US General: The war with Russia cannot be presented as a skirmish over some border town in Estonia

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US General: The war with Russia cannot be presented as a skirmish over some border town in Estonia

The likelihood of a "limited" armed conflict escalating into larger-scale hostilities with countries such as Russia and China is quite high. The war with Russia cannot be presented as a skirmish over some border town in Estonia or Lithuania. This was announced by General of the US Army Mark Millie, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the US Armed Forces.

According to the general, Russia and China remain a threat to the United States, but China is increasingly becoming the main threat. Currently, the Pentagon views Moscow and Beijing as real opponents and future enemies. At the same time, Milli is convinced that although relations between Russia and the United States will remain complex and confusing, there will be no war. According to him, the war is not an acceptable outcome.



(...) many forget that a "limited" conflict with China, which begins somewhere on an uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean, or a sudden military clash with Russia over some border town in one of the Baltic states, such as Estonia or Latvia, can develop into a full-fledged military conflict with the use of nuclear weapons

- said the general, adding that the opinion of some American military that the United States is able to control such clashes is wrong.

The general recalled that over the past 30 years, the United States has participated in many military conflicts and wars, as well as smaller counter-terrorism operations around the world. Milli argues that planning and preparing for a conflict against Russia or China will not be like all US operations, and it's not just that conflicts with Russia will be harder and harder, they just shouldn't start.
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  1. +47
    24 December 2020 17: 53
    The war with Russia cannot be presented as a skirmish over some Estonian border town
    that's for sure, the war with Russia cannot be imagined in any way, in your right mind
    1. +11
      24 December 2020 17: 54
      US General: War with Russia cannot be viewed as a skirmish for some Estonian border town

      Yes, the war will not be like that now!
      If the war breaks out, everyone will get it!
      1. -23
        24 December 2020 17: 58
        Swindlers and thieves on behalf of Russia and you and I have already surrendered. Only honorable surrender, which is absolutely fair, no one offers them. They don't stand on ceremony with traitors. They are not loved anywhere, but only used. And no one buys from the burrow. They will definitely finish it off.
        1. +7
          24 December 2020 22: 26
          Is your last name Navalny by any chance?
          1. -1
            25 December 2020 16: 13
            And his nickname is - Russian - Russian.
            Guardian for the Fatherland. Pancake.
            1. +1
              27 December 2020 22: 25
              a skirmish with Russia over some border town in one of the Baltic states

              And again "by default" Russia attacked, and there are arguments - to intervene or not.
              Although in reality it is always the other way around.
              The USA is always the first to attack someone.
              1. +1
                28 December 2020 16: 51
                Sure sure. Today I read in our "press" that in Israel a man was shot with a vaccine and he died. I re-read the entire article but did not find which vaccine. Apparently not ours, otherwise it would have been in large letters in the title. But on the other hand, they printed it so that it would be deposited in the brain - it is dangerous to be vaccinated. The media are corrupt. We urgently need to introduce censorship, urgently!
        2. +1
          25 December 2020 07: 36
          Mr. Gozman, re-login!
        3. -1
          25 December 2020 09: 50
        4. -1
          25 December 2020 09: 51
          And for you, to bring order 227 to execution without trial and investigation.
          1. -5
            25 December 2020 14: 12
            Apply this order to yourself from the beginning, you are useless anyway ...
            1. +3
              25 December 2020 14: 38
              Did you decide that? Ukrainian, your country has been sold and your fifth point is also an American black master. Go out of here in peace.
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        1. +6
          24 December 2020 21: 49
          Quote: Briz
          they are stirring up something in the West ...

          That's for sure! It is something that is stirring up in the West, especially in Washington / Pentagon.
          The enemies of the world in Washington with their Pentagon and NATO are actively preparing for war.

          New Year's holidays are just around the corner! And people, instead of a feeling of celebration, expect a war either in the new year, or in the next, as was the expectation of war at Dali in 1938.

