Gen. Milley, who led the Afghanistan pullout, calls the China threat 'overheated': Nothing to see here, the wokester general has everything under control

Nothing to see here, move along.

So goes the thinking of Gen. Mark Milley, who 'distinguished' himself to Americans and everyone else with his 2021 Afghanistan pullout, speaking this time about China.

According to Defense One, which got an exclusive:

Everyone needs to calm down about war with China, Gen. Mark Milley said on Friday.
The Joint Chiefs chairman warned against the rise of “overheated” rhetoric of a looming U.S. war with China, and he said he doubts China’s chances of “conquering” Taiwan. But, he added, the United States should continue to quicken arms shipments to the self-governing nation and its own military capabilities, just in case.
Following this year’s Chinese balloon scare, the China heat is on. In the last two weeks, members of Congress in hearings aimed a list of concerns about China—everything from nuclear weapons to computer chips, invading Taiwan, and allying with Russia—at Milley and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. Milley has taken to telling lawmakers that war with China—and Russia—is “not imminent or inevitable.” It’s part of an effort to lower the heat, he said.
“I think there's a lot of rhetoric in China, and a lot of rhetoric elsewhere, to include the United States, that could create the perception that war is right around the corner or we’re on the brink of war with China,” Milley said in an interview with Defense One.
“And that could happen. I mean, it is possible that you could have an incident or some other trigger event that could lead to uncontrolled escalation. So, it's not impossible. But I don't think at this point I would put it in the likely category,” said Milley. “And I think that the rhetoric itself can overheat the environment.”

Yep, China is not a threat....

Milley's saying the Chicoms aren't much of a problem at all -- in the face of China's intensified rhetoric against the U.S., its actual military threats to U.S. air and sea operations in the South China Sea region, its ramped-up threats to Taiwan, its growing technological superiority (the failure of U.S. hypersonic weapons as China's advance ought to be a flashing red light), its string of successes in the creation of "Sino-states" at the world's critical roads, ports, and transport hubs around the third world, its effort to dislodge the dollar as the world's reserve currency, and now its diplomatic successes.

As if those things weren't specific enough to suggest that something is happening and pretty rapidly happening, there was also China's balloon incident over the U.S. where Milley's Pentagon allowed it to fly from military installation to military installation across the U.S. mainland, collecting and transmitting real-time data about U.S. capabilities back to Beijing, brazenly, unencumbered, until public pressure forced the Biden administration to finally relent and shoot it down. That was after the balloon had already gathered and sent all its data back to its communist masters. The balloon rubble contained technology that was clearly U.S.-made, meaning, they've ramped up their espionage, too.

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