As a serviceman in the military currently. This report is HORRIFICALLY one sided. The issues in the military right now have BEEN issues for a long time just now becoming far larger. The political tribalism and purges of top leadership for how they VOTE, is absolutely undemocratic and against the values of the military fights for.
The video is just facts. Undeniable by any means. These are the testimonies from people who worked close to Trump. After this anyone still defending him is impossible to explain
Trump for 30 years "the american military has no role in my politics", visualpolitic is trying to pretend like that somehow changed. It never did Trump was aggressively anti war.
Responsible for what, the inability of the people of Afghanistan to build a democracy preventing its lands as a place of refuge and assistance to terrorists.
@@MrWhitmen1981 Responsibility for propping up a deeply corrupt regime that everyday afghan regarded as puppet to Washington. Considering how the afghan president ran away after emptying the state bank accounts, the afghanis were right.
@@MrWhitmen1981 The decision to withdrawal from Afghanistan is a sound one. How it went down was not. US promised the men and women who worked with US troops honorably to be able to have a visa for their work. They were left behind. Many were killed by the Taliban. It's not hard to view the withdrawal as a tactical mess that was impacted by poor political decisions.
I joined the US Army in 2006 under Bush and was there for the election of Obama. Even being the young and stupid kid that I was, I was able to see the politicization then. It's only gotten worse since then.
Same here. I joined the USAF in October of 2005 and already saw the wokeness and political motivation for promotion erode combat effectiveness. Our flag officers are all as worthless as a Russian General.
You sound like you're close to my age, (I was born in 1986) I've noticed the same thing since the 2008 election. But I would say the economic downturn is what really triggered it. I started noticing it in 2006, there were riots/protests in Chicago over illegal immigration. The whole matter has just gotten worse since then. Perhaps out generation notices this more strongly, because we grew up in a different time; a time we thought would last forever.
@Illisil funny for you to mention that, cause you're absolutely correct. Historically speaking we live in similar times as in the 1600s which are very similar to what we're experiencing today
As an American, I can tell you that for the past 10 years political polarization has substantially increased. There is not a single issue - whether major or minor - that has not been polarized by the political extremes. You're either one side or the other there is no room in between for compromise, moderation, nor reason. We are not longer a nation ruled by the majority, but rather the extremist minorities. Our founding fathers were wary of the "tyranny of the majority," but they should have rather been concerned about the tyranny of the minority.
In Brazil where I live is the same thing. Everything has been polarized, even cinema, music, TV shows and food establishments. "Are you with us or against us" mentality.
Then use DEI to put inept people into high ranking positions, replacing the old nepotism with another problem... American education was derailed by both the left and right into anti-science idiocity... now both sides pick and choose what parts of reality they agree with to push their own propaganda... unsurprisingly both sides are doing this to fuel their own cults. One side is woke cult, the other is the christian cult. Members on neither side can accept the realities of this world...
That would be common sense and has never been taught in public schools. That is taught by parents and the last couple of generations of parents have been too lazy to bother teaching their children right from wrong and using common sense.
The Constitution fixes this. No military interventions without a declaration of war. A vote in congress. Take the military wing out of the CIA. They need to collect intelligence not create destabilization. Non-elected officials need to be taken out of the decision making process
@@waynekensicki4718that's just plain stupid . 2 reasons - It requires everyone to have a level of expertise which is not possible . It requires everyone to have clear intention both internal and external which is also not possible .
They have a multitude of advisors from all directions. The CIA the Pentagon and the rest of them should not be allowed to run amok. How we got from 1991 to where we are at is baffling. The people who decided to bring us here.... I would say their level of expertise was misguided. In the last 50 years where has our military presence made America or the world better?
@@init_yeah Ah yes because both sides are equally bad and that's definitely not a method of normalizing insane things like insurrection and trying to legislate children out of existence.
@@McClane4Ever. Problem with McCain was he reached across the aisle and it was never returned. Moderation is rarely respected from the opposition until it's gone.
'Let's start a debate'. Seriously? Present a one-sided argument and then ask people to debate. Perhaps the debate needs to start with why media is duped/compliant with certain forces?
Trump was the best thing that happened to the free world .. and I hope he comes back - because the world has gone mad since he left… the appeasement to Islamic terrorism of the administration is a disaster that has already cost so many lives. Trump’s peace through strength we’d so well that the left - who love China were desperate. The left is a malignant cancer to any free society
Exactly!!! it’s some serious reverse discrimination and over the past 55 years little by little America is just completely lost their morals and especially on the left and I just don’t get it because I’m conservative but I’m also objective
I was in service during Vietnam, and the politicization of the military was beginning then. With the critics of the war seeming to be liberal, the military felt betrayed and became more "conservative." Nixon's ending the Draft eliminated one feature that had done a lot to help make the country a melting pot and minimized a broad source of opposition to wars ie the mothers of draftees. The idea that military service was a universal duty to country was a useful concept. The experience of being in the military also helped many to know why they did not want to live in an authoritarian situation.
Many of those drafted to Vietnam went home in bags. There were 100s of fraggings as I am sure you are aware. The draft military was far inferior to the all volunteer military.
Are you saying that the all volunteer military avoids all war casualties ? Or that little things like current frequent drug testing make no difference in military behavior? The all volunteer military changed many things at the same time. Some of those things like better pay and longer training could have been done in a draft service is a duty for all situation except it was assumed that you didn't need to make the service that attractive. But a much smaller percentage of the population is worried about the people in service and they are much less likely to take to the streets to oppose a war or insist on better treatment of variously wounded returned veterans. @@Donner906
@@Donner906 Not so certain. Draftees in VN were overall more mature and able to accept discipline than enlisted men. WWI, WWII, Korea and VN were fought in large part by draftees. Iraq, Afghanistan etc by volunteers. If the AVF is so great, why does it fail to win wars?
I was in for six years. 2016-2022. I saw attitudes becoming very leftist, but I was a POG. I'm sure the infantry will always have a streak of conservatism. If you sign up for the express purpose of having a job that kills people, you're usually going to be right wing, who are more permissive of authority-ordained violence.
How come the right wing in the US seem to be supporting 💩tin? Weren't they against commies, and how come the right wing have swapped sides? Is it cos of Trump?
@@bullballsallday uh, no. Right wing now means Maga, believing in wacko conspiracy theories, and putting Party over country. For the record, I'm an independent military vet old enough to remember when most Republican politicians were MODERATES, now called RINO's by Maga.
Haven't heard that derogatory epithet before. I'm going to guess it was made by a privileged leftist who thinks blaming white people for reactions every group has is important and meaningful while if someone where to create a "black X" pejorative it would be a racist slur. And on a video about polarisation too, it's a mystery why conservatives don't want to cross the aisle when the left keeps doing this.
You have no Idea what you are talking about. You have obviously not read the constitution otherwise you would have read the words ‘Government of the People by the people and for the people’ that is democracy and decentralisation of power by any other name
@richardstevens8839 maybe you need to go reread it. For it states also in the pledge of Allegiance. I quote " And to the REPUBLIC for which it stands, one nation under God." I have read the constitution in its entirety. Even Reagan and Ben Franklin. Even Google will define the U.S as a constitutional Federal Republic. I do my reaserch
@@davidlee6253 Maybe it is you who needs to do more research. John Marshall, a delegate to Virginia's ratification convention and future Chief Justice, referred to the proposed constitutional system as "a well regulated democracy" and James Madison in his writings (which go far beyond The Federalist Papers) refers to the principle of majority rule being at the core of republican government, and that principle is fundamentally democratic. You also should know that Madison was co-founder with Thomas Jefferson of the DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN Party set up to oppose the "republic not a democracy" Federalist Party. Or do you not?
When you let through ads for the Army / Navy / Etc recruitment that " I'm proud of my two moms " and it's a weak ass woman, of course the military is politicized.
@@kerrynisbet1514 He's right. There's a reason police forces don't send two women together to dangerous calls. It's that they very often have to be rescued by men, where a mixed pair would be fine. It would apply at least equally to a battlefield situation. It's useless pretending to be unaware of that.
@dixonpinfold2582 yeah, from experience. I served with women in the military. There's some I served with I would have trusted beside me when the shit hit the fan more than some of the men. But yeah you keep on telling yourself those cool stories.
@@captandylambert1509I can tell you've been drinking too much of the mainstream kool-aid. Trump isn't treasonous. Trying to build relationships with foreign enemy powers is quite literally how you generate peace and prevent war. The mainstream media is lying to you. He helped orchestrate the Abraham Accords for the largest peace deal in the middle east and what did CNN say? Called him a traitor. Was specifically named as the orchestrator of the peace deal between North and South Korea BY THE S. KOREAN PRESIDENT! What did NPR say? That "an unnamed informant" said he had nothing to do with it. Tried to generate an arms trade deal with India and what did CNN say? That he was on a sightseeing vacation. You've allowed mainstream media to fasten blinders tight. Take them off.
@@captandylambert1509 Depends on what you consider treason. We live in a representative democracy, heavily cordoned off with red tape, the policies you see represented doesn't represent what the people want. Like it's said, no taxation without representation. If a political leader can't own up to their words, might as well consider it treason to democracy, and the american people.
The most fraudulent part of this whole deal is downplaying how sharp the anti war movement is on the right. It's dumb founding how people act like Iraq-Afghanistan didn't happen. It's the whole reason Trump got to power. Cheney-Obama poisoned the right on the military and international affairs. I don't know any right wingers who are pro military. by 2006 the 911 jingoism was done, trump took power a decade later. Visual Politic is just such a eurotrash cliche. Completely ignore the prime ingredient in the whole thing. Trump treated the military like a play thing, exactly the same reason he treated intelligence agencies like a play thing. The narrative that partisan politics is bad for the military is a joke, Trump has no plans to use it, why DEI is taking over a military biden wants to use is a whole other basket of worms. Trump calls the military establishment treasonous exactly because the forever wars kept going for so long. The false equivalency of the left and right forever reigns in the Eurotrash propaganda machine.
10:12 he said that these ideas seemed to happen every few weeks, yet the only time when a war didn't start was during that exact time. Makes me wonder how often it happens when trump isn't in office.
There were no new wars under Trump because he rolled over like a puppy for a belly rub for every dictator who sent him an ego-stroking letter. He threw his own intelligence community under the bus for Putin. He let North Korea develop ICBMs. Although he blamed China for the virus, he let them off scot free (the trade war doesn't count because it wasn't about the virus).
