Lemya@lemmy.world to Boycott US@lemmy.caEnglish · edit-26 days agoWhite House Official: Why do we have the right to take Greenland? Because we live in a world governed by strength, by power. We have power. Nobody can fight the United States militarilywww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square14fedilinkarrow-up195arrow-down11
arrow-up194arrow-down1external-linkWhite House Official: Why do we have the right to take Greenland? Because we live in a world governed by strength, by power. We have power. Nobody can fight the United States militarilywww.nytimes.comLemya@lemmy.world to Boycott US@lemmy.caEnglish · edit-26 days agomessage-square14fedilink
minus-squarearamis87@fedia.iolinkfedilinkarrow-up14·6 days agoThey renamed one of their departments to the Department of War.
minus-squarePat_Riot@lemmy.todaylinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up7·6 days agoNo reason for a Department of Defense if no one will attack us,but War, well you can do that proactively. Makes the Department more justifiable.
minus-squareTyphoon@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·6 days agoNo they didn’t. Only Congress can rename the Department of Defense. Trump’s scrawled “orders” are meaningless.
minus-squarePandantic [they/them]@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-26 days agoIt matters because it was all over the news and people now think that is what it’s called, not to mention the official government is saying that’s what it’s called.
minus-squareTyphoon@lemmy.calinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·5 days agoThe news is complicit in his actions. It has not legally changed names and no one should be using the illegitimate one.
minus-squareNoodle07@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·5 days agoWritten papers are worth what people do with it 🤷
They renamed one of their departments to the Department of War.
No reason for a Department of Defense if no one will attack us,but War, well you can do that proactively. Makes the Department more justifiable.
No they didn’t. Only Congress can rename the Department of Defense. Trump’s scrawled “orders” are meaningless.
It matters because it was all over the news and people now think that is what it’s called, not to mention the official government is saying that’s what it’s called.
The news is complicit in his actions. It has not legally changed names and no one should be using the illegitimate one.
Written papers are worth what people do with it 🤷