In Phoenix, Arizona, the desert heat wasn’t the only thing turning up the temperature this weekend. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard took the stage at AmericaFest and dropped a truth bomb that sent shockwaves through the crowd—and probably ruffled some feathers back in Brussels and Foggy Bottom.
Gabbard, never one to mince words, called out the warmongers in Washington and beyond who are itching to drag the United States into a full-blown military clash with Russia. And no, she wasn’t talking about some rogue defense contractor or a random Twitter troll with a Ukrainian flag in their bio. She pointed the finger directly at the European Union and NATO—our so-called allies—who apparently think the best way to secure peace is to feed more American sons and daughters into the meat grinder of foreign wars.
“Powerful foreign allies are eager to pull the U.S. into war with Russia,” Gabbard warned, and the audience at AmericaFest knew exactly what she meant. We’ve seen this movie before: unelected bureaucrats and foreign lobbyists whispering in the ears of D.C. insiders, pushing us into conflicts that serve everyone’s interests but our own. Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria—how many more times do we have to learn the same lesson?
But here’s the real kicker. According to Gabbard, these warmongers are *actively* blocking peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine. That’s right—they’re not just standing by while diplomacy fails; they’re sabotaging it. And they’re doing it while President Trump is working tirelessly to bring this war to a peaceful conclusion without sending our troops to die in another endless quagmire.
Tulsi Gabbard says the EU and NATO are trying to drag the US into a war with Russia: "They undermine President Trump's efforts towards peace and do so specifically in order to pull the US military into a direct conflict with Russia." pic.twitter.com/zcwyxiwxnM
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Gabbard didn’t stop there. She took aim at the intelligence community—the same folks who spent the better part of a decade leaking, lying, and lawyering their way through every Trump administration success—and accused them of using classified information to push fake narratives through their media echo chamber.
Sound familiar? It’s Russiagate all over again, only this time the stakes are even higher. Back then, it was about undermining a sitting president. Now, it’s about dragging us into World War III.
And while the deep state is busy playing Risk with the world map, Gabbard reminded us that the threats to America aren’t just overseas—they’re already here. She pointed out the danger of Islamist extremism growing within our borders and called out cities like Houston and Paterson, New Jersey, as examples of where this ideology is taking root.
“This is already happening within our borders,” she said. And she’s right. But don’t expect CNN to cover that. They’re too busy fact-checking memes and defending drag queen story hour.
The crowd at AmericaFest got it. They cheered, they applauded, and they understood that Gabbard’s words weren’t just a warning—they were a call to action. A call to stop sleepwalking into another foreign war, to reject the lies of the media-industrial complex, and to demand accountability from the people who are supposed to serve *us*—not Brussels, not NATO, and not the Beltway cocktail circuit.
This is what leadership looks like: standing on stage, telling hard truths, and refusing to play along with the globalist game plan. While the Biden-era leftovers still slither through the shadows of the swamp, Tulsi Gabbard is shining a light on the rot and calling it by name.
The question now is: will the American people listen before it’s too late? Or will we let another generation be sacrificed on the altar of foreign entanglements and deep state fantasies?
The choice is ours—and the midterms are just around the corner.