Earlier this week in Germany and the Czech Republic, tens of thousands took to the streets to demand an end to Russia sanctions and the start of the NordStream II pipeline. Then someone blew it up. With better EU/Russia commercial ties no longer an option, how much stronger will protests become? Also today, Kamala Harris tries her hand at foreign policy at the Korea DMZ...with predictable result.
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Good morning, Dr. Paul.
How are you this morning?
Doing well.
News, news, news.
We're going to check out things around the world today and see if they're any better than yesterday.
But, you know, I noticed that the Democrats are squirming.
I saw an interesting talk about this by the Democrats.
Well, we don't like our president.
We have to get rid of him.
And it's up to us because Goldwater had to get rid of Nixon and go and you have to do it from the same party.
But he was the Democrat.
He says he wasn't in office, but he was explaining.
Well, the reason the Democrats aren't going to do it, they know about the vice president.
So they're in a box.
Which I guess you could say when it comes to serious business of getting rid of a president, the Republicans are pretty good because they line up their docks.
Not that, you know, Ford was a supporter of the free market and that sort of thing.
But anyway, they did it, and they got rid of Nixon.
But Nixon, you know, I don't know why I'm talking about Nixon today.
He was trained.
But Nixon probably didn't do as many bad things as some of our more current presidents.
Would you think that might be the case?
Yeah, I would think so for sure.
But anyway, he's gone, and we won't talk about him anymore, except when we have something good to say.
We'll think up something.
And one thing we could say, and that's sort of going to be in our talk, is he thought that trading with China was a better deal than fighting with China and bombing China.
And we're back to where we are right now.
NATO's Waning Support00:13:59
We have a bunch of people, you know, looking, and we'll talk about that today, stirring up trouble.
Why don't we have a war with China?
But before we get into that, I want to talk about, at least mention, an interesting thing going on here.
This sounds like the people are speaking out like they finally did with COVID.
And here, this is not in this country.
Someday maybe it'll be in this country and objecting to the same thing.
The protesters in Prague were demonstrating tens of thousands.
I think I've done it once before, against NATO and EU.
Boy, I'll tell you what, maybe they believe in national sovereignty.
Maybe they just believe minding our own business.
We don't have to have the deep state that runs NATO and a few other things telling them what to do.
So that is, to me, very encouraging.
Of course, it was pragmatic and it was political and understandable.
But, you know, if you are, you know, we stand up for principles on free markets and all, but that doesn't mean we sacrifice, you know, improvement because at the same time we can stand up for principle.
We believe we are going to improve the condition.
And that is what they could be thinking.
They may be thinking, yeah, I just don't want to freeze this winter.
And you're doing dumb things.
And pragmatically, it's wrong.
But in a utilitarian sense, it's not worthwhile.
So this was an opportunity to get some people together.
You know, it's not easy to get tens of thousands of people unless they're annoyed.
And my argument is, why don't they get annoyed a little sooner and look into these matters before they get into trouble?
Well, there is a lot of unrest brewing in Europe.
It's not getting covered in the U.S. media for sure.
The little bit that is getting covered for the Prague protests, oh, they are far-rightists and communists.
Those are the only people.
Nothing is to discourage people from going down the street.
But we can see here's a couple of tweets.
This first one, if you can put it up, this will show tens of thousands.
They said the second anti-government protest in Prague this year.
The protesters demand the government reverse its anti-Russian course and discontinue support for Ukraine.
The first protest earlier this month drew some 70,000 people, according to the Prague police.
Let's do the next one because this is still Prague protests.
Thousands of people gathered on Prague's Wetzel Square to protest against the policies of the government on Wednesday.
That's yesterday.
The protest in Prague, held under the motto of Chechya First, sounds familiar, is organized by a group who describe themselves as politically unaffiliated citizens.
So the unrest is growing.
The unrest in Germany is also growing.
There are massive protests in Germany.
And in fact, here's something.
I think the unrest in Europe is evidence, is exhibit A in who may have blown up the pipeline, because I think it's been sensed that there is a real problem here.
There's a real strong call to open Nord Stream 2.
