What I find remarkable is not how few white people are allowed in diverse Army commercials in 2024, but that there are actually any white people left in them at all.
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The uncomfortable truth is that there is substantial cognitive dissonance among certain elements of the big-tent “right” (for lack of a more accurate descriptor) in which mutually contradictory ideas are attempted to be reconciled:
- The U.S. government is now a hijacked, weaponized enterprise aimed directly at the American public via the war on “domestic terrorism,” COVID-19 terror, and various other means of social control and economic espionage
- The U.S. Department of Defense is a vaunted institution that performs noble, admirable work on behalf of the U.S. government
These ideas cannot be made to logically comport with one another.
To be clear, this is not to say there are not honorable members of the military, particularly in the rank-and-file, who join it for the right reasons — out of a love of country and a sense of duty, etc. This is undoubtedly true, even today — even after all of the unvaxxed and “white nationalists” and whatever other deplorables were run out of the ranks and have yet to be reinstated with full back pay.
Although I don’t bring it up at every opportunity like the Brandon entity as a stolen valor mask to wear, I have many family members who have served in the military, including my great-grandfather who paid the ultimate price while serving in special forces in World War II — as a member of a unit called the Devil’s Brigade in Anzio, Italy in which he mis-timed the intermittent break an opposing machine-gunner had to periodically take to jam the sight back into place as it became unaligned during extended periods of firing. He was only in his early 20s, but luckily my grandfather had already been born. These are salt-of-the-Earth people.
But, in the modern era, at least, the top brass, starting with Defense Secretary Austin, is a degenerate sh**show, and that is the echelon that makes all of the important decisions about war and peace — and who or what is in the crosshairs of the killing machine.
Take, for instance, the unveiled anti-white hate promulgated by chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. Mark Milley vis a vis Jan. 6, via Washington Post:
“I want to understand White rage. And I’m White,” Milley said, focused on learning more about the mostly White, mostly male mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6.
“What is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution of the United States of America. What caused that?” Milley asked. “I want to find that out.”
These are political actors; they do not rise to the ranks of leadership based on merit or honor or patriotism or anything like that. They are political appointees appointed to positions of power to carry out the will of the state, which very rarely these days, if ever, coincides with the will of the American people. Indeed, these interests are at diametrical odds.
And this damning reality of the internal political oppression of the national security state aimed at its own population does not begin to account for the devastating foreign effects of its reckless activities.
Libya, for instance, whatever one thinks of its eccentric former leader, was once one of the most prosperous, stable, and functional nations in Africa — not a high bar, to be sure, but a notable distinction nonetheless. By the time Hillary Clinton got done with it at the helm of the State Department, it was a failed state with open-air slave markets — with no benefit whatsoever to American national security or the average American. What the destruction of Libya did accomplish was the further destabilization and impoverishment of the region, guaranteeing future forever-war and by logical extension ever-increasing DoD budgets and private military contracts for war profiteers.
So, you tell me: what is remotely conservative, or admirable, or honorable, about any of this?
