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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums**General Milley**
General Milley had to reassure his Chinese counterpart that TFG wasn't going to start WW lll on his way out the door.The skinny:
Top general was so fearful Trump might spark war that he made secret calls to his Chinese counterpart, new book says
Peril, by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, reveals that Gen. Mark A. Milley called his Chinese counterpart before the election and after Jan. 6 in a bid to avert armed conflict.
Twice in the final months of the Trump administration, the countrys top military officer was so fearful that the presidents actions might spark a war with China that he moved urgently to avert armed conflict.
In a pair of secret phone calls, Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, assured his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng of the Peoples Liberation Army, that the United States would not strike, according to a new book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward and national political reporter Robert Costa.
One call took place on Oct. 30, 2020, four days before the election that unseated President Trump, and the other on Jan. 8, 2021, two days after the Capitol siege carried out by his supporters in a quest to cancel the vote.
Li remained rattled, and Milley, who did not relay the conversation to Trump, according to the book, understood why. The chairman, 62 at the time and chosen by Trump in 2018, believed the president had suffered a mental decline after the election, the authors write, a view he communicated to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in a phone call on Jan. 8. He agreed with her evaluation that Trump was unstable, according to a call transcript obtained by the authors.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/09/14/peril-woodward-costa-trump-milley-china/
Peril, by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, reveals that Gen. Mark A. Milley called his Chinese counterpart before the election and after Jan. 6 in a bid to avert armed conflict.
Twice in the final months of the Trump administration, the countrys top military officer was so fearful that the presidents actions might spark a war with China that he moved urgently to avert armed conflict.
In a pair of secret phone calls, Gen. Mark A. Milley, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, assured his Chinese counterpart, Gen. Li Zuocheng of the Peoples Liberation Army, that the United States would not strike, according to a new book by Washington Post associate editor Bob Woodward and national political reporter Robert Costa.
One call took place on Oct. 30, 2020, four days before the election that unseated President Trump, and the other on Jan. 8, 2021, two days after the Capitol siege carried out by his supporters in a quest to cancel the vote.
Li remained rattled, and Milley, who did not relay the conversation to Trump, according to the book, understood why. The chairman, 62 at the time and chosen by Trump in 2018, believed the president had suffered a mental decline after the election, the authors write, a view he communicated to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) in a phone call on Jan. 8. He agreed with her evaluation that Trump was unstable, according to a call transcript obtained by the authors.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/09/14/peril-woodward-costa-trump-milley-china/
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**General Milley** (Original Post)
DemocratSinceBirth
Sep 2021
OP
underpants
(182,273 posts)1. Yep.
Jim__
(14,045 posts)2. What is truly unbelievable is that, even knowing this, there are still people who would vote to ...
... re-elect that idiot as president.
DemocratSinceBirth
(99,704 posts)4. General Milley said he was in serious mental decline.
GopherGal
(1,999 posts)3. "had suffered a mental decline after the election" ??
Nope.
Was tantrumming like a three-year-old denied a new toy? Much more likely. I don't think he was anything other than what he always has been, except this time his daddy (or Papa Putie) wasn't there to step in and give him what he wanted.
Had suffered a narcissistic injury? Maybe. I don't know too much about the course of narcissism, but I suppose there's an argument that he was in mental decline for this psychological reason. Better leave that one to the experts.