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With us today, we have Chris Rossini, our co-host. Chris, welcome to the program.
Good morning. Great to be with you, Dr. Paul.
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what we're going to be talking about today. It happens to be something going on in Iran.
And there's news about it, and somebody would say, boy, this is terrible news.
And some people might say, well, maybe it's not all that bad. I'm in a second category,
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So back to you, Dr. Paul.
Okay, very good. Now, I want to introduce the subject today that we're talking about.
I hit it that it will be about Iran, but we're taking a headline from Zero Hedge.
And this was rather startling. You have to stop and think, you know, what's going on?
What kind of war is this?
And this comes from New York Times.
So it has to be, if it's sort of making us raise our head,
that means it really will be looked at by a lot of people.
And the headline is 13 U.S. bases are uninhabitable.
What are they? Oh, in Iran.
Pentagon admits, and Iran, they're not all in Iran.
Pentagon admits much of Iran war overseen by personnel working remotely.
Boy, that's modern, isn't it, when you can work from home?
I mean, we learned how to do that during COVID.
But a military? A closing bases?
Chris, the first thought I had when I read this was, you know, if they're leaving the bases,
and I understand there were always just technical problems there,
but it was also that a lot of them were damaged and destroyed by the Iranians
and the American bases were being hit.
So this is not, I think, a sign that the war is about to end.
I think it's a sign that the American people might want to demand more and more information,
because, you know, if you listen to one side, if you listen to the propaganda
from our administration, it sounds pretty good.
But so, shorting this all out, I would have to say that this is a mixed bag,
first, it shows the military.
They are not up to speed, and there's something going wrong,
and they're not organized. People have to leave and close down bases,
and that's one thing.
But what is the speed on that organization?
You know, if we can't even put troops there, and we have to provide for what's coming,
because the war, as far as I'm concerned, Chris, is a long way from being over,
and this is an indication that that may well be the real story.
And it has been said about many empires dissipating
because they spread themselves too thinly around the world.
It just starts to be like, we're spread pretty thin, you know, we're over there,
and people are suffering at home for paying the bills.
Congress is not, you know, resisting the new cons in the administration.
It just goes on and on.
So the money isn't there.
The war, I don't believe, if you're looking for a two-week victory,
first it was in days, then it was in weeks, now it's in months,
and before you know it, they might have to have a lot more troops in there,
and that's what the American people are starting to worry about.
And that would be a big move.
But fortunately, there's a lot more people they're standing up to, even in Congress.
But my disappointment, Chris, has been that we do hear some good comments more
and we have to give them credit.
Some people in Congress are changing their views and they're coming around,
but the votes are staying the same.
So for every time they have to vote for it, they keep voting for the money.
Oh, you don't want to undermine the troops.
Well, that's good.
That's a good reason we ought to just bring them home
because we're not gaining anything.
And we may be told that, well, we're going to have a lot more oil.
The oil will be under our control, whether it's Venezuela or around or all these other places.
This would make us even more powerful.
Well, we'll see about that. Chris.
Yes, Dr. Paul, I'm going to need you to close your ears for a second
because I'm going to talk about you.
Everyone in the world knows Dr. Paul doesn't talk about himself,
but I'm his employee so I can do it.
Dr. Paul was right, you know, for decade after decade,
close all the foreign bases, bring all the troops home.
He was attacked for it merciless, you know, for being right.
You know, they attack us. This is what he said.
I remember on the stage watching it on TV because we are over there.
It's the truth. We were reading that 13 of our bases are now uninhabitable.
Why do we have 13 bases out there?
Surrounding Iran. We don't have anybody surrounding us here.
How would we feel as Americans, if anybody?
Iran, Russia, China had bases circling our nation.
How do you think we would feel about that?
I know how I would feel. I wouldn't like it.
So they don't belong out there.
And now it should have been done voluntarily.
Close it, you know.
Every president thought that Dr. Paul has been saying the same thing.
Nobody does it. And now they're being destroyed.
So now it's being done by force, you know, and it's a shame.
