Ron Paul Liberty Report - Weekly Update --- Washington’s Bi-Partisan Russia Bashers Are Determined to Start a War
Aired: 2022-01-21
Duration: 04:41


=== Why Politicians Risk War (03:40) ===

[00:00:03]  Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report.
[00:00:07]  Washington's bipartisan Russia bashers are determined to start a war.
[00:00:14]  Russia bashing is a bipartisan activity in Washington.
[00:00:18]  Both parties think it makes them look tough and pro-America.
[00:00:23]  But while Republican and Democrat politicians continue to one-up each other on risk-free threats to Russia, they are increasingly risking a devastating nuclear war.
[00:00:36]  It's all fun and games until the missiles start flying.
[00:00:40]  And in this case, we are risking total destruction over who governs eastern Ukraine.
[00:00:46]  Has so much ever been risked for so little?
[00:00:50]  The problem with all this tough talk is that politicians start to believe their own rhetoric and propaganda.
[00:00:56]  As a result, they don't make sound decisions based on objective facts, but instead make rash decisions based on faulty information.
[00:01:07]  When U.S. politicians talk about Russia massing troops on the Ukrainian border, for example, they leave out the fact that these troops are actually inside Russia.
[00:01:18]  With U.S. troops in some 150 countries overseas, you'd think Washington might pause before criticizing the aggression of troops inside a country's own borders.
[00:01:30]  They also leave out the reasons why Russia might be concerned over its neighbors, Ukraine.
[00:01:36]  CNN reported recently that the Biden administration approved another $200 million in military aid to Ukraine last month, making nearly half a billion dollars in weapons over the past year.
[00:01:50]  Imagine if China was sending half a billion dollars in weapons to Mexico to strengthen and embolden a hyper-aggressive anti-U.S. regime.
[00:02:01]  Would the U.S. not be massing troops near the Mexican border?
[00:02:05]  Also, there is that issue about the U.S.-backed overthrow of the democratically elected Ukrainian government in 2014, which is the starting point of all these recent problems.
[00:02:18]  And this week, Yahoo News reported that the CIA is training Ukrainian paramilitaries on U.S. soil.
[00:02:28]  Recent talks between U.S. and Russia failed before they even began with the U.S. Styd refusing to even consider ending useless and provocative NATO expansion eastward.
[00:02:43]  NATO is a Cold War relic that should have been disbanded along with the Warsaw Pact.
[00:02:49]  It serves no purpose and its constant saber rattling puts us at risk in conflicts that have nothing to do with U.S. national security.
[00:03:00]  How embarrassing it was to hear Blinken ridiculing Russia for coming to the aid of ally Kazakhstan as a color revolution with likely U.S. backing was brewing.
[00:03:13]  I think one lesson in recent history is that once Russians are in your house, it's sometimes very difficult to get them to leave, Blinken told reporters.
[00:03:24]  He said this with a straight face, even as the U.S. continues to illegally occupy a large part of Syria, continues to occupy part of Iraq against the will of the country's parliament, and occupied a good part of Afghanistan for 20 years.

=== Stop Backing Regime Change (00:57) ===

[00:03:43]  Incidentally, as soon as the regime change attempt was put down in Kazakhstan, Russia and Allied troops began leaving the country.
[00:03:53]  But of course, the reflexively pro-war U.S. media doesn't report anything outside the narrative.
[00:04:02]  What to do about Russia?
[00:04:04]  Stop backing regime change along Russian borders, including Belarus, Kazakhstan, and elsewhere.
[00:04:11]  Stop meddling in foreign elections.
[00:04:14]  Look at how we wasted four years on false claims that the Russians meddled in ours.
[00:04:20]  and weapons shipment and all aid to Ukraine and sanctions.
[00:04:26]  Reimagine the U.S. defense budget as a budget to actually defend the United States.
[00:04:34]  It's really not that complicated.
[00:04:37]  Let's stop trying to rule the world.