WEBVTT 00:01.200 --> 00:04.740 The spirit of this revolution is not going away. 00:04.960 --> 00:11.000 This is the Ron Paul Liberty Report with Ron Paul, Daniel McAdams, and Chris Rossini. 00:11.600 --> 00:17.280 We are all ambassadors of the Ron Paul Doctrine, and it's absurd. Just tell the truth. 00:17.480 --> 00:22.400 An idea whose time has come cannot be stopped by any army or any government. 00:35.670 --> 00:39.970 Hello everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report. 00:39.970 --> 00:45.870 With us today, we have Chris Rossini, our co-host. Chris, welcome to the program. 00:46.410 --> 00:48.230 Good morning. Great to be with you, Dr. Paul. 00:48.410 --> 00:54.730 Very good. We have some things to talk about. We might even mention a company that supports us, 00:55.270 --> 01:00.330 and we partner with, but first, before we start, I just might mention 01:00.330 --> 01:05.670 what we're going to be talking about today. 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Now, I want to introduce the subject today that we're talking about. 02:38.310 --> 02:43.290 I hit it that it will be about Iran, but we're taking a headline from Zero Hedge. 02:43.290 --> 02:49.870 And this was rather startling. You have to stop and think, you know, what's going on? 02:49.950 --> 02:51.130 What kind of war is this? 02:52.410 --> 02:55.230 And this comes from New York Times. 02:55.430 --> 02:59.550 So it has to be, if it's sort of making us raise our head, 02:59.670 --> 03:03.310 that means it really will be looked at by a lot of people. 03:03.990 --> 03:09.770 And the headline is 13 U.S. bases are uninhabitable. 03:09.770 --> 03:12.790 What are they? Oh, in Iran. 03:13.810 --> 03:17.270 Pentagon admits, and Iran, they're not all in Iran. 03:18.110 --> 03:25.310 Pentagon admits much of Iran war overseen by personnel working remotely. 03:26.110 --> 03:29.930 Boy, that's modern, isn't it, when you can work from home? 03:30.470 --> 03:32.930 I mean, we learned how to do that during COVID. 03:32.930 --> 03:36.650 But a military? A closing bases? 03:38.070 --> 03:43.830 Chris, the first thought I had when I read this was, you know, if they're leaving the bases, 03:44.070 --> 03:47.830 and I understand there were always just technical problems there, 03:47.850 --> 03:53.910 but it was also that a lot of them were damaged and destroyed by the Iranians 03:53.910 --> 03:56.090 and the American bases were being hit. 03:56.090 --> 04:03.570 So this is not, I think, a sign that the war is about to end. 04:03.650 --> 04:09.950 I think it's a sign that the American people might want to demand more and more information, 04:09.950 --> 04:14.130 because, you know, if you listen to one side, if you listen to the propaganda 04:14.130 --> 04:18.050 from our administration, it sounds pretty good. 04:18.050 --> 04:26.150 But so, shorting this all out, I would have to say that this is a mixed bag, 04:26.310 --> 04:27.990 first, it shows the military. 04:29.970 --> 04:35.710 They are not up to speed, and there's something going wrong, 04:35.950 --> 04:39.290 and they're not organized. People have to leave and close down bases, 04:39.790 --> 04:41.850 and that's one thing. 04:42.490 --> 04:45.930 But what is the speed on that organization? 04:47.090 --> 04:54.050 You know, if we can't even put troops there, and we have to provide for what's coming, 04:54.470 --> 04:59.630 because the war, as far as I'm concerned, Chris, is a long way from being over, 05:00.210 --> 05:06.770 and this is an indication that that may well be the real story. 05:07.290 --> 05:12.170 And it has been said about many empires dissipating 05:12.170 --> 05:16.230 because they spread themselves too thinly around the world. 05:16.850 --> 05:21.910 It just starts to be like, we're spread pretty thin, you know, we're over there, 05:22.250 --> 05:25.630 and people are suffering at home for paying the bills. 