well, war has changed. Russia annexed part of Ukraine without ever declaring war. It's not as black and white today. War is a spectrum, especially at the borders of superpowers. Whether you want to call it an act of war or an escalation or whatever, I don't care. If you want to play definition semantics, I'm not interested as it completely misses the point I was making.
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