Graham Platner

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Up First from NPR · Can Graham Platner survive another controversy? | NPR’s Newsmakers · 1 Jun 2026 podcast

But I would be a very vocal voice like Chris Van Hollen has been against the war.

I would absolutely be working with all the other Democratic senators who are trying to stop this thing and working with some of hopefully the Republican senators like Rand Paul, who are also opposed to this kind of this military adventurism.

Defending the United States in the interests of the American people.

And right now, I do not see how the war in Iran is doing either of those things at all.

Now, it's making some people very rich, which tends to be what war does in our society.

It's one of the reasons why, while I'm not a pacifist, I've absolutely become essentially anti-war.

Because far before Donald Trump, I mean, I fought in two wars that, when I look back on them, didn't really seem to have much point.

They came, they went, there was an immense amount of suffering, there was an immense amount of violence, there was an immense amount of sacrifice, and we contributed to the destruction of nations and the immiseration of whole populations.

Some people got very rich off of that, and some people were able to use it as a political tool to protect their political interests.

But the people who got rich weren't in the infantry.

And the people who benefited from it politically were not the average American.

We spent, it looks like in the end, it's going to be somewhere around $8 trillion on the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan for nothing.

$8 trillion added to the national debt, which is already gigantic.

$8 trillion for nothing.

Just a bucket of blood that we just dumped cash into for 20 straight years.

That is not making America safer.

That is not protecting the interests of the average American.

That is using militarism and war as a excuse for people to make profit and for people in power to try to protect themselves electorally, to try to use things like nationalism and patriotism to wrap themselves in the flag so they don't have to talk about the fact that their domestic policies are garbage and are not helping the average person.

I just don't have any patience for it.

the United States military, the willingness of young Americans to sign the dotted line and in many ways sacrifice their lives for this country to defend their fellow Americans, to protect the Constitution.

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