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The Joe Rogan Experience.
So with things like funding the Ukraine war with Russia, please explain to
people what
that means and why we're sending so much money over to Ukraine.
So let's start with that.
Let's start with the military industrial complex.
What is it?
Who is it?
Is these massive defense corporations who make all these different weapons
systems
from the smallest to the most powerful nuclear weapons and missiles.
When we are at war, they make a lot of money.
When politicians, even if we're not at war, but are threatening that we may go
to war,
they make a lot of money.
And these decisions are not made within the context of, "Hey, what does our
military
actually need?
What do we need to ensure that our military is ready to defend our country and
our national
security interests?"
It is very often what members of Congress are advocating for, even more than
the military
is asking for sometimes.
Because of those cozy relationships with the military industrial complex, with
these massive
defense contractors and their lobbyists.
So there's a direct correlation as the money is changing hands there.
The problem is not with the Democratic Party, the Republican Party.
On this issue, when you see this so much divisiveness on tons of other issues
facing our country,
everything from infrastructure to education, all these other things, you see
like, "Oh my
gosh, Democrats and Republicans can't agree on anything."
This issue of putting our country in a continual state of war is supported by
leaders in both
parties and the majority of people in both parties.
And it's directly tied to the military industrial complex's influence and tied
to people who want
to act and look tough, but aren't asking the most important questions like, "Okay,
if we
do this, will this help the American people or hurt the American people?"
"If we vote to, you know, send these billions of dollars to Ukraine, is that
strengthening our
national security or undermining it?"
"You'll hear a lot of rhetoric, especially recently, saying, 'Hey, if we've got
to send all this
money to Ukraine, otherwise Russia's going to come and attack us here.
Otherwise, our national security will be undermined.'"
So they say all these things to foment fear in people's minds, but they're not
rooted in reality.
So what we're seeing play out now is essentially a proxy war.
U.S. is engaging in a proxy war with Russia using Ukraine as their military.
So the U.S. and some European countries, predominantly the U.S., though, are
providing billions of
dollars in funding, weapons systems, and so forth, and essentially waging this
war using
the Ukrainian military and people as their chess pieces in this geopolitical
chess game.
The ultimate objective being regime change with Russia.
We can see years before, obviously, Russia's invasion in Ukraine, this anti-Russia
sentiment
has been building up by the permanent Washington establishment and laying the
groundwork.
And this was the opportunity that they saw.
It's put us in the most dangerous position we, the American people, and the
world has ever
been in, in that a nuclear war could break out in a week, in 30 days.
We are staring over the precipice of that nuclear brink now more than ever
before.
We're hearing language coming from Putin, from Medvedev, from different Russian
nationalist
leaders saying, "No, Putin, you should go and use those nuclear weapons."
Whether they're the tactical nukes or the strategic nukes, it doesn't matter.
There is no way to win this.
That would spark a nuclear war.
It would spark World War III.
And the result of that is destruction of the world.
It is destruction of the world as we know it.
And, you know, I hate to paint such a bleak picture, but this is, people need
to know that
this is the reality that we're facing.
That our leaders have pushed us and led us to this brink of nuclear war.
They have their own bunkers and ways to protect themselves.
There is no shelter for the American people.
I think it was last time I was here, I talked to you about the, you know, the
nuclear scare
that we had in Hawaii and how, you know, this message went out to everybody
saying, "Hey,
missile incoming, you know, seek shelter immediately.
This is not a drill."
What everybody found out immediately is there is no shelter.
There is no shelter.
There's no place to go.
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 and the lack of food and water and everything
else that
comes after.
New York City recently put out a PSA, I don't know if you saw it, but it is
literally a video
ad that they put out saying, "Hey, here's what you do in the event of a nuclear
explosion.
Why are they putting this out now?
Because of where we are as a country.
The problem is, as it shows in this video, their advice to the people of New
York City
is get inside, stay inside, and stay tuned."
That's it.
Stay tuned to what?
The radio, I guess.
I mean, what is even going to be available?
That's my point.
That is exactly my point.
There will be no power.
There will be no infrastructure.
