Pete Hegseth

It just feels like it'll become an anemic.

It'll become an anemic shell of itself.

It'll be an anemic shell of itself, totally politically attuned, and they will conscript as necessary to meet.

And then they'll just move the numbers, right?

So the Army had a 25% and missed its recruiting goal, I think, in 2023 by 25%.

It's a lot.

It's a lot.

So I think it was like, I don't know what the number was.

It's like 80, instead they hit 60 or something like that.

It could be.

And so what did they do for 2024?

Well, they just reduced their standard, right?

So now they're only trying to recruit 50,000 into the army so that they won't miss their goal.

They'll meet their goal, but they're already at a 30% reduction from where they were supposed to be.

So the bureaucracy, the institution will always try to paper over it to make it look like we're okay.

Right.

But then when you talk to the guys on the bases in the units and they say, we are definitely not okay.

Like we are, I mean, I've got people that I'm in touch with in the DMZ in North Korea.

And they're like, we have basically enough artillery for three days.

The rest of it's in Ukraine.