05:26.050 --> 05:31.490 Congress is not, you know, resisting the new cons in the administration. 05:31.870 --> 05:33.670 It just goes on and on. 05:34.190 --> 05:37.050 So the money isn't there. 05:37.970 --> 05:42.610 The war, I don't believe, if you're looking for a two-week victory, 05:43.230 --> 05:47.570 first it was in days, then it was in weeks, now it's in months, 05:48.030 --> 05:53.930 and before you know it, they might have to have a lot more troops in there, 05:53.970 --> 05:56.350 and that's what the American people are starting to worry about. 05:56.990 --> 05:59.090 And that would be a big move. 05:59.510 --> 06:04.850 But fortunately, there's a lot more people they're standing up to, even in Congress. 06:04.850 --> 06:09.730 But my disappointment, Chris, has been that we do hear some good comments more 06:09.730 --> 06:11.270 and we have to give them credit. 06:11.890 --> 06:15.930 Some people in Congress are changing their views and they're coming around, 06:16.290 --> 06:17.910 but the votes are staying the same. 06:18.090 --> 06:21.490 So for every time they have to vote for it, they keep voting for the money. 06:21.730 --> 06:23.990 Oh, you don't want to undermine the troops. 06:24.450 --> 06:25.470 Well, that's good. 06:25.590 --> 06:27.470 That's a good reason we ought to just bring them home 06:27.470 --> 06:29.770 because we're not gaining anything. 06:29.770 --> 06:34.510 And we may be told that, well, we're going to have a lot more oil. 06:35.230 --> 06:41.030 The oil will be under our control, whether it's Venezuela or around or all these other places. 06:41.030 --> 06:43.030 This would make us even more powerful. 06:43.530 --> 06:45.550 Well, we'll see about that. Chris. 06:46.650 --> 06:49.210 Yes, Dr. Paul, I'm going to need you to close your ears for a second 06:49.210 --> 06:50.470 because I'm going to talk about you. 06:51.310 --> 06:54.870 Everyone in the world knows Dr. Paul doesn't talk about himself, 06:55.050 --> 06:57.390 but I'm his employee so I can do it. 06:57.390 --> 07:01.530 Dr. Paul was right, you know, for decade after decade, 07:01.590 --> 07:05.810 close all the foreign bases, bring all the troops home. 07:06.330 --> 07:11.470 He was attacked for it merciless, you know, for being right. 07:12.090 --> 07:14.590 You know, they attack us. This is what he said. 07:14.710 --> 07:18.290 I remember on the stage watching it on TV because we are over there. 07:18.750 --> 07:23.590 It's the truth. We were reading that 13 of our bases are now uninhabitable. 07:23.650 --> 07:26.610 Why do we have 13 bases out there? 07:27.350 --> 07:31.170 Surrounding Iran. We don't have anybody surrounding us here. 07:31.350 --> 07:33.330 How would we feel as Americans, if anybody? 07:33.910 --> 07:37.030 Iran, Russia, China had bases circling our nation. 07:37.410 --> 07:39.190 How do you think we would feel about that? 07:39.250 --> 07:40.910 I know how I would feel. I wouldn't like it. 07:41.730 --> 07:44.130 So they don't belong out there. 07:44.670 --> 07:46.830 And now it should have been done voluntarily. 07:47.670 --> 07:48.690 Close it, you know. 07:49.310 --> 07:52.310 Every president thought that Dr. Paul has been saying the same thing. 07:52.630 --> 07:55.290 Nobody does it. And now they're being destroyed. 07:55.290 --> 08:00.890 So now it's being done by force, you know, and it's a shame. 08:01.110 --> 08:03.390 I'm sure Dr. Paul didn't want to be right in this way. 08:03.570 --> 08:06.450 You know, rather the troops come home alive. 08:06.730 --> 08:09.130 The bases sell them off for some money. 08:09.370 --> 08:11.430 You know, it was all done wrong. 08:11.790 --> 08:13.770 And now the price is being paid. 08:14.830 --> 08:17.990 You know, and one excuse that they use so often, 08:18.030 --> 08:20.390 we've complained about this many times. 08:20.570 --> 08:23.190 And that is we have to sacrifice. 08:23.190 --> 08:24.910 We have to pay our taxes. 