From Stars and Stripes:

Some US troops view Capitol riots, racial protests equally, worrying Pentagon leaders

During military training sessions to address extremism in the ranks, some service members have challenged why the Pentagon is not treating the violence during racial injustice protests last summer as equal to the deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol.

That the two events are viewed as equivalent by some troops has caught the Pentagon’s attention in its effort to educate service members that extremist views and activity — on either side of the political spectrum — go against the oath they took when they joined the military, the top enlisted leader told reporters on Thursday.

“This is coming from every echelon that we’re talking to,” said Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Ramón Colón-López. “Some people may think that, ‘all right, so the events of 6 January happened. How come you’re not looking at the situation that was going on in Seattle prior to that?'”

The military has started a Defense Department-wide effort to educate service members on what constitutes extremist behavior and why it is impermissible in the armed forces.

Based on the feedback from those sessions, “I am concerned about the way that some people are looking at the current environment, and what they are thinking they can do and act upon based on their personal beliefs,” Colón-López said.

When questions arose of why last summer’s racial injustice protests didn’t trigger a similar review of extremist views, tough conversations have followed, “to make sure that military members understand the difference between Seattle and Washington, D.C.,” Colón-López said.

“Those are very, very tough conversations to have with people because sometimes they’re emotional about the subject,” Colón-López said.

“We cannot confuse a First Amendment grievance because of social injustice organization and some of the criminals that latched on to go ahead and loot, destroy and commit other crimes. There’s two clear, distinct groups right there,” Colón-López said, referring to the difference between peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters and looters who disrupted some of those events.

The military is now officially forcing a narrative that the riots over the summer were peaceful and the January 6th riot was an insurrection that threatened the stability of the United States of America.

American troops cannot be allowed to see billions of dollars in damage done to American cities and come to their own conclusions about them.  They can only be allowed to think about that what the Democrats and the their Diversity and Inclusions Officers allow them to think.

I bet that would be especially difficult for the Guard troops that were activated over the summer during the riots, who witnessed the burning and looting of their home cities and states first hand.

It seems like what is troubling to the upper echelon of our military is that these troops are not buying the bullshit and are asking very inconvienent questions.

I don’t think it’s going far out on a limb to say that this is very Soviet in nature, having a propaganda officer explain to the troops what it is that they should think and report up the chain of command troops who question the official party line.

The bad news is that these troops will probably be rolled out of the military, either right away or they will be passed over for promotion or not given the opportunity to reenlist and rolled out passive aggressively.  This will weaken out defensive posture around the world.

The good news is that these troops will probably be rolled out of the military, so in the event that the military is turned against us, it will be considerably smaller and bereft of experienced combat troops.