Top US Nuclear Commander: Russia is ‘the Only Existential Threat to the Country Right Now’

• Dangerous nuclear war rhetoric, propaganda.
• Top US Nuclear Commander: Russia is ‘the Only Existential Threat to the Country Right Now’
  by Amanda Macias, https://www.cnbc.com/
  * “Russia is the most significant threat just because they pose the only existential threat to the country right now. So we have to look at that from that perspective,” Air Force Gen. John Hyten said.
  * Hyten is America’s top nuclear commander, leading the U.S. Strategic Command, or STRATCOM.
  * He called North Korea the “most dangerous near-term threat” and said China “is the adversary that is moving the fastest.”
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  While the special counsel’s investigation tries to determine whether Russia interfered in the 2016 presidential election, America’s top nuclear commander described the nation as a paramount threat to the United States.
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  “Russia is the most significant threat just because they pose the only existential threat to the country right now. So we have to look at that from that perspective,” the commander of U.S. Strategic Command, or STRATCOM, Air Force Gen. John Hyten said during the Association of the United States Army’s Air and Missile Defense conference Wednesday.
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