Guest Post by Paul Craig Roberts
More evidence of the rise of dictatorship in the Anglo-American world of “liberty and freedom” is the failure of both the US president and the UK prime minister to notify Congress and Parliament that the executive branches in the US and UK were committing the US and UK to war with Yemen without consulting the legislative branches, a requirement in the US and a historical convention in the UK.
Two people acting as dictators committed their countries to war.
The Biden Regime has the War Powers Act or the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force (AUMF) for its justification for attacking Yemen territory. If memory serves, the power Congress gave the executive branch only applies to the use of force against those who attack US forces. It seems that the Biden Regime has expanded the definition to include anything the US executive branch can claim is an attack on America. The Houthi had not attacked US Navy ships, only commercial ships supplying Israel. The recent Houthi attempted attack on a US Navy ship came after the US attack on Yemen, not before.
The Zionist neoconservatives who control US foreign policy consider any alleged, potential, or real attack on Israel to be an attack on the United States. Thus narratives can be constructed that justify every warmongering action Washington undertakes in Israel’s interest.
England’s Prime Minister simply gave Parliament the finger claiming that “the government”, which apparently does not include Parliament, has no responsibility to inform the legislature when it intends to take the country to war.
We now have the situation where the two countries who gave the world government accountable to the people are acting totally independent of the people
You can see what will develop from this.
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The Constitution grants Congress the sole power to declare war. Congress has declared war on 11 occasions, including its first declaration of war with Great Britain in 1812. Congress approved its last formal declaration of war during World War II. Since that time it has agreed to resolutions authorizing the use of military force and continues to shape U.S. military policy through appropriations and oversight. – senate.gov
Country / Date
Great Britain Jun 17,1812
Mexico May 12, 1846
Spain Apr 25, 1898
Germany Apr 4, 1917
Austria-Hungary Dec7,1917
Japan Dec 8, 1941
Germany Dec 11, 1941
Italy Dec 11, 1941
Bulgaria Jun 4,1942
Hungary Jun 4, 1942
Romania Jun 4, 1942
1942 was the last time Congress declared war. Paul Craig Roberts is a little late with this post
Congress has zero interest in weighing in on any military action. Then they’d be responsible. So, we leave it up to the president, who is elected by plucking the two most corrupt, imbecilic octogenarians from assisted living and forcing the people to pick one of them to pretend to represent the people while following the orders of the actual rulers.
CONgress ceded their power to declare war to the executive with the War Powers Act. He used that Act to attack the houthis in Yemen. Once the houthis retaliated and fired a cruise missile (we know it happened because they told us) at an American warship, he switched over to the AUMF, which gives the administration carte blanche authority for as long as needed.
CONgress can then use plausible deniability for any adverse actions and still retain the ability to claim partial victory if the gambit works. Isn’t that how the Constitution set things up with the balance of power?
The Anglo/American world has destroyed the credibility of government.
FIFY
our governments are neither anglo nor american
discuss
PCR thinks somebody who ‘counts’ will notice things don’t add up. Bwaaaahahahah. Maff is raciss, doncha know?
Who is “expanding the definition” of the USA’s self-defense to include defending Israel, simply because, “It adds up”? Everybody knows it only adds up for AIPAC. So what?
The ability to count is so heavily discounted these days that those who report government sums are lies become hounded by the government into a misinformation folder. To moulder. Forever.
What counts today are the feelings of blue-haired lesbians with cat confidants.
They are the cohort that strip the “ironclad” requirements for Congress and Parliament to not just “notify”, but seek approval from its citizens for the most heinous of initiatives, global WAR. They want everyone to own their suicidal impulse and make it so. Without any ‘say so’.
That informs what TPTB intend. The extermination of your independence.