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2021-02-23 Government

Kurt Schlichter: Our Military's SJW-Driven Abandonment of Warfighting Is Going to Get Troops Killed

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Posted by 746 2021-02-23 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11 views ] Top

#1 Two for one?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-02-23 04:39|| 2021-02-23 04:39|| Front Page Top

#2 From Peter Whitewood, The Red Army and the Great Terror:

"There was of course no truth in the charges against the Tukhachevskii group: there was no ‘military-fascist plot’ or genuine conspiracy in the Red Army..."

Substitute US military for Red Army and white supremacist for "fascist."

Another parallel is the Wokesters' fear and loathing of the social element that predominates in the military. Per Whitewood here's "the key to understanding the [Bolsheviks', not just Stalin's ] military purge":

...the Red Army was continually the subject of deep security anxieties and believed to be under a near-constant threat of subversion. The most serious perceived threats to the Red Army identified by the Bolsheviks before the military purge include:

Former imperial officers from the disbanded Tsarist army. Such officers enlisted in the Red Army during the Russian Civil War and 1920s and brought with them valuable expertise. They were, however, viewed as the enemy within.

Actually, you don't even need to change the wording to spot the parallel here-- just put 'White' in lower-case:

Former White officers who had fought against the Bolsheviks during the Civil War similarly enlisted in the Red Army and were regarded with even more suspicion.

And for peasant soldiers, just substitute "Southern white soldiers":

Peasant soldiers formed the bulk of the Red Army, but their reliability was always in doubt. During the collectivization drive of the late 1920s and early 1930s, the loyalty of peasant soldiers seriously wavered as the regime dispossessed peasant families of their belongings and forced farmers into collective units.

Posted by Bubba Cluse6831 2021-02-23 06:46|| 2021-02-23 06:46|| Front Page Top

#3 As a civilian, I had to internet search Blue Falcon. Not a term of endearment...

Posted by M. Murcek 2021-02-23 12:47|| 2021-02-23 12:47|| Front Page Top

#4 But Revolutionary Guards has such a ring to it. Besides, who is more likely to operate or program a remote weapon system to strike targets within the USA?

In the meantime, those who do not pass the purity test get a trip to The Horn of Africa to secure Chinese Mines.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-02-23 14:18|| 2021-02-23 14:18|| Front Page Top

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