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Daniel, good to see you this morning.
Good morning Dr. Paul, how are you doing this morning?
Doing well.
Good, all right.
But we'll talk about a subject we've been talking about, and we keep thinking that freedom and
peace is going to break out and we'll be out of work.
We won't have any job to try to explain what's going on.
Well that's being facetious, of course, a good bit, and trying to figure out what's
going on.
I think, Daniel, our problem is the people who are running the show and making all the
decisions, they probably don't know what's going on either.
No kidding.
And that makes it difficult, because it certainly is on again, off again.
Let's do this, let's do that.
And we're going to be talking a little bit about that.
We want to talk about Trump's ground troops moving in the direction of getting involved
near Iran.
Actually, they're looking at Kark Island, the key island off the shore of Iran,
and dealing with oil to a large degree.
So the headline is New York Times, because of the New York Times.
Pentagon considers deploying 82nd Airborne troops for potential attack on Iran's
Kark Island.
That's dangerous.
Everything starts either with a blatant lie or blatant stupidity, and it turned out that
almost like a minor incident that didn't happen to start the Vietnam War.
Oh, they shot at one of our ships?
Of course, we were 7,000 miles away from home.
We shouldn't have been in there, we were just looking to start.
But anyway, look at what happened there.
So this is a big deal as far as I'm concerned and what it might lead to,
and it's not the only group that's moving in that direction.
They have troops moving in that direction, and I imagine, this would be my guess,
that they don't have the vaguest idea what they'll end up doing.
Yes, I think you're right on that.
And yet, just opening up the door to some accident or some false flag or whatever.
So this is not good, because even if something happened tomorrow,
that everything was calmed down and things looked a lot improved, the problem still exists
because it's the principle of what in thunder are we doing 6,000 miles away, and we are very
interested in oil because they wanted to make sure we have an abundance of oil,
and we could control it internationally.
But the whole thing is, what has happened to oil?
Well, for $70, up to $100 a barrel.
So they're not doing very well unless there could be somebody conspiring
that could benefit from a high cost of oil.
But I don't know their names or anything, but who knows what they might be doing.
But anyway, it is a mess.
I say watch out for the danger.
And it looks like more and more people are starting to agree with it,
even those close to the military trying to get the truth out.
Yeah, absolutely.
Let's put that first clip on.
David Kim did a good write-up of what's going on here.
The Pentagon considers deploying 82nd Airborne.
As you said, Dr. Paul, for potential attack on Carg Island,
we'll go into the geography of that island in a second.
But the US military officials are considered deploying a combat brigade
from the Army's 82nd Airborne Division.
That's about 3,000 soldiers that would somehow get onto this island.
You go to the next one and you can see those 3,000 troops could be used to seize the island
or the US could opt for the 2,500 Marines from the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit,
who are also on route.
Apparently both could be there by Friday, Dr. Paul.
One issue with the Marines is they're traveling on warships and would sustain
significant American missile and drone fire while attempting to cross the Strait of Hormuz.
We'll look at the geography again in a second.
It wouldn't be any easier for the airborne, by the way, to jump out of planes onto the island.
And here's what worries me, Dr. Paul, about this whole idea to send in troops.
Well, first of all, we know it's very, very unpopular.
I mean, when you ask the Americans from at the beginning,
well, what do you think about going into this war?
Most of them said it's a terrible idea.
But then you add it on.
But what if you had to put in troops?
Then pretty much everyone said, terrible, terrible idea.
What worries me is that everything about this war seems to feel like it's being done on the fly.
Like every morning they wake up.
Trump woke up yesterday morning and said, oh my god, what did I do on Sunday?
I swore that I would bomb them in 48 hours.
So he gets up on Monday and said, just kidding.
We're actually, we're talking to the Iranians.
The Iranians say, no, we're not.
What are you talking about?
And so that was the whole day yesterday taken up by the line.
But, you know, so this was supposed to be a quick decapitation strike.
This is how the Mossad sold it to President Trump.
We'll take out their leadership.
They will capitulate.
The people will take to the streets, overthrow their government,
put in a friendly government.
