‘The Big One is Coming’: US Military Nuclear Commander Warns America is Falling Behind China, is ‘Going to Get Tested in Ways that We Haven’t Been Tested in a Long Time’ – And that Ukraine is ‘Just the Warmup’

November 5, 2022 by mosesman

Senior Russian military leaders have discussed when and how they would use tactical nuclear weapons in Ukraine. Pictured: A Russian nuclear missile is fired during testing drills on October 26

‘The Big One is Coming’: US Military Nuclear Commander Warns America is Falling Behind China, is ‘Going to Get Tested in Ways that We Haven’t Been Tested in a Long Time’ – And that Ukraine is ‘Just the Warmup’
by HARRIET ALEXANDER FOR DAILYMAIL.COM, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/
* Navy Adm. Charles A. Richard, commander of Stratcom, addressed a gathering of top military officials in Arlington, Va., on Wednesday
* Richard warned that further investment in the US military was needed, in the face of rising threats
* ‘This Ukraine crisis that we’re in right now, this is just the warmup,’ he said. ‘The big one is coming’
* Richard added: ‘It isn’t going to be very long before we’re going to get tested in ways that we haven’t been tested a long time’
* He said not enough was being done to counter Chinese aggression, saying: ‘As I assess our level of deterrence against China, the ship is slowly sinking’
* Richard called on Pentagon chiefs and policy makers to return to the dynamism of the 1950s and 60s, and a phase which saw the U.S. put man on the moon
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