TragicMonkey
Poisoned Waffles
TL,DR: excuses to rid the military of women and minorities, abuse of recruits is welcome, and war crimes are permitted.
TL,DR: excuses to rid the military of women and minorities, abuse of recruits is welcome, and war crimes are permitted.
Speaking of beards, Hegseth just reinstalled this painting of Confederate General Robert E. Lee at West Point.
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The really stupid thing is that there is an active conflict going on right now that shows how stupid the whole "warrior ethos" is from a military standpoint. Russia has (or rather had) a big, bad, macho, manly man's army, and they are getting taken out at a fourteen to one kill ratio by a bunch of Ukrainian nerds playing with video game controllers.TL,DR: excuses to rid the military of women and minorities, abuse of recruits is welcome, and war crimes are permitted.
Wonder if Hegseth had a buzz on when he said that?Telling young people they will be bullied and brutalised if they sign up will do wonders for recruitment.
It's not like they don't have a choice, does he know the military isn't compulsory?

Somebody stick a fork in him, please!Trump to generals: "We want 'war,' because we want to have no wars. But you have to be there, and you know, sometimes you have to do it. I have settled so many wars since we're here. We're here almost nine months and I've settled and yesterday we might've settled the biggest of them all, though I don't know."