I believe that what you describe has been intentional from the get-go. True leaders, moral Patriots, have been quietly purged or diminished so they go voluntarily so as not to lose the pension. Financial incentive to stay quiet is pretty powerful. When is the last time you can remember anyone in power, be it the Govt. or the Military who stood up and said NO - I think it was during Nixon’s reign.
I think it’s sabotage from the top, the class of elitists who really are bothered by the USA having “too much” military power compared to the world. These globalists promote generals who think similarly. The Senate is where these globalist perfumed princes are selected from all of the colonels.
“I believe that what you describe has been intentional from the get-go. “
Exactly so. This has been merely one front in the all-inclusive Communist “Great March Through the Institutions” of our nation, the Globalist dream that hinged and hinges on undermining all the strengths of our once-great bulwark against their plans of tyrannical world domination.
My only solace is that this is the military they will send against us when CWII breaks out under our “Second Lincoln.”