Biden’s Woke Appeasers Trash U.S. Military Readiness
A military that gives priority to climate change, LGBTQ+ issues, and the virtues of democratic socialism is surely inviting Putin to bite off even bigger chunks of Ukraine.
by Jed Babbin
February 21, 2022, 9:00 PM
It was only a few weeks ago that President Joe Biden announced that we were committed to maintaining Ukraine’s territorial integrity and sovereignty. Now Russian President Vladimir Putin is recognizing two parts of Ukraine — Donetsk and Luhansk — as independent states. His team of woke appeasers won’t even be able to muster significant sanctions against this Russian aggression.
This column has not advocated military intervention in Ukraine to stop Putin’s aggression because we have no vital national security interest there. Diplomacy has, again, failed to accomplish what Biden wants. He doesn’t understand that diplomacy has to be backed by military might — the “mailed fist in the velvet glove” — or it will fail. At the same time, he and his team are undermining our military at every turn.
The primary concerns of military leaders — both civilian and military — must be the lethality and combat readiness of the forces under their command. There are hundreds of things that comprise each of them and thousands that can detract from them.
But those concerns are not those of anyone in the Biden administration, from the president himself to Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and the rest. Also failing are the generals and admirals who have the duty to demand that the civilians reorient themselves to what is really important. To Biden’s team of idiots running the military, their only concerns are wokeness and climate change.
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