Ted Cruz Prefers Russian-Style Military Recruitment Ads

Sen. Ted Cruz ripped the US Army on social media for a new ad portraying a “woke, emasculated” United States military.

The Texas Republican retweeted a video comparing a Russian military ad featuring muscle-bound men shooting rifles to a US Army ad centering on a female American solider with “two moms.”

“Holy crap. Perhaps a woke, emasculated military is not the best idea….” he wrote Thursday, adding the video makes soldiers look like “pansies.”

The animated US Army ad tells the story of Corporal Emma Malonelord, who was raised by a lesbian couple in San Francisco, and was inspired to serve a country that defends gay rights.

By contrast, the hyper-masculine Russian ad shows a group of all-male soldiers doing pushups, shaving their heads and jumping from airplanes.

[A few] Lawmakers and former service members were outraged [or feigned outrage] by Cruz’s comments, which they saw as bashing US Military itself.

Sen. Tammy Duckworth — a Purple Heart recipient who lost both legs while serving in the Iraq war — blasted Cruz with a tweet mimicking his language. [Duckworth was a helicopter pilot who envisaged herself mowing down Third World savages with impunity while invading their countries but it didn’t work out that way as they got her Apache with a humble RPG.]

“Holy crap. Perhaps a U.S. Senator shouldn’t suggest that the *Russian* military is better than the American military that protected him from an insurrection he helped foment?,” she wrote, referencing the US Capitol riots on Jan. 6.

And the progressive veterans’ group VoteVets slammed Cruz for criticizing Malonelord,  a real-life soldier serving the US. [A “real-life soldier” as in she’s on the payroll of the US Army.]

Source: NY Post