Let's look at the next clip because this is Germany.
We have some more in Germany.
Thousands take to the streets of North Germany demanding a launch of Nord Stream 2.
What's interesting about this, it was printed, it was published on 26th September, the day the pipeline was blown up.
Just a coincidence.
Just a coincidence.
So it just seems to me like this unrest brewing, of course the U.S. would know it, whoever blew up the pipeline would know it.
They knew that there's possibly a wavering in support.
It's getting thin.
This alliance is getting thin.
Okay, well, let's remove any possibility that we can back down off this.
I do believe this is another good example.
Sanctions aren't much of an answer.
They very often can be equated to acts of war and sanctions, sometimes they backfire.
And the very people whose governments are instituting these things, those are the people that are hurt.
How often will our government go around the world doing things to protect our national security and our national interests?
But they don't realize that this doesn't hold much water because I doubt very much if the Czechs are going to blame Russia.
Like now, people come up.
You know, when that first came up, you know, the first day of this progue, we sort of poked fun at this.
Who's going to believe Russia would do this through their own pipeline?
Tens of billions of dollars.
But they keep repeating it.
And somebody suggested, well, that's the way an authoritarian government works.
The more absurd it is, the more you say it, and the more the people will come to believing it.
And then if you have some allies in the media, it's very helpful.
So there's a lot of people in this country, in our country, who are sort of pleased with blaming Russia for everything.
Everything.
This isn't hard for them to understand.
Oh, yeah, they had an ulterior motive.
They maybe think that, well, I don't know.
But it's hard to even figure out what would the ulterior motive be because it doesn't make any sense.
Of course, to ridicule the people who criticize Russia for everything does not equate supporting Russia.
That's the problem.
Every time we say this, they say, oh, you're just Putin's people, you know.
But here's, let's do a couple more of these Germany protests, because I think Germany is, in a way, more significant than what's happening in Prague.
Now, here is protests have begun against the energy policy of the authorities that begun in Germany.
Thousands of Germans came to protest actions in the German city of Streisund, together with Mayor Alexander Badro, writes NPR edition.
Thousands of people out.
And here's another one, the next one, in a town called, let me see, Guerra, Germany.
Stunning scenes.
Thousands protest against the insane energy prices and demand an end to sanctions against Russia.
And you can see they're holding a sign about Nord Stream 2.
I think this is what spooked him.
And in fact, let's put on that first video clip.
This is of German protests.
I think this is what spooked them.
Particularly this clip's like this.
It's going to take a second to get it queued up.
Very dramatic.
Now listen to this.
This is Germany.
Can we get the sense here of what's happening, Dr. Paul?
This is in Germany.
They are chanting Russia, Russia, Russia.
Something was brewing, and I just suspect that this may have been the last straw because now there's no chance of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline.
It's blown up.
So all of this is moot.
All of these demands that we open Nord Stream 2, it's off the table now.
It will never happen.
Boy.
What a story, because it's so tragic that this thing gets turned around so quickly.
We have the end of the Cold War.
We have a movement in trading and talking with people and traveling.
Americans go to Russia, but I see this week there's an announcement, all Americans better leave Russia.
Did I read that correctly?
You know, get out of there because things are brewing, which is very, very tragic about this.
Yeah, it is.
Well, the next story is a related story, so we'll go ahead and bring it up, and we can put it on that next clip.
And both of these stories come by way of our friends at antiwar.com.
And by the way, we do rely on them a lot, Dr. Paul.
So, I mean, obviously we want our viewers to support us, but anti-war.com definitely deserves their support as well.
And I know they're trying to keep afloat, and it's important that they keep afloat.
But this is UN Security Council to meet Friday on damage to Nord Stream gas pipelines.
They're going to meet and try to figure out what happened.
This is at the request of the Russians.
And I watched an interview earlier this morning with Colonel Doug McGregor, a good friend of ours.
And he seems to believe, he discounts the idea that Russia blew its own pipeline up.
For the reasons that you said, tens of billions of dollars.
They lost a half a billion dollars of gas.
They could just turn off the spigot if they wanted to.
