Under Democrat rule, the purpose of the US military is not to defend the country, which is currently under uncontested invasion, but to impose wokeness. This is why the Secretary of Defense is Lloyd Austin. Upon taking office, he immediately called for a military-wide stand-down so as to purge the armed forces of potential dissidents.

Austin knows all about ideological conformity. What does he know about military matters? The press conference he and fellow leftist Mark Milley held Wednesday on the topic of the war in Ukraine offered an indication.

Austin:

“I think a winter fight favors the Ukrainians. … They’ll be prepared for this winter weather, and I don’t think the Russians will be as prepared.”

For those who didn’t burst out laughing, a little Russian history:

Russia became a major power under Peter the Great when the Great Frost helped it defeat Sweden’s Charles XII in the Great Northern War. Not even Vikings could fight in the cold like Russians can. Russians exploited their superior ability to fight in the cold to defeat Napoleon in 1812, as immortalized in Tolstoy’s War and Peace. Then Russians defeated the largest invasion force in the history of warfare, after Hitler’s Operation Barbarossa froze up in the cold and the Russians launched a wintertime counteroffensive.

If the fight is taking place in winter, don’t bet against Russia.

Austin also said that Russians are at a disadvantage because “they’re fighting in a foreign country.”

There are supply lines, as in any war. But Ukraine is not a foreign country for Russians.

Russia and Ukraine emerged as part of the same country, Kievan Rus, in the 9th century. Ukraine has been ruled by Mongols, Poles, and Lithuanians, but with the Treaty of Perpetual Peace in 1686, it was largely reabsorbed into Russia. Unless you count the Ukrainian People’s Republic that existed briefly during the Russian Civil War, Ukraine was never an independent country until the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991. Russian is the dominant language in Kiev and in the east, where most of the fighting is.

The people in charge don’t seem to know what they are talking about. We can count ourselves as lucky if all they do is flush away $100 billion of our money, rather than blunder into a nuclear war.

On a tip from Varla.

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