08:25.010 --> 08:29.610 We have to send the troops for our safety, for national security. 08:30.190 --> 08:31.970 And you know, everybody wants to be safe. 08:32.370 --> 08:34.430 The founders took that into consideration. 08:35.070 --> 08:37.150 They went down all to the individual. 08:37.510 --> 08:39.070 They ought to be safe and defend themselves. 08:39.230 --> 08:40.990 And they gave us a second amendment 08:40.990 --> 08:42.930 and they gave us local control of the police. 08:43.210 --> 08:46.330 So they had a plan from there. 08:46.650 --> 08:49.710 But they always say it's for national security reasons. 08:49.710 --> 08:57.350 But when you look at this, how did the war in Iraq make us safer? 08:58.170 --> 08:59.130 People died. 08:59.570 --> 09:03.770 The victims of our killing and the bombing and the soldiers. 09:04.010 --> 09:05.030 Our soldiers had died. 09:05.410 --> 09:09.490 And in Afghanistan and how many families were broken up under these. 09:09.850 --> 09:12.250 So the security isn't there. 09:12.710 --> 09:17.790 And then if you look at long-term economic insecurity from these programs, 09:17.790 --> 09:22.450 that is the big one that nobody talks about that much. 09:22.450 --> 09:26.350 They might talk about, oh, there's more war going on and the prices are going up. 09:26.530 --> 09:28.010 And they say, we better do something about it. 09:28.030 --> 09:29.650 Oh, this has probably ways of price controls. 09:29.810 --> 09:30.390 Let's have terrorists. 09:30.710 --> 09:32.350 Maybe we can lure our prices like that. 09:32.530 --> 09:34.390 So they tinker around it. 09:34.570 --> 09:36.910 But the security is not improved. 09:37.130 --> 09:39.810 And that's the big excuse for why we're doing this 09:39.810 --> 09:42.630 and why we're sending that and why they go into debt. 09:43.150 --> 09:45.570 And that is a tragic error. 09:45.570 --> 09:48.290 And now we're seeing the consequences of it. 09:48.430 --> 09:52.850 Here it is told by our administration how powerful, 09:53.170 --> 09:56.970 the most powerful military in the world ever. 09:57.850 --> 09:59.310 And it does it. 09:59.470 --> 10:03.510 If you measure how many nuclear weapons we have, that may be true. 10:04.050 --> 10:08.130 But when it comes to just the standard of living 10:08.910 --> 10:13.750 and the ability for us to maintain order, 10:13.750 --> 10:16.370 there's nothing to brag about. 10:16.990 --> 10:21.730 And every time they want to say when there's a vote in Congress 10:21.730 --> 10:26.230 to increase the defense budget by $500 billion, 10:27.050 --> 10:31.650 which they continue to do, people talk about it. 10:32.090 --> 10:34.470 Even the conservatives are against it. 10:34.730 --> 10:37.130 They talk about it and then they vote for it. 10:37.530 --> 10:41.170 And I think they ought to be asked one question. 10:41.170 --> 10:44.250 And they ought to be asked that a hundred times a day. 10:44.550 --> 10:46.770 Okay, you want to do this, you spend this, 10:46.830 --> 10:49.550 and you could use anything you want just running up to debt. 10:49.970 --> 10:51.890 Where are you going to get the money? 10:52.770 --> 10:53.650 We're broke. 10:54.270 --> 10:57.050 And if you think you can convince the people 10:57.050 --> 11:02.450 to accept our paper money at will for a long time 11:02.450 --> 11:04.810 and that we are going to be the king of the hill 11:04.810 --> 11:09.430 and that we will ever have an ability to expand our empire, 11:09.430 --> 11:13.850 they've just better look around because there's a shift in attitude 11:13.850 --> 11:17.790 and there's a shift in ability for us to maintain that status. 11:19.510 --> 11:23.570 A topic I'd like to discuss is what's happening with the Gulf states 11:23.570 --> 11:27.910 and their eyes are being opened 11:27.910 --> 11:31.610 because they thought that they were being defended by the United States 11:33.130 --> 11:36.830 and our bases are destroyed and we're not defending them. 11:38.070 --> 11:41.890 This has happened so often throughout history. 