Why doesn’t any country officially declare war anymore after WW2? Does a country declaring war allow the UN to economically sanction and sue this country?
>>18513357>he thinks the un still has any point other than as a place for children of the ultra rich to socialize
>>18513357There’s no benefit in doing so. Official war declarations have all sorts of internal and external political and legal ramifications, which maybe matter, almost always not, but why bother when you can just do shit without caring about that?
>>18513357Declaring before the attack was never advantageous, but it did not matter as much in times before mass mobilizations.Now, you have to deal with internal politics as well as external ones, especially in democracies. In the West, as long as we call it "Nato action" or "enforcing a UN resolution", you can also skirt the formal declaration.And if you declare a war that turns out to be a war of aggression and you lose, even if you manage to keep your internal enemies at bay, you won't be able any more to retire in exile because someone wants to drag you to Den Haag.
