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Ruben Gallego: “Superpowers don't follow subordinate allies into war.”

Featuring: Ruben Gallego, Democratic | U.S. Senate, Arizona

How the Iran War Could Spiral Out of Control (with Sen. Ruben Gallego)

Published March 27, 2026 | Video Starts at 23:51

Are we still not a superpower? And then, of course, Fox News clipped in and says, ruben Giggle says the US Is not a superpower. Now, what I'm saying is Superpowers don't follow subordinate allies into war. We tell our subordinate allies, okay, we'll go to war with you. We don't say, well, if you're going, I guess we have to go. Right. (23:51–23:55)

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“The US Military has not been engaged in this type of drone warfare, infantry drone warfare, the scale of which really only Russia and…”
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“He decided to listen to Israeli intelligence about the nuclear threshold that Iran was going to hit that nobody within our intelligence…”
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“Now they're seeing a $200 billion ask for a war that they're against.”
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“The look at, if you look at the, our military, armed forces, it is a majority of Mexican American heritage of all the Latinos in there.”
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“Republicans, led by George Bush, Cheney, lied us into this war.”
How the Iran War Could Spiral Out of Control (with Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded March 27, 2026 | 04:08-04:17
“Democrats that were afraid of being considered... couldn't separate... their feelings from what was happening in Afghanistan and... Iraq.”
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“The Democratic Party... have learned the lessons of the Iraq war [and] are not going to fall into the same trap.”
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“There's going to be a check on this administration... from his own party when they realize... getting more and more involved in a war.”
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“The United States Congress is trying to wrestle back some of its statutory duties and the Constitution when it comes to war making.”
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“We should have forced a vote on a lot of this to make sure that there is a check on any presidency.”
How the Iran War Could Spiral Out of Control (with Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded March 27, 2026 | 08:02-08:10
“We set ourselves up for what we just are seeing right now with Donald Trump.”
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“The bully pulpit may end up being the best guard against us fully engaging into a war in Iran.”
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“The Afghan government is not getting better, the Afghan military is not getting any better.”
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“There was an institution, different institutions, whether it's the dod, the CIA, different groups that wanted to stay in Afghanistan.”
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“The Khmeni that we killed was actually more moderate than the Khmeni that's in charge right now.”
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“Iran may end up being stronger in terms of the consolidation of their power [after the war].”
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“We could claim it, but I think we're going to end up being unfortunately weaker as a country in terms of our national security and weaker in…”
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“People of our allies are going to start recognizing that we may not be a really good stabilizer, and they may start tilting themselves more…”
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“Iran has really been smart in investing in kind of standoff weaponry that they're going to be able to strike and hit us from a distance.”
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“The American public started against this war, right? And the numbers only get worse.”
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“This is the first time I'd ever seen us really subordinate our national interests to another foreign country, this time being Israel.”
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“We limited the growth of Iranian stockpile [with the JCPOA].”
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“What we end up doing now is probably going to end up creating an Iranian nuclear state.”
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“We have just basically pushed off, I think, a nuclear Iran maybe by a couple years because of these rash actions.”
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“The United States didn't tell Israel, listen, you want to do that, you go alone.”
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“They pulled out of the JCPOA, you know, Donald Trump.”
How the Iran War Could Spiral Out of Control (with Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded March 27, 2026 | 28:50-28:55
“We found ourselves in this ever escalating situation where they ended up, according to them as well, war was the only option to stop.”
How the Iran War Could Spiral Out of Control (with Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded March 27, 2026 | 28:55-29:05
“The American public is going to be the same because they're pissed. They believe that we should be focusing on the homeland right now.”
How the Iran War Could Spiral Out of Control (with Sen. Ruben Gallego) | Uploaded March 27, 2026 | 30:31-30:38
“They are mad that everything is so expensive.”
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“They don't really believe this president is on their side, nor the Republicans.”
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“We just told them, or the Republicans just told him for two years that we have to cut Medicaid, we have to cut food stamps, we're going to…”
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“The war is probably going to bring even more young voters that were going to probably stay out of it into the fold to come out and vote…”
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“Even a lot of these Venezuelans and Cubans are mad because of the deportation policy.”
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“Mexican American families are not going to be very excited about sending their kids to die in Venezuela or in Cuba.”
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“2028 has to be a focus on two things, stability and progress.”
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