Posted on 03/04/2022 6:49:45 PM PST by blam
Adm. Charles Richard, head of the U.S. Strategic Command, said it has become imperative for the United States to have the capability to defend against Russia and China at the same time.
“Today, we face two nuclear-capable near-peers who have the capability to unilaterally escalate a conflict to any level of violence in any domain worldwide, with any instrument of national power, and that is historically significant,” Richard told the House Armed Services Committee on March 1.
He pointed out that while the need to deter both China and Russia at the same time was only at the level of major concern in April last year, the concern “has now become a reality.”
“That need is now an imperative.”
In April 2021, he told lawmakers at another congressional hearing (pdf) that the United States for the first time in history was “on a trajectory to face two nuclear-capable, strategic peer adversaries at the same time.”
Months later, he said the United States was “witnessing a strategic breakout by China,” adding that the Chinese regime’s “explosive growth and modernization of its nuclear and conventional forces” was “breathtaking.”
“Last fall, I formally reported to the secretary of defense, the PRC’s [People’s Republic of China] strategic breakout,” Richard said. “Their expansion and modernization in 2021 alone is breathtaking.”
China and Russia pose a threat to the United States now more than ever, as the two neighboring countries currently boast a “no-limits” partnership, according to a statement released following a meeting between Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese leader Xi Jinping on Feb. 4.
Last summer, China reportedly tested nuclear-capable hypersonic missiles, prompting Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Gen. Mark Milley to say the tests were very close to a “Sputnik moment.” Additionally, there were reports that China was building hundreds of new nuclear silos.
In November 2021, the Pentagon warned that China might have as many as 1,000 deliverable nuclear missiles by 2030.
So far, China hasn’t slowed down in its pursuit of hypersonic weapons, according to Gen. Glen VanHerck, head of the U.S. Northern Command.
“They’re aggressively pursuing hypersonic capability, tenfold to what we have done as far as testing within the last year or so, significantly outpacing us with their capabilities,” he said at the hearing.
As for the current U.S. defensive posture, Richard said he felt quite confident.
“I am satisfied with the posture of my forces. I have made no recommendations to make any changes,” he said. “The nation’s nuclear command and control is in its most defended, most resilient lineup that it’s ever been in its history.”
However, Richard told lawmakers that it’s important to keep monitoring China’s development.
“We don’t know the endpoint of where China is going in terms of the capabilities it’s developing and the capacities that it’s developing,” he said.
“While I’m very confident we’re going to wind up with a very good strategy, I think it will need to be a question that we continue to ask ourselves as we see where China goes, as we see where others go. What are the overall capability and capacity that the United States requires in order to execute that strategy against a changing threat.
“We’re going to have to ask that question much more frequently than we have in the past.”
Let’s give the Democrats their due credit - they DROVE Russia into China’s arms long before this Ukraine crap.
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Aided and abetted by Bush League Republicans, again.
Excellent points.
If Russia and China had many RCs the US would likely have also developed hypersonics more.
Going woke Mach 3 at the moment, on the wrong side of a war with God, though those who serve are to be honored.
Examples in the list of WOKE capabilities boasted by the developing "Wokelitary," from,
allowing transgenders to serve in the military,
with Army mandatory training now including training Army personnel to know what to do in such scenarios as when a soldier who was "assigned" a biological gender at birth says he/she identifies as another gender, and lives as such in off-duty hours, but is not requesting to be treated as such while on duty, versus if such later requests to be identified as according to their chosen gender during duty hours, and/or experiences increased distress relating to his/her gender identity;
and ensuring free gender reassignment surgery for active military personnel,
and with The Pentagon Forming a Diversity and Inclusion Office,
and the Air Force being with WOKEism in creating 'LGBTQ' and 'Indigenous Nations Equality' Focus Groups,
and also authorizing the use of gender pronouns in signature blocks,
and the CIA funds a 'cisgender millennial with anxiety disorder' campaign, and with the
along with the Navy's first all gay U.S. Navy helicopter crew,
to lower fitness standards for women
while nearly half of female soldiers are still failing the new Army Fitness Test,
yet calling for Increased Diversity and More Women in Combat,
and changing its song to be gender-neutral,
and Forcing Marines to Make Boot Camp Coed,
and feeding cadets cultural Marxist propaganda about gender and masculinity therein,
to its new diversity and inclusion operation from West Point
and for its Special Operations Command ,
while showing a rapid response readiness to engage in online combat with the likes of Tucker Carson and other such enemies
thus nuking Jesus-themed candies on an Air Force bases as well as the Pentagon ordering a company to stop making faith-based Dog Tags,
and prohibiting service members from “liking” or reposting "extremist" views on social media (depending on all the circumstances involved) as part of its prohibition against actively engaging in extremist activities,
yet allowing turbans and hijabs in the Air Force,
while working to rid the military of “extremism”
such as the head of the US Space Force unit being fired and put under investigation for criticizing Critical Race Theory
And said, O my God, I am ashamed and blush to lift up my face to thee, my God: for our iniquities are increased over our head, and our trespass is grown up unto the heavens. (Ezra 9:6)
Very possible , we know biden, obamma, and clintoons were sellouts,
Putin , Xi, and Biden have planned this together..
