Seymour Hersh is back with another blockbuster investigative report, this time showing that not only is the Ukrainian government outrageously corrupt - right up to Zelensky himself - but that the CIA is well-aware of it and isn't at all bothered. Hundreds of millions are being stolen from American taxpayers, Hersh writes, and the Biden Administration could not care less. Also today, US sanctions Hungary - its own ally! And: DC think tanks furious that Syria is making peace with its neighbors.
Seymour Hersh is back with another blockbuster investigative report, this time showing that not only is the Ukrainian government outrageously corrupt - right up to Zelensky himself - but that the CIA is well-aware of it and isn't at all bothered. Hundreds of millions are being stolen from American taxpayers, Hersh writes, and the Biden Administration could not care less. Also today, US sanctions Hungary - its own ally! And: DC think tanks furious that Syria is making peace with its neighbors.
Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report.
With us today is Daniel McAdams, our co-host, Daniel.
Good to see you.
Good morning, Dr. Paul.
How are you today?
Doing well.
Doing well.
Lots of stuff going on.
We have a few problems to deal with.
The world is not at peace and prosperity yet.
So I guess our work will be cut off for a little while yet.
But anti-war summarized a statement made by Seymour Hirsch, which caught my attention, and I imagine your attention as well, because most likely what Seymour Hirsch talks about and reports and relates to us, we can have pretty strong dependency that he's leveling with us, and he has done a little bit of research on what he has told us.
But he has a bomb.
Bombshell.
Bombshell.
The CIA knows, do they?
Knows Ukrainian officials are skimming the USAID.
I would say round up the usual suspects.
I wonder who would do that.
Would they be people just from Ukraine and leadership?
And it turns out that it sort of looks like that.
And there's a little bit of debate going on among the administration and the CIA, which is healthy because the more division they have there, the better.
But ultimately, there's somebody in the deep state that we're trying to root out.
And Hirsch has been very helpful to that.
But he issued a report on Substack, Substack.
And this is what the anti-war people reported from.
Yeah, it's a blockbuster new piece from Hirsch.
And put this up, if you can, this first clip, because it's called Trading with the Enemy.
And this is fascinating because once again, while Americans are told, oh, we're in a war for democracy, in reality, this is a war to enrich corrupt Ukrainian oligarchs and probably a few people in the U.S. Essentially what he's saying in this piece, there are a number of schemes and scams going on.
He outlines just one of them.
And if we can go to the next one, is the so he talks about how the Ukrainian president and many in his aunt to Russia have been skimming untold millions from the American dollars earmarked for diesel fuel payments.
So this is just one of the scams.
So basically, I'll just summarize what Hirsch has found out.
So the Ukrainians are buying cheap diesel, including from Russia, the enemy, hence the title, trading with the enemy.
So they're actually getting Russian oligarchs richer too.
They're buying discounted diesel, and then they're marking it up over and over and over.
They're selling it for like $400 a gallon to the Ukrainian army, and they're skimming off the profits.
And as Hirsch writes here, the CIA puts the embezzlement of funds at $400 million last year.
So Zelensky and his top entourage, the oligarchs, have pocketed $400 million of our tax dollars just on the diesel scam alone.
So you can imagine every other thing they're buying.
I mean, this puts Biden to shame.
10% for the big guy.
No, they want 50% for the big guy.
And it's just incredible.
If we can put this next one up, another thing from the article, he says Zelensky's been buying discount fuel from the Russians.
Who's paying for the gas and oil?
We are.
This is what a knowledgeable American intelligence officer told Seymour Hirsch.
It's absolutely incredible, and I think it's just the tip of the iceberg.
You know, they have a job on their hands right now because when things come out into the open, things like this, they always have somebody to blame.
And his name is usually Trump.
Yeah.
They'll have to have a stretch.
But this doesn't look like Trump is involved, even though he's been involved in policies that we don't exactly like at times.
And it's actually bewildering.
And then you see this stuff, and then you see the pompous supporters of Kiev.
They go out and celebrate this great, great thing because, you know, democracy is here, national security interests.
I've been over there and they really need our help.
Yeah.
And we have to win this war.
And do you think they know about this?
They didn't read this.
One thing for sure: if they did, they don't give a darn.
Yeah, they don't care.
And also, they're beating up all the churches over there.
They're beating up the priests.
