Thursday, June 10, 2021

Top U.S. General Does Not Agree With President Biden's Claim That Climate Change Is America's Greatest Threat

 

US News and World Report: Top Military Officer Clarifies Biden’s Threat Assessment: Climate Change – But Also China and Russia 

A day after Joe Biden said the military told him as vice president that global warming represents America’s greatest threat, the Pentagon’s top officer offered a more traditional answer. 

The military's top officer asserted on Thursday that the biggest threats the U.S. faces are China and Russia, a day after President Joe Biden recounted to American troops during a trip to the U.K. that military leaders told him climate change represents the "greatest threat to America." 

"Climate change does impact, but the president is looking at a much broader angle than I am," Army Gen. Mark Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told a congressional panel Thursday morning. 

"I'm looking at it from a strictly military standpoint. And from a strictly military standpoint, I'm putting China, Russia up there."  

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WNU Editor: The mental gymnastics continue at the Pentagon. While saying that China is massively building up its military forces .... U.S. general: China hiking military capability at "very serious and sustained rate" (Reuters), the Pentagon is justifying why they must cut major defense programs and expenditures to meet this threat .... Austin, Milley defend weapons cuts in Biden’s defense budget (Defense News).

4 comments:

Jac said...

I must be completely stupid, but I have a hard time to believe that the best answer against the China threat is to cut the Defense budget.

Anonymous said...

Lapides loves it.

Anonymous said...

The DOD budget is a bloated welfare program for fail generals, fail admirals and dipshit white suburban eggheads.

Cut it in half and then resources might be spent wisely.

Anonymous said...

Obviously, 803 does not know what a QDR is, how government contracting works or PPP.

803 foreign govt troll @FAIL