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As War Clouds Gather
American Thinker ^ | 3 Feb, 2023 | Allan J. Feifer

Posted on 02/03/2023 4:41:43 AM PST by MtnClimber

General Mike Minihan, a four-star Air Force General who leads the Air Mobility Command, made major shockwaves the other day, stating that he believes our country will be at war with China by 2025. His reasoning:

-Chinese President Xi [Jinping] secured his third term and set his war council in October 2022

-Taiwan's presidential elections are in 2024 and will offer Xi a baseless reason to invade Taiwan

-U.S. presidential elections will offer Xi a distracted America

-The U.S. has long walked a fine line with its ambiguous "One China" policy, which acknowledges China's claims to sovereignty over Taiwan without accepting them

Additional reasons for concern by 2025:

-Xi has promised his military and civil leaders the necessity of solving the "Taiwan Problem." Should he be stymied, his political future is at risk.

-China does not manufacture the latest generation of computer chips; they need those for their war machines, aerospace industry, and other high-technology demands. Taiwan controls about ½ of the world's supply of those chips. Taking Taiwan would be a 'twofer' for China to gain the necessary chips for themselves and to deny the West the chips they must have.

-The U.S. is telegraphing to the world that we are short some munitions, especially the high-tech kind we would need to stop China from successfully invading Taiwan. By helping Ukraine now, we have discovered significant gaps in our weaponry.

SNIP

During a balls-to-the-wall fight, combatants must go flat-out 24x7 without concern over financial constraints. The U.S. has always been behind the curve at the start of hostilities in major wars. Historically we had too few trained personnel and insufficient weapons and munitions. From the Civil War through WWI and II, war clouds were visible just over the horizon,

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Military/Veterans; Society
KEYWORDS: ccp; china; chips; coltheresalong; nato; northkorea; russia; sovietunion; taiwan; theresalong; ukraine
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1 posted on 02/03/2023 4:41:43 AM PST by MtnClimber
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To: MtnClimber

I wonder how many of Xao Bi-Dung’s generals would secretly working to help China win?


2 posted on 02/03/2023 4:41:54 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of Colorado scenery and wildlife, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

democrats pushing war when there is no need

the party of death rambles on...


3 posted on 02/03/2023 4:52:30 AM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: MtnClimber
Great way to begin WW3.


4 posted on 02/03/2023 5:01:50 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: Travis McGee

Pretty much dispels the $hot $hill lie that China virus heart issues are much worse than jab induced heart issues.

LTC Long is a godsend. She was the first voice in the military, that I know of, to speak out about the $hot dangers (on pilots). God bless her.


5 posted on 02/03/2023 5:08:08 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 of day. )
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To: Travis McGee

2023 - “I’m leaving on a jet plane, don’t know when (if) I’ll be back again...”


6 posted on 02/03/2023 5:10:57 AM PST by BlackbirdSST (Trump WON!!! He will win 2024!)
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To: Jane Long

Amen.


7 posted on 02/03/2023 5:11:41 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: MtnClimber; Jane Long

Recent Data Shows ‘Stunning Increase’ In Serious Harm Reports In Young Healthy Pilots: Army Lt. Col. Theresa Long

https://www.zerohedge.com/medical/recent-data-shows-stunning-increase-serious-harm-reports-young-healthy-pilots-army-lt-col

It’s been a year since four Department of Defense (DOD) whistleblowers found a sudden increase in various diseases in the Defense Medical Epidemiology Database (DMED), which coincided directly with the introduction of COVID-19 vacciThat’s according to Lt. Col.Theresa Long, M.D., MPH, a board-certified aerospace medicine doctor and Army Brigade flight surgeon with specialty training as an aviation mishap investigator and safety officer, who was one of the four whistleblowers. Long’s background has uniquely equipped her to recognize what she described as “unusual diagnoses and alarming trends only after the introduction of the COVID-19 vaccinations.”

Sharp Increase in Serious Harm Reports in Pilots: DOD Data
Long said what she has now found has led her to file yet another whistleblower complaint with Sen. Ron Johnson’s (R-Wis.) office. She described this data as “more alarming DMED data” after she “went back into the ‘fixed’ DMED again to look for signals of harm for Army aviation.”

“What I found was a clear signal, that something in 2021 changed the health of service members,” Long told The Epoch Times. She said these signals were consistent with those in the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) reports. But unlike VAERS reports, DMED data showed spikes in the number of diagnoses “made by a healthcare professional within the DOD on service members.”

According to the Military Health System, the DMED provides remote access to a subset of data contained in the Defense Medical Surveillance System (DMSS). The DMSS contains up-to-date and historical data on diseases and medical events (including reportable events) and “is available to authorized users such as U.S. military medical providers, epidemiologists, medical researchers, safety officers or medical operations/ clinical support staff for surveying health conditions in the U.S. military.”

“After querying all pilots across the DOD, for all-cause morbidity and mortality, I found a stunning increase in the number of reportable events, spiking from an average of 226 reportable events a year (2016-2019) to 4,059 reports in 2022,” she explained.

