"it's a sad State of Affairs when our some of the most influential voices in our country will label someone a uh a lover or supporter of dictators simply because you're saying hey we shouldn't be going..."

"gabard you've served in the US military for many years achieving rank of Lieutenant Colonel you were deployed in Iraq in 2004 and 5 Kuwait in 2008 and9 what lessons about life and about country have y..."

"that time were in lawn stool and Ramstein in Germany and then from there getting them to either uh Brook Army Medical Center which is here in Texas that specialized in Burn related injuries or to Walt..."

"KBR halberton one of the biggest defense Contracting companies then and I know that they are still very much in that business now uh Dick Cheney being connected with that company at one point or anoth..."

"500 bucks a month 500 bucks a month to go and do this work of of either you know cleaning out porta potties um picking up trash the dining facility doing laundry all of these different tasks because u..."

"go um and launch these regime change Wars and and send our men and women in uniform into war and and to what end ultimately if we can just go back to that list yeah so the list is just name and injury..."

"about what the soldiers had to go through physically and psychologically when when they get injured the physical um you know I mean some some injuries appeared to be minor upfront uh at that time trau..."

"together I mean I I had friends of mine who were from Hawaii who were from American Samoa very culturally tight-knit Community who confided in me throughout that you know year that we were there some ..."

"and again I served in a medical unit and what we saw was uh a Down Ward shift in um in casualties from the unit that had been there before us simply because of that that basic human connection that ou..."

"alive and well he warned us against it and I would say it's thriving more now uh than ever before how powerful is the military-industrial comp complex is as a thing is it a is it a machine that can be..."

"a highlevel uh beautiful ideal but there's uh messy details so terrorism for example yes the United States involvement in the war in Iraq and Afghanistan was in part the big umbrella of the war on ter..."

"get out and if you as as you look at things like the you know the Afghanistan files and others um the answers to these simple and essential questions shifted and changed over time over a very long tim..."

"though they are one of the main groups that provides funding to al-Qaeda in that entire region so any president or politician can declare a war to be over but when you have uh an enemy like these isla..."

"actually uh preventing their attack both militarily and as reing now with with hamas's actions not only directly in the assault on Israel but how they Hamas achieved their objectives in spreading thei..."

"that that we all want if we look at the perspective of Israel in the Israel Gaza war going on now what do you do with the fact that a the death of a civilian serves as a catalyst gives birth to hate p..."

"to let the past be in the past and find a way towards peace in the future how do you think how do you hope the war in Ukraine will end the only way that this war ends is is to do exactly what we're ta..."

"interests well some of it is basic human camaraderie like people call me naive for this but sometimes just knowing that there's a human on the other side even like when it's in private if you look at ..."

"outcast and uh it it was it was it was unfortunate because you know people people levied all kinds of accusations and and you know smears against me for going and and having the audacity to go and and..."

"conflicts you know with a comprehensive view on on exactly all the Dynamics that are that are at play and and that's what I found when I came back I I went looking for went to Syria looking forward to..."

"that the the US military industrial complex will feed into so you have to think about what the future holds and what the different Power Players are and what uh the level of corruption there is and so..."

"will rise again uh well let me ask you about the criticism you've mentioned uh of this probably the most common criticism of you that you love Putin so just to linger on it what's what do you think is..."

"new level what is the basis for this nothing it is it is a tired yet Dependable Playbook that is used not only by people like Hillary Clinton but also people like Mitt Romney and others to try to smea..."

"people obviously this has happened to Trump it's happened to Bobby Kennedy it's happened to people like Rand Paul and others there was a small group but a growing number um at least I'm on the Republi..."

"over the war in Ukraine it was strange to uh to watch that the Nuance aspect of the discussion was lost very quickly it was uh Putin bad right it was a war between good and evil right and in that if y..."

"Machinery of it how clueless everybody is combined with the Machinery of it it's just impossible to stop and it just between rushing that the United States especially and then all of a sudden you have..."

"war that um can be waged somehow without that risk of escalation to the point of destruction of human civilization and and so they talk about this as though it's just another war and especially as the..."

"military Target uh Ronald Reagan was 100% correct when he said you know a nuclear war cannot be won and should never be waged it was true then and it's true now no matter how much these guys who are p..."

"internet I think it was on the radio where you had a woman who appeared to be um an actor coming in and saying hey um in the event of when the big one hits here's what you should do focus on doing the..."

"kind of like here's what you do when a tornado hits or when a big storm hits and and categorizing the big one a nuclear attack within that same kind of preparedness that you would want people to have ..."

"near misses were there uh during during the last Cold War uh I saw this documentary called the man who saved the world and it was some like midlevel officer who happened to be on duty and who didn't d..."

"voting based on right in the current situation you really have to see that as one of the most important aspects I agree of the United States president is who do you trust in those six minutes to sit t..."

"the Machinery of warmongers that that's really I mean it's I don't want to make it sound cynical or dramatic but sometimes in such scary situations in such dramatic situations you kind of follow the m..."

"act when we should like that's that that's your job that's what we elect our leaders uh to do and yet so many so many have failed but to your to your point um it's not cynical at all to to know that i..."

