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Feb. 21, 2023 - Ron Paul Liberty Report
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#AskRonPaul - Rising Inflation, The Military Industrial Complex, and The War in Ukraine

Ron Paul takes your questions via Twitter. Tune in to this special episode of The Ron Paul Liberty Report!

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Hope For America 00:05:17
Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report.
We have a special guest today who is our co-host.
It happens to be Sir Khan Ash, who's been working with us probably eight or nine years, and he knows our program system very well because he's been the technician in charge.
He understands the equipment.
He's been able to do wonders in a very modified studio, but we get our program out.
Sir Khan, good to have you with us today.
It's good to be here, Dr. Paul.
It's an honor and a privilege to be doing this with you.
And today we're doing Ask Ron Paul, and without further ado, I'm just going to go ahead and hop to the first question.
Very good.
This is always a fun program.
And the first question is from Janice Thompson.
You have seen corruption for more years than most.
Is there any hope for America?
I'm an optimistic person, but I'm cautious when I talk about my optimism.
But yes, I think there's hope for America because the world has been in a contest between good and evil from the very beginning.
And we have our spells up and down.
But I'd have to agree with people who can get pretty despondent about what's going on in the world.
I mean, what's happened to America?
Some of my speeches are very cautionary in how bad things are because I think something major happened 100 years ago and we've essentially lost our republic and we have perpetual wars and all these things gone.
But no, I think there's hope for America because just think of the challenges our founders had.
They were fighting the British government, the biggest army in the world, and they were a ragtailed army and they were able to present a cause where they actually won the military battle too.
So I think the worst thing to do is give up hope and realize that there's a lot of reason for it.
But they talk about corruption.
The questioner is absolutely right.
You go to Washington, you'll run into corruption.
But you know, it's not everybody.
You know, I keep saying, I look back on my life and, you know, growing up, being in even government schools, being in college, being in medical school, being in the military, being in a residency, and all these things and being in politics.
But the majority of people, by large part, have been decent people.
And I keep looking at that because I think the people in Washington that gain power, that's where the real problem is, and they get influence.
And you take a guy like Soros, he's a very dangerous person.
He has been able to manipulate the system, accumulate great wealth, and he had a goal of promoting cultural Marxism.
And unfortunately, he's been rather successful on it.
But what we have to do is realize what is going on.
And we have to expand the definition of corruption.
Yeah, there's the old-fashioned corruption of stealing, cheating, and lying, which has gone on a long time.
And we had an FB CIA agent say, oh, that's what they taught us in school, to lie, cheat, steal, and kill.
And so that's there.
But I look at it in a bigger area.
I look at it as the corruption of language, the corruption of politics, the corruption of economic policy.
It was really the corruption of economic policy that motivated me to go into politics because I wanted to ventilate about the stupidity about our monetary policy.
And that was back in the early 70s with the breakdown of the Brown Woods.
So it was that corruption.
And we're still suffering from it.
And the corruption is so bad because it rewards the people who are deceptive and thieves and the military industrial complex.
All these people get some benefit from this.
But it is corruption.
But it's due to a philosophy which is, oh, by the way, I learned that in college.
When I was in Washington, I met a lot of people.
I remained on talking, you know, friendly status with them just to get more information from them.
But it was only about three or four that I thought understood Austrian free market economics and why we don't need a Federal Reserve.
Most of them were taught in government schools.
And that is our problem.
That's where the corruption is.
It's in the philosophic system.
And we can trace back all our problems to approximately 100 years ago when the progressive movement was developed.
That's when we changed our foreign policy, our monetary policy.
We introduced the income tax.
So you might say, oh, you're too pessimistic.
It's really bad.
Yeah, it really is.
But it's also something the numbers are there.
It's the whole political system that's bad.
This purity and democracy and only manipulating a majority, and you can do anything you want to the minority.
That's a problem.
But I think we're making progress from that.
It was a disaster, you know, combating the COVID environment and all the lockdowns.
Why Democracy Is Failing 00:07:34
But in a way, we've been winning battles there.
We have to win the battle right now to explain to people why it's stupid for us to be over as running the NATO to have a war with Russia.
Now, that's stupidity, and that is corruption, and that they have to expose it.
So the answer is exposing the corruption and making sure people are educated in economics as well as a non-interventionist foreign policy.
Sircott.
Very good, Dr. Paul.
I'll just go ahead and go to the next question here.
And that comes from Q Moravi.
If Dr. Paul was in charge, how would he end the Ukrainian war?