          1. 0
            25 December 2020 08: 41
            Active preparations are underway, most likely it will flare up closer to the fall of next year, unless the States only do not post a tsunami or other cataclysm from a tsunami or other cataclysms in August 21, perhaps methiorite will fall, where the beginning of the conflict is not vague, we are waiting. hi
        2. -1
          25 December 2020 14: 13
          And he teaches us, or are you one of these fools who can repeat themselves?)
      3. 0
        25 December 2020 14: 11
        Who exactly?
    2. +25
      24 December 2020 18: 06
      The trees are green, even among the high offices there is a voice of reason !!!!! It's amazing that this is not a retired person speaking!
      1. +9
        24 December 2020 18: 15
        Mark Millie has been in charge since September 30, 2019.
        He was appointed by Trump and, quite possibly, he is preparing for a democratic administration and resignation. hi
      2. +9
        24 December 2020 20: 15
        Please do not forget that the decision to start a war will be made by politicians, not generals - in the State Department and in the Capitol there is much less common sense than under the cap of this general (and there are enough hawks in the army too)
        1. +3
          24 December 2020 22: 24
          Quote: hydrox
          Please do not forget that the decision to start a war will be made by politicians, not generals - in the State Department and in the Capitol there is much less common sense than under the cap of this general (and there are enough hawks in the army too)

          Please do not forget that the voice of generals matters to politicians. If Kennedy had listened to the generals and would have started a military solution to the Cuban missile crisis, then you and I would not have existed now.
          1. +3
            24 December 2020 23: 04
            If Kennedy had listened to the generals and would have started a military solution to the Cuban missile crisis, then you and I would not have existed now.
            I would clarify: someone from the countries mentioned. It is not a fact that this conflict would affect us. But life would have been differently built, yes.
    3. +7
      24 December 2020 18: 24
      Quote: _Ugene_
      The war with Russia cannot be presented as a skirmish over some Estonian border town
      that's for sure, the war with Russia cannot be imagined in any way, in your right mind

      Why not, this is how Los Angeles will approximately look like. The third world has already been calculated mathematically long ago, every country has such calculations. Therefore, the war is going on in the humanitarian line.
      1. +6
        24 December 2020 22: 08
        Quote: XXXIII
        this is how Los Angeles will look like.
        Why, Elk in Angeles ...
        I am more satisfied with this view of Washington:
        1. +2
          24 December 2020 22: 14
          Quote: BoA KAA
          Quote: XXXIII
          this is how Los Angeles will look like.
          Why, Elk in Angeles ...
          I am more satisfied with this view of Washington:

          So the films of the catastrophe of the death of America, in part, are a mathematical picture. Hollywood has always shown propaganda in its films, and this is the opposite effect for the American viewer.
          1. +3
            24 December 2020 22: 26
            Quote: XXXIII
            So the films of the catastrophe of the death of America, in part, are a mathematical picture. Hollywood has always shown propaganda in its films, and this is the opposite effect for the American viewer.

            So this is Fallout 3, not Hollywood.
            1. +2
              24 December 2020 22: 50
              Quote: Obliterator
              Quote: XXXIII
              So the films of the catastrophe of the death of America, in part, are a mathematical picture. Hollywood has always shown propaganda in its films, and this is the opposite effect for the American viewer.

              So this is Fallout 3, not Hollywood.

              It's not about that.))
        2. +1
          25 December 2020 16: 22
          Satisfied with the ruins of the Senate.
      2. 0
        25 December 2020 14: 15
        And, of course, you were initiated into these calculations)))
        1. 0
          25 December 2020 15: 50
          Quote: Ryusey
          And, of course, you were initiated into these calculations)))

          You can calculate it yourself if you know the basic parameters of the explosion. How do you think they create shells ?!
    4. -18
      24 December 2020 18: 48
      but what about investing in Ukraine or in the homeland of Siberia
    5. +3
      24 December 2020 19: 36
      Quote: _Ugene_
      that's for sure, the war with Russia cannot be imagined in any way, in your right mind

      It is impossible to imagine a hot war after the Caribbean crisis, but in other manifestations we have been at war with the West for a long time
      1. +6
        24 December 2020 21: 19
        And the Balts sleep and see how NATO fits into the border town. Naive. soldier
    6. 0
      25 December 2020 14: 10
      Who told you that?)
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  3. +12
    24 December 2020 17: 54
    Adequate general.
    1. +8
      24 December 2020 18: 00
      It looks like he's going to retire. They all become adequate after receiving an addition to the rank - former / retired / etc.
    2. +13
      24 December 2020 18: 03
      Adequate general.

