WEBVTT 00:00.910 --> 00:04.470 The spirit of this revolution is not going away. 00:04.650 --> 00:10.710 This is the Ron Paul Liberty Report with Ron Paul, Daniel McAdams, and Chris Rossini. 00:11.250 --> 00:16.990 We are all ambassadors of the Ron Paul Doctrine, and it's a sin, just tell the truth. 00:17.190 --> 00:22.110 And I knew that I was coming and I could stop by any army or any government. 00:35.600 --> 00:39.220 Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report. 00:39.760 --> 00:42.640 With us today we have Daniel McAdams, our co-host. 00:42.640 --> 00:44.540 Daniel, good to see you this morning. 00:44.560 --> 00:46.140 Good morning Dr. Paul, how are you doing this morning? 00:46.420 --> 00:46.920 Doing well. 00:47.100 --> 00:47.880 Good, all right. 00:48.540 --> 00:56.320 But we'll talk about a subject we've been talking about, and we keep thinking that freedom and 00:56.320 --> 00:59.280 peace is going to break out and we'll be out of work. 00:59.660 --> 01:02.820 We won't have any job to try to explain what's going on. 01:03.880 --> 01:09.730 Well that's being facetious, of course, a good bit, and trying to figure out what's 01:09.730 --> 01:10.250 going on. 01:10.890 --> 01:16.330 I think, Daniel, our problem is the people who are running the show and making all the 01:16.330 --> 01:19.750 decisions, they probably don't know what's going on either. 01:19.930 --> 01:20.290 No kidding. 01:20.310 --> 01:24.150 And that makes it difficult, because it certainly is on again, off again. 01:24.430 --> 01:25.870 Let's do this, let's do that. 01:26.530 --> 01:28.630 And we're going to be talking a little bit about that. 01:28.770 --> 01:35.430 We want to talk about Trump's ground troops moving in the direction of getting involved 01:36.290 --> 01:38.610 near Iran. 01:39.050 --> 01:46.230 Actually, they're looking at Kark Island, the key island off the shore of Iran, 01:46.570 --> 01:49.490 and dealing with oil to a large degree. 01:50.310 --> 01:54.190 So the headline is New York Times, because of the New York Times. 01:54.850 --> 02:02.430 Pentagon considers deploying 82nd Airborne troops for potential attack on Iran's 02:02.430 --> 02:03.250 Kark Island. 02:04.430 --> 02:05.470 That's dangerous. 02:07.090 --> 02:14.790 Everything starts either with a blatant lie or blatant stupidity, and it turned out that 02:15.990 --> 02:21.690 almost like a minor incident that didn't happen to start the Vietnam War. 02:22.090 --> 02:23.550 Oh, they shot at one of our ships? 02:23.870 --> 02:26.210 Of course, we were 7,000 miles away from home. 02:26.470 --> 02:28.710 We shouldn't have been in there, we were just looking to start. 02:28.990 --> 02:30.730 But anyway, look at what happened there. 02:30.730 --> 02:35.310 So this is a big deal as far as I'm concerned and what it might lead to, 02:35.570 --> 02:38.670 and it's not the only group that's moving in that direction. 02:38.830 --> 02:47.070 They have troops moving in that direction, and I imagine, this would be my guess, 02:47.470 --> 02:50.290 that they don't have the vaguest idea what they'll end up doing. 02:50.490 --> 02:52.290 Yes, I think you're right on that. 02:52.850 --> 02:59.190 And yet, just opening up the door to some accident or some false flag or whatever. 02:59.190 --> 03:05.770 So this is not good, because even if something happened tomorrow, 03:06.710 --> 03:14.170 that everything was calmed down and things looked a lot improved, the problem still exists 03:14.170 --> 03:23.490 because it's the principle of what in thunder are we doing 6,000 miles away, and we are very 03:23.490 --> 03:29.170 interested in oil because they wanted to make sure we have an abundance of oil, 03:29.350 --> 03:30.950 and we could control it internationally. 03:31.750 --> 03:36.010 But the whole thing is, what has happened to oil? 03:36.430 --> 03:39.150 Well, for $70, up to $100 a barrel. 03:39.610 --> 03:45.030 So they're not doing very well unless there could be somebody conspiring 03:45.030 --> 03:47.610 that could benefit from a high cost of oil. 03:47.790 --> 03:52.750 But I don't know their names or anything, but who knows what they might be doing. 03:52.750 --> 03:55.190 But anyway, it is a mess. 03:55.590 --> 03:57.390 I say watch out for the danger. 03:58.070 --> 04:02.350 And it looks like more and more people are starting to agree with it, 04:02.470 --> 04:06.450 even those close to the military trying to get the truth out. 04:06.670 --> 04:07.190 Yeah, absolutely. 04:07.510 --> 04:08.470 Let's put that first clip on. 04:09.110 --> 04:10.990 David Kim did a good write-up of what's going on here. 04:12.470 --> 04:14.830 The Pentagon considers deploying 82nd Airborne. 04:14.990 --> 04:18.590 As you said, Dr. Paul, for potential attack on Carg Island, 04:18.690 --> 04:21.490 we'll go into the geography of that island in a second. 04:22.210 --> 04:26.330 But the US military officials are considered deploying a combat brigade 04:26.330 --> 04:28.790 from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division. 