Houthis warn ‘fingers on the trigger’ as US-Israel war on Iran continues

There are no checks and balances to stop him. The military doesn’t answer directly to Congress. And Presidents have been acting on their own for so long that there is no one to stop it. You might ask, doesn’t the Constitution say that only Congress can declare war? Sure, but Presidents have held that they have the right to start hostilities due to their Commander-In-Chief duties. You might ask, what about the War Powers Resolution? Congress has passed the War Powers Resolution that gives the President the power to act without consenting Congress under certain circumstances (which have been broadly interpreted). Presidents have held that this is unconstitutional (it hasn’t been adjudicated yet), and that even if it were constitutional, it doesn’t apply to air strikes. Additionally, Congress did not have the votes to invoke the cessation of hostilities provision. The next item that comes up is the 60 day provision in the War Powers Resolution. But again, there are legal arguments against it that I discussed above. In addition to that, the Supreme Court often rules that certain provisions in the Constitution are nonjusticiable political questions (that the President and Congress have to solve the problem, not the courts). I imagine they would go the same way here (Ex: Smith v Obama (2016)).

because the War Powers Act allows Presidents to do this for 60 days without congressional approval

the constitution is not self-enforcing

Because the precedent was set 80 years ago. Congress didn't step in when Truman went into Korea, they didn't step in when Kennedy and Johnson went into Vietnam, they didn't step in during any of the Cold War conflicts that involved US troops, they didn't step in the Gulf War, or Iraq 2.0, or the Global War on Terror. The US congress has willingly given up their constitutional role to declare war to the President.  So for pretty much the entire lives of every American except for the very elderly, the president has been the sole decider on whether the US goes to war or not.  Right or wrong its the status quo at this point 

We technically have not been in a war since world war 2. Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Iraq again None of them have been declared wars by congress.

Pretty sure (I’m not a yank) that the President can, as commander in chief, essentially have the country at war for 60 days (with possibility to extend to 90) before Congressional support is absolutely required. Think he has to argue some sort of ‘self defence’ element which is covered by the BS regarding nuclear capability. Noting Republicans have majority it hasn’t been voted down. Midterms (hopefully!) things might change. A lot of damage can be done before then though.

Republicans control Congress and they are supporting the war. If Congress really wanted to, they could cut off the monetary spigot that fuels the war, but they don't want to because they are on board.

Because the GOP-controlled Congress let him do whatever he wants with no accountability 

Because war has bipartisan support. The opposition could make a stink about it, but they like the current state of things because it allows them to get the war they want and then complain about it at election time. To clarify, it has bipartisan support among politicians. It has bipartisan opposition among the public.

Ig only option for common people is to vote him out in mid term by impeachment. Otherwise he have his eyes on Cuba then Pakistan after this Iran conflict. And Russia is heavily backing Cuba, so yk what happen if that conflict happens (Trump have stopped any oil gas from reaching cuba and russia have send their ship full of oil to cuba just few days ago) there were talks if usa bombs this ship, Russia will join

Everyone going around the horn and charging 5x 😔

All that’s left is for South Africa to somehow blockade the cape of good hope lol. Then we’re back to the silk road

Nothing to imagine. They've been held as a wild card .

When do we go full Mad Max?

If they could, they would. But after months of war in 2024 and 2025 I'm not sure they're willing to do it again. It's easy to say on listnook "imagine people take the risk to start a war and die". It's harder for them to actually take that risk, most people usually want to live a long & peaceful life, and after years of wars and destruction it's hard to be able or willing to continue that forever.

It’d be a dumb move. Houthi’s heavily rely on the strait and ports being open, 80% of their stuff (food, fuel weapons, etc) are smuggled or shipped by sea.

The Houthis won last time too.

All the need to do is take out the east west pipeline and they'd effectively taken out the red sea.

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irl pawn checkmating the king lmao

Why allow people to have energy for free when he can make money off of it?

That's what you get when you enter "special military operation" of your own choice

Funny how y'all screwm "lesser evil" when it's convenient for you, yet refuse to acknowledge the concept outside of elections

Who are you referring to? Saudi? USA? Because a carrier strike group plus international partners has been assaulting the houthis for nearly 5 years now, and they've not accomplished much of anything.

The Houthi’s used up a lot of their long-range stuff (cruise missiles, drones, etc) over the years and resupply from Iran has only gotten more and more difficult. There’s also an informal ceasefire with the Saudi-Yemen Coalition (who control the other half of Yemen). If the Houthi’s jump in, they’d likely be fighting a two-front war and they know it.

The Houthis have had their capabilities pretty seriously degraded over the past couple years, you're glazing them really hard. Shooting down reapers sucks for whoever has to pay the price to replace them, but they don't really represent insane military capability or anything. They have depleted a lot of their Iranian cruise/ballistic missiles

Probably because Israel has taken them out for October 7th and they’re far weaker than you are projecting. Everyone on Listnook seems to think Iran is holding back some grand plan to “really unleash hell”. They can’t even defend their own f****** airspace 😂

Iran is completely decapitated, and have resorted to gorilla warfare. Their leadership is killed, their navy is gone, they have no air defenses in their capital, and every military asset they own is getting bombed to oblivion. If you believe that they think this is going well, or that this is part of some master plan you're out to lunch. They're a fragmented group of provinces desperately shooting toys-r-us drones while what's left of their chain of command hides underground.

Yet another clueless comment courtesy of Israeli misinformation. While it’s true Iran does support the Houthis. They act autonomously and have more of an allegiance to the Palestinian people than to Iran directly. This is more complicated than Iran simply ordering them around. They see Iran as another meddling power in the middle east despite being supported by them.

My thoughts exactly. They don’t seem to be in all out war. No boots on the ground.

Except people in shipping.

Source: mastad0420

I can't believe you are either.

Then why are you? Do you know what they've done in Yemen? 

Then wake up

You know their war has killed 2x-3x more than Israel?