There will be no, you know, you see what's happening in Florida right now.
With the recovery efforts after this hurricane just swept through and demolished
it.
You think about that and multiply that by like, I don't know, 50,000 times the
devastation
is what we would see.
But we wouldn't have FEMA.
We wouldn't have these first responders who are able to actually go out and
help people.
And the worst thing, man, the worst thing I said, when I watched that PSA, "Get
inside,
stay inside, stay tuned."
At the end, I'm assuming as an actor they hired to do this, she looks in the
camera and she's
like, "You got this, New York."
Like what in the world, these people are creating this false sense of security
for the American
people saying like, "Oh yeah, take shelter."
But there is no shelter.
We should watch that because it's so crazy.
It is insane.
We should, let's watch that because it's, it's...
So there's been a nuclear attack.
Don't ask me how or why.
Just know that the big one has hit.
Okay?
So, what do we do?
There are three important steps that I want you to remember.
Big smile.
Step one, get inside fast.
You, your friends, your family, get inside.
And no, staying in the car is not an option.
You need to get into a building and move away from the windows.
Look at her smiles.
I know.
Big smile.
Step two, stay inside.
Shut all doors and windows.
Have a basement?
Hide there.
If you don't have one, get as far into the middle of the building as possible.
If you were outside after the blast, get clean immediately.
Remove and bag all outer clothing to keep radioactive dust or ash away from
your body.
Step three, stay tuned.
Follow media for more information.
Don't forget to sign up for Notify NYC for official alerts and updates.
And don't go outside until officials say it's safe.
All right?
You've got this.
You've got officials like who?
Rashida Talib?
Yeah.
She's going to tell you?
Right.
Like, who's the officials?
People that they elected?
Who?
Who's going to tell you it's okay to go outside during a nuclear blast in the
United States,
something that's never happened ever and that we're completely woefully unprepared
for?
Yeah.
Exactly.
You've got this.
You've got this.
You've got this.
She's so pretty though.
With her big smile.
She's got a nice smile.
She's got a great smile.
That's probably why they hired her.
I think that's a good thing to put out there.
First of all, because what's the purpose of that?
Is that to reassure people?
What is the purpose of that?
Yeah.
It's not to inform people.
No.
Because none of what she said makes any sense.
No.
Oh, that's okay.
Right.
The outside's not good?
Just stay away from the window.
The middle's not going to be...
Because the radiation is not...
It just stays, but...
Yeah.
It doesn't move.
It's kind of like a fog machine.
Yeah.
You know?
It just doesn't get inside.
Like, what?
I was in...
I think it was after my second deployment.
When I came back from the Middle East, I went on a trip and did some travel
through
Eastern Europe and went and actually visited Chernobyl.
And it was astonishing to me even decades after that happened.
Because I was curious.
I'd heard about it and I was like, okay.
Went on this little bus and went out there.
They gave us these radiation monitors, these handheld radiation monitors, so
that wherever
we were, you know, you could kind of test and see where the radiation still
existed.
They're like, oh, you're going to see apple trees and things like that?
I don't eat any of the fruit because it's contaminated.
It is still contaminated decades later.
Walking through the middle of the town.
I know everyone's seen the pictures and obviously now with that Chernobyl
series.
I think that Netflix did.
More and more people know the story, but, you know, walking through like the
school and
the classrooms where the desks and the books and the kids' shoes and the deflated
basketballs,
everything is still there in the way that it was when people fled and had to
evacuate when
that nuclear plant melted down.
It was so eerie walking through there.
You could almost kind of feel the heaviness of what happened there.
And then as we were leaving after we left and were crossing back into Ukraine,
we had to
go through these, like before we got on the bus, we had to go through these
radiation, kind
of like the thing you walk through in TSA, except it tests for radiation to
make sure you're not actually
bringing any contaminants with you back into society.
All of that is to say, like, this is what we're talking about.
So you see that kind of video and you see how completely out of touch it is
with the reality
of what could happen in the event of a nuclear attack.
And the fact that, you know, Russia's got, what, over 6,000 nuclear warheads.
