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Jan. 11, 2024 - Ron Paul Liberty Report
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G7 Leaders Pledge Endless Money To Ukraine - 'As Long As It Takes'!

After two days in a luxurious German castle, President Biden and the rest of the G7 leaders pledged to continue shipping an endless pipeline of dollars to Ukraine, even as the war continues to be lost. With western enthusiasm waning, however, is this just hot air? Also today at G7: Don't say Covid! Finally today - US military recruiters find little interest among young Americans. Why?

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G7 And Beyond 00:14:17
Hello everybody and thank you for tuning into the Liberty Report.
With us today is Daniel McAdams, our co-host.
Daniel, good to see you this morning.
How are you this morning, Dr. Paul?
Pretty and raring.
Yes, absolutely.
To solve all the problems.
But we have the G7 their meeting, so I guess they're going to alleviate from our problems.
They'll come up with solutions.
Now, we have to figure out, are they an economic group, or are they a political group, or are they a military group, or is it a study committee?
Or a comedy group.
Well, anyway, they got started way back in 1973, and it was just a little club, but now it's a big deal, and they have their problems to deal with.
And it looks like from what I see is the top of their agenda for this meeting will be Ukraine.
Maybe they'll have a solution.
Maybe they'll say, you know what?
We're part of this NATO group.
We have a lot of influence here.
Why don't we advise NATO, just go home.
Just forget about Ukraine and tell the Russians, just knock it off.
You're not allowed to own all of Ukraine.
You have your part.
But that's not likely to happen because the same people who want to perpetuate the war, and it looks to me like they're really buckling down.
They're not saying, is there a solution?
How can we back off?
When will the diplomats have a breakthrough?
They're saying, look out.
We're going to be in Ukraine for as long as necessary.
They're not going to give up.
And it is a little scary when people say, well, if so-and-so does this, that's the beginning of World War III.
Of course, that threat has been used many times over the years, but I think they're never totally false.
It's just a horrible thought.
And most people say, well, that can't be true.
So we won't worry about that today.
But once there's this smoldering resentment and weapons and killing going on and argument about borders, there's always this danger.
But I don't think the solution is going to come out of this G7 summit.
I just think that if anything, it'll be more antagonism and more land on the law.
And there will be more division and hatred thrown at the Russians right now.
And we will not be removing in the right direction.
And the interesting thing is at this point, it doesn't matter because you've already vilified them for years and years.
You've put every sanction you can on it.
It has had the opposite effect.
So basically, it doesn't matter what they say.
They're still living in la-la land.
You know, there's no question about it.
You know, they've been pushing a military solution rather than a diplomatic solution.
And now it's become a self-fulfilling prophecy because there is no diplomatic solution.
There is absolutely no incentive for Russia to sit down now that it's winning and it looks like it may take Odessa in the near future because Ukrainians Kiev has moved reserves from Odessa up to Kharkov to try to plug that hole.
So the fact of the matter is they have missed the window for a diplomatic solution by their own choice, by their own miscalculation, because they believed they could use Ukraine as a bludgeon to beat Russia into submission and it's had the opposite effect.
So what do they do now?
As leaders, political leaders always do, Dr. Paul, when they make a huge mistake, they double down, right?
We're going into Iraq.
Oh my gosh, we're getting our rear ends kicked.
Let's do a surge.
Same thing with Afghanistan.
So that's why I put up this first clip.
And you'll see here's their brilliant solution.
Here they are sitting around the table.
There's Boris Johnson slouching.
G7 pledges renewed solidarity with Ukraine.
And here's what they said.
They will continue to support Ukraine, quote, for as long as it takes.
What do you think about that, Dr. Paul?
As long as it takes.
It's good for the military-industrial complex.
They're going to make a couple bucks on this one.
You know, looking back on when this started, this was in 73.
That was not too long after, you know, the fall of Berlin Wall.
We were talking to the Russians more so.
And Yelson, I think, was participating.