I'm sure Dr. Paul didn't want to be right in this way.
You know, rather the troops come home alive.
The bases sell them off for some money.
You know, it was all done wrong.
And now the price is being paid.
You know, and one excuse that they use so often,
we've complained about this many times.
And that is we have to sacrifice.
We have to pay our taxes.
We have to send the troops for our safety, for national security.
And you know, everybody wants to be safe.
The founders took that into consideration.
They went down all to the individual.
They ought to be safe and defend themselves.
And they gave us a second amendment
and they gave us local control of the police.
So they had a plan from there.
But they always say it's for national security reasons.
But when you look at this, how did the war in Iraq make us safer?
People died.
The victims of our killing and the bombing and the soldiers.
Our soldiers had died.
And in Afghanistan and how many families were broken up under these.
So the security isn't there.
And then if you look at long-term economic insecurity from these programs,
that is the big one that nobody talks about that much.
They might talk about, oh, there's more war going on and the prices are going up.
And they say, we better do something about it.
Oh, this has probably ways of price controls.
Let's have terrorists.
Maybe we can lure our prices like that.
So they tinker around it.
But the security is not improved.
And that's the big excuse for why we're doing this
and why we're sending that and why they go into debt.
And that is a tragic error.
And now we're seeing the consequences of it.
Here it is told by our administration how powerful,
the most powerful military in the world ever.
And it does it.
If you measure how many nuclear weapons we have, that may be true.
But when it comes to just the standard of living
and the ability for us to maintain order,
there's nothing to brag about.
And every time they want to say when there's a vote in Congress
to increase the defense budget by $500 billion,
which they continue to do, people talk about it.
Even the conservatives are against it.
They talk about it and then they vote for it.
And I think they ought to be asked one question.
And they ought to be asked that a hundred times a day.
Okay, you want to do this, you spend this,
and you could use anything you want just running up to debt.
Where are you going to get the money?
We're broke.
And if you think you can convince the people
to accept our paper money at will for a long time
and that we are going to be the king of the hill
and that we will ever have an ability to expand our empire,
they've just better look around because there's a shift in attitude
and there's a shift in ability for us to maintain that status.
A topic I'd like to discuss is what's happening with the Gulf states
and their eyes are being opened
because they thought that they were being defended by the United States
and our bases are destroyed and we're not defending them.
This has happened so often throughout history.
It's amazing. It must be a human nature thing.
You know, countries, governments, politicians,
they love to puff themselves up with these big treaties and alliances
and we're going to come to your defense and NATOs and everything else.
Once the bombs start dropping,
all of those champagne glasses and all toasts that they make to each other,
everything is now exposed.
Now you see who's going to defend who.
And you know, go back to World War II.
Poland was invaded by both the Soviets and the Nazis
and Poland had, you know, they thought that Britain,
France were going to come to their defense and they didn't.
You know, so there goes that agreement
and the Arabs have had the same thing.
You know, it's just endless.
So now it's the Gulf states.
They're finding out that having U.S. bases on your soil makes you a target
and if you think that America is going to defend you,
well, you're finding out what happens.
You know, so that's why our founders,
no entangling alliances.
You go back to the same thing over and over again.
Take care of your country.
No entangling alliances because you create this web, this mess
and now the Gulf states are mad at us.
You know, where are you?
Why are we being destroyed here by Iran?
You're supposed to help us.
That's how it works.
That's how it's always worked.
It's going to work that way in the future
for countries that are foolish enough
to intervene in other people's affairs.
See, over the years and the decades,
especially since World War II,
we obviously was the wealthiest country
probably in the history of the whole world
because the death and destruction of World War I
and World War II basically in the United States have spared.
We have a wonderful country and a lot of natural resources
and the people that really loved the liberty
that we had that most other nations did not have.
But things have changed dramatically on this
because there's a few in every administration
since World War II especially
and even started before that
is the building of an empire
and therefore the foreign policy is designed
to either protect the empire or expand the empire
and the weapon was just, I fell into their lap.