      And probably not very fond of gay in the army)))
    3. +7
      24 December 2020 18: 32
      Quote: Krasnodar
      Adequate general.

      Said the obvious. They know that if they overwhelm their state, the Russian Empire will come to them first. First, he will play blue and red cowboys, and then he will take his territories and a couple of states into the Russian Empire. am laughing
    4. +4
      24 December 2020 21: 27
      Adequate with them only with the prefix ex happens.
      1. +3
        25 December 2020 12: 47
        Quote: Evil543
        Adequate with them only with the prefix ex happens.

        Well, why only "ex" - for example, Vorobyov basically took off his shoulder straps when he refused to command troops in Chechnya, knowing that our army was not ready for this.
    5. +3
      24 December 2020 22: 37
      Quote: Krasnodar
      Adequate general.

      Quote: MaikCG
      It looks like he's going to retire. They all become adequate after receiving an addition to the rank - former / retired / etc.

      Yes, they are rather initially adequate, just while you are building a career, then I have to play politics. And as the pension is earned, you can say what you think. After all, you don’t need a lot of intelligence to understand that Russia has no reason to play an aggressive war in the European theater of operations. But to prove to the townsfolk that the country needs you personally is a very profitable business.
      1. +4
        25 December 2020 01: 14
        Quote: Obliterator
        Yes, they are rather initially adequate, just while you are building a career, then I have to play politics.

        That is, the acting can be considered ex-adequate. hi
        1. +2
          25 December 2020 01: 51
          Quote: DymOk_v_dYmke
          Quote: Obliterator
          Yes, they are rather initially adequate, just while you are building a career, then I have to play politics.

          That is, the acting can be considered ex-adequate. hi

          They can be considered polit. whores. Because a decent career officer will never lie. This is contrary to the essence of the officers.
          1. +4
            25 December 2020 12: 54
            Quote: Obliterator
            Because a decent career officer will never lie. This is contrary to the essence of the officers.

            Your extremism is far from the real life of officers, and as an example, I will cite a case from my service. One officer on Saturday early morning got stoned in the garage by negligence, not being on duty. In order for his family to receive all the benefits and pensions for children, a version was invented that the boss ordered him to leave for a higher organization on Saturday morning in his own car, because on weekends, leaving the park is limited according to the current orders of the Ministry of Defense.
            Well, our boss lied, presenting the case like this - and you think that someone began to disrespect him for this? On the contrary, for all of us it was an example of the attitude towards colleagues, and the command of the unit turned a blind eye to this and the commander approved the act of the interrogators. Here's a lie for your salvation ...
            1. +1
              25 December 2020 13: 45
              Honor and respect for your boss! May God grant him health and happiness!
              1. +2
                25 December 2020 13: 58
                Quote: Ezoterik
                Honor and respect for your boss! May God grant him health and happiness!

                Unfortunately, this respected man died a long time ago, and his son recently retired as a lieutenant colonel himself. Many colleagues saw him off on his last journey - he really was a real officer and was not afraid to make decisions, even if they threatened him with trouble.
      2. 0
        25 December 2020 14: 17
        ... And they will fight with us adequately.
    6. 0
      25 December 2020 14: 10
      That is, you do not have an understanding that this is a common disinformation, which is mandatory in preparing for war?))
  4. +10
    24 December 2020 17: 59
    Clever. Millie is not yet suffering from brain death.
  5. +9
    24 December 2020 17: 59
    and the point is not only that conflicts with Russia will be more difficult and difficult, it is just they shouldn't start.

    Gold words.
    Professionals, whether it be the USA or ours, always give adequate assessments.
    Politicians stir everything up.
    By the way, what is the difference between a professional and just a technically competent person?
    Professionals never follow the lead of populists.
    1. +4
      24 December 2020 18: 04
      Gold words.
      Professionals, whether it be the USA or ours, always give adequate assessments.

      Enta yes)))
      Enough and they have bright minds)))
    2. +1
      24 December 2020 19: 12
      Quote: Alexey Sommer
      Professionals never follow the lead of populists.

