Ukraine War is Just a ‘Warm Up’ for the ‘Big One,’ Top U.S. Commander Says
The Trends Journal has warned that the longer the conflict drags on, the closer the world gets to a nuclear confrontation.
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Navy Adm. Charles Richard said during a speech a few days ago that the Ukraine War that the U.S. “is in” right now is just a “warmup” for what is about to come and the country should b ready for a global conflict with China.
“The big one is coming. And it isn’t going to be very long before we’re going to get tested in ways that we haven’t been tested [in] a long time,” he told the Naval Submarine League 2022 Annual Symposium and Industry Update last Wednesday.
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He told the conference that China is developing nuclear weapons at a faster clip than Washington and “the big one is coming.”
“As I assess our level of deterrence against China, the ship is slowly sinking,” he said. “It is sinking slowly, but it is sinking, as fundamentally they are putting capability in the field faster than we are.”
In 2021, The Trends Journal reported that the U.S. was surprised when China successfully tested hypersonic missiles.
“I don’t know if it’s quite a Sputnik moment, but I think it’s very close to that,” Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Mark A. Milley said. He called the tests a “very significant technological event” and said the test “has all our attention.”
The news of the hypersonic missile launches dropped shortly after the Pentagon’s former software chief told The Financial Times that Beijing has already won the artificial intelligence race with the U.S. and will likely further its lead in other technologies in the future.
“We have no competing fighting chance against China in 15 to 20 years,” Nicholas Chaillan told the paper. “Right now, it’s already a done deal; it’s already over in my opinion. Whether it takes war or not is kind of anecdotal.”