11:42.190 --> 11:44.270 It's amazing. It must be a human nature thing. 11:45.030 --> 11:47.930 You know, countries, governments, politicians, 11:48.130 --> 11:52.590 they love to puff themselves up with these big treaties and alliances 11:52.590 --> 11:56.870 and we're going to come to your defense and NATOs and everything else. 11:57.830 --> 11:59.610 Once the bombs start dropping, 11:59.990 --> 12:04.610 all of those champagne glasses and all toasts that they make to each other, 12:04.610 --> 12:06.410 everything is now exposed. 12:07.030 --> 12:09.090 Now you see who's going to defend who. 12:09.770 --> 12:12.290 And you know, go back to World War II. 12:12.770 --> 12:15.790 Poland was invaded by both the Soviets and the Nazis 12:15.790 --> 12:18.750 and Poland had, you know, they thought that Britain, 12:18.930 --> 12:20.930 France were going to come to their defense and they didn't. 12:21.410 --> 12:23.710 You know, so there goes that agreement 12:23.710 --> 12:26.470 and the Arabs have had the same thing. 12:26.750 --> 12:28.110 You know, it's just endless. 12:28.770 --> 12:30.130 So now it's the Gulf states. 12:30.130 --> 12:35.470 They're finding out that having U.S. bases on your soil makes you a target 12:35.470 --> 12:38.490 and if you think that America is going to defend you, 12:38.870 --> 12:40.870 well, you're finding out what happens. 12:41.710 --> 12:44.130 You know, so that's why our founders, 12:44.870 --> 12:46.390 no entangling alliances. 12:46.730 --> 12:49.310 You go back to the same thing over and over again. 12:49.910 --> 12:51.150 Take care of your country. 12:51.530 --> 12:55.430 No entangling alliances because you create this web, this mess 12:55.430 --> 12:57.630 and now the Gulf states are mad at us. 12:57.950 --> 12:58.850 You know, where are you? 12:58.850 --> 13:01.130 Why are we being destroyed here by Iran? 13:01.930 --> 13:03.390 You're supposed to help us. 13:03.970 --> 13:05.050 That's how it works. 13:05.190 --> 13:06.270 That's how it's always worked. 13:06.290 --> 13:07.550 It's going to work that way in the future 13:07.550 --> 13:09.430 for countries that are foolish enough 13:09.430 --> 13:11.850 to intervene in other people's affairs. 13:12.070 --> 13:14.350 See, over the years and the decades, 13:14.810 --> 13:16.450 especially since World War II, 13:17.610 --> 13:20.590 we obviously was the wealthiest country 13:21.430 --> 13:24.030 probably in the history of the whole world 13:24.030 --> 13:28.450 because the death and destruction of World War I 13:28.450 --> 13:31.190 and World War II basically in the United States have spared. 13:31.870 --> 13:34.990 We have a wonderful country and a lot of natural resources 13:34.990 --> 13:38.850 and the people that really loved the liberty 13:38.850 --> 13:41.730 that we had that most other nations did not have. 13:42.290 --> 13:44.970 But things have changed dramatically on this 13:44.970 --> 13:49.150 because there's a few in every administration 13:49.150 --> 13:51.950 since World War II especially 13:51.950 --> 13:54.030 and even started before that 13:54.030 --> 13:56.410 is the building of an empire 13:56.950 --> 14:01.430 and therefore the foreign policy is designed 14:01.430 --> 14:05.090 to either protect the empire or expand the empire 14:05.090 --> 14:09.070 and the weapon was just, I fell into their lap. 14:09.910 --> 14:12.990 We had a nation that had not been bombed 14:12.990 --> 14:13.830 the smithereens. 14:14.170 --> 14:19.550 We ended up by maneuvering the currencies of the world. 14:19.550 --> 14:22.710 We ended up with the worldwide currency. 14:22.890 --> 14:25.950 The dollar became the reserve currency of the world. 14:26.070 --> 14:27.990 There's a tremendous advantage to that. 14:28.590 --> 14:33.590 And this is all coming to an end as I see it 14:33.590 --> 14:36.250 because we took advantage of it. 14:36.310 --> 14:37.630 We didn't keep saying, 14:37.630 --> 14:40.870 well, in a free market what you do is you work. 14:41.370 --> 14:42.610 You provide a service. 