The Constitution, we have been told time and again, is not a suicide pact. This is usually done in connection with being told that the rights and freedoms protected by the Constitution are not absolute. And usually by people who try to pretend that much of what the Constitution says does not really apply to them and what they want to do. After all, they are the powers-that-be.

They are like corrupt cops who believe that they can and must violate the law in order to enforce it. These governmental thugs claim they must violate both spirit and letter of the Constitution to “protect and defend” it.

Many of these thugs of course are in Congress. While the Constitution may not be a suicide pact, Congress often seems to be pushing things that are tantamount to the suicide of America and its now moribund union of States.

Which is why a few Senators are using their powers to try and persuade, or even force, parts of the Executive Branch, to stop using the military to push their social (and socialist) agenda, to warp and change society and destabilize our States and communities. Army Times reports: “Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Randy George, whose nomination to become Army chief of staff is held up in the Senate, said Aug. 20 that he’s focused on four things: warfighting, delivering combat-ready formations, capability transformation and strengthening the profession of arms.” The Times goes on: “What to Watch: The Army will be fine while general officer promotions are on hold, George said. “It will be nice to get this behind us so we can field a full team,” he said. “In the meantime, we are going to get after it.”

Just what are we going to get after? Is George just another political general sucking up to Uncle Joe’s puppetmasters and the Woke bureaucracy? Many fear that is the case.

But meanwhile, the Army (and other services) is declining in manpower, operational capability, and skills and knowledge. Not because we aren’t throwing money at it, but because that money is being wasted. Not counting billions for bumbling dictators (like in Ukraine), more billions are spent on the DIE (diversity, inclusivity, and equity) projects, the politically-correct renaming of virtually everything (perhaps as much as two billion spent and to be spent: it is not just posts but streets and buildings, training manuals, and much else being “sanitized” – and that does not count manpower and distractions. Meanwhile combat and other training is not just being replaced by DIE but is weakened by environist and other mandates.

The experience in Ukraine – the poor performance of NATO (including US) weapons against supposedly-inferior Russian weapons – is explained for the most part as poorly-trained Ukrainians. (Notice, not poorly-motivated.) We assume that real American soldiers are far better trained and far better motivated and led. There are signs that this is a very bad assumption. A multitude of factors, of incidents, of accidents and injuries and fatalities. In all the branches but especially in the Army.

If indeed, Congress and the White House are pushing us into the Russo-Ukraine War, there is no certainty that (barring nuclear war) NATO forces will defeat Russia. Despite western hatred of Putin, and even internal opposition, Russians see this as part of what could be the final war for their nation: loss could easily be the very end of Russia because of demographics and geopolitical factors. They are willing to fight in desperation. Are Americans?

It was Napoleon Bonaparte who said, “In war, the moral is to the physical as ten to one.” That concept is still very true: it was true in Napoleon’s own defeat at Waterloo in 1815, and we have seen that happen in Vietnam, in Mesopotamia, in Afghanistan, and in Canaan (Israel) in the last 50+ years.

As Americans are increasingly buffeted by the Woke effort to destabilize and demoralize our society, our institutions, and our lives, we must ask if Americans, much less American soldiers, have the determination needed to go to war and win. The knowledge to do so? And the motivation? At what point does the propaganda spewing out of DC fail to hide the reality that Americans are not garrisoning most of the planet to defend our freedom and our way of life, but rather to facilitate empire: tyranny over Americans and non-Americans alike? We may be past that point already.

Those who commit suicide do not always die immediately. Is this the case for these States?