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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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To: Roman_War_Criminal
I think with the axis of evil ( iran, russia and china) the plan is to draw America into the Israel war in order to spread an already weakened army into a position of weakness. Unable to respond when China invades Taiwan.
21 posted on 10/13/2023 5:44:23 PM PDT by patriot torch (..)
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To: EEGator

Yup !

But if he had actually won, he would have had the same Deep State Resistance / sabotage as Trump had.


22 posted on 10/13/2023 5:44:35 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Actually, we just need to divide the middle east into 3 colonies.


23 posted on 10/13/2023 5:44:38 PM PDT by fruser1
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To: CJ Wolf

Canada: we’re going to repeat our success of 200 years ago.


24 posted on 10/13/2023 5:45:47 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: cableguymn

I just don’t get it with Bindone. If I was his puppeteer, I would have been fired already if they had the USA’s best interests in mind. But no, It is like the puppeteers pulling the strings want to show just how weak America is.

Pay no attention to the tran behind the curtain.

🇺🇸


25 posted on 10/13/2023 5:47:59 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them. )
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To: Reverend Wright

True, but I don’t know if it was as bad then.
It probably was, but not in your face like now.

Novus Ordo Seclorum continues...


26 posted on 10/13/2023 5:49:10 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

My father was a true Patriot and a Marine veteran of three Wars. It brings me close to tears to see what has been done to not only the military but to his beloved USMC. What would the young men who served and died at the Chosin Reservoir think about today’s Marine Corps?

The Communists called the US a paper tiger in the ‘60s and the 70s. What are they calling us now? Drag queens and girly men. Make that girly boys?


27 posted on 10/13/2023 5:50:38 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s ( If you can remember the 60s.....you weren't really there..)
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To: Reverend Wright

Has the US ever attacked Canada after that war? Or vise versa? Just curious.

How are things up North? Will you be invading soon?


28 posted on 10/13/2023 5:50:45 PM PDT by CJ Wolf ( what is scarier than offensive words? Not being able to say them. )
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To: EEGator

I think it was worse, actually. Just more hidden.


29 posted on 10/13/2023 5:55:27 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

Our biggest war is with the Marxists here.


30 posted on 10/13/2023 5:58:11 PM PDT by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND GLOBALISM! Trump 2024, NO more Mr Nice)
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To: Reverend Wright

Certainly possible.


31 posted on 10/13/2023 6:00:51 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: CJ Wolf

After the Civil war, there were some Fenian Raids against what was still the individual colonies with the objective of getting the UK out of Ireland... not logical and not successful.

We nearly had the Pig War over the San Juan Islands, but fortunately they decided to go to arbitration instead, and Kaiser Wilhelm award the Islands to the USA.

I think the US is safe from Canadian attack for the time being. After the Ukraine invasion Trudeau la tapette promised to increase defence spending and meet previous commitments.

Here is the latest:

https://ottawacitizen.com/news/national/defence-watch/national-defence-to-roll-out-spending-cuts-over-next-three-years-officials-say-extent-of-impact-yet-to-be-confirmed


32 posted on 10/13/2023 6:03:07 PM PDT by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: CJ Wolf

The US during the Revolution & the War of 1812. 21 Confederate soldiers attacking from St Albans, Vermont into Canada. Private expedition - the Fenians (Irish guerrillas) in 1866, 1870 & 1871.


33 posted on 10/13/2023 6:03:46 PM PDT by Reily (!!)
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

I think we should have all these great war leaders face off in a “Hunger Games” setting. I don’t like our chances at all with Biden, but it would be better to lose that way than to kill off thousands and potentially millions of innocent people. It would give these war leaders a different perspective on things if their own sorry asses were at risk instead of being holed up —safe and secure- in some mountain bunker.


34 posted on 10/13/2023 6:36:05 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: Southside_Chicago_Republican

Go woke go broke…the US military is broke…..they cannot even recruit enough people…because military personnel are telling the kids not to enlist…


35 posted on 10/13/2023 7:36:56 PM PDT by Hojczyk
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To: Hojczyk

The enemy within.


36 posted on 10/13/2023 7:41:53 PM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog. )
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To: Roman_War_Criminal
In other words, we should prepared to lose WW III. Wonderful.

Our warmongering and meddling in countries like Ukraine is coming back to bite us.

37 posted on 10/13/2023 7:54:40 PM PDT by Kazan
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To: cableguymn
Our commander and chief will be asleep at the switch.

Perhaps a more appropriate spelling would be "Co-Mandarin Chief".

38 posted on 10/13/2023 8:10:44 PM PDT by Charles Martel (Progressives are the crab grass in the lawn of life.)
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To: Mogger

Our military has been made battle ready against straight, normal Americans.
We are screwed.


So weak and defeatist. Do you actually know anybody currently in the military? We’re just fine despite the best efforts of Democrats.


39 posted on 10/13/2023 8:24:59 PM PDT by lodi90
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To: Roman_War_Criminal

IF we provide more aid to Ukraine and we won’t need to worry about fighting Russia at all.


40 posted on 10/13/2023 8:31:44 PM PDT by freeandfreezing
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