Former Democratic presidential pre-candidate Tulsi Gabbard is using the flurry of political attention generated by her announcement that she has walked out of the Democratic Party, to raise the alarm bells on those two strategic points.
In her Oct. 11 appearance on the Joe Rogan Experience, hosted by podcaster and comedian Joe Rogan, whose podcasts average about 11 million viewers per episode, Gabbard focused on the imminent danger of nuclear war with Russia, which she argued is not provoked by Vladimir Putin, but by the United States and some European nations in NATO that are using the Ukrainian military and people as ‘chess pieces’ with the aim of regime change in Russia. The military-industrial complex is happy to send all those weapons to Ukraine, but, she asked, “if we vote to send these billions of dollars to Ukraine, is that strengthening our national security or undermining it?”
Gabbard, who is a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, charged: “What we’re seeing now is essentially a proxy war. The U.S. is engaging in a proxy war with Russia using Ukraine essentially as their military.” U.S. leaders pushing to prolong the Ukraine war have “put us in the most dangerous position we, the American people, and the world have ever been in, in that a nuclear war could break out in a week.”
She dismissed the idea that nuclear war could be limited: “Whether they’re tactical or strategic nukes, it doesn’t matter, there is no way to win this. That would spark a nuclear war, World War III, and the result of that is the destruction of the world as we know it…. People need to know that this is the reality we are facing. Our leaders have pushed us and led us to the brink of nuclear war. They have their own bunkers and way to protect themselves. There is no shelter for the American people.”
Rogan and Gabbard discussed how Hawaiians discovered in 2018, when a “false” incoming missile alert was set off over the island, that “there’s no place where you can take your loved ones and your kids to be protected not only from the blast, but the fallout, the lack of food and water….” They both broadcast for viewers the absurd Public Service Announcement put out by New York City authorities in July, which told viewers they would be safe if they did three things in case of a nuclear attack: (1) Get inside. (2) Stay inside. (3) Stay tuned in. In outrage, the two demanded to know, stay tuned to what?
