The United States has never been weaker or more vulnerable in my lifetime. The President is clearly incapacitated, yet he refuses to step down; our DEI-centric military lacks the manpower, weapons, or leadership to be a credible deterrent. I enlisted in the Navy in 1978, during the days of low morale, high drug use, and the “hollow force”. Back then, we had (literally) twice the number of ships, tanks, artillery pieces, amphibious vehicles, and infantry battalions, but the units were undermanned and poorly led. Marine officers carried loaded sidearms while on duty and had every expectation of needing them.
In the late 1970s, the military fell on hard times when full of hard men who, when they had their sailors at sea, or their Marines out in the field, established good order and discipline the old-fashioned way; with their fists. I did it myself because it was the only way to get your peers to stop blasting music after 2300 in the Bethesda Naval Hospital enlisted barracks. The modern military may still have a few hard men, but they would never receive tacit support or encouragement from their chain of command to use traditional old-school discipline to establish and maintain good order and discipline.
We live in soft times, more disconnected from nature than ever before, with a military full of soft men/women/undecided who are uninterested in and unfamiliar with interpersonal violence. The current military is incapable of repeating the miraculous transformation into a highly competent, well-funded, and drug-free force that occurred during President Reagan’s military revitalization in the early 80s. Public confidence in the military, extraordinarily high since the mid-1980s, is trending back down to where it was after Vietnam. Confidence in all the institutions that matter, the press, congress, the legal system, academia, “The Science™,” and Medicine are at historic lows. It’s so bad that regional law enforcement agencies will no longer share information with the FBI, which they do not trust.
Proving the FBI has IFF (identify friend or foe) issues, two FBI agents paid a visit to a friend of mine yesterday, who is the hardest Marine Corps infantry officer I’ve ever known. Asad Khan was a legend in the Marine Corps known for an impressive work ethic, exacting standards, and tactical savvy. I was a huge fan, and when I was suddenly bumped up to the 1/8 operations officer while still a young captain, Major Khan graciously gave me a copy of the Standard Operating Procedures (SOP), saving me untold hours of tedious staff work. He wasn’t a dick about it either despite knowing that I knew he would never take another battalion’s SOP knowing he could write a better one.
Asad led the first Marines into Afghanistan, landing in Bagram, where they boarded rented buses to drive to Kabul and reclaim the American embassy. On the way there, they ran into a one-tank roadblock in a wadi crossing with a sign demanding payment to pass. LtCol Khan, a fluent Pashto speaker, walked over to the tank, knocked on the crew hatch, and asked the lone occupant inside what he needed. The old man said Shoes. Khan gave him chow and water and told him to wait there until he returned with shoes, and in the meantime, to put the main gun in neutral position and let the Americans coming behind him pass unmolested. The old man agreed and was inside the tank days later with Asad, who returned with shoes, clothes, a coat, and some money. Khan was both hard and smart – I don’t think any other Marine officer of our generation could have navigated that situation so well back in 2001.
I ran into Asad several times in Afghanistan. I met his son in Kabul when he showed up with then-Colonel (now retired LtGen) Dave Furness, who worked in the congressional liaison office then. Asad hosts the Sentinel podcast on YouTube, and you should listen to a few episodes to get a feel for what the FBI considers “anti-American” these days. You can listen to him describe the FBI visit here, and when you’re done, you tell me if you’d like to see Asad investigated by the Feds or moving into the house next door.
We are watching the government/media/academia axis of evil employ brute digital force to whitewash the disastrous incompetence of the Biden regime and its new leader, Kamala Harris, in real time. Already, the allegedly nonpartisan GovTrack has deleted her ranking as the most liberal member of the U.S. Senate. Axios spent years calling Kamala the Border Czar, now insists that they never said that, and she was never really the border czar. Amazon has suddenly banned an unflattering book on Kamala as the media’s Soviet style airbrushing of the most unpopular Vice President in history continues.
The Orange and Velvet revolutions foisted on various countries by the U.S. Department of State targeted regime legitimacy through incremental non-violent means to generate a preference cascade leading to regime collapse. It is useful to remember this when reviewing the mountain of disinformation, hoaxes, and conspiracy theories we have had to endure since Donald J Trump announced his candidacy in June of 2015. A trendy acronym from the recent past explains the ramifications of gaslighting American citizens: POSIWID: The Purpose Of a System Is What It Does. If the ends pursued by the Regime are functionally identical to the ends of warfare, then the Regime is waging war. Ask LtCol Asad Khan USMC (Ret) about it, I’m sure he has an interesting take.
Years ago, progressive America declared war on biology with their refusal to accept the reality that gender is not a social construct and men and women are not interchangeable. Biology in this context is a synonym for nature, and it’s Mother Nature who determined that women would never be as physically capable as men because they are designed and built differently. The emotional difference between the sexes was demonstrated during the FBI/Secret Service congressional hearings. US Secret Service Director Kimberly Cheatle took such a beating that she resigned the next day, but she lost her job not because she’s a woman, but as a woman, she never had to learn how to fight at the apex predator level. Showing poor tactical awareness,s she allowed herself to be ambushed at the Republican convention when she arrogantly strode the floor, assuming she had the juice to do so unmolested. When confronted by her ridiculous prior statements concerning roof slopes, she was clearly embarrassed. When attacked by both sides of the aisle, she was unable to mask her emotions.
FBI Director Christopher Wray strode into the Capitol and not only obfuscated shamelessly, he also smirkingly added this poison pill to his testimony:
“I think with respect to former President Trump, there’s some question about whether or not it’s a bullet or shrapnel that, you know, hit his ear.”
Utter rubbish concocted out of thin air that was walked back the next day, but it wasn’t meant to be taken literally. That was Wray sending Congress a two-word message, the first word starts with F, and the second is You. He was telling Congress they didn’t intimidate him, and he would counterattack anyone who crossed him. That kind of naked bureaucratic power can only be wielded effectively by men who fought their way to the top of a meritocratic system. Women reach the top of federal agencies by other methods, not by consistently outperforming their male peers every step of the way for decades on end.
Regardless of who is in charge of our massive federal bureaucracies, they are not going to allow the Trump/Vance ticket to gain landslide-sized momentum unmolested. Their bizarre attempts to stop him have already surpassed the surreal, but have only made him stronger. The next four months are at the very least going to be weird, but I’m afraid the progressive establishment will reach for the last tool they have: political violence. Our country is leaderless, and the people are adrift in uncharted waters, with DEI hires at the helm and FBI agents at the door; this can’t possibly end well.
