Mike Pompeo Warns of 2025 War with China

Former Secretary of State and former CIA Director Mike Pompeo said that Chinese President Xi Jinping is “watching for American weakness” during an interview Monday after an Air Force general warned in a memo that the U. S. is on a collision course with communist China.

Four-star Air Force General Mike Minihan said in a memo last week that believes that the U. S. will be in an all-out war with China in the next couple of years.

“I hope I am wrong. My gut tells me we will fight in 2025,” he wrote. “Xi secured his third term and set his war council in October 2022. Taiwan’s presidential elections are in 2024 and will offer Xi a reason. United States’ presidential elections are in 2024 and will offer Xi a distracted America. Xi’s team, reason, and opportunity are all aligned for 2025.”

Minihan said that his top priority was ingraining the fact that “unrepentant lethality matters most” in the minds of the 50,000 service members that he leads.

Pompeo addressed Minihan’s remarks during an appearance on Fox News’ “Special Report,” saying: “I take General Minihan to be serious, in the sense of he’s clearly very concerned that we’re not doing enough to prepare to deter the Chinese Communist Party.”... (Read more)

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