There are few political ads that are more famous than Ronald Reagan’s “It’s Morning Again in America.” These sixty seconds showcased America on the rise and inspired the hope and optimism that led to Reagan’s landslide reelection victory in 1984.
Your post touched me deeply. In 1962, I was a 9-year-old little boy who was doing the “duck and cover” drill in Sister Bridget Mary’s class, who went home to see National Guardsmen marching down our Miami neighborhood full of Cuban refugees who had just escaped Castro’s takeover of their country. I was also the 64-year-old man who was calling his wife, from Maui where I live, to say my final goodbye, when my car and phone were alerting me that a nuclear bomb was heading to Hawaii and this was “not a drill” like what I remembered from my childhood. Tulsi, your historical lesson is spot on. As someone who served in the Army, in Europe, during the very height of the Cold War in the 1970s, I can remember how close we were to war with the Soviet Union at that time. We used to take potshots at the Russian soldiers, over the border, when we were on military maneuvers in West Germany. My children’s lives, and their children’s lives, have never been more threatened than right now. If this country doesn’t do a complete 180 in these next two elections, this country is doomed. Take it from a man who has lived long enough to know that as a fact, not someone who simply adheres to one of our two self-destructive political parties. Tulsi, you know this, which is why you dumped the Democratic Party. Even though that party was respectable back in the days when my parents voted for Kennedy, it is absolutely destroying everything of moral value in America today, and our feckless President doesn’t even know what planet he’s on. This is not just a political rant. It is as stark a warning as I have ever given, one as real as when I ducked and covered under my desk as a 9-year-old boy.
Thanks so much for sharing your experience and how you have been impacted throughout different phases in your life. You understand the seriousness of the situation we face more than most. It's hard to fathom for so many people. So much changed for me because of what we went through in Hawaii on January 2018. It's what ultimately motivated me to run for President.
Wait a minute here. I was an almost seventeen-year-old high school senior in October 1962 and went in the Air Force and served 12 years starting the following July. I don't remember everyone being worried about nuclear war so much as concern of a long-term war. (We didn't know JFK had already involved us in a proxy war in Southeast Asia, in which I would be heavily involved for much of the late sixties.) I was on flying status and went all over the world and also spent time on alert with nuclear weapons. The 1970s were NOT "the height of the Cold War." President Nixon had brokered detente with the USSR and also China and the threat had turned to terrorism from Muslim states. Remember what happened in Munich?
In ‘72, when I was stationed in West Germany, we were seeing the birth of terrorism both locally (the Baader-Meinhof Gang) and from abroad (the Palestinian attack at the Olympics in Munich). One time, two of the female members of the B-M Gang tried, unsuccessfully, to enter my base. In September, me and two of my Army buddies went to the Olympics, and were just leaving town, when we saw on television that terrorists had taken the Israeli Olympians hostage. So, I totally agree that a new global threat was entering the scene at that time. But, make no mistake, those of us in NATO were never so naïve as to think that our mission was anything less than just trying to slow down a Russian tank invasion of Europe, while the real fireworks were going to be flying back and forth over our heads between the US and the Soviet Union. Today, we not only have to worry about the overt threats, by Putin, of using nuclear weapons, but we have a new Iranian nuclear threat to face - and we need to face both of those threats seriously.
I was a six year old in Miami and the stupid jingle remains vivid all these years later. When I watched the imbecilic PBA that was running in New York, if we were living in a normal universe versus a parallel universe, I’d be doubled over laughing at an SNL skit.
Amazing insight, Tulsi. I find myself often frustrated with our media who continue to fail younger Americans. Today’s generation, for the most part, are completely unaware of what’s really going on with Russia/Ukraine and the dangerous threat of nuclear war that we’re currently facing. If you dare mention it, then our society automatically dismisses it as something that only happens in Hollywood.
Grateful for your leadership and willingness to bring this to the forefront of discussion in America. Most likely, with many of the Biden administration’s policies already in effect, difficult days are ahead, but this is an issue where we still have one exit ramp left before disaster. I sincerely hope and pray that your willingness to bring this real threat into the conversation will inform and empower Americans to vote for change and peace in November.
I pray there is still time. It's why I'm continuing to sound the alarm on this. It's not too late. But I'm concerned that the longer this goes on, we might get to that point of no return.
Exactly. I hear so many Americans say that they don’t keep up with world events because it’s “depressing”, and I do get that, but I’d much rather be aware of what’s coming and do my best to prepare (if possible) rather than something happen and be taken by surprise.
