Ron Paul Liberty Report - Weekly Update --- Is Washington Fighting Russia Down to the Last Ukrainian?
Aired: 2022-03-18
Duration: 04:19


=== U.S. Escalates Ukraine Conflict (04:16) ===

[00:00:03]  Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the weekly report.
[00:00:08]  Is Washington fighting Russia down to the last Ukrainian?
[00:00:13]  As the Russian invasion of Ukraine moves past its third week, there are slight hopes that negotiations between the two sides may soon produce a ceasefire.
[00:00:25]  But with the shrill war-mongering talk in Washington, it almost seems like the U.S. government would hate to see that happen.
[00:00:34]  Congress and the U.S. administration seem determined to drag the United States into a war with Russia over Ukraine.
[00:00:43]  Senator Lindsey Graham is openly calling for someone to kill Russian president, and many in the U.S. House have demanded that the administration establish a no-fly zone over Ukraine.
[00:00:58]  Are they insane?
[00:00:59]  A no-fly zone means you destroy anything and everything that can prevent total U.S. dominance.
[00:01:08]  That means an attack on Russian missile air defense systems within Russia.
[00:01:13]  In other words, World War III.
[00:01:16]  We can all feel disgust at the destruction in Ukraine, but is it really necessary for us to gamble with our own nuclear annihilation?
[00:01:27]  Sadly, a high bipartisan group in Congress seems to think so.
[00:01:31]  Much of what is happening in Ukraine can be traced back to the Obama administration.
[00:01:37]  State Department officials like Victoria Newland and Anthony Blinken planned and executed the overthrow of the Ukrainian government in 2014.
[00:01:48]  This is what set us on this path to conflict, as the government put in place after the coup began demanding NATO membership.
[00:02:00]  Blinken, Newland, and others responsible for the heinous act returned to government in more senior positions under President Biden, and they have continued to push their Ukraine agenda.
[00:02:14]  Last week, Secretary of State Blinken, our top diplomat, sought to send Soviet-era Polish just fighters into Ukraine to shoot Russia.
[00:02:26]  When the Poles said they'd be happy to ship the planes to a U.S. base in Germany and let the Pentagon transfer them to Ukraine, the Pentagon finally stepped in to quash an extraordinary high-risk move to even the Pentagon said would have no real effect on the outcome of the war.
[00:02:47]  The State Department is trying to get us into a war and the Pentagon is trying to keep us out.
[00:02:53]  How ironic.
[00:02:54]  But when I was on the campaign trail, I would say that we have a few thousand diplomats in government.
[00:03:01]  It might not be a bad idea to use them.
[00:03:05]  But I certainly did not mean that we should use them to try and get it further involved in the war.
[00:03:12]  Three weeks into this terrible war, the U.S. not pursuing talks with Russia.
[00:03:17]  As anti-war.com recently reported, instead of supporting negotiations between Ukraine and Russia that could lead us to a ceasefire and end the bloodshed, the U.S. government is actually escalating the situation which can only increase the bloodshed.
[00:03:36]  The constant flow of U.S. and Allied weapons into Ukraine and talk of supporting the extended insurgency does not seem designed to give Ukraine a victory on the battlefield, but rather to hand Russia what Secretary of State Blinken called a strategic defeat.
[00:03:56]  It sounds an awful lot like the Biden administration intends to fight Russia down to the last uranium.
[00:04:02]  The only solution for the U.S. is to get out.
[00:04:06]  Let the Russians and Ukrainians reach an agreement.
[00:04:09]  That means no NATO for Ukraine and no U.S. missiles on Russia's borders.
[00:04:16]  End the war and then end NATO.