And he wasn't totally ignored.
And there was movement in that direction.
And then eventually, you know, the group became more hostile and they ostracized the Russians.
But it's interesting to note that while Trump was in office, he actually made the suggestion to them at a meeting that they start talking to the Russians again.
And of course, that type of thing was so dangerous.
They flipped that around and say, oh, he's a communist, all that stuff.
But I think that probably was an honest suggestion coming out of his administration.
But that was, you know, we know when it started and the Russians were sort of included and then it faded.
But I think this thing, which is probably a true statement, that there was an overture made by the administration under Trump, but that might have been the final blow.
Forget it, folks.
And that's probably what led to the more aggressive attitude of the Russians.
Yeah, and the White House itself released its own fact sheet to follow up on this pledge for eternal support for a losing cause, which they're very good at supporting losing causes.
And we can put that next one up here, straight out of the White House.
Fact sheet.
The United States and G7 to take further action to support Ukraine and hold the Russian Federation accountable.
And I have a little clip from this statement.
If you can do this next one, if you can.
And here's the early statement from it.
The United States has rallied over 30 allies and partners around the world.
Well, that doesn't sound that impressive when you remember that there are 195 countries.
So we're bragging about rallying 30 of the 195.
And just put that back up if you don't mind.
And here's what they're rallying to do, Dr. Paul.
They're rallying around the world to impose drastic costs on Russia.
So I went back and looked around.
And what are these drastic costs that Russia is facing thanks to these sanctions?
Put up that next clip, please.
Here are the drastic costs.
Russia doubles fossil fuel revenues since invasion of Ukraine began.
So everything they're doing is having the opposite effect.
They're actually literally helping fund the war in Ukraine by rising these costs.
And what's happening to the people that live in these countries is they are facing a huge burden and it's taking a toll.
And this is a poll that I just looked at, Dr. Paul.
This is a YouGov poll from earlier this month in the UK.
Put that up.
And you can see the inflection point.
This is very, very important.
The British do not want to support sanctions against Russia anymore if this leads to a further deterioration of their lives.
And you can see where that inflection point hits, Dr. Paul, where the people who oppose more sanctions now have surpassed those in favor.
Of course, when they started and the war propaganda is high, everyone just sucks it in.
But when they start realizing the costs, and you look at that fourth question, they oppose more sanctions if it results in a significant increase in energy prices, 45 to 38.
So they are losing the public opinion war in Europe.
And I think they're realizing it, Dr. Paul.
And let's do this next one.
Here's a German chancellor who's really a hapless fellow.
Every day he's ridiculed by Zelensky, and every day, like a puppy dog, he comes back to his heel.
And here's Schultz.
As G7, we stand united on Ukraine's side and will continue our support.
For this, we all have to take tough but necessary decisions.
Thank you, Zelensky, for your participation today.
We will continue to increase pressure on Putin.
This war has to come to an end.
Well, it is coming to an end, Dr. Paul, but not in the way that they think.
That's for sure.
You know, and their sanctions, they have named 570 groups.
They've about proven, and you mentioned it, you know, and the sanctions on the oil.
It keeps Russia richer.
So what's this going to do?
And yet they pursue this.
But then they also, in their promises to help Ukraine, they commit $7.5 billion in economic aid, plus all the other.
I mean, they're well over $40 billion right now.
So it's nothing more than the same old stuff.
And no matter how much it has failed, they continue to do the same thing.
But the one that I think I'll be talking about a little bit this Friday when I do more economic stuff, which I found a little silly, they're going to sanction Russia and say, we're not going to allow you to sell any of your gold.
You better.
And I thought, well, you know, maybe they're doing the Russians a favor.
Of course, they'll still sell it.
I mean, they still sell their oil.
I mean, that's just talk.
But in a way, if they were effective, they would say, you know what, Russians?
You just hang on to your real money.
And just like your oil became more valuable, maybe your gold will become more valuable too.
Well, the Indians and Chinese love gold, so they'll probably be bathing in it.