He thinks that Poland may have a hand in it, which I think is probably a good guess.
And I always listen to what the colonel says.
But the other thing about this, Dr. Paul, and John Lachland, who's on our academic board, and in fact, his article is a lead article on RonPaulInstitute.org today, he makes a great point.
You know, the Baltic Sea is known as the NATO Sea.
NATO is all around everywhere.
They have a massive presence there.
So even if NATO didn't do it, if the U.S. and Poland didn't do it, how is it possible that the Russians sneaked into the NATO Sea, went underground, and blew up a pipeline without being detected?
I mean, it's almost worse for NATO if Russia did do it because it shows they're totally useless.
You can't detect a Russian sabotage attack right in the heart of the alliance.
That's too logical for anybody to catch hold of that and do it.
But I'm not overly optimistic that the UN Security Council is the answer.
Matter of fact, internationalism and globalism and all these conspiracy people getting together and wanting to run the world.
They're the problem.
Now what we're spotting, each one of these crowds are, you know, the way the people are resisting against the government, whether, and it wasn't just in our country, but when the people finally got on to this silliness of the law cut down on COVID, you know, they were on the streets.
So this is very good that they're doing this, but this is the real government.
It's not in Brussels, you know.
NATO is not going to do it.
United Nations is not going to solve it.
Even in the deep state that runs so much of what we put up with here, they're the people who are opposing us.
They're the ones who have the policies that the American people and other people are getting disgusted with.
But you talk about worldwide disorder.
These things, if it were only in one country, they could lambass it if it was only in one city in the United States or one city elsewhere.
But this is getting pretty pervasive.
And of course, there are some countries that have less freedom than we have.
And even though we are curtailed in our expression of what we believe in, we can get canceled almost any time.
But this is, you know, I think this is good that the people can still do this, stand up and say, enough is enough, but they've got to know what you're opposing is big government, not your big local government, your big government, your regional government, your NATO's, your United Nations, the Federal Reserve, all the way down.
That's where the cause is coming from.
Of course, I always argue it's a philosophic problem, but this is also philosophic.
People are simplifying and say, that may be fancy philosophy that you guys are talking about, but our philosophy is we want to be left alone.
We don't want you doing policies that make us worse off.
And we don't want you lying to us.
Say, oh, we're going to make sure we're going to take care of you, you know, from cradle to grave.
And you have people in the United States, believe it or not.
I can't believe it.
Living in tents in New York City and San Francisco.
And that's what's happening to America.
Well, those tents are probably worth more than our houses right out in California.
Well, speaking of the deep state, and you're right, I mean, I don't think we should be too optimistic that the UN Security Council is going to get to the bottom of this because they'll never agree on it.
But speaking of the deep state, let's put this next one up.
We talked about it before the show.
Here's how we know that Russia definitely did not do it.
Because John Brennan, the former CIA director, went on CNN and said, Russia is the most likely suspect in the Nord Stream explosions.
It's a signal to Europe that Russia can reach beyond Ukraine's borders.
It won't take much if Russia decides to go after other pipelines, et cetera, et cetera.
Okay, John Brennan, he's the author of the whole RussiGate lie.
He is the person behind the lie that the Hunter Biden laptop was Russian disinformation.
He has been shown as a liar throughout the entire last five or six years.
Everything that he's said about Russia, everything he's accused Russia of doing, has been objectively shown to be a lie.
The idea that he'd still have any credibility is like in a real country, he'd be laughed at.
But no, he's still trotted out there.
So that's like exhibit B for the fact that Russia couldn't have done it because Brennan decided that they did do it.
So you're following this legislative rule.
You look at the title.
The title is exactly opposite what they're doing.
So yes, I think this is so true that they will mislead and they will lie.
Ron Paul's Credibility Crisis00:12:54
Now, you might say, well, it's getting to be simple.
It's getting to be interesting on, you know, Republicans and Democrats and who are the best for peace and who's the most aggressive for war.
So you got like, Brendan, most of them are bipartisan, but there's still a bunch of them in the Republican Party.
