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To: blueplum

US Intelligence warns that US intelligence are morons.


6 posted on 12/06/2021 12:12:56 AM PST by HYPOCRACY (This is the dystopian future we've been waiting for!)
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... 'most significant threat' from China would be 'a militarily useful naval facility on the Atlantic coast of Africa'.

He added: 'By militarily useful I mean something more than a place that they can make port calls and get gas and groceries.

'I'm talking about a port where they can rearm with munitions and repair naval vessels.' Two months later, Maj. Gen. Andrew Rohling, commander of the U.S. Army Southern European Task Force—Africa, said that the U.S. concern 'is that the Chinese would develop a naval base in Equatorial Guinea, which would then give them naval presence on the Atlantic.'

China 'has likely considered' African bases in Kenya, Seychelles, Tanzania and Angola.

'China doesn't just build a military base like the U.S.,' said Paul Nantulya, research associate at the Pentagon-funded Africa Center for Strategic Studies. He told the paper: 'The Chinese model is very, very different.

China's playing to win - we're playing to see how many billions of dollars worth of weapons we can leave behind when we cut and run...and how many 'Generals' we can add to the bloated roster of fools running the Pentagon.

31 posted on 12/06/2021 8:34:02 AM PST by GOPJ (Black thugs loot Walgreens:"Oh well" Loot Louis Vuitton & white liberal 'elites' start to care. )
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