.SecPompeo highlights threat from China after Air Force general predicts war by 2025
Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo joins 'Special Report' for wide-ranging interview on his new tome, current events.
"I take General Minihan to be serious, in the sense of he's clearly very concerned that we're not doing enough to prepare to deter the Chinese Communist Party," Pompeo said. "My gut tells me we will fight in 2025," Minihan wrote, adding that his officers should instruct service members with"the full understanding that unrepentant lethality matters most."
"We know that the regime, the Ayatollah and now [President Ebrahim] Raisi, the Butcher of Tehran, we know that these are folks who want to wipe Israel off the face of the earth, they're happy to come after America next," Pompeo said.
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