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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.

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

prepare for the future


21 posted on 02/02/2021 6:23:45 PM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion, or satire. Or both.)
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Politicians want a war...fine,let THEM go first.


22 posted on 02/02/2021 6:24:19 PM PST by pricilla (one should always try to be smarter than the equipment one is operating - Amajato)
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To: RomanSoldier19

do I have to get under my desk again?


23 posted on 02/02/2021 6:24:29 PM PST by Recovering Ex-hippie (The 2020 election Trump victory determines the fate f America and Freedom.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

I wouldn’t dismiss that too easily.

What with nuclear disarmament, and the lack of rational
thinking these days, nothing is off the table.

I’ll add that a lot of these climate fixated idiots would
love nothing more than to see five billion humans lopped
off the rolls of the living.


24 posted on 02/02/2021 6:25:09 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Only if there’s a south wind that blows the fallout over NYC.


25 posted on 02/02/2021 6:25:32 PM PST by Rebelbase (COVID misanthrope)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Remember when Trump got elected and all the libs said we were going to be in war in a week.

Well...didn’t happen then but now that Biden is in...

could be.


26 posted on 02/02/2021 6:28:36 PM PST by Beowulf9
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

Just don’t hit SoCal. I’m downwind.


27 posted on 02/02/2021 6:28:53 PM PST by Jeff Chandler (Pathetic Pierre Delecto, the Pestiferous Potentate of the Enchanted Chones.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

Freaking gross


28 posted on 02/02/2021 6:30:25 PM PST by servantboy777
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To: Lurkina.n.Learnin

“Duck and Cover!”


29 posted on 02/02/2021 6:35:14 PM 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: DoughtyOne


30 posted on 02/02/2021 6:35:56 PM PST by RomanSoldier19 (Game over, man! Game over! ; : rem ad triarios redisse is)
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To: RomanSoldier19

One method of controlling a cult is to direct members to focus on some apocalyptic fear in order to keep them from focusing on themselves and how royally they’re screwing themselves. It isn’t a coincidence that the Left uses this technique as often as they can.


31 posted on 02/02/2021 6:36:21 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: Beowulf9

[Remember when Trump got elected and all the libs said we were going to be in war in a week.

Well...didn’t happen then but now that Biden is in...]

................boy we sure do live in interesting times.


32 posted on 02/02/2021 6:36:41 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: Whenifhow; null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; ...

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


33 posted on 02/02/2021 6:36:43 PM PST by bitt (Joe Biden has managed to take everything that is wrong with DC bureacracy and fit it into 1 cabinet)
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To: Irenic

When two tribes go to war
A point is all that you can score


34 posted on 02/02/2021 6:37:06 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

hahaha!!!!!


35 posted on 02/02/2021 6:37:08 PM PST by bitt (Joe Biden has managed to take everything that is wrong with DC bureacracy and fit it into 1 cabinet)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Wonderful! It only took Chairman Jao bin Biden two weeks to roll our international status back to a Cold War footing.

Is the old demented fart having nostalgia for the days when he could halfway think for himself?


36 posted on 02/02/2021 6:37:55 PM PST by TigersEye (Everyone knows)
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Sure, ramp it up neocons, there must be dozens of high ranking Russian and Chinese leaders sitting around tables saying, “you know, there is a sure fire way to have our countries reduced to vast fields of smoking rubble, and that is to attack the U.S.A. with nuclear weapons.”

And for each of those leaders, ten others nodding in agreement. Yes comrade, let us start down the road to oblivion today. Perhaps we will get lucky and they won’t know who sent the missiles. After all, they don’t have radar or satellites tracking such things, do they?

COME ON ... the only way there would ever be a nuclear war is if some crazy Muslim terrorists started one, and chances are they would miss and blow up a couple of state parks in the middle of nowhere. Of course I would be the only person there at the time. Oh well.


37 posted on 02/02/2021 6:42:23 PM PST by Peter ODonnell (Pray for health, economic recovery, and justice.)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom

What. Is. That?!


38 posted on 02/02/2021 6:46:33 PM PST by sauropod (#ImpeachMcConnell. #Resist. #NotMyPresident.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

They’re assuming that Xiden would actually fight the Chinese? Don’t make me laugh.


39 posted on 02/02/2021 6:48:20 PM PST by Aria (- )
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To: RomanSoldier19

Especially with the Dems in control.


40 posted on 02/02/2021 6:48:51 PM PST by Brilliant
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