Send In The Clowns: UK's BoJo In Texas...To Lobby For Ukraine!
Are the warmongers getting nervous? Disgraced former UK Prime Minister Boris Johnson was in Texas this week to lobby Republicans to continue sending billions to Ukraine. Who's paying for his lobbying? Guess who...us! Also today: US military contractors are FLEECING the American taxpayer and getting mega-rich on the Ukraine war. Grift all around.
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With us today, Daniel McAdams, our co-host.
Daniel, good to see you this morning.
Good morning, Dr. Paul.
It's my fault that we're late.
I'm sorry to everyone.
We'll make it.
Well, we do have a tight schedule, but so does the whole world have a tight schedule.
And we want to talk today, guess what?
A little bit about propagandizing support for the Ukraine war.
You know, every time they make an announcement of that, they always say the war, 99 times out of 100, it's usually the war was started by the Russia invasion of Ukraine.
It's always that way.
I rarely see it unless it's our friends who are writing it.
They might say, NATO's war against Russia.
That's what's going on.
Accomplished by a coup back in 2014 and before that, that was geared up.
And so, but, you know, I think what's elicited at this meeting that we're going to talk about, Boris Johnson came out over here to give the Republicans a pep talk.
And the United States are afraid they're weakening.
But what really happened might be, in a way, good news because they said, well, he had to come over and cheer him up.
So he went, he still thinks Bush is the president.
So he had this meeting with Bush up in Dallas.
But the story is, of course, you know, Trump is not a non-interventionist.
But once in a while, he comes down on the right side.
So he just dismissed this whole thing.
We don't need to be doing this and just get over with it.
Quit what's going in Ukraine.
But then DeSantis says, no, it's not our business.
That's sort of their problem.
Both leading candidates of the Republican Party are taking a position.
Now, are they being more independent-minded, more creative, reading about non-intervention or reading the Constitution?
I don't think so.
But I think there's a gut reaction with the American people are starting to say, hey, this is enough.
We're tired of it all.
And so I got to thinking, I don't think that this Boris is related to the other Boris that we knew.
And yet, I always thought they were similar in some ways.
But now I've discovered that Boris Johnson is a, well, he's a player.
He's a neo-boy.
For him to be picked to come over here and straighten out the American people and make sure that he is the expert in organizing the money to go to the manufacturers to keep the war going on.
So he was over here for a meeting for a pep talk in Dallas, but he certainly had to go by and see his old friend George W. Bush.
And this, you know, I kept looking for, I wanted to know who attended that meeting, but I couldn't find that.
Maybe we'll hear about it.
But the issue is very clear.
But I guess there's a little bit of surprise on my part that maybe this is a sign of a weak policy to think that the American foreign policy can be pulled up and kept going with Boris Johnson, you know.
So anyway, he was here for that.
And his main goal was to make sure that people knew and understood that the war against Russia by Ukraine is much more significant, much more important than Trying to start a war with China and starting a new world currency and that sort of thing.
So anyway, he was here for a purpose.
I'm surprised of it.
I hope he has no success.
But that depends.
Maybe it depends on the very first thing I said.
Maybe this is the American people subtly sending a message through their top candidates.
And now it's the War Party or the Democrats.
And that remains to be seen what will happen in the rest of this year.
But let's just hope the anti-war sentiment continues to grow.
Yeah, the War Party or the Democrats, with one big exception, which is RFK, which we talk about quite often.
Yeah.
But let's put up that first clip because this is from Politico Europe.
Send in Agent Bojo.
Boris Johnson dispatched to Texas to shore up Republican support for Ukraine.
You mean he came to Texas, Dr. Paul, and didn't come to our studio?
I can't believe that.
But anyway, it does.
Actually, you're right.
I mean, this sort of underscores what we've been talking and following along for some time now, which is any poll you look at, Republican support for Biden's war against Russia using Ukraine is slipping, slipping, slipping.
Overwhelming opposition to sending in more money, overwhelming opposition to getting involved among Republicans.
And so what you have is Republican leadership, the elites here, who are still all for it because there's a lot of money in these wars.
And then you have the rank-and-file Republicans and some rebels within the Republican Party in D.C. saying, no, this is it.
We're done.
So what do they do?
They send in Boris Johnson.
And if you put this next one up, this is from that article.
The former UK prime minister flew to Texas as a growing number of conservative lawmakers, candidates, and activists had started to question the size of the U.S. support package for Ukraine.
So we know what the size of that package is, over $100 billion with zero accountability.