14:43.250 --> 14:45.850 It's decided who makes the profits 14:45.850 --> 14:47.950 because of supply and demand 14:47.950 --> 14:51.010 and what the customers want. 14:52.450 --> 14:53.990 That was too difficult 14:53.990 --> 14:58.550 because not everybody was getting what they thought 14:58.550 --> 14:59.390 was a fair shake. 14:59.510 --> 15:01.810 Everybody had exactly what everybody else had. 15:02.170 --> 15:04.470 So they went and then started subsidizing. 15:04.870 --> 15:08.890 And then they found out that the military industrial complex 15:08.890 --> 15:09.690 could make money, 15:09.970 --> 15:15.130 but it was all based on running a welfare state at home 15:15.130 --> 15:18.350 and then a military state throughout the world. 15:18.830 --> 15:22.790 And to the point where the bankruptcy occurred, 15:22.910 --> 15:25.590 the first big notice that got my attention 15:25.590 --> 15:30.210 of the bankruptcy was the declaration of in 1971 15:30.890 --> 15:34.030 when we had a token relationship to the gold standard 15:34.030 --> 15:37.910 and foreigners, if they got too many dollars, 15:38.050 --> 15:39.950 they could cash in and get gold. 15:40.130 --> 15:42.170 So there was some restraint on the printing of the money 15:42.170 --> 15:43.150 in spite of the fact 15:43.150 --> 15:46.270 that we weren't even legally allowed to own a gold. 15:46.710 --> 15:50.590 So this was used until things got totally out of hand. 15:51.130 --> 15:55.110 So what we got conditioned into doing 15:55.110 --> 15:57.870 is that to throw our weight along, 15:57.990 --> 16:00.390 expand the empire and expand our income 16:00.390 --> 16:02.170 because we were the boss 16:02.170 --> 16:04.250 that we would say, 16:04.390 --> 16:05.650 well, you do it our way, 16:05.890 --> 16:07.190 it will give you some money. 16:07.610 --> 16:09.910 There were a lot of poor countries. 16:10.350 --> 16:11.730 We passed out the money 16:11.730 --> 16:14.550 and some benefited from it all in a short run, 16:14.930 --> 16:17.890 but as all nations finally realized, 16:18.250 --> 16:20.410 that type of system grows and grows and grows 16:20.410 --> 16:22.710 until the people are dependent on it. 16:23.010 --> 16:24.950 And then people start to rebel against it 16:24.950 --> 16:27.510 and the empire doesn't like that. 16:27.890 --> 16:30.330 They're repelling it against our Lord Justin. 16:30.550 --> 16:31.930 We take care of them. 16:32.530 --> 16:37.090 And so then if they behave and listen to us 16:37.090 --> 16:39.050 and continue to take our fiat money, 16:39.850 --> 16:41.650 we'll still keep working with it. 16:42.270 --> 16:45.850 But otherwise, if they don't behave, 16:46.270 --> 16:48.970 they get bombed and that's what we're seeing now. 16:49.030 --> 16:50.190 That's what we're witnessing. 16:51.670 --> 16:52.870 In the Middle East, 16:53.090 --> 16:54.830 it's been the Middle East for a long time. 16:55.510 --> 16:57.190 Most of the time I was in Congress, 16:57.430 --> 17:00.210 I spent more time arguing 17:00.750 --> 17:02.770 about why we shouldn't be there, 17:02.890 --> 17:04.210 that it will lead to trouble. 17:04.790 --> 17:06.250 But that system ended. 17:06.450 --> 17:07.170 We're in bankruptcy 17:07.170 --> 17:09.850 and that's why Bretton Woods broke down 17:09.850 --> 17:11.630 and that is why people are hitting 17:11.630 --> 17:13.390 what's going to happen to the dollar 17:13.390 --> 17:15.470 and one reason why gold, 17:15.610 --> 17:17.510 although it started at $20 an ounce 17:17.510 --> 17:19.070 when the Fed took over 17:19.070 --> 17:21.170 and then it went as high $6,000. 17:21.470 --> 17:23.770 It'll probably return to that level 17:23.770 --> 17:27.130 plus more in a not too distant future. 17:28.710 --> 17:29.730 Fantastic, Dr. Paul. 17:29.910 --> 17:32.090 I'll finish up with my closing statement. 