I was seeing some videos.
And people say, oh, well, you're just saying this because you love Russia.
You're on Russian side.
No, we're saying this because we're not super happy about $150 billion of our dollars going over to a corrupt country.
Well, here's the second part of what Hirsch said.
There were basically three parts to his report.
Now, the second part is equally interesting because I think it has broader implications.
You know, you can just be corrupt and get rich stealing money.
That's one thing.
But this is another part that he says.
Many government ministries in Kiev have been literally competing, Hirsch was told, to set up front companies for export contracts for weapons and ammunition with private arms dealers around the world, all of which provide kickbacks.
Some of these are, now these are the most aggressively pro-war countries on this, which is Poland and Czech Republic.
They're putting up all of these front companies.
All of these weapons that the Europeans and Americans are sending over are basically being siphoned off to private arms dealers and sold around the world.
So you talk about we have a problem with terrorism now.
We have a problem with instability.
Imagine what it's going to be like when these billions of dollars worth of weapons are just flooding the entire market, you know, world market.
This reminds me of some that would want to have a precise definition of capitalism.
Instead of saying capitalism and socialism and go back and forth, there's some that like to use the term state capitalism versus free market capitalism.
State capitalism means they don't give up on it.
It means they get their stuff first and they use the capital.
And of course, it's the same principle.
It's a tyrannical situation.
But in a way, it's a capitalism.
And yeah, these guys are maneuvering.
You said they're competing for this contract and all.
And then it's international.
And then they throw in a few words.
You always have to be on the side of patriotism and American greatness and our responsibilities that we have.
We have been placed in this very special position that we have a responsibility to bring about peace and prosperity to the world and all that stuff.
It sort of gets at times nauseating.
Yeah, it does for sure.
Well, the thing is, if we can put that next one up, you know, from Hirsch, the other thing is that things got so bad, put up that next one, things got so bad that William Burns, the head of the CIA, he had to go over to Ukraine in January saying, hey, cool it, Zelensky.
You are stealing too much.
Here's what he said.
The issue of corruption was raised directly with Zelensky in a meeting in January when CIA Director William Burns went.
His message to the president was, basically, cool it.
It was one of, out of a 1950s mob movie, the senior generals and government officials in Kiev were angry at what they saw as Zelensky's greed.
So Burns told the Ukrainian president because he was taking a larger share of the skim money than was going to the generals.
So in other words, Burns came over and said, look, your generals are mad because you're even more corrupt than they are.
You're taking way too much of the money.
Please, can you tone it down a little bit?
Yeah, just accept it.
This is state capitalism.
The state.
And then who is the state?
Well, they fight over it too.
That's fortunate for us.
But too often, the deep state become monolithic and they have total control of the capitalism that they work with.
But then there's a natural tendency for the bad guys to have a little competition.
And that's why you occasionally get some overthrows of government.
But it is corrupt.
And who suffers from all this?
The people who are gullible enough to believe the talk of the politicians.
This is crucial.
This is the most crucial thing ever, you know.
And we have to prevent World War III or World War III.
At the same time, everything they do seems to be provoking and trying to stir up trouble because you've got to keep the capitalism going.
We have to get hold of the oil.
Who owns this oil?
And that is their effort.
They keep it going and it's their special interest.
And rarely do they want to turn it around and talk about how does this affect the American citizen.
Naive or not or whatever, the person they trust, it's too many too much trust, is put into the government and they'll be taken care of and they'll get lied to.
And this goes on because I'm afraid even this article is not going to get enough attention to wake some people up and say, because, you know, the Republican Party, though, we've complimented the few breakaways now.
We like that.
And maybe this will help, except that the few senators have been over there, they go back, boy, we really need this money for them.
They're in trouble.
They could lose this war if we are careful.
Maybe they stop skimming.
Well, the third part about the Hirsch article that's equally fascinating for a number of reasons is this huge disconnect that's coming out now, according to his sources.
But you don't really need secret sources to see it.
This huge disconnect between the ideologues in the State Department and the National Security Council and the people in the Pentagon and the CIA who are pushing back against this.
And this last one, the first one was from Hirsch's, the first few clips were from Hirsch's piece.
This is from an anti-war.com write-up.
If we can put that next one up.
Now, this is interesting because this is what Hirsch is writing.
