WELL NOW.......war? The wording is weird.

www.snopes.com/fact-check/donald-trump-no-wars/


According to the official website of the U.S. Senate, this is a power Congress has used 11 times, starting against Great Britain in the War of 1812. The last time that power was exercised by Congress was in the midst of World War II, on June 4, 1942, when it declared war against the small Axis countries of Bulgaria, Hungary and Rumania (now Romania). The U.S. was already at war with Japan, Nazi Germany and Italy at that point.

Under this definition — to be a U.S. war, Congress must declare it so — Trump is not the only president in the last 72 years without a war. No presidents in the last 72 years have presided over an official war declared by Congress.

Yes, Vietnam was not a war despite over 50,000 combat deaths. Korea was not a war despite 50,000 combat deaths.

Snopes has outdone itself. I wonder if they ever investigated this statement:
"“It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.” Bill Clinton, 1998.

There are political and even insurance reasons why the Federal Government is very reluctant to actually "declare war" anymore. But after a few weeks, the President does have to go to Congress to get the money to continue these "police actions".
Look up War Powers Act.

We don't declare war anymore but we still buy the munitions for both sides somehow.

Pretty much every year of my life the US has been fighting with at least one other nation.
Vietnam, 1965-1975
Lebanon,
Grenada
Panama,
Iraq,
Kuwait,
Afghanistan
Syria,
Somalia
And others I am forgetting.

Plus other proxy wars, Nicaragua, Ukraine, and countless more.