Even moonbats have a use for the military. In fundamentally transformed South Africa, it serves as a jobs program.
Daily Friend reports on the fate of the South African National Defence Force (SANDF):
Today, under the African National Congress government (ANC), the SANDF is increasingly being reframed not as a warfighting institution, but as a socio-economic intervention mechanism. President Cyril Ramaphosa’s recent remarks that the Department of Defence is “a partner in government efforts to curb unemployment” amount to far more than a harmless political soundbite. They represent a quiet but unmistakable admission that the South African military has drifted so far from combat readiness that the state is now searching for alternative justifications for its existence.
Because it serves primarily to produce make-work,
Salaries consume the overwhelming majority of the defence budget, leaving insufficient funding for training, maintenance, procurement, ammunition stockpiles, flying hours, naval deployments, or force modernisation.
Possibly worse,
The military ceases to think like a fighting force and starts behaving like a state employment programme wearing camouflage.
Fortunately, South Africa is not currently menaced by external enemies. Not so fortunately, its worst enemies are internal — and have prevailed.
During the brief reign of Joe Biden’s handlers, a defining purpose of the US military was to promote homosexuality (see here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, etc.). If Democrats regain control, the liberal agenda will again be prioritized, with effects similar to those inflicted on the SANDF. America will be trapped between enemies both without and within.
On a tip from abcanc.