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US must be ready for simultaneous wars with China, Russia: Commission
Al Jazeera ^ | 10/13/23 | Al Jazeera Staff

Posted on 10/13/2023 5:25:44 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal

The United States must step up its military modernisation to enhance its conventional and nuclear forces and ensure it is ready for the possibility of simultaneous wars with China and Russia, a congressional commission evaluating the US’s strategic posture has said.

Releasing its report (PDF) on Thursday in the US, the Congressional Commission on the Strategic Posture of the United States described the current global environment as “fundamentally different [to] anything experienced in the past, even in the darkest days of the Cold War”.

The bipartisan panel of six Democrats and six Republicans called for urgent and immediate action to address the threats facing the US. Their report followed a year-long review of US conventional and nuclear forces and comes 14 years after the last major review was published in 2009.

“Today, the United States is on the cusp of having not one, but two nuclear peer adversaries, each with ambitions to change the international status quo, by force, if necessary: a situation which the United States did not anticipate and for which it is not prepared,” commission chair Madelyn Creedon and vice chair Jon Kyl wrote in their introduction to the report.

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TOPICS: China; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: nato; pentagon; usmilitary; wwiii
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1 posted on 10/13/2023 5:25:44 PM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
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Our military has been made battle ready against straight, normal Americans.

We are screwed.

2 posted on 10/13/2023 5:29:13 PM PDT by Mogger
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

What would we do without Congressional Commissions?


3 posted on 10/13/2023 5:29:38 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

“The bipartisan panel of six Democrats and six Republicans called for urgent and immediate action to address the threats facing the US.”

There’s only one answer: MORE WOKE!


4 posted on 10/13/2023 5:30:09 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“Occupy your mind with good thoughts or your enemy will fill them with bad ones.” ~ Thomas More)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

We’re not ready to fight Costa Rica.


5 posted on 10/13/2023 5:30:55 PM PDT by beethovenfan (The REAL Great Reset will be when Jesus returns. )
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

The biggest threat facing Americans is the American government.


6 posted on 10/13/2023 5:31:46 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

And Iran! A three front world war! NATO exhausted its abilities playing tiddlywinks with the Russians in Ukraine. Three or two front war, don’t make me laugh.


7 posted on 10/13/2023 5:31:58 PM PDT by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Armageddon.
It will happen


8 posted on 10/13/2023 5:33:30 PM PDT by Varsity Flight ( See"War by🙏🙏 the prophesies set before you." I Timothy 1:18. Nazarite prayer warriors. 10.5.6.5)
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To: beethovenfan

Lol, they don’t even have a military. Sounds about right.

What America needs is a 100% merit based society.

All scientific research to be done via a pool of double blind funding.

All illegals sent back.


9 posted on 10/13/2023 5:34:16 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

The military needs to be able to fight Russia, China, Iran and North Korea all at the same time....but don’t worry those rainbow flags will make them all run away....


10 posted on 10/13/2023 5:35:07 PM PDT by cgbg ("Creative minds have always been known to survive any kind of bad training." Anna Freud.)
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US steel production is now ten percent of China.

Raytheon says they have thousands of Chinese subcontractors and can’t decouple from China.

It’s already over. The de-industrialization and offshoring decisions were made decades ago.

The USA Intel Swamp needs to get with reality and start planning based on actual USA capabilities. Not fantasies and delusions.


11 posted on 10/13/2023 5:35:19 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: cgbg; All

“The military needs to be able to fight Russia, China, Iran and North Korea all at the same time...”


You forgot Serbia, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Cuba and probably some more if the USA looks weak.


12 posted on 10/13/2023 5:37:46 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: beethovenfan

We are not ready to fight a dead new York sewer rat. Our commander and chief will be asleep at the switch.


13 posted on 10/13/2023 5:38:36 PM PDT by cableguymn
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Our transsexuals are more than a match for any transsexuals in the world, and they will do all the fighting.


14 posted on 10/13/2023 5:38:55 PM PDT by x
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To: Reverend Wright

And Canada. They already rolled.


15 posted on 10/13/2023 5:40:12 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them. )
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To: Reverend Wright

And Canada. They already rolled.


16 posted on 10/13/2023 5:40:13 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them. )
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To: Reverend Wright
Told you shitbirds...


17 posted on 10/13/2023 5:41:03 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: beethovenfan

You beat me to it. I was going to suggest a losing battle with the Bahamas.


18 posted on 10/13/2023 5:41:57 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

This US is not even ready for a hot war with Haiti or Quebec.


19 posted on 10/13/2023 5:43:39 PM PDT by lee martell
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

As the experts say we need more modernization, let me suggest the modernization of who wears the pants in the military. You want a more effective fighting force then don’t let people with peckers wear dresses and makeup. Kick their asses out of the military. Recruit men who can do push-ups and climb ropes. What a novel thought!


20 posted on 10/13/2023 5:43:55 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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