The military is supposed to follow cilvilian authority. When the executive branch wants them to withdraw from foreign fiascos, the military should follow orders and not lie to the civil authorities in order to keep their forever war going.
Exactly civilian authority not a individual, and the executive is checked by other power, and need to follow the constitution. Congress is the only who can declare war and fund the military and also can overrule the president with 2 3rd votes like the did to prevent the president from withdrawing from NATO, also the courts can strike down unconstitutional action by yhe executive. This is not a one man show dictatorship style.
@neirad537 No war has been declared in the Middle-East, if the president orders our troops to return home, then they should do so. The military leadership and state security apparatus should not lie to the executive and delay the withdrawal.
The executive does not have the power to start wars. Only congress can declare war. Every single "war" since WW2 has been unconstitutional and illegal.
@@neirad537except Congress relinquished their duties to declare war and ALLOWED the executive branch to send troops wherever it wants. "Checks and balances", but the people in charge refused to take responsibility
@@VT-mw2zbNot true. The President can use military forces to protect the nation but has to report to Congress within 48 hours. Congress can turn off funding for military operations undertaken by the President if they don’t think it rises to war.
You can dismiss people and their concerns all day long, but if you expect to have a country and share it with the people you dismiss, it’ll be a little more challenging than it otherwise has to be. Disrespect begets disrespect, which begets disrespect, and so on.
@@LibertyFirst1789 The first disrespectful person was Aaron Burr, and it’s been downhill from there You illustrate the point quite beautifully though - I’m not going to be pushed away from my home even if you threatened to nuke it - and you sure as hell aren’t going to dictate to me what I can and can’t do, believe, advocate, etc. You *must* share this country with me! Learn how!
In the past, Democrats and Republicans both wanted the same future, they just had different ways to get there. Now, each party has their own visions of the future, and they are vastly different, and they have radical ways to get there.
The Republicans and Democrats are still patriots. It's just that the political system has been hijacked by the Cultural Marxist Revolution. Currently, both parties are voting Trump to 'drain the swamp' so the Democrats can return to their party.
No government officials should be able to invest in the military industrial complex because it turns them into war enthusiast because of the return they will get on their investments.
Ah, after the 2016 election, there were magazine articles explaining how the military could remove the President from office, and this was a GOOD idea.
@15:12 You have a strange way of interpreting that chart. First of all, the blue line (great deal) only returned to the early eighties level. Next, the red (quite a lot) evened out and the other two actually increased. Not what I would call a catastrophic collapse in confidence.
Trump is not the reason the military has seen a great divide. 1st off the military has always leaned right, especially the Officers of Infantry and combat arms. The military has had partisan issues always but Trump brought them to the surface and gave media sound bites to make stories with. The military today is divided by 1. The handling of Afghanistan by ALL authorities 2. Covid protocols and forced discharge of military members( this caused WAY more damage than any president, the military even reached back out to people they discharged to offer them a job again). The media and politicians trashed all Covid vaccine opposers who mainly lean right/conservative and the top military officials went along. Imagine being the base you mainly recruit from(young conservative men) and then thinking you’ll enlist in the military. Now the military is facing MASSIVE recruitment numbers and want to fix it by lowering standards to accept anyone who will sign up. There’s a lot more to the loss of confidence in the U.S. military but this video completely missed the mark
Right on, this appears to be a government funded political ad, the article was put together with a political bias spin in favor of the democractic party and the military industrial complex of corporations with government agency approval. Street language refers to this as pure BS !
By its nature, the military and the police tend to be more right-wing and masculine, as the education and the healthcare tends to be more left-wing and female.
No, just, no. That's what they want you to believe. FOX News is broadcast at all the military bases because Murdoch paid somebody off. I want to know who. You don't know why FOX news was created, obviously. It was created as a mouthpiece of the Republican party. It's in their charter.
The Roman armies were always akin to a state, in fact most generals who have conducted co de’etate did so that so with the express approval of a army which is politicized to aid them against the very institutions they are sworn to protect (Napoleon, Julius Caesar)
People have done it. It requires in-depth research, though, to craft an accurate narrative. All this video did was regurgitate what one could find on NBC.
How much more decision-making can you get than having the Secretary of Defense giving instructions personally to soldiers on patrol in the jungles of Vietnam?
The politics involving the president and military play little to no role in decreasing or increasing soldier morale. The strategic blunders of senior leadership and attempted cover ups of them are more visible today than they ever were before. Now facts and figures are instantly checked by viewers or readers of content and are often done by people with first hand knowledge of the events. The badly blundered and reckless Afghanistan withdrawal, and to an extent of Iraq, was a blatant embarrassment executed by the Pentagon that now created a more capable and sophisticated enemy than it originally went in to fight. Billions in military hardware ammunition and small arms are now in the hands of the Taliban, isis, and other terror groups worldwide. Not only did it send a message to all service members of how broken and out of touch strategic command was in what should of been a relatively simple operation, but it also showed how little regard for life Senior leaders have for the Soldiers they send into countries for military operations. It is painfully obvious now that little to nothing was accomplished in both campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan and that none of it really affected the safety and well being of US Citizens at home. The US Army and all other branches now have taken extreme stances on workplace behavioral classes which also beats down the morale of soldiers. Instead of going through quick seminars on things like sexual harassment, transgender equality, equal opportunity, suicide, and whatever else is the flavor of the month Soldiers are required to sit through hours and hours of training that is scheduled quarterly. Also the politicized rules of engagement in wars like Enduring freedom cost American lives and cut down on military capabilities. Being unable to engage an enemy without the sign off of an O6 because it may be cause collatoral damage really affects soldiers morale. Especially when they are getting shot at in the process
Indeed, That flag officers push diversity sensitivity programs to cover their blunders and buck for promotion has had a deleterious effect on the military.
I absolutely loved, being called in on a day off to an auditorium to have all those EO, SA, ect. classes all together, and when the best part was that the SA representative showed a video(that they made, so it wasn't real)(of a NCO pretty much sexually harassing a lower enlisted female soldier) and then told the entire auditorium(a Battalion) that 1/3 of them were just like that NCO it made my day.
@@maloted1111 I hope you are being sarcastic about actually liking that. It is stuff like that which cause me to realize the real enemy wasn't Haji in the Middle East but our own leadership.
The whole point of the Afghan 'withdrawal' was to rearm US Isis and similar terrorist groups, to perform regime change wars for the industrial/military complex. It wasn't a Biden disaster, it was a success.
Irrespective of what allegations were raised against Trump, one thing was very clear that, Trump did not start any mindless war like his predecessors and successors and he could complete his own sentences without sounding like a dying zombie in a badly made video game.
Alright, first of all I'm a libertarian leaning conservative. Trump is the last candidate I want to see win the nomination, but this video comes strictly from a left-wing perspective using only mainstream media sources and paints the world as being perfect prior to Trump. Any moderation the MSM may have had in the past has been sacrificed in order to combat conservative voices coming from alternative media that rarely had a chance in the past to be heard. No longer in America does the MSM speak for the country. It is pretty much accepted (even by the left) as being a mouthpiece that represents their opinions. And yet here, all sourced information and perspective comes from a party that sees the Republicans as in cahoots with Russia, China, and every dictatorship in the world. Their complete inability to grasp that the Republican Party is fundamentally made up of individualists whose first response to a dictatorship telling them what to think would be to reach for their guns. It is and always was collectivists who created the dictatorships that led to 100 million deaths in WWII. It was collectivists in Russia who ended up killing 30 million of their own people and collectivists whose warped ideology led to 50 million dead in China and a quarter of the population of Cambodia to be wiped out because some wouldn't accept the collectivist ideology. Individualists would never allow that to happen. It is anathema to the very foundations of their belief system to coerce someone to think or do what you want them to do. In the case of Trump, it was the very extremism of the Democratic Party that caused his popularity. None of this happened in a bubble as this video purports. This is typical of the lies of omission the collectivist left uses to paint their own world view. So why would I walk into a voting booth and pull the lever for Trump? Let me count the reasons. 1. The liberal takeover of news media that became apparent sixty years ago but was tolerated by conservatives due to the individualist belief in free speech and then coerced by new liberal media with the power now to make or break any politician looking to run for office. No real dissent was possible. Anyone who questioned the media's leanings was immediately attacked by the only mouthpiece that existed in the country--the media itself. Their comprehensive takeover would even make Joseph Goebbels blush. Only with the advent of a new, unexpected technology, which the left is still having difficulties in silencing has the other political side been capable of being heard--despite ham fisted attempts by Democrats to censor them by pressuring the tech giants to eliminate even the most respected people in the field of speaking against the Covid narrative and then by portraying any dissent to the new woke narrative as being worthy of censorship with the insidious method of wielding the term "hate speech" as justification for silencing legitimate grievances of those who object. This conveniently allows the MSM to ignore the actual points those people are trying to make. 2. The liberal takeover of our entertainment industry that created an insidious system whereby every method was used to subtly and overtly convert people into the left-wing ideology. An example of the methods used are to present a likable, reasonable character that everyone could identify with. Then later on revealing that character to be holding liberal opinions. They lure everyone into loving the character and then later when the hook is set, only then revealing their true leanings expecting the people watching to then identify with their ideology. Sprinkled throughout our television and movies, a person can never sit long without the leftwing agenda showing up, usually crowbarred into the storyline according to whatever the Democratic Party is pushing at the time. Anyone who has been inside Hollywood knows that any dissension from the complete parroting of the political line is met with an iron fist, excluding them from work ever again being offered. 3. The liberal takeover of our educational institutions--which I believe requires no additional evidence at this point--has resulted in silencing actual history in favor of rewritten, politically motivated message transference that removes all good that has come from western civilization, including The Enlightenment and traditional liberal thought that led to a world of objectivity over subjectivity, the scientific method and the rights of individuals superseding ideology, tribe, nationality, and race. The fact that western civilization had adopted classical liberalism was nearly 100% responsible for ending the institution of slavery in a world where that institution was ubiquitous. Why do something so destructive to a people? It comes from a poisonous collectivist ideology that in order to rule, all former systems of governance and power must be discredited and then eventually eliminated in order to allow for the emergence of the new collectivist utopia. As a result, western religion is exclusively attacked with all others left alone or even promoted. The tenets of The Enlightenment are never discussed and are now only extremely rarely and then only vaguely ever mentioned. Even democracy itself--the ability of people to be ruled by those who represent them--is cast as only a western concept that is now "arrogantly" being "forced" on people around the world, as if rule by consent was only a "western thing." They then use the very propagandistic words of dictatorships to shamelessly justify this belief. The replacement of western history is then substituted by an ideological view that I would challenge anyone to defend as not being straight out of the Communist Manifesto. I challenge any liberal to actually read it and see just how harmoniously it fits their acquired perspective. The only addition to the Manifesto being that oppressed minorities are now prioritized over the oppressed masses. Now white males become the boogie men that replace blacks that had long served as the Democrat's tool for provoking fear and paranoia into people while winning their votes by presenting themselves as the party that will protect them from the "dark threat that looms." All you need for protection is to join the collective with the only price being absolute conformity with its doctrines. Quickly you find admission also includes being anybody who isn't white and male unless that person is willing to often and publicly denounce themselves as having been born under the original sin of the very thing they were born as. Don't listen to what white men say, what they "really" think is governed by their "subconscious minds" that they themselves might not even be aware of. Just how far from The Enlightenment can you get? For decades prior to online media, the left managed a near complete takeover of all means Americans had of learning about the world outside the reach of personal interaction. And under these conditions of absolute authority of the narrative, how could anybody claim not to have been heavily influenced by this? If brainwashing is possible of many, how could anyone ask for more power to do so? Well news for the collectivist blank slates out there: this wholesale takeover of every means possible to exert a single ideology and all the bald faced attempts at programming exerted by this belief to fill in the blank slates they see all around them through the absolute authority they've connived their way to obtaining, even then, half the country could never be convinced. (My apologies for the run-on sentence.) Can there be a greater condemnation of the blank slate theory when uniformly applied? I'm willing to accept as an individualist that people know more about themselves than I do. And if they see themselves as blank slates subject to any propaganda that comes along, I'm willing to believe them. But they too must respect my ability to understand myself and my beliefs shouting out to me that there are truths out there that will always override any attempt to suppress them through societal control. The very fact that we find ourselves in direct confrontation with each other is because in all likelihood it's the very construction of our brains that dictate these views. Of course culture has its influences and could result in one person being born to an immediate surrounding of those with a different brain structure that makes them believe what they do so long as they're kept from understanding the tenets of those who share their mental makeup. Then despite the inertia of rooting for the "home team," at some point many come to learn about the ideology of their "enemies" and then find it to be in complete harmony with something inside them that was always suppressed leading them to convert to the opposite side. But this phenomenon only happens due to the two brain types being so intermeshed. And I don't know of any way to reconcile that which is part of one's genetic makeup. The sad conclusion is that a break up of the country is inevitable under such force exerted by our own physical make up that will invariably lead us into eternal conflict. Now, remind me again of the major threat to freedom and democracy Trump posses. I'll be pulling the lever under the Republican ticket this time.
