US Denies Death Benefits to Soldiers Killed Fighting Iran, Claiming No War Exists

⚖️ PENTAGON — Soldiers die; DC calls it not a war to avoid paying their families. 📌 LOOK CLOSER: Denying benefits requires sustaining the legal fiction Vance used before November: no war, no liability. With F-35 wings rotating for duration and three tankers destroyed, the gap now has a price — the families of the dead. Congress controls the War Powers clock; formalizing the conflict triggers benefits automatically. That lever is now public.