04:29.250 --> 04:33.570 That's about 3,000 soldiers that would somehow get onto this island. 04:33.730 --> 04:40.850 You go to the next one and you can see those 3,000 troops could be used to seize the island 04:40.850 --> 04:46.910 or the US could opt for the 2,500 Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit, 04:47.030 --> 04:48.570 who are also on route. 04:49.050 --> 04:51.570 Apparently both could be there by Friday, Dr. Paul. 04:52.770 --> 04:55.910 One issue with the Marines is they're traveling on warships and would sustain 04:56.610 --> 05:01.150 significant American missile and drone fire while attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz. 05:01.370 --> 05:03.830 We'll look at the geography again in a second. 05:04.010 --> 05:08.270 It wouldn't be any easier for the airborne, by the way, to jump out of planes onto the island. 05:08.770 --> 05:11.670 And here's what worries me, Dr. Paul, about this whole idea to send in troops. 05:12.110 --> 05:13.810 Well, first of all, we know it's very, very unpopular. 05:14.370 --> 05:16.610 I mean, when you ask the Americans from at the beginning, 05:16.610 --> 05:18.610 well, what do you think about going into this war? 05:18.850 --> 05:20.290 Most of them said it's a terrible idea. 05:20.570 --> 05:21.630 But then you add it on. 05:21.730 --> 05:22.710 But what if you had to put in troops? 05:22.950 --> 05:25.610 Then pretty much everyone said, terrible, terrible idea. 05:25.990 --> 05:31.890 What worries me is that everything about this war seems to feel like it's being done on the fly. 05:32.330 --> 05:33.590 Like every morning they wake up. 05:33.930 --> 05:37.390 Trump woke up yesterday morning and said, oh my god, what did I do on Sunday? 05:37.550 --> 05:40.130 I swore that I would bomb them in 48 hours. 05:40.490 --> 05:42.610 So he gets up on Monday and said, just kidding. 05:42.830 --> 05:44.570 We're actually, we're talking to the Iranians. 05:44.790 --> 05:46.050 The Iranians say, no, we're not. 05:46.050 --> 05:47.750 What are you talking about? 05:48.130 --> 05:50.310 And so that was the whole day yesterday taken up by the line. 05:50.550 --> 05:53.950 But, you know, so this was supposed to be a quick decapitation strike. 05:54.330 --> 05:56.870 This is how the Mossad sold it to President Trump. 05:57.330 --> 05:58.330 We'll take out their leadership. 05:58.950 --> 05:59.850 They will capitulate. 06:00.350 --> 06:03.230 The people will take to the streets, overthrow their government, 06:03.670 --> 06:04.590 put in a friendly government. 06:05.070 --> 06:05.930 Everything is hunky-dory. 06:06.090 --> 06:07.830 It'll be easy, almost cost-free. 06:08.150 --> 06:08.990 Well, that didn't work. 06:09.490 --> 06:13.790 And so it became, well, we're going to bomb them until they capitulate. 06:14.110 --> 06:15.030 And we did all that. 06:15.030 --> 06:17.210 And Trump said we bombed the blank out of them. 06:17.250 --> 06:18.410 That we've already won. 06:18.530 --> 06:19.110 It's already over. 06:19.290 --> 06:20.410 Well, they bombed back. 06:20.490 --> 06:21.990 They took out every single U.S. base. 06:22.290 --> 06:23.850 Some are completely out of commission. 06:24.090 --> 06:25.230 Some are halfway out. 06:25.450 --> 06:27.450 Some are, all of them are seriously damaged. 06:28.090 --> 06:30.490 So the retaliation keeps going on. 06:30.590 --> 06:33.890 So everything they say that's going to solve this war 06:33.890 --> 06:36.670 is actually doing nothing of the sort and making it worse. 06:37.030 --> 06:40.070 So when they say, well, we put in 3,000 troops. 06:40.210 --> 06:41.030 We're going to take those islands. 06:41.550 --> 06:42.910 That'll be, this will be the plan. 06:43.090 --> 06:44.310 This will finally work. 06:44.310 --> 06:46.170 Except you're playing with the lives 06:46.170 --> 06:47.890 of thousands of American service members. 06:47.950 --> 06:49.470 But you've got to give them credit. 06:49.590 --> 06:53.430 They're optimistic because they have chosen the next president. 06:53.770 --> 06:54.450 Yeah, yeah. 06:54.630 --> 06:56.730 So we like this guy. 06:56.950 --> 06:59.890 And he's already, and we can get along with him. 07:00.130 --> 07:01.350 And that'll be the solution. 07:01.790 --> 07:06.870 But I predict that's not going to be very, very likely. 07:07.330 --> 07:08.570 It's just a tragedy. 07:09.030 --> 07:11.590 And then when you think about the potential 07:12.390 --> 07:14.930 number of people who may die over this, 07:15.330 --> 07:21.550 and also the difficulty in getting the news out 07:21.550 --> 07:25.530 and why we're there, people don't say they don't like it. 07:25.850 --> 07:28.790 But they also have to ask us, why are we there 07:28.790 --> 07:30.670 if nobody wants to be there? 07:31.490 --> 07:34.110 And the other one is the people are, 07:34.570 --> 07:37.190 you know, they'll complain about it 07:37.190 --> 07:38.830 and get on that side of the argument. 