Top Pentagon officer Mark Milley says Russia & China pose ‘biggest threats’ after Biden says it’s weather exchange

WASHINGTON, June 10 (RT) - The Pentagon’s maximum ranking uniformed officer stated Beijing and Moscow are the best threats to the US, rather undercutting President Joe Biden, who these days put weather trade on the top of the list.

Asked about Biden’s remark for the duration of a Senate committee hearing on Thursday, General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, cautioned that the president became talking greater loosely in regards to the country’s best threats, as an alternative naming  overseas ‘adversaries’.

“Climate exchange does impact, however the president is looking at a much broader perspective than I am,” he said, responding to a question from Senator Kevin Cramer (R-North Dakota).

During a go to with American troops stationed in the UK on Wednesday, Biden recalled a preceding discussion he had with senior Pentagon officers. “This is not a funny story. You recognize what the Joint Chiefs informed us the best danger going through America become? Global warming,” the president said.

He delivered, but, that the conversation happened quickly after he have become vp under Barack Obama, meaning distinct officers were in region at the time, before Milley’s tenure because the chairman of the Joint Chiefs.

Former president Donald Trump also weighed in on Biden’s remark on Thursday, calling to terminate the Joint Chiefs over their advice on climate alternate, apparently below the impression it came from current officers.

“Biden just said that he changed into told with the aid of the Joint Chiefs of Staff that climate exchange is our greatest danger. If this is the case, and that they sincerely stated this, he need to without delay hearth the Joint Chiefs of Staff for being incompetent!” Trump stated in a assertion emailed to media outlets.

Despite downplaying the difficulty in assessment to overseas militaries, General Milley did, but, go on to mention that the changing weather posed a “hazard” and could have a “sizeable effect on army operations,” adding that “country wide security has a broad perspective to it.”

Senator Cramer remained unconvinced, responding: “I just suppose it's unusual that the president might go to another continent and tell our carrier members there that the quantity-one risk is weather alternate, albeit a threat.”