[FoxNews] Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. is urging Americans to 'be very proud of their military'.| That’s nice. But how is strength here defined in this case, sir, and the question unanswered is whether we are currently prepared for this specific threat. |
"The first thing I'd tell them is they ought to be very proud of their military, if we're ready for whatever comes our way," Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr. told Fox News' Shannon Bream on "Fox News Sunday" at the Ragan National Defense Forum.
| So the Army has enough bullets and equipment to fight an actual war, the Navy no longer crashes ships, and the Marines are no longer forced to attend lectures on the 57 genders and how to accommodate them instead of developing fighting skills? |
Brown was responding to a Ronald Reagan Institute poll that found 51% of Americans see China as the nation posing the greatest threat to the U.S., up from the 43% of Americans who reported the same at this time last year.
The poll also found a majority of Americans believe that over the next 10 years, China will outpace the U.S. both from a military standpoint and economically. Brown explained that he is focused on "accelerating change" in order to keep up.
Well, my real role here and job is to actually make sure that… on the military side that doesn't occur, which is why I'm so focused on accelerating change," he said.
| China is focussed on actual fighting skills and learning how to keep aircraft carriers functional. They don’t do pronouns or any genders except the male and female that people were born with, which saves a hellacious amount of time and money. |
As war continues to rage between Russia and Ukraine – as well as between Hamas and Israel – concern has mounted among Americans that a conflict could spill over into a NATO nation as opposed to the U.S. getting directly involved in war. Brown quelled such fears, arguing that NATO "is stronger than it's ever been."
"What I see right now is, if you think about what [Russian President Vladimir Putin] attempted to do from the very start, and the territory he gained and the territory he lost in Ukraine, things have not gone according to his plan," Brown said. "One of the key reasons that I think that because of what happened in Ukraine, NATO is stronger than it's ever been. In fact, it's larger now with Finland and Sweden… and because of that strength in the dialogue with many of our NATO partners, we're all committed to ensure this does not expand into NATO and go broader."
| Anybody other than Poland over there spending their treaty-required 2% of the national economy on their military yet? Donating to Ukraine is nice, but it doesn’t count toward making NATO actually effective as a fighting military. |
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