So you're the president, Dr. Paul.
How would you stop it?
I would stop it quickly.
And a president can do that.
You know, there was one time, I think, under Grover Cleveland, the Congress either was on the verge of it or declared war.
And he said, they might as well not bother because I'm not for the war.
And I'm the commander-in-chief, and I'm not going to send the troops because it's a stupid idea of going to war.
So, yes, the president is the commander-in-chief.
And, you know, during the presidential campaigns, people would ask me this question because we were trying to get ourselves out of the Middle East and the disaster there.
I said, well, we just marched in.
Why don't we just march out?
And it should be as simple as that.
Get directive.
Maybe more sensible than they did with Afghanistan, that it should be as much protection as you can give to the troops.
But there's no reason that you can't get in within weeks and months and bring them home and just get it over with.
But I think there's a better idea.
I think, you know, we just marched in, we ought to just march out.
But I have a suggestion to make for a generation now that's into Washington and running the show is don't send them in.
It's much easier.
Stop the confrontation.
Try diplomacy for a change instead of being followed by the military-industrial complex and the inflationary cycles that go on.
There's just no reason for that.
We don't need it.
We need people to understand what non-intervention is all about and not getting involved in these areas where we do not have any business and it's always done on a pretense.
Oh, we have to be in Ukraine.
We have to save our Constitution.
We have to save our liberties and we have to preserve peace.
And right now, you know, the Russians are destroying everything, but everybody ignores the information is important.
Everybody seems to ignore the whole fact that in 2014, Ukraine had an elected president that we kicked out.
We participated with NATO and others and committed a coup, which introduced us to this disaster over there from 2014.
We spent, oh, $110 billion, and now what do we do?
Our president rushes over there.
Oh, we'll give you $500 million more.
That's insanity and it's stupid.
And it's following rules of just anti-liberty and anti-what, constitutional, anti-American.
And yet, too many people go along with that.
So there's a reason.
The minority go along with it because they're accused, if they don't, that they will be unpatriotic and they don't support the troops and they don't have to listen to that propaganda.
So I would say if we had the right position, if we didn't have a Federal Reserve, they couldn't afford to go in.
We don't need a Federal Reserve.
If you didn't have the money, there wouldn't be enough taxes to be collected by the IRS.
So the war would stop if we didn't have the Federal Reserve printing money, debasing the currency, cheating the people out of their wealth, bringing on deliberately welfarism and wars and depressions and recessions.
And they do that deliberately.
So it is fallacies.
It's a destructiveness of the economic system.
But they say, oh, well, we're not communists and we're not fascists and we're not socialists.
We're moderates and we want to take care of people.
No, what we are putting up with is we're corporatists and we allow our corporations to get into business with the government.
So it's a system that is close to fascism, but it isn't because the government gets to do what they want or direct corporations to do with it.
And if they come and say to the government, oh, Mr. Government, you're violating our civil liberties.
Oh, no, it's the corporations.
It's social media that's doing it.
But they're friends.
They're buddies.
They work together and they both benefit from it.
So that has to be exposed.
And I think the numbers would shrink because when we were fighting the stupidity of the lockdown on COVID, you know, it was pretty depressing at times.
But eventually, the majority of American people said, this is crazy.
Why are we doing this?
Take away the First Amendment, taking away the license of doctors because they just wanted to talk about natural immunity.
No, we've made a big leap in the right direction, but we still have a long way to go.
So no, it can be changed.
But the real threat to us is the control of the message, the control of the media, and that is why social media and partnerships with the government has been such a threat to it.
But we could end the war, but we have to change our philosophy of government and realize that if you're looking at democracy and saying, well, it's democratic.
The majority want this.
Well, that's saying that the minority gets nothing.
You get the majority.
You pay the majority to come along and endorse the war.
The people who have to fight the war and pay for it, they don't get a say.
That's why democracy is so dangerous, that it is a deliberate destruction of minority opinion.
And the only way they can maintain it as a country gets poorer is Do that by silencing people.
And that's what we're witnessing now.
We should concentrate on freeing up the people.
Then we could.
We could, if we had Bosched in, we could just march out, but maybe we'll quit marching in.
It'll be a lot easier for all of us.
Sarkon.
Very good, sir.
So, if anybody, all of our fans and subscribers, if they haven't seen your war rally speech that is on our Rumble site, please watch that.
You are incredible, sir.
And then we're going to the hard questions now.
And then the first question comes from Miley Mixon.
What can be done to loosen the grip on the military-industrial complex on this country?
