We keep hearing rumblings from our garbage ruling class about how not enough of our citizens are signing up for their progressive army to fight climate change, transphobia, and, occasionally, in defense of the United States. But defending America’s borders is apparently racist, so we’re not going to do that. The problem is that the normal Americans who make up our military, or used to make up our military, are no longer making up our military. Veterans are nearly unanimous – vets are telling young people to stay the hell out of our broken military. It’s a disaster. It can’t win a war. It’s become an engine of supercharged social pathologies. And, according to Joe Biden, he will use it against you and your families if you get uppity.
Sign me up!
Except nobody is signing up anymore. The bottom has fallen out of the recruiting numbers. The normal Americans who used to make up our military are refusing to play along. The bodies just aren’t there anymore. The cannon fodder has found better things to do than pursue the agenda of a globalist ruling class that hates them and everything they stand for. This, of course, is unacceptable, so we’re starting to hear some rumblings about a new draft.
This would be a poor idea.
There’s talk about automatically registering people for the draft since 18-year-olds are no longer registering. There’s also talk about registering women. What there’s no talk about is whether it’s a good idea to register women. Apparently, the idea of drafting women is self-evidently good, even after we watched a whole bunch of Israeli females kidnapped by Hamas terrorists and raped for the last eight months. No, we’re not supposed to talk about that. We’re just supposed to sign on the line, raise our hands, and go die where we are told to for reasons that are never explained.
This comes at a time when things are getting worse all over the globe. Of course, the primary reason is that we have a joke for a president. It’s not a cheap fake that he’s a senile, corrupt pervert who has, as Robert Gates memorably said, been consistently wrong about every single major foreign policy issue for over 50 years.
China is arming at an incredible rate and will doubtlessly grab Taiwan in the not-too-distant future. Xi would be crazy not to do it in the next six months before Donald Trump – the Good Lord willing – takes office. Iran is weeks away from building a bomb, and it’s provoking war in Lebanon. Iranian proxies, the Houthis, are sinking ships – welcome to a world where we can’t even guarantee the freedom of the seas. Ukraine is barely holding on. There’s constant talk about how we will have to go in and fix this festering problem. North Korea and Russia are now formal allies. We’re busy undercutting Israel in its righteous struggle to annihilate Hamas. I expect Uruguay is going to start scoring off us next.
Yeah, there’s a whole lot of trouble out there in the world, and suddenly, the Pentagon has figured out that it doesn’t have enough bodies available to meddle in all these potential quagmires. It’s not going to be too long before we see the garbage ruling class solemnly determining that we’ve got to shanghai American citizens into the Armed Forces and impress them into service of their globalist agenda. The volunteers just aren’t volunteering. Hard to believe woke ads about feelz and hugging are not stirring the souls of tomorrow’s Rambos.
Their bogus appeals to our patriotism ring hollow. Is that the patriotism where our government targets veterans as extremist threats? The government that ignores duly passed laws to reimagine America’s demography by refusing to enforce our immigration laws, or where the alleged president illegally decrees that our troops will get to pick up the tab for the slackers’ gender studies degrees? The government that conspires to silence free speech and persecute patriotic protesters while letting communist rioters go free? The same government that is trying to frame and imprison the presidential candidate who patriots support?
Normal patriotic citizens would be eager to sign up to defend the United States of America, but not so much the skin suit USA we have now.
You know, the volunteer military worked pretty darn good when we had a pretty darn good military. At its height 30+ years ago in Desert Storm, we actually won wars. I know that’s hard to believe, but there was a time when America beat its enemies instead of slinking away in defeat from whooping seven-century tribesmen. Americans were proud to be part of that military then. They were happy to defend their country’s interests, not the narrow interests of a bunch of Davos hacks who hate them. But that’s what we have now.
If America’s military were defending America, we’d have several divisions on the border, and we wouldn’t have a tsunami of Third World peasants and aspiring terrorists flooding into our country. Our military’s purpose under this garbage ruling class is not the defense of America. It is the defense of the ruling class’s pagan obsessions. When climate change is allegedly our greatest strategic threat, you don’t have a serious military. You have a college faculty in camouflage. When diversity is supposed to be our strength instead of raw combat power, you don’t have a serious military. You have a joke.
Except this joke’s not funny. Normal people aren’t laughing. They are burying their dead.
They also aren’t enlisting or reenlisting. And who can blame them? The military senior leadership tries. It blames normal people for not signing up as if it is a character flaw not to want to be meat for a grinder cranked by people who hate them. No, the generals and admirals refuse to accept that they caused this, and they go Full Seymour Skinner – “Am I so out of touch? No, it’s the children who are wrong.”
You must force them into service if you can’t talk them into joining. The military is now so poorly led, untrustworthy, and weak that no one wants to be a part of it. Why would they? Our military leadership has fully embraced the shibboleths and obsessions of the ruling class. DEI, the climate hoax, and all that crap are the priority. Killing the enemy isn’t. There are still many good people in the military, but they won’t be there for long. They’ll leave. And their sons and daughters will not join.
I’m a vet. I know a lot of vets. And I don’t know any of them – I mean not one – who is encouraging a son or daughter to join our military under the present leadership.
The Pentagon leadership is strategically inept. It can’t win major wars. It is totally in thrall to the social pathologies of the left. Who wants to take commands from a man in a dress? The senior officer corps is an absolute disgrace. Senior commanders are being relieved left and right for toxic leadership – try googling “toxic leadership military commanders” and look how many links come up. The command has zero credibility after the COVID disaster in which the military leadership utterly betrayed the troops. You can argue with it, and you can say that people should follow orders to take experimental drugs to prevent a glorified cold, but what you can’t do is expect the people you are forced to do that or forced out of the military entirely to ever trust you again.
Our military leadership has lost our trust and respect. They refuse to learn because they have no incentive to learn. There’s no accountability. After the disaster of Afghanistan – with everything from our troops being blown up to people falling off airplanes to military dogs being left to die in cages on the airfield – not a single general officer was relieved. Instead, the Pentagon was high-fiving itself over what a great operation it was and what a huge success Kabul Airport turned out to be. No wonder no one trusts our military enough to put their lives in the generals’ and admirals’ hands.
So, the answer from the ruling class will be to force normal people to join it, and it will only be normal people who get drafted. It’ll be your kids and mine. It’s not going to be their kids. Kaden and Ashleigh will get a deferment to go to the University of College and study the Decolonialization of Gender while your kid is getting waxed in a war in a place you can’t even pronounce. Oh, maybe there will be some goofy national service scam where the fortunate sons, daughters, and non-binaries can read bedtime stories to kindergartners, but that’s for them. The war and the blood and the death are for your kids. That’s what a draft means. It will not be any more fair or equal than anything else in modern America.
We normal people have become second-class citizens, and we’re starting to notice. I don’t think normal people are going to stand for it much longer. I think the push to fuel the progressive war machine with the blood of our kids will be a bridge too far – I only wish we currently had generals who understood that reference. Do you want to tear this country apart? Try to take our kids for your commie brainwashing and idiotic wars. That will be yet another battle they lose.
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