07:39.150 --> 07:41.410 But then they vote for the money. 07:41.590 --> 07:42.730 To keep them there. 07:42.870 --> 07:44.690 I mean, are they withdrawing money? 07:44.790 --> 07:46.550 They can't win any vote. 07:46.550 --> 07:49.110 They said, you can't invade Card Island. 07:49.470 --> 07:55.510 And they said, oh, no, we can do whatever we want. 07:55.930 --> 07:58.610 The buck stops here and I'm the president. 07:59.230 --> 08:00.470 So we'll do what I want. 08:00.910 --> 08:03.990 So I see this as very, very dangerous 08:03.990 --> 08:05.630 and leading to trouble. 08:06.030 --> 08:09.870 And it's amazing to me how long ago has it been, 08:09.870 --> 08:14.890 not very long ago, oil was sometimes under $70 a barrel. 08:15.110 --> 08:19.030 And there was a flood of oil and people were doing well. 08:19.650 --> 08:22.270 And then all of a sudden, you know, they didn't take long. 08:22.650 --> 08:24.270 They could pump it up to over $100. 08:24.750 --> 08:27.110 And I don't think that type of activity. 08:27.350 --> 08:29.090 Do you think there's going to be a lot more oil 08:29.850 --> 08:33.450 if they go through with invading Card Island? 08:34.130 --> 08:35.730 And we take over. 08:35.730 --> 08:42.870 So even in Venezuela, yeah, they have a relative pause there. 08:46.130 --> 08:47.770 It's not going to pay all our bills. 08:48.130 --> 08:49.090 Well, you know how it is said. 08:49.630 --> 08:52.270 If we can get in there and straighten out their oil, 08:52.610 --> 08:56.830 then they'll pay us all the bills that we ran up 08:56.830 --> 08:59.810 for taking care of these people and getting rid of all the bad guys. 09:00.130 --> 09:02.010 Yeah, free money, free money. 09:02.530 --> 09:05.290 Well, here is a partial list of the troops that are in the area. 09:05.730 --> 09:11.070 If you go to that next one, it's not just the 3,082nd or the 2,500 Marines. 09:11.250 --> 09:14.230 You've got, well, Trump says he's holding talks with Iran. 09:14.430 --> 09:15.110 Now that was yesterday. 09:15.310 --> 09:16.470 We know that that's not true. 09:16.550 --> 09:17.210 He just made it up. 09:17.890 --> 09:19.690 The U.S. is still deploying thousands of troops. 09:20.270 --> 09:27.430 You've got the 100, excuse my sight is bad, the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit 2,500. 09:27.710 --> 09:31.650 You've got the 31st, 2,200 total troops in the region, 50,000. 09:31.770 --> 09:34.350 You've got the 82nd Airborne who are ready. 09:34.350 --> 09:38.450 You've got Trump, you've got cancelling, training exercises put on alert. 09:39.050 --> 09:44.170 Immediate response force standby for rapid deployment can deploy within 18 hours. 09:44.370 --> 09:46.630 You've got the Abe Lincoln in active combat. 09:46.890 --> 09:48.290 You've got the Ford, now it's in Greece. 09:48.670 --> 09:49.830 It's not going to be back in the scene. 09:50.370 --> 09:53.290 You've got 150-plus aircraft subs, destroyers, et cetera. 09:53.810 --> 09:55.510 Possible third carrier preparing. 09:56.210 --> 09:57.170 And here's what it's all about. 09:57.270 --> 09:57.930 Go to the next one. 09:58.450 --> 09:59.590 This is the geography. 10:00.750 --> 10:03.190 Now, Karg Island is that number one you see up there. 10:03.190 --> 10:09.190 Now, for them to invade Karg Island, they would have to pass U.S. military ships 10:09.190 --> 10:13.730 through the Strait of Hormuz, which is, I think, a virtual impossibility. 10:14.110 --> 10:18.270 If you look at number two, would you want to put a bunch of U.S. military ships 10:18.270 --> 10:19.770 right there, Dr. Paul? 10:20.030 --> 10:20.830 I wouldn't. 10:21.290 --> 10:22.270 So how are they going to get there? 10:22.350 --> 10:22.850 Good question. 10:23.430 --> 10:25.390 All the bases in that area have been destroyed. 10:26.250 --> 10:30.370 Kuwait, the bases in Iraq have been evacuated and destroyed. 10:30.830 --> 10:32.930 How are you going to get there? 10:33.190 --> 10:34.730 And so if you keep it up, please. 10:35.570 --> 10:38.570 So you have Chabahar. 10:38.690 --> 10:39.710 This is the number four. 10:40.230 --> 10:42.550 And that's what they're talking about now, possibly. 10:43.070 --> 10:43.710 Now, go to the next one. 10:43.790 --> 10:45.070 Health Ranger has a good comment here. 10:45.830 --> 10:50.470 On X, he says, prediction Trump's fake negotiations are just a delaying tactic. 10:50.750 --> 10:51.670 We already know that's true. 10:52.150 --> 10:56.290 To set up a weakened invasion of Iran with U.S. Marines, they will land, 10:56.310 --> 10:58.050 I believe, east of the Strait of Hormuz. 10:58.250 --> 10:59.490 Now, that's where that circle is. 10:59.910 --> 11:02.750 And you remember from the previous map, east of Hormuz, 11:02.750 --> 11:04.530 because sailing through the Strait would be suicide. 11:05.130 --> 11:06.570 My bed is landing near Chabahar. 