We had a nation that had not been bombed
the smithereens.
We ended up by maneuvering the currencies of the world.
We ended up with the worldwide currency.
The dollar became the reserve currency of the world.
There's a tremendous advantage to that.
And this is all coming to an end as I see it
because we took advantage of it.
We didn't keep saying,
well, in a free market what you do is you work.
You provide a service.
It's decided who makes the profits
because of supply and demand
and what the customers want.
That was too difficult
because not everybody was getting what they thought
was a fair shake.
Everybody had exactly what everybody else had.
So they went and then started subsidizing.
And then they found out that the military industrial complex
could make money,
but it was all based on running a welfare state at home
and then a military state throughout the world.
And to the point where the bankruptcy occurred,
the first big notice that got my attention
of the bankruptcy was the declaration of in 1971
when we had a token relationship to the gold standard
and foreigners, if they got too many dollars,
they could cash in and get gold.
So there was some restraint on the printing of the money
in spite of the fact
that we weren't even legally allowed to own a gold.
So this was used until things got totally out of hand.
So what we got conditioned into doing
is that to throw our weight along,
expand the empire and expand our income
because we were the boss
that we would say,
well, you do it our way,
it will give you some money.
There were a lot of poor countries.
We passed out the money
and some benefited from it all in a short run,
but as all nations finally realized,
that type of system grows and grows and grows
until the people are dependent on it.
And then people start to rebel against it
and the empire doesn't like that.
They're repelling it against our Lord Justin.
We take care of them.
And so then if they behave and listen to us
and continue to take our fiat money,
we'll still keep working with it.
But otherwise, if they don't behave,
they get bombed and that's what we're seeing now.
That's what we're witnessing.
In the Middle East,
it's been the Middle East for a long time.
Most of the time I was in Congress,
I spent more time arguing
about why we shouldn't be there,
that it will lead to trouble.
But that system ended.
We're in bankruptcy
and that's why Bretton Woods broke down
and that is why people are hitting
what's going to happen to the dollar
and one reason why gold,
although it started at $20 an ounce
when the Fed took over
and then it went as high $6,000.
It'll probably return to that level
plus more in a not too distant future.
Fantastic, Dr. Paul.
I'll finish up with my closing statement.
It's not very positive,
but it's realistic.
Empires rarely call it quits on their own
without creating some kind of major catastrophe
for the world.
We could see around the world
the people that are paying
for the decisions of Donald Trump
and Benjamin Netanyahu, fuel lines.
People are fighting over fuel.
They're being only essential travel.
It's like COVID lockdowns, but for gas.
The rare exception was the Soviet Union, ironically.
As terrible as the Soviets were.
They didn't go out destroying everything.
They actually went out saying,
this is done, we're finished.
Fortunately, we have a president
that is not that guy.
He's not Gorbachev,
willing to admit that he messed up.
If anything, it's the exact opposite.
It's not that he's a genius.
So that's a big problem for us.
Because even if it's stopped today,
what they have set in motion
is already going to be bad.
The straight-of-her-moves has been closed
for about a month now.
We're going to be paying a big price
for just that, even if it's stopped today.
And there's no indication that it's stopping today.
So it's kind of like the COVID.
Remember, they printed all those trillions of dollars,
and Thomas Massie was the lone one saying,
hey, there's going to be massive inflation.
Now, there was an inflation right away,
but there was massive inflation later.
So they've already set in motion
big economic problems for us
that we're going to have to pay.
However, who knows how soon,
but it's going to hit us.
So the sooner that he stops,
the better for us.
Because the longer this goes,
the harder our lives are going to be.
And they're hard now.
Our bills, my bills are terrible.
And I'm sure that applies to everybody.
So it's going to get worse the longer this carries on.
And let's just hope that good sense comes in somehow
and puts an end to this.
Well, we're certainly going to have an opportunity
because things will get worse
and we'll have to do something about it.
And so what our job is to encourage people
to be aware what's happening
and be aware that the difficulty is great,
but the solution is not that difficult
if the people will accept a few simple principles
like honest money and balanced budget.