The United States has over 5,000 nuclear warheads.
Both countries making up 90% of the total number of nuclear warheads that exist
in the world.
And literally it would just take the flick of a match to spark this war off.
And that's where say, okay, well, you hear President Biden say, well, this is
Putin's war.
This is Putin's fault.
It's Putin who's the one who's solely responsible.
Well, the United States and some of these European NATO countries are fueling
this war
and need to provide the leadership to bring about a negotiated outcome.
That is exactly what needs to happen here to prevent the destruction of the
planet and life as we know it.
They're not doing that.
And in doing so, they are failing the American people and putting us in this
position of not knowing where we're going to be in the event that this kicks
off.
Do you think that whoever the powers that be and whatever the influence is from
the military industrial complex, that they are trying to prolong this in order
to profit?
So they're trying to continue to fund Ukraine.
This gives them an excellent reason to ramp up budgets and keep shipping over
weapons and arms.
They keep making more and more profit and just get us right to the point where
it gets squirrely.
Well, Putin won't do it.
He won't do it.
He won't do it.
But if he does it, there's no pulling back from that.
There's no pulling back from that.
There is no pulling back.
And the only reason why we would ever get to that point is because people are
trying to make more money.
That is certainly a major driver.
I have no doubt about that.
I am concerned that we may have passed that point already.
You're talking about people pushing us right up to the line and then just
saying, well, you know, the whole theory of nuclear weapons is one of mutually
assured destruction, right?
Like there's no way Putin will ever launch this because of that fear of like,
OK, well, we will all be destroyed if that happens.
And they're saying, you know, Putin is many things, but he's not crazy.
There's no way he's going to do this.
Well, they're talking about doing it.
They change their nuclear weapons policy so that according to their laws, they
would be authorized to use a nuclear weapon if they are facing any kind of
existential threat, whether it's coming from a nuclear source or not.
And and and you look at the situation that that Putin is in right now.
He's boxed into a corner.
He's lost face.
He he is he is in a place where he may feel like he has nothing else to lose.
And you you you find that same kind of mentality and people who are, you know,
suicidal or people who are bullied or people who feel like they're their best
option is is a way out.
And so to say to be so dismissive and say, well, you know, Putin's not crazy.
He's not going to he's not going to do this.
It it denies the reality of the position that he's in.
Thank you.

Tulsi Gabbard on Ukraine and the Military Industrial Complex

The Joe Rogan Experience.
So with things like funding the Ukraine war with Russia, please explain to
people what
that means and why we're sending so much money over to Ukraine.
So let's start with that.
Let's start with the military industrial complex.
What is it?
Who is it?
Is these massive defense corporations who make all these different weapons
systems
from the smallest to the most powerful nuclear weapons and missiles.
When we are at war, they make a lot of money.
When politicians, even if we're not at war, but are threatening that we may go
to war,
they make a lot of money.
And these decisions are not made within the context of, "Hey, what does our
military
actually need?
What do we need to ensure that our military is ready to defend our country and
our national
security interests?"
It is very often what members of Congress are advocating for, even more than
the military
is asking for sometimes.
Because of those cozy relationships with the military industrial complex, with
these massive
defense contractors and their lobbyists.
So there's a direct correlation as the money is changing hands there.
The problem is not with the Democratic Party, the Republican Party.
On this issue, when you see this so much divisiveness on tons of other issues
facing our country,
everything from infrastructure to education, all these other things, you see
like, "Oh my
gosh, Democrats and Republicans can't agree on anything."
This issue of putting our country in a continual state of war is supported by
leaders in both
parties and the majority of people in both parties.
And it's directly tied to the military industrial complex's influence and tied
to people who want
to act and look tough, but aren't asking the most important questions like, "Okay,
if we
do this, will this help the American people or hurt the American people?"
"If we vote to, you know, send these billions of dollars to Ukraine, is that
strengthening our
national security or undermining it?"
"You'll hear a lot of rhetoric, especially recently, saying, 'Hey, if we've got
to send all this
money to Ukraine, otherwise Russia's going to come and attack us here.
