Ted Cruz implies the US military is too 'woke' and 'emasculated' to compete with Russia

A1C Mike Allen -Agree

A1C Mike Allen - My experience in combat in Vietnam fighting a trained and well disciplined regular Army. You can never train and sweat psycologically enough to prepare for war. Marines in my time had to pass a Physical Readiness test or PRT. This test and peacetime maneuvers never prepares anyone for the rigors of real combat. The fighting we Marines on Vietnams DMZ experienced could be akin to being in the middle of the worst flu virus having to dig a fighting hole every three days with tears and ears for next Katyusha rocket incoming. While carrying a Marine or 2 you knew well bodies wrapped in a plastic ponchos on its way to the graves registration mortuary. This ritual is on a daily basis. This is going to be the next war we as a nation fight. The question is this are we going to be prepared? We need to train for the worst to happen to us and pray we survive.

I believe the Senator was referencing the look of the new recruiting commercials and the difference from our adversaries commercials.
His article references comparisons between recruiting ads.
excerpt from the Senators interview.

Sen. Ted Cruz retweeted a TikTok comparing a Russian army commercial with a US Army commercial.
While the Russian ad used masculine tropes, the US ad was a story of a service member with two moms.
Cruz compared the two ads, saying, "Perhaps a woke and emasculated military is not the best idea."

You would have to watch all 3 and make your own determination if what he was referencing is what was displayed.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kfe6d6MzeLM

A1C Mike Allen - Actually, my OP doesn't do that at all. I was just poking fun at him after he chose to insult today's service members.

My reasoning is simple...until evidence exists showing that an adverse impact occurred as a result of this policy, I am not concerned that it will have an impact. I think Cruz is purely speculating, and it's his job to back up his claim. Until he does that, his comment comes across as nothing more than a baseless insult of our men and women in uniform, and what makes it worse is that he never actually wore the uniform.

A1C Mike Allen - The guy insulted the military. I'm not going to continue defending my interpretation of his insult. You can play your mental gymnastics game all you want. Enjoy RP.

SFC Dan Utinske - Actually, you're doing the same thing Cruz is doing....speculating without data to support your argument. Have fun with that.

SFC Dan Utinske I sleep much better now that he's out of office.

SFC Dan Utinske The military is just fine. I just retired a year ago. The right wing has hijacked "woke" and weaponized it politically. Woke means alert to social justice. Any organization that is alert to social justice does not make me want to puke.

I would invite folks to https://www.britannica.com/topic/critical-race-theory and not just accept the opinion piece written by Christopher Rufo who is associated with the right wing conservative heritage foundation and discovery institute and who SFC Dan Utinske didn't bother to credit with the copy / paste job above. I encourage you if you are interested to look at a reputable least-biased source and learn about CRT.

SFC Dan Utinske - It is not even worth my time to go through how wrong you are. I have been down this road before with folks like you. Your mind is made up and you are set in your ways. Luckily this way of thinking is dying out.