General Joe Dunford, the nominee to be the next chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, today testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee, declaring Russia an “existential threat” to the United States because of its “recent actions” in Ukraine.
Gen. Dunford, presently the Marine commandant, also said he believed it would be reasonable to provide Ukraine with TOW missiles and other equipment capable of destroying Russian tanks, attempting to reassure Senate hawks that he is also supportive of weapons shipments to Ukraine, like outgoing Gen. Martin Dempsey.
Dunford also appeared to significantly downplay the seriousness of ISIS as a “security threat” to the United States, putting Russia, China, and North Korea all ahead of ISIS “in that order.” Reflecting his desire to be as uncontroversial as possible of a nominee, however, he endorsed the current war strategy in ISIS.
The comments appear largely to reflect the public comments from other Pentagon leaders, all of whom are hyping “Russian aggression,” despite the ceasefire in Ukraine, saying they believe shipments of lethal weapons to the Ukrainian military in the middle of a ceasefire would be appropriate.
Actually General, you and the Joint Chiefs are a threat to the world let alone our bill of rights.
Well the war needs to go on with ISIS, the "enemy" needs to be named first to have a excuse for "generation war" to continue and the army to get more of modernized, more costly and less used weapon. Yet, Obama, before being elected, was referring Al-queada and all other terrorist groups that are helped by U.S. And its allies to become ISIS are now ranked number 5 as security risk to USA. How fast they change and play with people's life more as a businessman than a people's man.
And if we keep encroaching on Russia and China an actual threat could be the outcome. If we manage to cause a conflict with those countries, we know full well that a nuclear conflict would mean mutual destruction and who in the hell can you imagine would win a “traditional” war? How long would it take Russia, backed by Chinese coming over their border, to walk over Europe and everything NATO? Would America fight this war from afar as it did in WW-II? Alaska is right across a tiny straight with a climate Russians thrive in. It all gets complex, and there are no winners, certainly not the Americans and Europeans. Australia would be safe from the Chinese, why? Oh yes, we have Marines stationed there to protect them. Don´t forget about ISIS, who would they fight for? The West is full of millions of Muslim, Chinese, and many Russian citizens who would be considered as potential enemies – do we attempt to round them up like we did the Japanese citizens during WW-II? Etc upon nauseating etc.
The full monty! Nuclear holocaust, the "invincible" Russians, the Yellow Peril, the Muslim hordes. Only the possiblity of a Martian landing has been left out!
General Dumbford is just another hand picked stooge of the MIC.
This clown already has his cup in hand, ready to beg the USG
taxpayers for more dollars to keep (us) safe from the Russian
bogeymen whose annexation of the Crimea was worst than the USG's
Iraq fiasco, according to Oboomer, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
Wonderful comment, EME. I had intended to write a comment with similar ideas, but I can't improve on yours. Especially love the "Gen. Dumbford" variation on the gen. jerks name. By the way, how do such cowardly, fawning, sycophants reach the rank of general?
I have no doubt that our putrid congress will support his appt. to head the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Have to keep that military industrial complex humming, always having old (and new) enemies in our quest to dominate the planet.
This is the third time I have read these catch phrases, "Russia is the biggest threat to U.S. security, or "Putin is the single greatest threat to world peace" or "Russia biggest threat to U.S. national security".
1. U.S. Secretary of the Air Force Deborah James; a political appointee (see: http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2015/07/09/419497/Eu….
2. Financial hedge fund CEO, Willam Browder, one of the princes of Wall Street avarice (see: http://www.thestreet.com/video/13210813/hedge-fun… ).
3. Marine Corps General, Joseph Dunford (a.k.a. “Fighting Joe”), a groomed military politician (see: http://www.usnews.com/news/politics/articles/2015… ).
Thankfully many of the sane people throughout the world have not be captivated by the Department of War’s mendacious rhetoric that vomits forth from the Pentagon center of hellish propaganda. If it isn’t the Persian people or the Syrian people then it’s the Russian people. War, war and more war is all they know, because Lucifer has seduced them so completely that malevolence corrupts their blood and damns their souls for all eternity.
President Vladimir Putin is a great leader of the Russian Federation; a statesman and peacemaker. It was Putin, not Obama the Puppet King, who negotiated with the Syrian leadership to remove chemical weapon stockpiles thereby eliminating any justification for the U.S. military to invade Syria.
Make no mistake about Washington, DC; it is Satan’s palace on Earth and the world must reject him and his court of evil minions completely.
As long as Russian or Russian-supported forces, whatever their precise legal status, continue to occupy any part of Ukrainian territory without Ukrainian consent, Russia is a threat to peace and stability in Europe. Whether that does or does not threaten the US is a matter for Americans to decide. What is undeniable is that that situation was provoked by the unlawful actions of a US Assistant Secretary of State, acting in her official capacity and seems to be the result of a scam concocted between her, Putin and Yanukovych to carve up Ukraine. The US caused the damage to Ukraine and it must, if it is to have any credibility in the world (for example, in regard to Israel's enemies) therefore, it must do whatever it takes to put Ukriane back in the position it was in before Putin violated its sovereignty. The neocons have been holding Obama back but it would appear that, little by little, the mainstream Israel Lobby is getting the upper hand. The willingness of career soldiers to speak out reflects that.
You just make it up as you babble along, don't you? You must figure that the more wind you emit, the less hollow your writing sounds. Brevity is the soul of wit — you are neither soulful nor witty.
The US is deploying 409 missiles in Poland, 239 missiles in Romania and on 32 ships in the Mediterranean "to defend us from Iran or maybe N.Korea". Of course, the Russians don't believe that fairy tale. Missile engineer Bob Aldridge: "Whether they are on ships or land, they are still a necessary component for an unanswerable first strike." GPS was made for Minuteman-3 and Trident-2 to be able to hit missile silos accurately. The US Navy can track and destroy all enemy submarines simultaneously according to Bob Aldridge. The warheads on Minuteman-3 and Trident-2 are designed to minimize nuclear winter effects if used against missile silos. In 2-3 years the Russians may think they have no other means of defense than Launch On Warning. And then we'll commit Suicide thanks to the stupid, aggressive, crazy, bloody fools in Pentagon/Washington. They are seeking a Disarming First Strike Capability expecting the Russians not to react in any way !!!
American generals are condoning war crimes en masse for the same reasons that those German generals who hated the nazis or disagreed with Hitler's schemes continued to serve even against their own consciences: vanity. Sheer vanity, along with pride and arrogance and a psychopath's indifference to any "collateral damage," i.e., indifference to any amount of blood spilled, either U.S. or those we are fighting at the moment.
Russia is a inactive threat to america a active threat to america is Israel.