[JoSixChip]

the US is a cobelligerent, not a belligerent

Providing targeting intelligence, supplying the weapons and training to act on that intelligence is a belligerent act. And international law means nothing. We are a constitutional republic, not a globalist nation. At least not yet.

[pierrem15]

Your certainty about your interpretation of the Constitution is not backed by either law or tradition.

So whatever Constitution you're talking about is not ours.

[pierrem15]

Providing targeting intelligence, supplying the weapons and training to act on that intelligence is a belligerent act.

No it isn't. Only a direct attack by our forces would be a belligerent act. As I said, we are only co-belligerents. Which also means any purported Constitutional restrictions do not apply.

You can make the argument that doing so is risky, might provoke the Russians to escalate, etc., which are rational if not (as I believe) valid arguments. But you can't invent new law out of whole cloth to get your preferred policy choices. That's what the Left does.