U.S. officials familiar with the planning said options for “reclaiming” the vital waterway include close cooperation with Panama’s military and, absent that, possible war.

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    I entirely agree we shouldn’t do it, but I don’t believe it would necessarily be an illegal order to follow.

    Invading a sovereign country for overtly offensive reasons isn’t against any particular military law, it’s just shitty.

    The president doesn’t have the power to declare war, only to do everything involved in a war, but I don’t think that would actually make any of the orders illegal, unless they were to explicitly do some war crimes or some such.

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      3 days ago

      I get what you’re saying, though maybe when America becomes the new nazis, we can have a Nuremberg Trial 2.0 and set some new precedents!