The intelligence officials speaking to Hirsch criticized President Biden's two main foreign policy advisors, Secretary of State Anthony Blinken and National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.
Quote, and this is a quote from the intelligence source for Hirsch.
He said, quote, they have no experience, judgment, and moral integrity.
They just tell lies, make up stories.
Diplomatic deniability is something else, the official said.
The official said there was, quote, a total breakdown between the White House leadership and the intelligence community.
And when I read that, the first thing that I thought, Dr. Paul, was, that explains the leaks.
That's what's happening.
The intel community is pushing back, saying, look, these guys are taking us down a path that is horrendous.
It's going nowhere.
We're going to get this out there, at least so the American people will know.
I think that's a plausible explanation for the reason for leaking these hundreds of documents.
Well, it shows a failure in our system.
You know, we were supposed to be protected against these bad guys getting in.
There had to be a vote in the Senate to approve these people that have so much power, and they have to be screened.
But it's always a contest whose gang are you going to join.
It's sort of like a prison gang or a school gang.
You know, you'll be with us.
Which group are you going to join?
And you describe it very well, that there is competition.
And that, you know, it's a heck of a way to look for a positive, but you know, a little bit of competition might keep them on their toes because it's not a competition between tyranny and liberty.
I'd like to narrow the battle that's going on.
Just are you supporting individual liberty for all people equally, or are you going to join some gang that's promising you more stuff?
And unfortunately, the promise of more stuff seems to influence our system because when you look at it, the lobbyists in Washington, I have to admit, before I went to Washington, I had an idea about welfare.
And the welfare system was the whole problem.
People won't work, and you have to give them food stamps, and they're not anxious to go back.
And every once in a while, you can spot that.
It probably still happens, especially since COVID has occurred.
But they now just go on and do the same thing over and over again.
But when I got to Congress, I found out that you have to broaden the definition of welfarism.
And we talk about, you know, welfare for the poor, welfare for the rich, and welfare for the criminals.
What's a little frustrating about this whole thing, Dr. Paul, is how gullible and propagandized Americans are.
Some guy comes out and says, put on a mask and take a shot.
Okay, we'll do that.
And some guy comes out and says, we're fighting for democracy in Ukraine.
Okay, let's do that.
You know, there's sort of a lack of this sort of critical view of what they're being told.
And I mean, it is frustrating, and I hope we can somehow break through.
But our second story is a related story, and it's kind of the, if you put that up, this is from the Libertarian Institute.
So Senator Manchin and a couple of other senators went over to Ukraine.
No big news story there.
They went over with this dopey country singer.
I don't know what his name is.
So they went over there.
The thing that struck me about this photo, Dr. Paul, I don't know, maybe I'm just imagining things.
But here's Senator Manchin.
I'm going to go support democracy in Ukraine.
He goes there and brings a West Virginia baseball hat.
He's got a dopious look on his face.
But look at the, I don't know if he can even zoom in, but look at the look on Zelensky's face.
You can tell he's disgusted and repulsed.
I've got to hang around with this goat roper from the backwoods giving me baseball hats.
Just give me money.
I need more money.
So the picture sometimes does give a thousand words.
But the other thing that came out, and this is what the Libertarian Institute was focusing on more than just the dopey look on Manchin's face, is that Manchin said in Ukraine, quote, after this visit, I'm even more convinced that defeating Vladimir Putin and ending the war, et cetera, et cetera.
So he said it out loud in Ukraine that we are at war to defeat, i.e., overthrow, Vladimir Putin.
That is, again, a declaration of war against Russia.
Can you imagine if the shoe were on the other foot and Putin went to Mexico saying to defeat Joe Biden and get him out of the White House is our goal together?
Yeah, you know, Manchin organized this, and it was a political stunt in many ways because my first comment was, well, that means he's nuzzling up a little bit with Republicans.
Which Republican?
Well, the Republicans, most of the leadership was very much on this side of more money at the Kiev.
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So he may have these thoughts.
He's maneuvering.
Who's going to figure out?
I guess in time we'll know.
But Murkowski was with us, Senator Markowski.
And she got a lot of benefit from this.
She came back, you know, really souped up.
I mean, this was wonderful.
She claimed the visit inspired her to vote to send more military aid to Ukraine.
The senator explained, as I return home, I'm more thankful than ever for the blessings of American democracy and more committed than ever to ensure that Congress provides the assistance that Ukraine needs.