Everything is hunky-dory.
It'll be easy, almost cost-free.
Well, that didn't work.
And so it became, well, we're going to bomb them until they capitulate.
And we did all that.
And Trump said we bombed the blank out of them.
That we've already won.
It's already over.
Well, they bombed back.
They took out every single U.S. base.
Some are completely out of commission.
Some are halfway out.
Some are, all of them are seriously damaged.
So the retaliation keeps going on.
So everything they say that's going to solve this war
is actually doing nothing of the sort and making it worse.
So when they say, well, we put in 3,000 troops.
We're going to take those islands.
That'll be, this will be the plan.
This will finally work.
Except you're playing with the lives
of thousands of American service members.
But you've got to give them credit.
They're optimistic because they have chosen the next president.
Yeah, yeah.
So we like this guy.
And he's already, and we can get along with him.
And that'll be the solution.
But I predict that's not going to be very, very likely.
It's just a tragedy.
And then when you think about the potential
number of people who may die over this,
and also the difficulty in getting the news out
and why we're there, people don't say they don't like it.
But they also have to ask us, why are we there
if nobody wants to be there?
And the other one is the people are,
you know, they'll complain about it
and get on that side of the argument.
But then they vote for the money.
To keep them there.
I mean, are they withdrawing money?
They can't win any vote.
They said, you can't invade Card Island.
And they said, oh, no, we can do whatever we want.
The buck stops here and I'm the president.
So we'll do what I want.
So I see this as very, very dangerous
and leading to trouble.
And it's amazing to me how long ago has it been,
not very long ago, oil was sometimes under $70 a barrel.
And there was a flood of oil and people were doing well.
And then all of a sudden, you know, they didn't take long.
They could pump it up to over $100.
And I don't think that type of activity.
Do you think there's going to be a lot more oil
if they go through with invading Card Island?
And we take over.
So even in Venezuela, yeah, they have a relative pause there.
It's not going to pay all our bills.
Well, you know how it is said.
If we can get in there and straighten out their oil,
then they'll pay us all the bills that we ran up
for taking care of these people and getting rid of all the bad guys.
Yeah, free money, free money.
Well, here is a partial list of the troops that are in the area.
If you go to that next one, it's not just the 3,082nd or the 2,500 Marines.
You've got, well, Trump says he's holding talks with Iran.
Now that was yesterday.
We know that that's not true.
He just made it up.
The U.S. is still deploying thousands of troops.
You've got the 100, excuse my sight is bad, the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit 2,500.
You've got the 31st, 2,200 total troops in the region, 50,000.
You've got the 82nd Airborne who are ready.
You've got Trump, you've got cancelling, training exercises put on alert.
Immediate response force standby for rapid deployment can deploy within 18 hours.
You've got the Abe Lincoln in active combat.
You've got the Ford, now it's in Greece.
It's not going to be back in the scene.
You've got 150-plus aircraft subs, destroyers, et cetera.
Possible third carrier preparing.
And here's what it's all about.
Go to the next one.
This is the geography.
Now, Karg Island is that number one you see up there.
Now, for them to invade Karg Island, they would have to pass U.S. military ships
through the Strait of Hormuz, which is, I think, a virtual impossibility.
If you look at number two, would you want to put a bunch of U.S. military ships
right there, Dr. Paul?
I wouldn't.
So how are they going to get there?
Good question.
All the bases in that area have been destroyed.
Kuwait, the bases in Iraq have been evacuated and destroyed.
How are you going to get there?
And so if you keep it up, please.
So you have Chabahar.
This is the number four.
And that's what they're talking about now, possibly.
Now, go to the next one.
Health Ranger has a good comment here.
On X, he says, prediction Trump's fake negotiations are just a delaying tactic.
We already know that's true.
To set up a weakened invasion of Iran with U.S. Marines, they will land,
I believe, east of the Strait of Hormuz.
Now, that's where that circle is.
And you remember from the previous map, east of Hormuz,
because sailing through the Strait would be suicide.
My bed is landing near Chabahar.
This will only happen after markets of close, of course.