The warmongers seem to have all the power, making billions and trillions at the expense of taxpayers, taking us closer and closer to World War III.
How do we stop them, Dr. Paul?
Well, what we could do is get people who aren't interested.
You know, the founders said the Constitution is pretty darn good.
We've done our best, but it's not going to work if the people don't have some moral standards.
And we had better standards at one time.
You'll never have perfection, obviously.
But now it's become more immoral.
Believe in True Liberty 00:06:12
And we have a contest going on because I believe the Republic has been usurped by a coup.
And the coup occurred back in the progressive era.
And that is why we have the income tax and the Federal Reserve and the spending and the deficits all.
So we have this coup, a takeover, and I call that Soros'ism, Soros'ism, because he's the one that has done amazing things in showing how he can be corrupting, make money in a free market system, and then influence so many elections.
So that is a job.
So we have that to contend with.
And we have a coup where he and his helpers and workers in the social media have been able to take over so many industries, like education system.
That's a big one.
Taking over medical system now.
Taking over the military-industrial complex.
That's another big group.
Taking over the pharmaceuticals.
Taking over the medical profession.
I mean, that has to stop or we can't survive.
But I think most people just don't realize that.
But the enemy really is what has replaced this whole thing of, and is in contest with the coup that really runs the world because people, the people who are opposing it, I call them nihilists.
They literally say, you can't know the truth.
There's no such thing as truth.
It's the government, it's the political parties.
They are the ones that define truth.
And that's why you still hear the nonsense coming from government, from our officials.
And since you don't know truth, they don't believe in a higher law.
They don't believe in natural law.
They don't believe in natural immunity.
All this nonsense.
Everything becomes relative.
And that to me is where the real problem is, is recognizing where the battle is.
And this social Marxism is real, and it should be realized.
And right now, since our conditions are getting worse, the challenge gets great because the people who have really taken over and really run the country now, they will not go away quietly.
But they're going bankrupt.
They're not going to be able to finance the wars.
The welfare state is going to be in dire straits.
And chaos will break out.
Matter of fact, the Marxists and the corporatists, they want chaos.
A lot of times, people say, Why are they doing this?
It's making, look at the violence on the streets, and look at what's happening to us.
But that's what they want.
Out of chaos, they want to give us the real Marxist state.
The last one, which was strictly economic, we have to have a social Marxist state as a culture.
We have to control everything, plus the economics.
So, it is a battle of ideas right now.
It's whether or not I think it really boils down to whether or not people have an understanding or any interest at all about a natural law and why good and evil still is known about.
And once it's given up and say, you can't know it, there is no such thing as truth.
Well, what do you get?
You get a vacuum, and then somebody fills it, and then the evil fills it.
So, it's understandable.
I think we've had enough experience.
I see so many positive things.
I see the positive things happening around the country.
I feel good about meeting people that in the last 10 years or so have joined the freedom movement.
And we had such a wonderful meeting up in Washington the other day, getting thousands of people out trying to do what I have suggested.
Try to prevent us from doing things.
And the whole purpose of the rally was let's quit sending those troops to Ukraine.
Of course, our troops aren't there, but our NATO's there, and Ukraine's our armed forces.
It's us that promotes it.
There would be no war in Ukraine without us because we orchestrated that coup in 2014.
So, but I see a lot of positive things.
One thing I'm very positive of is if you want good economic policy, one has to look at Austrian free market economics.
You have to recognize it's based on the principle of voluntarism, no force or violence.
And you're supposed to apply that to interpersonal relationships, business relationships, and international relationships.
Everything has to be voluntary.
So, if two people, you know, voluntary get together and agree, even if they're agreeing to something you might disagree with, as long as you have two, the whole world would be better off.
So, I want to just go ahead, Sir Khan, and close the program by being as optimistic as I can, but also being very much aware of how dangerous it is.
But I believe that over the period of time that I've convinced the answers are out there, I think the ideas of liberty, the ideas of economic policy, as good as the founders were, they were a long way from understanding the complete picture of Austrian economics, but they understand the basics of what natural law is all about, because there is such a thing as good and evil.
And if you say, Well, you don't know good and you can't possibly know it, what happens?
We get a lot of evil.
But I think our numbers, if you had a real vote and a real polling done in this country, I believe the people who believe in true liberty and true free markets and for us in the foreign policy, mind our own business.
I believe we would be better off, we would be safer, and the world would be better off.
I want to thank everybody for tuning in today to the Liberty Report.
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