US Air Force: Russia ‘Number One’ Threat To America
Russia poses the biggest military threat to America, according to The Secretary of the US Air Force, Deborah James. The Air Force boss told Reuters at the annual Reagan National Defense Forum on Saturday that Russia’s nuclear capabilities pose a very real threat to the United States. “Russia is the No. 1 threat to the United States. We have a number of threats that we’re dealing with, but Russia could be, because of the nuclear aspect, an existential threat to the United States,” Deborah James said on Saturday. Presstv.ir reports: She called recent unsafe encounters between Russian and American aircraft “very worrying,” saying there needed to be more dialogue between the two sides in order to prevent these incidents of “very dangerous airmanship” from leading to an all-out war. James made the remarks after a series of similar warnings by her and other high-ranking US military officials at the conference. Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the conference that Russia was determined to limit NATO and prevent the US from projecting power around the world. “They are operating with a frequency and in places that we haven’t seen for decades,” he said, while pointing [...]
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