He knows that.
If Trump proceeds with this, and I'm certainly not being glib here
because this is deadly serious,
there will be thousands of U.S. Marines killed
and the American people won't be told about any of them.
Now, as a refresher, as a reminder,
what are we doing?
We went into Iraq, Dr. Paul, if you go to the next one.
We had at least a six-month buildup of troops.
Remember that?
From 2002 up until we went in in March of 03.
So Iran has learned a lesson from Operation Desert Storm.
In 1990, Saddam Hussein led American forces build up
in Saudi Arabia 500,000 coalition troops.
Iran won't make that mistake.
They won't let U.S. ground troops build up in a neighboring country.
They will strive to disrupt it.
And the point of that, Dr. Paul,
is just that the world has changed so much,
with missiles, with satellites, with intel,
you can't put 500,000 troops in a big group.
They'll be blown up instantly.
So they're fighting the last war,
they're fighting the 1990 Gulf War,
and they're making massive mistakes.
So my point would just be if this is the plan
to go in with these troops, it's not going to be good.
Yeah, so I think when I see these big aircraft carriers,
it's fancy building of big ships,
but it's still the technique of a aircraft carrier.
It's the World War II stuff.
Yes, they're bigger and better and all this,
but you point out that they're more vulnerable than ever.
So instead of itching toward a more sensible position,
what they're doing is just aggravating and setting it up
that somebody's going to come along with these missiles
that they can send not 20 miles or 50 miles,
thousands of miles now in order to hit these targets.
So it's really back to having some basic principle,
even discussion of why people should consider non-intervention
because still a lot of people in this country
are sick and tired of it and they don't want this war,
but then they would say,
except they would have a few exceptions to it,
but we better have a strong navy or we better do this
and we can't desert the troops and nothing,
policies don't change.
And that's the power I think of the media to indoctrinate
as well as use this whole idea of patriotism.
You can't desert, so you're not a good patriot
if you're going to do that.
So, but they're basically accepting arbitrary,
just wild intervention any place they feel like on a whim.
And actually, Trump's been pointing out
that a lot of this stuff is a whim, on a whim.
So it just totally abases me, but also I'm sympathetic
with the people who don't have the access to the information
and they feel helpless,
but it's still when the issue gets big enough,
changes will be.
And I think one of our goals has always been try to head this stuff off,
tell them that you're making a mistake,
you're going to end up with another Vietnam
or another Afghanistan or another Iraq
or Ukraine, we could put Ukraine in there too.
To get in there, yeah.
Well, the thing is that you and I,
when we talk about thousands of US military service members killed,
we feel terrified, we feel disgusted.
Well, that's not true with everyone.
And in fact, I do have a video of someone who thinks the idea
of putting a bunch of troops into trying to take car,
which remember that's the one very much on the top,
where you'd have to pass through the straight support moves
to get to it.
If I want to get your earpiece in Dr. Paul,
here's some of the things that is an absolutely fantastic idea.
If I want to put your earpiece in Dr. Paul,
or maybe you don't actually, maybe you don't want to hear this.
I've heard it before.
Yeah, you're going to hear it again.
You're not going to like it.
Running out of money.
So here's what I tell President Trump,
keep it up for a few more weeks.
Take Carg Island, where all of the resources they have
to produce oil, control that island,
let this regime down a vine.
Is this going to though take Carg Island?
Is it going to involve U.S. troops on the ground?
Let me just read you something for the Atlantic,
does an assessment on that.
They say U.S. troops may well take Carg Island.
We believe their ability to do so,
but only to endure ballistic missile strikes, drone attacks,
petrochemical smoke, all without a reliable means
of obtaining logistical support.
The result could be a grinding war of attrition.
They talk about how far away they would be from recent lives.
I'm sort of tired of all this armchair quarterback,
and this has been an amazing military operation.
God bless the fallen.
But it's a difference when we talk about troops on the ground.
I trust the Marines, not that guy.
I trust DOD.
We got two Marine expeditionary units sailing to this island.
We did Iwo Jima, we can do this.
The Marines, my money's always on.