Otherwise, our national security will be undermined.'"
So they say all these things to foment fear in people's minds, but they're not
rooted in reality.
So what we're seeing play out now is essentially a proxy war.
U.S. is engaging in a proxy war with Russia using Ukraine as their military.
So the U.S. and some European countries, predominantly the U.S., though, are
providing billions of
dollars in funding, weapons systems, and so forth, and essentially waging this
war using
the Ukrainian military and people as their chess pieces in this geopolitical
chess game.
The ultimate objective being regime change with Russia.
We can see years before, obviously, Russia's invasion in Ukraine, this anti-Russia
sentiment
has been building up by the permanent Washington establishment and laying the
groundwork.
And this was the opportunity that they saw.
It's put us in the most dangerous position we, the American people, and the
world has ever
been in, in that a nuclear war could break out in a week, in 30 days.
We are staring over the precipice of that nuclear brink now more than ever
before.
We're hearing language coming from Putin, from Medvedev, from different Russian
nationalist
leaders saying, "No, Putin, you should go and use those nuclear weapons."
Whether they're the tactical nukes or the strategic nukes, it doesn't matter.
There is no way to win this.
That would spark a nuclear war.
It would spark World War III.
And the result of that is destruction of the world.
It is destruction of the world as we know it.
And, you know, I hate to paint such a bleak picture, but this is, people need
to know that
this is the reality that we're facing.
That our leaders have pushed us and led us to this brink of nuclear war.
They have their own bunkers and ways to protect themselves.
There is no shelter for the American people.
I think it was last time I was here, I talked to you about the, you know, the
nuclear scare
that we had in Hawaii and how, you know, this message went out to everybody
saying, "Hey,
missile incoming, you know, seek shelter immediately.
This is not a drill."
What everybody found out immediately is there is no shelter.
There is no shelter.
There's no place to go.
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 and the lack of food and water and everything
else that
comes after.
New York City recently put out a PSA, I don't know if you saw it, but it is
literally a video
ad that they put out saying, "Hey, here's what you do in the event of a nuclear
explosion.
Why are they putting this out now?
Because of where we are as a country.
The problem is, as it shows in this video, their advice to the people of New
York City
is get inside, stay inside, and stay tuned."
That's it.
Stay tuned to what?
The radio, I guess.
I mean, what is even going to be available?
That's my point.
That is exactly my point.
There will be no power.
There will be no infrastructure.
There will be no, you know, you see what's happening in Florida right now.
With the recovery efforts after this hurricane just swept through and demolished
it.
You think about that and multiply that by like, I don't know, 50,000 times the
devastation
is what we would see.
But we wouldn't have FEMA.
We wouldn't have these first responders who are able to actually go out and
help people.
And the worst thing, man, the worst thing I said, when I watched that PSA, "Get
inside,
stay inside, stay tuned."
At the end, I'm assuming as an actor they hired to do this, she looks in the
camera and she's
like, "You got this, New York."
Like what in the world, these people are creating this false sense of security
for the American
people saying like, "Oh yeah, take shelter."
But there is no shelter.
We should watch that because it's so crazy.
It is insane.
We should, let's watch that because it's, it's...
So there's been a nuclear attack.
Don't ask me how or why.
Just know that the big one has hit.
Okay?
So, what do we do?
There are three important steps that I want you to remember.
Big smile.
Step one, get inside fast.
You, your friends, your family, get inside.
And no, staying in the car is not an option.
You need to get into a building and move away from the windows.
Look at her smiles.
I know.
Big smile.
Step two, stay inside.
Shut all doors and windows.
Have a basement?
Hide there.
If you don't have one, get as far into the middle of the building as possible.
If you were outside after the blast, get clean immediately.
Remove and bag all outer clothing to keep radioactive dust or ash away from
your body.
Step three, stay tuned.
Follow media for more information.
Don't forget to sign up for Notify NYC for official alerts and updates.
And don't go outside until officials say it's safe.
All right?
You've got this.
You've got officials like who?
Rashida Talib?
Yeah.
She's going to tell you?
Right.
Like, who's the officials?
