admirals. in referral to one of those former officials, milley said they said to bring him back to active duty, court martial them. i advised them not to do that. that s just deranged. that is the behavior of a tyrant. does it surprise you? no, and i worked with chairman milley at the department of defense and i m grateful that he was constantly this block, roadblock against these terrible instincts by the former president. but it just goes to show, donald trump does not even understand the u.s. military that he oversaw, which is right now the most diverse force it s ever been in history, ideologically, racially. this idea that somebody who is in the military shouldn t be able to criticize him is absurd. that s something you would expect to see in the kremlin, not the united states. it s just another dot to remember in the long list of things that make him so unqualified to ever hold office
the military shouldn t be doing anything to make it harder to get young and men and women into the military or more likely to leave when their contracts are up. third, it is just not useful. the vaccine clearly doesn t do a very good job of restricting transmission of the virus. and for some people, older people or medically infirm people it does the end to reduce the severity of the cases but it is not the case when you talk about the healthiest cohort of americans, young men and women in teens and 20s physically and medically fit for military service. i urged the biden administration for the last year to eliminate this mandate which is counterproductive. i regret they didn t do it but pleased that congress stepped forward and eliminated it where the biden administration wouldn t. harris: the way you talk about the readiness and what we need in terms of men and women serving. it took them a year. all the people we re missing in the military because of this and
washington post communist max boot has a theory, and i was to do with anti wokeness. areas that trump and putin another like-minded ideals have for years decried wokeness. trump in particular has they dearly suggested that military shouldn t be constructed by humanitarian concerns. trump has bordered on expressing fondness for war crimes. he s endorsed torture, and even kill the families of terrorists. and all that is on full display right now in ukraine, russian troops are about as anti woke as you can get. and the russians are deliberately targeting civilians
this very small selected group. there are other people. the military shouldn t the whole world is late with ukraine. started late making decisions. let me forgive you saw what happens in all the squares of the world. people come out and support because they are people. they are smarter than all of us. they said to them they were pressuring them but the whole world has to know that the whole world came late with these policies. the question is not about, you know, somebody treating ukraine well or not. the leaders, they all treat
after your services deadline, in other words, northern the army after december 15th then you must be vaccinated in order to deploy under those federal orders so there is a bit of an asterix there, but june 2022 is a very lodge way away. it is. and there s a lot of risk that can occur at that point. yes, absolutely. i do want to mention the g-20 because we know the main folk just fighting climate change. we know how this impacts military planning. we ve been talking about how, you know, there are global national security implications that could fuel instability, and we saw just this summer how water shortages and droughts in places like iran and iraq, around the middle east, those led to protests. do you are these potential situations that the military has to plan for? absolutely, amara. in fact, climate hank boston been at the forefront of military planning efforts for over a decade now so people who think that the military shouldn t concern itself with climate change are abs