Biden Administration Intentionally Weakening Military: Retired General

[pipedreams]

"When the United States acts, the world is always watching, and one of the loudest messages since President Joe Biden took office came from how the United States handled its withdrawal from Afghanistan in August 2021.

I think that will go down in history as the worst foreign policy failure in U.S. history. Every decision that was made was wrong,” said Lt. General (Ret.) William Boykin, executive vice president at Family Research Council. “What did that say to the rest of the world? It said that we have weak leadership. And you have to ask yourself, why did Vladimir Putin refrain from attacking Ukraine during the Trump administration? And then he went in with barrels blazing, under the Biden administration, and I will tell you, I think a lot of that goes back to the weakness that people—both our adversaries and our friends—recognized in the Biden administration.”

https://www.zerohedge.com/political/biden-administration-intentionally-weakening-military-retired-general

https://www.theepochtimes.com/biden-administration-intentionally-weakening-military-retired-general-at-pray-vote-stand-summit_4733336.html?utm_source=News&utm_campaign=breaking-2022-09-16-1&utm_medium=email&est=N9gWBgD6a648QlwOUL1m3Xd3nv4DFdtOrm9wxuRcm6NJJUW3SC4CccgSLuP4I1PA4g%3D%3D

Boykin believes weakness is more than an international perception, and he gave examples of how Biden is intentionally weakening the military, including kicking out servicemembers who refused to get the COVID-19 shot and teaching critical race theory and inclusion tolerance instead of teaching how to be in a constant state of readiness for war.

“All of these things that have nothing to do with the mission and everything to do with the agenda of the administration—you are doing them an injustice and ultimately you’re going to pay the price for that,” Boykin said.

“At the same time, they’re turning around and writing to old generals like me, saying, ‘We need help recruiting because we just can’t recruit enough people.’ Well let me explain to you how this thing of mathematics works. You get rid of all of them, and then those who are watching from the outside say, ‘I don’t want a part of that.’ And those on the inside, many of them leave on their own.”

Many in leadership at the Pentagon got their start under President Barack Obama, Boykin said.

[Batesmotel]

Clinton did a good job of gutting our officer corps of anything resembling a warrior. Replaced them with administrative drones. 

[railfancwb]

In addition to weakening our military Biden has made ongoing efforts to add Ukraine to NATO. 

The USA wasn’t very happy when the USSR tried to install nuclear-capable missiles in Cuba. Why should USA expect Russia to accept a situation which could put nuclear-capable missiles on its doorstep.

Had the USA honored its pledge not to expand NATO into former USSR members we wouldn’t be here now.