Timeline for Can a U,S. president demand unconditional surrender from a country that the U.S. is not at war with? [closed]
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| Jun 19 at 16:02 | comment | added | Sedumjoy | Thank you for closing the question. It is ambiguous. The spirit of the question was that it seemed strange for a president to be demanding unconditional surrender from a country we are not at war with. I always thought of surrender in terms of armed conflict and we are not at war with Iran. Hopefully never will be. That being said my question is most ambiguous. Presidents can make any statement they choose I suppose. | |
| Jun 19 at 9:46 | comment | added | Greg Askew | It's called trolling and it worked. | |
| Jun 18 at 6:27 | history | closed |
NoDataDumpNoContribution Giter Jen Joe W user111403 |
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| Jun 18 at 6:26 | comment | added | user111403 | I can demand unconditional surrender, why not Trump? Anyone can demand anything they like. The only question is whether that demand carries any weight. Mine, not much, Trump's, perhaps a little bit more. | |
| Jun 18 at 5:25 | answer | added | o.m. | timeline score: 4 | |
| Jun 18 at 3:36 | comment | added | Almas Mahfooz | @Sedumjoy what make you think that USA is not at war, USA has said multiple times that it standing with Israel in everything and fully support it, so can demand anything. | |
| Jun 17 at 22:59 | answer | added | alamar | timeline score: -3 | |
| Jun 17 at 22:53 | comment | added | Sedumjoy | I didn't understand the first comment. The third comment I agree with and it made me realize that the scope of my thinking is too limited. There are other contexts that the language can be used. I should probably delete the question because my thinking here is too limited and there are more more important aspects to focus on. | |
| Jun 17 at 22:52 | comment | added | Schmerel | In a legal sense Trump can not demand Iran surrender. He does not speak for the warring parties. He is making that demand in a diplomatic sense. It is standard coercive diplomacy, where implied threats are used to achieve policy goals without engaging in actual conflict. | |
| Jun 17 at 22:22 | review | Close votes | |||
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| Jun 17 at 22:07 | comment | added | ccprog | While the country Iran might not be able to surrender to the country USA, Ali Khamenei and the government might surrender their role as leaders of the country to someone unspecified. | |
| Jun 17 at 22:07 | comment | added | NoDataDumpNoContribution | He just did. Do you mean maybe something else? | |
| Jun 17 at 21:58 | comment | added | IllusiveBrian | Is the question whether Iran's refusal gives him some power he didn't have prior? Obviously he can say the words. | |
| Jun 17 at 21:56 | history | edited | ccprog | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
Misquote in the title
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| Jun 17 at 21:45 | history | asked | Sedumjoy | CC BY-SA 4.0 |