I've survived the other extreme, having lived in the low-tax weak-state libertarian paradise of Subsaharan Africa, where personal family and faith dominate public policy. It's just as dangerous and dismal as "collectivist" nations, but they trade tangible improvements like decent infrastructure and industry for blind optimism and self-confidence. That environment of local gang territories, strongman entrenchment, arbitrary "rules" and "fees", random violent petty crimes, and harsh punishments with zero deterrent effect (for with nothing substantial to fear losing, any risk becomes promising) is where I see America heading should MAGA with its much more narrowed sense of compassion continue to advance.
Thank you from all the middle of the road/traditional liberals out there! So sick of “orange man bad!” Crap as if we don’t have eyes! I didn’t vote for Trump in 2016 but even I could see that his no-new-war strategy was a winner. This entire video is leftist propaganda.
@doujinflip Your ignorance of individualism is abundant. First, you compare a state that is impoverished to begin with. Now compare that to an impoverished country run by command economics. The family and faith you mention are almost certainly a mis-assignment of extensions of the tribal politics that have defined sub-saharan Africa from day one. These tribal politics of us over them being the hallmark of the collectivist ideology. An ideology that is doing everything it can to eliminate faith and family from society. And I can see you still place your faith on only the government being able to make things work despite the fact that the US turned into the powerhouse it eventually became with only limited intervention. Here again, the liberal will dismiss all recommendation of actual economists and, perhaps due to laziness, never bother to understand exactly how the world of man actually functions. Command economies were even discredited throughout Europe in the early 70s when they discovered nationalizing industry led them to lost years of growth. And then you go on to say that individualism leads to a slew of criminal pathologies when it is clearly the blue state cities that are suffering from them. An individualist has never been against law and order. We see it as one of the few actually legitimate functions of government, aside from national defense. We recoil from bullies dominating the weak, which is a proven hallmark of the collectivists. Ever see even a mainstream conservative attempt to give a speech in a room at a university? Ever notice the shouting attempting to drawn out the speaker. Ever heard that whenever a conservative goes to most universities they must be preceded by police forces? Last I heard, Ben Shapiro required 600 policemen in ensure his safety when he went to speak at one of the many west coast liberal universities. None of these occurrences being addressed by the professors of these schools or in any way attempted to be stopped. On the contrary, many times it's the professors themselves who stir up the anger to begin with. Another thing totally missed by collectivists since their media won't explain it to them is one of the fundamental tenets of The Enlightenment that says a democracy is only possible if it is accompanied by people who understand self-responsibility, which precludes most of the mess you mentioned above. Sadly today, the leftist blow-horn we call our schools and media only tells people about what a democracy allows you to get away with and not the necessary self-discipline and self-responsibility necessary to maintain it. But why should they? They're only interested in the inherent weaknesses of democracy that can be manipulated to further their collective cause. There's little in what you have learned about individualism from your media and schools that bears any resemblance to the reality they try so desperately to cover up.
Out of 16 mins 15.30 were spent on trump and 30 secs on biden's stupid withdrawal. Which as an outsider to US was the first loss of respect for the american military might, in front of my millenial generation.
It certainly came across as a Trump hit piece. Devoting 30 seconds to the last three years comes across pretty poorly. A video about partisanship that is completely partisan is pretty hypocritical. Disappointing.
Except you forget that Trump withdrew almost all the military months before Biden took office. Trump also committed to fully leave Afghanistan in 6 months. Biden took a few more months than that, but he had to either leave or fight Afghan troops that we had trained. Biden was 'set up' by trump for failure. So
@sschultz909 Why is it so hard to admit that one person is worse than another? How many generals and SecDefs has Biden fired for insufficient loyalty to him? How many ex-Obama officials have come on to give warnings about their old boss? How many times has GWB called members of the press / military / government traitors and called for their execution? Enough with this "two sides are equally bad so if you don't criticize equally you must be biased" bullshit.
What does the withdrawal have to do with the radicalization of the military? One would think it's the 20 year long occupation that had the greater impact on causing social distrust. Maybe your generation should study history so you can see that 1) America and long wars do not mix well 2) No country in the history of mankind until America has been able to fight 2 wars simultaneously thousands of miles from their home base for 20 years while still growing their economy and military might
Before you start running your mouth about how politicians influence the US military maybe you ought to learn something about how Washington took over the tactical planning of the Vietnam conflict
Johnson ordered troop numbers up and up, invasion of other countries, support of group after group of Vietnamese coup's, fake Gulf of Tonkin story. 58,000 of my peer group died there millions of mental and physical ly wounded, 2 million civilians dead.. Finally public pressure put a stop to Johnson and the war.And yes I got spit on as a uniformed soldier in the USA.
Qatar and the China know that they any defeat the USA in war - so they’ve been pouring in billions to hijack universities. to teach young Americans to hate America … and by doing so - take control of Washington sadly it seems it’s working … and the free world is on the brink
And the dozens of other ex-Trump officials that came out to tell you he's horrible. But I'm sure they're all just angry about being fired right? Happens to all the ex-Presidents... only it doesn't. If you're looking for a job, and you hear testimonials from dozens of ex-employees, some from high positions in the company, that say the boss is terrible, stupid, abusive, liar and is running the company into the ground, would you take that job?
Trump ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed… but what he did do is absolutely priceless.. he (by mistake) exposed the rot that is Washington… and they are still trying to destroy him for that
These things come in cycles. Did you expect less polarization after foreign fiascos, unsustainable entitlements, and a federal reserve that caused massive inequality?
The first time a friend in the military started ranting about "Obamunism" was......chilling. And the thing is, she wasn't that political until after she joined the military.
You do realize the president is literally the commander of the military right? HE IS SUPPOSED TO TELL THEM WHAT TO DO! If you don’t even know how the heck the military chain of command works, why in the hell are you making a video(ironically, an extremely partisan video I might add) about the military?!?!
I think that your accent sounds British. I am here in Florida, I am an American Latino. Here we the working people decided that we were fed up with the established government and we elected TRUMP and we will elect him again.
And what do you expext from Trump? He tells a lot he cares about worker but in reality he only cares about his bank account. He made 3 times more debt than any president in history. What do you think who will pay it back? OK it is not my problem but as an American I would be worried about my kids.
@maritaschweizer1117 LIAR. The national debt still increased under TRUMP but it was the lowest rate since the cancer of unstoppable money printing path since nixon. He had a good plan for returning to the prosperity of the 90 s, but it was blocked by the democrats and the globalists.
@@maritaschweizer1117Trump has lost wealth being a politician, you are uninformed, he did it bc our country is unrecognizable from just a couple decades ago…more corruption & decay from Washington .
@@maritaschweizer1117and Biden was million times worse, Trump had to leverage debt as the world plunged into the pandemic btw, the economy was booming before Covid-19, but hey you lefties don’t remember any of that lmao
To start no war is not always a good idea. This could couse much bigger wars as it encourage dictators. Look at the Russian Iranian North Korean alliance. If they win they will not stop.
First three minutes of the video: Trump, Fox News, Trump, etc. Your tone attempts to *sound* objective and non-partisan, but your bias comes out loud and clear.
@@_Alfa.Bravo_no, Millie wanted the US to attack Iran. Trump said no to him & it made him hate Trump. Millie is VINDICTIVE. Trump said no to war, but the controlled media spins to benefit the Democrats. Millie’s alliance is to powerful corporations & himself.
You are not quite correct. Nixon and his goons were apparently directing platoon level and specific tactical strikes (by individual jets) in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, from the Whitehouse. In some cases live, as the battles were happening.
It has already changed. The U.S. military used to have a policy of maintaining enough strength to fight two wars simultaneously, now it would be lucky to be able to fight one.
The one sided bias that VisualPolitik shows on the regular is really making me rethink my subscription to them. This video is just one example of that, but there have been plenty more videos that I went to thinking I was getting some sort of thought provoking news only to get Trumpderangment style narrative.
