Adm. John Aquilino, the commander of US Indo-Pacific Command, told Congress Tuesday that the US must be ready to “fight and win” a war against China over Taiwan.
“I’m responsible [for finding a way] to prevent this conflict today and — if deterrence were to fail — to be able to fight and win,” Aquilino told a House Armed Services Committee hearing.
The comments are the latest example of US military officials speaking openly about the fact that they’re preparing for a war with China. US Army Secretary Christine Wormuth also said recently that the US must be ready to beat China in a war in the Asia Pacific by beefing up its military presence in the region.
Aquilino pushed back against other US military leaders who have tried to predict when China might attack Taiwan, saying they were just “guessing.” His predecessor, Adm. Philip Davidson, said in 2021 that China could invade in six to 10 years.
More recently, Air Force Gen. Mike Minihan, the commander of Air Mobility Command, said in a memo to his officers that the US and China could be at war in 2025. “For me, it doesn’t matter what the timeline is,” Aquilino said.
Aquilino and other US officials maintain the US must increase support for Taiwan, both militarily and diplomatically, to prevent a Chinese attack on the island. But China has increased military pressure on Taiwan in response to the growing ties between Washington and Taipei.
What kind of sh-t is this commander smoking??? “Win and fight a war with China”??? Inhale…………………………………………………………………….
NUCLEAR WAR……………………………………………………..
Some pretty good stuff. Up the nose and out the *ss as well.
Never ending funding for the military industrial complex and the Empire. Why don’t we try harder to prevent war by stop sending our politicians to Taiwan? If war breaks out, these politicians should be first in line for the frontline.
Hmm it really should be Congress telling him what he needs to fight and win and then asking him what he might need to do that. I would say obviously we are not going to go to war with China over Taiwan. We just need to make Taiwan unpalatable.
We just need to mind our own god damned business.
In the end, we will all go out with a whimper. Radiation sickness. Starvation. Thank you so much, Bush, Clinton, Obama, Trump, and best of all, Biden.
Yeah, Obama setting up a hegemonic showdown in Ukraine in 2014, losing an election, tarring half the population as secret Russian agents, then under Biden immediately dropping their care about Covid and the ongoing economic catastrophe harming so many Americans, just so they can focus on the unnecessary war they set up so many years ago, that stands a good chance of ushering in nuclear apocalypse – ULTIMATELY BECAUSE the Democrats and US establishment would rather kill the world than lose control of the world carbon energy markets WE MUST ABANDON because climate change is actively killing us….
It’s sickening. The claims that we somehow owe them our vote because Republicans are dangerous culturally, that their bullshit+t is a bigger issue that burgeoning Armageddon and ecocide? They are NEVER going to be the lesser evil again, in my eyes.
Highly cynical ZM but true.
Oh, come on now.
So, the Democratic Party and the ‘Establishment’ would rather exterminate humanity? Rather then lose control of ‘world carbon energy markets’?
Utter nonsense.
I despise both parties.
But to suggest either one prefers complete human extinction rather then losing some mineral sources is ludicrous.
No offense.
“I’m responsible [for finding a way] to prevent this conflict today and — if deterrence were to fail — to be able to fight and win,” Aquilino told a House Armed Services Committee hearing.
This is pure crapola from the mouth of an idiot who is immersed in Hollywood evening news and cop shows.
In a war with China the Admirals ship will be sunk within 24 hours, he should just retire and then STFU. 🙂
probably the admiral will not be on a ship – he will be safely at his desk back at the port
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Lee Camp [Redacted]
Congressman accidentally lets slip the real reason the US is pushing for a Taiwan proxy war!
https://twitter.com/LeeCamp/status/1646850783797735428
More from this idiot spilling the beans on propaganda:
With a headline that starts with “US Indo-Pacific Commander” you know there is no hope.
Yawn…..
It’s budget time so it’s time to come up with reasons why budgets need to be larger.
I kind of ignore these fools popping up to demand more money to do things around this time…..
Distract the enemy into thinking you will attack in a place you have no intentions of attacking. Making the enemy spend recourses defending an area where you are not. Sound familiar. Why would China by claiming Taiwan is part of China want to destroy one of its own islands. Patients is a virtue.
Why? Taiwan never belonged to the USA. In fact, it was a Japanese colony before the Republican Chinese under Chiang Kai-shek fled there at the end of the revolution.
So what is our motivation to start a nuclear war over this island? That’s the question, General Fancypants. Not if we can, but if we SHOULD.
What goes on between Taiwan and China is none of America’s business.
Period.
If Taiwan were a poor, African nation? And it were being invaded by another poor, African nation? America would not give a crap.
This is NOTHING to do with ‘protecting Taiwanese’ or any motives above those of the cockroach.
This blather the Admiral spews forth is his desperate attempt to inflame a new Cold War.
War-mongering idiot.
Admiral, could you please dial it down for, say, another 20 years? The US did everything in its power to make China into an economic and military power so it’s astonishing you now want American troops to die in a war with China.
The Chinese kicked the Americans ass in Korea / Vietman , the same fate awaits them again , the fact is the US won`t take on the Chinese in a stand up fight , for two reasons , one the US will not have air superiority , and two when the body bags begin arriving back in the US it will be Vietnam all over again , it will be just another proxy war just like Ukraine .