Posted on 07/10/2015 1:08:39 PM PDT by Brad from Tennessee
President Barack Obama’s nominee for chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff said Thursday at his confirmation hearing before the Senate that Russia presents the greatest threat to the United States.
Gen. Joseph Dunford’s comments closely match the foreign policy platform of Mitt Romney, who unsuccessfully challenged Obama for the presidency in 2012, The Guardian reports.
“If you want to talk about a nation that could pose an existential threat to the United States, I’d have to point to Russia,” Dunford told the Senate Armed Services Committee Thursday. “If you look at their behavior, it’s nothing short of alarming.”
During the campaign, Obama brutally mocked Romney’s stance on Russia.
“The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back because the cold war’s been over for 20 years,” Obama stated at the time.
But given Russia’s resurgence in the last several years, in addition to its annexation of Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, Moscow has again come to the forefront of the international scene by challenging liberal democracy and the West. For Dunford, Russia’s status as a nuclear power and cloaked interventions in Ukraine make the country a serious threat. Following Russia are China and North Korea, with the Islamic State in fourth place. . .
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A lot of good that support does us now.
His name will be withdrawn or.....due to personal reasons he no longer will accept the nomination. Watch it unfold.
Semper fi, Fightin’ Joe, semper fi......
It did not take a genius to realize the world’s greatest nuclear power next to the USA was a threat.
Romney did not come up with that.
Biggest threat to the US is the democrat party.
Everyone knows that the greatest threat to America is man made climate change.
King Obama told us so...
That was good. BUT the real story is how Iran didn’t make the top spot in his threat list.
Heck, it wasn’t in the top 5.
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