Some of the things they just don't want to
in that big condition that you don't have to use.
You could just rob people and just legalize
the things that you can't do as an individual.
You're not a lot of kinds of fit money,
but the government's a lot too, that sort of thing.
And the other principle that happens to these
and certainly Chris was heading to this,
foreign policy, there's our ability to take care of the empire
and increase the empire.
We spread ourselves too thinly around the world
and we're at that point.
And I think what's happening right now in Iran indicates
when you have to close down about 13 bases
and put them in hotel rooms and work off,
work for them from the hotel room.
There's something wrong with that.
And I think that ruling is against this,
but it's also the homeland principle.
The people who live there, they have a tremendous advantage.
Just think of if you measured the wealth
that we spent and had before and even after Vietnam.
I mean, we were maybe 20, 50 times more wealthy than the Vietnamese,
yet they really won the war.
We had to leave because they were, you know,
protecting their homeland.
And I don't think that's what our country has ever learned.
I don't think they even think about it, you know, come with Iran
because there's this talk going on for,
if it was supposed to be a couple of days,
couple of weeks or a month,
is there going to be a land invasion?
And we have the ships there, we have the Marines there,
and we are on pins and needles.
What are they going to do?
But the Iranians have, they've been tricked,
they've negotiated with us,
and they realize that the negotiations don't go any way
because usually they were broken by our side, unfortunately.
But the Iranians now just announced in this preparation
of last year or so when they realized that they're not going to live.
It doesn't look like we're going to have a negotiated peace.
I think the American people are going to come here
and at least the American soldiers,
because the American people right now are saying,
don't do it, but what the Iranians have done
is they've built up a dependent army,
and they say they have one million soldiers on the ground.
And you say, well, we have all these big bombs and everything,
but if they're going to add Iran into our empire,
you always have to put the foot soldiers down there,
and that's their dilemma, because if we can't beat Vietnam
with all the money and all the bombs we dropped,
we're not going to beat the Iranians.
And they have to come prepared.
They have, I believe, happened,
I believe that they did have an honest approach
to not building a nuclear weapon,
but that argument keeps on and goes on,
but let's just assume for a minute that that is the case.
Why are we obsessed with this whole thing of a total takeover?
So the homeland principle is going to be very, very strong,
and that's why just adding more troops
and sending our Marines over there,
it'll be another chaotic adventure.
And this is on top of the fact
that we're in worse financial shape
than we have ever been before with a huge deficit,
but the benefits we have are just lingering
from recent history where we have been able to print money at will.
Well, that is a thing,
and also if we're putting our troops that are supposed to be
in war protecting our empire
and have to close 13 bases in that area,
because there are a rack either from the war going on
or for other reasons,
maybe they just don't keep up with them.
But there's no good sign that all this is going to rapidly change
and all come out well.
I think the principle of independence is just great.
I think people should be non-interventionists.
We should mind our own business.
We should have honest money,
and you don't have to spend trillions and trillions of dollars
to do the right thing.
And, of course, people will say,
well, then you'll be more vulnerable
and you'll wife yourself off the map.
Well, if the Vietnamese and the Iraqis
and others then wipe us off the map,
they're not going to do that.
But it's the principles that we believe in
that make the difference,
and that's where I think there's an improvement.
I think the American people are getting tired
of what we've been tired of for a long time,
and therefore I do have some optimism
that if we present it with good ideas,
that the ideas cannot be squelched.
They cannot be stopped.
And if an idea whose time has come,
armies can't stop them.
That's the wonderful point of view.
And that's why armies can do a lot of harm,
but if you have an army and a force
and they're pursuing something that is not,
you know, time has come.
But I think the time has come in this country
for the American people to wake up and say,
what is this story about freedom?
I thought we gave up on that a long time ago
and we have been living pretty well.
Well, we'll see.
Well, I'll tell you one thing.
I belong sincerely.
We'll at least have the opportunity
to present our case that has been promoted
by those who do not have enough respect
for our liberties.
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