Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) warned against rising wokeness in the United States's armed forces, arguing the military's embrace of “left-wing nonsense” will threaten national security.

Rubio said the left-wing ideologies, such as critical race theory and gender transitioning, that continue to be espoused by the nation’s weakened military are a distraction from foreign policy issues in an op-ed published by the Washington Examiner on Tuesday.

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“Shining a light on the military’s left-wing excesses is essential. We need to push the Pentagon to refocus on protecting America from foreign threats and building a more lethal fighting force,” he wrote. “But over the past few months, the military has only become more ‘woke,’ even as threats on the global stage have grown more dangerous.”

Rubio cited the U.S. Navy’s use of a TikTok drag queen for recruitment as a recent example.

“The U.S. Navy has selected a TikTok drag queen to be a ‘digital ambassador.’ The move is supposedly designed to attract socially liberal recruits from Generation Z. But does anyone really think this type of advertising will motivate young people to sign up and serve? If anything, it will exacerbate the military’s recruitment crisis,” he said. “Appointing a drag queen digital ambassador is clearly nothing more than a kowtow to the Democratic Party’s activist base.”

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The Florida senator also wrote about legislation he introduced with Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) that aims to forbid anyone with gender dysphoria from becoming a service member, though with some exceptions.

“I have no wish to defame America’s military service members or diplomats. I know that both the armed forces and the State Department are filled with genuine patriots,” Rubio wrote. “But if we want them to stay that way, we cannot ignore the threat posed by left-wing ideologues in positions of leadership. When ‘wokeness’ co-opts national institutions, it does more than spread the creeds of Pride and CRT — it also distracts those institutions from their essential purpose.”