Posted on 12/17/2025 11:31:38 PM PST by texas booster
The criticisms against Sec. of War Pete Hegseth are “entirely political,” and anyone could have said the same things about “the Obama and Biden administration—and much more egregiously.”
Hegseth has turned the U.S. military around in ways no one thought was possible, like getting the military back to meeting all of its recruiting quotas, explains Hanson during today’s episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In a Few Words.”
Recruitment under the Biden administration fell “some 40 to 50,000 recruits,” and former Sec. of Defense Lloyd Austin’s Pentagon used excuses like “people are out of shape, in gangs, using drugs, etc.”
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From the comments: What Pete Hegseth is doing has got to be a good thing. Why? Because the Democrats oppose it. That's the hallmark of a good job done well.
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It seems like everything was impossible to the Bidon administration.
Why would anyone expect different from the political party of n'er-do-wells?
Thanks for posting. Excellent pod by VDH. I especially like the fact that he asked about the global amnesia. I had felt like I was the only one who remembered Obama and the Predator assassinations...
Everything the Biden administration did was intentional. They didn’t want any redneck patriots who might not like the trannies.
Funny how things improve when the priority is having a professional military instead of conducting a social justice experiment.
Austin took that as a starting point and made it much worse.
-PJ
Yep you cant just close the border, start sending illegal aliens home and keep them out…. Its impossible.
The laziness and ineffectivity of leftists is the only thing that saves us from their tyranny.
The real problem is that as elsewhere DEI was used to promote suicidal nitwittery and denigrate anyone with the potential to achieve warfighting competence. It’s the same disease that is rotting our Ivy League institutions and turned Brown university into the next candidate for a low cost housing estate.
Pete is only profiting from the many advantages of men and women serving under the Trump administration as opposed to the Biden MISadministration
Everything is impossible if you don’t want to do it!...........
Actually, I am amazed at the difference in effectiveness between the two administrations.
Forget DOGE. It is still very stark between them.
The border? The medicine?
The economy?
Trump wins in all areas.
The Biden administration proved they wanted to weaken the military not strengthen it as well as the country.
It’s a life long goal for the democrats.
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