Antonio the Sixth
Antonio V
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« on: January 24, 2023, 01:08:10 PM » |
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No, of course not. Conspiring to harm your own citizens as a way to change public opinion is a fundamental violation of the trust between a public official and their constituents, and thus of democracy itself.
What I would probably have done in such a situation (ie assuming that I couldn't get Congressional support to declare war) is use the President's broad discretion as Commander in Chief of the armed forces to engineer as many provocations as possible until Japan and Germany would have no choice to retaliate, making war inevitable. The experience of the past century proves that presidents can do a lot to drive these kinds of outcomes even when Congress isn't on board, and while this has a lot of problematic implications, in this case the power could be used for good.
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