"warmongering establishment in Washington and the cost of this um the cost of of their retaliation against those who are reasonable voices who look at the world as it is not some fantasy that they wish..."

"actually go through this exercise of in the military this this is commonly referred to as you know what are the second third fourth order of effects that will occur as a result of pursuing a specific ..."

"while still working within the institution it's easier if you're like an activist from the outside saying no war this kind of stuff but within the institution in the position of power to ask the quest..."

"what is behind it is is this is why they uh try to destroy anyone who dares to ask the most obvious questions uh is because it is about power and wielding power well the cool thing about United States..."

"position of the presidency certainly does unfortunately we have people too often who assume the presidency from a position of weakness because they're afraid of losing power sure and so they make thos..."

"this legislation being build as the anti- Tik Tock bill that's really um not about Tik Tok it's about freedom of speech can you actually explain that Bill yes this is another I guess the bottom line u..."

"power uh to a cabinet secretary to designate who is a foreign adversary and if a social media platform is uh has at least 20% uh ownership in a social media platform uh that platform may be banned fro..."

"that person obviously even an American citizen um is banned from conducting that business must they must divest essentially so when you look at and and this is where there's been a lot of chat around ..."

"allowing free speech on his platform and is not allowing the federal government to manipulate his platform by deeming which accounts are okay to to uh you know post their content and which accounts ar..."

"power it is I mean this doesn't it's not just with Elon it's probably with Zuck uh with W with with Facebook Instagram WhatsApp it puts pressure it's not just about banning but it puts pressure to for..."

"addicting so when I first saw this Tik Tok bill I was like yes not FR but then they got me the Trojan Horse got me no they all I mean they all and you know and this is like the social dilemma doent I ..."

"what it comes down to yeah more and more trust people to uh whenever social media companies do bullshitty things for the people to make documentaries about it to discover for great journalists to do g..."

"to try to find ways to tell us how to live our lives um they are increasingly trying to tell us uh again what we're allowed to to see and hear whether it be social media companies or what show shows u..."

"let's encourage this debate and and you know encourage people who are inspired by like no man I saw this thing or this thing is happening and it's pissing me off so I'm going to I'm going to I'm going..."

"this and had it supported do do you think uh what are the chances that the Tik Tok ban bill passes the way that it passed through the House of Representatives with such an overwhelming bipartisan supp..."

"non-interventionist um he he hasn't focused a lot on foreign policy uh it's not it's not at the heart of what his Focus has been for decades but but he was certainly far more of a non-interventionist ..."

"what I went on to do throughout the rest of that primary election what do you like most about Bernie the positive you know what I like most about him is is he is who he is yeah unapologetically so uh ..."

"and you an excellent book describing your journey ideologically philosophically through that why did you choose to leave the Democratic Party in the book I go into um a number of the central reasons w..."

"um controlled by this elitist cabal of War mongers who are driven uh who are driving forward this this quote unquote woke agenda um and we see it through their uh racializing of everything we see this..."

"the party that for so long Proclaim Proclaim themselves to be the greatest feminists and the most pro-woman party in the country I go into detail around each of these issues and more um in in the book..."

"so these are just different mechanisms for power the identity of politics and the warmongering are related to each other in that their mechanisms to attain more power yes you know you you're making it..."

"don't want to paint a picture of like this kind of beautiful vision of the Republican party that that they're somehow not power hungry yeah I'm I'm glad you I'm glad you brought this up you know the b..."

"the difference that we're seeing today is that unfortunately um we talked about this a little bit how the Democratic party has become a party where you must walk in lock step with the leadership of th..."

"the Republican party is is not a monolithic entity and you know it means different things to different people and that's where I think the real challenge in this next election is less um it's really l..."

"challenging question of pros and cons can you can you give me pros and cons of each what's the biggest strength and biggest limitation of let's say Biden um this is a tough this is a tough question I ..."

"weakness is that um instead of listening to his better Angels uh he has Instead at every turn if if you go back and you you know I I look back to his inauguration speech where he promised to be a pres..."

"people so the biggest criticism would be divide he divided us continueed the division that's been um that's been there who who do you be the greatest uniter like to me over the past few decades to me ..."

"I'll go into kind of the the next one you asked about Trump the weakness side and the lessons that I hope have been learned from 2016 for him and his team is you you have to be in a position where you..."

"strength side I think it's it's it's easy to point out because it's also what um has caused him to be so uh attacked in ways that we haven't seen before certainly not in my lifetime by uh by the Democ..."

"I just had a conversation with Dana White and he he's good friends with Trump and he talks to the fact that he seems to be resistant to the attacks is some aspect of that is just the psychology of bei..."

"you not become cynical or or uh overcompensate the other direction that kind of stuff it really stems from having a clear sense of purpose I never saw you know I I've served in state government I've s..."

"fulfillment and contentment and strength so you you've spoken about the value of religious faith in your life of your Hindu faith and seeing the Bava as a spiritual guide so what role does faith in Go..."

"God is to you like in in in the specifically the texts but also you personally what does he represent uh so for for Hinduism it's also God can be many there's also like a aspect where there's a it's i..."

"God tulsy this was an honor to finally meet you to talk to you this was amazing thank you thank you Lex it's so wonderful to be here thank you for the opportunity thanks for listening to this conversa..."