11:06.990 --> 11:09.670 This will only happen after markets of close, of course. 11:09.850 --> 11:10.390 He knows that. 11:10.750 --> 11:13.690 If Trump proceeds with this, and I'm certainly not being glib here 11:13.690 --> 11:15.030 because this is deadly serious, 11:15.450 --> 11:17.110 there will be thousands of U.S. Marines killed 11:17.110 --> 11:19.910 and the American people won't be told about any of them. 11:20.410 --> 11:22.050 Now, as a refresher, as a reminder, 11:22.590 --> 11:23.150 what are we doing? 11:23.390 --> 11:25.270 We went into Iraq, Dr. Paul, if you go to the next one. 11:25.670 --> 11:27.830 We had at least a six-month buildup of troops. 11:27.970 --> 11:28.470 Remember that? 11:29.090 --> 11:33.810 From 2002 up until we went in in March of 03. 11:34.370 --> 11:37.330 So Iran has learned a lesson from Operation Desert Storm. 11:38.030 --> 11:41.770 In 1990, Saddam Hussein led American forces build up 11:41.770 --> 11:44.730 in Saudi Arabia 500,000 coalition troops. 11:45.370 --> 11:46.730 Iran won't make that mistake. 11:46.930 --> 11:49.550 They won't let U.S. ground troops build up in a neighboring country. 11:49.930 --> 11:51.290 They will strive to disrupt it. 11:51.690 --> 11:52.970 And the point of that, Dr. Paul, 11:53.150 --> 11:55.010 is just that the world has changed so much, 11:55.010 --> 11:58.150 with missiles, with satellites, with intel, 11:58.470 --> 12:01.530 you can't put 500,000 troops in a big group. 12:01.690 --> 12:04.030 They'll be blown up instantly. 12:04.430 --> 12:06.310 So they're fighting the last war, 12:06.430 --> 12:08.310 they're fighting the 1990 Gulf War, 12:08.910 --> 12:10.470 and they're making massive mistakes. 12:10.690 --> 12:13.970 So my point would just be if this is the plan 12:13.970 --> 12:16.390 to go in with these troops, it's not going to be good. 12:16.770 --> 12:20.170 Yeah, so I think when I see these big aircraft carriers, 12:20.710 --> 12:23.910 it's fancy building of big ships, 12:24.470 --> 12:28.810 but it's still the technique of a aircraft carrier. 12:29.050 --> 12:30.430 It's the World War II stuff. 12:31.010 --> 12:33.650 Yes, they're bigger and better and all this, 12:33.790 --> 12:37.850 but you point out that they're more vulnerable than ever. 12:38.170 --> 12:43.990 So instead of itching toward a more sensible position, 12:44.130 --> 12:46.610 what they're doing is just aggravating and setting it up 12:46.610 --> 12:50.890 that somebody's going to come along with these missiles 12:50.890 --> 12:54.250 that they can send not 20 miles or 50 miles, 12:54.630 --> 12:57.770 thousands of miles now in order to hit these targets. 12:59.290 --> 13:02.930 So it's really back to having some basic principle, 13:03.270 --> 13:09.150 even discussion of why people should consider non-intervention 13:09.150 --> 13:12.450 because still a lot of people in this country 13:12.450 --> 13:15.130 are sick and tired of it and they don't want this war, 13:15.810 --> 13:16.690 but then they would say, 13:17.410 --> 13:19.710 except they would have a few exceptions to it, 13:19.710 --> 13:22.870 but we better have a strong navy or we better do this 13:22.870 --> 13:26.450 and we can't desert the troops and nothing, 13:27.170 --> 13:28.650 policies don't change. 13:29.110 --> 13:34.910 And that's the power I think of the media to indoctrinate 13:34.910 --> 13:39.170 as well as use this whole idea of patriotism. 13:39.290 --> 13:42.990 You can't desert, so you're not a good patriot 13:42.990 --> 13:44.510 if you're going to do that. 13:44.510 --> 13:51.430 So, but they're basically accepting arbitrary, 13:51.790 --> 13:56.930 just wild intervention any place they feel like on a whim. 13:57.670 --> 14:00.150 And actually, Trump's been pointing out 14:00.150 --> 14:03.050 that a lot of this stuff is a whim, on a whim. 14:03.730 --> 14:10.810 So it just totally abases me, but also I'm sympathetic 14:10.810 --> 14:15.630 with the people who don't have the access to the information 14:15.630 --> 14:17.310 and they feel helpless, 14:17.970 --> 14:21.810 but it's still when the issue gets big enough, 14:22.610 --> 14:23.750 changes will be. 14:23.870 --> 14:27.610 And I think one of our goals has always been try to head this stuff off, 14:27.890 --> 14:29.250 tell them that you're making a mistake, 14:29.630 --> 14:31.730 you're going to end up with another Vietnam 14:31.730 --> 14:36.490 or another Afghanistan or another Iraq 14:36.490 --> 14:41.050 or Ukraine, we could put Ukraine in there too. 14:41.150 --> 14:41.770 To get in there, yeah. 14:42.330 --> 14:43.450 Well, the thing is that you and I, 14:43.510 --> 14:46.530 when we talk about thousands of US military service members killed, 14:47.130 --> 14:50.490 we feel terrified, we feel disgusted. 14:50.950 --> 14:52.290 Well, that's not true with everyone. 