This video starts out appearing to be fair, then slides into one a sided diatribe. To say the military has never been political is the height of naviete or ignorance or both. What else to expect from a woke European video maker. Ask yourself...what is their real agenda.
Thanks for your reporting. Trump is the only option we have. We need Americo to be one people not many people. We have to protect our land first. Our values are being undermined. We were raised here a certain way and others were not. So how can we live with people that don’t respect our values. They have to go. Trump is trying to get to the root of the cancer in our society. Some military officials are bought by outside influences. They have to go. Thanks for your time.
You have every right to hate on Donald Trump. You are entitled to your opinions on his impact on politization of the military. Unfortunately you are NOT entitled to your own facts. I served in the US Army under four Presidents. I can tell you with absolute certainty that the politization started with Obama and waned with Trump only to surge to stratospheric levels under Biden. As a young recruit we all worked together we were not black white or brown. We were all green. There was unit cohesion. We conducted ourselves with honor and loyalty. When Obama entered office we were immediately told that we were victims of our brothers because of the color of our skin. We were told that we were sexists and rapists. We were separated from assignments and privileges based on identities rather than merit. The military became a social experiment. The experiment failed. While Soldiers died everyday in our forever wars in the Middle East we trained on sexual harassment and racial equity. Our enemies laughed at the paper tiger the US military had become. Iraq was lost, Afghanistan was lost, ISIS was taking territory and butchering people on video. It was the lowest point of moral I had ever seen to that point. Enter Trump. He immediately turned the prosecution of the war on ISIS over to the military. Without politicians, ISIS was defeated in one month. Obama spent eight years telling us this "man made catastrophe" could not be defeated. Imagine that - a President who would not use the word terrorism to describe butchers who decapitated innocent people and burned alive lawful combatants chained in cages. I spent the next 4 years leading Soldiers as we trained to perform our jobs rather than to check the boxes on the appropriate forms that indicated indoctrination to an ideology. Because we were able to train for our missions we were able to successfully conduct our missions. After Biden assumed the office we were immediately brought back to us vs them paradigm. Moral plummeted. Soldiers bailed out of the Army as fast as they could. Recruitment went down the toilet. Leadership quickly pointed the finger at systemic racism or widespread radicalized elements within the military. The politicians (I use the term as derogatorily as possible) in the military refused to look in the mirror to see the problem was staring right back at them. Interestingly, I never has the occasion to see this with my own eyes in 23 years - Thankfully, I am not retired and no longer have the insider's view of the rot that has enveloped the military. Perhaps you could interview and include in your video a selection of military members of all ranks, races, sexes in order to really understand what the state of politization actually is. By quoting only the most senior Generals and Admirals you simply amplify the circular argument as they are largely the manifestation of the politization. Having said all this, I profess that I am NOT a videographer, editor, politico, or ideolog. I don't pretend to be. I speak only as a former enlisted man and officer who has lived within the political shooting gallery. My one and only expertise allows me to very confidently inform you that your thesis is very misinformed Please look at both sides of this issue before making these ridiculous assertions of better yet, don the uniform and serve your country. This would allow you an unadulterated view from the inside. Either way this video serves only to delegitimize an otherwise very well run channel. Best wishes from your local Colonel (ret).
@@longiusaescius2537the Weimar Republic constitution had the same weak points as the US constitution. Too much power of the president and problem that the government can appoint supreem court junges. Be sure Trump will not be a dictator just for one day as he said. So many democracies turned to dictatorship the last 30 years and this trend will continue.
As a 6 year veteran, the military has always been majority Republican (or republican leaning) within the ranks. In general, politics were not openly discussed except at a personal level. You just don't find as many with a woke mindset within the branches.
I just retired with over 21 years of service, having been in the Army and Air Force. I grew up in a big in SoCal. I started then Former President Bush was in office. To me, the military had always ran more conservative and pro Republican. My fellow service members would let you know where they stood quickly on politics. Having spent time in recruiting, there no secret that the southern and Midwest states provide the bulk of the bodies and with that typically comes with a certain mentality. As a black service member, I will say that it started getting bad when Former President Obama took office. His presidency seemed to be the catalyst for where we are now. In my opinion, America simply wasn’t ready for a president such as Obama. I’ll never forget when I walked into my work center and this E-9 Chief yelled across the room, “how do you feel about your boy winning.” He was talking about it Obama. Poor word choice Chief 🤦🏾♂️.
As a serviceman in the military currently. This report is HORRIFICALLY one sided. The issues in the military right now have BEEN issues for a long time just now becoming far larger. The political tribalism and purges of top leadership for how they VOTE, is absolutely undemocratic and against the values of the military fights for.
The video is just facts.
Undeniable by any means.
These are the testimonies from people who worked close to Trump.
After this anyone still defending him is impossible to explain
Horrifically one sided indeed.
Trump for 30 years "the american military has no role in my politics", visualpolitic is trying to pretend like that somehow changed. It never did Trump was aggressively anti war.
This video is a trash take on the topic. Actually, I'm unsubscribing, not that anyone should care.
My jag was a liberal. I had a jury and won.
The US Military lost face after the Afghanistan fiasco, and no one was held responsible.
Responsible for what, the inability of the people of Afghanistan to build a democracy preventing its lands as a place of refuge and assistance to terrorists.
Yeah all the lies they threw our way, I grew up with that, I don't think I'll ever trust the uniformed people
@@MrWhitmen1981 Responsibility for propping up a deeply corrupt regime that everyday afghan regarded as puppet to Washington. Considering how the afghan president ran away after emptying the state bank accounts, the afghanis were right.
@@MrWhitmen1981Well said, thank you Sir.
@@MrWhitmen1981 The decision to withdrawal from Afghanistan is a sound one. How it went down was not. US promised the men and women who worked with US troops honorably to be able to have a visa for their work. They were left behind. Many were killed by the Taliban. It's not hard to view the withdrawal as a tactical mess that was impacted by poor political decisions.
I joined the US Army in 2006 under Bush and was there for the election of Obama. Even being the young and stupid kid that I was, I was able to see the politicization then. It's only gotten worse since then.
Same here. I joined the USAF in October of 2005 and already saw the wokeness and political motivation for promotion erode combat effectiveness. Our flag officers are all as worthless as a Russian General.
You sound like you're close to my age, (I was born in 1986) I've noticed the same thing since the 2008 election. But I would say the economic downturn is what really triggered it. I started noticing it in 2006, there were riots/protests in Chicago over illegal immigration. The whole matter has just gotten worse since then. Perhaps out generation notices this more strongly, because we grew up in a different time; a time we thought would last forever.
So what happening is the military becoming liberal or conservative.
@@polishherowitoldpilecki5521Leftist, a commie in the Air Force just burned himself alive for clout.
@Illisil funny for you to mention that, cause you're absolutely correct.
Historically speaking we live in similar times as in the 1600s which are very similar to what we're experiencing today
As an American, I can tell you that for the past 10 years political polarization has substantially increased. There is not a single issue - whether major or minor - that has not been polarized by the political extremes. You're either one side or the other there is no room in between for compromise, moderation, nor reason. We are not longer a nation ruled by the majority, but rather the extremist minorities. Our founding fathers were wary of the "tyranny of the majority," but they should have rather been concerned about the tyranny of the minority.
People argue over masturbation and coffee in America now....
By minority I presume you mean rich, corrupt oligarchs.
Yeah the Republicans have gone crazy
In Brazil where I live is the same thing. Everything has been polarized, even cinema, music, TV shows and food establishments. "Are you with us or against us" mentality.
How you respond to the reality around you is your choice. You are not compelled to argue with or hate others.
The first issue to deal with is the American Education system. Teach Americans to think.
Then use DEI to put inept people into high ranking positions, replacing the old nepotism with another problem... American education was derailed by both the left and right into anti-science idiocity... now both sides pick and choose what parts of reality they agree with to push their own propaganda... unsurprisingly both sides are doing this to fuel their own cults. One side is woke cult, the other is the christian cult. Members on neither side can accept the realities of this world...
That would be common sense and has never been taught in public schools.
That is taught by parents and the last couple of generations of parents have been too lazy to bother teaching their children right from wrong and using common sense.
Let’s introduce a voucher system for teachers. So we can reward good ones and get rid of bad ones. Let’s cut collage to only 3 years.
Don't forget to teach them about the civil war and why it happened.
Your assuming that the government wants people capable of critical thinking
The Constitution fixes this. No military interventions without a declaration of war. A vote in congress. Take the military wing out of the CIA. They need to collect intelligence not create destabilization. Non-elected officials need to be taken out of the decision making process
Wait: only politicians should be in the decision making process?
In a transparent way on the floors of the House and Senate. Yes.
@@waynekensicki4718that's just plain stupid .
2 reasons -
It requires everyone to have a level of expertise which is not possible .
It requires everyone to have clear intention both internal and external which is also not possible .
What about the Alien's?
They have a multitude of advisors from all directions. The CIA the Pentagon and the rest of them should not be allowed to run amok. How we got from 1991 to where we are at is baffling. The people who decided to bring us here.... I would say their level of expertise was misguided. In the last 50 years where has our military presence made America or the world better?
Any senior military leader that exhibits partisanship (doesn't matter for which side) needs to be dismissed.
Especially if they're conservatives
Especially if they are siding with China
@@somerandomguy4919the mental state u just exhibit is exactly what kills democracy, it's called intolerance.
@@somerandomguy4919doesn't matter the side
@@init_yeah Ah yes because both sides are equally bad and that's definitely not a method of normalizing insane things like insurrection and trying to legislate children out of existence.
The respect Obama and McCain had for one another seems almost allien in current year.
I miss Republicans like John McCain.
Controlled opposition.@@McClane4Ever.
@@McClane4Ever. Problem with McCain was he reached across the aisle and it was never returned. Moderation is rarely respected from the opposition until it's gone.
I miss when republicans was actually republican
@@kristiansandsmark2048
It's been a while...
'Let's start a debate'. Seriously? Present a one-sided argument and then ask people to debate. Perhaps the debate needs to start with why media is duped/compliant with certain forces?
when you have a general saying he wants to understand "white rage" what do you expect
Trump was the best thing that happened to the free world .. and I hope he comes back - because the world has gone mad since he left… the appeasement to Islamic terrorism of the administration is a disaster that has already cost so many lives. Trump’s peace through strength we’d so well that the left - who love China were desperate.
