In conversation with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

He argues the Ukraine war is a U.S.-driven proxy conflict aimed at degrading Russia, not a pure humanitarian mission, and says as president he would push for an immediate ceasefire, take NATO expansion off the table, and leverage U.S. aid to force serious negotiations—even if that means eventually halting weapons shipments.

Kennedy links $1.1 trillion in annual defense and security-related spending to the ballooning federal debt, contending the U.S. can’t be “policeman of the world” while maintaining Social Security and Medicare; he prioritizes cutting war and surveillance budgets over touching core entitlements.

Citing his father and uncle’s conflicts with the CIA, he proposes separating the CIA’s espionage (information) function from its covert action arm, releasing assassination and other classified records, and pardoning or protecting whistleblowers like Assange and Snowden instead of punishing them.

Kennedy claims early treatments were suppressed to preserve vaccine Emergency Use Authorizations, that pandemic management was effectively run by the national security apparatus, and that lockdowns and mandates caused catastrophic collateral damage while failing to prevent a world-leading U.S. death toll.

He emphasizes that childhood vaccines have legal liability shields and often lack placebo-controlled trials, argues the post-1980s vaccine boom coincides with a surge in chronic disease, and calls for rigorous safety testing and independent research rather than blanket mandates and censorship of critics.

Kennedy argues nuclear power is uneconomic without massive subsidies and liability protection, criticizes plants like Indian Point on safety and waste grounds, and says the real bottleneck for wind/solar is outdated transmission; he supports any technology that can compete fairly once externalities are priced in.

Kennedy supports bodily autonomy for adults but opposes biological males in women’s sports and is cautious on youth gender surgery; he’s wary of CRT as an all-consuming frame in schools yet insists on teaching America’s full history. He condemns media–pharma entanglements and calls censorship of dissenting views “insane” in a democracy.