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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Discusses Foreign Policy on All-In Podcast

• Robert F. Kennedy Jr. is a presidential hopeful for the 2024 election and is a guest on the All-In Podcast.

• Kennedy is an environmental lawyer who has previously litigated against corporate polluters and criticized COVID-19 restrictions.

• The podcast hosts discuss foreign policy, specifically the conflict between Ukraine and Russia and the US's involvement in it.

• Kennedy supported the initial humanitarian aid to Ukraine but believes that the US has since prolonged the war through its decisions and support of Ukraine.

• Kennedy believes that the neocons in the White House want regime change with Russia and to exhaust and degrade Russian forces.

• The conflict has resulted in over 300,000 Ukrainian casualties, making it the most violent conflict since World War II.

• Kennedy believes that the conflict began with the US-supported coup against the democratically elected government of Ukraine in 2014, which prompted Russia to invade Crimea.

• The government that came into power in Ukraine after the coup enacted laws that turned Russian populations in the Dambas region into second-class citizens, leading to a civil war.

• Kennedy would immediately establish a ceasefire and work towards settling the war, as outlined in the Minsk Accords of 2014.

• The US has been actively integrating the Ukrainian military into NATO forces and doing military exercises with them, leading Putin to view this as a red line.

• Kennedy believes that the US should de-escalate its provocations towards Russia and should not be expanding NATO.

• On the topic of Taiwan, Kennedy believes that the US should de-escalate the conflict and allow the Chinese and Taiwanese to come to their own solution about their relationship.Robert F. Kennedy Jr. discusses Taiwan, economy, and the deep state

• Robert F. Kennedy Jr. declines to answer if he would defend Taiwan as President, stating that it is a commitment to a potentially bloody war and leaving room for negotiation is important.

• Kennedy expresses concern about the US fiscal deficit and debt level, with deficits north of a trillion dollars a year and a total debt of 33 trillion dollars, which is an alarming ratio.

• The US spends 8.4 trillion dollars on military budget and 1.1 trillion dollars on homeland security and surveillance expenditures at home, which Kennedy believes is too high.

• Kennedy believes that the US needs to stop being the policemen of the world and start rebuilding the middle class at home, focusing on economic power and a robust middle class as opposed to projecting military strength abroad.

• The US is borrowing 6 billion dollars a day mainly from China and Japan, which is not healthy for the country.

• Kennedy believes that targets for opportunity exist in the homeland security budget, and more study is needed to figure out how to get back into a balanced budget.

• Kennedy believes that Social Security and Medicare should not be touched, and people who have spent their whole life paying into the system should be taken care of.

• Kennedy expresses concern about the state of the social safety net and how it will need to change to accommodate people living longer lives with changing technologies.

• Kennedy believes that politics is not set up to solve structural economic problems that the US is facing, and politicians focus on creating systems that benefit them.

• Kennedy uses the example of the US spending 8 trillion dollars on the war in Iraq and 16 trillion dollars on the pandemic lockdown with no returns, and 30 million Americans are starving while the federal government is bailing out banks.

• Kennedy believes that the debt ceiling fight is insane, and both sides need to negotiate and work out something that is good for the country.

• Kennedy's father believed that the CIA had killed his brother, and Kennedy has a clear idea of how he would handle the intelligence agencies as President. However, Kennedy does not express a belief in the deep state and believes that dismantling the FBI, CIA, and DOJ is too radical.Robert F. Kennedy Jr. on the CIA, Deep State, and Coronavirus Response

• Robert F. Kennedy Jr. claims that his father, who was the President of the United States, recognized that the intelligence agencies were being captured by the military-industrial complex and that their function was to provide a constant pipeline of new wars, leading to the growth of the surveillance state.

• The Espionage Division of the CIA, which was originally set up by Truman as an information-gathering agency, has become the dirty tricks division that performs assassinations, fixes elections, does paramilitary operations, and runs black sites, according to Kennedy.

• Kennedy believes that the CIA was involved in the assassination of his uncle, President John F. Kennedy, and that there is a systemic corruption within the intelligence agencies driven by agency capture.

• Kennedy argues that the coronavirus pandemic was not met with a public health response but a militarized and monetized response that was the inverse of everything that should have been done to protect public health.

• Instead of using early treatment options to manage the pandemic, Kennedy claims that the authorities went after what they knew worked, such as hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin, because admitting that they were effective would have destroyed their 100 billion dollar vaccine enterprise.

• Kennedy believes that the response to coronavirus was systemic corruption within the pharmaceutical industry and the intelligence agencies, which have become captive agencies working for industries like the oil industry, the coal industry, and the military contractors.

• According to Kennedy, the corruption is not a group of people in a smoky room pulling strings but a systemic problem that has been drilled into the agencies for years.

• Kennedy argues that we need to unravel this systemic corruption across the government and that the agencies' ties to industry need to be broken.

• Kennedy believes that whistleblowers like Julian Assange and Edward Snowden should be pardoned for their role in revealing the truth about the government's actions.

• Kennedy claims that lockdowns were not effective in managing the pandemic and that people should have been quarantined only if they were sick, while society kept moving.

• Kennedy argues that Nigeria and Haiti, which had high levels of hydroxychloroquine and Ivermectin use, respectively, did not have a pandemic, whereas the US had the highest body count in the world because of its response to coronavirus.

• Kennedy believes that Tony Fauci and Bill Gates, along with the pharmaceutical companies, dictated the US's response to coronavirus, leading to a medical and pharmaceutical industrial complex that crushed civil rights and due process.Robert F. Kennedy Jr. discusses vaccines, nuclear power, and energy systems

• Kennedy criticizes the erosion of Fourth Amendment rights and the need to show medical records to access public buildings.

• Kennedy argues that vaccines are not immune from pre-licensing safety testing and have not gone through placebo-controlled trials.

• Kennedy claims that vaccines have been associated with an explosion of chronic diseases since 1989, such as allergies, autoimmune diseases, and neurological disorders.

• Kennedy suggests that vaccines are not the sole cause of chronic diseases, but they are part of a finite number of environmental factors that include glyphosate, PFOAs, cell phones, and ultrasound.

• Kennedy argues that vaccine manufacturers' inserts list 420 diseases associated with vaccines, including those that went epidemic in 1989.

• Kennedy cites a UCLA study funded by NIH that found that the DTP vaccine was killing or causing severe brain injury in one out of every 300 kids who got it, leading to lawsuits and the passage of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986.

• Kennedy argues that the vaccine industry succeeded in getting Ronald Reagan to sign a law that gave them full immunity from liability, saving them $250 million, and leading to a gold rush that produced 72 vaccines instead of three.

• Kennedy claims that the Indian Point Nuclear Power Plant is leaking tritium and is located 18 miles from Midtown Manhattan, making it too risky and unsafe for 10 million people.

• Kennedy believes that nuclear power is not safe or economical, as the insurance industry cannot provide coverage for it and the profit motive causes subpar engineering.

• Kennedy argues that the Price Anderson Act shifts the accident or onto the American public, and no public utility will build a nuclear power plant without massive public subsidies.

• Kennedy believes in free market capitalism and argues that solar and wind energy are winning because they are cleaner and cheaper than coal and nuclear power.

• Kennedy states that a solar plant costs $1 billion a gigawatt, a wind plant costs $1.2 billion a gigawatt, and a coal plant costs $3.5 billion a gigawatt, with additional costs such as fuel, environmental damage, and waste disposal.