A retired U.S. brigadier general says that in the event of a conflict across the Taiwan Strait, U.S. missile interceptors would be depleted within three weeks.

U.S. retired brigadier general says America can no longer defeat China in the Taiwan Strait! On August 10, according to a report by Bloomberg News, U.S. retired Brigadier General Mark Kimmit stated that every Patriot missile we fire in the Middle East means one less missile available to intercept Chinese missiles aimed at us. Our military strength is severely stretched across three key theaters: Europe facing Russia, the Middle East confronting Iran-backed militias, and the Indo-Pacific region used to deter China.

Depleting ammunition in any one theater weakens our defensive capability elsewhere. Multiple war games have shown that if an unexpected crisis erupts in the Taiwan Strait, under sustained high-intensity combat, our current stockpile of interceptors would be exhausted within about three weeks. If we continue consuming these missiles day after day in the Middle East, we have no quick way to replenish them. The U.S. defense industrial base cannot rapidly scale up production, and our allies’ own missile reserves are insufficient to fill the gap.

Evidently, from this individual’s stance, it is clear he is a hardliner on China, openly revealing his intent to use military force to intervene in the Taiwan Strait. Yet his blunt statement—“our existing interceptors would run out in roughly three weeks”—effectively implies that should U.S. forces become involved in the Taiwan Strait, the outcome would inevitably be defeat for the U.S. military, which cannot effectively counter our missiles.

Naturally, his message is clearly urging the U.S. to pull back swiftly from Iran, restore its own missile inventory, and focus all efforts on confronting us. But given how poorly the U.S. military has performed in Iran and remains entangled there, just how confident can U.S. military leadership really be about confronting us? Clearly, the situation in the Taiwan Strait is shifting. For the United States, the future may no longer be whether to intervene—but rather how to withdraw in the most dignified manner possible, ceasing interference in our internal affairs.

Original source: toutiao.com/article/1873110742381580/

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