In a powerful and urgent address to the AmericaFest crowd in Phoenix, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard issued a grave warning that cuts to the very heart of American sovereignty and global stability. She revealed that powerful forces, both foreign and domestic, are actively working to undermine peace and pull the United States into a direct, catastrophic war with Russia.
Gabbard, serving as President Donald Trump’s top intelligence official, pulled no punches in naming the threats arrayed against the nation and the President’s “America First” agenda.
Gabbard began by exposing the entrenched bureaucracy working against the will of the American people. She stated that “warmongers in the deep state” are actively blocking Russia and Ukraine from reaching a peace agreement. This subterfuge is a direct attack on President Trump’s diplomatic efforts to end the conflict and bring stability.
She laid out their predictable, cynical tactics: “Predictably, they use the same old tactics that they’ve always used. The deep state within the intelligence community weaponizes ‘intelligence’ to try to undermine progress.” By placing “intelligence” in air quotes, Gabbard highlighted how raw information is twisted into a political weapon.
This weaponized narrative is then laundered through a compliant press. “They leak that so-called ‘intelligence’ to their friends in the ‘mainstream propaganda media’ to propel a false narrative,” Gabbard explained. This corrupt partnership between unelected bureaucrats and the liberal media creates a drumbeat of war, designed to panic the public and box in peaceful policymakers.
The ultimate aim of this disinformation campaign is not simply to prolong the Ukraine conflict. Gabbard presented a far more dangerous objective. These actors “foment fear and hysteria as a way to justify the continuing of the war and their efforts to undermine President Trump’s efforts towards peace.”
And who benefits from this? According to the Director of National Intelligence, the goal is “to try to pull the U.S. military into a direct conflict with Russia, which is ultimately what the EU and NATO want.” This stunning accusation places the blame for global instability not on a single nation, but on international bodies and allies who see American military might as a tool for their own geopolitical ends.
Gabbard’s message on this was clear and direct: “We cannot allow this to happen.”
Gabbard did not stop with the external threats to peace. She turned her attention to what she described as a grave, underreported danger within America’s own borders: the threat of Islamist ideology.
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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“There’s a threat to our freedom that is not often talked about enough. And it is the greatest near- and long-term threat to both our freedom and our security, and that is the threat of Islamist ideology,” she told the cheering crowd.
She argued this is not merely a religion, but a totalitarian political movement. “At its core, Islam is a political ideology that seeks to implement a ‘global caliphate’ that would destroy freedom through Sharia law.”
Most alarmingly, Gabbard stated this is not a distant possibility but a present reality. “This is already underway in places like Houston… This is not something that may possibly happen; it is already happening here within our borders,” she continued, noting that “Paterson, New Jersey, is proud to call themselves the first Muslim city.”
This ideology, Gabbard warned, is fundamentally opposed to the American experiment. It “is propagated by people who not only do not believe in freedom, their fundamental ideology is antithetical to the foundation that we find in our Constitution and Bill of Rights, which is that our Creator endowed upon us inalienable rights. The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”
Director Gabbard’s speech paints a picture of a nation under siege from multiple directions. The “deep state” and its media allies work to embroil us in foreign wars that serve globalist interests, not American ones. Simultaneously, an ideological movement opposed to constitutional liberty is making headway within American communities.
This stark assessment underscores the critical importance of President Donald Trump’s leadership. His administration, with officials like Gabbard, represents a bulwark against these dual threats—fighting for peace abroad while defending the foundational principles of freedom at home against those who seek to replace them.