17:33.750 --> 17:35.010 It's not very positive, 17:35.010 --> 17:36.350 but it's realistic. 17:36.950 --> 17:40.470 Empires rarely call it quits on their own 17:40.470 --> 17:43.290 without creating some kind of major catastrophe 17:43.630 --> 17:44.330 for the world. 17:44.410 --> 17:46.270 We could see around the world 17:46.270 --> 17:47.390 the people that are paying 17:47.850 --> 17:50.010 for the decisions of Donald Trump 17:50.010 --> 17:52.650 and Benjamin Netanyahu, fuel lines. 17:53.450 --> 17:54.690 People are fighting over fuel. 17:55.670 --> 17:59.890 They're being only essential travel. 18:00.310 --> 18:02.370 It's like COVID lockdowns, but for gas. 18:05.070 --> 18:08.210 The rare exception was the Soviet Union, ironically. 18:09.070 --> 18:10.830 As terrible as the Soviets were. 18:11.510 --> 18:15.690 They didn't go out destroying everything. 18:15.890 --> 18:17.150 They actually went out saying, 18:17.310 --> 18:19.210 this is done, we're finished. 18:20.430 --> 18:21.790 Fortunately, we have a president 18:21.790 --> 18:23.970 that is not that guy. 18:24.070 --> 18:25.190 He's not Gorbachev, 18:26.030 --> 18:28.470 willing to admit that he messed up. 18:28.970 --> 18:30.790 If anything, it's the exact opposite. 18:30.790 --> 18:32.270 It's not that he's a genius. 18:32.650 --> 18:35.290 So that's a big problem for us. 18:35.970 --> 18:39.290 Because even if it's stopped today, 18:40.130 --> 18:41.630 what they have set in motion 18:41.630 --> 18:43.990 is already going to be bad. 18:44.610 --> 18:46.650 The straight-of-her-moves has been closed 18:46.650 --> 18:47.710 for about a month now. 18:48.170 --> 18:49.930 We're going to be paying a big price 18:49.930 --> 18:52.110 for just that, even if it's stopped today. 18:52.270 --> 18:54.990 And there's no indication that it's stopping today. 18:55.710 --> 18:58.250 So it's kind of like the COVID. 18:58.250 --> 19:00.590 Remember, they printed all those trillions of dollars, 19:00.830 --> 19:03.490 and Thomas Massie was the lone one saying, 19:03.490 --> 19:05.550 hey, there's going to be massive inflation. 19:05.810 --> 19:07.350 Now, there was an inflation right away, 19:07.510 --> 19:09.450 but there was massive inflation later. 19:10.110 --> 19:11.850 So they've already set in motion 19:11.850 --> 19:14.290 big economic problems for us 19:14.290 --> 19:15.770 that we're going to have to pay. 19:16.370 --> 19:18.950 However, who knows how soon, 19:19.210 --> 19:20.290 but it's going to hit us. 19:20.910 --> 19:24.090 So the sooner that he stops, 19:24.410 --> 19:25.710 the better for us. 19:25.710 --> 19:28.110 Because the longer this goes, 19:28.450 --> 19:30.670 the harder our lives are going to be. 19:31.030 --> 19:31.770 And they're hard now. 19:32.190 --> 19:34.390 Our bills, my bills are terrible. 19:34.610 --> 19:36.330 And I'm sure that applies to everybody. 19:36.930 --> 19:40.650 So it's going to get worse the longer this carries on. 19:40.830 --> 19:44.810 And let's just hope that good sense comes in somehow 19:44.810 --> 19:46.250 and puts an end to this. 19:46.550 --> 19:49.830 Well, we're certainly going to have an opportunity 19:49.830 --> 19:51.430 because things will get worse 19:51.430 --> 19:53.550 and we'll have to do something about it. 19:53.550 --> 19:57.070 And so what our job is to encourage people 19:57.070 --> 19:58.910 to be aware what's happening 19:58.910 --> 20:03.410 and be aware that the difficulty is great, 20:03.570 --> 20:06.530 but the solution is not that difficult 20:06.530 --> 20:11.010 if the people will accept a few simple principles 20:11.320 --> 20:13.490 like honest money and balanced budget. 20:13.710 --> 20:15.290 Some of the things they just don't want to 20:15.290 --> 20:17.470 in that big condition that you don't have to use. 20:17.610 --> 20:20.370 You could just rob people and just legalize 20:20.370 --> 20:22.390 the things that you can't do as an individual. 