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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: carriage_hill

‘Bert The Turtle’ to live again!


41 posted on 02/02/2021 6:49:39 PM 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: ProtectOurFreedom

Oh my, she’s lovely.

Seems very Folsom Street.


42 posted on 02/02/2021 6:49:44 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: ProtectOurFreedom

Oh my, she’s lovely.

Seems very Folsom Street.


43 posted on 02/02/2021 6:49:44 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: RomanSoldier19

I think they’re dreaming if they think New Zealand will be
secure.

China will over-run the region.

They’re positioning to take control in a lot of places.

There’s now going to be a lot of places to run for these
people.

China can lose half it’s population and still have 750,000
available to pull troops from.

If they hit just ten of our largest cities, we’ll lose a
terrible amount of people.


44 posted on 02/02/2021 7:03:31 PM PST by DoughtyOne (The Republican Party is dead. Long live the Founders Party.)
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To: RomanSoldier19

The Chinese would be solving many unnecessary problems if they removed Democrat City from the face of the earth.


45 posted on 02/02/2021 7:07:55 PM PST by Prole
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To: E. Pluribus Unum

It will be with Russia not China. Look at the demonization of Russia by the Democrats vs. the kid glove treatment of China. And China has eyes on Siberia and its mineral resources.


46 posted on 02/02/2021 7:11:02 PM PST by packagingguy
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To: SaveFerris
"now that Biden is in"

Am wondering how long before comrade dictator plugs orders a preemptive nuclear strike on American soil.
47 posted on 02/02/2021 7:11:33 PM PST by clearcarbon (Fraudulent elections have consequences.)
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To: clearcarbon; null and void

Certainly hope all military refuses unlawful orders.

But, weaken America at enough strategic points, and that makes it easier for America’s enemies.


48 posted on 02/02/2021 7:14:32 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: clearcarbon; null and void

Certainly hope all military refuses unlawful orders.

But, weaken America at enough strategic points, and that makes it easier for America’s enemies.


49 posted on 02/02/2021 7:14:32 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: RomanSoldier19

““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.”

Our lunatic Admirals and Generals and their neocon masters are very deeply into the idea that you can fight conventional land wars against Russia and it won’t go nuclear.
These maniacs think they will accept a conventional defeat if we go after Crimea, or start shooting down their planes in eastern separatist Ukraine, etc.
If you look around much you keep seeing references to “short and sharp”.
USA vs Russia shooting war was pretty much off the table
during the cold war.
It’s part of their basic doctrine now, that any nation attacking them will get nuked into oblivion. It stems from Napoleon, WWI, and WWII. They have pretty much decided never again.

China is pretty much not a risk. They aren’t strong enough and don’t have a big enough nuclear force to take us on. It would take all they had, then they would have nothing and would be surrounded by Korea, India, Pakistan, and Japan (that could have them in a few weeks if they already don’t)

But these maniacs are spoiling for a conventional war with Russia and whine that someone might nuke them if they try. It’s astonishing.


50 posted on 02/02/2021 7:15:40 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: BenLurkin

Exactly. We’re being played.


51 posted on 02/02/2021 7:16:00 PM PST by Track9 (I have so much dry powder I need a warehouse. )
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To: RomanSoldier19

A normal nation would remove someone from command for saying this, but we are not a normal nation.


52 posted on 02/02/2021 7:19:56 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: RomanSoldier19

Send mental health professionals to deal with it


53 posted on 02/02/2021 7:20:00 PM PST by alexandriagreen (MAGA KAGA)
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To: RomanSoldier19

Nuclear weapons are never going to be used again in war. Maybe as a terrorist weapon but not militarily. There is no scenario where using a nuclear weapons is advantageous.


54 posted on 02/02/2021 7:20:02 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: central_va

Our govt is populated with idiots and psychos, or haven’t you noticed?


55 posted on 02/02/2021 7:21:25 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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To: Peter ODonnell

Even a conventional war with China would never escalate into a nuclear conflict.


56 posted on 02/02/2021 7:22:39 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Nope. 95 % of the worlds nukes are held by us and Russia. Those small arsenals of Norks, China, and Iran are meant to keep anyone from shooting at them or them winding up like Saddam.
They use their tiny arsenals, they are obliterated and surrounded by SE asia that hates them. India that hates them etc. They are anti-invasion insurance and a tool for cage rattling. China will get there eventually, but not yet.

But read military think tank stuff and you’ll see a ton of them horny for a conventional shooting war with Russia. They tried to spark it off in Syria but Trump wouldn’t play.

If we are lucky it’ll just be DC. But it’d need to be a 1950s citybuster H-bomb to be sure to get Fairfax county and the suburbs too.


57 posted on 02/02/2021 7:22:44 PM PST by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up. .... )
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To: Trumpisourlastchance
Our govt is populated with idiots and psychos, or haven’t you noticed?

It not going to happen. Nuclear is suicide. To make the point even more clear, even if our opponents have no nuclear capability like North Vietnam, North Korea, Iraq and Afgan insurgents we still don't use them....

58 posted on 02/02/2021 7:28:04 PM PST by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn...)
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To: RomanSoldier19

God help us...


59 posted on 02/02/2021 7:28:25 PM PST by djf (Better to be anecdotally alive than clinically dead!)
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To: DoughtyOne

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

I was thinking about that the other day. In this far left idealistic government we have now Biden may push for some “historic” nuke disarmament deal where we disarm and hope others do as well.

Add to that the belief out there that Biden is not well could offer to some a timed opportunity to strike while the iron is hot ... not necessarily a classic nuke strike by China or Russia but laundered through some terrorist org or Iran.

The ideal first strike situation would be when it is not clear who launched the missiles.


60 posted on 02/02/2021 7:29:30 PM PST by plain talk
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