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ANALYSIS – On Wednesday during the first stop of his European trip, President Joe Biden bragged about his time as Vice President to American forces based at Royal Air Force Base Mildenhall in the UK. Biden regaled the troops with a story of one of his first meetings as VP with the Joint Chiefs of Staff in their secure “tank” meeting room at the Pentagon.

His point to our fighting men and women? That ‘global warming’ – not Russia or China, or rogue states, cyber-attacks, or biowarfare – was the greatest threat facing America today. What the U.S. troops preparing for combat against real enemies made of the Commander in Chief’s belief that they should be fighting the weather is unknown.

However, the very next day, during a congressional panel, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley indirectly rebuffed Biden and offered a more traditional military answer. He said that the biggest threats the U.S. faces are China and Russia.

During his UK stop, Biden said, “When I first was elected vice president with President Obama, the military sat us down to let us know what the greatest threats facing America were.”

“This is not a joke,” Biden told the troops. “You know what the Joint Chiefs told us the greatest threat facing America was? Global warming.”

Since his inauguration, Biden has made ‘climate change’ a top priority of his administration, making the controversial former Obama Secretary of State, John Kerry, his climate czar. Biden and his Defense Secretary, Lloyd Austin, have also pushed climate change as a new Pentagon priority.

In his UK comments, Biden did explain why he believed climate change was the greatest threat to America – “Because there’ll be significant population movements, fights over land, millions of people leaving places because they’re literally sinking below the sea in Indonesia, because of the fights over what is arable land anymore.”

And while this explanation is reasonable, it only makes climate change a factor that increases a myriad of global threats, not the threat itself.

Even a 2015 Pentagon report produced under Obama-Biden called climate change “an urgent and growing threat” as well as a “threat multiplier” that could worsen existing threats. But that report did not call changes in climate the top threat.

General Milley made this point by stating:

Climate change does impact, but the president is looking at a much broader angle than I am. I’m looking at it from a strictly military standpoint. And from a strictly military standpoint, I’m putting China, Russia up there.

According to US News, when asked about the apparent disparity between his and Biden’s assessments, Milley said, “Climate change is a threat. Climate change has a significant impact on military operations, and we have to take that into consideration.”

But ultimately, the point is the Pentagon is in the business of fighting nation-states or non-state terrorist actors, not the weather.

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Comments

  1. Pretender Biden is obviously Dazed and Confused along with delusions of Grandeur and doesn’t have a Clue about the Danger he is Placing America in! Someone close to him should intervene
    and Inform him that he took an Oath to Protect America and follow the Constitution, not just disregard everything President Trump put in place to make America Safer and Self Sufficient as well as being FIRST!

    1. Numb Nuts’ hubris stems from a perceived ‘mandate’ that authorizes him to ignore our Constitution to comply with the wishes of his voters (Those ‘voters’ were six feet under, and many were programmed into machines, or they were still drying off from their swim across the Rio Grande.) The Constitution stipulates what duties our government officials are authorized to conduct, and specific measures were embedded which prevents just what is occurring in Washington today: These measures include the 1st–and especially the 2nd–Amendments. We’ve lost the 1st, since our media is now essentially TASS, and they’re working to repeal the 2nd.

  2. LISTEN UP…ANY MORE PANDEMICS…is the DOWNFALL of ALL CIVILIZATION. UNLES S the SUN DESTROYS ALL LIFE on EARTH Before the SCHEDULED TIME. From SamuraiQueen.😄😄😄

  3. There is no question about the number one threat to the United States today. It is Joe Biden. He is the absolute worst leader IN THE WORLD! People who actually voted for him should not only be embarrassed, they should also set the next election out. They have proven that they have no abilities to make judgments.

