• Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world
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    5 days ago

    I still want to know about how a member of leadership from a foreign country could visit a host country, insult the host, attempt to make a propaganda film to support the forced annexation of that country, and repeatedly state their intentions to take the country by force if necessary and not have it be considered a declaration of war.

    Seriously, if this were literally any other time in human history or any other country involved, bombs would have been dropping by now.

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      5 days ago

      Declarations of war are formal documents delivered by a foreign minister to an ambassador and are legally binding.

      Some prat running their mouth, even if they’re a senior governmental official, has never been a legal declaration of war.

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        5 days ago

        You seriously think that any other world leader in history wouldn’t consider what Vance did a declaration of war because he didn’t file the right paperwork?

        At the very, very least, he would have been militarily escorted out of the country and had his base seized.