14:52.570 --> 14:56.170 And in fact, I do have a video of someone who thinks the idea 14:56.170 --> 15:00.110 of putting a bunch of troops into trying to take car, 15:00.230 --> 15:02.290 which remember that's the one very much on the top, 15:02.310 --> 15:04.490 where you'd have to pass through the straight support moves 15:04.490 --> 15:05.110 to get to it. 15:05.250 --> 15:06.770 If I want to get your earpiece in Dr. Paul, 15:07.190 --> 15:09.830 here's some of the things that is an absolutely fantastic idea. 15:10.110 --> 15:11.670 If I want to put your earpiece in Dr. Paul, 15:11.910 --> 15:14.890 or maybe you don't actually, maybe you don't want to hear this. 15:14.950 --> 15:15.930 I've heard it before. 15:16.130 --> 15:17.190 Yeah, you're going to hear it again. 15:17.390 --> 15:18.210 You're not going to like it. 15:18.590 --> 15:19.410 Running out of money. 15:19.670 --> 15:21.630 So here's what I tell President Trump, 15:22.010 --> 15:23.290 keep it up for a few more weeks. 15:23.750 --> 15:26.810 Take Carg Island, where all of the resources they have 15:26.810 --> 15:28.970 to produce oil, control that island, 15:29.390 --> 15:30.930 let this regime down a vine. 15:31.290 --> 15:33.010 Is this going to though take Carg Island? 15:33.010 --> 15:35.070 Is it going to involve U.S. troops on the ground? 15:35.290 --> 15:36.790 Let me just read you something for the Atlantic, 15:36.970 --> 15:37.790 does an assessment on that. 15:37.910 --> 15:40.090 They say U.S. troops may well take Carg Island. 15:40.230 --> 15:41.650 We believe their ability to do so, 15:42.050 --> 15:44.830 but only to endure ballistic missile strikes, drone attacks, 15:45.030 --> 15:47.590 petrochemical smoke, all without a reliable means 15:47.590 --> 15:49.230 of obtaining logistical support. 15:49.590 --> 15:51.930 The result could be a grinding war of attrition. 15:52.090 --> 15:54.930 They talk about how far away they would be from recent lives. 15:54.950 --> 15:57.610 I'm sort of tired of all this armchair quarterback, 15:57.850 --> 15:59.990 and this has been an amazing military operation. 16:00.510 --> 16:01.590 God bless the fallen. 16:01.590 --> 16:04.410 But it's a difference when we talk about troops on the ground. 16:04.450 --> 16:06.950 I trust the Marines, not that guy. 16:07.250 --> 16:08.450 I trust DOD. 16:08.610 --> 16:12.450 We got two Marine expeditionary units sailing to this island. 16:12.890 --> 16:15.330 We did Iwo Jima, we can do this. 16:15.790 --> 16:17.310 The Marines, my money's always on. 16:18.390 --> 16:21.030 He said we did Iwo Jima, we can do this. 16:21.250 --> 16:23.970 The point is we lost almost 7,000 service members. 16:24.610 --> 16:27.630 And I can think of a way that they could have handled, 16:27.830 --> 16:30.570 how about boycotting a little old island in the Pacific? 16:30.570 --> 16:32.210 Yeah, yeah, yeah. 16:32.890 --> 16:37.550 So 7,000, so he knew, he knows that 7,000 American service 16:37.550 --> 16:38.210 members were killed. 16:38.350 --> 16:39.650 He doesn't bother him at all. 16:40.210 --> 16:41.170 It doesn't bother him at all. 16:41.190 --> 16:42.430 But I gotta give credit. 16:42.630 --> 16:44.070 I don't know how they're planning it. 16:44.330 --> 16:47.150 But the interviewer, I thought she did pretty well. 16:47.350 --> 16:51.970 She had at least to ask him a question, and would you 16:51.970 --> 16:52.690 go and answer? 16:52.970 --> 16:53.930 A little bit of pushback. 16:54.050 --> 16:55.350 You don't see that very often, do you? 16:55.730 --> 16:57.690 Yeah, I was looking to see what station that was. 16:57.970 --> 17:00.210 Yeah, I think that was, I didn't notice, 17:00.210 --> 17:03.910 maybe CBS, but I know this is something I didn't show you 17:03.910 --> 17:06.470 before him, but I know you've already looked at it. 17:06.530 --> 17:08.690 There's no question about it, because you're looking 17:08.690 --> 17:09.750 at charts nonstop. 17:10.210 --> 17:14.690 But the Kobe SC letter has a great chart out this morning, 17:15.070 --> 17:16.210 if you want to put that up. 17:16.290 --> 17:18.410 Now this is, we talk about military stuff, 17:18.670 --> 17:22.310 but this is also where it's really at, that next JPEG, 17:22.450 --> 17:22.990 that chart. 17:23.730 --> 17:25.270 Now this is absolutely incredible. 17:25.610 --> 17:29.590 Kobe SC letter says the US 20 year note yield 17:29.590 --> 17:33.230 is now back to 5% less than 24 hours 17:33.230 --> 17:35.670 after Trump said peace talks were underway. 17:36.190 --> 17:39.890 The threat of 7% mortgages and $4 gas prices 17:39.890 --> 17:41.470 have become reality. 17:41.950 --> 17:44.910 Bond markets say this war is unsustainable. 17:45.030 --> 17:47.450 Now you can see that chart, Dr. Paul as well, 17:47.670 --> 17:50.630 how it's that announcement of Trump's yesterday 17:50.630 --> 17:53.330 that peace talks were happening put a way down, 17:53.410 --> 17:55.210 but it's right back, right back up again. 17:55.630 --> 17:56.550 What does that tell you? 17:57.130 --> 18:01.990 That tells you that the money might be running short too. 18:02.430 --> 18:03.930 It's a financial thing. 