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Pentagon Requests Blowout Budget To Fight ‘Climate Crisis’ And ‘Extremism’ Among Troops
The Daily Caller ^ | 06/01/21 | Dylan Housman

Posted on 06/02/2021 8:19:36 AM PDT by Enlightened1

p>The Pentagon’s budget request for fiscal year 2022 totals $715 billion, and among the Defense Department’s stated priorities are fighting the “climate crisis” and “extremism” in America’s armed forces.

 The funding requested by the Pentagon under Biden continues a trend set under Trump who ballooned the military budget from just $582 billion requested by the Obama administration in 2017. The newest 2022 budget request increases the budget by $11 billion in comparison to 2021.
 
The 2022 budget proposal highlights climate change as a “national security priority,” stating that DoD will “elevate climate as a national security priority” and integrate “climate considerations” into “policies, strategies, and partner engagements.”

Funds will be reallocated to bolster “climate resiliency” and invest in clean energy. The request allocates $617 million for ensuring military installations can operate efficiently and recover from infrastructure disruption, R&D for new energy technologies and “climate-informed” wargaming, analysis and contingency planning.

Rooting out the supposed extremism within the military is another focus of the budget, with almost $31 million requested for strengthen tools to “identify and address extremism.”

One section of the proposal states that the Department of the Navy will “put people first” by creating a “positive work environment devoid of sexual assault, sexual harassment, racism, and violent extremism.”

The document also states the DoD will seek to improve its social media screening and “tracking activities of concern.”


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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Military/Veterans; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: 2depressing4words; climatecrisis; extremism; pentagon; troops
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1 posted on 06/02/2021 8:19:36 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

They have to weed out the patriots before they can turn the military on the citizens.


2 posted on 06/02/2021 8:20:57 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Enlightened1

It’s not cheap to create a military that will kill fellow Americans.


3 posted on 06/02/2021 8:22:19 AM PDT by servantoftheservant
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To: Enlightened1

China laughs again


4 posted on 06/02/2021 8:22:43 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (Leave me alone, I have no incriminating evidence on the Clintons)
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To: Enlightened1

We have China, Iran, and Russia ready to leap at our throats, and these anal orifices think that “extremism” and “climate change” are the functions of our already pussified military? One has to wonder how this makes the honest-to-goodness traditional fighting men still left in our military feel. And what would we do if (G-d forbid) we were physically attacked. Hand the enemy climate change propaganda?


5 posted on 06/02/2021 8:23:04 AM PDT by EinNYC
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To: Enlightened1

Good! Get all the Whites out of the military so the PRCs/Ruskies can just Walk right In!


6 posted on 06/02/2021 8:25:50 AM PDT by Harpotoo (Being a socialist is a lot easier than having to WORK like the rest of US:-))
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To: Enlightened1

The US is in the most dangerous time EVER


7 posted on 06/02/2021 8:31:14 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Thunder90; ETL; Travis McGee

Ping


8 posted on 06/02/2021 8:36:25 AM PDT by StoneWall Brigade
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To: Enlightened1

Our Southern border is breeched and this is what they are concerned with.


9 posted on 06/02/2021 8:38:10 AM PDT by alternatives? (If our borders are not secure, why fund an army?)
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10 posted on 06/02/2021 8:41:40 AM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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To: Enlightened1

Obama and his Boondoggles again


11 posted on 06/02/2021 8:42:08 AM PDT by butlerweave
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To: EinNYC

We are in extremely deep kimchi.


12 posted on 06/02/2021 8:42:12 AM PDT by phormer phrog phlyer
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A few well placed nukes will definitely solve global warming with extended winter for a good long time. You will be able to grow crops as far north as the tropic of cancer


13 posted on 06/02/2021 8:56:23 AM PDT by dsrtsage ( Complexity is just simple lacking imagination)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

Thought Biden was a deep-state CFR/NWO military industrial complex endless war Reagan Neocon? Isn’t that what you socialist nationalist statist are always squatting about here on forum? It’s always Neocon this endless war that and yet he’s gutting the entire military pulling out of every area vital to American strategic interests and overall national security? He’s giving Czar Putin everything.
The Iranians everything the Chinese everything.
Boy that just screams Endless war Reagan Neocon /S


14 posted on 06/02/2021 8:57:53 AM PDT by StoneWall Brigade
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To: StoneWall Brigade

You are confused, Reagan was not a neocon.


15 posted on 06/02/2021 9:02:59 AM PDT by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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To: Lurkinanloomin

What? Impossible! the divine wisdom around here especially from the FR socialist nationalist populist and the Trump brigades is that the Gipper was an endless war CFR /NWO Neocon as are the Reaganites that Biden is deep -state Reagan NWO endless war Neocon dictated to endless wars isn’t non interventionism now the norm on here? Yet Sleepy is gutting the military giving our enemies everything.
When Trump resumes back the Presidency in 24 he’ll have peace trade commerce with all nations entangled alliances with none. 😁😁😁😁😁👍👍👍👌


16 posted on 06/02/2021 9:18:34 AM PDT by StoneWall Brigade
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To: butlerweave

It’s these kind of polices that makes one ask the question: “Who’s really in charge?”

This is a recipe for disaster.


17 posted on 06/02/2021 9:20:44 AM PDT by jimjohn (...like Donkey Kong.)
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To: StoneWall Brigade

Of course those nations will be ruled by Russia-China and the Islamic fascist but hey? Why split hairs? 🤷‍♂️


18 posted on 06/02/2021 9:22:04 AM PDT by StoneWall Brigade
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To: Enlightened1

Those in the ‘Gon requesting this should be fired IMMEDIATELY, and a full investigation started to ferret out these traitorous military scumbags!


19 posted on 06/02/2021 9:28:41 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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To: butlerweave

Oh yeh? Just wait until tomorrow. It keeps getting worse!


20 posted on 06/02/2021 9:29:34 AM PDT by SgtHooper (If you remember the 60's, YOU WEREN'T THERE!)
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