From the Abraham Lincoln Radio Studio at the George Washington Broadcast Center, Jakar

Armstrong and Joe Gettie.

The Armstrong and Gettie Show.

Tonight amid growing tensions with China, we're with American forces in the Pacific, where

General Mike Minahan is preparing his airmen for a mission he's warned could come soon.

Do you think the US could be at war with China in the next few years?

It's not me to say whether we could be at war with China in the next few years.

Earlier this year, Minahan, the head of air mobility command, wrote a controversial memo

to his commanders warning the US could be at war with China in two years and they need

to be prepared.

Do you still believe that?

I don't believe conflict is inevitable.

I don't believe it's unavoidable.

But I also believe that ready now is what matters most.

So now from NBC News last night, they did an exclusive and their tease through the entire

newscast was, are we ready for war with China and NBC exclusive?

And I thought, wow, the fact that that phrase is even being set out loud is such a change

from just a couple years ago.

I mean, not like hold on, sit down.

There's a chance.

The United, the two biggest economies, the biggest country in the world could go to war.

Just, you know, it's just like common knowledge.

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