Chief of US Strategic Command: Ukraine crisis is ''just the warm-up''

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Adm. Charles Richard, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, said Wednesday that the current conflict with Russia in Ukraine "is just the warm-up" for potentially larger conflicts in the future.

"The big one is coming, and it isn't going to be very long before we're going to get tested in ways that we haven't been tested a long time," The Independent reported Richard saying during a speech at the Naval Submarine League's 2022 Annual Symposium and Industry Update in Arlington, Virginia.

Usually is retired generals that have the courage to say the most blunt things, but he is in function as of now.  The message also wasn't meant to be transmitted to the general public by the looks of it, bu it was still spoken in a place where the press had access to so this is another thing to consider. 

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Not sure what'll happen first: Russia tries to invade somewhere else or Russia uses some sort of nuclear weapon

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And AMerica is right in the heart of it. It's such an ironic country; their citizens couldn't place most European , Asian, African countries on a map, but their government has it's nose in every country in the world.

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Hoping someone whisks away Putin before his illness progresses and he pulls out the big moves. 

Gingerly whisked away to someplace warm. Very warm. Notoriously hot even. 

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11 hours ago, bionic said:

Not sure what'll happen first: Russia tries to invade somewhere else or Russia uses some sort of nuclear weapon

I expect two scenarios:

1) When food insecurity caused by the war will be at its peak (early 2023), something bad will happen in the Middle East. Maybe in Iran or Saudi Arabia or in between the two.

2) Or China may indeed try to invade Taiwan (he is mostly hinting at this).

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12 hours ago, Roughhouse Dandy said:

Hoping someone whisks away Putin before his illness progresses and he pulls out the big moves. 

Gingerly whisked away to someplace warm. Very warm. Notoriously hot even. 

I think he is mostly talking about China, Iran.

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14 hours ago, Orisexual said:

And AMerica is right in the heart of it. It's such an ironic country; their citizens couldn't place most European , Asian, African countries on a map, but their government has it's nose in every country in the world.

If Iran really attacks Saudi Arabia, I am having a hard time imagining how US would convince its Western allies to help them (except for appealing to the idea of helping regular civilians and not the regime). Then again they followed the US in Iraq and Afganistan, so..