We talk about it all the time.
And here's what Johnson had to say.
It shows how out of touch he is.
If you can go to that next one.
So he had a fancy lunch in Dallas.
He insisted Western backing for Ukraine need not be indefinite, telling those present he had every hope the Ukrainians will be able to deliver a very substantial counterpunch this summer.
And he believed there was a prospect of complete Russian military collapse.
We have been hearing this from people like him for an entire year.
They were talking up the counterpunch, the counteroffensive this summer, until even the State Department, we know from these leaked papers, even the State Department thinks there's really nothing to counterpunch with.
There's going to be no counterpunch.
And that's why even what we said yesterday on our show, Dr. Paul, the State Department said, well, the goal really is no longer a victory.
It's just to put them in a better position for negotiating.
So the long and short of it is Boris Johnson came over here to lie to Republican leaders, to convince them to continue supporting this losing cause.
And we'll talk about it later.
But Boris Johnson himself is absolutely drenched in Ukrainian blood.
But I have something later on that.
You know, at the meeting, businessmen came, lo and behold, probably out of the military-industrial complex.
The companies weren't listed.
And the article that you cited said that one businessman president press Johnson on corruption in Ukraine, which he said he had heard was really bad again.
So what does this suggest?
The businessman wasn't there to lecture the morality of the Ukrainians.
He was there worrying about his flow of cash into their company, if he was part of the military-industrial complex.
But it's really bad again.
But, you know, the former prime minister, our leader of Great Britain, insisted the $50 billion spending package agreed by Biden Would prove to be value for the money.
We're going to get the money.
The American taxpayers should forget it.
Don't be so stingy.
The U.S., this is Johnson, the U.S. is getting a huge boost for global security for a relatively small outlay.
Oh, well, if it's not so bad, I mean, why are we worrying about this deficit and all that kind of stuff?
It's the division of the dividing up the loot is the problem.
A huge boost in global security.
So that's what's called when you bring us to the verge of World War III.
And you remember Boris Johnson, we talked about him in 2021.
He's the guy who locked down the rest of the country and held a bunch of parties at his office where everyone was drinking, no masks, no anything.
So that's the kind of corruption that he is.
And of course, he hated in the UK.
He was kicked out.
You know, he was a complete failure and a disaster.
But here's something interesting that I really want to point out, Dr. Paul.
And I think the real important part of this is the deep, deep corruption that our foreign policy is completely steeped in.
And if you skip ahead one and go to the next one where that's just a dateline Dallas, Britain might have fallen out of love with Boris Johnson, but Ukraine's allies in the U.S. reckon the charismatic ex-prime minister, I don't know who picked that word, but was still the perfect message.
Now here's the part I wanted to point out, Dr. Paul.
And this is how Politico writes it.
Pro-Ukraine think tankers on Monday brought Johnson to a private lunch in Dallas.
And so when you read that, you'll think, oh, it's just a non-government organization.
It's just a think tank like the Ron Paul Institute, just getting donations from people that, you know, like our mission.
Well, guess what?
Move on to the next one because who are these think tankers?
Well, they're not think tankers.
Following the visit, the previous visit, the Center for European Policy Analysis, a bipartisan Ukraine-supporting think tank based in Washington, decided to enlist his Johnson's support.
So they make it look like it's an objective, bipartisan, non-government, non-profit.
They're just doing it for the good of mankind.
Well, we know, and our viewers know, that's not the case, because go to the next one.
Who supports this organization, the Center for European Policy Analysis?
Well, they're not shy about telling us.
List of supporters for 2022 fiscal year.
Amazon Web Services, okay, they do a lot of business with the deep state.
BAE, that's the British air system.
That is the military-industrial complex in the UK.
And keep going to the next one.
Lockheed Martin, National Endowment for Democracy, that's the U.S. government's regime change organization.
NATO's Public Diplomacy Division, they also fund this so-called think tank.
The Russia Strategic Initiative at the European, U.S.-European Command.
So that's the U.S. military.
The Pentagon funds this organization.
And go back, one next one.
And who else funds this organization?
The U.S. State Department.
So this is not just some little think tank, do-gooder, we want to save the world.
No, these are funded lavishly by the military-industrial complex and the U.S. government.
So the idea, so the deep corruption, sorry to go on, Dr. Paul, but the deep corruption is this money was stolen from us.
The money was sent to these think tanks, and they use it to lobby us to give more money.
Successfully, unfortunately.
Successfully, yeah.
