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Top US general Milley takes apparent jab at Trump as he retires
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moment where general milley is trying desperately to persuade the chinese. because general li would talk right directly to president xi. that this is not going to happen. and it s what in the military they call deconfliction. let s calm everybody down. and it was successful. as general li said to him, okay, i m going to take your word for that. five-year relationship. they were able to lower the temp significantly. and for people to say that milley somehow was treasonous in doing this, you look at the full story, as we outline in the book, and that s preposterous.
what milley is trying to do, this is a moment, in a moment where he has a practical problem. how do i protect the country? how do i deal quickly with the chinese? bob woodward, i want to i want to really understand what you are reporting about, why. you lay out two rationales. one, that he thought donald trump could and would wag the dog. and two, that he also believed unrelated that he was unfit, that he was impulsive and can mental decline. i want to read from the book, quote, milley witnessed up close how trump was routinely impulsive and unpredictable making matters even more dire. milley was certain trump had gone into a serious mental decline in the aftermath of the election with trump now all but manic screaming at officials and constructing his alternate reality about endless election conspiracies. you never know what the
president s trigger point is, milley told senior staff. when might conditions come together to cause a president to order military action? what you detail is a chairman of the joint chiefs who your writing describes trump as a threat to the country. is that how milley saw and sees donald trump? certainly. and the chinese part of this this all happened in one day, on january 8th, two days after the insurrection, which, of course has set washington and the country, and it turns out, the world on edge. what is going on in america? and the chinese, general li asks milley said, are you going to collapse? and milley realizes that the chinese military have gone on alert, as have the russians, as have the iranians.
capital and sometimes even will among top republicans to speak out against president trump, to counter him in any way. bob woodward, i want to come back to something particularly haunting in the book. on page 416, there is this passage had january 6th sounds like you really read it. i did read it. i have read all of your books. i have to say, i love this collaboration with robert costa. but i want to ask you about this, i want to ask you what you think milley means here. had january 6th been a dress rehearsal. quote, what you might have seen might have been a precursor to something down the road. what is he talking about? milley is talking about history. he knows it well that 1905 was the first russian revolution. it did not succeed. and lenin himself said, during
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