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We can only hope that the madness in Ukraine doesn’t escalate to the extent that the U.S. military ends up getting involved. It’s clear that Gen. Mark Milley and the rest of the brass have learned absolutely no lessons from Afghanistan and are determined to repeat the same mistakes that led up to the catastrophically mishandled withdrawal from Kabul. If the Army were called upon to move into Ukraine, which would be an indication that the situation there had gotten wildly out of control, it isn’t at all clear that today’s woke force would pose a significant threat even to the manifestly weak and sluggish Russian forces. An American army presence in Ukraine would likely herald World War III, and we hope it won’t come to that, but if it does, look out.
These are the priorities of Milley’s thoroughly modern military: early in February, Army officers were forced to sit through an official and mandatory presentation entitled “Policy on the Military Service of Transgender Persons and Persons with Gender Dysphoria.” According to the Washington Free Beacon, the presentation gives “training on gender pronouns and coaching officers on when to offer soldiers gender transition surgery.”
While Vladimir Putin’s army was preparing to invade Ukraine, officers of the U.S. Army were learning that they have to refer to some men as “she” and “her” if they want to keep their jobs, and be attentive for moments when it might be appropriate to offer Private Jack a chance to become Private Jill (no doubt soon to be Seargent First Class Jill, for being such a useful soldier of the zeitgeist).
According to an Army spokesman, this woke presentation was “mandatory training,” and was “used to train Army personnel on the recent changes to the DoD and Army transgender service policy.” The Free Beacon reports, “all Army personnel, from soldiers to commanders and supervisors, are required to participate in the training by Sept. 30, 2022, according to the spokesman.”
All this is part of “a larger push by the Biden administration to make the military more welcoming to transgender people.” The presentation states, “The Army allows transgender soldiers to serve openly. An otherwise qualified soldier shall not be involuntarily separated, discharged, or denied reenlistment or continuation of service on the basis of gender identity.”
In a sane society, a man who thinks he is a woman, or a woman who thinks she is a man, would be recognized as suffering from a severe psychological disorder, such that he or she would not be seen as “otherwise qualified.”
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Jedothek says
As a taxpayer, I object to my taxes paying for soldiers’ gender transition surgery.
CogitoErgoSum says
There are cases of babies being born where it is difficult to determine whether the child is male or female and surgery may be appropriate in such cases but those cases are very rare. Most people are born clearly identifiable as male or female and those who later say they have been assigned the wrong sex are suffering from a mental defect – not a physical defect. The problem is with the mind if the body is in good physical shape for either a man or a woman. This reassignment of sex through surgery and drugs has gotten completely out of control and the nonsense about having to use the pronouns a person tells you to use is in itself giving in to insanity.
raja says
+1
somehistory says
+10
Wellington says
Agreed, CES. There are males and females and, minus extremely rare exceptions as you noted, everything else is a lie. The entire transgender crap as a lifestyle should be ended and should be recognized for what it is, i.e., a disorder.
gravenimage says
Agree, CogitoErgoSum. Actual hermaphroditism is *very* rare, and almost always one or the other gender organs are dominant.
somehistory says
It’s all about money and power. The “money” is in the drugs, the surgery, and whatever else the greedy can use to take money from the mentally ill.
And for people like the male swimmer in PA university, he is in it for the power over the ladies…in the pool and in the lockerroom/showers. He likely believes he can also make money out of it at some point.
The “power” is in control of the masses to go along with whatever is demanded. Get a poison injected; call someone something they are not…a male is not a she, or a they; a female is not a them or a he; And to give them what they want in this, is to give them power of speech.
The freedom to speak the Truth…whatever the subject matter…is being taken away by force.
The Bible says to “Stay awake, stand firm, grow mighty.” What we are seeing throughout the earth is the very opposite.
Infidel says
It’s funny that the Democrat Party – the ‘party of Science’ – thinks that Metereology is a science but Biology ain’t. Which is why they tell us that men can be women and women can be men, that a sonogram is not a conclusive evidence of life, that vaccines do not reduce the need to mask or social distance, that kids need to be vaccinated and masked and locked down, and that BLM/Antifa ‘demonstrations’ don’t spread the Chinavirus.