Tulsi, you’ve become an overnight phenom.I like the candidates you’re campaigning with. Check out Laverne Spicer. She’s an outsider, anti-war, minority and can win with your help.
My personal goal is to remake the GOP. The system is so damned locked in, it’s impossible to forge a third party . But creating a new Republican Party is achievableModern. Younger, energetic and purged. Both parties are terrified of you, but the good players and the voters spanning the spectrum love you.. A hostile takeover(😂) if need be with a creative new platform. Broader.
Please, PLEASE expose Biden’s Transhumanist Executive Order! NATO, the US, UN , Brussels and the globalist technoklepto corporate multinational monopoly are the enemy and it isn’t Putin trying to recreate the Soviet Union. It’s all the aforementioned. The Great Rest aka Build Back Better aka Brave New World is the new, expanded CommunoFascist USSR global, borderless, microchipped, souless end of human individualism and free will. This MUST be stopped!
If you are a married man and have not yet learned that the words "you shouldn't be upset" are a guarantor of continuing marital conflict then you are a fool. The Russians lost 20 million people in World War II. We Americans did not. There are Russians alive today who survived Stalingrad. You may say to such a people "you should not feel threatened when our alliance expands to your doorstep in contravention of our promises" but if you expect a peaceful relationship to follow then you are a fool. We do not need to excuse Putin's monstrous and violent crimes to admit our own contribution to the unfolding disaster.
The last sentence of your post sums it up well. There is this crazy false equivalence that the warmongers and media in Washington are pushing. That if you stand up and say "no nuclear war", somehow you become a Putin apologist. This is what is making this situation even more dangerous - I talk about it in on my latest podcast episode with Jeffrey Sachs. Because the power elite are suppressing any dialogue or debate on this, they are pushing us rapidly over the nuclear precipice.
Bless you for your kind words. You have your finger on the pulse of our nation like very few do. I wish you the very best as you forge ahead to lead our nation however you called to do so. You have my complete support and respect.
Vladimir Putin invited president Biden for a public conversation. Biden never replied. Now we have war. Putin pleaded, "I want to offer President Biden that we continue our discussion, but on the condition that we do it live, online, without any delays," reported by US News & Reuters 3/18/21. The Russian Youtube is now blocked. Video of Putin speaking these words is easily found at my Stanford University office website.
I expect nothing less from this totally incompetent administration. Biden and his handlers (BHO-dumbass, Soros, et al) are all to blame for our current condition.
Like him or hate him, Putin respected President Trump and we would NOT be in this position had he been actually elected.
Vladimir Putin invited president Biden for a public conversation. Biden never replied. Now we have war. Putin pleaded, "I want to offer President Biden that we continue our discussion, but on the condition that we do it live, online, without any delays," reported by US News & Reuters 3/18/21. The Russian Youtube is now blocked. Video of Putin speaking these words is easily found at my Stanford University office website sep.stanford.edu/sep/jon/putin.html
First, thank you for your service and your courageous effort to make sense of these events. Please allow me to add more dimensions to this discussion.
I notice there is no mention of the World Economic Forum, yet it is on record as wanting and acting to fundamentally alter human life on Earth, such as via “The Great Reset.” An idea is going around that the WEF is fighting to the last drop of Ukrainian blood to break Russia, which it sees as one of the nations it can’t yet control. That idea also includes wanting to break America’s power to influence events.
I notice your apparently approving references to Jeffrey Sachs and the UN, yet they also take a globalist stance that wants to rope in America, while some in that camp want to break America too. Further, “sustainable development” is a euphemism for sharply reducing living standards around the world. People in that camp are on record as thinking the Earth can sustainably support only 20% of the current population. What are they going to do with, or to, the other 6+ billion people?
I also notice you make no mention of the fastest, surest, safest, and best way to end the war in Ukraine: Reverse the effort to throttle American fossil-fuel and nuclear energy production, which would dramatically lower the price of oil and natural gas, bankrupt Putin’s war effort, seriously reduce American and world inflation, cause the Fed to lighten up on interest rates and thereby avoid or ameliorate the severe recession that will come with much higher interest rates (or avoid or ameliorate a renewed and worse inflation if the Fed prematurely ends its efforts to stem inflation).
