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>> Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, the most utterly incompetent,
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> "Nobody should underestimate Joe’s ability to fuck things up.  -- Barack
> Obama”
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Milley, the Woke General who at the request of Biden
spends more time wanking off to the new perverts in
his barracks than running the Military, who conspired
to murder 10 innocent Afghans, is now taking orders
from China, and Biden "Mr. 10% for the Big Guy" approves...


Milley's Calls To Chinese General Could Have Jeopardized US National
Security: Former Military Officials

https://www.theepochtimes.com/milleys-calls-to-chinese-general-could-have-jeopardized-us-national-security-former-military-officials_4007031.html
https://www.theepochtimes.com/former-trump-pentagon-chief-says-he-did-not-authorize-mark-milley-china-calls_3999640.html

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley, could have
jeopardized the national security of the United States in allegedly
secret calls to Gen. Li Zuocheng of China’s People’s Liberation Army
(PLA), according to former U.S. military officers. Milley also
overstepped his own authority while allegedly discussing the launch of
nuclear weapons with senior military officials, they say.

Endangering National Security

According to a new book titled, “Peril,” Milley called Li once in
October 2020 and another time on Jan. 8 to assure him that the United
States wouldn’t attack the Chinese Communist Party, and if it was
poised to attack, he would alert his counterpart.

“General Li, you and I have known each other for now five years. If
we’re going to attack, I’m going to call you ahead of time. It’s not
going to be a surprise,” Milley reportedly said.

Milley made those calls, the book has alleged, because he was fearful
that then-President Donald Trump would carry out military action
during the waning days of his presidency.

Some U.S. lawmakers have described Milley’s actions as treasonous,
saying the general overstepped his authority, and have called for
President Joe Biden to fire Milley. Biden, in response, has backed the
general.

Retired U.S. Navy Cmdr. Kirk Lippold, who was the commanding officer
of the USS Cole when it was attacked by al-Qaeda terrorists in 2000,
said he was incredibly concerned about Milley’s allegedly secret
conversations with Li.

That the nation’s top military officer has not denied any of the
allegations, but defended his conversations, has shocked Lippold, who
told The Epoch Times, “Milley may have purposefully—or
inadvertently—created a window of strategic vulnerability.”

Milley has since described the calls as “routine” and “perfectly
within the duties and responsibilities” of his job. As chairman,
Milley is the top military adviser to the president and to the defense
secretary.

Lippold said the call to Li could have easily called into question
“America’s resolve and willingness” to safeguard itself and ensure its
survival.

The smallest misinterpretation could cause the Chinese regime to
believe aggression from the communist-led country would be “met with
acquiescence or acceptance from the United States rather than military
action and resolve,” Lippold warned.

Having served as a member of the War on Terrorism Division of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, Lippold said that Milley’s call could have
“given the Chinese government the impression that the United States
was hesitant or, at worst case, unwilling to use nuclear weapons to
ensure our national survival.”

According to the new book, Milley on Jan. 8 also conveyed instructions
to senior military officials not to take orders regarding military
strikes or launching nuclear weapons from anyone without the
chairman’s approval.

According to Lippold, it is far outside Milley’s normal chain of
command to engage in a conversation about nuclear engagements.

Robert Maginnis, a retired U.S. Army Lt. Colonel and Pentagon analyst
agreed, saying, “The chairman is little more than a presidential
military adviser, who is prohibited by law from exercising executive
authority and does not have nuclear release authority.”

“Milley commands nothing,” Maginnis added.
China’s Growing Nuclear Capabilities

The risks posed by Milley’s calls with Li are heightened given that
China is a nuclear-capable nation, according to Lippold. The
repercussions of such revelations could have an effect on “the very
survival of the United States,” he said.

Nations possess nuclear weapons because their respective governments
view them as “the ultimate guarantor of that nation’s survival,”
Lippold pointed out. Since World War Two, nuclear weapons have served
as a deterrent for wide-scale global conflict.

China’s DF-41 nuclear-capable intercontinental ballistic missiles are
seen during a military parade at Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China,
on Oct. 1, 2019. (Greg Baker/AFP via Getty Images)

    “The conversation undermined U.S. military credibility and
capability by undermining the deterrent effect of U.S. firepower, both
conventional and nuclear, that provides for the security of the
nation,” he said.

According to Lippold, it is unconscionable for the chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff to speak about U.S. military readiness with the
top military officer of another nuclear-capable nation, particularly
“one that has expansive goals in mind, both regionally and globally.”

The Chinese regime, Lippold said, is “going out of their way to
modernize their nuclear triad across the board,” which includes the
building up of land-based intercontinental ballistic missile,
submarine-launched ballistic missile, and strategic bomber capability.

Lippold called for a thorough accounting of the precise words of
Milley’s conversations.

    “These types of phone calls are usually very tightly controlled,
so there must be an investigation initiated by Congress to get a full
accounting of exactly what was said during the course of the
conversation,” he said.

    “If he intimated or indicated to the head of the PLA what the
United States actions or intents might be,” Lippold said, “that would
prove to be a very dangerous road to tread down.”

This would amount to a “huge breach of trust,” indicating that Milley
is not fit to serve in his role as the principal adviser to the
Secretary of Defense and president, Lippold said. If this is found to
be the case, then Milley should have the “moral integrity to lay his
stars on the table” and resign, he added.
Accountability

The Joint Chiefs of Staff, which Milley chairs, said in a statement
last week that Milley regularly talks with counterparts around the
world, including counterparts in China and Russia.

    “His calls with the Chinese and others in October and January were
in keeping with these duties and responsibilities conveying
reassurance in order to maintain strategic stability,” a spokesman for
the group said.

    “All calls from the Chairman to his counterparts, including those
reported, are staffed, coordinated and communicated with the
Department of Defense and the interagency.”

Trump and other former White House and Defense officials, however,
have said they were not informed of the calls.

    “The fact that the acting Defense Secretary Christopher Miller was
not informed of the call—nor was his staff—indicates that the general
had an agenda behind this phone call that was purposefully designed to
mislead, or flat out not inform, the chain-of-command of what he was
doing and thinking,” Lippold said.

For Milley not to inform his superiors of the calls was “out of the
norm” and “completely unprecedented,” according to Lippold. “His
chain-of-command should have known everything about these calls—when
they were going to be made, what was going to be discussed, and how he
was going to frame his words.”

Lippold believes that Milley is “banking on the fact that the American
people and Congress do not understand how these types of conversations
are conducted.”

    “Milley should not be able to have these conversations, couch them
in the way he did, calling them ‘perfectly within the duties and
responsibilities’ of his job, and get away with it,” he added.

Maginnis said, “If this entire series of events hold true, it is
arguably the closest the United States has come to a military coup—and
elected leaders must not rest until the country gets answers and all
those involved are held to account.”

Milley is expected to appear before a Senate Armed Services Committee
on Sept. 28 to speak about Afghanistan, but it is expected he will be
forced to field questions under oath about the reports from the book.

“Nothing can be more important than knowing whether or not a top
military official committed treason and tried to take control of
America’s nuclear arsenal from the former president of the United
States,” Maginnis said.