Now, this must serve her interests.
She's independent-minded, and she gets support, but it's just such a tragedy.
This is the type of stuff that people respond to.
But she's able to bring up this patriotic zeal.
And it's sort of like the military.
You can't say anything against the military.
You can't say anything about foreign policy.
Or you'll be considered, you need to be canceled.
You don't need to have any ability to get your message out.
It reminds me of a question that Tim Poole put to you when we were on the show the other night.
And I forget the exact context, but he said, well, Dr. Paul, are they evil or stupid?
And you said, yes.
So that reminds me of the short answer.
Yeah.
It's not to pick on Murkowski because she's just a symptom of what's wrong in Washington.
Now, she should know that this money's getting skimmed, that the corruption in Ukraine is absolutely legendary, but she should have known all of this stuff.
But she still goes over there and says, well, I'm inspired to steal more of your money, Middle America, and send it into this black hole and send it into Zelensky's pocket, send it into his general's pocket.
I feel even more inspired to rob you after I've been here.
It really is pretty disgusting, Dr. Paul.
You know, the other senator went Senator Kelly.
Oh, yeah.
And he has, he's not exactly the libertarian on non-intervention.
Yeah.
But he's well known and he's been able to, at one time, Arizona used to be a little more conservative than it is now.
But he had a statement, and I want to read it because it's a little bit similar to what I just read from Murkowski.
You must have to take a test before you go.
In his statement, Kelly echoed both of his colleagues.
For the sake of democracy, freedom, and our national security interests.
He continued, we must do more.
When I return to the Senate, I'll continue working with my colleagues to get the money we need.
So it reminds me of the news media.
It used to be three channels, and I'd flip three channels.
Same words.
So here it is.
You send over two for propaganda person.
It's really the same words.
Well, Kelly's still a pretty robust guy.
What they really need is men over there to fight.
If he wants to help Ukraine, there might be other ways of helping them out.
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Now, let's move on to the other one.
Peace is breaking out.
You wrote about this this week in your column.
And guess what?
The D.C. think tanks are not happy about peace at all.
Seething.
Seething, seed.
Seething with anger comes from zero heads as Saudis welcome Syrian foreign minister.
That sounds like they should be able to talk.
Sounds like good news.
They were probably not even carrying guns.
It says they could just carry a check, you know, a blank jack.
What do you guys need?
Should be good news.
So, you know, this is interesting because I would think the person most upset about this would be Obama.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, this is Obama's war.
That's right.
And Assad has to go.
That's right.
When did he say that?
In 2014?
11.
11.
See, he's still there.
So no wonder they're getting upset.
So that means that in a good sense, it has failed.
But it's still going on, and the think tanks aren't going to give up very easily.
And this whole thing of the realignment, you know, with the Saudis and talking to the Syrians and all that, and maybe peace in Yemen.
And I don't know what will happen.
But there is definitely a realignment coming on, at least out in the open.
And people say, why are they doing that?
Why are they turning against us?
At the same time, they could read dozens of stories or they could listen to us for dozens of months.
You know, maybe it has something to do with a flawed foreign policy.
You know, this whole thing.
But just we're kingpins, so we'll put sanctions on you if you don't behave.
So this, but this whole thing, you know, and even, you know, we blame Obama, but, you know, it happened to be a Republican that said that, well, it's wonderful that the eastern part of Syria, not a bad place to have in our portfolio, because I understand there's a little bit of oil over there.
So that's what's going to, and I often remember back then there were some of the progressives who were a little noisier at the time and said, it's all about oil.
And they said that all the way back to Iraq.
And then certainly over Syria, it's always about oil so often anyway.
Stealing it.
Well, for the first time in 12 years, and you can see that from that first clip, for the first time in 12 years, this foreign minister of Syria has gone to Saudi Arabia and met his counterparts over there.
And they are very, very busy getting back together.
I think Syria is going to be led back in the Arab League.
It's being welcomed back into the fold.
And not only is the U.S. government mad about this, because as you point out, this was Obama's big deal.
It's Arab Spring.
We're going to get them all under our wing.
Well, the other thing is that's interesting is that the think tanks in D.C. are also furious.
And put this next one on.
This guy is notorious.
Do the next one.
Charles Lister is notorious.
