U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) faults the Biden-Harris administration and the current military leadership for recruitment shortages witnessed in recent years — as well as the related vulnerabilities to defend against China. Tuberville discussed the current problems in the military during an appearance on the “Roger Stone Show.”
“It all starts with leadership,” Tuberville argued, “and if you just look from the Secretary of Defense on down, they’ve tried to change the qualifications of members of the military. They’ve made it more woke. They’re teaching DEI. I have higher up ranked members of the military calling me, ‘Coach. I’m getting out. I’m in here 20 years. There’s no reason to stay in it. They don’t want us in in here. They don’t want us to be part of a military that’s strong and stands up to our enemies. They want a weak military.’ And so, that’s what’s happened in this week, we can’t recruit anybody.”
“I know there’s a lot of good people in our military, and you know, thank goodness we have some,” he continued, “but we should be the best and most lethal fighting force on the face of the earth, and that’s gone by the wayside Roger because of leadership and the type of mentality they want to bring down through our military.”
The senator said he’s worried that we’re not ready for the threat coming from the Chinese Communist Party.
“Oh, it’s a huge problem,” he said. “They’re doing everything they possibly can, whether it’s big tech or education, they’re building ‘their’ military. They hadn’t fired a shot on foreign soil in what, 60, 70, 80 years? And so they have been making sure that they build their military to a point where they can take on the United States of America, if need be.”
Tuberville believes the U.S. needs to focus more on the threat from China instead of being involved in other wars like the one in Ukraine.
“And the problem that we have right now is we’re, we’re fighting all these other wars,” he explained. “We’re we’re helping Israel, which we should, but we’re wasting money over in Ukraine. We need to get that fight over with and start building our coalition. Not to really take in and fight a war, but let the Chinese know that we will fight and we are a competitor.”
“Now at the end of the day, we have got to make sure that we take care of our economy and get it back on track, because right now we’re dead broke,” he added. “We need to get our economy going in the right direction where the people here can make sure that they have a lifestyle that can enhance whatever it takes down the line for our military and to be able to fight back against the Chinese army that is building every day.”
