re: If China was concerned Trump would attack, that means they did something to feel that way

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Milley asked permission from acting Defense Secretary Chris Miller before making the call

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Well then someone is lying, aren't they? Miller has denied ANY knowledge of such a call. Costa/Woodward say they have a transcript. Milley's own spokesperson issued what is, at best, a non-denial denial.

But I hope we can agree, if Milley did this, he should be removed with haste, as should any officers who aided him, colluded with him, or went along with the scheme.

Can people stop peddling these lies

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I mean, I used the only sarcasm font that clucker will let us have.

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Sorry then. I'm over 50 - I don't get all of this new-fangled "sarcasm font" crap.




Oh yeah, I almost forget...

I'm sure this guy would happily kill himself if requested from his globalist overlords. Just make it legit and ask in a WAPO or Politico 'piece...LOL.

This isn’t the first time Trump’s people had to assuage adversaries that he wasn’t planning on striking them.

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Washington(CNN) Amid escalating tensions with both North Korea and Iran, President Donald Trump's advisers hesitated to give him military options fearing the President might accidentally take the US to war and deliberately informed their counterparts in both countries that they did not know what the President would do next, multiple former administration officials tell me.

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"We used to only think of Kim Jong Un as unpredictable. Now we had Trump as unpredictable," Joseph Yun, who served as President Trump's special representative for North Korea policy until 2018, told me. "And I would communicate that."

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Again in 2019, as the President and his team were considering military options against Iran in response to escalating attacks in the Persian Gulf, senior Pentagon officials made clear both to US partners in the region and to Tehran that they could not predict how and where Trump would respond, or if he would respond at all.

"We told allies that we did not know what the President would be willing to do against Iran," Mick Mulroy, the deputy assistant secretary of defense for the Middle East until 2019, recalled. "It was possible he could make a decision that would lead to an escalation of the conflict, and that escalation could lead to war, so they needed to relay that to Iran so they realized not even his staff knew what would happen if they attacked another oil facility, for instance."

These warnings were part of a longer-term effort to contain some of the President's worst impulses when confronted with military action abroad. Earlier, in September 2018, when a handful of mortar shells struck near the US Embassy in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone causing no casualties or serious damage, Pentagon officials were surprised when they received a call from a senior official on the National Security Council demanding military options for the President to retaliate against Iran. That NSC official said the President wanted to know immediately how and when the United States could respond.

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I think we know that Trump’s unpredictability was the common denominator here. Thankfully that’s no longer an issue.

And yet Trump is the only US President to walk into North Korea, and did so unassisted

He didn’t start a single war and if he hadn’t started removing troops from foreign countries we’d still be fighting a 20 year endless war where only contractors like Jim Biden benefit

If you don’t see their actions even before inauguration in 2017 as a power grab abd an active coup against a sitting President, then you’re hopelessly gone

Your ilk were calling David Petraeus and Stanley McChrystal traitors for doing their job.

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Lt Colonel Decatur sees no issue with the phone call