    1. As we have found out in Arazona not that manypeople voted for him, and when PA, Ga, MIN, NH, Wisconson and other ststes do audits the truth will be revealed that he is not the President, and our President is Donald J Trump. Let’s get him back in the game since Biden started losing it in the first monments of the Firwt Quarter. Bench that iidiot

  4. His priorities are completely out of order. But then, so is he. Obviously, Biden isn’t concerned with China. The fact That China is systematically moving into every aspect of American Life is not as important to him as questionable global warming. The whole thing is incomprehensible.

  5. Biden knows very well how to protect and save our country. He just won’t DO it because doing so: (1) Would interfere with his globalist profiteering. (2) He wants to populate the nation with an underclass of criminals and underclass Democrat voters getting FREE STUFF for all eternity. We better get Mr. Trump back, QUICK!!!

  6. Pedo Joe says what ever his Puppet Masters tell him to. Sadly very soon those who are supposed to defend this Nation will be saying the same thing.

  7. Our greatest threat is the Elitist’s plans: Agenda 21, Agenda 30, and the “Great Reset.” Read up on them! They think we need to eliminate 90-95% of the world population in order to save the world from us “Useless eaters.” If you think Covid was used to force/coerce people to get ‘vaccinations’ you’re right!

  8. In 1975 it was “The New Ice Age”; recommended remedy = nationalize everything with our communists, liberals, racists, and Democrats in total charge. after 20 years of ZERO new ice the same creeps switched in 1995 to “The Global Warming” scam; remedy – = see above. After 20 years of zero warming the creeps switched to “Climate Change” – but the remedy stayed the same. ENOUGH! ENOUGH!! ENOUGH!!! LET US PUT THEM IN JAIL!!!

    1. One trick liberals have up their sleeves is to name windstorms. Now, each time the surface winds exceed 20 knots, they’re named in sequence with hurricane/typhoon alphabetical order. In this manner, they can claim how many “Named Storms” are vindicating their climate models. My plan is to round up all of these Chicken Littles, issue each of them notebooks, pencils and thermometers, then transport them down to Antarctica, where they will keep track of the massive Ice Melts they claim will cause our oceans to rise precipitously. They will be our only hope!!

  9. America’s Number One Threat is Joe Biden and the Biden Socialist Regime, which is in fact the Obama Socialist Regime, Part 2.

  10. Just last week the greatest threat to America was White Supremacist, I guess all those White Supremacist attacks around the country has really heated things up, maybe so in his delusional mind.

  11. Joe thinks our number one threat is climate change. Generals think it’s China and Russia. I think it’s JOE!

  12. Imagine if O’bidet could be persuaded to launch a few nukes, randomly into the atmosphere, in an attemp to try & stop ‘global-warming’…it might just work❓😈

  13. Seemingly, Biden has joined the “warmer” insanity, even though it is not clear (scientifically) whether global warming is even real. Actually, the people of the world should fear global cooling as more probable, since a new ice age is looming (in the future). Americans must face it. Joe Biden is an idiot. The thoroughly corrupt Democrat Party has saddled the American people, and the people of the world, with a brain damaged dim-wit as president, and they did it on purpose – knowing they could turn and twist him any way they wanted. Democrats are no damn good!

  14. But in another speech, 3rd world schmoe biden said the worst threat was white supremacy. Which is it?

  15. Using fear and lies for control. This is not a real leader of free people but a useless, worthless political hack and dictator. FU, joe.

    1. We’re not going to fight either one. Our military forces are incapable of protracted and arduous combat against forces that fight back. The Vietnam War illustrated that fact (The Korean War preceded that example.) Should America engage China or Russia in armed conflict, the draft will have to be resumed, and I can tell you from personal experience (I was drafted during the Vietnam Conflict, but that notice arrived after I was in the USAF Boot Camp) that we’ll be facing mass riots and protests when that system commences. We’ve also been deprived of the most fierce, competent and combat worthy segment of our nation’s warriors; Women, who’ve now suffered the ultimate insult from our Supreme Court after they denied females the privilege of being drafted into combat slots. I’ll bet the feminists are fuming!!!

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