Yeah, they could probably get it out of there without going through a pipeline in Europe.
Yeah.
Well, you make a good point about this $7 billion, Dr. Paul, because I really think, and I've said it many times before, but I think that's how we're going to win, because this $7 billion is being shipped over Ukraine to help just their general budget, their cost of running their government.
So I think when Americans, myself included, when you look at your general monthly budget with inflation through the roof, and then you look at, well, it's really tough on me, but we've got to send all this money to Ukraine.
I just don't think Americans are going to be too happy about saddling this burden.
No, I don't think so.
And I think they are waking up already, and I think there's less support for Ukraine.
And it's the money and it's the waste that goes on.
And then when they, I think the one that really is the toughest one for the Biden administration is the fact that these oil prices are soaring and the Russians are making all this money.
They're benefiting the most.
If you think of how dumb can it get?
But they'll figure out something.
And then again, if you say, well, Ron, don't worry about it because you can have clear understanding of this because their goal is chaos in the streets and making a mess out of things.
Well, that's not difficult for them.
It seems like governments are pretty much experts in that.
Yeah, that's the only thing they're good at.
Well, speaking of the G7, now here's a word you're not going to hear.
Let's put up this next.
This is from our friends at Zero Hedge.
And it's, if we put on that next clip, COVID falls from the G7 agenda.
Focus now on Russia, Russia, Russia.
And it's a great article.
I encourage our viewers to read the article.
But he's saying, you know, remember this at the beginning of this year when the TV or the web non-stop COVID, COVID, COVID.
Fauci, Fauci, Fauci.
Well, the one thing that you're not seeing at G7 is any talk of COVID at all.
They found something new to scare the people with.
The question, Dr. Paul, is, is it working?
You know, they want to emphasize Russia, of course, and what's going on in Ukraine.
But the secondary topics, I think, are pretty interesting and useless, too.
We need to talk about climate change.
We have to have that high on the agenda.
And gender equality.
Oh, yeah, of course.
So that will save the world too, you know, by all that mischief.
So they have those plans, but my guess is it's not going to do a whole lot of good.
But the good news here is I think it's just pure pragmatism that they had to drop COVID.
Because it's coming through.
You can read stories where they used the word lie.
It was based on lies and bad economics and bad medical science and on and on.
And people are starting to say, which used to get you practically a jail sentence, that lockdowns were bad, and none of that stuff works.
You can say that now.
And I think most of the people realize that.
So the rebellion came on when they decided football was more superior than anything else.
And we don't want to go to this football game with our mask on, and we don't believe your lies.
And you're right.
The lies did take over and people realized it.
And they realized they can't push it anymore.
And the article points out that the infection fatality rate was much lower than they said.
The idea that the pandemic of the unvaccinated would be the next wave, that didn't happen at all.
And in fact, they have a link to an article about the fact that people who have gotten all their shots and boosters now appear to be more likely to get the virus than those who haven't had anything.
We talked about that a couple of weeks ago.
And that was, I think, a Johns Hopkins study.
So it wasn't some crazy thing.
So this is gone.
They need some more fear.
They're trying to push Russia as fear.
But in the article, Dr. Paul, I noticed something that reminded me of something that you said, which is they're still trying to deflect.
Because as they pointed out, and as you said from the beginning before COVID, this inflation business started before COVID.
So they can't start saying Russia, Russia, be afraid.
Don't look over here at inflation because that was already baked in.
Conditions Affecting Army Recruiting 00:04:55
Absolutely.
You know, the other thing is that they've recognized is the vaccine passports didn't work.
And they gave a lot of Americans credit for this because that was a line they didn't want to cross where you had to literally have a passport.
And then when they started talking about, you know, an injection, and then we had all this controversy with the vaccines, you know, that it was an eye-opener for a lot of people.
And the article also mentions that most of the enlightenment came in the states that have a political significance to it, where the shift is, and there was this polling that occurred yesterday.