20:22.390 --> 20:24.250 You're not a lot of kinds of fit money, 20:24.310 --> 20:26.970 but the government's a lot too, that sort of thing. 20:27.630 --> 20:29.710 And the other principle that happens to these 20:29.710 --> 20:32.090 and certainly Chris was heading to this, 20:32.690 --> 20:39.990 foreign policy, there's our ability to take care of the empire 20:39.990 --> 20:42.130 and increase the empire. 20:42.330 --> 20:45.150 We spread ourselves too thinly around the world 20:45.150 --> 20:46.730 and we're at that point. 20:46.930 --> 20:50.070 And I think what's happening right now in Iran indicates 20:50.070 --> 20:54.650 when you have to close down about 13 bases 20:54.650 --> 20:57.450 and put them in hotel rooms and work off, 20:58.370 --> 21:01.050 work for them from the hotel room. 21:01.770 --> 21:03.510 There's something wrong with that. 21:03.950 --> 21:07.330 And I think that ruling is against this, 21:07.370 --> 21:10.590 but it's also the homeland principle. 21:10.970 --> 21:14.770 The people who live there, they have a tremendous advantage. 21:15.270 --> 21:17.550 Just think of if you measured the wealth 21:17.550 --> 21:21.850 that we spent and had before and even after Vietnam. 21:22.830 --> 21:31.210 I mean, we were maybe 20, 50 times more wealthy than the Vietnamese, 21:31.970 --> 21:34.090 yet they really won the war. 21:34.490 --> 21:39.170 We had to leave because they were, you know, 21:39.450 --> 21:40.870 protecting their homeland. 21:41.350 --> 21:44.670 And I don't think that's what our country has ever learned. 21:44.670 --> 21:49.210 I don't think they even think about it, you know, come with Iran 21:52.590 --> 21:54.690 because there's this talk going on for, 21:54.950 --> 21:56.350 if it was supposed to be a couple of days, 21:56.510 --> 21:57.490 couple of weeks or a month, 21:57.910 --> 21:59.370 is there going to be a land invasion? 21:59.990 --> 22:02.390 And we have the ships there, we have the Marines there, 22:02.770 --> 22:04.210 and we are on pins and needles. 22:04.370 --> 22:05.570 What are they going to do? 22:07.510 --> 22:10.890 But the Iranians have, they've been tricked, 22:11.210 --> 22:13.210 they've negotiated with us, 22:13.210 --> 22:17.430 and they realize that the negotiations don't go any way 22:17.430 --> 22:21.630 because usually they were broken by our side, unfortunately. 22:22.910 --> 22:27.310 But the Iranians now just announced in this preparation 22:28.270 --> 22:32.290 of last year or so when they realized that they're not going to live. 22:32.910 --> 22:37.090 It doesn't look like we're going to have a negotiated peace. 22:37.550 --> 22:39.630 I think the American people are going to come here 22:39.630 --> 22:42.950 and at least the American soldiers, 22:43.110 --> 22:45.030 because the American people right now are saying, 22:45.190 --> 22:49.710 don't do it, but what the Iranians have done 22:49.710 --> 22:53.070 is they've built up a dependent army, 22:53.630 --> 22:57.530 and they say they have one million soldiers on the ground. 22:57.870 --> 23:00.930 And you say, well, we have all these big bombs and everything, 23:01.330 --> 23:06.890 but if they're going to add Iran into our empire, 23:06.890 --> 23:10.090 you always have to put the foot soldiers down there, 23:10.270 --> 23:14.110 and that's their dilemma, because if we can't beat Vietnam 23:15.370 --> 23:18.250 with all the money and all the bombs we dropped, 23:19.470 --> 23:21.630 we're not going to beat the Iranians. 23:21.990 --> 23:23.170 And they have to come prepared. 23:23.790 --> 23:26.330 They have, I believe, happened, 23:26.430 --> 23:28.950 I believe that they did have an honest approach 23:28.950 --> 23:32.190 to not building a nuclear weapon, 23:32.250 --> 23:34.550 but that argument keeps on and goes on, 23:34.550 --> 23:37.790 but let's just assume for a minute that that is the case. 23:37.930 --> 23:46.250 Why are we obsessed with this whole thing of a total takeover? 