World Affairs Brief, November 25, 2022 Commentary and Insights on a Troubled World.
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US MILITARY AIRCRAFT VS. CHINA AND RUSSIA
The head of US nuclear forces recently claimed that Ukraine is just a warmup for a very long struggle with China, as Sputnik News warns, evading the fact that Russia will join China in the attack on America.
US Navy Adm. Charles Richard, the head of US Strategic Command, recently warned the US would soon face a protracted conflict with China unlike anything it’s faced before. Stratcom is responsible for handling the country’s nuclear weapons, as well as the suite of defensive and offensive information capabilities termed C4ISR.
“We have to do some rapid, fundamental change in the way we approach the defense of this nation,” Richard said at a Navy symposium last week. “This Ukraine crisis that we’re in right now, this is just the warmup,” he said. “The ‘big one’ is coming.”
Richard warned “the [military] ship is slowly sinking” because China is fielding new capabilities faster than the United States, which will soon find itself outnumbered and outclassed on the battlefield.
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