You say you were a Council on Foreign Relations member for a short time only during your time in Congress - which I assumed meant you (might) have researched the CFR and its origins from 1921
and realized the CFR's overarching goal was then (in 1921) and is NOW circa 2022, dedicated to One-World-Transnational-Government - ostensibly to end all war and have lasting peace and prosperity on earth. That premise sounds laudable except for the startling fact that the ONLY way to achieve that is via ALL sovereign nations to surrender their (national) sovereignty - and the sovereignty of INDIVIDUALS to the diktats of un-elected and un-accountable INTERNATIONAL nomenklatura and apparatchiks....of the so-called "United Nations".
FYI, Tulsi, one of the FOUNDERS of the CFR - was Dwight D. Eisenhower's Secretary of State - John Foster Dulles, who stated: "The Charter of the United Nations supersedes the United States Constitution"; and you may not know that the U.N. "Charter" was created during the FDR Administration (during WWII), by an obscure U.S. State department employee named Algier Hiss,
who just happened to be a Communist spy who was finally convicted and spent time in a federal prison for his treason. But before that conviction - Hiss was the 1st Secretary at the 1st meeting in San Francisco ( at the end of WWI ), of the UN's General Assembly.
Maybe you are not aware that the guy you 'sat down with' recently - Jeffrey D. Sachs is a CFR member? - As are Joe Biden, Susan Rice, John Kerry, Anthony Blinken, Alejandro Mayorkas, Bill, Hillary, Chelsea, George Soros, Jerome Powell, Janet Yellen just to name a few of the self-styled "elite" who are actively engaged in the final destruction of (what remains) of our Republic.
Have you READ any of Sachs books? He spins out the same globalist scenario same as other CFR members such as Henry Kissinger, Strobe Talbott, Richard Haass, and so many other CFR members have for way over a half century.
So, Tulsi, it seems you are still an enigma ( to me). You SOUND sincere, but WHAT are you trying to accomplish (politically)? The end of American independence and sovereignty ain't the way.
Have you thought of what WILL happen if the U.S. surrenders its sovereignty - and its very soil to
internationalist zealots who would de facto control the (global) means of production? Being "THEIR" aim is absolute (global) egalitarianism - social justice, equity and environmental justice,
universal RATIONING of energy and food - indeed ALL things relate to "life" on earth will be the fate of humankind - into perpetuity.
BTW, 60 + years ago at the start of the Cuban Missile "crisis", I was a Naval Air Reservist called to active duty.
The police state and the DC blob is a far greater threat to the freedom, safety and prosperity of the American people than any foreign country. We have to abandon the idea that we have the power, wisdom or moral authority to rule the world and dictate to other countries how they should behave. We are 30 trillion dollars in debt federally with trillions more saddling every level of state and local governments. Our manufacturing capacity has been decimated. Our schools are failing to educate our children, with proficiency rates in math and reading sinking lower every year. Our roads and bridges are crumbling, and almost half of all Americans have a net worth of zero. We need to get our act together - quickly - and abandon our dangerous, wasteful and immoral imperial ambitions before it is too late. Absent a drastic change in our national priorities we are in for a very bleak future, even without nuclear annihilation.
I have been reading how China is in a very bad way on a number of fronts—bad real estate, Belt and Road failures, ghost cities, drought, angry citizens who have lost all their money on apartments that will never be built—-maybe the covid lockdowns are for another reason.
Anyway, Xi has a lot of problems on his plate and the CCP tries to downplay everything, so it’s probably worse that we can know.
Tulsi, what do you think ends this? Obviously, if both sides come to the negotiating table in good faith, then neither will end up with everything that they want, but we avoid nuclear war. It seems that our insistence on being a mediator is resulting in further escalation and the Biden administration’s intentional provocation of Russia is meant to result in a direct conflict. Is the clock about to strike midnight or do you see diplomacy rising from the ashes at this crucial moment?
We desperately need diplomacy to rise at this moment. I don't have confidence in our leaders to lead that effort. It's why we need to continue to speak out and pressure them until they have no choice. Our future is at stake.
We are emphatically NOT behaving as a mediator. We are, in fact, fighting a proxy war with Russia now. It may be the least bad thing to do given the facts on the ground but it should not be confused with mediating the conflict.
Allow me to correct myself. Obviously, based on the situation on the ground and our involvement, we are not actual mediators, but we are portraying the role of mediators along with other nations. We do this while also continuing to supply arms and finances that intentionally provoke Russia into further aggression.
