>> A top Air Force general warned troops that they should be ready for
potential warfare.
Meaning, military action against China in 2025.
Now, this is General Michael Minihan.
And based on some of the things he said previously,
even before telling troops to get ready for war with China were pretty unhinged.
We'll get to those unhinged quotes in just a moment.
But first, the topic at hand,
why does he think that troops need to be ready for war with China in 2025?
Well, he says, elections have a lot to do with it.
I hope I'm wrong.
My gut tells me we will fight in 2025, Xi.
Meaning, Jinping, secured his third term and
set his war council in October of 2022.
Taiwan's presidential elections are in 2024 will offer Xi a reason.
United States presidential elections are in 2024 and
will offer Xi a distracted America.
Xi's team reason and opportunity are all aligned for 2025.
Okay, so then Minihan directs airmen who are qualified to
use a weapon to fire a clip into a seven-meter target with a full
understanding that unrepentant lethality matters most sometime in February.
Aim for the head, he said.
So he's training them to get ready for war with China.
This person should not have any position in the military.
Because just based on this memo that he sent to the troops and
based on previous statements he has made about the wonderful lethality
of the Air Force, it seems like he's got this lust for for killing people,
for going to war and going to war with China is not a small thing.
And I think if you take a step back, a broader question is if China does
invade Taiwan, is it the United States responsibility to intervene and
more importantly, to have boots on the ground?
>> Yeah, well, that's a giant question.
But first, let's handle this maniac.
So look, guys, t he general's job to get ready for contingencies?
Absolutely, you need preparedness.
Absolutely, in fact, he took part in an exercise that was one of the biggest
military exercise we've ever had in the Pacific Ocean and
all of that makes sense, right?
If you're doing a training exercise, by the way, on shooting a weapon, aiming for
the target, aiming for the head of the target, etc., that makes sense, right?
The problem is when you put it together.
Now, we're nowhere near a conflict with China right now.
Here's the top general in the American military saying,
now get ready to shoot them in the head.
But wait a minute, wait a minute.
What department are you in?
Well, I looked it up.
He's in charge of transportation in the Asian perimeter, right?
So wait, what?
So it's an important job, but they've got to get certain ships and etc.,
to certain places and the military needs that.
But it is not a job where people need to get ready now to shoot Chinese
folks in the head ffor him to put that in a memo when he's talking about
a war that he thinks is gonna start somehow in 2025 is absurd.
And then when you read the Cortana, he is gonna give you in a minute about what he
generally thinks about unrepentant lethality.
You go, okay, I get this guy is totally unhinged.
But then the question is how many US generals are unhinged as this guy?
He appears to not be warning about military conflict with great trepidation.
>> Right. >> He appears to be looking forward to.
>> Exactly, exactly and look, take a step back and look at the bigger picture
including the rhetoric that we've been hearing from elected leaders.
Nancy Pelosi's provocative trip to Taiwan specifically meant to
be provocative toward China.
You had both Donald Trump and
Joe Biden run campaign ads in 2020 being incredibly antagonistic towards China.
And guys, let me just be clear about something.
The antagonism toward China has more to do with the fact that
we enable them in basically building up their economy.
And now, we're upset about it.
The US government's upset about it.
Will you allowed for corporations to exploit cheap labor in china to
the point where they manufacture almost everything and
then we get hit with COVIID, our supply chains suffer.
Because if China shuts down, we can't do anything about that, right?
So there's all this bitterness about the economic aspect of China and
all of the rhetoric I've been hearing from politicians tries to
make it seem like China's a real threat to our national security.
And so far, the only real threat I see the national security is the discourse itself
which keeps escalating the situation when we should not be escalating the situation.
But let me give you some more comments from him from the general here, Minihan.
Now he also told all personnel reporting to him that they should, quote,
consider their personal affairs and be more aggressive about training.
In fact, he instructs them, run deliberately, not recklessly.
Let's just pause right there.
What does it mean to run recklessly?
>> I I think it's like this.
The China is coming.
[SOUND] >> You freak, okay, but let me continue.
If you are comfortable in your approach to training,
then you are not taking enough risk.
That sounds reckless.
That sounds pretty reckless.
>> I don't mind that part.
You wanna push your guys to the edge when you're training them, no problem.
But remember guys, this is the other disconnect.
These are not guys that just got into the service and
they have to train them physically and teach them how to shoot a weapon, etc.
This is his air mobility command.
So he's telling senior officials in the military run like a mad, get
ready to shoot Chinese people on the head when they're in transport and refueling.
Okay, is it conceivable that those people would see combat at some point?
Yes, do they need to be training for
shooting Chinese people in the head now in a panic when they're in refueling?
No and their senior officers, it makes no sense at all.
This guy's just dying for a fight which is the main thing I wanna say in a second,
but more quotes.
So these are statements from this general,
previous statements not having to do with China per se, but
it gives you a sense of this guy's like real lusty for combat, okay?
