It needs to be said that @SecWar @PeteHegseth has led the most successful reformation of the US armed forces in modern history. The focus is clear and unambiguous.
Now a serious question too few ask:
With the world in its current state, and the threats facing the United States both foreign and domestic, what do people think happens if these reforms are undone? If the military is defunded the way many Democrats want, along with defunding the police and dissolving ICE?
You won’t get more peace. You will almost certainly get a lot more war and a lot more crime. A competent, focused, and well-resourced US military has been the single largest stabilizer against major state-on-state war since 1945. Russia, China, Iran, and North Korea don’t restrain themselves out of goodwill. They restrain themselves, when they do, because the expected cost of aggression is too high. Lower that cost and the calculations shift.
The same is true at home. Cities that defunded or restrained police saw clear rises in homicide and violent crime. Gaps in ICE enforcement produce higher illegal flows, more cartel activity, and more strain on local systems.
These aren’t theories. This is simply what the data proves.
The claim that “the US caused the threats in the first place” just does not survive the recorded data. The Soviet Union, Maoist China, Ba’athist Iraq, the Islamic Republic of Iran, and the various jihadist movements weren’t American inventions. They had their own ideologies, ambitions, and expansionary doctrines long before any recent US policy. American power checked or rolled back those projects. It didn’t create them.
Like it or not, whether you want the US involved globally or not, if the US military is diminished and domestic enforcement is gutted, the world and the country descend into more chaos and conflict. And in a strange way, the fact that Democrats have taken the House and Senate and will almost certainly undo the reforms and the funding may prove useful.
We will all get to watch, in real time. We will get to see what happens when the deterrent is removed. Crime rising, terrorism thriving, and new wars breaking out because the cost of aggression has been lowered.
The data already points one way. The next few years will simply make it impossible to ignore.
So when the blood spills, crime soars, the body count rises, and drugs flow on the streets again, inflation and fuel pump prices will skyrocket and Americans will wish diesel was just $6 a gallon. The US will basically become France. Because that’s just what happens when chaos reigns.