{"id":51802,"date":"2026-02-22T15:00:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-22T20:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=51802"},"modified":"2026-02-22T17:01:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-22T22:01:56","slug":"cowardly-congress-critters-betray-essential-war-powers-act-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=51802","title":{"rendered":"

Cowardly Congress Critters Betray Vital and Restraining War Powers Act—AGAIN!<\/span><\/b><\/h1>"},"content":{"rendered":"

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U.S. Congress Deeply Complicit in Trump’s Unlawful
\nand Unprovoked War of Naked Military
\nAggression Against Iran<\/h2>\n
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“In early 2026, the Trump administration initiated a significant military buildup in the Middle East against Iran, starting around January 13, 2026, in response to rising tensions, Iranian crackdown on protests, and nuclear concerns. The deployment escalated with the USS Abraham Lincoln carrier strike group arriving in the region by January 26, 2026, and plans for a second carrier, the USS Gerald R. Ford, announced by mid-February 2026.”<\/p>\n

What that means is that the U.S. Congress has had over 10 weeks to assert their vital congressional power, as legislated by the War Powers Act, to rein in a recklessly brazen and dangerously warmongering POTUS.<\/p>\n

And yet only a few days ago did two House representative step forward to do what should have been done in mid January, especially in view of Trump’s illicit attack on Caracas, Venezuela; and the kidnapping of President Nicol\u00e1s Maduro and his wife during the first week of January 2026.<\/p>\n

Reps.\u00a0Ro Khanna\u00a0<\/a><\/span>(D-Calif.) and\u00a0Thomas Massie\u00a0<\/a><\/span>(R-Ky.) plan to move next week to force a vote on a resolution to require authorization from Congress before President Trump can use military force against Iran.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What’s the crucial point?<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Someone, and we all know who that is, is manipulating the entire congressional process in order to give Trump the criminal opportunity to launch a full-scale attack on Iran…WITHOUT THE NECESSARY APPROVAL FROM CONGRESS<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

This is exactly what the Zionist state of Israel did in advance of Operation Absolute Resolve<\/strong> in Venezuela, and it worked like a charm for the deceitful Trump administration.\u00a0 No one even talks about that transparent war crime anymore.<\/p>\n

All of which means that this coming week may very well see yet another belligerent act of war against Iran without any official authorization from the U.S. Congress… … …just the way the traitorous Neocon Zionists have engineered this whole US governmental crime wave against the sovereign nation of Iran since the US-Israeli hostilities first began.<\/p>\n

State of the Nation<\/a>
\nFebruary 22, 2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51802","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=51802"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51802\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=51802"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=51802"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=51802"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}