The delay was the “result of an overcautious, reluctant, hesitant … leadership. I think they were concerned about the optics, the political optics of a military presence here and I don’t think they trusted the commander in chief,” Matthews said.
“The Patriot: How General Mark Milley protected the Constitution from Donald Trump” is Jeffrey Goldberg’s 6,500-word ode in The Atlantic to the outgoing chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Although the article also suffers from cloying revisionism, its biggest flaw is failing to provide a single instance proving its proposition—quite the contrary.
U.S. military officials have recently raised alarms about the possibility that the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) could invade Taiwan amid speculation the CCP could take inspiration from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
China is clearly developing the capability to attack at some point, but deciding to do so would be a political choice, Gen Mark Milley told the BBC.
“Could, should, would, those are key words there”.
Milley’s admission contradicted rhetoric from the Biden administration about the hoped-for effect of sanctions against Russia prior to the Feb. 24 invasion.
Why it matters: The comments by America’s top uniformed general underscore the depths of U.S. concerns about China’s rapid military expansion and development of advanced weaponry.
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