Tulsi, I was born in 1974. I vividly recall as a child of the Eighties the fear of nuclear war hanging over me like a sword. This fear was seared forever into my mind by an episode of the rebooted Twilight Zone show, where a woman found a necklace that stopped and started time for everyone but herself. She had fun with it for a while, but the final scene has her staring up at a Soviet nuclear missile hanging in the night sky like a demon from hell, frozen in time, with her neighbors time-stopped in terror-stricken poses. She could never activate the necklace again because everyone would die. The image of that missile haunted me for years. How grateful I was for Reagan and the end of the Cold War! So while I wasn't around during the Fifties and Sixties, I can attest to the slow motion horror of nuclear threat.
Having listened to the Sachs interview, couple comments/questions
First, I never imagined Jeff Sachs would sound like Tucker Carlson.
I am not convinced that defeating Russia (as tho’ that would be possible and a good thing) is the real, only goal for the democrats. There’s more here, and I would have liked to have heard more about what the real motivations are. More than stoking the M-I complex?
The smearing of people as Russian agents, Trump, Tulsi, et al, has been going on for a long time, as though the democrats were creating the spectre of Russia infiltrating America. Is that to deflect from China?
I would have liked to hear more about how Biden’s history with Ukraine factors in.
Why are Tulsi and Jeff so fearful that Putin will pull the trigger, but other serious sources, eg, Hoover Institute fellows, insist he’s bluffing?
Dear Tulsi:
Your post touched me deeply. In 1962, I was a 9-year-old little boy who was doing the “duck and cover” drill in Sister Bridget Mary’s class, who went home to see National Guardsmen marching down our Miami neighborhood full of Cuban refugees who had just escaped Castro’s takeover of their country. I was also the 64-year-old man who was calling his wife, from Maui where I live, to say my final goodbye, when my car and phone were alerting me that a nuclear bomb was heading to Hawaii and this was “not a drill” like what I remembered from my childhood. Tulsi, your historical lesson is spot on. As someone who served in the Army, in Europe, during the very height of the Cold War in the 1970s, I can remember how close we were to war with the Soviet Union at that time. We used to take potshots at the Russian soldiers, over the border, when we were on military maneuvers in West Germany. My children’s lives, and their children’s lives, have never been more threatened than right now. If this country doesn’t do a complete 180 in these next two elections, this country is doomed. Take it from a man who has lived long enough to know that as a fact, not someone who simply adheres to one of our two self-destructive political parties. Tulsi, you know this, which is why you dumped the Democratic Party. Even though that party was respectable back in the days when my parents voted for Kennedy, it is absolutely destroying everything of moral value in America today, and our feckless President doesn’t even know what planet he’s on. This is not just a political rant. It is as stark a warning as I have ever given, one as real as when I ducked and covered under my desk as a 9-year-old boy.
Keep up the good Tulsi. God bless you.
Robert,
Thanks so much for sharing your experience and how you have been impacted throughout different phases in your life. You understand the seriousness of the situation we face more than most. It's hard to fathom for so many people. So much changed for me because of what we went through in Hawaii on January 2018. It's what ultimately motivated me to run for President.
Best wishes to you and your loved ones. Aloha!
Wait a minute here. I was an almost seventeen-year-old high school senior in October 1962 and went in the Air Force and served 12 years starting the following July. I don't remember everyone being worried about nuclear war so much as concern of a long-term war. (We didn't know JFK had already involved us in a proxy war in Southeast Asia, in which I would be heavily involved for much of the late sixties.) I was on flying status and went all over the world and also spent time on alert with nuclear weapons. The 1970s were NOT "the height of the Cold War." President Nixon had brokered detente with the USSR and also China and the threat had turned to terrorism from Muslim states. Remember what happened in Munich?
In ‘72, when I was stationed in West Germany, we were seeing the birth of terrorism both locally (the Baader-Meinhof Gang) and from abroad (the Palestinian attack at the Olympics in Munich). One time, two of the female members of the B-M Gang tried, unsuccessfully, to enter my base. In September, me and two of my Army buddies went to the Olympics, and were just leaving town, when we saw on television that terrorists had taken the Israeli Olympians hostage. So, I totally agree that a new global threat was entering the scene at that time. But, make no mistake, those of us in NATO were never so naïve as to think that our mission was anything less than just trying to slow down a Russian tank invasion of Europe, while the real fireworks were going to be flying back and forth over our heads between the US and the Soviet Union. Today, we not only have to worry about the overt threats, by Putin, of using nuclear weapons, but we have a new Iranian nuclear threat to face - and we need to face both of those threats seriously.