18:04.010 --> 18:08.930 This is a tying in of militarism and economic common sense. 18:09.510 --> 18:14.930 But so often this is what makes us back off over the years, 18:15.170 --> 18:17.350 but if you look at it historically, 18:17.930 --> 18:21.230 when you look at empires, it's what happens to empires. 18:21.570 --> 18:23.570 You know they spread themselves too thinly, 18:23.810 --> 18:26.230 they try to get the empire bigger and bigger, 18:26.230 --> 18:30.070 and then they debauch the currency and all of a sudden they collapses. 18:30.790 --> 18:33.730 So maybe we could say keep going. 18:33.890 --> 18:36.410 Maybe next week you'll have to live within your means, 18:36.530 --> 18:39.730 but that's not likely because unfortunately, 18:40.110 --> 18:41.310 to go through the ringer, 18:41.810 --> 18:44.550 the innocent people are the most likely to suffer the most. 18:45.050 --> 18:46.970 You know, the people who are doing this, 18:46.990 --> 18:49.990 they'll have their little methods of protecting 18:49.990 --> 18:52.170 against all the calamity they're creating. 18:52.430 --> 18:55.290 Yeah. Well, one thing that I would say is understandable. 18:55.290 --> 18:56.830 And we do know the troops, 18:56.970 --> 18:58.830 Marines, that's what they train for. 18:59.210 --> 19:00.110 They want to see action. 19:00.590 --> 19:01.610 But even the military, 19:01.990 --> 19:03.770 if you can believe some of the press reporting, 19:04.330 --> 19:06.810 is being very, very, it feels very uneasy. 19:07.010 --> 19:09.550 They probably sense the lack of any planning whatsoever. 19:10.370 --> 19:12.470 They're the ones putting their physical bodies on the line. 19:12.810 --> 19:14.150 Now this is from Huffington Post, 19:14.250 --> 19:15.410 which I don't normally read, 19:15.850 --> 19:16.930 but it is rather interesting. 19:17.630 --> 19:19.730 Quote, we don't want to die for Israel. 19:20.150 --> 19:20.570 End quote. 19:21.070 --> 19:24.290 Doubts about Trump's Iran strategy spread among troops. 19:24.810 --> 19:25.630 Go to the next one. 19:25.950 --> 19:29.450 As the U.S.-Israel war on Iran enters its fourth week 19:29.450 --> 19:31.190 and President Trump orders the deployment 19:31.190 --> 19:33.930 of thousands of additional sailors and Marines 19:33.930 --> 19:35.210 to the Middle East. 19:35.810 --> 19:39.150 The troops he is counting on are increasingly wary 19:39.690 --> 19:40.530 of the conflict. 19:40.770 --> 19:41.310 Go to the next one. 19:41.350 --> 19:43.710 A military official who's treating service members 19:43.710 --> 19:45.270 evacuated from the Middle East 19:45.270 --> 19:48.790 to Lanzel Regional Medical Center in Germany. 19:49.250 --> 19:51.610 Amid Iran's retaliation said troops are suffering, 19:51.610 --> 19:55.090 from quote, inadequate force protection and planning. 19:55.650 --> 19:58.790 And I underline this already support reporting 19:58.790 --> 20:04.290 a severe destabilizing toll from Iranian ballistic missiles 20:04.290 --> 20:07.370 and drones that have been repeatedly striking 20:07.370 --> 20:09.090 American military facilities. 20:09.730 --> 20:12.030 13 troops killed amid the war so far, 20:12.290 --> 20:15.890 seven due to strikes, and at least 232 have been wounded. 20:16.570 --> 20:17.970 A ground operation would be, quote, 20:18.170 --> 20:19.290 an absolute disaster. 20:19.490 --> 20:20.710 We don't have a plan for that. 20:20.710 --> 20:22.790 The official said earlier this week, 20:22.870 --> 20:28.650 we can't even fully defend a single land base in the theater. 20:28.830 --> 20:30.310 That's terrifying, Dr. Paul. 20:30.830 --> 20:32.370 You know, we were talking about their never, 20:32.370 --> 20:35.670 never change their attitude about what they're trying to do. 20:35.990 --> 20:38.690 But we've talked about in the last several weeks 20:38.690 --> 20:41.830 or maybe months now of the increased interest 20:41.830 --> 20:44.710 in the conscription, the draft. 20:45.390 --> 20:45.510 Yeah. 20:46.050 --> 20:48.130 They, oh, it's a little bit easier now. 20:48.130 --> 20:51.950 Technology is allowing them to register, you know, 20:52.130 --> 20:54.690 without anybody going in and going through the ritual. 20:55.430 --> 20:59.010 And, of course, it reminds me also that during, 20:59.390 --> 21:03.810 especially when the Vietnam War became very, very unpopular, 21:04.310 --> 21:06.670 people escaped to Canada. 21:07.150 --> 21:09.010 And that lasted for a couple years 21:09.010 --> 21:10.910 before they straightened out that mess. 21:11.270 --> 21:13.510 But, you know, just the basic principle 21:13.510 --> 21:15.650 of what is the purpose of here going to have a government, 21:15.650 --> 21:16.910 what is it? 21:17.030 --> 21:19.990 Maybe it's to protect life and limb, our life and limbs. 