The left is a malignant cancer to any free society
Exactly!!! it’s some serious reverse discrimination and over the past 55 years little by little America is just completely lost their morals and especially on the left and I just don’t get it because I’m conservative but I’m also objective
I was in service during Vietnam, and the politicization of the military was beginning then. With the critics of the war seeming to be liberal, the military felt betrayed and became more "conservative." Nixon's ending the Draft eliminated one feature that had done a lot to help make the country a melting pot and minimized a broad source of opposition to wars ie the mothers of draftees. The idea that military service was a universal duty to country was a useful concept. The experience of being in the military also helped many to know why they did not want to live in an authoritarian situation.
Many of those drafted to Vietnam went home in bags. There were 100s of fraggings as I am sure you are aware. The draft military was far inferior to the all volunteer military.
Are you saying that the all volunteer military avoids all war casualties ? Or that little things like current frequent drug testing make no difference in military behavior? The all volunteer military changed many things at the same time. Some of those things like better pay and longer training could have been done in a draft service is a duty for all situation except it was assumed that you didn't need to make the service that attractive. But a much smaller percentage of the population is worried about the people in service and they are much less likely to take to the streets to oppose a war or insist on better treatment of variously wounded returned veterans. @@Donner906
@@Donner906 Not so certain. Draftees in VN were overall more mature and able to accept discipline than enlisted men. WWI, WWII, Korea and VN were fought in large part by draftees. Iraq, Afghanistan etc by volunteers. If the AVF is so great, why does it fail to win wars?
@@federallawenforcementcaree9900 You might want to google the word "insurgency". If the draft force was good: explain Vietnam.
Im a decade+ combat vet. I'd say the military has always been very right wing. Especially those in direct combat roles.
What percentage are Combat troops though?
I was in for six years. 2016-2022. I saw attitudes becoming very leftist, but I was a POG. I'm sure the infantry will always have a streak of conservatism. If you sign up for the express purpose of having a job that kills people, you're usually going to be right wing, who are more permissive of authority-ordained violence.
Authoritarian leftists also have that streak
How come the right wing in the US seem to be supporting 💩tin? Weren't they against commies, and how come the right wing have swapped sides? Is it cos of Trump?
@@bullballsallday uh, no. Right wing now means Maga, believing in wacko conspiracy theories, and putting Party over country. For the record, I'm an independent military vet old enough to remember when most Republican politicians were MODERATES, now called RINO's by Maga.
Mark Milley looks like he got a lesson in “white rage” lmao
Haven't heard that derogatory epithet before. I'm going to guess it was made by a privileged leftist who thinks blaming white people for reactions every group has is important and meaningful while if someone where to create a "black X" pejorative it would be a racist slur. And on a video about polarisation too, it's a mystery why conservatives don't want to cross the aisle when the left keeps doing this.
US military is the most racially integrated segment of US society. Milley is a brainwashed puppet.
What happened to my comment, YT
Now the military has record low recruitment numbers, and it’s main combat force(white males) don’t want to serve. Congratulations 👏
Like how?
We live in a constitutional Republic not a democracy. We have the right of the individual not a majority
You have no Idea what you are talking about. You have obviously not read the constitution otherwise you would have read the words ‘Government of the People by the people and for the people’ that is democracy and decentralisation of power by any other name
@richardstevens8839 maybe you need to go reread it. For it states also in the pledge of Allegiance. I quote " And to the REPUBLIC for which it stands, one nation under God." I have read the constitution in its entirety. Even Reagan and Ben Franklin. Even Google will define the U.S as a constitutional Federal Republic. I do my reaserch
@@davidlee6253 Maybe it is you who needs to do more research. John Marshall, a delegate to Virginia's ratification convention and future Chief Justice, referred to the proposed constitutional system as "a well regulated democracy" and James Madison in his writings (which go far beyond The Federalist Papers) refers to the principle of majority rule being at the core of republican government, and that principle is fundamentally democratic. You also should know that Madison was co-founder with Thomas Jefferson of the DEMOCRATIC REPUBLICAN Party set up to oppose the "republic not a democracy" Federalist Party. Or do you not?
A Republic operates under the Rule of Law and not the rule of the majority mob.
It's supposed to be a democracy with certain constitutional protections against the inherent idiocy of democracy.
When you let through ads for the Army / Navy / Etc recruitment that " I'm proud of my two moms " and it's a weak ass woman, of course the military is politicized.
Nah, it's actually the military joining the 21st century. You might want to try it sometime.
@@kerrynisbet1514 He's right. There's a reason police forces don't send two women together to dangerous calls. It's that they very often have to be rescued by men, where a mixed pair would be fine. It would apply at least equally to a battlefield situation. It's useless pretending to be unaware of that.
@dixonpinfold2582 that's a nonsense statement. It might be true in your head, but not in real life.
@dixonpinfold2582 yeah, from experience. I served with women in the military. There's some I served with I would have trusted beside me when the shit hit the fan more than some of the men. But yeah you keep on telling yourself those cool stories.
@@kerrynisbet1514 Ok, that's fair to point out. And I'm sure some of the women were taller than some of the men too.
Please do a video on the hypocrisy of mainstream political organizations.
Please throw Trump in jail for treason.
@@captandylambert1509I can tell you've been drinking too much of the mainstream kool-aid. Trump isn't treasonous. Trying to build relationships with foreign enemy powers is quite literally how you generate peace and prevent war. The mainstream media is lying to you. He helped orchestrate the Abraham Accords for the largest peace deal in the middle east and what did CNN say? Called him a traitor.
Was specifically named as the orchestrator of the peace deal between North and South Korea BY THE S. KOREAN PRESIDENT! What did NPR say? That "an unnamed informant" said he had nothing to do with it.
Tried to generate an arms trade deal with India and what did CNN say? That he was on a sightseeing vacation.
You've allowed mainstream media to fasten blinders tight. Take them off.
@@captandylambert1509 Depends on what you consider treason. We live in a representative democracy, heavily cordoned off with red tape, the policies you see represented doesn't represent what the people want. Like it's said, no taxation without representation. If a political leader can't own up to their words, might as well consider it treason to democracy, and the american people.
@@captandylambert1509 In a shared cell with Biden.
@@mbtbd And Hillary
You want to talk about LBJ in the Vietnam war, picking targets? Wow, what a short sighted view.
The most fraudulent part of this whole deal is downplaying how sharp the anti war movement is on the right. It's dumb founding how people act like Iraq-Afghanistan didn't happen. It's the whole reason Trump got to power. Cheney-Obama poisoned the right on the military and international affairs. I don't know any right wingers who are pro military. by 2006 the 911 jingoism was done, trump took power a decade later. Visual Politic is just such a eurotrash cliche. Completely ignore the prime ingredient in the whole thing.
Trump treated the military like a play thing, exactly the same reason he treated intelligence agencies like a play thing. The narrative that partisan politics is bad for the military is a joke, Trump has no plans to use it, why DEI is taking over a military biden wants to use is a whole other basket of worms.
Trump calls the military establishment treasonous exactly because the forever wars kept going for so long. The false equivalency of the left and right forever reigns in the Eurotrash propaganda machine.
He's a commie. So
Why Johnson had Abrams sitting around a year after he should have taking over from Wesrmoreland is something that escapes me.
10:12 he said that these ideas seemed to happen every few weeks, yet the only time when a war didn't start was during that exact time. Makes me wonder how often it happens when trump isn't in office.
There were no new wars under Trump because he rolled over like a puppy for a belly rub for every dictator who sent him an ego-stroking letter.
He threw his own intelligence community under the bus for Putin.
He let North Korea develop ICBMs.
Although he blamed China for the virus, he let them off scot free (the trade war doesn't count because it wasn't about the virus).
I wish you had included the purging of High ranking military by the left as well. Your report seemed very one-sided
100%! This kid has an agenda for sure. Not sure why, he doesn't speak like an American.
Very, VERY one sided. Lets not forget all the " I got two mommies " recruitment ads.
It is soros tool
@@edwardlee3286 They're Americans too. Maybe you're the problem here.
@@neilnelson7603 Those adverts and the buffoons who implemented them are clearly the problem judging by recruitment numbers.
The military is supposed to follow cilvilian authority. When the executive branch wants them to withdraw from foreign fiascos, the military should follow orders and not lie to the civil authorities in order to keep their forever war going.
Exactly civilian authority not a individual, and the executive is checked by other power, and need to follow the constitution. Congress is the only who can declare war and fund the military and also can overrule the president with 2 3rd votes like the did to prevent the president from withdrawing from NATO, also the courts can strike down unconstitutional action by yhe executive. This is not a one man show dictatorship style.
@neirad537 No war has been declared in the Middle-East, if the president orders our troops to return home, then they should do so. The military leadership and state security apparatus should not lie to the executive and delay the withdrawal.
The executive does not have the power to start wars. Only congress can declare war. Every single "war" since WW2 has been unconstitutional and illegal.
@@neirad537except Congress relinquished their duties to declare war and ALLOWED the executive branch to send troops wherever it wants. "Checks and balances", but the people in charge refused to take responsibility
@@VT-mw2zbNot true. The President can use military forces to protect the nation but has to report to Congress within 48 hours.
Congress can turn off funding for military operations undertaken by the President if they don’t think it rises to war.
“Oh, no! The Commander in Chief is acting like he is really in charge!”
How dare he? 😒
well, according to the Constitution he isn't until war is declared and THAT is the job of the House and Senate by majority vote.
@@letsRegulateSociopaths So, absent of a declaration of war, the Pentagon doesn’t respond to the President and just does whatever it wants?
You can dismiss people and their concerns all day long, but if you expect to have a country and share it with the people you dismiss, it’ll be a little more challenging than it otherwise has to be. Disrespect begets disrespect, which begets disrespect, and so on.
Trump threatens the joint chief of staff
You the poster: you can't dismiss his point of view 🤣
@@wuzzman40k No, you actually can’t summarily reject the policy of the Commander in Chief - not if you want a military that functions
_TRUMP IS ALWAYS THE FIRST PERSON TO GIVE DISRESPECT_
Trump was and is a _direct threat to the Constitution_ , I don't need to "respect" that. Also:
@ond7597 And who is the _FIRST_ to be disrespectful? T R U M P
You should move to Russia, they think just like you.
@@LibertyFirst1789 The first disrespectful person was Aaron Burr, and it’s been downhill from there
You illustrate the point quite beautifully though - I’m not going to be pushed away from my home even if you threatened to nuke it - and you sure as hell aren’t going to dictate to me what I can and can’t do, believe, advocate, etc.
You *must* share this country with me! Learn how!