      Well, if a populist makes a competent statement, why not work for a small share. Another thing populists will not be able to draw up this statement, but only chirp this is necessary, it is necessary that, everything else is in the furnace. Initially impossible conditions. Like If True = False Then
  6. +5
    24 December 2020 18: 03
    Mind does not understand Russia
    A common yardstick cannot be measured (s)
    Russia will not sit and watch (as, for example, other civilized countries) how Tomahawks are allowed through it and will respond with all the might of the Strategic Missile Forces. What unbearable aggressive cunning of the Kremlin!
  7. +5
    24 December 2020 18: 04
    The general understands. But the decisions are made by completely different people. The politicians are called. And their brains work according to other algorithms.
    1. +4
      24 December 2020 23: 50
      Quote: Michael m
      The general understands. But the decisions are made by completely different people. The politicians are called. And their brains work according to other algorithms.

      The danger to the world lies in the fact that the political brains of the United States for the most part have worn out for more than 70 years, and their carriers suffer to one degree or another with senile marasmus. Anything can be expected from these politicians because any examination will confirm their insanity. and therefore non-jurisdiction.
  8. +2
    24 December 2020 18: 06
    Here is a topic, a little lower.
  9. +16
    24 December 2020 18: 12
    No, well, it's okay to identify an uninhabited island in the Pacific Ocean with an Estonian town.
    This is a note to the Tribals who they are held for in the world. request
  10. +3
    24 December 2020 18: 13
    they just don't have to start

    It is no longer the military who decide. There will be an order - and the war will begin.
  11. +13
    24 December 2020 18: 19
    They cannot win the war with us and they are very aware. So that's why the real battle is for the minds of the youth. They were able to reformat the youth of the Baltic States, Ukraine, Georgia, and they went like sheep for a free salary! Yeah shchaz, in the West you just get the hell out of it, you have to pay for everything, and the West also buys officials, lets them buy houses, open firms and accounts, and then they keep that anchor.
    So that's where the danger lies.
    1. 0
      25 December 2020 14: 18
      No, at the moment, their chances are somewhat greater than ours.
      1. +1
        25 December 2020 15: 59
        Quote: Ryusey
        No, at the moment, their chances are somewhat greater than ours.

        What are your statements based on?
        I'm just looking at the facts, we would have been ground into powder during the Soviet era, if our armored personnel carrier had been rammed by an American MRAP and there were wounded Americans. There would have been a second Cuban missile crisis number 2, and now everything has come to naught. Everything went quietly with Iran.
        What are the chances of the Americans now?
  12. -6
    24 December 2020 18: 21
    Quote: _Ugene_
    The war with Russia cannot be presented as a skirmish over some Estonian border town
    that's for sure, the war with Russia cannot be imagined in any way, in your right mind

    But why. We are not talking about a global confrontation. This is generally a strange phenomenon today, because there is no reason to change anything. The world is global, no one dared to destroy it.
    Ps. Even Operation Pandemic has its own global rules.
    1. +2
      24 December 2020 18: 42
      No matter how cynical and monstrous it sounds, WWII also had fundamental rules and plans from all the belligerents, only tens of millions of victims are not easier because they died under someone's global and mostly criminal plans ...
  13. +6
    24 December 2020 18: 22
    So, here, when flocks of pro-American jackals. At the command of "Uncle Sam" rush to Russia, first of all it is necessary to beat this "Uncle" and not "jackals" .....
    1. +4
      24 December 2020 20: 28
      Quote: anjey
      when flocks of pro-American jackals. at the command of "Uncle Sam" rush to Russia

      So, just long before this invasion of jackals our people will have to put an end to their liber jackals under the general name "the fifth and sixth columns".
      For general education: the fifth column is a louse of domestic origin ("I am a girl and I want to go to Europe and lace panties"), and the sixth column is vested with power and does not live on a salary (albeit a gigantic one in comparison with our pensions), while knows how to masterly convert power into money and influence, generating corruption AT ALL LEVELS.
    2. +3
      25 December 2020 01: 20
      Quote: anjey
      So, here, when flocks of pro-American jackals. At the command of "Uncle Sam" rush to Russia, first of all it is necessary to beat this "Uncle" and not "jackals" .....