He's funded by the Gulf states that all signed on to this stupid war with Syria.
They then put tons of money into his dopey think tank in D.C.
So here's what he says.
Appalling and desperately short-sighted.
Saudi has welcomed Assad's foreign minister.
This isn't de-escalation.
It's unconditional submission to a criminal regime, narco-state, an ally of Iran.
And go to the next one, you'll see a little bit more about Charles Lister.
This is a tweet.
The truth about Charles Lister.
Meet America's think tank fellows who support jihad.
And you can actually go look this up and read about the fact that all of these guys are financed by the people who in the Middle East who stupidly went along with it.
But thankfully, you know what, the prodigal son were happy.
They're coming back to peace.
They don't want to have war in the area.
But the other thing that struck me, Dr. Paul, is that this is a great concrete example of what we've said all along, which is that the military-industrial complex makes a fortune from our unbelievably huge military budget.
They plow some of those profits into D.C. think tanks.
All the PhDs in the DC think tanks then come up with policy papers arguing for more war.
When you have those papers calling for more war, they use those to lobby Congress for more money to the military.
And some of that goes to think tanks.
Round and round we go.
Our entire foreign policy is based on this corrupt relationship in DC and it's frustrating that more Americans don't see it.
You know, there is a concern among some people that they're going to be invited back into the Arab League.
And that has some significance, symbolic if nothing else, but it's a big deal with the symbolism because in the last couple months, the dollar has started, it has shifted gears.
It was going up for a long time and now it's going down.
And some people believe that the transition has already started, leaving the dollar.
And this kind of stuff does it because you see China, Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Russia, you know, coming together.
And before you know it, they're testing the waters already because they do make trades outside the dollar.
And that is an indication of what is coming.
And if you look at the markets, markets are pretty shaky, especially the currency markets on exactly which way they go.
But bringing them back, you know, Arab League, you know, if we had a free society and we influence the world with the type of a republic that we should be, who would care if it was an Arab League?
Maybe it would be an economic Arab League, you know, and maybe that's their biggest, you know, motivation right now.
I don't think they're doing this with the idea that they're going to suddenly march into another country and take over in another country to make sure they join the Arab League.
Yeah, yeah.
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Let's move on to our last story, Dr. Paul, because I pay a lot of attention to Hungary.
I've lived there and I know a little bit about it.
But this really blew my thought because it's just crazy.
Put this next one on if you can.
The U.S., as we know, they're sanctions happy.
They'll put sanctions on anything that moves.
But I didn't think I would see the day where they actually put sanctions on our NATO ally, Hungary.
And this happened yesterday.
Sanctions against Budapest-based bank and executives.
Now, this is from the European Conservative magazine, which I do recommend people have a look at.
It's a good magazine.
So yesterday, the ambassador, David Pressman, who is a really bad guy, he went to Hungary as the ambassador, took his husband and their kids, moved into Sabotchagter, and began harassing the elected, democratically elected Hungarian government from the moment his feet hit the ground.
Put on this next, and you wouldn't believe what he's doing.
This is the U.S. ambassador to Hungary.
Look at this next clip.
What he's doing, David Pressman.
This is outrageous.
U.S. ambassador to Hungary, David Pressman, who is currently spearheading a hard diplomatic offensive against Hungary with a nationwide billboard campaign meant to undermine the government.
So a U.S. ambassador who's supposed to be a diplomat goes to Hungary and pays with our tax dollars for billboards throughout the country trying to undermine and ultimately overthrow the government that he's in.
It's absolutely outrageous.
I mean, to be honest, I would say, persona non grata, you're out of here.
Take your husband, your kids, and get out of here.
You know, we're sick of you.
I'm looking forward to the unintended consequence of this.
This is not going to work out smoothly.
And it may be a blessing in disguise because I would think this weakens NATO.
I mean, why should they trust NATO?
Yeah, exactly.
You know, so this may work better for us.
And then Hungary, maybe I'd like to see them just become more independent and working with anybody they can.
But for the time being, if we're going to punish them and they're our friend and they're our military ally, somebody has to wake up and say, this doesn't make any sense.
It's sort of like Kiev taking our money and buying oil from Russia.
We're at war with Russia.
I mean, it just makes no sense.
Yeah, and I mean, America freaked out for four years on the lie that Russia had something to do with our elections and our government.
