On Friday’s MSNBC broadcast of “Morning Joe,” Gen. Thomas Bussière, commander of Air Force Global Strike Command, said the world is now “more complex, more intricate and more dangerous than at any point” during his nearly 40-year career in the Air Force.
“Tell us how you’re feeling about the current situation, given these seemingly escalating threats,” co-host Jonathan Lemire, Politico’s White House bureau chief, said.
Bussière responded, “I’ve been in the Air Force for 38 and a half years, and as I see it, the world today is more complex, more complicated and more dangerous than at any time in my career. And the existence of nuclear weapons and the so-called threat of using nuclear weapons makes it even worse. That’s why it’s so important, in my view, that the U.S. Air Force and Navy realign the nuclear triad.”
later, USA Today “Is there anywhere you think we’re not going to be?” said Washington bureau chief Susan Page. [paying] — Is this an issue that keeps you up at night because we don’t pay enough attention to it, an issue that deserves more attention than it gets?
Bussière responded: “So I think I see the whole planet as one.[n] Of note is the rapid expansion of China’s nuclear capabilities in the Indo-Pacific region, or its activities in the European theater. [Russia’s] Invading Ukraine or [Korean] “When you take a step back from all of the North Korean activity on the Korean Peninsula, as well as our activities in the Middle East, my job, my position, is to ensure that we have a healthy and credible deterrent on both the air and ground sides of our nuclear deterrent.”
Bussière further stated that the recapitalization of the Nuclear Trinity is underway.
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