Sen. Tommy Tuberville warned that left-wing ideology is threatening military readiness and that the perceived weakness of the Biden administration on the world stage had encouraged U.S. adversaries to seize the initiative in myriad conflicts.

Speaking on the “John Solomon Reports” podcast, Tuberville highlighted the military’s recruiting shortfall, insisting that left-wing initiatives such as vaccine mandates and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) programs have demoralized current and prospective servicemembers, contributing to turnover and personnel shortages.

“[O]ur recruiting is going to heck, I mean, we can’t recruit anybody. And so I think everybody should be very concerned about this. We’ll continue to speak up about it,” Tuberville warned.

“I’m on the Armed Forces Committee, and I’m very, very concerned about our military,” he said.

“Last week, I ran into a young Marine. He didn’t look that old, but he says,

‘Coach, I spent 22 years in the Marines. They made me get a vaccine. I didn’t want to do it. So I opted out. And now I’ve kind of worked it all out getting out of the way. But I needed to do it anyway…

Coach, we’re in trouble. We’re becoming more woke. They’re teaching things in the military that shouldn’t be taught.'”

“He said, ‘I got two teenage kids. If we go to war, I’m moving to another country,'” Tuberville went on.

“They will not fight within this military because it will be suicide. We’re not prepared to fight one war much less than three that they’re trying to get us into as we speak.”

Apart from the sheer decline in new recruits, Tuberville lamented the drop in quality among the military’s top brass, a situation for which he blamed Democratic apathy toward maintaining the military as a warfighting institution.

“When we we have hearings with Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and and Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mark Milley was in there,” he said.

“Now, it’s General Brown, C.Q. Brown, who’s head of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, but all the military comes through. And one of the things that four or five of us always say, ‘Listen, we need a fighting machine. This country wants and needs to be protected.'”

“I want a military, I want a strong military. My dad was career military. And I think that’s the most important entity that we should have. But the problem is that Democrats want something different. They want something that they can control,” Tuberville warned.

“Again, it’s all about moving people up, not because of merit but it’s because of whether it’s religion, or race or whatever.”

“We need the best on the field… our military is there to play to win, there’s no second place. And right now, what we’re doing is we’re not taking the best, all you have to do is look into recruiting,” he went on. . . . (read more on Just the News)

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