Gen. HR McMaster, former national security adviser to former President Donald Trump, warned: thursday interview The US, UK and other countries are “on the brink of a new world war”.
HR McMaster, 61, told Britain’s LBC radio that Washington and London will increase defense spending to 4% of GDP (double the amount currently required of NATO countries) to address “cascading crises”. To do so, he said, Japan should prepare to invest in missile systems like Israel’s Iron Dome. ”
“We may be on the brink of another world war,” McMaster told host Andrew Marr.
“I know it sounds dramatic, but I think it needs to be taken seriously to prevent something like that from happening,” he added, adding that he suggested an increase in defense spending. “This will be a historic low compared to Cold War-era levels,” he said.
“It’s much cheaper to prevent war than to have to go to war,” McMaster added.
Asked by Mr. Trump how he would greet the moment if Mr. Trump returned to office on November 5, Mr. McMaster said he supported his former boss and said “if confronted with the facts,” He said he supports such a melee nation.
“We certainly know that President Trump will push for burden-sharing and reciprocity, and I think Europe has agreed to that now,” asking NATO countries to pay for defense. He spoke about the 77-year-old Trump’s call. “He was right about that, wasn’t he?”
McMaster also spoke out about Germany’s “unwise decision” to give Russian President Vladimir Putin “coercive power” over the economy by relying on the Kremlin’s gas exports through the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. He added that the acting president was “right.”
But the former national security adviser criticized Trump’s “gullibility” in thinking he might be able to reach an agreement with Putin.
“President Putin is not interested in a deal,” McMaster explained. “President Putin is trying to bring everyone else down on the theory that if he is the last one standing, he can rebuild the Russian Empire.” During an interview with that handy idiot, Tucker Carlson, he said that It was clearly stated.”
In response to a suggestion by former British Chief of Defense Staff General Sir Tony Radakkin that the UK should pay for its own Iron Dome missile defense, Mr McMaster said that foreign opinion was “absolutely not on that point. That’s correct.”
“I think every country needs to develop this type of defense and long-range missiles. Hypersonic missiles are important,” McMaster added.
“perhaps [former US President] “Ronald Reagan responded well to Star Wars, including space-based capabilities,” he said.
At a Congressional hearing Wednesday, John Plum, the U.S. assistant secretary of defense for space policy, revealed for the first time that Russia is also developing anti-satellite nuclear attack capabilities.
“This capability will extend to all the satellites operated by countries and businesses around the world, as well as the critical communications, science, weather, agriculture, commerce and national security services we all depend on,” Plumb told the House Intelligence Committee. “This could pose a threat to security services.” Chairman Mike Turner (R-Ohio);
Turner stunned the nation’s capital in February by alluding to a “serious national security threat” the Intel committee had received.
In the same month, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy brought the country into its third year of war with Russia, and next week marks the seventh month of Israeli military offensives against Hamas terrorists in the Gaza Strip.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has also resumed military activities near the island of Taiwan, renewing concerns about a future Chinese invasion.
