Ted Cruz Prefers Russian-Style Military Recruitment Ads

Holy crap.

Perhaps a woke, emasculated military is not the best idea…. https://t.co/8aVFMW98NM

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) May 20, 2021

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.

We are going to be the most tolerant military in history ever to lose a war https://t.co/3WKmHbGdjl

— John Noonan (@noonanjo) May 20, 2021

yep https://t.co/1SJy0NirMp

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) May 20, 2021

sorry about that, I’d thought the Nazis were crushed by the Red Army and a hard nosed coalition of US, British, French divisions, not the faculty of Vassar College. https://t.co/1HUOIjKq8U

— John Noonan (@noonanjo) May 20, 2021

I’m still not convinced the US Army ad here is real. It can’t be. I just can’t envision someone in the army hierarchy approving it.

— John Noonan (@noonanjo) May 20, 2021

I’m enjoying lefty blue checkmarks losing their minds over this tweet, dishonestly claiming that I’m “attacking the military.”

Uh, no. We have the greatest military on earth, but Dem politicians & woke media are trying to turn them into pansies.

The new Dem videos are terrible. https://t.co/19pYGa8cYk

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) May 21, 2021

[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

If you’re a Chinese communist, or an Iranian Mullah, or Kim Jong Un…would this scare you?

We’ve come a long way from Jason Bourne. https://t.co/HW8Eh9UdXa

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) May 4, 2021