Olympic kidnappings.
dittos. aaaaand I was born in 1962. be well, we'll get old, don't worry. be well.
I was a six year old in Miami and the stupid jingle remains vivid all these years later. When I watched the imbecilic PBA that was running in New York, if we were living in a normal universe versus a parallel universe, I’d be doubled over laughing at an SNL skit.
Burt the Turtle.
Amazing insight, Tulsi. I find myself often frustrated with our media who continue to fail younger Americans. Today’s generation, for the most part, are completely unaware of what’s really going on with Russia/Ukraine and the dangerous threat of nuclear war that we’re currently facing. If you dare mention it, then our society automatically dismisses it as something that only happens in Hollywood.
Grateful for your leadership and willingness to bring this to the forefront of discussion in America. Most likely, with many of the Biden administration’s policies already in effect, difficult days are ahead, but this is an issue where we still have one exit ramp left before disaster. I sincerely hope and pray that your willingness to bring this real threat into the conversation will inform and empower Americans to vote for change and peace in November.
I pray there is still time. It's why I'm continuing to sound the alarm on this. It's not too late. But I'm concerned that the longer this goes on, we might get to that point of no return.
I’m seriously concerned that we’ll wake up one morning to a new, darker world. Keep fighting, Tulsi!
Many if not most Americans seem oblivious to the historical context this crisis ( even just the last 8 years ), and history in general.
Exactly. I hear so many Americans say that they don’t keep up with world events because it’s “depressing”, and I do get that, but I’d much rather be aware of what’s coming and do my best to prepare (if possible) rather than something happen and be taken by surprise.
Saw the news, great to see. Kari Lake is one of the best this cycle. https://justthenews.com/politics-policy/tulsi-gabbard-campaign-gops-kari-lake-arizona
Absolutely!
Tulsi, you’ve become an overnight phenom.I like the candidates you’re campaigning with. Check out Laverne Spicer. She’s an outsider, anti-war, minority and can win with your help.
My personal goal is to remake the GOP. The system is so damned locked in, it’s impossible to forge a third party . But creating a new Republican Party is achievableModern. Younger, energetic and purged. Both parties are terrified of you, but the good players and the voters spanning the spectrum love you.. A hostile takeover(😂) if need be with a creative new platform. Broader.
Please, PLEASE expose Biden’s Transhumanist Executive Order! NATO, the US, UN , Brussels and the globalist technoklepto corporate multinational monopoly are the enemy and it isn’t Putin trying to recreate the Soviet Union. It’s all the aforementioned. The Great Rest aka Build Back Better aka Brave New World is the new, expanded CommunoFascist USSR global, borderless, microchipped, souless end of human individualism and free will. This MUST be stopped!
Lyndon Johnson’s “Daisy” campaign ad seems ever appropriate today.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=riDypP1KfOU
Thank you for bringing sanity to the madness of our current foreign policy discussions.
No one “wins” a nuclear war.
If you are a married man and have not yet learned that the words "you shouldn't be upset" are a guarantor of continuing marital conflict then you are a fool. The Russians lost 20 million people in World War II. We Americans did not. There are Russians alive today who survived Stalingrad. You may say to such a people "you should not feel threatened when our alliance expands to your doorstep in contravention of our promises" but if you expect a peaceful relationship to follow then you are a fool. We do not need to excuse Putin's monstrous and violent crimes to admit our own contribution to the unfolding disaster.
The last sentence of your post sums it up well. There is this crazy false equivalence that the warmongers and media in Washington are pushing. That if you stand up and say "no nuclear war", somehow you become a Putin apologist. This is what is making this situation even more dangerous - I talk about it in on my latest podcast episode with Jeffrey Sachs. Because the power elite are suppressing any dialogue or debate on this, they are pushing us rapidly over the nuclear precipice.
They have no real argument with the content of what you say so they default to ad hominem attacks. It’s pathetic really.
Tulsi,
Bless you for your kind words. You have your finger on the pulse of our nation like very few do. I wish you the very best as you forge ahead to lead our nation however you called to do so. You have my complete support and respect.
Warmest aloha to you and yours.
