Reuters – Jan 29, 2023
Warships and warplanes of the new Aukus alliance travelling through the Bay of Bengal led by the Royal Navy’s new flagship carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, on the fleet’s way back from a deployment in the South China Sea. Click to enlarge
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A top Republican in the U.S. Congress said on Sunday the odds of conflict with China over Taiwan “are very high,” after a U.S. general caused consternation with a memo that warned the United States would fight China in the next two years.
In a memo dated Feb. 1 but released on Friday, General Mike Minihan, who heads the Air Mobility Command, wrote to the leadership of its roughly 110,000 members saying, “My gut tells me we will fight in 2025.”
“I hope he is wrong … I think he is right though,” Mike McCaul, the new chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee in the U.S. House of Representatives, told Fox News Sunday.
The general’s views do not represent the Pentagon but show concern at the highest levels of the U.S. military over a possible attempt by China to exert control over Taiwan, which China claims as a territory.
Both the United States and Taiwan will hold presidential elections in 2024, potentially creating an opportunity for China to take military action, Minihan wrote.
McCaul said that if China failed to take control of Taiwan bloodlessly then “they are going to look at a military invasion in my judgment. We have to be prepared for this.”
He accused the Democratic administration of President Joe Biden of projecting weakness, after the bungled pullout from Afghanistan, that could make war with China more likely.
“The odds are very high that we could see a conflict with China and Taiwan and the Indo Pacific,” McCaul said.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said earlier this month he seriously doubted that ramped up Chinese military activities near the Taiwan Strait were a sign of an imminent invasion of the island by Beijing.
On Saturday, a Pentagon official said the general’s comments were “not representative of the department’s view on China.”
(Reporting By Ross Colvin; Editing by Nick Zieminski)
Odds very high of America getting its ass whupped first by Russia then China.
FIFY.
In their calculations, there is no “U.S.” and no “China”, there is “me”, a criminal gang, and “dollars”
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“Odds ‘very high’ of U.S. military getting WIPED OUT by China” Peter P. Says
Just read Frank Britton’s book ‘Behind Communism’ which reveals how Jews established Communism in China (like they did in Russia) & manage it to this day. The parasite is now in the process of supplanting the white host with the Mongoloid, as he intends to rule over an all nonwhite planet. Its quite simply really, the Yids over the last 50 years dismantled the industrial/manufacturing base of the white nations & transferred their factories/technology to China/India etc. If you desire the replacement/destruction of the white race then you will first eliminate the foundation of their national-economic independence/power, along with brainwashing them into egalitarian degenerates.
Step 2 is then inundating the West with millions/billions of nonwhites, thus eradicating the whites via mongrelism & murders.
Step 3, if necessary, is a future Communist Russia/China invasion/attack of the West to finish the job. Now you know their scheme.
This is all craptalk.
China wouldn’t even bother retaliating.
Simply, all the Chinese would have to do is tell American corporations IN China that they cannot ship their products. At All.
That would be the shortest “war” in history because the US forces, along with lots of others, depend on Chinese industry for their equipment. Thanks to the “Chimerica” trade system where the US created goods are assembled in Chinese factories, the war can’t be fought if the Chinese simply lock and guard the facilities American corporations foolishly build there.
They are stupid, the American generals saying this, because they know as well as the rest of the world that their supply lines DEPEND on China. And they can’t change that except by re-industrializing the whole US — an idea they hate more than anything else because they hate Americans more than anything else.
reuters is owned by rothschild
dirty jews caught with their hands in the till
https://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2023/01/30/697279/Hamas-Israel-spy-drone-Qassam-
british empire final comvulsions !
Franz–that’s how it isn’t a real war
Westen media alluding to the Philippine Government allowing US military to reoccupy bases in the Islands.
China will not take kindly to this move. Hard to believe Philippinos would allow this, given their own dependence on China and the downward trajectory of the US dollar.
And the house of LIES are falling apart.
Surprise coming !!!
Mystic and Yogi
BS. Its Reuters reporting which is the MSM network owned by the cabal international banksters which also essentially owns and controls China, its prodigy nation. If China walks in and takes over Taiwan it will be because of a deal in exchange for something else. If the US was ever to break away from the clutches of the same banking cartel and China really wanted to play around and invade Taiwan, with the people of Taiwan wanting to remain independent, then fine. Bring it on.
@ lewis jones —
That is correct.
That is why we come to sites like this for the truth.
There are entire libraries of news, comments, analysis that are nothing but stem to stern lies. The good news is that every day more people know it.