He said we did Iwo Jima, we can do this.
The point is we lost almost 7,000 service members.
And I can think of a way that they could have handled,
how about boycotting a little old island in the Pacific?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So 7,000, so he knew, he knows that 7,000 American service
members were killed.
He doesn't bother him at all.
It doesn't bother him at all.
But I gotta give credit.
I don't know how they're planning it.
But the interviewer, I thought she did pretty well.
She had at least to ask him a question, and would you
go and answer?
A little bit of pushback.
You don't see that very often, do you?
Yeah, I was looking to see what station that was.
Yeah, I think that was, I didn't notice,
maybe CBS, but I know this is something I didn't show you
before him, but I know you've already looked at it.
There's no question about it, because you're looking
at charts nonstop.
But the Kobe SC letter has a great chart out this morning,
if you want to put that up.
Now this is, we talk about military stuff,
but this is also where it's really at, that next JPEG,
that chart.
Now this is absolutely incredible.
Kobe SC letter says the US 20 year note yield
is now back to 5% less than 24 hours
after Trump said peace talks were underway.
The threat of 7% mortgages and $4 gas prices
have become reality.
Bond markets say this war is unsustainable.
Now you can see that chart, Dr. Paul as well,
how it's that announcement of Trump's yesterday
that peace talks were happening put a way down,
but it's right back, right back up again.
What does that tell you?
That tells you that the money might be running short too.
It's a financial thing.
This is a tying in of militarism and economic common sense.
But so often this is what makes us back off over the years,
but if you look at it historically,
when you look at empires, it's what happens to empires.
You know they spread themselves too thinly,
they try to get the empire bigger and bigger,
and then they debauch the currency and all of a sudden they collapses.
So maybe we could say keep going.
Maybe next week you'll have to live within your means,
but that's not likely because unfortunately,
to go through the ringer,
the innocent people are the most likely to suffer the most.
You know, the people who are doing this,
they'll have their little methods of protecting
against all the calamity they're creating.
Yeah. Well, one thing that I would say is understandable.
And we do know the troops,
Marines, that's what they train for.
They want to see action.
But even the military,
if you can believe some of the press reporting,
is being very, very, it feels very uneasy.
They probably sense the lack of any planning whatsoever.
They're the ones putting their physical bodies on the line.
Now this is from Huffington Post,
which I don't normally read,
but it is rather interesting.
Quote, we don't want to die for Israel.
End quote.
Doubts about Trump's Iran strategy spread among troops.
Go to the next one.
As the U.S.-Israel war on Iran enters its fourth week
and President Trump orders the deployment
of thousands of additional sailors and Marines
to the Middle East.
The troops he is counting on are increasingly wary
of the conflict.
Go to the next one.
A military official who's treating service members
evacuated from the Middle East
to Lanzel Regional Medical Center in Germany.
Amid Iran's retaliation said troops are suffering,
from quote, inadequate force protection and planning.
And I underline this already support reporting
a severe destabilizing toll from Iranian ballistic missiles
and drones that have been repeatedly striking
American military facilities.
13 troops killed amid the war so far,
seven due to strikes, and at least 232 have been wounded.
A ground operation would be, quote,
an absolute disaster.
We don't have a plan for that.
The official said earlier this week,
we can't even fully defend a single land base in the theater.
That's terrifying, Dr. Paul.
You know, we were talking about their never,
never change their attitude about what they're trying to do.
But we've talked about in the last several weeks
or maybe months now of the increased interest
in the conscription, the draft.
Yeah.
They, oh, it's a little bit easier now.
Technology is allowing them to register, you know,
without anybody going in and going through the ritual.
And, of course, it reminds me also that during,
especially when the Vietnam War became very, very unpopular,
people escaped to Canada.
And that lasted for a couple years
before they straightened out that mess.
But, you know, just the basic principle
of what is the purpose of here going to have a government,
what is it?
Maybe it's to protect life and limb, our life and limbs.
And yet what they end up doing is they use life and limb
and soldiers to protect the special interests of the wealthy,
people who may own the oil wells or whatever they're doing.
