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“I absolutely oppose it. Uh, this was completely unprovoked. Uh this is a violation of international law. It's disgusting and it's on Congress to uh pass a war powers resolution.”
“But firmly an interventionist I would very much disagree with. Uh first off, I would not describe myself and I have never described myself as an interventionist.”
“The main issue for his departure is the lack of communication with the campaign. Ben was helping us write some policy... it was a mutual decision.”
“These are things that I think we should be focusing on and deterrence is uh its own subject but I do not describe myself as an interventionist.”
“So the effort of arming Ukraine needs to be rooted in the idea of getting to a negotiating table where they are able to fight for their own self-determination and then also politically recognizing illegally seized land as still part of Ukraine.”
“We need to ensure that we are codifying major actions that we will need to take regardless of the president under this administration. By codifying a response, we can ensure that there is that deterrence for more diplomatic solutions.”
“But I also want to stress here that military aid should be conditional and I don't care if it's Taiwan or Mexico. If we are providing military aid to a country, we need to ensure it's conditional that you know crimes against humanity are not being systematically committed using our weapons.”
“Even then, I don't support boots on the ground in Taiwan. I know in the past I have said aid in intercepting missiles at the beginning of an invasion. I think that is on the table but we should not have US troops deployed on Taiwanese soil.”
“I want to be rolling back military bases abroad. I want to be cutting the Pentagon's budget. We need to be investing it in housing, groceries, and healthcare here.”
“My one of my professors was a PAO in a Middle Eastern country... they worked with a local film group to create a TV series about the realities of being an ISIS bride... The next year ISIS recruitment of women went down by like 75%. That is I think a yes it is a small example but an example of actually beneficial US involvement in diplomacy.”
“There's an argument I'm curious... that kind of hawkish wing of the US security establishment overlearned the lesson of World War II and and now tries to frame all diplomacy as appeasement... I think that specific argument that you mentioned especially by war hawks uh is frankly kind of idiotic.”
“Once again, I think that in that instance, it should have been up to Ukraine and not pressure by uh other countries outside of Ukraine. This is uh this is an argument of sovereignty in my opinion and if that is what the country of Ukraine chooses to do... that should be their prerogative.”
“Once again, I think that in that instance, it should have been up to Ukraine and not pressure by other countries outside of Ukraine. This is an argument of sovereignty in my opinion and if that is what the country of Ukraine chooses to do and what they have negotiated, that should be their prerogative.”
“I would be supporting Bernie Sanders. ... By the time of like January 2020, I was very much in Bernie's camp.”