And on the opposite side of the coin:
According to Peril, a new book by Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Robert Costa, America’s highest-ranking general twice called his Chinese counterpart in the final months of the Donald Trump administration to reassure him that the President had no plans to attack China, and that the US was not collapsing, according to The New York Times.
“Things may look unsteady,” General Mark Milley told General Li Zuocheng on January 8, two days after Mr Trump’s supporters stormed the Capitol Building. “But that’s the nature of democracy, General Li. We are 100 percent steady. Everything’s fine.”
No sooner had the General put the phone down, he convened a meeting with top US commanders to remind them that the procedures for launching a nuclear strike called for his involvement, and could not simply be ordered by the President.