But the whole thing is their basic assumptions
is that governments are wonderful and they know what is best.
And, of course, the golden rule I like is the natural law.
You know, if you and I can't go and steal all this stuff from them,
oh, well, it'll pay for all this expenses,
then the government shouldn't be able to do that.
But that's one thing that people have a lot of trouble
understanding that.
But you have to incorporate that with the obligation
that people have to take care of themselves
and provide for their own safety.
You know, that is what a lot of people don't accept.
But it's been tried and a good part of our history,
you know, had more respect for that.
But right now it's the government sending it to the troops.
Look at what they did on COVID.
Yeah.
It was just a disaster.
It was a disaster.
Well, skip ahead to the one, the clip,
starting with Mike Preisner.
This is from the same article from Huffington Post.
But Michael Preisner, the executive director
of the Center on Conscience and War,
and I'll just a side note.
I think I may have mentioned that before.
Dr. Paul, you know this well.
I worked with this group the entire time I was on your staff
on Capitol Hill.
It's a superb organization.
Bill Galvin is still involved,
but I think Mike Preisner has taken over a lot of it.
There's a lot of misunderstanding about what conscientious objection is.
There's a view that it's unpatriotic,
and that's absolutely not the case.
There's a view that it's illegal,
and that's absolutely not the case.
But anyway, so Mike Preisner,
executive director of the Center on Conscience and War,
said his group would, in past years,
hear between 50 and 80 troops annually.
Now, highlight this.
The month of March has seen a 1,000% increase, he added,
seeing at least one new service member
now contacts the organization daily.
On Friday, he wrote on X that his group is handling
expedited objector applications
by Army, Navy, and Marines personnel
who were told they will be deploying this weekend.
So people, these are not cowards.
These are young men and women who train for this,
but they look around and they realize there is no plan.
This war is not being fought for us.
As they mentioned early,
one of them was quoted saying,
we don't want to go out and die for Israel.
This is not protecting the United States,
so they're looking into this
and more power to them.
If they do more speaking out and talking in public,
they'll be somehow going to get in trouble
because that's not usually tolerated.
Especially if you're the one that's most vulnerable,
that those individuals will probably
have a great desire to speak out,
but it's back to what type of foreign policy you have.
You have a stupid foreign policy here
and have stupid wars,
and you're going to kill a lot of innocent people,
and we do it over and over again.
And I would guarantee you,
every one of those service members
who's now looking into conscientious objection,
if they felt that this really was a war
protecting the United States,
I bet there wouldn't be one or two of them
that would say I want out.
They're gung-ho, but they recognize
that I'm not going to die
if it's not for the United States.
And so it's a very important thing.
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I'm afraid, Dr. Paul,
I wish this was going to be overtaken by events,
but I'm afraid that we're still going
to be talking about this war.
Unfortunately.
You know, the talk about how many thousands of soldiers
may die or what number they don't mention very often
are the civilians.
And this war, the news does creep out.
Schools and hospitals and things like that.
Yes, they have those targets that are supposed
to be designed to hit military targets
and they use them to really punish them
and hit in the schools and hospitals.
But there was one last article I want to refer to
because it really makes that point.
It says Congress killed 7,091 of our military
at a cost of $10 trillion over the decades
to conquer the Middle East.
And that makes no sense.
And nothing to do with our national security.
Nothing to do with common sense.
Nothing to do with morality.
Nothing to do with understanding monetary policy.
And it just goes on and on.
And then nothing to do with recognizing
how civil liberties are abused as these wars go on.
But the numbers out there, you know, I can...
Then you're supposed to, you know, be so...
I don't know what the word is.
They want to be proud.
They have to do it, I think, just for psychological reason.
They can't say, you know,
what if everyone that has been killed,
you know, took the position,
you know, that they shouldn't have been drafted.
They should never have had to go.
I mean, you could wear your life out that way.
But anyway, that is a problem.
So we have this around.
It's going to be around yet for a long,
a while longer.
And we're going to continue to make the argument
and the case for peace and prosperity.
And that is by limiting government and promoting liberty.
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