Robert
Vladimir Putin invited president Biden for a public conversation. Biden never replied. Now we have war. Putin pleaded, "I want to offer President Biden that we continue our discussion, but on the condition that we do it live, online, without any delays," reported by US News & Reuters 3/18/21. The Russian Youtube is now blocked. Video of Putin speaking these words is easily found at my Stanford University office website.
I expect nothing less from this totally incompetent administration. Biden and his handlers (BHO-dumbass, Soros, et al) are all to blame for our current condition.
Like him or hate him, Putin respected President Trump and we would NOT be in this position had he been actually elected.
Vladimir Putin invited president Biden for a public conversation. Biden never replied. Now we have war. Putin pleaded, "I want to offer President Biden that we continue our discussion, but on the condition that we do it live, online, without any delays," reported by US News & Reuters 3/18/21. The Russian Youtube is now blocked. Video of Putin speaking these words is easily found at my Stanford University office website sep.stanford.edu/sep/jon/putin.html
Gabbard Shellenberger 2024
First, thank you for your service and your courageous effort to make sense of these events. Please allow me to add more dimensions to this discussion.
I notice there is no mention of the World Economic Forum, yet it is on record as wanting and acting to fundamentally alter human life on Earth, such as via “The Great Reset.” An idea is going around that the WEF is fighting to the last drop of Ukrainian blood to break Russia, which it sees as one of the nations it can’t yet control. That idea also includes wanting to break America’s power to influence events.
I notice your apparently approving references to Jeffrey Sachs and the UN, yet they also take a globalist stance that wants to rope in America, while some in that camp want to break America too. Further, “sustainable development” is a euphemism for sharply reducing living standards around the world. People in that camp are on record as thinking the Earth can sustainably support only 20% of the current population. What are they going to do with, or to, the other 6+ billion people?
I also notice you make no mention of the fastest, surest, safest, and best way to end the war in Ukraine: Reverse the effort to throttle American fossil-fuel and nuclear energy production, which would dramatically lower the price of oil and natural gas, bankrupt Putin’s war effort, seriously reduce American and world inflation, cause the Fed to lighten up on interest rates and thereby avoid or ameliorate the severe recession that will come with much higher interest rates (or avoid or ameliorate a renewed and worse inflation if the Fed prematurely ends its efforts to stem inflation).
Again, Thanks for your efforts.
Tulsi?
You say you were a Council on Foreign Relations member for a short time only during your time in Congress - which I assumed meant you (might) have researched the CFR and its origins from 1921
and realized the CFR's overarching goal was then (in 1921) and is NOW circa 2022, dedicated to One-World-Transnational-Government - ostensibly to end all war and have lasting peace and prosperity on earth. That premise sounds laudable except for the startling fact that the ONLY way to achieve that is via ALL sovereign nations to surrender their (national) sovereignty - and the sovereignty of INDIVIDUALS to the diktats of un-elected and un-accountable INTERNATIONAL nomenklatura and apparatchiks....of the so-called "United Nations".
FYI, Tulsi, one of the FOUNDERS of the CFR - was Dwight D. Eisenhower's Secretary of State - John Foster Dulles, who stated: "The Charter of the United Nations supersedes the United States Constitution"; and you may not know that the U.N. "Charter" was created during the FDR Administration (during WWII), by an obscure U.S. State department employee named Algier Hiss,
who just happened to be a Communist spy who was finally convicted and spent time in a federal prison for his treason. But before that conviction - Hiss was the 1st Secretary at the 1st meeting in San Francisco ( at the end of WWI ), of the UN's General Assembly.
Maybe you are not aware that the guy you 'sat down with' recently - Jeffrey D. Sachs is a CFR member? - As are Joe Biden, Susan Rice, John Kerry, Anthony Blinken, Alejandro Mayorkas, Bill, Hillary, Chelsea, George Soros, Jerome Powell, Janet Yellen just to name a few of the self-styled "elite" who are actively engaged in the final destruction of (what remains) of our Republic.
Have you READ any of Sachs books? He spins out the same globalist scenario same as other CFR members such as Henry Kissinger, Strobe Talbott, Richard Haass, and so many other CFR members have for way over a half century.
So, Tulsi, it seems you are still an enigma ( to me). You SOUND sincere, but WHAT are you trying to accomplish (politically)? The end of American independence and sovereignty ain't the way.
