Pete Buttigieg: “We are now at war. It's not as if we're at war. We are…”

“I mean, it sounds more like the Iraqi information minister that many of us remember from the early 2000s, or a Soviet propaganda minister, not a serious American leader, which is really disturbing because this is a serious American situation. We are now at war. It's not as if we're at war. We are literally at war. American service members have been killed and Americans at home are paying the price. Higher mortgage rates, higher food prices, which are about to get even higher because of what's happening in agriculture, obviously higher gas prices.” (03:00–03:06)

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