Posted on 10/19/2022 2:27:44 PM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
Senior U.S. military officials have worried in recent months that a Chinese military invasion of Taiwan could be just a few years away.
The Navy’s senior officer warned Wednesday that it may come even sooner than that.
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday, Chief of Naval Operations, said a cross-strait invasion of Taiwan could occur in 2023 or even before the end of the year.
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Stolen elections have consequences.
Keep rubbing that crystal ball and reading tea leaves, GildayIdiot......
Get those Ham Radios on order while you can!
Not to worry. Our Navy is fully prepared to present the most “wokeful” surrender in our country’s history. We should get ahead of the game by making that fugly and slothful fake you-know-what pretend admiral as commander of the fleet. After all, let’s go complete fake in leadership to complete the illusion.
No problem, Ukraine will sell us all the weapons we need, ... cash up front, plus shipping ...
Does Gilday wear women’s clothes by any chance?
World leaders get up every morning and say to themselves, “The United States is pathetic.”
Yes, this will be harder for China than one might think; Taiwan can hit Beijing with missiles.
Why not.! It's shaping up like we won't have enough oil or ammo to do anything about it...
Key point....are the people of Taiwan willing to fight like the Japanese did on Okinawa.
“Why not.! It’s shaping up like we won’t have enough oil or ammo to do anything about it..”.
BINGO!
About all we could accomplish is get a Carrier or two sunk and lose about 10,000 sailors.
If they adopted a “Swiss Defense” culture, nobody could take the island.
But it looks like most Taiwanese young men are pretty soft, leaning metrosexual.
One account had their Boot Camp shooting like ten live rounds.
The most favorable weather in the straights is April more or less. It would be a good time for Biden’s friends to cash in their IOUs.
At least when I was there about ten years ago not many acquaintances made there expressed willingness to fight if it came down to it to maintain independence. A common view is that despite differences now, Taiwan will reunite with the mainland eventually, only question is when. Meanwhile mainland Chinese were noticeably overrepresented in teaching positions at colleges I visited.
Last year Gilday received praise from Democrats and scorn from several republicans for choosing books that leaned into the question of race in America.
“If you want to understand a country’s military, take a look at what its officer corps is reading,” said Tucker Carlson on Fox News. “So with that in mind, what are American military officers reading these
days? Well, let’s see, a sub-literate pamphlet on how the United States is a disgusting immoral country that must be changed immediately and forever.”
Congressional critics included Representative Jim Banks, a U.S. Navy Reserve officer, who sent a letter to Gilday on Feb. 26 2021 arguing that the views promoted in Ibram X. Kendi’s “How to Be an Antiracist” on the Chief of Naval Operations Professional Reading Program (CNO-PRP) are “explicitly anti-American” and called on Gilday to explain the Navy’s decision to include it on the reading list or remove it.
Gilday refused to remove the books last year saying in a letter to Banks that some of the books on the CNO-PRP reading list were recommendations from Task Force One Navy, which he contacted “to identify and remove racial barriers, improve inclusion efforts, create new opportunities for professional development and eliminate obstacles to entering the Navy.”
In a later congressional hearing last summer, the visibly distraught Gilday fired back at Banks: “I am not going to sit here and defend cherry-picked quotes from somebody’s book,” he said. “This is a bigger issue than Kendi’s book. What this is really about is trying to paint the United States military, and the United States Navy as weak, as woke… we are not weak. we are strong.”
Wow. A US admiral. I would have assumed with the conclusion, that it would have been a Swiss or Bolivian admiral.
If Russia somehow gets away with stealing Ukraine, Taiwan is doomed.
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