Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard is once again sounding the alarm on what she calls an increasingly reckless drift toward global nuclear war, issuing her most sobering statement yet in a three-minute video filmed during a recent trip to Japan.

Tulsi Gabbard, the US director of national intelligence, released a video Tuesday warning that the world is closer to nuclear war than ever and accusing unnamed political elites of trying to foment conflict between world powers.

With a cryptic video that Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard posted on X on Tuesday morning, the Democratic-congresswoman-turned-America-First-advocate reignited simmering concerns about the unorthodox intelligence chief among both her longtime detractors and some Republicans who voted to confirm her earlier this year.