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Nuclear war with China or Russia 'a very real possibility,' U.S. Strategic Command chief warns
https://www.washingtontimes.com/ ^ | February 1, 2021 | By Bill Gertz -

Posted on 02/02/2021 6:11:02 PM PST by RomanSoldier19

The United States must be ready for a nuclear war with China or Russia and seek new ways to deter both countries’ use of newly acquired advanced strategic weapons, the commander of the U.S. Strategic Command is warning in a major new review of the global balance of nuclear forces.

Adm. Charles Richard, writing in the current issue of the U.S. Naval Institute journal Proceedings, offered a blunt and detailed assessment that the luxury of living in a post-Cold War era when direct armed conflict with a rival nuclear power was not possible is over.

“There is a real possibility that a regional crisis with Russia or China could escalate quickly to a conflict involving nuclear weapons, if they perceived a conventional loss would threaten the regime or state,” the four-star admiral wrote.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: ccp; nato; nuclear; nuclearwar; nucler; nukes; russia; war
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To: Sapwolf

Something makes me think this statement was planted. I just suspect this was directed by the current admin for a particular objective. This was likely directed/approved by a policy confab above this guys paygrade.


101 posted on 02/02/2021 9:42:43 PM PST by whistleduck
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To: DoughtyOne

Hate when I do that.

750 million, not thousand. SAT


102 posted on 02/02/2021 9:45:47 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: Sapwolf

In play and glowing...


103 posted on 02/02/2021 9:46:22 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: Fungi

It is not a joke. The DC Swamp has scheduled us for extermination. I would happily welcome theirs even if I go with them.

If they want a “ Great Reset,” I want 100% participation by them.

PS - GFY


104 posted on 02/02/2021 10:14:37 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (You are in far greater danger from authoritarian government than you are from a seasonal virus.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

It’ll pass within easy fighter range of Hawaii, just sayin’...


105 posted on 02/02/2021 10:14:52 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

DC will be safe as long as we have all those grifting aholes in office.

Our enemies know they would be doing us a favor if they bomb DC while Congress is in session.

Why would they rid us of those leeches? Or kill their gaggle of geese that throw golden eggs at them and s$it on us?

Trump didn’t want war. I miss him.


106 posted on 02/02/2021 10:51:21 PM PST by Califreak (2020-The Year of the Potemkin Election)
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To: adorno

I believe China wouod NOT nuke us.

Maybe slowly get rid of us by making us sick and start trying to grab resources and land


107 posted on 02/02/2021 10:58:36 PM PST by Califreak (2020-The Year of the Potemkin Election)
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To: DoughtyOne

Yeah but that will take care of much of the voting fraud in the big cities by the demonratcommieblmantifaterrorscumpedophilegoatrapers.


108 posted on 02/03/2021 12:02:56 AM PST by mabarker1 ((Congress- the opposite of PROGRESS!!! A fraud, a hypocrite, a liar. I'm a member of Congress !!!!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Russia still has one of the biggest nuclear-armed military forces in the world. You cannot ignore a threat such as that, esp. if they decide to team up with either Iran, Red China, or both for preemptive/offensive attacks on the West. Russia/Soviet Union was a master on disguised/surprise attacks and war-preparation actions. Remember the Berlin Airlift, the Berlin Wall, the surprise attack on So. Korea by the Soviet-aided and directed No. Korean proxy forces, their overwhelming arming of No. Vietnam, the smuggling of nuclear weapons/missiles into Cuba right under our noses, secret Soviet Bloc arms caches in Grenada for use in guerrilla wars in Latin America, their present arming/support for the communist dictators in Venezuela, poss. the Sandinistas in Nicaragua, and god knows what they did in Brazil under the Marxist regimes of Rousseff and the guy whose name started with a “B”.


109 posted on 02/03/2021 12:04:44 AM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: DoughtyOne

The anzacs are sitting next to a quarter billion Indonesians who ran the Dutch out at gunpoint.

Someday they’ll get lucky and run the anzacs out at gunpoint.

Then we’ll have the worthless mofos scrambling to get into the US.


110 posted on 02/03/2021 2:12:13 AM PST by hank ernade (armchair macho bravado EverTrumper)
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To: mabarker1

True...


111 posted on 02/03/2021 4:10:00 AM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: hank ernade

Wonder which city they’ll dump them in.


112 posted on 02/03/2021 4:19:13 AM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: bobby.223

Remember this one?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IKqXu-5jw60


113 posted on 02/03/2021 4:21:47 AM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: bitt; Fred Nerks

only if the powers that be WANT to have a war..>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

Its the only way Biden / Harris can “unify” the country.

The problem is they think they create only theater.

China will call their bluff.

It will blow up in their faces.

And then we are stuck with it?

Do you TRUST Biden or Harris with the nuclear football and biscuit after the sh* t that was pulled in Washington , 25 thousand national guard just for theatrical purposes?

To these liberal fascist idiots the whole world is but a stage.

And brighter than a thousand suns a mere upscale in lighting.

The whole world should be afraid, very afraid.

These liberal fascists have to go, ASAP.


114 posted on 02/03/2021 4:58:52 AM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: Towed_Jumper

Interesting idea. Not far fetched either.


115 posted on 02/03/2021 5:36:32 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: carriage_hill

There he is! Yeah, I remember Bert, but what a long time ago it was now that I think about it!


116 posted on 02/03/2021 7:52:15 AM PST by bobby.223 (Retired up in the snowy Mountains of the American Redoubt and it's a great life!)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Head Of Strategic Command Says U.S. Nuke War With China, Russia a “Real Possibility”

Unless U.S. beefs up its nuclear arsenal.

https://summit.news/2021/02/05/head-of-strategic-command-says-u-s-nuke-war-with-china-russia-a-real-possibility/


117 posted on 02/06/2021 9:00:43 AM PST by KeyLargo
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

I consider you one of the most sober and exemplary posters on this site. No longer. I have no idea what prompted your petty response. Ha ha....


118 posted on 02/07/2021 8:11:59 PM PST by Fungi
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