Since time immemorial, there has never been a date where men set aside for war.
It was already being done before anyone put a label on it. The label came later — the formal declaration, the treaty violations, the diplomatic communiqués that said this is now a state of conflict as though conflict required announcement, as though the bodies that preceded the announcement weren't already making the argument more clearly than any document could. War was not a decision. It was a recognition. The decision had always been earlier, quieter, made in rooms and offices and signed authorizations and grief converted into motion, and by the time anyone called it war the arithmetic had already been running for months.
