On April 2018, Wilkerson explained in an interview with Sharmini Peries of the Real News Network, why he (Wilkerson) believes the U.S. president "can do anything he pleases with regard to the armed forces of the United States anytime he pleases." That reason, says Wilkerson, "is because the American people are apathetic" and "their representatives in the Congress are… cowards" who, but for "few exceptions like Mike Lee and Bernie Sanders and some of the others," will not do anything to restrain such exercise of presidential power. He also goes on to state that commercial interests related to oil and gas is why the U.S. would intervene in various places overseas including the Middle East and Afghanistan; and that other reasons for justifying U.S. intervention "is just lying to the American people" and that the U.S. has a long history of lying to justify intervention, giving the examples of the Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan wars.