In fact, given all the shenanigans of Dr Fauci and Dr Francis Collins, there is one theory doing the rounds in Ukraine that I’d normally dismiss as a conspiracy theory but which I’ll seriously consider b’cos it’s connected to the NIAID: that Ukraine has US based bioweapons labs that are designing diseases aimed at targeting only Russians. Yeah, it is a conspiracy theory, but the same thing has been said about Gain of Function operations at Wuhan.
somehistory says
Six months or less, and it will be proven. it’s not just conspiracy theories, but conspiracy by some from the U.S. government involved in bioweapons that putin finds objectional.
There is a lot of evidence for saying the labs are there and doing what is claimed. And fauci enjoys torturing little puppies….one of the labs was said to be under a vet clinic. A lot of things these days angers me, makes me ill to hear about or see; but nothing surprises me any longer.
Infidel says
To be honest, I feel like a wacko for not instantly dismissing such theories, but after what’s happened over the last 2 years, I wouldn’t put anything past the US government. I do believe that Fauci and Collins are that evil that they’d greenlight bio-warfare experiments targeting specific subsets of people. If they could do it in Wuhan, what’s the argument to claim that they wouldn’t do it in Ukraine, which is incredibly corrupt (and no, I don’t think that Zelenskyy is corrupt, but I don’t think he’s had enough time to wipe out all the corruption, what w/ Russia threatening him since day 1)
somehistory says
I get called wacko and crazy, but I don’t feel like that. I recall being young and trusting of the government way back. The change came for me when Gary Powers was flying a spy plane and the government said he wasn’t, but just ‘accidently got off course, got lost, ‘ and I believed the story; was sure russia was the liar.
Since hearing that he really was flying to spy…I no longer trust the government and I’ve dealt with so many government employees over different issues, I also know, besides liars, they have a bunch of total idiots who can’t get any thing right.
Guess in the current day, that makes me a you-know-what.
nicholas tesdorf says
The only powerful thing about the U.S. Military these days is its obsession with diversity and gender identity. In the field, it could not fight its way out of a paper bag.
Wellington says
nicholas tesdorf:
No, I don’t think the US military is as weak as you aver, but I do agree with you that it has been terribly harmed by Leftist wokeism and which Leftist wokeism (hey, what other kind of wokeness is there?) only makes everything it touches worse, not better. And all part of the reason why the putrid Milley, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, needs to be fired, dolt that he is, but the dolt in the White House won’t do this because, duh, he is a dolt himself. Yes, America, a very great nation by any historical measurement, is now largely led by a collection of idiots, cowards and the corrupt.
There are three great “errors” in our era. In no particular order they are: 1) Islam; 2) Western Leftism; and 3) your standard (and retrograde) authoritarianism as exhibited by such deficient characters as Putin, the North Korean regime and, most menacingly, the thug CCP regime in China.
Mankind occasionally exhibits brilliance, for instance the Founding Father of America and ancient Athens. Unfortunately, these represent the exception and not the rule. What a waste, what a damn shame. Useless and tragic beyond all measure.
Namer says
If I were still active duty I’d be in Leavenworth. Homey dont play that Shi@t.
gravenimage says
Woke and Stupid: As Russia Invades Ukraine, U.S. Army Gives Mandatory Training on Gender Identity
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Fiddling while Rome burns…
John Allan says
Oh, Nero had NOTHING on the U.S. military!
John Allan says
Well, there are only the two genders!
TWO!
So I suppose there is no point in my applying to join the U.S. military! 😵💫
OLD GUY says
Our military should have plenty todo besides gender reassignment and surgery. Our military hospitals and VA should put more effort into the veterans and those injured do to mo;otary service and discharge those not for to serve.
tgusa says
He looks a bit old the be a freshman student sitting in a dorm room in one of our institutes of lower learning. He shouldn’t be a General he should be a social studies instructor. If they give him any more medals he will need to start wearing them on his pants.