Have you thought of what WILL happen if the U.S. surrenders its sovereignty - and its very soil to
internationalist zealots who would de facto control the (global) means of production? Being "THEIR" aim is absolute (global) egalitarianism - social justice, equity and environmental justice,
universal RATIONING of energy and food - indeed ALL things relate to "life" on earth will be the fate of humankind - into perpetuity.
BTW, 60 + years ago at the start of the Cuban Missile "crisis", I was a Naval Air Reservist called to active duty.
The Dulles brothers. We’re still paying for their horrible decisions. The blowback isn’t close to over.
Why do the warhawks need Putin as the boogeyman? To take the attention away from Xi?
I see Xi as a much greater threat than Putin.
The police state and the DC blob is a far greater threat to the freedom, safety and prosperity of the American people than any foreign country. We have to abandon the idea that we have the power, wisdom or moral authority to rule the world and dictate to other countries how they should behave. We are 30 trillion dollars in debt federally with trillions more saddling every level of state and local governments. Our manufacturing capacity has been decimated. Our schools are failing to educate our children, with proficiency rates in math and reading sinking lower every year. Our roads and bridges are crumbling, and almost half of all Americans have a net worth of zero. We need to get our act together - quickly - and abandon our dangerous, wasteful and immoral imperial ambitions before it is too late. Absent a drastic change in our national priorities we are in for a very bleak future, even without nuclear annihilation.
This guy gets it.
They want him out and replaced with a puppet to expand their Brave New World
Read "100 Year Marathon" by Michael Pillbury. THAT will open your eyes!!
China IS the highest existential threat.
I am the highest existential threat. TRUTH. That is what scares criminals the most.
israel, not china. marx is a jew.
Marx was a practicing Christian. He was genetically Jewish.
I have been reading how China is in a very bad way on a number of fronts—bad real estate, Belt and Road failures, ghost cities, drought, angry citizens who have lost all their money on apartments that will never be built—-maybe the covid lockdowns are for another reason.
Anyway, Xi has a lot of problems on his plate and the CCP tries to downplay everything, so it’s probably worse that we can know.
seems there is always "US and THEM".
Tulsi, what do you think ends this? Obviously, if both sides come to the negotiating table in good faith, then neither will end up with everything that they want, but we avoid nuclear war. It seems that our insistence on being a mediator is resulting in further escalation and the Biden administration’s intentional provocation of Russia is meant to result in a direct conflict. Is the clock about to strike midnight or do you see diplomacy rising from the ashes at this crucial moment?
We desperately need diplomacy to rise at this moment. I don't have confidence in our leaders to lead that effort. It's why we need to continue to speak out and pressure them until they have no choice. Our future is at stake.
We are emphatically NOT behaving as a mediator. We are, in fact, fighting a proxy war with Russia now. It may be the least bad thing to do given the facts on the ground but it should not be confused with mediating the conflict.
Allow me to correct myself. Obviously, based on the situation on the ground and our involvement, we are not actual mediators, but we are portraying the role of mediators along with other nations. We do this while also continuing to supply arms and finances that intentionally provoke Russia into further aggression.
Tulsi, I was born in 1974. I vividly recall as a child of the Eighties the fear of nuclear war hanging over me like a sword. This fear was seared forever into my mind by an episode of the rebooted Twilight Zone show, where a woman found a necklace that stopped and started time for everyone but herself. She had fun with it for a while, but the final scene has her staring up at a Soviet nuclear missile hanging in the night sky like a demon from hell, frozen in time, with her neighbors time-stopped in terror-stricken poses. She could never activate the necklace again because everyone would die. The image of that missile haunted me for years. How grateful I was for Reagan and the end of the Cold War! So while I wasn't around during the Fifties and Sixties, I can attest to the slow motion horror of nuclear threat.
Having listened to the Sachs interview, couple comments/questions
First, I never imagined Jeff Sachs would sound like Tucker Carlson.
I am not convinced that defeating Russia (as tho’ that would be possible and a good thing) is the real, only goal for the democrats. There’s more here, and I would have liked to have heard more about what the real motivations are. More than stoking the M-I complex?
The smearing of people as Russian agents, Trump, Tulsi, et al, has been going on for a long time, as though the democrats were creating the spectre of Russia infiltrating America. Is that to deflect from China?
I would have liked to hear more about how Biden’s history with Ukraine factors in.
Why are Tulsi and Jeff so fearful that Putin will pull the trigger, but other serious sources, eg, Hoover Institute fellows, insist he’s bluffing?
thanks