It’s fluid,
But appears to me the world has been split up between the evil 3
Xi, pooty and Biden cronies..
Putin uses a small nuke, takes Europe as Joe and Xi say no..there goes Europe
So looks like Xi gets Asia and Australia, putin gets Europe, and Africa, and perv Island gets the americas..
There.. war over..losers are everyone but the trio of evil ..they lose in the end as well..
Don’t take the mark of the new society..
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Servers in Ukraine, I forgot about that. Wasn’t there something about the company Crowdstrike, that server the Dem’s said was hacked, and Ukraine? Didn’t the FBI want to investigate but the Dems had sent the hardware to Ukraine?
I thought that a weird place to send American equipment at the time.
This whole thing stinks to high Heaven.
Simple fix. Tomahawk Land Attack Missile — Nuclear and put them on all available platforms. W-80 warhead. Ships, subs, aircraft, mobile ground launchers
Check the admiral’s stock portfolio 💼.
Putin says his invasion was grounded in “de-Nazification” of Ukraine.
‘Sounds like they’re doing good!
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Formerly, those benefits would have appeared under the G.I. Bill.
What’s holding them back?
Did someone at DOD suddenly wake up??
It is about signally that the new military is onboard with WOKE, as some people resist such ideas as that the fuel pump can be connected to the exhaust port without any problems. At least it is admitted that unions btwn destroyers and container ships did not go well.
In principle your Putin propaganda just justified Nazism's rebellion against the West, while in reality it is not Ukrainian that has been the repeated invader of other countries but Russia, whose oppressive dictator longs for past Soviet dominion, and thus invaded Ukrainian which was actually convinced by the West to relinquish its approx. 4k nukes to Russia (ostensibly to be destroyed) in order to make peace in a 1994 agreement known as the Budapest Memorandum, with at least the implicit understanding that Ukraine would not be left to stand alone and face a threat should it come under one.
Meanwhile while there is a neo-Nazi movement in Ukraine, Russiua has its Neo-Nazi Russian National Unity and neo-Nazi soccer hooligans, and motorcycle gangs serve as conduits for the Kremlin’s influence operations in Western countries.
You simply cannot justify power-hungry, anti-Christian (outlaws all sharing of faith except thru his RO state organ) oppressor Putin who threaten the West, and his invasions justify the need for NATO. But you can be like a liberal and imagine that if NATO disbanded and the West demilitarized then a man as Putin would be content with what he had when he came to power, which history shows is delusion.
One wonders who convinced Admiral Richard to include the term, "near-peers"? It is rational to believe the only way to avoid such threat(s) is to engineer a non-nuclear internal collapse of the government of those two countries.
Lindsay was correct in pointing to historical precedence, but as a ranking U.S. government official it was not his place to selfishly make headlines with it.
The Russians as a whole despise Nazis. The Nazis killed 2.7 million Russians during WWII. And, unlike this country, the Russians remember the great patriotic war.
The Azov battalion is the kind component of the Ukrainian military. The Zelensky government openly coordinates its military strategy with it.
This idea the neo-Nazi element within Ukraine is Kremlin propaganda is nonsense. The Western media for years has done stories about the Azov battalion, exposed as neo-Nazi and revealed how much influence it has in Ukraine. But, now, all that is being whitewashed.
The crazy thing is that you know how biased are media is but refuse to see the propaganda it is spewing about this war and all our foreign policy did to create it.
The Moscow subway is a bomb shelter. My Russian in-law said it’ was 200’ underground. True? I dunno.
And, the lie the Biden regime/necons/Soros/etc. use to get people like you to rally around their foreign policy objectives and assure the defensive industry can continue to thrive by manufacturing weapons for Eastern Europe.
Putin is now Soviet leader nor is modern-day Russia a communist country. There is no chance that Putin has the resources to reassemble the Soviet Union nor would he have the support the populace if he tried it. It's a premise that complete bullshit.