In the past, Democrats and Republicans both wanted the same future, they just had different ways to get there.
Now, each party has their own visions of the future, and they are vastly different, and they have radical ways to get there.
The Republicans and Democrats are still patriots. It's just that the political system has been hijacked by the Cultural Marxist Revolution. Currently, both parties are voting Trump to 'drain the swamp' so the Democrats can return to their party.
No government officials should be able to invest in the military industrial complex because it turns them into war enthusiast because of the return they will get on their investments.
Ah, after the 2016 election, there were magazine articles explaining how the military could remove the President from office, and this was a GOOD idea.
@15:12 You have a strange way of interpreting that chart.
First of all, the blue line (great deal) only returned to the early eighties level.
Next, the red (quite a lot) evened out and the other two actually increased.
Not what I would call a catastrophic collapse in confidence.
People went from great deal to some. That’s why the blue one fell and the green one rose. Not a good sign at all.
He said it plummeted since 2019. That's an accurate statement.
It has plummeted because of Wokeness in the military. You are now being defended by incompetents. This is what the NWO wants.
This video is the most unhinged ridiculous framing I've ever seen from a "news" source.
This is not a news source. It is opinion. And well-informed opinion it is too....IMHO.
Said the brainwashed by Qatari propaganda
Trump is not the reason the military has seen a great divide. 1st off the military has always leaned right, especially the Officers of Infantry and combat arms. The military has had partisan issues always but Trump brought them to the surface and gave media sound bites to make stories with. The military today is divided by 1. The handling of Afghanistan by ALL authorities 2. Covid protocols and forced discharge of military members( this caused WAY more damage than any president, the military even reached back out to people they discharged to offer them a job again). The media and politicians trashed all Covid vaccine opposers who mainly lean right/conservative and the top military officials went along. Imagine being the base you mainly recruit from(young conservative men) and then thinking you’ll enlist in the military. Now the military is facing MASSIVE recruitment numbers and want to fix it by lowering standards to accept anyone who will sign up. There’s a lot more to the loss of confidence in the U.S. military but this video completely missed the mark
Is this CNN? Huge L for VisualPolitics for the completely one sided review
Right on, this appears to be a government funded political ad, the article was put together with a political bias spin in favor of the democractic party and the military industrial complex of corporations with government agency approval. Street language refers to this as pure BS !
So... no facts for you then. There is a Tucker Carlson show somewhere though.
By its nature, the military and the police tend to be more right-wing and masculine, as the education and the healthcare tends to be more left-wing and female.
“Masculine”
Among the enlisted, yes. The officer corps is more left leaning than you would expect.
I don't think I know many masculine right wingers.
No, just, no. That's what they want you to believe. FOX News is broadcast at all the military bases because Murdoch paid somebody off. I want to know who.
You don't know why FOX news was created, obviously. It was created as a mouthpiece of the Republican party. It's in their charter.
@@user-pg3ti3vc5gWell to be fair to you, the left can't even tell the difference between a man and a woman
you know near the end of the roman empire the armies became highly politicized to the point the army became the state. dangerous thing indeed
The Roman armies were always akin to a state, in fact most generals who have conducted co de’etate did so that so with the express approval of a army which is politicized to aid them against the very institutions they are sworn to protect (Napoleon, Julius Caesar)
Rome went through 3000 splits because of armies supporting a candidate to March on Rome and claim the title of Ruler
Wow, love how foreigners try to explain America to other foreigners
Blind leading the blind.
People have done it. It requires in-depth research, though, to craft an accurate narrative. All this video did was regurgitate what one could find on NBC.
No kidding. Especially Europeans that have nothing but contempt for us.
But is what they say untrue? If so why? Everyone has opinions but there's only one set of facts.
And get it right, too. It's not like Americans know how to explain AmeriKKKa, especially to themselves!🤪
How much more decision-making can you get than having the Secretary of Defense giving instructions personally to soldiers on patrol in the jungles of Vietnam?
THE AMBIGUITY OF THIS VIDEO IS DUE TO WHO IS BEHIND ITS FUNDING
What do you think the word ambiguous means? Who exactly has funded it, and what exactly is their motivation? Please tell us all, I'm keen to know.
TRUMP 2024
It's time to STOP putting AMERICANS LAST, and we can begin by withdrawing ALL U.S. forces from europe.
Putin?... its that you?
The politics involving the president and military play little to no role in decreasing or increasing soldier morale. The strategic blunders of senior leadership and attempted cover ups of them are more visible today than they ever were before. Now facts and figures are instantly checked by viewers or readers of content and are often done by people with first hand knowledge of the events. The badly blundered and reckless Afghanistan withdrawal, and to an extent of Iraq, was a blatant embarrassment executed by the Pentagon that now created a more capable and sophisticated enemy than it originally went in to fight. Billions in military hardware ammunition and small arms are now in the hands of the Taliban, isis, and other terror groups worldwide. Not only did it send a message to all service members of how broken and out of touch strategic command was in what should of been a relatively simple operation, but it also showed how little regard for life Senior leaders have for the Soldiers they send into countries for military operations. It is painfully obvious now that little to nothing was accomplished in both campaigns in Iraq and Afghanistan and that none of it really affected the safety and well being of US Citizens at home.
The US Army and all other branches now have taken extreme stances on workplace behavioral classes which also beats down the morale of soldiers. Instead of going through quick seminars on things like sexual harassment, transgender equality, equal opportunity, suicide, and whatever else is the flavor of the month Soldiers are required to sit through hours and hours of training that is scheduled quarterly.
Also the politicized rules of engagement in wars like Enduring freedom cost American lives and cut down on military capabilities. Being unable to engage an enemy without the sign off of an O6 because it may be cause collatoral damage really affects soldiers morale. Especially when they are getting shot at in the process
Indeed, That flag officers push diversity sensitivity programs to cover their blunders and buck for promotion has had a deleterious effect on the military.
I absolutely loved, being called in on a day off to an auditorium to have all those EO, SA, ect. classes all together, and when the best part was that the SA representative showed a video(that they made, so it wasn't real)(of a NCO pretty much sexually harassing a lower enlisted female soldier) and then told the entire auditorium(a Battalion) that 1/3 of them were just like that NCO it made my day.
@@maloted1111 I hope you are being sarcastic about actually liking that. It is stuff like that which cause me to realize the real enemy wasn't Haji in the Middle East but our own leadership.
@@davidford3115 No, im not joking
The whole point of the Afghan 'withdrawal' was to rearm US Isis and similar terrorist groups, to perform regime change wars for the industrial/military complex. It wasn't a Biden disaster, it was a success.
When i enlisted in 1970 i swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution. The President, Congress, and Supreme Court weren't mentioned.
For US military to be stronger, they need to reduce the number of their bases
Don't forget it was Hillary Clinton and the Dems who said 2016 was stolen, and rigged, and spent four years touting that.
This decline in America’s cohesion appears to be irreversible.
Irrespective of what allegations were raised against Trump, one thing was very clear that, Trump did not start any mindless war like his predecessors and successors and he could complete his own sentences without sounding like a dying zombie in a badly made video game.
Alright, first of all I'm a libertarian leaning conservative. Trump is the last candidate I want to see win the nomination, but this video comes strictly from a left-wing perspective using only mainstream media sources and paints the world as being perfect prior to Trump. Any moderation the MSM may have had in the past has been sacrificed in order to combat conservative voices coming from alternative media that rarely had a chance in the past to be heard. No longer in America does the MSM speak for the country. It is pretty much accepted (even by the left) as being a mouthpiece that represents their opinions. And yet here, all sourced information and perspective comes from a party that sees the Republicans as in cahoots with Russia, China, and every dictatorship in the world. Their complete inability to grasp that the Republican Party is fundamentally made up of individualists whose first response to a dictatorship telling them what to think would be to reach for their guns. It is and always was collectivists who created the dictatorships that led to 100 million deaths in WWII. It was collectivists in Russia who ended up killing 30 million of their own people and collectivists whose warped ideology led to 50 million dead in China and a quarter of the population of Cambodia to be wiped out because some wouldn't accept the collectivist ideology. Individualists would never allow that to happen. It is anathema to the very foundations of their belief system to coerce someone to think or do what you want them to do.
In the case of Trump, it was the very extremism of the Democratic Party that caused his popularity. None of this happened in a bubble as this video purports. This is typical of the lies of omission the collectivist left uses to paint their own world view. So why would I walk into a voting booth and pull the lever for Trump? Let me count the reasons.
1. The liberal takeover of news media that became apparent sixty years ago but was tolerated by conservatives due to the individualist belief in free speech and then coerced by new liberal media with the power now to make or break any politician looking to run for office. No real dissent was possible. Anyone who questioned the media's leanings was immediately attacked by the only mouthpiece that existed in the country--the media itself. Their comprehensive takeover would even make Joseph Goebbels blush. Only with the advent of a new, unexpected technology, which the left is still having difficulties in silencing has the other political side been capable of being heard--despite ham fisted attempts by Democrats to censor them by pressuring the tech giants to eliminate even the most respected people in the field of speaking against the Covid narrative and then by portraying any dissent to the new woke narrative as being worthy of censorship with the insidious method of wielding the term "hate speech" as justification for silencing legitimate grievances of those who object. This conveniently allows the MSM to ignore the actual points those people are trying to make.
2. The liberal takeover of our entertainment industry that created an insidious system whereby every method was used to subtly and overtly convert people into the left-wing ideology. An example of the methods used are to present a likable, reasonable character that everyone could identify with. Then later on revealing that character to be holding liberal opinions. They lure everyone into loving the character and then later when the hook is set, only then revealing their true leanings expecting the people watching to then identify with their ideology. Sprinkled throughout our television and movies, a person can never sit long without the leftwing agenda showing up, usually crowbarred into the storyline according to whatever the Democratic Party is pushing at the time. Anyone who has been inside Hollywood knows that any dissension from the complete parroting of the political line is met with an iron fist, excluding them from work ever again being offered.