So even though the Republican Party, some of the people who are closer to the people, the ones in the Congress, you know, the demonstration that we talked about yesterday, more of those, the individuals are standing up and they're willing to take a vote and say, you know, this, it used to be when I first went to Congress, if you had anything military or any dollar spent, we'd get six votes.
It's a little bit better than it was back then, mainly because we're broke and the people know they're pinching pennies and they know it's not going to continue and they'll take a hand out and fight for it, but they know this is not going to last.
And that's why there's this scramble, you know, to try to, well, you know, not only get their last pennies, but to try to get away from this stuff because the logic says that, you know, from the very beginning, a lot of us just figured it was never going to work, but it takes time, you know, to really bankrupt a super, super wealthy, powerful country.
And that is, but we've been able to do it.
And I think all this stuff is a demonstration that we're a lot worse off than superficially a lot of people hope we are not.
Right now, though, they're becoming aware of it.
And that's why I think the demonstrations, in other words, it's going to grow.
They're going to get bigger.
Yeah.
Well, I know you don't want to take credit for it openly, but I think the reason why those votes against that spending, you know, back 10 years ago or so, why they kept increasing is because your person-to-person diplomacy in the Thursday lunches, et cetera, like you say, there was only a couple of votes against it.
And then people slowly felt like they could come out of their shell.
And that's because you were such a subversive and you got them in your office.
But Massey is keeping that sense alive, but he's, in a way, I feel sorry for him because he's more isolated.
There's no Walter Joneses.
There are no Jimmy Duncan's around.
And no more reasonable progressive Democrats.
Yes, that's gone.
They've just disappeared.
Yeah, that's gone.
Well, speaking of our favorite progressive Democrat, Kamala Harris, she was, she took a little trip.
She went over to the demilitarized zone.
She went to the funeral of the assassinated former Japanese prime minister.
And she was, she was tough.
Dr. Paul, she was tough.
She looks like she's made out of presidential material.
She says the U.S. will operate undaunted and unafraid in the Taiwan Straits.
Well, you know, there for a while we didn't know what she believed in or whatever.
And she, I mean, she was really not the most popular person running for president last time.
She got immediately they put her second in line to become president of the world.
It makes me say, but like I mentioned, you know, the Democrats are in a bind, but if they're in a bind, the country's in a bind.
And some of these things are really, you know, I see it, I guess I'm too sympathetic or see this in a general sense because it's pathetic.
And it's sort of sad and tragic what's going on.
It makes you upset and angry at this, at what they're doing.
But when you look at what the president is doing, and now Kamala is, you know, that's why the Democrats are in a bind.
They say, oh, I think we could get rid of the president.
There's a sentiment there.
But, you know, the unwritten rule is if you're really serious about getting rid of somebody, and this is why this fanfare with the impeachment of Trump, that was just political theater.
That was what it was.
But when you have to get rid of somebody, even if you're not the majority party, you have to have support from the party that the president belongs to.
They have to support getting rid of them to get credibility.
But that's where there's no credibility because they realize, why would a Democrat want to get rid of Biden?
Well, there's a couple reasons for that.
But why can't you just accept the vice president?
That's the way the law works.
That's the Constitution.
Well, there are some shortcomings there.
The purity of perfect, absolute democracy has never been advertised by the founders as being a solution to a political order.
The thing of the, okay, here she is.
She's in Japan.
Obviously, Japan and China are not best buddies by a long shot.
But she's over there rattling sabers against China in Japan talking about how we're unafraid to take Taiwan's side.
The thing about this, Dr. Paul, is the timing and also the insanity of it, because we saw at the recent Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit that China was not, not that it was necessarily wavering in its friendship with Russia, but there was a suggestion that it was getting slightly impatient about the situation and that it hoped that it would come to a close sooner.
There was just a sense that they were a little frustrated.
So when you have that opening to diplomacy, to me at least, maybe I'm just an amateur, I am, but that would have been an open door for the U.S. to come in in a much more conciliatory tone.
We understand that you're concerned and we want to mend the fence.
Instead, they come in and just punch China in the face, and it just seems like not a missed opportunity, but it seems like the only thing they understand how to do is just to beat people up, and it doesn't work that way.