In the article we have been quoting, I can just imagine that Johnson getting the advice.
Well, you know, we do have some problems with the money and winning and all this sort of thing.
But there's a few, you know, right-wing kooky people who are warning about the war lasting for 20 years.
And so he, he was, I just theorizing, he was probably instructed, make a point that you're not wanting this money forever.
So he does.
He gets to makes the point.
Johnson insisted Western backing for Ukraine need not be indefinite, telling those present he had every hope that the Ukrainians will be able to deliver a very substantial counterpunch this summer.
And he believed there was a prospect of complete Russian military collapse.
So why are they worrying about this?
I wish they'd worry more about the budget.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I wanted to go a little bit into this Center for European Policy Analysis because sometimes when you do a deep dive, and that's why I'm late, because I was doing kind of a deep dive on this, Dr. Paul, and I apologize for that.
But go into who runs this.
This is a U.S. government and military-industrial complex-funded think tank.
Put on the next one.
Now, here's the head of this, Alina Paliakova.
She's the head of the Center for European Policy Analysis.
I wonder what her personal background is and why she's so obsessed with Russia, because when you look at her CV, her entire career has been spent trying to overthrow the government in Russia.
She's the author of the book, The Dark Side of European Integration, which examines the rise of the far-right movements in Europe.
I'm sure she's written a lot about Orban and Hungary and how evil they are.
But her whole thing, if you look at her entire resume, it's all deep state, it's all regime change stuff.
She's also on the board of the Free Russia Foundation.
That sounded a little bit suspicious to me, so I went over and took a look.
Well, who's the chairman of the Free Russia Foundation?
Let's look at the next one.
Oh, it's David Kramer, the head of the McCain Institute for International Leadership.
The NGOs are people that are in government.
He was in the State Department during the Bush administration.
And so who is the president of this Free Russia Foundation?
Well, let's go one further if we can.
Natalia Arno.
She's the head of the Free Russia Foundation.
But prior to this, she worked for the International Republican Institute for 10 years, including six years being IRI's Russia country director.
The Russia country director or the country director in any country that's funded by the International Republican Institute is the person who's a point person for regime change because the International Republican Institute is an arm of the National Endowment Democracy, which is an arm of the CIA to overthrow governments.
You're saying she ends up actually getting money from our American taxpayers.
Bennett's Peace Efforts Blocked00:03:22
Yep.
That gets pretty bad.
Yeah, it is.
And that's, I just, I know it's very detailed, but that corruption is so hideous and awful.
Oh.
All to keep the war going.
That is their goal.
And they have several reasons.
And I imagine dollars are one of the biggest reasons in the world because it's very much involved because it's not exactly political power.
It has to be dollars for a guy like Johnson.
He doesn't have any political power.
Well, you see, he made five million pounds on speaking since he's been kicked out of office.
Hero.
Yeah, talk about her.
Oh, not in England or Britain.
So he has to come here.
But here, he has not had a hero's welcome.
He had to go to George Bush to get a little bit of a boost in energy to go over and lecture why we have to give more money to them.
Yeah, yeah.
Well, I wanted to just say one other thing about it, Dr. Paul, and that is about Boris Johnson himself.
Because we've talked about this before.
I think more than any Western leader, even more than Biden, believe it or not, he has the blood of Ukrainians on his hands.
Because there was an amazing interview, and we've talked about it on the show before, with former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett.
And he sat down in Jerusalem with an interviewer.
I think they sat for five hours.
And this guy just let it all hang out.
He told the whole issue.
And Israel, of course, is very interested in ending this Russia-Ukraine war because there are Israeli interests on both sides of this.
They don't want to take sides, and it's in their interest not to.
But look this up, because this is what Naftali Bennett said in this wide-ranging interview.
This is the Israeli news service, I think.
If you could put that next one up, because we've talked about it before, but it's worth remembering.
The West blocked Russia-Ukraine peace process, says former Israeli prime minister.
And go to the next one.
This is that long video.
And he was on the verge of a peaceful settlement in April of 22, just over a month before the conflict broke out.
He was negotiating.
He had them agree to a deal in principle.
They were ready to sign it.
But then Western governments jumped in and blocked it and said, no, cannot do this.
You cannot stop it.
Bennett said the negotiation did not succeed because, quote, a legitimate decision, it was a legitimate decision by the West to keep striking Vladimir Putin.
I mean, the most aggressive approach.
So that shows very early on, they knew, Dr. Paul, this was not a war about Ukraine.
This was a war against Russia.
And here's what he said.
