US President Donald Trump described the conflict in the Middle East involving the United States, Israel and Iran as a “military operation.” “Democrats call it a war, we call it a military operation.” He said He was speaking at an anti-crime roundtable in Memphis.
The White House has refused from the beginning to use the word “war” to describe the current conflict with Iran. Contact for him “Operation Epic Fury” Meanwhile, Trump at least once Named What is happening is “war”.
Why the White House avoids calling the conflict with Iran a “war” is unknown. Legislative constraints are unlikely to be the cause: Although the United States Constitution requires Congress to authorize war, legislative constraints are unlikely to be the cause I did not This has not happened in any conflict in which Americans have participated since World War II. Since the outbreak of hostilities against Iran, Democrats have twice tried to limit Trump’s war powers in the Senate, but their attempts to fail.
In 2022, when Russia launched a large-scale invasion of Ukraine, Russian authorities described it as a “special military operation” (SVO) and banned the use of the word “war.” to use it Forbidden The media started administrative And criminal cases.
The Prosecutor General’s Office explained that the Russian invasion of Ukraine cannot be called a war, because the use of the term “war” connotes «The beginning of the legal consequences.” At the same time Vladimir Putin Its officials have long used the word “war” alongside “NWO.”