By Athena Papakosta

OR Tulsi Gabbart was born on April 12, 1981 in American Samoa. He is a veteran of the armed forces, loves to surf and has been a first Samoan-American and Hindu who was elected to the House of Representatives as a member of the Democratic Party, with which she broke with and eventually left it, after first claiming as a candidate the anointing for the presidential elections in 2020.

Today, he has changed his politics. He joined the Republican party just a month ago, and for months he has become one of the strongest voices in favor of Donald Trumpwho chose her for her position head of the United States Secret Service.

This means that he will have to oversee the country’s intelligence services, such as CIA, FBI and NSA National Security Agency. Her choice for the position in question raises questions, since does not have the required experience and is accused of having in the past reinforced Russian propaganda for the war in Ukraine. She denies the accusations and characterizes her critics from the Democratic party as warmongers.

However, the day after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, on February 25, 2022, he had posted on Social Media that the war in Ukraine would have been avoided if the United States and its allies had recognized Russia’s “legitimate security concerns” about with Ukraine’s aspirations to join NATO.

Later that month calling for a ceasefire he had also said it was an “indisputable fact” that operate US-funded biological laboratories in Ukraine that could “release and spread deadly pathogens.”

Many also accuse her of downplaying allegations of attacks on civilians in Syria by Moscow-backed Bashar al-Assad.

Gabbard in 2017, during Trump’s first term, traveled to Syria and met with Assad. Speaking later to the American network CNN, she said that she maintains her reservations about the fact that his regime was behind the chemical weapons attacks and also emphasized that Assad “is not an enemy of the United States because Syria is not a direct threat to the United States.” country”. Nevertheless, two years later, in 2019, he called him a “cruel dictator”.

At the same time, Gabbard has called the president of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, a “dictator” as well and bad predictions about the neighbor are now increasing because of Trump’s choices in his new government.

On the one hand, in the State Department, Marco Rubio, who together with Democratic Senator Bob Menendez signed the bill in 2019, takes over as Secretary of State East Med Act for the Eastern Mediterranean, while at the same time he considers the Turkish president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, authoritarian.

On the other hand, debt at the head of it National Security Council at the White House takes over Mike Walshwho in 2019 had signed a proposal for imposing sanctions on Turkey after its invasion of Syria targeting the Kurds.

Gabbart, for her part, who has visited Greece and in 2019 was honored by the American Hellenic Council of Southern California with the Pericles Award, which is given to politicians who support issues of concern to the Greek-American community, has characterized Turkey as “NATO ally in name only”.

He added that Ankara “continues to threaten the interests of the US and our allies in the region, including US forces in Syria, the Kurdish YPG, Greece, Israel and Cyprus”.

Having signed Resolution 220 of the Parliament, which recognizes and condemns the genocide of the Armenians, Greeks and Assyrians, he also spoke about the Turkish occupation of Cyprus, stressing that “it must be reunited” and adding that “we must continue to push for real negotiations to achieve this.”