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In PERIL by Bob Woodward, January 6 was much more than an insurrection, and perhaps the most dangerous moment in world history, worse than the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. According to General Mark Milley, the nation’s senior miliary officer and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he was on the phone with China URGING them not to worry. Trump was unaware that China was our most dangerous adversary and had/has nuclear capabilities that we can’t even imagine. China was watching very nervously when they saw our nation’s capital imploding and being led by an insane dictator (like another Hitler). They realized that the world was in the hands of a madman, and they had their finger on the red button, ready to launch a nuclear strike. It didn’t help that Trump had continually berated China for the pandemic and regarded them as stupid idiots. China could easily see someone like Trump blowing up the world in an insane rage to get back at everyone (to prove his power). We were seconds away from nuclear annihilation. If it hadn’t been for Milley, we would all be dust.

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