Here we are openly doing what Russia was accused of doing, and nobody bats an eye.
Hey, we're exceptional.
We can do whatever we want.
You know my opinion about lying.
It's incestuous, and there's no consequence, and there is no such a thing as lying for some people.
It's irrelevant.
But I don't think that's the way the world works.
And I think the world works more with trust and other things that bring people together.
And this whole thing is about the bank.
There's a bank that was created way back during the Warsaw Pact.
It operates in Budapest.
It was to facilitate trade within the Warsaw Pact, and that's what it does.
And so the U.S. is trying to find things to sanction.
Oh, there's a bank in Hungary that has Russians working in it?
Okay, you're sanctioned.
Anyone that works for it.
So this Imre Leslotsky is a Hungarian national who is an official at the bank.
Now, he's been personally sanctioned by the U.S. government because he just happens to be working in this bank.
So they're looking for any excuse to A, attack Hungary, and B, to not let a single bit of trade, unless it's black market trade, as you point out, with Russian diesel.
That's okay.
10% for the big guy.
You know, that's fine.
But I'm going to close out if we're ready.
And I do want to make one announcement, and I'm really excited about this.
I'm going to announce the first speaker for our June 3rd.
I said January yesterday.
I know it was wrong with me.
Our June 3rd conference in Houston.
Now, if you watch this show, if you've watched it during COVID, this person is someone who is very familiar to you because we talked about him all the time, because he did excellent, superb work on exposing the lies of COVID.
And put up that next clip.
You'll notice if you watch our show, we talked about the dossier many times.
The dossier is a substack written by Jordan Schachtel, who's an investigative reporter.
I think he's based in DC.
He's actually down in Florida now.
Jordan is going to join us for the first time at an RPI conference, and I'm very excited.
Our conference is about lies and nihilism.
He is going to deliver up a delicious speech about lies and nihilism.
Put on that next clip.
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There will be in the link, if you click to it, there'll be information on how you can become a host committee member and have lunch with Ron Paul and Jordan Schachtle.
Not a bad way to spend your afternoon.
But whatever the case, come join us on June 3rd.
Very cool.
And I'm going to follow up a little bit on Hungary.
And thank goodness we have you around because you are the expert on Hungary.
And, you know, sometimes when I was in the Air Force, I went to a lot of places.
Sometimes it was irrelevant, but sometimes there was a memory brought back an incident that refreshes our memory.
So the experience there has to be of some value to all of us.
This whole thing about sanctioning a bank in Hungary, how ridiculous it is.
But if you look at the goals, some of the things that we do under COVID and doing lockdown and everything makes no sense.
The only way I came around saying that it did make sense was it was chaotic creating.
And who wants to create chaos?
Well, the Marxists and the authoritarians like chaos because they think they're going to pick up the pieces and run the show.
So this is what they want to do.
But this whole idea that all of a sudden, you know, there's a Russian bank in Hungary, and I don't think Russia was, and Hungary's part of NATO, I don't think Russia was ready to move tanks into Hungary.
So there was no threat.
But what they did, and I think the thing's going to backfire on them, but then we put on the sanctions, and it is exactly the opposite of good economic advice.
And if you're interested in freedom, and it is trade with people, honest trade, honest currency, that is so beneficial to bringing about peace.
But no, this is moving in the wrong direction.
They're canceling the trade.
So if the Hungarians can get along with the Russians, why can't we get along with the Russians?
Oh, we tried that, but then all kinds of nonsense broke out.
But if we're for peace, I do believe that the founders are on the right track, that they believe that trade was a good issue.
Never perfect, but I'll tell you what, what we're doing now is, you know, the purposely destroying, you know, the marketplace and the value of the dollar and all these things.
That can't be beneficial because it's going to lead to problems.
And already, there's way too many predictions because I sometimes worry about it too.
Oh, we're on the verge of World War III.
Well, I don't think we're on the verge next week of World War III, but we're at war with ourselves.
All of what we do to us to undermine our freedoms because that to me is the most important thing.
Because if we have our freedom, if we have just our First Amendment rights and they're guaranteed, at least we could have a better fool's discussion and not be canceled and all the other things and not be punished, but we can get more exposure.
And that, of course, is what we hope to do with this program, is expose to the people how valuable it is, the value of non-intervention and a sound currency for peace and prosperity.