FM: John Whitbeck
Transmitted below, resolutely and appropriately anchored to the far right of my computer screen, is the well-worth-reading virtual declaration of war which was posted by President Trump at 12:46 AM yesterday, presumably after his handlers (if any) had already gone to bed.
Given the size of Trump's ego, it is difficult to imagine, post-post, that he will not follow up on his declared naval blockade, which is traditionally deemed to constitute an act of war, with a "full-scale" special military operation against Venezuela.
NOTE: I have long been puzzled by the apparently mandatory media characterization of Russia's invasion of Ukraine as "full-scale". In the early days, it was virtually mandatory to describe the invasion as "unprovoked" and "illegal". After "unprovoked" was widely recognized to be absurd, that characterization was relatively rapidly abandoned. The invasion was and continues to be illegal. Perhaps that characterization has been abandoned because so many Western military interventions in recent decades have also been illegal. Since virtually all ground combat since the opening weeks of the invasion has taken place in the four eastern oblasts formally annexed by Russia in September 2022, what is the intended meaning (if any) of the characterization "full-scale"?
Transmitted below, resolutely and appropriately anchored to the far right of my computer screen, is the well-worth-reading virtual declaration of war which was posted by President Trump at 12:46 AM yesterday, presumably after his handlers (if any) had already gone to bed.
Given the size of Trump's ego, it is difficult to imagine, post-post, that he will not follow up on his declared naval blockade, which is traditionally deemed to constitute an act of war, with a "full-scale" special military operation against Venezuela.
NOTE: I have long been puzzled by the apparently mandatory media characterization of Russia's invasion of Ukraine as "full-scale". In the early days, it was virtually mandatory to describe the invasion as "unprovoked" and "illegal". After "unprovoked" was widely recognized to be absurd, that characterization was relatively rapidly abandoned. The invasion was and continues to be illegal. Perhaps that characterization has been abandoned because so many Western military interventions in recent decades have also been illegal. Since virtually all ground combat since the opening weeks of the invasion has taken place in the four eastern oblasts formally annexed by Russia in September 2022, what is the intended meaning (if any) of the characterization "full-scale"?
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