People that they elected?
Who?
Who's going to tell you it's okay to go outside during a nuclear blast in the
United States,
something that's never happened ever and that we're completely woefully unprepared
for?
Yeah.
Exactly.
You've got this.
You've got this.
You've got this.
She's so pretty though.
With her big smile.
She's got a nice smile.
She's got a great smile.
That's probably why they hired her.
I think that's a good thing to put out there.
First of all, because what's the purpose of that?
Is that to reassure people?
What is the purpose of that?
Yeah.
It's not to inform people.
No.
Because none of what she said makes any sense.
No.
Oh, that's okay.
Right.
The outside's not good?
Just stay away from the window.
The middle's not going to be...
Because the radiation is not...
It just stays, but...
Yeah.
It doesn't move.
It's kind of like a fog machine.
Yeah.
You know?
It just doesn't get inside.
Like, what?
I was in...
I think it was after my second deployment.
When I came back from the Middle East, I went on a trip and did some travel
through
Eastern Europe and went and actually visited Chernobyl.
And it was astonishing to me even decades after that happened.
Because I was curious.
I'd heard about it and I was like, okay.
Went on this little bus and went out there.
They gave us these radiation monitors, these handheld radiation monitors, so
that wherever
we were, you know, you could kind of test and see where the radiation still
existed.
They're like, oh, you're going to see apple trees and things like that?
I don't eat any of the fruit because it's contaminated.
It is still contaminated decades later.
Walking through the middle of the town.
I know everyone's seen the pictures and obviously now with that Chernobyl
series.
I think that Netflix did.
More and more people know the story, but, you know, walking through like the
school and
the classrooms where the desks and the books and the kids' shoes and the deflated
basketballs,
everything is still there in the way that it was when people fled and had to
evacuate when
that nuclear plant melted down.
It was so eerie walking through there.
You could almost kind of feel the heaviness of what happened there.
And then as we were leaving after we left and were crossing back into Ukraine,
we had to
go through these, like before we got on the bus, we had to go through these
radiation, kind
of like the thing you walk through in TSA, except it tests for radiation to
make sure you're not actually
bringing any contaminants with you back into society.
All of that is to say, like, this is what we're talking about.
So you see that kind of video and you see how completely out of touch it is
with the reality
of what could happen in the event of a nuclear attack.
And the fact that, you know, Russia's got, what, over 6,000 nuclear warheads.
The United States has over 5,000 nuclear warheads.
Both countries making up 90% of the total number of nuclear warheads that exist
in the world.
And literally it would just take the flick of a match to spark this war off.
And that's where say, okay, well, you hear President Biden say, well, this is
Putin's war.
This is Putin's fault.
It's Putin who's the one who's solely responsible.
Well, the United States and some of these European NATO countries are fueling
this war
and need to provide the leadership to bring about a negotiated outcome.
That is exactly what needs to happen here to prevent the destruction of the
planet and life as we know it.
They're not doing that.
And in doing so, they are failing the American people and putting us in this
position of not knowing where we're going to be in the event that this kicks
off.
Do you think that whoever the powers that be and whatever the influence is from
the military industrial complex, that they are trying to prolong this in order
to profit?
So they're trying to continue to fund Ukraine.
This gives them an excellent reason to ramp up budgets and keep shipping over
weapons and arms.
They keep making more and more profit and just get us right to the point where
it gets squirrely.
Well, Putin won't do it.
He won't do it.
He won't do it.
But if he does it, there's no pulling back from that.
There's no pulling back from that.
There is no pulling back.
And the only reason why we would ever get to that point is because people are
trying to make more money.
That is certainly a major driver.
I have no doubt about that.
I am concerned that we may have passed that point already.
You're talking about people pushing us right up to the line and then just
saying, well, you know, the whole theory of nuclear weapons is one of mutually
assured destruction, right?
Like there's no way Putin will ever launch this because of that fear of like,
OK, well, we will all be destroyed if that happens.
And they're saying, you know, Putin is many things, but he's not crazy.
There's no way he's going to do this.
Well, they're talking about doing it.
They ch