Americans have just witnessed another historic moment: not only a new record for the most single-day border arrests ever made; or male, military-aged Chinese nationals illegally entering the country through California and joining the espionage nodes known as Confucius Institutes and a Chinese Communist police station in New York City — but a proposal for these illegal aliens to join the military.
The proposal last week was made not by some Twitter screecher or Ibram X. Kendi but by sitting Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin who, in a speech on the Senate floor, said:
“Do you know what the recruiting numbers are at the Army, Navy, and the Air Force? They can’t reach their quotas each month. They can’t find enough people to join our military forces. And there are those who are undocumented who want the chance to serve and risk their lives for this country. Should we give them a chance? I think we should.”
The military recruitment lows are not news. Funnily enough, that is what happens when you make it a point to drive away the people most likely to enlist and serve.
There was Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin’s stand-down order to allow each branch “to discuss the threat posed by white supremacy and similar extremism.”
And since “white supremacy” has become just another sponge term to signify positions that oppose the plans of the left, a routing out of white supremacy meant the removal of personnel with political beliefs anathema to the Democrat regime.
There was the second purge, this time of personnel who refused to take the Covid “vaccine.”
There was the gayification of the military, which saw everything from recruitment ads to making so-called transitioning soldiers undeployable for almost a year.
There was the killing of meritocracy for the sake of DEI baloney.
And then there was the humiliation of the Afghanistan retreat (with the addition of financially punishing soldiers whose crime was following orders) and the tease that the whole thing might be repeated in Ukraine.
When you tell people long enough that you don’t want them, eventually, they will get the message.
The recruitment shortage is a problem entirely of the left’s making, and now that the full consequences are in force, the same left is using the crisis as justification for not only weakening the military but also, potentially, attacking American citizens. . . . .
. . . . The greater danger, however, lies in the potential threat such a military would pose to American citizens (which would be little better than a foreign military pretending to be an American one).
A military with significant numbers of illegal aliens — foreigners with no ties to the United States, our ways, our traditions, our Constitution, our history — will have no loyalty to the land or its people.
Such a military will be much more willing to open fire on citizens protesting another lockdown, another “secure” election, or the queering of their children via the education system.
Instead, they will be loyal to whoever gives them the most prizes — which will be the left, as the current controller of all institutions of worth.
It is not as if this scenario has never been played out before either.
The Founding Fathers were quite clear that the Roman Republic was one of their chief models and sources of inspiration for the new nation, but Durbin’s enthusiasm for illegal recruits smacks of the late Roman Empire.
As the empire began to wither, emperors like Diocletian and Constantine were forced to look elsewhere for recruits.
Foreign mercenaries were not strangers in the Roman legions, but the difference was that, in the past, they had been axillary forces and shock troops. But then, more and more Germanic barbarians had replaced Roman citizens as soldiers.
With no loyalty to Rome, the empire, or the emperor, these Germanic tribesmen worked for their own advantage.
In a fit of irony, many of the barbarians who sacked Rome had honed their military prowess by fighting in the Roman legions.
For all its wealth and power, even Rome could not Romanize infinite numbers of immigrants. . . . . (read more on The Federalist)
Surrendering our U.S. military to the illegal invaders (American Thinker, 11 DEC 23)
Migrants here illegally (let’s call them “illegrants” for brevity’s sake) are now welcome in the U.S. military, and in fact, are being encouraged to enlist, all expenses paid, of course. This is no different than turning our military over to the enemy.
With the influx of upwards of 12,000 illegrants in one day, most of them military-age males, and with the reluctance of native-born Americans to join a pronoun-intensive drag-woke military, our brass is finding it hard to keep and get American males to enlist—because the latter just don’t believe in what the wokesters have done to our military.
At least our citizens care about the country, but do the brass? Illegrants certainly don’t care about wokeness and will sign up in a heartbeat to get those three hots and a cot, and maybe even learn a trade. What have they got to lose? . . . . (read more)
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