I think this is more of a case of them just feeling invincible.
Like how putin was sure he would roll over ukraine in a week. Only to later find out that his military is a paper tiger. Full of ghost divisions, ghost equipment, etc.
With communists in charge of the USA. they do what comes naturally, which is to hollow out any institute they can.
They are sure there is an infinite supply of loyal troops and that the USA army is invincible. So nothing stops them from fucking around.
Besides, they own the media. So "surely" they can memory hole it and make sure the active servicemen do not find out.
In any real conflict their bringing back the draft, and it will just be men who get drafted because feminists will come out in droves to keep women from fighting.
Of course the problem with said draft is that the same people who fucked about in the sandbox are still in control and have learned fuck all. And Gen Zs men have absolutely no buy in because the left fucking hates men and refuses to give them a bone or even show them basic respect and curtisy. It gets worse their baby boomers and people will instantly point that they dodged the draft when they were called in mass.
But the men will still be forced to fight lots and lots of people who have been treated like shit their entire lives, who have very few prospects in life and will most likely because of how fucked our society is never have a wife, children and a home because of how fucked things are and will then be given weapons and military training.......
If you don't see how that can go horribly wrong you haven't been paying attention. So the lefts response? Well look how they treated the vets of the 20 year conflict in the sandbox. Their going to double and even triple down on treating the vets of the next war like potential enemies.
which makes it more likely for them to become enemies.