• running_ragged@lemmy.world
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    4 days ago

    ‘You know our Department of Defence? Yeah, its the Department of War now.’

    ‘What are we doing in Iran? We promise; It’s not a war, it’s self-defence.’

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      It’s a special operation, where in we call it a war repeatedly, and then back track and specifically point out how we’ve decided not to call it a war because then it would’ve violated the law.