The Secretary of Woke Warfare has some thoughts about Russia’s expanding nuclear arsenal.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Russia is “modernizing and expanding its nuclear arsenal” as its invasion of Ukraine continues and Russian President Vladimir Putin has made threats about using nuclear weapons in the conflict.
Austin spoke on Friday at a ceremony for the new head of U.S. Strategic Command (Stratcom), Anthony Cotton. The agency is responsible for strategic nuclear deterrence, nuclear operations and missile defense. Cotton took over for Charles Richard, who had served in the role since 2019 and retired Friday.
Cotton, like Austin, is another professional victim claiming that he’s the victim of racist oppression, as I documented a while back.
“Here I am as a lieutenant general in the United States Air Force,” then Lt. Gen Anthony Cotton whined to Air Force Magazine. “When I see what happened to Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, George Floyd, Rayshard Brooks—and the list goes on and on.”
“That could be me,” he claimed.
Last year, Cotton claimed that “diversity, inclusion are tools for national defense” and that diversity is a “warfighting imperative”.
“This team is exactly what we are looking for,” Cotton said of the Diversity and Inclusion Council at Malmstrom Air Force Base. “It is a diverse and unified team that is having crucial conversations about diversity and inclusion.”
Russia isn’t having crucial conversations about diversity and inclusion, but about building the biggest and deadliest arsenal for killing people possible.
Austin acknowledged several challenges facing Stratcom in the near future, including the expanding Russian nuclear arsenal and Chinese nuclear forces that are growing, modernizing and diversifying.
“And as the Kremlin continues its cruel and unprovoked war of choice against Ukraine, the whole world has seen Putin engage in deeply irresponsible nuclear saber-rattling,” he said.
“So make no mistake. Nuclear powers have a profound responsibility to avoid provocative behavior, and to lower the risk of proliferation, and to prevent escalation and nuclear war,” he continued.
It’s not the job of the secretary of defense to spout meaningless nonsense like this. That’s the role of the State Department.
Austin isn’t supposed to lecture Putin on the responsibility of nuclear powers to avoid proliferation but to tell us that America has Russia beat. It used to be the Euros who would offer worthless virtue signaling like this. Now our military brass scolds while unilaterally disarming.
Russia’s responsibility is both below and above Austin’s pay grade. Instead of doing his job of building a deadlier military, he’s making the military more useless and politically correct, and urging Russia to do the same.
That’s not happening.
It’s up to world leaders to decide how provocative they want to be. And it’s the job of defense people to let them be as provocative as they decide to be. Biden has unilaterally surrendered and Austin is facilitating the surrender.
“That could be me,” he claimed.
It still could be, just fill your brain with fentanyl, heroin, dope, cocaine, meth, the list goes on.
When I was in the military, it was about conforming. yourself to a standard A soldier was a soldier, an airman an airman, a sailor a sailor and a Marine a Marine. You enlisted to be one of those, not to be a special category of one of those.
I got out of the Army before these turkeys were born.
They are unworthy of the men under them.
Wearing t hose stupid dog masks is just shows what the liberal minded pinheads are doing to our nations military forces
In an October column entitled “The Russia-Ukraine War Can Just Keep Going Forever”, Mr. Greenfield says that Russia using nuclear bombs in Ukraine “has nothing to do with us.”
This is a man who worries about Russia’s nuclear arsenal when it’s rhetorical expedient (much like he only worries about anti-Semites when they are not personal friends of his boss).
Hypocrite.
What is the adjectival form of the word Troll?
Would Troller be an adverb?
Yep, it’s impossible for you to defend Austin and Cotton, or refute anything in the article..
There are 0 people that think Putin will nuke Ukraine. It doesn’t make any sense. It’s a theoretical point that nothing there really affects American life much at all.
Is this a Kanye thing again? The left is using right wing backlash against Kanye to recuit to Farrakhan leftist ranks. They played their cards right so far here, but need to go for the kill while maintaining integrity as they have like a few American Thinker articles pulled off.
I hope the Russians don’t nuke us while the clowns are running the show.
War is the province of chance, as the old saying goes. I was reminded of an example just now. After Pearl Harbor, Japan won all the battles, up until Midway. Then, the way I remember it, our torpedo planes failed to make any hits on the Jap carriers, but drew the Jap fighters down low, just by chance at the moment our dive bombers arrived, before the Jap fighters had time to climb and intercept our dive bombers.
Then it triggered another thought, why was our military so weak under FDR, before the war?
Don’t worry, we’re doing a pretty good job of nuking ourselves. Russia can just sit back and watch us self-destruct. As with the soviets, our collapse will happen much more suddenly than most realize.
Mr Austin compares himself to some low life black thugs non of whom did what he did, that is to say, get an education by joining the Military if no other choices are available but I guess running the streets dealing nickel and dime bags of dope to his own people in the Projects is somehow the same as working your way up the Ranks in the Military.
He is playing whitey for fools and they are all too afraid to call him out on his nonsense.
The Biden administration is a much greater threat to American liberty than Putin’s Russia.