There's the reasonably sane guy, Vlad the Impaler — and then — there's the hysterical Biden team — and its identity-fractionating Arm of Military Stooges

16 March 2021

Today, I juxtapose two news items

. . . to demonstrate the self-destructive idiocy of the United States' currently rampant brain disease.

With regard to failed American proportionate perspectives

Some of us have noticed the Deep State's overreaction to the Capitol Riot of 06 January 2021.

Perhaps that's because we are familiar with real violence, real revolution and genuine tearing downs.

One among this clearer-seeing group is Russian Federation's famously vilified president, Vladimir Putin, who recently (and accurately) observed that:

“Some of the people who took a stroll to the U.S. Congress — 150 people were arrested, they face imprisonment from 15 to 25 years," Putin said during a meeting on increasing investment activity, according to The Associated Press.

Meanwhile — and apparently not having anything better to do . . .

. . . (having lost all its major armed conflicts for many-many decades, but still enthusiastically focused on mongering more of the same) — uniformed military leadership decided to publicly attack Fox News's Tucker Carlson.

See here and here.

Carlson's apparently unfathomable sin was having dared to question whether the Biden Administration's emphasis on — among other things — pregnancy-supporting military flight suits and female troops' hair styles are good ideas.

Thus . . .

Hundreds of years of non-political US military tradition were instantaneously garbaged, so as to go after a civilian commentator for having questioned military priorities.

In the face of the Armed Services' counter-Tucker babble, we can safely conclude that the American military is now a voluble arm of the Biden Administration and its puppeteering Deep State.

This kumbaya (panty-waisted) response, resting in the allegedly capable hands of Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin — that visibly marionette tool of Raytheon-style, military industrial complex corporatism.

This is what happens when . . .

. . . we elevate corporatists to positions of national power that should, in practice, demonstrate aggressively non-corporate priorities — with regard to leading American self-defense.

It is curious . . .

. . . how previously honorable traditions have vanished in the face of Cancel Culture's mind-squelching onslaught of:

overweening

self-righteous

petulant

dictatorial

discussion-eliminating

identity-fractionating

(arguably bozo-ish)

stupidity.

Am I too harsh?

I suspect not.

Consider Carlson's superbly crafted (my litigator's assessment) 'closing argument' response to the US military attack against him:

Fox News, Tucker responds to Pentagon's criticism of his show, YouTube (11 March 2021)

Perhaps most telling in Carlson's eloquently righteous stomping of the idiots now in charge of America was this point:

Tonight, there are 2,500 American troops stationed in Afghanistan. And they remain there to prevent the fall of Kabul to extremists.

At the same time, there are 5,000 troops in our own Capitol tonight. Also as protection against extremists — meaning people who voted for the losing candidate in the last election.

Judging by those numbers, the Pentagon is now twice as focused on controlling our own citizens, as it is on controlling the Taliban.

The moral? — When rationality flees, self-destruction takes its place

One does not have to agree with Carlson's implicit questioning of women's and gender-converted people's ability to operate militarily — to ponder his points about the legitimacy of various American military prioritizations.

Going against Carlson's implied flow is the Soviet Union's World War II demonstration that a high proportion of its combat women, both troop and medical, were ferocious and extraordinarily courageous.

Those accounts are generally not known in the United States. If you are curious, read — by way of introduction:

Svetlana Alexievich, Richard Pevear (translator) and Larissa Volokhonsky (translator), The Unwomanly Face of War: An Oral History of Women in World War II (Random House, 2017)

On the other hand, Carlson's perspective agrees with the US Marine Corps' own 2015 evaluation of the lessened effectiveness of mixed gender units versus exclusively male ones.

See:

Hope Hodge Seck, Mixed-gender teams come up short in Marines' infantry experiment, Marine Times (10 September 2015)

And that is not the point, anyway.

The point is that the US military has no business (at all and ever) trying to take down a civilian journalist for expressing doubts about allegedly questionable Armed Services thinking.

To that end, Carlson's concluding point is exactly on target.

We are now in a situation in which the forces of US imperialism are trying to subjugate the American public. Including our Rabble's freedom of speech.

This stifling endpoint is emphatically not what most Americans had in mind, when the Republic was established.

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There's the reasonably sane guy, Vlad the Impaler — and then — there's the hysterical Biden team — and its identity-fractionating Arm of Military Stooges