It's our foreign policy under Obama and Biden with ample help from George Soros within Ukraine that fomented a revolution in Ukraine and sought to use it as a means of harming Russia. We installed our own puppet in Ukraine in 2014 and encouraged Ukraine to cutoff Russian access to the Black Sea. That is genuine national security issue for the Russians. We sat back and let the Ukrainians build a dam to cut the water off to Crimea. Under Biden, we encouraged the Azov Nazis and the Ukrainian military to go on the offensive to take back the pro-Russian Donbass region. We instructed the Ukrainian government to reject the Minsk Accords that could have brought peace to the Donbass region, an agreement the Ukrainian government signed.
At every turn, since 2014, we and our Ukraine puppet government has been aggressively hostile toward Russia.The objective has been clear to ultimate overthrow Putin.
The war in Ukraine is not Russian aggression. It's a Russian response to Ukrainian aggression that we have encouraged.
And, the end result of this madness has been another Cold War and pushing Russia and China into an alliance. Our meddling foreign policy is a danger to national security.
As they should yet you refuse to treat Ukraine as a whole, while using the Nazi element with in it to justify power-hungry Putin's invasion, due to him being some sort of victim!
"The Nazis killed 2.7 million Russians during WWII."
Yet we helped wicked Stalin (and too much) who had invaded Poland - which you should support is you support Putin - who was worse than Hitler in effect, and Patton might be more of a hero today Operation Unthinkable was followed thru. Yet you want to help a defender of tyrant Stalin.
"The crazy thing is that you know how biased are media is but refuse to see the propaganda it is spewing about this war and all our foreign policy did to create it. "
Meaning the crazy thing is that you (should) know how biased Putin's media is but you refuse to see the propaganda it is spewing about this war and all his foreign policy did to create it.
It remains that if you are going to justify Putin's power-hungry invasion under the premise that NATO provoked it then you should justify Nazism's rebellion against the West. You can only imagine that NATO was an actual threat to Russia if it behaved itself and thus ceased the behavior it once again is engaging in, and which justifies NATO. IIt is Putin's invasions that are justified, and only hurts Russia, which needs to be deterred.
That is irrelevant to the fact that he longs for the days of its evil glory, and with limited resources is acting like it did.
"nor would he have the support the populace if he tried it"
A mere assertion, while that is as true as it is with his present adventure. Putin just silences opposition, yet you defend him.
"It's our foreign policy under Obama and Biden with ample help from George Soros within Ukraine that fomented a revolution in Ukraine and sought to use it as a means of harming Russia."
Your argument is simply untenable. If using men who are evil but in positions to help against a more direct enemy worse is wrong then you must oppose many coalitions the US had in fighting Hitler. There were many liberals who also opposed him, thus according to your perverse logic then he was the victim. Meanwhile Trump also was a threat to Putin:
Is Trump The Toughest Ever On Russia?.. much tougher on Russia than any in the post-Cold War era. Trump sought to add $1.4 billion for fiscal year 2018 to the European Deterrence Initiative — a military effort to deter Russian aggression that was initially known as the European Reassurance Initiative. That's a 41 percent increase from the last year of the Obama administration. The president also agreed to send lethal weapons to Ukraine — a step that Obama resisted. And Trump gave U.S. forces in Syria more leeway to engage with Russian troops...actually resulting in one incident in hundreds of casualties on the Russian side,"
And as reported by abcnews.go.com om Dec. 23, 2020, "Trump admin approves new sale of anti-tank weapons to Ukraine.." The new package included Javelin anti-tank weapons, 150 missiles and two launchers, which came after a first sale, completed in March 2018, which included 210 Javelin missiles and 37 launch units..
Thus according to your logic Trump was wrong since Soros opposes Putin.
And as for "a means of harming Russia?" As regards Putin that is just what should have been done. You blithely ignore that the US convinced Ukraine to relinquish its approx. 4k nukes to Russia (ostensibly to be destroyed) in order to make peace in a 1994 agreement known as the Budapest Memorandum, with at least the implicit understanding that Ukraine would not be left defenseless, while Putin is the one with thousands of missiles pointed at the US, and rules as a oppressive dictator, and would ban FR in Russia and likely put the likes of men in jail.
It is sad that an evil oppressive dictator who would censure and even imprison so many here, and boasts of his power to destroy the US and threatens to punish us for opposing his invasion has so many defenders here. Inexcusable.
How the hell would know that? You don't know the man. You don't live in Russia. All you know is what Deep State tells you, the same Deep State that lied about Donald Trump and tried to drive him from office.
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