Asked if the U.S. and allies blocked the peace process.
He said basically yes.
They blocked it.
And if you'll indulge me, just one more on Bennett, because it's so important.
Who was the lead on blocking this peace deal, which would have saved probably 200 or 300,000 lives?
Well, according to Bennett, his mediation was coordinated down to the last detail with the U.S., France, and Germany.
But he said in the wake of fighting, there was no common approach among Western leaders, as, quote, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson adopted the aggressive line.
And Schultz and Macron were more pragmatic, and Biden was both.
I don't think he was either.
He didn't know where he was.
So this is it.
He stepped in.
Boris Johnson personally stepped in and said no deals.
And now hundreds of thousands are dead.
That is sick and disgusting.
Corruption In Military Policy00:08:43
You know, to me, sometimes it's sort of surprising how well the authoritarians get along or fight with each other, although they endorse principles of the same, the fascists versus the communists.
So you see the Hitler's fighting the Stalins and this sort of thing.
And right now, you know, there's fascism in Ukraine, and there's bits and pieces of the remnant of communists in Russia.
But that to me is pretty amazing.
But they get together, you know, I think it's just strictly over power.
It's not a principle, because I know you know about the times when the Soviet system collapsed, and we had sort of individuals who had, even in Russia and different places, they had no trouble morphing over into, you know, corporatism corporations and a form of fascism.
But it's always, you know, divvying up the loot.
And sometimes they have to sound more humane.
Yeah, so the fascists are supposed to be more humane than the communists.
But I think you just explained that sometimes they can get pretty vicious and they're not too concerned about how many people die as a consequence.
How many people have died?
We talked about it the other day.
How many people have died as a consequence of all the Middle Eastern war because we were fighting the terrorists who gave us trouble in 9-11?
And we're still, it's still in the books.
Anytime you need a squirmish, we're 9-11, 9-11.
Let's go after them and keep the wars going.
Yeah, that's what they were.
It's big money.
Billions of dollars.
They'll knife you for 20 bucks in your pocket.
They're certainly going to do more than that for a few billion.
Well, the next one we want to cover is related because we're talking about corruption.
And this is definitely about corruption.
Now, there was a 60 Minutes episode over the weekend that interviewed a gentleman called Shay Asad.
And this guy, you know, we criticize a lot, but there are good people in the Pentagon like him, like our friend Chuck Spinney, who had a career at the Pentagon.
There are good people there who do look out for American interests, and they are patriotic.
Well, this interview was interesting because he detailed the unbelievable profits that are being made by the military-industrial complex off the Ukraine war.
You know, I mean, it was amazing.
When this subject first came up about the gouging and how much the people will get and how much people will spend and how much the taxpayers get stuck for, was in the 70s when I first got involved in politics.
And the story was always about the hammer.
The $200 hammer.
Can you imagine a hammer costing $200?
Yeah, I can.
But that was chicken feed compared to what now they're doing millions and billions of dollars.
And it's gouging.
I don't think that word is strong enough.
Gouging is, sometimes the gouging word is used when people are just adapting to the marketplace.
Like there's a hurricane and gasoline prices double.
Oh, he's guilty of gouging.
Let's put him in prison.
You know, that's a little bit different than what we're talking about.
We're talking about corruption.
And there was one piece of legislation that generally came up and still does.
They just had, we talked about the other day.
The idea is, well, we can't cut spending and we don't want to raise taxes.
And they look around and they say, and right now they're looking, people, conservatives are looking and say, you know, there's a lot of waste over in Ukraine.
What we have to do is clean that up.
Or they say, let's change foreign policy and quit the spending.
No, they say, what we have to do, we have to have a bill, another bill.
We have to stop waste, fraud, and abuse.
If we could just do that, we're going to balance the budget just overnight if we could just get rid of waste, fraud, and abuse.
What they don't understand, nor do they want to pay attention to, every time the Congress passes a bill, most likely even with, and the intentions have nothing to do with the efficiency of it, they say, well, this is to help the poor and this is to help unemployment and all this.
And that is where it starts, because it's the program that is wrong and causes these problems.
So it's always gouging the taxpayer one way or the other.
And sometimes the American taxpayer, because on the military policy, you know, up until recent years, there's been very, there was a time when there used to be about five or six of them would even talk about it.
And now, though, it's getting more common where they talk about that type of gouging.
But it's the philosophy of government, government intervention, economic intervention.
And the backstop is always don't sweat it.
There's never going to be default because we have the world's printing press, and that's the dollar standard.
