RFK Jr.'s Case Against Bipartisan War and Debt Spending

Showing 7 Military Spending videos from Charlie Kirk's video collection.

Military spending anchored Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s pitch during his independent presidential run, in a wide-ranging interview with John Stossel where Kennedy argued both Trump and Biden bear responsibility for a $34 trillion national debt and what he called an unnecessary, immoral war in Ukraine that neither candidate could honestly discuss given their shared involvement in escalating it. Charlie Kirk separately addressed a related question about whether Scandinavian countries prove socialism works, arguing that Finland, Norway, and Sweden actually score higher than the United States on economic-freedom indices and fund generous welfare states through small, ethnically homogeneous populations and fossil fuel exports rather than genuine socialism, while declining to fund their own militaries at levels comparable to NATO allies backed by American spending. Matt Gaetz made a related America First argument citing $6 trillion spent on Middle East conflicts since 2001, calling for redirecting military priorities toward border security and domestic innovation instead. Senator Rand Paul and Kirk directly disagreed over whether isolating a $5 trillion debt ceiling increase from the broader Big Beautiful Bill was principled fiscal restraint or a strategic mistake handing Democrats leverage.