So he says, in September, he said at a military conference outside of Washington
that the Air Force had caused the largest pile of our nation's enemy dead.
>> And he said it in a positivable.
>> Yeah, he's bragging about it.
>> He's bragging not like, that's unfortunate, but we had to the firebombing
of Tokyo was killed 500,000 people, including grandmothers and children.
And that's super unfortunate, but
there was nothing we could do is one way of framing it.
The other way of the most pile of dad, we win.
Okay, lunatic, take it easy as you're gonna see from the next quote.
>> He says, quote, lethality matters most.
When you can kill your enemy, every part of your life is better.
Your food tastes better.
Your marriage is stronger.
>> If that's what you need to make your marriage stronger,
you have massive mental health issues, okay?
Honey, good news.
I'm in a good mood, I just murdered someone.
Jesus, okay, so look, guys in the military have to kill people.
That's not the issue.
The issue is when the guy appears to be, as Ana put it perfectly,
lusting for a fight, because he thinks he's gonna make him more erect.
I mean, he's almost telling you that, right?
>> It makes your marriage better.
>> Yeah, it makes your food taste better when you pile up dead bodies.
Okay, okay- >> Get this guy a joint,
that will help you out.
And by the way, if you're in the middle of fighting Nazis,
maybe you need a guy like that, right?
But when you're in the middle of peacetime and
this guy's jonesing to pick a fight with a nuclear power which is
the second largest power in the worl, that is a recipe for disaster.
Okay, so guys think about it.
Why do they have guys like this in the middle?
It's like telling a bunch of race car drivers,
you've got all these amazing race cars.
Okay, McLarens and Ferraris and stuff, but you can't use any.
You know what happens?
They wanna use them.
They wanna use them and these are military guys who want.
This guy says, killing people turns them on and
he's like I got all this military equipment.
I got my gun ready, I wanna use it.
It's the old line about when all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail.
>> Yeah. >> And so if China is looking like
a nail to our military, that is a massive problem for the world.
>> Yeah, absolutely and it's this vicious cycle where it is true that China
has invested far more into its military, building up its military capabilities.
And the United States looks at that and says, well, that's a threat.
I mean, they're building up their military capabilities.
I mean, let's forget the fact that the United States increases the defense
budget every single year without any problem.
So we keep building up our military.
But we turn around we, of course,
criticize any other country that does the same.
But could it be that some of the rhetoric coming from elected lawmakers,
some of the memos that generals are sending to troops that antagonize
China seem to lust for war with china could persuade Chinese
officials to want to invest more in their military with the fear that
the United States might actually pursue military action against them?
You get what I'm saying?
>> 100% and look, the number one problem in these conflicts is when the other
side thinks the other guys are dangerous and they're gonna act first, right?
So I've got to act before that madman attacks first, right?
And this puts that thought into Chinese military leaders heads for sure.
And it's not like they're not keeping tabs on us,
they're perfectly aware of this memo.
>> Of course. >> And so
imagine if we got a memo of Chinese generals saying, let's start practicing
putting bullets in the heads of American soldiers and you know what?
I have better sex with my wife after I kill people and
I love the piling up of dead bodies.
If any of our points, first of all, if l a member of Al Qaeda or
Taliban said it would be like monsters.
Can you look at this dead?
They brag about piling up dead bodies and killing people in center and
American general says it and I guarantee you everyone in the right-wing is going
get outta boy, we kill them first.
But that's what starts wars, you morons.
And by the way, I thought the right-wing was against wars.
These days, you know how they're pretending to be the peaceniks.
So I guarantee you every supporter of this guy's massively right-wing, right?
>> Whatever, it doesn't matter.
The military itself, the culture within it.
Again, the lust for combat, it's a problem and
this kind of rhetoric is incredibly irresponsible.
And you're right, I have no doubt that the Chinese government.
Of course, it keeps tabs on us and is fully aware of these kinds of memos.
They're needlessly antagonistic.
Let's bring the temperature down and be responsible,
but these are the kinds of generals we have in the military.
>> And look, I'm sure true the Chinese true of everybody, but
we have no ability to be objective.
Again, if the Chinese said this about us, we'd go to def con four, right?
We'd be like, my God, it's happening now, let's get ready.
And we expect them to be like, no, it's cool.
And last thing about it, guys.
There's one set of folks that win through all this.
As always, the defense contractors.
So these guys say, we gotta pile up weapons.
The Chinese then understandably say, we have to pile up weapons,
then we understandably say, we have to pile up more weapons.
And guess who gets poor, American people, Chinese people?
Guess who gets rich, defense contractors.
Guess where generals go after they retire defense contractors.
So that's how this game is played.
You wanna get ready for war?
You're in the refueling business, practice this.
All right, I got the thing, pump and I refuel and I refuel, okay?
Don't be a maniac.