Well, maybe she's a little bit naive or something.
Maybe she's naive and think, well, the third in line for the presidency went over and did this, and, you know, our president, he doesn't say much about this, so I should go do it.
And she's falling in the steps of number three, you know, Pelosi.
And I understand that there was an episode in the last week that showed that that trip overseas and she and Pelosi's still involved.
I guess this is her last hurrah, you know.
And she's over there.
She got booed.
Can you imagine that?
You know, that's not polite.
Unless you're a well, I think maybe, you know, they'll get rid of Biden.
Harris will come in.
She'll name Hillary as her vice president, and then she'll resign, and then we'll all get the president we deserve.
You're a conspiracy guy.
Well, speaking of Kamala, we can't go by without, as we wind down here, without mentioning this.
Let's put on that next clip just to show the next.
There we go.
This is from our friends at Zero Hedge.
Kamala Harris in a high-stakes gaffe at the DMZ.
Hails our strong alliance with the Republic of North Korea.
And we even have a video of her saying this.
And it's, you know, anyone can make mistakes.
But this is kind of a big one when you're standing right between the two countries.
Let's listen to Kamala here.
So the United States shares a very important relationship, which is an alliance with the Republic of North Korea.
And it is an alliance that is strong and enduring.
Anyone can make a GAV.
We all make GAVs.
But you just get the sense that she really doesn't know the difference between the two countries.
Well, somebody was, one of the broadcasters said, you know, anybody can do it.
And they were sort of giving her a little bit of a pass.
But then they also ended and say, yes.
But the vice president of the United States, you know, you and I can do that, you know, in conversation and, you know, have a slip of the tongue.
But when you're the vice president of the United States talking in a serious manner, you shouldn't be making those kind of mistakes.
Is that clip still playing in the background?
I think I hear it still playing.
You could turn that off, please.
Yeah, it's not a good look, whatever the case.
You need to have some confidence in the vice president, particularly when the president seems to be teetering on the precipice at every turn.
So anyway, I'm going to close it out, Dr. Paul.
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As you say, Dr. Paul, the First Amendment is the most important.
Without that, none of the other ones make any sense.
You know, I always have to caution myself because when I go to our conferences and groups, and I'll be going to one with the Mises Institute, groups like this in Wayale, and are visiting with like-minded people, you come back and you think, you know, things aren't so bad.
And I like that because it's upbeating and I get some benefit from that.
But the whole thing is, is, you know, sometimes the reflections that we get and the comments we get from supporters and the enthusiasm we get, we've got to be cautious.
We have to still be realistic.
We can't deceive ourselves because there's some days I wake up and I see some of these numbers because over the years, you know, the numbers weren't that important to me.
The message is what I concentrated on.
So that was something that I didn't worry about.
But now some of these numbers come back and they sort of get my attention and I'm very pleased about it.
But I put it up to the fact that there are so many people now.
The numbers are growing.
People who are willing to spread a message.
I do believe that good messages are spread by word of mouth eventually and the people have to stand up and the attitude of the people really have a lot to do with it.
The purpose and the requirement of individuals to step forward and make a statement like we saw during the COVID episodes where a parent or somebody would say, I've had enough and they got some coverage.
So that is what's necessary.
And it's out there, as bad as things are.
I think the opposition that we're talking about, you know, the progressive era, the last hundred years of the destruction of our educational system, it's on its last legs, just as the monetary system.
It's on its last legs.
But what we better be doing is preparing in the best manner possible our side of the argument and what it should be replaced by.
And that, of course, for me is replacing it with a concept of individual liberty.
And that will solve so many of our problems.
I can't solve them all because I think the founders are also correct.
Yes, the Constitution is very important and it's a good way, a good set of rules and laws to follow, but it won't be worth much if the morality of the people is not such where they will support liberty and assume the responsibility.
And of course, so we have two jobs: one, the message, and the other is to get people to, you know, get old-fashioned and understand the differences between a higher law and becoming a nihilist and say, well, you can't know anything, so we can do anything we want.
That has to change, and I think it is in a way changing right now.