[bert]

Back in 1941, Roosevelt sanctioned the sale of scrap metal and oil to Japan.

Japan considered that action to be an act of war. That action precipitated the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

The President is in the process of destroying Iran. It is a very big deal

[grania]

Back in the late 1980s I was in a situation when for a few years I became acquainted with people who were scholars about the scientific, analytic aspects of war. Back then, there was concern that abolishing the draft would lead in time to a situation where the military was way too separated from the experience of most people and there'd be very little pushback against war except as a last resort. There was also concern that our military, without a draft, had limits to its ability to wage massive war. The concern was could we fight a war on three fronts. What happens if we get in too many nation's faces, and they get together and give US military aggression pushback somewhere?

We've been on the wrong side, and still are, in too many situations.

[SoCal Pubbie]

Yeah, the Ron Paul crowd thinks it’s an act of war. In the real world, no country is beholden to another to trade with it. Sanctions are not an act of war. As for the Japanese in WWII, or the Germans too for that matter, anything that stood in their way was a act of war as far as their leadership was concerned.