23:46.870 --> 23:50.950 So the homeland principle is going to be very, very strong, 23:51.270 --> 23:55.090 and that's why just adding more troops 23:55.090 --> 23:57.330 and sending our Marines over there, 23:57.670 --> 24:00.770 it'll be another chaotic adventure. 24:01.310 --> 24:03.150 And this is on top of the fact 24:03.150 --> 24:05.410 that we're in worse financial shape 24:05.410 --> 24:08.290 than we have ever been before with a huge deficit, 24:08.690 --> 24:11.350 but the benefits we have are just lingering 24:11.350 --> 24:16.450 from recent history where we have been able to print money at will. 24:16.950 --> 24:18.030 Well, that is a thing, 24:18.310 --> 24:23.910 and also if we're putting our troops that are supposed to be 24:23.910 --> 24:25.770 in war protecting our empire 24:25.770 --> 24:30.550 and have to close 13 bases in that area, 24:30.550 --> 24:36.050 because there are a rack either from the war going on 24:36.050 --> 24:37.430 or for other reasons, 24:37.790 --> 24:39.810 maybe they just don't keep up with them. 24:40.030 --> 24:47.850 But there's no good sign that all this is going to rapidly change 24:47.850 --> 24:49.110 and all come out well. 24:49.690 --> 24:54.690 I think the principle of independence is just great. 24:54.830 --> 24:57.490 I think people should be non-interventionists. 24:57.570 --> 24:58.830 We should mind our own business. 24:58.830 --> 25:00.510 We should have honest money, 25:00.510 --> 25:03.870 and you don't have to spend trillions and trillions of dollars 25:03.870 --> 25:05.350 to do the right thing. 25:05.990 --> 25:07.710 And, of course, people will say, 25:07.950 --> 25:10.170 well, then you'll be more vulnerable 25:10.170 --> 25:11.990 and you'll wife yourself off the map. 25:12.370 --> 25:18.190 Well, if the Vietnamese and the Iraqis 25:18.190 --> 25:20.030 and others then wipe us off the map, 25:20.310 --> 25:21.610 they're not going to do that. 25:21.750 --> 25:24.430 But it's the principles that we believe in 25:24.430 --> 25:26.010 that make the difference, 25:26.010 --> 25:29.250 and that's where I think there's an improvement. 25:29.930 --> 25:32.330 I think the American people are getting tired 25:32.330 --> 25:34.830 of what we've been tired of for a long time, 25:35.050 --> 25:37.630 and therefore I do have some optimism 25:37.630 --> 25:40.290 that if we present it with good ideas, 25:41.030 --> 25:43.150 that the ideas cannot be squelched. 25:43.690 --> 25:44.690 They cannot be stopped. 25:45.590 --> 25:47.990 And if an idea whose time has come, 25:48.610 --> 25:50.250 armies can't stop them. 25:50.470 --> 25:52.350 That's the wonderful point of view. 25:52.350 --> 25:58.110 And that's why armies can do a lot of harm, 25:58.270 --> 26:02.310 but if you have an army and a force 26:02.310 --> 26:05.410 and they're pursuing something that is not, 26:06.650 --> 26:08.130 you know, time has come. 26:08.690 --> 26:12.290 But I think the time has come in this country 26:12.290 --> 26:14.430 for the American people to wake up and say, 26:14.650 --> 26:17.130 what is this story about freedom? 26:17.870 --> 26:20.550 I thought we gave up on that a long time ago 26:20.550 --> 26:22.370 and we have been living pretty well. 26:22.730 --> 26:23.290 Well, we'll see. 26:23.630 --> 26:25.170 Well, I'll tell you one thing. 26:25.530 --> 26:26.370 I belong sincerely. 26:26.890 --> 26:28.210 We'll at least have the opportunity 26:28.210 --> 26:31.750 to present our case that has been promoted 26:31.750 --> 26:34.090 by those who do not have enough respect 26:34.090 --> 26:35.190 for our liberties. 26:36.290 --> 26:38.510 I want to thank everybody for tuning in today 26:38.510 --> 26:39.730 to the Liberty Report. 26:40.230 --> 26:41.370 Please come back soon. 26:58.460 --> 26:59.940 It's in a revolution, 27:00.640 --> 27:03.580 and I happen to be lucky enough to be part of it.