But yeah, it may end someday because we do abuse it a little bit.
But for now, there will be wasting the fraud and abuse, and it's related to bad programs.
The welfare warfare state, along with the corruption that you find in the Federal Reserve, which has been around for longer than World War II, it started, and quickly after 1913, it was passed, and lo and behold, we were very much involved in World War I, and it's continued ever since.
So that is where the waste, fraud, and abuse occurs.
It's a philosophic thing rather than that we need more IRS agents watching people so that they don't cheat the government.
Just as you were saying that, I was writing in my notes about the philosophy.
He said, I'm having your brain melt.
But you're right, if we have a philosophy of interventionism, there's going to be this spending.
It's going to be out of control.
So the problem is not the spending.
The problem, as you say, and you've been saying for so many years, is the philosophy.
But, you know, this Shay Assaud is an interesting guy.
He started off on the quote industry side.
He was working for Raytheon, trying to get it, squeeze out as much money from the taxpayer for Raytheon's stuff.
And he switched over and became a negotiator for the Pentagon and actually was trying to do some good in trying to save some money.
But if you can put this next one on, he's talking about the enrichment of the military industrial complex over this Ukraine war.
If you can put on that next clip about him, go to the next one.
This is from our friends at Libertarian Institute, by the way.
Got to give them credit.
And go to the next one because it's a good write-up.
But he said, he's talking about the astronomical price increases and the detrimental effect on the military.
That's something that not a lot of people talk about.
Those are related.
But here's what he said, Dr. Paul.
And he's talking about particularly the Ukraine war.
The gouging that takes place is unconscionable.
There's no doubt about it.
You can only buy so much because you only have so much money.
And that is, and here's some particulars.
If you put on the next one, let's go through them really quickly.
He says the Stinger missile produced by Raytheon, and that's a Stinger missile, by the way, Dr. Paul, that failed in Ukraine.
It didn't do much.
It cost $25,000 in 1991.
It now costs more than $400,000 per missile.
He called it an eye-watering increase.
And it is, Dr. Paul.
And go to the next one because he says, Lockheed and Boeing were found to have yielded an over 40% profit on sales of the Patriot surface-to-air missiles to Washington and its allies.
He explained the company saw a windfall of hundreds of millions of dollars on the deals over seven years.
And quote, based on what they actually made, we would have received an entire year's worth of missiles for free.
So he's talking about the incredible boondoggle and how wealthy these creeps, anti-American creeps, are getting off war.
You know, if we had change in policy, the 40% is mediocre because it's nearly 100% because there would be so little need for building weapons after weapons, you know, and always looking for a war to practice.
That's what they're doing down in the South China Sea, is test these naval vessels and the naval mission and then the aerospace and this whole work.
They just continue to do it.
So once again, it's back to the endorsement of a policy where we have a national defense, but how much would it be needed to have an adequate defense?
It's a lot less than 60%.
Put A Guilt Trip On People00:02:42
If they say 40% is gouging, and you entered into the whole need and all, but it's all encouraged by this illusion about patriotism and people for all this.
And also, it's also to put a guilt trip on people.
The same way they use race.
If you don't endorse all this nonsense going on now, oh, you must be a racist.
You must be a racist.
So put a guilt trip on them and the people can't handle that.
That's why I think it's because they know it's wrong, but they are afraid of it.
That's why I think philosophy is the answer.
You have to reassure people that your position is correct.
And just because you're against food stamps doesn't mean you're against starving people.
You give an answer on why you don't have starving people.
And all this welfare warfare stuff does the opposite.
Is it warfare defense?
No, it's warmongering.
Is it welfare?
No, it's starvation.
And I hear more street people in this country than probably ever.
Yeah, yeah, it's terrible.
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I'm going to finish with a little note that you sent me this morning to make sure I didn't miss it.
And keeping up with the news of the day, the most important news, and who knows, it may be pretty darn important when you think of the social structure and the moral structure of this country.
But this is just a little old note, but it's a ton of information.
Outrage Over Pride Night00:00:44
The LA Dodgers have caved and invited an anti-Christian homosexual hate group to join their Pride Night in June.
So, you know, it's on and on.
But the question is, you know, this might be another button.
Maybe this will flip around because, but I think that I don't watch these ball games, but I think I heard the news that the Dodgers did pretty well last night.
But maybe the people will get upset with this.
You know, their outrage over football finally changed that around and the outrage over lockdowns.
People have to wake up and do something if you can't do anything else.