21:20.490 --> 21:24.650 And yet what they end up doing is they use life and limb 21:24.650 --> 21:27.770 and soldiers to protect the special interests of the wealthy, 21:28.070 --> 21:31.890 people who may own the oil wells or whatever they're doing. 21:32.730 --> 21:39.450 But the whole thing is their basic assumptions 21:39.450 --> 21:43.510 is that governments are wonderful and they know what is best. 21:43.510 --> 21:49.450 And, of course, the golden rule I like is the natural law. 21:50.030 --> 21:53.210 You know, if you and I can't go and steal all this stuff from them, 21:53.430 --> 21:55.290 oh, well, it'll pay for all this expenses, 21:55.810 --> 21:59.510 then the government shouldn't be able to do that. 21:59.790 --> 22:02.610 But that's one thing that people have a lot of trouble 22:02.610 --> 22:03.850 understanding that. 22:04.150 --> 22:08.410 But you have to incorporate that with the obligation 22:08.410 --> 22:10.650 that people have to take care of themselves 22:10.650 --> 22:12.190 and provide for their own safety. 22:12.190 --> 22:15.650 You know, that is what a lot of people don't accept. 22:16.010 --> 22:20.050 But it's been tried and a good part of our history, 22:20.070 --> 22:22.890 you know, had more respect for that. 22:23.210 --> 22:26.370 But right now it's the government sending it to the troops. 22:26.810 --> 22:28.910 Look at what they did on COVID. 22:29.230 --> 22:29.390 Yeah. 22:30.030 --> 22:31.410 It was just a disaster. 22:31.670 --> 22:31.830 It was a disaster. 22:33.150 --> 22:35.010 Well, skip ahead to the one, the clip, 22:35.190 --> 22:36.290 starting with Mike Preisner. 22:36.930 --> 22:38.890 This is from the same article from Huffington Post. 22:39.670 --> 22:43.270 But Michael Preisner, the executive director 22:43.270 --> 22:45.330 of the Center on Conscience and War, 22:45.930 --> 22:46.810 and I'll just a side note. 22:46.930 --> 22:48.370 I think I may have mentioned that before. 22:49.070 --> 22:50.550 Dr. Paul, you know this well. 22:50.670 --> 22:54.330 I worked with this group the entire time I was on your staff 22:54.330 --> 22:55.750 on Capitol Hill. 22:56.330 --> 22:57.590 It's a superb organization. 22:57.930 --> 22:59.910 Bill Galvin is still involved, 22:59.910 --> 23:03.310 but I think Mike Preisner has taken over a lot of it. 23:03.970 --> 23:07.850 There's a lot of misunderstanding about what conscientious objection is. 23:08.350 --> 23:10.090 There's a view that it's unpatriotic, 23:10.090 --> 23:11.630 and that's absolutely not the case. 23:11.770 --> 23:13.090 There's a view that it's illegal, 23:13.090 --> 23:14.730 and that's absolutely not the case. 23:15.050 --> 23:16.750 But anyway, so Mike Preisner, 23:16.770 --> 23:18.630 executive director of the Center on Conscience and War, 23:19.090 --> 23:20.870 said his group would, in past years, 23:21.030 --> 23:23.290 hear between 50 and 80 troops annually. 23:24.110 --> 23:24.850 Now, highlight this. 23:25.230 --> 23:30.450 The month of March has seen a 1,000% increase, he added, 23:30.870 --> 23:33.010 seeing at least one new service member 23:33.010 --> 23:35.450 now contacts the organization daily. 23:35.950 --> 23:38.350 On Friday, he wrote on X that his group is handling 23:39.450 --> 23:40.990 expedited objector applications 23:41.530 --> 23:43.510 by Army, Navy, and Marines personnel 23:43.510 --> 23:46.270 who were told they will be deploying this weekend. 23:46.970 --> 23:50.550 So people, these are not cowards. 23:50.550 --> 23:52.690 These are young men and women who train for this, 23:52.810 --> 23:55.330 but they look around and they realize there is no plan. 23:55.750 --> 23:57.210 This war is not being fought for us. 23:57.450 --> 23:58.390 As they mentioned early, 23:58.470 --> 23:59.450 one of them was quoted saying, 23:59.610 --> 24:01.090 we don't want to go out and die for Israel. 24:01.190 --> 24:03.270 This is not protecting the United States, 24:03.390 --> 24:05.250 so they're looking into this 24:05.250 --> 24:06.570 and more power to them. 24:07.810 --> 24:12.490 If they do more speaking out and talking in public, 24:13.090 --> 24:15.390 they'll be somehow going to get in trouble 24:15.390 --> 24:17.710 because that's not usually tolerated. 24:17.930 --> 24:20.570 Especially if you're the one that's most vulnerable, 24:22.370 --> 24:24.870 that those individuals will probably 24:24.870 --> 24:26.370 have a great desire to speak out, 24:26.850 --> 24:32.430 but it's back to what type of foreign policy you have. 24:32.550 --> 24:34.470 You have a stupid foreign policy here 24:34.470 --> 24:35.930 and have stupid wars, 24:36.230 --> 24:38.790 and you're going to kill a lot of innocent people, 24:39.070 --> 24:41.010 and we do it over and over again. 24:41.250 --> 24:42.230 And I would guarantee you, 24:42.270 --> 24:43.370 every one of those service members 24:43.370 --> 24:46.350 who's now looking into conscientious objection, 24:46.770 --> 24:48.770 if they felt that this really was a war 24:48.770 --> 24:49.930 protecting the United States, 24:50.310 --> 24:52.150 I bet there wouldn't be one or two of them 24:52.150 --> 24:53.470 that would say I want out. 24:53.850 --> 24:55.970 They're gung-ho, but they recognize 24:55.970 --> 24:57.330 that I'm not going to die 24:57.970 --> 24:59.570 if it's not for the United States. 