Martial law literally isn't a thing in US Federal law. It was for a little while in 2007, then returned back to the insurrection act, which again, isn't martial law. It's like talking about unicorns: it doesn't matter, it doesn't exist.
martial law
www.law.cornell.edu
In the United States, martial law can be declared on a national level by the President or Congress, or within the borders of a particular state by that state's governor.
It was updated in 2020...
If your state can't survive a conflict, what you think about freedoms or anything else becomes irrelevant, and your new rulers will laugh at your slippery slope.Yes, because otherwise the laws will be abused and you will legally enact a totalitarian government. The reason for the laws is to stop a heads I win tails you lose for totalitarianism. If your freedoms can't survive conflict, you don't have them.
Wars are never safe, but without letting propagandists for invaders run free, they can at least be fought sensibly.Ben Franklin had a great quote about this, that I'm going to likely butcher: Those who would sacrifice liberty to preserve safety will receive neither.
If you offer us isolationism and suicide pacts, guess we need other allies.That's you. You fundamentally do not understand the US if you think arguing that the constitution is a suicide pact is a good argument.
More, if your country doesn't support what the US has long believed to be human rights (as my opinion, not yours, has been the generally accepted norm for about 50 years in the US), then I don't see why the US should support such countries unless they offer us something valuable.
Fortunately you and people who think your way are not in charge, and the chances of that aren't getting much more popular anytime soon. Keep it up, this sort of stubbornness definitely helps keep you away from power.
As above.Understand that NATO isn't really for US protection. It's for European protection. It's a favor. What does the US get in return for us backing up socialists and autocrats?
As above.If tomorrow the Baltics, Poland, and Ukriane all joined up with Russia, few in the US's lives would meaningfully change. It would barely affect us. Russia is so far below us it's not even funny. So I'm asking, why do we give a shit about NATO if you don't share our beliefs nor actually help us out?
Let's be honest, you are intensely fishing for any excuse to plead isolationism and flake on long distance alliance commitments, and that's not what anyone looks for in allies.
First off, considering what most of the people in charge of US government who made those decisions we liked think of your beliefs, and what you think of their beliefs, if anything, by that logic we should try to disagree with your vision as hard as possible for our own good, that is even if it was not inherently unreasonable to begin with.Israel, at least, has actually helped us with the Iron Dome. The Saudis have oil. Y'all got near nothing except a shared history and beliefs, beliefs you are now shitting on.
Secondly, you not knowing about things doesn't make them nonexistent.