Director of Nationwide Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard issued a stark warning about the specter of nuclear struggle in a video posted to her private account on X, marking a pointy distinction with previous feedback made by former President Donald Trump on the identical matter.
Gabbard, who lately visited Hiroshima, Japan, mirrored on the devastation attributable to the atomic bomb dropped throughout World Conflict II in a put up on Tuesday. Within the video, she warned that political elite and warmongers are fomenting worry and rigidity, pushing us nearer to “the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever earlier than.”
The three-minute video reveals Gabbard visiting a number of landmarks in Hiroshima. The video additionally describes intimately what a nuclear occasion might imply for the US — together with a simulation of a nuclear assault on San Francisco, California, which seems to destroy the Golden Gate Bridge.
Director of Nationwide Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard issued a stark warning about the specter of nuclear struggle in a video she posted on social media on Tuesday.
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Gabbard’s remarks had been much like earlier remarks she’s made on the marketing campaign path, nonetheless, the video was posted days after she traveled to the Shangri-La Dialogue, a serious Asian convention held in Singapore, earlier this month.
“This is not some made-up science fiction story. That is the fact of what is at stake, what we face now, as a result of as we stand right here as we speak, nearer to the brink of nuclear annihilation than ever earlier than, political elite and warmongers are carelessly fomenting worry and tensions between nuclear powers,” Gabbard stated within the video.
A part of the video simulates a nuclear assault on San Francisco, destroying the Golden Gate Bridge.
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“Maybe it is as a result of they’re assured that they’ll have entry to nuclear shelters for themselves and for his or her households that common individuals will not have entry to,” she added.
Gabbard known as on individuals to “converse up and demand an finish to this insanity.”
“We should reject this path to nuclear struggle and work towards a world the place nobody has to dwell in worry of a nuclear holocaust,” Gabbard stated.
Tulsi Gabbard, who lately visited Hiroshima, Japan, mirrored on the devastation attributable to the atomic bomb dropped throughout World Conflict II.
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Gabbard’s place is in sharp distinction to Trump’s earlier remarks on using nuclear weapons throughout WWII.
In 2016, whereas campaigning in San Diego, California, Trump criticized then-President Barack Obama for visiting Hiroshima, calling him “pathetic.” He added that he did not care that Obama visited, “simply so long as he would not apologize” for dropping the bomb: “Who cares.”
Extra lately, on Jan. 20, 2024, in Manchester, New Hampshire, Trump introduced up Hiroshima once more, this time to make a degree about presidential immunity: “Hiroshima, not precisely a pleasant act, nevertheless it did finish the second World Conflict, in all probability. Proper?”
Alexa Henning, Gabbard’s deputy chief of employees, informed ABC Information that Gabbard and the president align on their plans for peace and prevention of struggle.
“Acknowledging the previous is crucial to tell the longer term. President Trump has repeatedly acknowledged prior to now that he acknowledges the immeasurable struggling, and annihilation might be attributable to nuclear struggle, which is why he has been unequivocal that all of us have to do every part potential to work in direction of peace,” Henning stated in an announcement. “DNI Gabbard helps President Trump’s clearly acknowledged goals of bringing about lasting peace and stability and stopping struggle.”
Gabbard’s Tuesday remarks additionally echoed rhetoric from her time as a Democratic presidential candidate, when she warned about neoconservatives, neoliberals and Trump himself.
In 2019, Gabbard stated Trump “tore up the Iran nuclear settlement, and has taken motion since, step-by-step, to additional push us nearer and nearer to the brink of nuclear struggle, to the brink of struggle with Iran, that might be way more devastating than the struggle in Iraq, and main us to the purpose the place each single day that there is no such thing as a nuclear take care of Iran, Iran is nearer to creating a nuclear weapon.”
Director of Nationwide Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard attends a Cupboard assembly on the White Home, April 10, 2025 in Washington.
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However when she endorsed Trump’s 2024 presidential marketing campaign as an unbiased final August, Gabbard shifted her focus to President Joe Biden. Talking on the Nationwide Guard Affiliation convention, she stated the Biden-Harris “administration has us dealing with a number of wars on a number of fronts and areas around the globe, and nearer to the brink of nuclear struggle than we ever have been earlier than.”
Gabbard’s preliminary bid for president in 2020 was sparked by a mistaken ballistic missile alert that despatched individuals in Hawaii into panic, considering they had been below assault. That second impressed the previous Hawaii congresswoman to middle a lot of her marketing campaign on ending wars and looking for peace. Though she has now aligned herself with the Republican Get together and the Trump administration, this second suggests Gabbard continues to be staking out an unbiased place on America’s international posture — one deeply rooted in her long-standing skepticism of the Washington institution.
