DUI Hegseth Continues Assault On "DEI" While Trying To Step Away From NATO

 

Drunken former Fox couch potato and now Defense Secretary (!!) Pete Hegseth is conducting an all-out assault on Russian aggression, Chinese encroachment, Nazis in the ranks "DEI" (diversity, equity, and inclusion), which we should know means the white- washing of people of color, women, LGBTQ and others from our past and present. Oh, look, the white nationalists have new targets:

Articles about the Holocaust, September 11, cancer awareness, sexual assault and suicide prevention are among the tens of thousands either removed or flagged for removal from Pentagon websites as the department has scrambled to comply with Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth’s order to scrub “diversity” content from all its platforms.

A database obtained by CNN shows that more than 24,000 articles could be purged, with many gone already. The scrub goes well beyond just the removal of images from the Pentagon’s visual database, known as DVIDS, and includes articles from across more than 1,000 websites hosted by the department.

The Pentagon previously said in a memo last month that it would be removing news and feature articles promoting diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) content.

Pentagon Press Secretary John Ullyot said in a statement Wednesday that the Defense Department was “pleased by the rapid compliance” across the Pentagon with the directive removing DEI content from all platforms.

“In the rare cases that content is removed – either deliberately or by mistake – that is out of the clearly outlined scope of the directive, we instruct the components and they correct the content so it recognizes our heroes for their dedicated service alongside their fellow Americans, period."...  (our emphasis)

"Rare cases" = 24,000 articles to this mini-Goebbels.  As with the rest of his cult, if his lips are moving, he's lying.

Public pressure has, at least for now, forced the fascists to restore some previously deleted history:

The Pentagon restored some webpages highlighting the crucial wartime contributions of Navajo Code Talkers and other Native American veterans on Wednesday, days after tribes condemned the action.

The initial removal was part of a sweep of any military content that promoted diversity, equity and inclusion, or commonly referred to as DEI. Following President Donald Trump’s broader executive order ending the federal government’s DEI programs, the Defense Department deleted thousands of pages honoring contributions by women and minority groups. Department officials say the Navajo Code Talker material was erroneously erased. [snip]

Several webpages on the Code Talkers landed on a “404 — Page not found” message Tuesday. Some were back up Wednesday — although any that also mention Native American Heritage Month remain down. Thousands of other pages deleted in the DEI purge are still offline...

Well, it takes time to turbo flush all the sacrifices and accomplishments of "those people" who clearly got their recognition because of "DEI," and not in honorable service to their country (like "Bone Spurs")!

Meanwhile, DUI Hegseth and Putin's puppet are moving at warp(ed) speed to disconnect the United States from the most successful alliance in history, enough so that it's alarming normally supine Republican MAGAts:

The top two Republican lawmakers who lead the Pentagon's oversight committees in the U.S. Congress issued a rare, joint statement on Wednesday expressing alarm about a potential shake-up in U.S. military commands by the Trump administration.

The statement from the offices of Senator Roger Wicker and Representative Mike Rogers cited press reports, including that the Trump administration is weighing relinquishing the U.S. role as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe.

The position, which oversees all NATO operations in Europe, has been filled by a four-star U.S. general since its creation in 1950. Sources familiar with the matter tell Reuters such a possibility has been discussed but may ultimately not be viable and that no announcement is imminent.

 

"We will not accept significant changes to our warfighting structure that are made without a rigorous interagency process, coordination with combatant commanders and the Joint Staff, and collaboration with Congress," Wicker and Rogers said in the statement.

 

"Such moves risk undermining American deterrence around the globe and detracting from our negotiating positions with America's adversaries." [snip]

Still, any move to step away from Europe would stoke further doubt among America's NATO allies about U.S. commitments to European security under President Donald Trump.

 

Trump's rapprochement with Russia has already put NATO allies on edge, as have U.S. warnings that European security can no longer be Washington's primary focus...

The Malignant Loser ("Agent Krasnov"?) is faithfully doing the bidding of war criminal Putin, who has pulled off perhaps the greatest intelligence coup in human history -- placing his puppet in the Oval Office, surrounded by other compromised assets and pro- Russian white nationalists.  Not having an American general as NATO Supreme Allied Commander Europe would make it so much easier for war criminal Putin to confront our European allies without the threat of direct Article 5 U.S. military involvement.  Because Putin has one lowlife, career criminal, moronic slug by the short hairs, the entire security structure that has largely kept the peace in Europe since WWII is in peril, which means we're all in peril.  Sic transit gloria, America.