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Pentagon Set Up Briefing for Musk on Potential War With China
NYT ^ | 03.20.2025 | Eric SchmittEric LiptonJulian E. BarnesRyan Mac and Maggie Haberman

Posted on 03/21/2025 4:43:12 AM PDT by Dr. Marten

The Pentagon was scheduled on Friday to brief Elon Musk on the U.S. military’s plan for any war that might break out with China, two U.S. officials said on Thursday.

Another official said the briefing would be China focused, without providing additional details. A fourth official confirmed Mr. Musk was to be at the Pentagon on Friday, but offered no details.

Hours after news of the planned meeting was published by The New York Times, Pentagon officials and President Trump denied that the session would be about military plans involving China. “China will not even be mentioned or discussed,” Mr. Trump said in a late-night social media post.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: China; News/Current Events; War
KEYWORDS: china; ericlipton; ericschmitt; gaslightx5; julianebarnes; maggiehaberman; musk; newyorkslimes; ryanmac; war

1 posted on 03/21/2025 4:43:12 AM PDT by Dr. Marten
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To: Dr. Marten

Trump already n tweeted this was fake news


2 posted on 03/21/2025 4:45:39 AM PDT by DainBramage
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To: Dr. Marten

NYT trying to start another war. Good thing nobody pays attention to them. Deport Carlos Slim anyway.


3 posted on 03/21/2025 4:47:08 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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To: Dr. Marten

Smells like horse droppings to me! To Musk? Yah,sure!


4 posted on 03/21/2025 4:47:58 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative (Import The Third World,Become The Third World)
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To: Dr. Marten
The only good thing about a potential hot war with China is we can sink all of the container ships in the Pacific and domestically hunt down all of our Free Traitors™. Then we can get back to work re building or industrial economy.
5 posted on 03/21/2025 4:49:45 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Dr. Marten

Of course there are China war plans. But are they efficient?


6 posted on 03/21/2025 4:50:18 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: Dr. Marten

Just the rumor will have China crapping their pants that Musk is arming space for us.

The Pentagon probably leaked it on purpose.


7 posted on 03/21/2025 4:52:01 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Long live The Great MAGA Kangz!)
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To: Gay State Conservative
Smells like horse droppings to me! To Musk?

Space Force is going to need his rockets. Lots of them.

8 posted on 03/21/2025 4:52:25 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: Dr. Marten

blaming elon for WW3 .........coming soon


9 posted on 03/21/2025 5:01:46 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: Sirius Lee

And Starlink.


10 posted on 03/21/2025 5:13:47 AM PDT by ifinnegan (Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
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To: ifinnegan

And space robots to disable the chicom’s anti-satellite satellites before they disable Starlink.


11 posted on 03/21/2025 5:17:16 AM PDT by Sirius Lee ("Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.”)
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To: Dr. Marten

SpaceX must surely be on call for the satellite lift capability.


12 posted on 03/21/2025 5:24:10 AM PDT by glorgau
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Just another nyt lie. They really need investigated for operating as a political operative.


13 posted on 03/21/2025 6:16:07 AM PDT by Skwor
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Well it's fairly obvious that in any war with any major power, they will target Starlink. It would be really stupid to not talk with Musk about it and related issues.
14 posted on 03/21/2025 6:46:15 AM PDT by palmer (Democracy Dies Six Ways from Sunday)
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Musk has indeed arrived at the Pentagon. What a BS line that it is about war with China. He’s not going to use that meat axe he carries around on China. Blood all over the floor cuts coming to the Pentagon real soon.

Elon Musk arrives at Pentagon for meetings with military leaders

https://www.youtube.com/live/Tg61fPHa7Rc?si=mXSooCa068wgPRYW


15 posted on 03/21/2025 7:04:14 AM PDT by hardspunned (Look for the“Putin Stooge” libel, news from Ukraine you’ve gradually grown to trust over 30 months s)
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To: Lisbon1940

CONOPS are generally “robust”, which is generally the opposite of “efficient”.

Colonel, USAF JAGC (Ret)


16 posted on 03/21/2025 7:15:04 AM PDT by jagusafr ( )
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To: jagusafr

That’s what I hoped. Efficiency is not the highest priority.


17 posted on 03/21/2025 9:19:36 AM PDT by Lisbon1940 (I don’t see why they would)
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To: Dr. Marten
“Elon Musk will be briefed by the Pentagon about the USA’s top secret plans against China should there be a War,”according to the Failing New York Times, one of the worst and most purposely inaccurate newspapers anywhere in the World. Their FAKE concept for this story is that because Elon does some business in China, that he is very conflicted and would immediately go to top Chinese officials and “spill the beans.” RATINGS CHALLENGED FAKE NEWS CNN immediately picked up on this absolutely ridiculous and false story, which is probably libelous, and went heavy with it. Fortunately, nobody was watching! Maggot Hagerman, the really dumb “scammer” who constantly writes about me for the Times, using anonymous, made up (nonexistent!) sources, and who I haven’t spoken to in ages, is a big part of the Scam. She lead the Russia, Russia, Russia Hoax, only to realize that she was duped and got it wrong. She owes me a totally discredited Pulitzer Prize for her bad reporting. The Fake News is the ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE…And Elon is NOT BEING BRIEFED ON ANYTHING CHINA BY THE DEPARTMENT OF WAR!!!"

https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114200175082806882

On a side note...interesting that he's using the old term Department of War.

18 posted on 03/21/2025 10:51:23 AM PDT by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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