A DOD reportable event is any patient safety event resulting in death, permanent harm, or severe temporary harm—and all require a comprehensive systematic analysis and a follow-on corrective action implementation plan report.

“The point is there is a statistically significant increase in death, permanent harm, or severe temporary harm in young healthy fit pilots,” she continued.nations. Now, new data shows more evidence.


8 posted on 02/03/2023 5:21:28 AM PST by Travis McGee (EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: MtnClimber
-China does not manufacture the latest generation of computer chips; they need those for their war machines, aerospace industry, and other high-technology demands. Taiwan controls about ½ of the world's supply of those chips. Taking Taiwan would be a 'twofer' for China to gain the necessary chips for themselves and to deny the West the chips they must have.

Problem: The US is building major chip manufacturing capabilities in Arizona, Ohio and NY specifically to bring back manufacturing them here and to prevent the very scenario above from impacting the United States. Arizona is supposed to be online sometime in late 2024, Ohio and NY will follow a few years later assuming they go as planned.

The problem for China is they really don't innovate ANYTHING. They STEAL everything (intellectual property) thanks to stupid US Government Policy and large corporations chasing market share in China and willingly giving up their IP to do so.

Beyond the above, unfortunately, war with China is inevitable, it's what the globalists and the Chinese want.

9 posted on 02/03/2023 5:23:44 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: MtnClimber

The globalist have it all planned. Introduce Covid, start Ukraine so we deplete our arsenal, clot shots to reduce personnel and ground pilots. China moves in to take Taiwan, easy peasy. All while our corrupt dementia riddled post turtle diddle.

Makes me sick.


10 posted on 02/03/2023 6:02:39 AM PST by lula (Shine the light of truth Lord, confound the deceiver I pray...AMEN!)
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To: usconservative
"The problem for China is they really don't innovate ANYTHING. They STEAL everything (intellectual property) thanks to stupid US Government Policy..."

Why must China steal what US demoncraps give them?

11 posted on 02/03/2023 6:06:08 AM PST by MikeSteelBe (The South will be in the right in the next war of Northern aggression.)
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To: Travis McGee

bookmark


12 posted on 02/03/2023 6:06:10 AM PST by SteveH
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To: MtnClimber
China does not manufacture the latest generation of computer chips; they need those for their war machines, aerospace industry, and other high-technology demands. Taiwan controls about ½ of the world's supply of those chips. Taking Taiwan would be a 'twofer' for China to gain the necessary chips for themselves and to deny the West the chips they must have.

How does it get to this? How did we let ourselves become dependent upon other nations for so many things that are vital to us - while at the same time watching high paying US jobs dry up?

13 posted on 02/03/2023 6:13:00 AM PST by neverevergiveup
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To: Jane Long

bttt


14 posted on 02/03/2023 6:13:21 AM PST by linMcHlp
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To: MtnClimber

Wolf wolf
Ain’t biting

https://mises.org/library/living-reality-military-economic-fascism


15 posted on 02/03/2023 6:15:21 AM PST by Varsity Flight ( "War by the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors. 10.5.6.5)
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To: Travis McGee; ransomnote; metmom; grey_whiskers; bagster; Enlightened1; Qiviut; cgbg; SecAmndmt; ...
(snip) “After querying all pilots across the DOD, for all-cause morbidity and mortality, I found a stunning increase in the number of reportable events, spiking from an average of 226 reportable events a year (2016-2019) to 4,059 reports in 2022,” she explained.

A DOD reportable event is any patient safety event resulting in death, permanent harm, or severe temporary harm—and all require a comprehensive systematic analysis and a follow-on corrective action implementation plan report.

“The point is there is a statistically significant increase in death, permanent harm, or severe temporary harm in young healthy fit pilots,” she continued.nations. Now, new data shows more evidence.


Ping.

Thanks, Matt.

16 posted on 02/03/2023 6:20:18 AM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a “conspiracy theory” in 2020 is now fact. 🙏🏻 Ps 33:12 of day. )
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To: MikeSteelBe
Why must China steal what US demoncraps give them?

If you think China's limited to what they can bribe/extort demoncraps for, you should think again.

17 posted on 02/03/2023 6:32:16 AM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: MtnClimber

This is all part of the plan, folks. Did we really think that we could stop the left from bringing down the USA? Biden is working hard to weaken this country so that we have no gas, no defenses and no real desire to fight.


18 posted on 02/03/2023 6:47:28 AM PST by JoJo354 (We need to get to work, Conservatives!)
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To: MikeSteelBe

“They STEAL everything (intellectual property)”

Expired patents are online.

On a side note, I found this while searching:
https://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/subjects.html

and this:
https://making.com/products/detergents


19 posted on 02/03/2023 7:01:08 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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To: MtnClimber

Taiwan has the smarts to make nuclear weapons and delivery devices.


20 posted on 02/03/2023 7:03:13 AM PST by Brian Griffin
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