24:59.790 --> 25:02.890 And so it's a very important thing. 25:02.890 --> 25:05.450 I'm going to bug out here with a couple of things. 25:06.350 --> 25:08.190 Now, I had an irritating morning, Dr. Paul. 25:08.330 --> 25:12.910 If you go to that next clip with the bag, 25:14.270 --> 25:15.670 I know you got running around back there. 25:16.090 --> 25:17.270 I had a tough morning, Dr. Paul. 25:17.370 --> 25:18.050 My wife is ill. 25:18.130 --> 25:19.210 Usually she makes the coffee, 25:19.210 --> 25:22.930 and we were out of Ron Paul Liberty Report Revolution blend, 25:23.530 --> 25:24.390 totally out of it. 25:24.790 --> 25:26.470 So I had to grab my backup, 25:26.510 --> 25:27.650 and I had to make it myself, 25:28.150 --> 25:29.590 and it wasn't very good. 25:29.730 --> 25:30.510 I'll put it that way. 25:30.950 --> 25:33.410 I've become addicted to this revolution blend. 25:34.170 --> 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--> 26:11.550 Tomorrow I will make some big announcements on speakers, 26:11.690 --> 26:14.010 but if you're waiting for that, don't do that. 26:14.230 --> 26:15.030 Just get your tickets. 26:15.190 --> 26:16.050 Don't wait for the speakers. 26:16.470 --> 26:17.650 You know they're going to be good. 26:19.290 --> 26:20.410 Don't even worry about it. 26:20.410 --> 26:20.970 Get those tickets. 26:21.650 --> 26:23.470 Prices are the same as they've been for a couple years, 26:23.470 --> 26:25.910 which has been very difficult to maintain that. 26:26.330 --> 26:28.010 You're not going to care about prices when you hear 26:28.010 --> 26:30.210 who's going to be here tomorrow. 26:30.830 --> 26:31.470 So grab those. 26:31.950 --> 26:32.790 The link is there. 26:33.210 --> 26:34.570 Come see us next month. 26:35.030 --> 26:36.030 I'm afraid, Dr. Paul, 26:36.210 --> 26:38.110 I wish this was going to be overtaken by events, 26:38.330 --> 26:40.270 but I'm afraid that we're still going 26:40.270 --> 26:41.450 to be talking about this war. 26:42.170 --> 26:42.690 Unfortunately. 26:44.830 --> 26:49.190 You know, the talk about how many thousands of soldiers 26:49.190 --> 26:54.330 may die or what number they don't mention very often 26:54.330 --> 26:55.850 are the civilians. 26:56.540 --> 27:00.810 And this war, the news does creep out. 27:01.390 --> 27:04.050 Schools and hospitals and things like that. 27:04.250 --> 27:06.910 Yes, they have those targets that are supposed 27:06.910 --> 27:08.910 to be designed to hit military targets 27:08.910 --> 27:10.810 and they use them to really punish them 27:10.810 --> 27:12.770 and hit in the schools and hospitals. 27:13.330 --> 27:16.450 But there was one last article I want to refer to 27:16.450 --> 27:21.270 because it really makes that point. 27:21.270 --> 27:26.110 It says Congress killed 7,091 of our military 27:26.110 --> 27:30.290 at a cost of $10 trillion over the decades 27:30.290 --> 27:33.670 to conquer the Middle East. 27:34.310 --> 27:37.470 And that makes no sense. 27:38.790 --> 27:42.730 And nothing to do with our national security. 27:42.990 --> 27:44.730 Nothing to do with common sense. 27:45.010 --> 27:46.430 Nothing to do with morality. 27:46.950 --> 27:50.150 Nothing to do with understanding monetary policy. 27:50.150 --> 27:52.170 And it just goes on and on. 27:52.610 --> 27:54.190 And then nothing to do with recognizing 27:54.190 --> 27:59.350 how civil liberties are abused as these wars go on. 28:00.030 --> 28:03.250 But the numbers out there, you know, I can... 28:03.250 --> 28:07.910 Then you're supposed to, you know, be so... 28:08.650 --> 28:09.970 I don't know what the word is. 28:10.010 --> 28:10.930 They want to be proud. 28:11.290 --> 28:13.810 They have to do it, I think, just for psychological reason. 28:14.050 --> 28:15.370 They can't say, you know, 28:15.390 --> 28:17.090 what if everyone that has been killed, 28:17.250 --> 28:18.650 you know, took the position, 28:19.210 --> 28:22.370 you know, that they shouldn't have been drafted. 28:22.610 --> 28:23.730 They should never have had to go. 28:24.170 --> 28:26.110 I mean, you could wear your life out that way. 28:26.290 --> 28:28.090 But anyway, that is a problem. 28:28.630 --> 28:30.910 So we have this around. 28:31.270 --> 28:32.870 It's going to be around yet for a long, 28:32.910 --> 28:33.610 a while longer. 28:34.250 --> 28:37.190 And we're going to continue to make the argument 28:37.190 --> 28:39.370 and the case for peace and prosperity. 28:39.790 --> 28:43.070 And that is by limiting government and promoting liberty. 28:44.150 --> 28:46.790 I want to thank everybody for tuning in today 28:46.790 --> 28:48.230 to the Liberty Report. 28:49.030 --> 28:50.230 Please come back soon.