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Is the U.S. Inching Closer to War?
From Russia and China to the Middle East, conflicts seem to be deepening by the day.
“I hope I am wrong,” General Mike Minihan wrote in a memo obtained by NBC News yesterday. “My gut tells me we will fight in 2025.”
In the leaked memo, the head of U.S. Air Mobility Command predicted the presidential elections in Taiwan and the United States in 2024 will provide an excellent opportunity for the Chinese Communist Party to move on Taiwan.
Though high-ranking members of the Pentagon and the Biden administration, including President Biden himself, have dismissed the possibility of an “imminent attack” on Taiwan by the People’s Liberation Army of China, not everyone is convinced.
Gen. Minihan, it would seem, is one such person. In the explosive memo, he instructed troops under his command to use the month of February to “consider their personal affairs and whether a visit should be scheduled with their servicing base legal office to ensure they are legally ready and prepared,” and “prepare for China fight.”
“Fire a clip into a 7-meter target with the full understanding that unrepentant lethality matters most,” Gen. Minihan advised. “Aim for the head.”
Though ominous, Gen. Minihan’s warnings aren’t the only geopolitical warning signs. Elsewhere, war and rumors of…