      Jackals need to do timely "vaccinations" so that they do not get lost in flocks.
  14. +3
    24 December 2020 18: 37
    Why do we need an Estonian town?
    1. +3
      24 December 2020 19: 42
      Quote: Petr Vladimirovich
      Why do we need an Estonian town?

      Town here, town there, you see ...?
      And that, we do not, that uncle allowed us.
      I think after such a statement by the American general, a couple of presidents had a desire to sip something strong.
  15. +2
    24 December 2020 18: 39
    conflicts with Russia will be more difficult and difficult, they just should not start.

    So it is a reminder of all sorts of different, raving about lightning-fast, local, limited and other conflicts and about some kind of possible victories.
    They would hang such a big poster in the Congress, the White House, so that they can read, remember and not invent any nonsense.
  16. +4
    24 December 2020 18: 54
    Quote: lexus
    Swindlers and thieves on behalf of Russia and you and I have already surrendered.

    The expected and contradictory whine from the liberal crowd? How tired of this nonsense, about "everyone handed over and sold everything." Open your eyes. DB. The sanctions pressure that Russia is experiencing is associated with only one thing - the Russian government is not controllable for the West, moreover, it has taken a clear course towards restoring sovereignty. What surrender? Only if the thane surrenders.
    1. -3
      24 December 2020 21: 19
      Don't be so categorical. All these sanctions, as it turned out, hit only the ordinary population. Not a single oligarch close to the Kremlin has gone bankrupt. And even on the contrary - they get rich before our eyes. But people with tight belts on cheap macaroshkas are not filled with patriotism. Not a bad way to undermine the state's defenses, if anything ....
  17. +4
    24 December 2020 19: 01
    Not the former and speaks such sensible words. Biden. urgently appoint him commander-in-chief. You won't go wrong
  18. +2
    24 December 2020 19: 24
    Probably the general knows that an otvetka will arrive. Yes, and in the course who will die for the politicians and the journalists attached to them. A pacifist, however!
  19. +3
    24 December 2020 20: 01
    According to the general, Russia and China remain a threat to the United States, but China is increasingly becoming the main threat. Currently, the Pentagon views Moscow and Beijing as real opponents and future enemies.

    What does not surprise me for a long time is the fact that all high-level military personnel from different countries, unlike politicians, assess real opponents in the foreseeable future very adequately, and do not waste time with different pygmies.
    In the same way that this American general evaluates his real opponents, in the same way all the normal military in Russia understand that we have only two main enemies - the United States and China. Everything else is from the crafty, like that puppy's delight about Israeli drones, which in our confrontation are somewhat reminiscent of pipifax, which can wipe one place. But then screams, screams ...
    1. -2
      24 December 2020 22: 49
      Quote: ccsr
      What does not surprise me for a long time is the fact that all high-level military personnel from different countries, unlike politicians, assess real opponents in the foreseeable future very adequately, and do not waste time with different pygmies.
      In the same way that this American general evaluates his real opponents, in the same way all the normal military in Russia understand that we have only two main enemies - the United States and China. Everything else is from the crafty, like that puppy's delight about Israeli drones, which in our confrontation are somewhat reminiscent of pipifax, which can wipe one place. But then screams, screams ...

      Why should this be surprising? The military understands everything, and many politicians too. The military needs to somehow justify their existence, politicians need to get profits from the military-industrial complex for the lobby, the military-industrial complex needs to exist and receive orders. Well, no one canceled objectively useful actions to humiliate the enemy.
    2. +1
      25 December 2020 01: 30
      Quote: ccsr
      In the same way that this American general evaluates his real opponents, in the same way all the normal military in Russia understand that we have only two main enemies - the United States and China.

      Now, if China is reborn into an imperialist power, then, yes, it will become an enemy.
      Serious. Now - not the enemy. If Russia corrects its social system, it may become a friend. hi
      1. +1
        25 December 2020 12: 43
        Quote: DymOk_v_dYmke
        Now, if China is reborn into an imperialist power, then, yes, it will become an enemy.
        Serious. Now - not the enemy. If Russia corrects its social system, it may become a friend.

