TULSI’S GREATEST STANCES

…Tulsi believes in Ending the Nuclear Arms Race and the New Cold War that the United States has found itself in over the past few decades. This is the absolute driving force behind her entire 2020 campaign.

To quote what Tulsi has stated probably countless times since she kicked off her campaign in February 2019, “We are closer to nuclear catastrophe now than ever before”.

She also believes in ending the interventionist regime change wars that the U.S. has been repeatedly and unapologetically enacting and propagating — wars that not only destabilize the nations that these wars are carried out in, but utterly undermine our nation’s own security and dwindle away our taxpayer dollars that could be much better-utilized right here at home than on a pointless, costly, counterproductive war. Since the declaration of Operation Enduring Freedom and invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001, the U.S. has spent more than $6 trillion on regime change and interventionism.

In fact, at the time of writing this, the United States of America has been at war in one country or another for more than 95% of my lifetime. I am only nineteen years-old and am unable to remember a time when the U.S. was not involved abroad.

As a combat veteran herself, Tulsi has seen firsthand the cost of war — both in terms of cash and actual, tangible, human lives and livelihoods. She knows the value of human life, resources, and national security. She knows that we must end regime change in order to properly invest in our people, our communities, and our nation. She knows that we must enter into productive, mutually-beneficial, civil, diplomatic relations with other nations rather than threaten them with extravagant shows of force. And she also knows that we must call out those who seek to violate the basic rights of those here at home and abroad, and to end relations with those who actively spread radical, extremist ideologies and propagate fear, hatred, and death.

Tulsi Gabbard believes in ending U.S. support for Saudi Arabia, who is actively engaging in a genocidal war in Yemen, and calling out the Israeli government for enacting human rights violations against the Palestinian people. She also believes in holding those who allow such atrocities to be held fully accountable in full-view of the international community.

Trump, Netanyahu, Saudis leading us closer to catastrophe

She believes that the U.S. should immediately return to the INF Treaty and the Paris Climate Accords, so as to ease tensions between the United States, Iran, and other members of the international community as a whole.

Tulsi Gabbard believes in preventing regime change, in a matter of current affairs, in the nations of Venezuela and Iran. She has stated that, although she does not support the leaders of any nation that oppress and mistreat their own people, it should ultimately be up to the people of said nations to determine their own destiny and to take back their own freedoms. She repudiates the beliefs of current National Security Advisor John R. Bolton and current Secretary of State Mike Pompeo that U.S. military intervention in Iran and Venezuela is the right course of action.

Tulsi Gabbard believes in meeting face-to-face with leaders who may otherwise be considered our adversaries in the name of establishing some sense of peace, understanding, and/or solution in the wake of critical regional and global issues. This can be highlighted by her visit with Bashar al-Assad, the current President of Syria (a visit that was approved by the House Ethics Committee in 2017).

Without reaching out to our “enemies” and establishing some sort of mutually-assured trust, as President John F. Kennedy did by creating the Moscow-Washington Hotline in the 1960s, then we will only ensure for ourselves and others mutually-assured destruction.

This is why Tulsi’s campaign and her entire platform matter so much.