Who cares if it\s technically a Milchemes Mitzvah or not? Yes, there are speicifc rules of obligations when it comes to a Milchemes Mitzvah. but it also teaches us an attitude on what our colelctive responsibility should be when our enemies attacks us who want to exterminate ALL of us and take our land. Does a Milchemes Mitzvah need a king and a Sanhedrin? Maybe. But just because we lack one doesn’t mean that we can’t take the lessons of Milchemes Mitzvah and apply it to the current tragic reality. This is not a chok like an Esrog where if it’s missing a small component then we dump the whole thing. A lemon that looks like an esrog is not an esrog. This is much deeper then that. These are our lives. These are our children. This is our land. And this is our future. What’s our responsibility to each other? What does Milchemes Mitzvah teach us? That we only have a responsibility to stand up for each other against our common enemy when we have 71 Sages sitting at the Lishkas HaGazis? What a tragic way to turn off our brains and throw our brothers into the fire while we pretend nothing can hurt is. What selfishness.
