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No ground troops in Nigeria. Trump is threatening to invade Nigeria and there is no strategic interest for the US there. They are not a threat to the US. Keep the US military out of Nigeria. And out of the Caribbean, Venezuela and Colombia, too. Stop these boat attacks without any kind of due process or typical, pragmatic procedures by the coast guard. Congress needs to stand up to this president and his administration!! This is not ambiguous. The President of the United States may not order extrajudicial killings, and he may not unilaterally initiate war with Venezuela — or any other nation — on his own personal whim. You — the Legislative Branch — know this. You cannot pretend that a President’s social posts or off-hand public remarks somehow override statute. Under the War Powers Resolution of 1973 (Public Law 93-148): “The constitutional powers of the President as Commander-in-Chief to introduce United States Armed Forces into hostilities… are exercised only pursuant to (1) a declaration of war, (2) specific statutory authorization, or (3) a national emergency created by attack upon the United States.” — 50 U.S.C. §1541(c) None of those three conditions apply to Venezuela. Therefore: • the President cannot launch offensive hostilities against Venezuela on his own authority • the President cannot commit or order illegal, extrajudicial targeted killings simply because he wants to • you — Congress — cannot sit silently while he suggests or intimates this power Congress must not allow this President to treat sovereign nations like personal enemies on a chessboard. You — not the President — hold the constitutional power of war. Use it. Assert it. Do not allow one man to unilaterally bring this country into another illegal conflict. Reaffirm the War Powers Resolution. Reassert the separation of powers. Uphold the law. Now.