        China will never become our friend, and they demonstrated this in their relations with the USSR. So let's not build illusions about our system - Chinese ambitions are well hidden behind colorful speeches, but for some reason they have territorial claims to all neighbors. China will become a serious enemy when its military potential surpasses ours - this will be the starting point.
  20. +5
    24 December 2020 20: 14
    "... According to the general, Russia and China still remain a threat to the United States ..."
    ======
    Small "correction": Not" a threat for the USA"as such, but a threat to Ambition USA!
    The rest - I agree! hi
  21. +2
    24 December 2020 21: 07
    conflicts against Russia or China will not be like all US operations
    Exactly! They won't, because wherever you fought before, you crushed the enemy, and now you will be crushed!
  22. +1
    24 December 2020 21: 11
    Does Biden know? And will he not forget in two minutes, after he
    will it be explained?
    And most importantly: Estonians can be offended! And join the Eurasian Economic Community. And even in the CSTO!
  23. +2
    24 December 2020 21: 18
    that conflicts with Russia will be more complicated and difficult, they just should not start.


    Scary ? and it's good for you and for us ...
  24. +1
    24 December 2020 21: 21
    Nuuu semi-true semi-correct-conflict with Russia over Estonian-Latvian villages is unlikely, since Russia doesn’t need them, if only from there you muddied the provocation, and with China it will not work for uninhabited islands in the same place and fight, just think how much Chinese in yusa then you will understand where the conflict will be
  25. +11
    24 December 2020 21: 50
    a "limited" conflict with China, which begins somewhere on a desert island in the Pacific Ocean, or a sudden military skirmish with Russia over some border town in one of the Baltic states

    And he doesn't want to consider a skirmish somewhere on the border of Texas and Mexico?
  26. +2
    24 December 2020 23: 01
    "Wars must not start!" Well, finally, a sensible thought good there is a chance that we will live drinks
  27. 0
    25 December 2020 09: 39
    Why are these "bolt-stories" about the war? Why these "discussions and statements", which will be regarded as a desire to "make war" ... These stupid old fools will not calm down ...
  28. 0
    25 December 2020 10: 08
    This speech by the American general is nothing more than a distraction from the fact that the war is already underway. A war for the complete destruction of Russia. Only it is being conducted not in the trenches, but in financial, political, legal and other spheres, far from the armed forces of both countries.
    Seriously speaking about a real clash between American and Russian troops can only be either a weak-minded or a mishandled provocateur. And this is well understood by serious people on both sides of the current conflict of interest.
    1. -2
      25 December 2020 14: 22
      Apparently you are this imbecile or provocateur, since war is always war and everything that you described is just a way to weaken the enemy before a "hot" war.
  29. 0
    25 December 2020 11: 08
    So these cretins and for the war against Korea requested nine nuclear bombs from Congress
    the feeling that the Pentagon generals have no brains at all.
  30. 0
    25 December 2020 13: 08
    How is the USA doing? No wonder they themselves plastic coffins for 4 corpses and huge guarded crematoria prepared in the year 2010 approximately.
  31. 0
    25 December 2020 13: 59
    Well, I don't know how to present my opinion. Of course I will get a bunch of cons, but still. Anglo-Saxon civilization will never fight with us. Yes, there are contradictions, but there are many of them. But. We did not have a war with England and her heirs in terms of domination in the world. The only time in history was the Crimean War. But there the frogs did their best. And so, always allies.
    Yes, the Anglo-Saxons they are so bad, "the Englishwoman crap", but how could it be otherwise? We wanted our empire to prosper, they wanted theirs. This is normal. But in the greatest wars of the past centuries, they were the Anglo-Saxons who were our allies. It is a fact.
    And in a hypothetical conflict with our southern neighbor, China, who do you think will help us? France, Italy, Germany? Not. They, the Anglo-Saxons, will help.
    Ready for the cons.
  32. 0
    25 December 2020 20: 18
    General with a brain ... what a game ...)))
  33. 0
    26 December 2020 10: 14
    And what's right, Latvia or Lithuania ... Iraq or Iran ?! ))) wassat
  34. 0
    29 December 2020 21: 13
    so let them keep their dogs on a chain