3. The liberal takeover of our educational institutions--which I believe requires no additional evidence at this point--has resulted in silencing actual history in favor of rewritten, politically motivated message transference that removes all good that has come from western civilization, including The Enlightenment and traditional liberal thought that led to a world of objectivity over subjectivity, the scientific method and the rights of individuals superseding ideology, tribe, nationality, and race. The fact that western civilization had adopted classical liberalism was nearly 100% responsible for ending the institution of slavery in a world where that institution was ubiquitous. Why do something so destructive to a people? It comes from a poisonous collectivist ideology that in order to rule, all former systems of governance and power must be discredited and then eventually eliminated in order to allow for the emergence of the new collectivist utopia. As a result, western religion is exclusively attacked with all others left alone or even promoted. The tenets of The Enlightenment are never discussed and are now only extremely rarely and then only vaguely ever mentioned. Even democracy itself--the ability of people to be ruled by those who represent them--is cast as only a western concept that is now "arrogantly" being "forced" on people around the world, as if rule by consent was only a "western thing." They then use the very propagandistic words of dictatorships to shamelessly justify this belief. The replacement of western history is then substituted by an ideological view that I would challenge anyone to defend as not being straight out of the Communist Manifesto. I challenge any liberal to actually read it and see just how harmoniously it fits their acquired perspective. The only addition to the Manifesto being that oppressed minorities are now prioritized over the oppressed masses.
Now white males become the boogie men that replace blacks that had long served as the Democrat's tool for provoking fear and paranoia into people while winning their votes by presenting themselves as the party that will protect them from the "dark threat that looms." All you need for protection is to join the collective with the only price being absolute conformity with its doctrines. Quickly you find admission also includes being anybody who isn't white and male unless that person is willing to often and publicly denounce themselves as having been born under the original sin of the very thing they were born as. Don't listen to what white men say, what they "really" think is governed by their "subconscious minds" that they themselves might not even be aware of. Just how far from The Enlightenment can you get?
For decades prior to online media, the left managed a near complete takeover of all means Americans had of learning about the world outside the reach of personal interaction. And under these conditions of absolute authority of the narrative, how could anybody claim not to have been heavily influenced by this? If brainwashing is possible of many, how could anyone ask for more power to do so? Well news for the collectivist blank slates out there: this wholesale takeover of every means possible to exert a single ideology and all the bald faced attempts at programming exerted by this belief to fill in the blank slates they see all around them through the absolute authority they've connived their way to obtaining, even then, half the country could never be convinced. (My apologies for the run-on sentence.) Can there be a greater condemnation of the blank slate theory when uniformly applied? I'm willing to accept as an individualist that people know more about themselves than I do. And if they see themselves as blank slates subject to any propaganda that comes along, I'm willing to believe them. But they too must respect my ability to understand myself and my beliefs shouting out to me that there are truths out there that will always override any attempt to suppress them through societal control.
The very fact that we find ourselves in direct confrontation with each other is because in all likelihood it's the very construction of our brains that dictate these views. Of course culture has its influences and could result in one person being born to an immediate surrounding of those with a different brain structure that makes them believe what they do so long as they're kept from understanding the tenets of those who share their mental makeup. Then despite the inertia of rooting for the "home team," at some point many come to learn about the ideology of their "enemies" and then find it to be in complete harmony with something inside them that was always suppressed leading them to convert to the opposite side. But this phenomenon only happens due to the two brain types being so intermeshed. And I don't know of any way to reconcile that which is part of one's genetic makeup. The sad conclusion is that a break up of the country is inevitable under such force exerted by our own physical make up that will invariably lead us into eternal conflict.
Now, remind me again of the major threat to freedom and democracy Trump posses. I'll be pulling the lever under the Republican ticket this time.
Agreed, this video is just peppering more Leftist propaganda.
I've survived the other extreme, having lived in the low-tax weak-state libertarian paradise of Subsaharan Africa, where personal family and faith dominate public policy. It's just as dangerous and dismal as "collectivist" nations, but they trade tangible improvements like decent infrastructure and industry for blind optimism and self-confidence. That environment of local gang territories, strongman entrenchment, arbitrary "rules" and "fees", random violent petty crimes, and harsh punishments with zero deterrent effect (for with nothing substantial to fear losing, any risk becomes promising) is where I see America heading should MAGA with its much more narrowed sense of compassion continue to advance.
Thank you from all the middle of the road/traditional liberals out there! So sick of “orange man bad!” Crap as if we don’t have eyes! I didn’t vote for Trump in 2016 but even I could see that his no-new-war strategy was a winner. This entire video is leftist propaganda.
You write many books?
😂
@doujinflip Your ignorance of individualism is abundant. First, you compare a state that is impoverished to begin with. Now compare that to an impoverished country run by command economics. The family and faith you mention are almost certainly a mis-assignment of extensions of the tribal politics that have defined sub-saharan Africa from day one. These tribal politics of us over them being the hallmark of the collectivist ideology. An ideology that is doing everything it can to eliminate faith and family from society. And I can see you still place your faith on only the government being able to make things work despite the fact that the US turned into the powerhouse it eventually became with only limited intervention. Here again, the liberal will dismiss all recommendation of actual economists and, perhaps due to laziness, never bother to understand exactly how the world of man actually functions. Command economies were even discredited throughout Europe in the early 70s when they discovered nationalizing industry led them to lost years of growth.
And then you go on to say that individualism leads to a slew of criminal pathologies when it is clearly the blue state cities that are suffering from them. An individualist has never been against law and order. We see it as one of the few actually legitimate functions of government, aside from national defense. We recoil from bullies dominating the weak, which is a proven hallmark of the collectivists. Ever see even a mainstream conservative attempt to give a speech in a room at a university? Ever notice the shouting attempting to drawn out the speaker. Ever heard that whenever a conservative goes to most universities they must be preceded by police forces? Last I heard, Ben Shapiro required 600 policemen in ensure his safety when he went to speak at one of the many west coast liberal universities. None of these occurrences being addressed by the professors of these schools or in any way attempted to be stopped. On the contrary, many times it's the professors themselves who stir up the anger to begin with.
Another thing totally missed by collectivists since their media won't explain it to them is one of the fundamental tenets of The Enlightenment that says a democracy is only possible if it is accompanied by people who understand self-responsibility, which precludes most of the mess you mentioned above. Sadly today, the leftist blow-horn we call our schools and media only tells people about what a democracy allows you to get away with and not the necessary self-discipline and self-responsibility necessary to maintain it. But why should they? They're only interested in the inherent weaknesses of democracy that can be manipulated to further their collective cause.
There's little in what you have learned about individualism from your media and schools that bears any resemblance to the reality they try so desperately to cover up.
The present US military have gone woke... and on that basis, the whole top brass should be pushed under the bus.
Out of 16 mins 15.30 were spent on trump and 30 secs on biden's stupid withdrawal. Which as an outsider to US was the first loss of respect for the american military might, in front of my millenial generation.
It certainly came across as a Trump hit piece. Devoting 30 seconds to the last three years comes across pretty poorly. A video about partisanship that is completely partisan is pretty hypocritical. Disappointing.
Except you forget that Trump withdrew almost all the military months before Biden took office. Trump also committed to fully leave Afghanistan in 6 months. Biden took a few more months than that, but he had to either leave or fight Afghan troops that we had trained. Biden was 'set up' by trump for failure. So
@@Thenever794 this is pretty much par for the course on this channel i just keep the subscription to see inside the cult
@sschultz909 Why is it so hard to admit that one person is worse than another? How many generals and SecDefs has Biden fired for insufficient loyalty to him? How many ex-Obama officials have come on to give warnings about their old boss? How many times has GWB called members of the press / military / government traitors and called for their execution?
Enough with this "two sides are equally bad so if you don't criticize equally you must be biased" bullshit.
What does the withdrawal have to do with the radicalization of the military? One would think it's the 20 year long occupation that had the greater impact on causing social distrust.
Maybe your generation should study history so you can see that
1) America and long wars do not mix well
2) No country in the history of mankind until America has been able to fight 2 wars simultaneously thousands of miles from their home base for 20 years while still growing their economy and military might
Before you start running your mouth about how politicians influence the US military maybe you ought to learn something about how Washington took over the tactical planning of the Vietnam conflict
Johnson ordered troop numbers up and up, invasion of other countries, support of group after group of Vietnamese coup's, fake Gulf of Tonkin story. 58,000 of my peer group died there millions of mental and physical ly wounded, 2 million civilians dead.. Finally public pressure put a stop to Johnson and the war.And yes I got spit on as a uniformed soldier in the USA.
With so many turncoats around Trump, I'm surprised he got anything done at all.
He didn't. And anyone who turned against Trump was a patriot.
United we stand, Divided we fall..
united with what? millions of foreigners ?
expect a response from Vlad, the Poot don't like Americans working together
Qatar and the China know that they any defeat the USA in war - so they’ve been pouring in billions to hijack universities. to teach young Americans to hate America … and by doing so - take control of Washington sadly it seems it’s working … and the free world is on the brink
😂 the damage by Biden administration is not repairable
Who knows what is behind Boltons statements! Might be revenge of a disgruntled employee ! Same for Mattis!
Maybe he simply is right. At least it make more sense than beliebig an Alzheimer patient. Just listen to the more recent speaches of Trump.
@@maritaschweizer1117but he rarely ends up right , so why is he now?
@@maritaschweizer1117 You are confusing Trump with Biden. Trump is sharp as a tac. Joe Bite-Me is clearly suffering from Dementia.
And the dozens of other ex-Trump officials that came out to tell you he's horrible. But I'm sure they're all just angry about being fired right? Happens to all the ex-Presidents... only it doesn't.
If you're looking for a job, and you hear testimonials from dozens of ex-employees, some from high positions in the company, that say the boss is terrible, stupid, abusive, liar and is running the company into the ground, would you take that job?
it's almost all of his former advisors lol. Maybe Trump is just a crazy nutcase
Unfortunately this video is very biased politically and thus loses any credibility all too quickly.
Easy unsub wrong channel for maga.
The US seems to worry too much about Chinese generals getting sacked, but we have somewhat of the same problem here as well….
Things don't happen in four years, they often build up over many years.
Trump ain’t the sharpest tool in the shed… but what he did do is absolutely priceless.. he (by mistake) exposed the rot that is Washington… and they are still trying to destroy him for that
Ah yes Bolton, an outstanding RINO.
The military has not changed, the rest of the government has.
False, they have both changed
I honestly don't understand how this could happen to a country that treats its veterans so well!
har har!
These things come in cycles. Did you expect less polarization after foreign fiascos, unsustainable entitlements, and a federal reserve that caused massive inequality?
More like DelusionalPolitik
Sounds like a hit peace against trump😂😂😂 and i dont even like trump
Just split USA geographically into left and right and let people choose their side.
We are too split & no longer agree on anything. I know my preference….Individual Rights a government run by STATES not corrupt Washington.
This piece is a hit job against Conservatives.
Like everything else based in facts.
