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The chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark “Thoroughly Modern” Milley, who apparently wears a medal on his chest for every military disaster he’s overseen, bristles at claims that on his watch, the U.S. military has become woke, soft, and distracted from its actual purpose. The uber-woke general claims that he’s “not even sure what that word truly means” — that is, “woke” — and that the United States military is fearsome, powerful, and ready for anything. And it’s true, as long as the Chinese or Russians send an army of drag queens to confront us.
Milley insisted Sunday that “what I see is a military that’s exceptionally strong. It’s powerful; it’s ready. In fact, our readiness rates, the way we measure readiness, is better now than they’ve been in years.” This could be true, but how exactly do Milley and his woke henchmen measure readiness? After all, this is the same Milley who claimed that the Biden regime’s catastrophically botched withdrawal from Afghanistan that “there was an extensive amount of planning in this.”
If the withdrawal from Afghanistan took an extensive amount of planning, then for all we know, Milley could be measuring readiness by the number of drag queens featured in military recruitment videos. Milley could define readiness by the depth of the military’s understanding of “white rage,” as he told Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Florida) in June 2021 while explaining his study of the bogus Jan. 6 “insurrection.” Milley declared: “I want to understand white rage, and I’m white, and I want to understand it. So what is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America? What caused that? I want to find that out.”
Evidently hoping that no one to whom he was speaking knew about the navy’s drag queen recruiter or his own previous remarks about “white rage” and the “insurrection,” Milley on Sunday claimed that “this military is a lot of things, but woke, it’s not. So I take exception to that. I think that people say those things for reasons that are their own reasons, but it’s not true. It’s not accurate. It’s not a broad-brush description of the U.S. military as it exists today.” It isn’t? Really?
Milley’s words would carry a great deal more weight were it not for the mountain of evidence that Milley’s military is far more interested in pushing the left’s insane social agenda than it is in actually winning wars. The lack of preparation for the withdrawal from Afghanistan was the biggest indication of this wrongheadedness, but there are plenty of others.
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tedrick says
This “woke” thing is communism, isn’t it? This is where the West is at. While lauding at the break-up of the USSR the communists in the West finally managed to wiggle their way into all Western Institutions and political parties, armies, religion etc etc while everyone was asleep at the wheel.
Just plain awful.
࿗Infidel࿘ says
No, as Vivek Ramaswamy explained, there is a difference b/w “woke” and communism
In Communism, you had this theory of invisible forces conspiring to keep the average working class person downtrodden. But it was still not based on immutable characteristics: depending on whether one was a “have” or a “have-not”, one could go in or out of those “privileged” classes depending on their circumstance. In other words, it was semi-rational, but the main problem w/ it was that it punishes achievers and rewards losers, w/ the result being that everybody then aspires to be a loser
Woke is different. In woke, the criteria for “privilege” is not how much money/property one has, as in Communism, but rather, one’s race (or ancestry in the case of the Woke crowd’s newest hate-favorite: caste). Like if one is a White, one is automatically privileged, even if that person is not born into wealth, doesn’t even have slave-owning ancestors (another thing totally irrelevant, since the descendant’s current state may be nothing like the ancestor’s), has one of those minimum wage jobs in retail stores and struggles to make ends meet. In contrast, if one is one of those races that has trophies in the victim olympics, one is automatically a victim, even if that person may have an elite job in DC, had no ancestors who were slaves, lives in an upscale neighborhood in Georgetown, Martha’s Vineyard or Manhattan, doesn’t have to work 11 months out of 12. In fact, if one took the names & races out of the picture, Communists would be on more solid ground complaining about the unfairness of it all
Ironically, as Tucker Carlson once noted about a convention of the Democrat Socialist Party of American, if Vladimir Lenin or Leon Trotsky happened to be there, they wouldn’t be allowed to speak at that convention b’cos they were White. That is the difference b/w Communism and Wokeness
Kagman says
With MileyFkJB at the helm, we are at a lower risk for war… Why? The China/Russia/Iran axis knows they don’t have to do a god-damned thing and it’s only a matter of time before we self-destruct.
They are correct and the signs of our demise are everywhere. We have no borders. Our spending is absolutely out of control spending $1.85 for every dollar we bring in in tax revenue. Our students are some of the worst performing in the world, crime is spiraling out of control with major retail chains fleeing the cities under the onslaught. Our historical foundations and touch stones are being pillaged and destroyed. Our foundational documents and national concepts are under attack. Our elections are outright shams rivaling North Korea. We have clearly psychotic individuals in Federal positions of power – I give you men wearing dresses and complaining of menstrual syndromes. Our children are being taken from loving concerned parents if those parents do not agree to neutering them…
To be sure, our enemies have nothing to worry about…. We’re going down
James Lincoln says
Kagman,
Aside from what you have listed, we’re doing all right (sarc/off).
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Somewhat related – on the subject of Ukraine, it’s been exposed that Ukraine has added Human Events editor Jack Posobiec to its “Myrovorets” hitlist. A slain Russian journalist Darya Dugina was on that hitlist as well, and briefly, so was Elon Musk. It’s thought that Ukraine’s trannie spokes-whatever, Sarah Ashton-Cirillo, is the one who added Americans to the list, which is what Sen JD Vance is demanding an investigation into
In case people think Ukraine is harmless, remember that both Krushchev & Brezhnev came from that country during the Soviet era. Somehow, that cute blue/yellow flag ?? has morphed into an ugly symbol of Western virtue-signaling, and sanctimonious neocons
James Lincoln says
With the mindset of today’s current military leaders, the allies would have lost World War II.