Ex-General Ben Hodges Reveals Everything Wrong With NATO

Today I came across an interview with Ben Hodges, a retired American general who became a paid shill for CEPA and later, Human Rights First (what a cute name). In this interview, Hodges claimed Ukrainian offensives have reached “irreversible momentum” and will reach Crimea by the end of the year.

In 2021, Hodges claimed that no Russians died in World War II to defeat the nazis, only Ukrainians. An obvious and disgusting lie, and Hodges knew it was a lie, but said it anyway because he was on the payroll of European nazis.

I checked out his Twitter page, and it is filled with even more absurd statements, but they are very revealing of the internal politics of the liberal world order, their beliefs, and who their enemies are. Here’s the first tweet that stood out to me, and is in many ways one of the most revealing ones.

When a Republican who hated the Soviet Union is willing to take a more nuanced viewpoint of the Russian Federation, that shows he has some basic critical thinking skills, which should be a good thing. That’s an activity Hodges has probably never engaged in. And Ben Shapiro’s tweet wasn’t even suggesting nuance to begin with. He was just making the extremely obvious point that it is dangerous, perhaps suicidal even, to wage war with literally no plan and hope it works out.

Stereotypically, American service members lean more conservative and Republican, but as I have stated previously, this portrayal isn’t entirely accurate. The divide between enlisted and officers is even wider. In the 2016 presidential race, while enlisted tended to favor Trump, officers overwhelmingly supported Hillary – both in public statements and in who they cast their votes for. This might seem weird at first, but really isn’t. For a long time, Republicans were the “pro-war” party so military officers naturally gravitated to them. But in the Obama years this changed. Grassroots Republicans began to tire of the pointless and inordinately expensive wars overseas and became more isolationist as a result. Democrats went the opposite way, abandoning all pretenses of being anti-war and loudly shilling for as much armed conflict as possible.

Because of that, generals like Hodges had to do a PR makeover. Now Hodges is quite the progressive woke guy. How nice. So this Tennessee boy served 35 years in a conservatard military culture, including the disastrous “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy (which was little more than a way for military leaders to cover up hazing and rape by accusing victims of being gay), but was a closeted progressive this whole time? Color me skeptical. It’s much more likely to me that Hodges is a shill was always a shill, and was always eager to lick the boots of whoever pays him the most. That’s a deep cultural problem with our armed forces, and has been for a long time. In the 1990s and early 2000s, it was popular to be anti-gay, so our officers were anti-gay. Then the tables turned and everyone had to be pro-gay, so our officers, literally the same guys, all became pro-gay, and started waving rainbow flags at pride parades. How many dozens or hundreds of soldiers had Hodges forced out of the Army on bullshit charges related to Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell? How many hazing and rape scandals did he personally help cover up? Oh but now he stands with our women and LGBTQ people. Great.

In his interviews that I watched, Hodges repeatedly regurgitates neo-nazi propaganda depicting Russians as an “enemy at the gates” of civilized Europe. Which makes sense, that’s what he’s paid to do. The problem is that he peddles a blatantly false image of NATO’s war with Russia as a zero sum game, and is dismissive of the idea that there could be negative consequences or risk to continuing the war.

Excuse me, Mr. Hodges, but you were a senior leader in not one but two disastrous military defeats in recent American history, and personally responsible for the pointless deaths of thousands, maybe tens of thousands, of people. Maybe you need to find a sense of irony.

Another trend that I noticed in his commentaries is that Hodges hates Germany almost as much as he hates Russia, and repeatedly lashes out at them. I have said this repeatedly and I’ll say it again. American elites hate and despise Germany, and are doing everything in their power to destroy it.

“Finland alone would crush Russian forces” really? A country with 5.5 million people would “crush” a country of 147 million? How did he even write such a stupid tweet without dying of embarrassment?

More anti-German drivel:

In the West, we don’t have analysis. We just have malicious lies and propaganda.

Andrei Martyonav said it best:

The answer to this is very simple: apart from being a paid shill for Banderite (crypto-Nazi) lobby in the US, Ben Hodges is butt-hurt with the needle of his “soul” (or complexes) protruding from his behind because he himself knows damn well that on the scale of military accomplishments he is nothing but a loser despite his senior general level officer paraphernalia. Ben Hodges never fought in defense of his country (as no American servicemen ever did starting from the times of America’s founding), he never achieved any tangible military-strategic success and he knows that the United States didn’t win any wars (except in Grenada) even against the third-rate opponents, never mind Russia who even in her disassembled state in 1990s could still wipe the United States off the map. Not to mention today, when Russia can do this conventionally against any combination of the forces in European theater. 

Ian Kummer

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