I thought I was watching a video on the military - instead it was a political critique of Trump. 👎 From me
Not a citizen of USA here. Please get your shit together.
The world wide left hates America - and Americans have not realized it yet
Mind your own business.
@@kevinmorgan8534 fair enough, but that works until your "business" failures spill over others.
The first time a friend in the military started ranting about "Obamunism" was......chilling. And the thing is, she wasn't that political until after she joined the military.
Obama hated the military and worked on destroying it from the top down, I can see why she felt that way.
This is majorly biased ! This is propaganda !
You haven’t fact checked most of what you covered.
( something is changing in the US military ) this entire thing was basically Trump Trump Trump. Can you blame anything else on Trump ?
Climate change? I am waiting for it next!
but then , WHY was the world more peacefull during Trump ? we need an episode on that
You do realize the president is literally the commander of the military right? HE IS SUPPOSED TO TELL THEM WHAT TO DO! If you don’t even know how the heck the military chain of command works, why in the hell are you making a video(ironically, an extremely partisan video I might add) about the military?!?!
Exactly
I think that your accent sounds British. I am here in Florida, I am an American Latino. Here we the working people decided that we were fed up with the established government and we elected TRUMP and we will elect him again.
And what do you expext from Trump? He tells a lot he cares about worker but in reality he only cares about his bank account. He made 3 times more debt than any president in history. What do you think who will pay it back? OK it is not my problem but as an American I would be worried about my kids.
@maritaschweizer1117 LIAR. The national debt still increased under TRUMP but it was the lowest rate since the cancer of unstoppable money printing path since nixon. He had a good plan for returning to the prosperity of the 90 s, but it was blocked by the democrats and the globalists.
@@maritaschweizer1117Trump has lost wealth being a politician, you are uninformed, he did it bc our country is unrecognizable from just a couple decades ago…more corruption & decay from Washington .
@@maritaschweizer1117and Biden was million times worse, Trump had to leverage debt as the world plunged into the pandemic btw, the economy was booming before Covid-19, but hey you lefties don’t remember any of that lmao
@@maritaschweizer1117woke 🤣🤣🤣
Lmfao at the notion that the Officer Corp is conservative. Good one.
Lol they used to be for sure
@@cameronspence4977 I don’t doubt it, but it’s been liberal for nearly a decade.
I dont like Trump but the guy dis not start any war during his time as president so that is that…
To start no war is not always a good idea. This could couse much bigger wars as it encourage dictators. Look at the Russian Iranian North Korean alliance. If they win they will not stop.
@@maritaschweizer1117if you say so…😅
@@maritaschweizer1117you are blinded by Leftist propaganda…I hope for our nation you see through it soon.
@@maritaschweizer1117 North Korea is no threat. And Russia has ALWAYS been in bed with Iran. Nothing has changed in the balance of power.
He wanted to bomb Mexico and thought nobody would figure out whom did it, only his advisors stopped him.
so trump didn't want to be a puppet to corrupt Washington players. nothing wrong here
Except that he is corrupt unto himself.
He was and is putlers puppet.
Not one of your best videos.
First three minutes of the video: Trump, Fox News, Trump, etc. Your tone attempts to *sound* objective and non-partisan, but your bias comes out loud and clear.
Nice AI generated thumbnail, but the AI still has problems with the hands.
This is an Anti Trump video
Nope, just the truth.
Milley called the Chinese offering help in case of a war, that's the Truth.
@@RedSupergiant ... to safe the lives of his soldiers
@@_Alfa.Bravo_no, Millie wanted the US to attack Iran. Trump said no to him & it made him hate Trump. Millie is VINDICTIVE. Trump said no to war, but the controlled media spins to benefit the Democrats. Millie’s alliance is to powerful corporations & himself.
@@_Alfa.Bravo_ From what? That is the same kind of justification all traitors make.
You are not quite correct. Nixon and his goons were apparently directing platoon level and specific tactical strikes (by individual jets) in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos, from the Whitehouse. In some cases live, as the battles were happening.
and it didn't work very well then - did it?
Kissinger was probably making money on it somehow
It has already changed. The U.S. military used to have a policy of maintaining enough strength to fight two wars simultaneously, now it would be lucky to be able to fight one.
Hey, give us credit. We're losing two proxy wars simultaneously.
The one sided bias that VisualPolitik shows on the regular is really making me rethink my subscription to them. This video is just one example of that, but there have been plenty more videos that I went to thinking I was getting some sort of thought provoking news only to get Trumpderangment style narrative.
This video starts out appearing to be fair, then slides into one a sided diatribe. To say the military has never been political is the height of naviete or ignorance or both. What else to expect from a woke European video maker. Ask yourself...what is their real agenda.
Thanks for your reporting. Trump is the only option we have. We need Americo to be one people not many people. We have to protect our land first. Our values are being undermined. We were raised here a certain way and others were not. So how can we live with people that don’t respect our values. They have to go. Trump is trying to get to the root of the cancer in our society. Some military officials are bought by outside influences. They have to go. Thanks for your time.
agree Trump only option - who else? Not Bernie, not . . . . we running out of time to stop this runaway train to the Thelma Louise cliff
this is a liberal perspective
FJB
LGB.🎉
This channel is BS. Anyone that would give any credibility to John Bolton is a blathering fool.
Listening to this episode of visual politic is like watching ancient aliens.😂
Except that it's all real.🤨
The reason Milley deserved deletion is "If he decides to attack, I'll give you a heads up." that is verbatum from Gen
Mark Milley
You have every right to hate on Donald Trump. You are entitled to your opinions on his impact on politization of the military. Unfortunately you are NOT entitled to your own facts. I served in the US Army under four Presidents. I can tell you with absolute certainty that the politization started with Obama and waned with Trump only to surge to stratospheric levels under Biden. As a young recruit we all worked together we were not black white or brown. We were all green. There was unit cohesion. We conducted ourselves with honor and loyalty. When Obama entered office we were immediately told that we were victims of our brothers because of the color of our skin. We were told that we were sexists and rapists. We were separated from assignments and privileges based on identities rather than merit. The military became a social experiment. The experiment failed. While Soldiers died everyday in our forever wars in the Middle East we trained on sexual harassment and racial equity. Our enemies laughed at the paper tiger the US military had become. Iraq was lost, Afghanistan was lost, ISIS was taking territory and butchering people on video. It was the lowest point of moral I had ever seen to that point. Enter Trump. He immediately turned the prosecution of the war on ISIS over to the military. Without politicians, ISIS was defeated in one month. Obama spent eight years telling us this "man made catastrophe" could not be defeated. Imagine that - a President who would not use the word terrorism to describe butchers who decapitated innocent people and burned alive lawful combatants chained in cages. I spent the next 4 years leading Soldiers as we trained to perform our jobs rather than to check the boxes on the appropriate forms that indicated indoctrination to an ideology. Because we were able to train for our missions we were able to successfully conduct our missions. After Biden assumed the office we were immediately brought back to us vs them paradigm. Moral plummeted. Soldiers bailed out of the Army as fast as they could. Recruitment went down the toilet. Leadership quickly pointed the finger at systemic racism or widespread radicalized elements within the military. The politicians (I use the term as derogatorily as possible) in the military refused to look in the mirror to see the problem was staring right back at them. Interestingly, I never has the occasion to see this with my own eyes in 23 years - Thankfully, I am not retired and no longer have the insider's view of the rot that has enveloped the military. Perhaps you could interview and include in your video a selection of military members of all ranks, races, sexes in order to really understand what the state of politization actually is. By quoting only the most senior Generals and Admirals you simply amplify the circular argument as they are largely the manifestation of the politization. Having said all this, I profess that I am NOT a videographer, editor, politico, or ideolog. I don't pretend to be. I speak only as a former enlisted man and officer who has lived within the political shooting gallery. My one and only expertise allows me to very confidently inform you that your thesis is very misinformed Please look at both sides of this issue before making these ridiculous assertions of better yet, don the uniform and serve your country. This would allow you an unadulterated view from the inside. Either way this video serves only to delegitimize an otherwise very well run channel. Best wishes from your local Colonel (ret).
Congratulations on this biased, one-sided propaganda piece. 🎉
Trump is right about Milley
Oh man we’re so fucked
Brilliant and desperately needed information!
Usually I like VisualPolitik videos, but this is nothing but anti-Trump rubbish...
What did you want him to do, lie? Stright up truth.
@@justmenotyou3151 For one thing, he's lying through omission. As others have pointed out, this started long before Trump.
I have so little faith in the US democracy that I would almost prefer a military junta over what we have now...
It is understandable. We had in 1933 in Germany a similar constitution.
@maritaschweizer1117 You're German? "I don't think that's the case..."
@@longiusaescius2537the Weimar Republic constitution had the same weak points as the US constitution. Too much power of the president and problem that the government can appoint supreem court junges. Be sure Trump will not be a dictator just for one day as he said. So many democracies turned to dictatorship the last 30 years and this trend will continue.
@@maritaschweizer1117 how do you feel about Bukele?
RIP St. Aaron Bushnell 😢
To much obsession on Trump here. The problems are far deeper, and what is "changing" for the worse has nothing to do with Trump, it is DEI.
So you know I’ve unsubscribed … don’t like this format
As Foreigner I'm glad reading all the top comments from US serviceman that tell a very different story than the Video.
When we are united, we are stronger, but when we are divided our enemies become stronger.
Wasted 16 minutes of my life
If this video is accurate, things are starting to get very heated in the US. It's a terrible sign that the army is getting divided.
As a 6 year veteran, the military has always been majority Republican (or republican leaning) within the ranks. In general, politics were not openly discussed except at a personal level. You just don't find as many with a woke mindset within the branches.
Political changes remind me of an Austrian guy in 1932.
This video is based in Leftist media severe bias & inaccurate to ACTUAL reality.
I just retired with over 21 years of service, having been in the Army and Air Force. I grew up in a big in SoCal. I started then Former President Bush was in office. To me, the military had always ran more conservative and pro Republican. My fellow service members would let you know where they stood quickly on politics. Having spent time in recruiting, there no secret that the southern and Midwest states provide the bulk of the bodies and with that typically comes with a certain mentality. As a black service member, I will say that it started getting bad when Former President Obama took office. His presidency seemed to be the catalyst for where we are now. In my opinion, America simply wasn’t ready for a president such as Obama. I’ll never forget when I walked into my work center and this E-9 Chief yelled across the room, “how do you feel about your boy winning.” He was talking about it Obama. Poor word choice Chief 🤦🏾♂️.