He wasn’t talking about a pre-emptive attack by the Chinese. He was explicitly telling them that he thought we may order an attack and if so he’d warn them. Done with you on this topic since you refuse to read plain EnglishNo, because then it would not be an unprovoked surprise attack. So no need to pre-emptively strike us. Stand down your forces.
What all was going on that made the Chinese consider the need for a pre-emptive strike, anyway? Anything in domestic US politics that concerned them?
Do you even read the shit you quote?He wasn’t talking about a pre-emptive attack by the Chinese.
He was telling them we may attack and he’d warn them. You can keep twisting all you want but there is no other way to interpret what the article claims he said.Do you even read the shit you quote?
Believing that China could lash out if it felt at risk from an unpredictable and vengeful American president...
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"Milley had reviewed intelligence suggesting that the Chinese believed the U.S. was preparing to attack at that time, and he feared a hair-trigger situation in which there could be miscalculation, or a preemptive strike by China in an attempt to fend this off or get ahead of it.
That is just plain stupid, and I assume you are doing it willfully.there is no other way to interpret what the article claims he said.
One, I’d like to hear what he supposedly heard.That is just plain stupid, and I assume you are doing it willfully.
So you have intel that says China is considering a pre-emptive strike on us because they are worried (appropriately) about the mental stability of the guy who lost the election but is still in charge. They are worried, for whatever reason, that he may launch a no-notice strike on Chinese interests to "wag the dog", especially after he already launched an attack on his own congress. What do you say to the Chinese to talk them down off the "might as well strike the US first" pre-emptive strike ledge?