We were told during the Biden administration that the recruitment for the Air Force, the Army, the Navy, and even in one case, I think one year, the Marines, was off some 40,000 to 50,000 recruits. The third thing is, yes, it was good to worry about American safety overseas, and that’s why, ostensibly, after 9/11, we went into Afghanistan, Iraq, or we take out the nuclear—but if you look, since 1990, when we first had figures, there’s some 900,000 people who have overdosed or killed themselves from foreign imported opiates, and particularly fentanyl, often disguised as designer drugs intended to kill Americans through Chinese agency and cartel fabrication in I guess we would call them pill factories in Mexico and parts of Latin America. And he’s saying to the nation, it doesn’t do any good to spend billions of dollars and defend the borders and intervene all over the world if in your backyard you’re losing more people from all the battles combined since World War II.
Author: Victor Davis Hanson
Published at: 2025-12-17 23:09:29
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