Somebody started, it was amazing.
It was even reported on CNN that they looked at the registration rolls and over a million people, I didn't know they had the details of this.
A million people went from being registered as a Democrat to being registered as a Republican.
Well, they'll fix that with mail-in voting.
Don't worry.
It doesn't matter how you vote.
But at least it gets their attention.
It gets their attention.
Well, speaking of the buffoonery of the G7 before we move ahead, let's look at this because it wouldn't be a G7 discussion without showing the buffoonery of Boris Johnson, who was really a global joke, and Joe Biden, who's a very serious intellectual, all right?
But here's a graph.
This is from Pew.
If we could look at that next one just before we move on.
And this shows how Americans' biggest concern now is inflation.
And you see that COVID is at the very, very bottom of the list below racism and road conditions and climate change.
So people aren't concerned about it.
And that's why their fingers are in the wind and they're not seeing something.
But here's something else that they're probably concerned about.
If we can put that next one on, this is from our friends over at the Libertarian Institute.
They've noticed this, and it is pretty important for the military.
The Pentagon is struggling to recruit young Americans.
The Army is waiving high school graduation requirements.
Basically, if you've got a pulse and join the Army, it looks like that's what they're saying at least.
Yeah.
You know, the conditions that exist, you know, are we in a war or are we in a war and economic condition all have an effect on recruiting.
But in the 60s, the recruiting went way down because our country was waking up a lot sooner than our leaders were waking up.
So they literally would have to go out and get the troops.
And that's why there was the draft, which further complicated things and angered people.
That's when the revolt came very clear in the streets, our streets, and people say, this is too much.
But when conditions like this, there's a lot of reasons why they're not recruiting.
I mean, there's the economic reasons.
There's also the hawkish type of conservatives.
They don't like all this genderism that's going on and all those new and fancy ideas.
And also, I think the conditions will lead to some.
Every once in a while, you'll still bump into people who say, you know, it looks like we might have to have a draft.
You know, an authoritarian who have no qualms about taxing the living daylights out of the American people to go over and pump in 50 and 60 billion dollars into Ukraine.
And even though the numbers of Americans dying, you know, the numbers aren't significant, but it's also a lot of other people have died.
And there's a lot of problems.
There's a lot of economic consequence from this.
And it has also affected the recruiting.
And this was true on a lot of people that were in the reserves that got sent over in the Middle East wars, the Bush wars, because they didn't have enough people.
But they called up all the reservists.
And some of them, a lot of them, were single mothers with kids at home.
And they called them up.
And they sent them over there.
There was no easy answer to that.
It made things much worse.
But I think basically the fact that there seems to be a shortage here, it might not be the worst news in the world.
Maybe that'll make the leaders stop and think, maybe defending liberty isn't best done by taking away liberty.
Why Pronouns Matter 00:02:42
Yeah, exactly.
Well, here's a couple of numbers from the piece, and let's put them on so we know what we're talking about.
Put on that next clip.
This is from the Libertarian Institute piece.
NBC News obtained an internal Defense Department survey that found only 9% of qualified citizens want to join the military, the lowest result since 2007.
And that's with lowered standards.
And they go on to talk about the Army is well short of its recruitment goal.
With just three months left in the 2022 fiscal year, that branch has met only 40% of its objective.
Way, way low.
So you touched on it though, Dr. Paul.
Why is that?
Well, we don't know exactly.
There's probably a number of reasons.
The economy is probably one of them.
There's nothing like the poverty draft to fill up those ranks.
But you've got to wonder about the vaccine mandate.
A lot of people left the military because they say, hey, take this jab or else.
Then they started dropping like flies and they weren't too happy about it.
There might be another reason, which is the intense virus of wokeism, and you suggested it earlier, that seems to infected the military more than any other aspect of our society.
The one branch that's supposed to blow things up and kill people has gone nuts with woke.
And here's an example: the United States Marine Corps, the champions of blowing stuff up and killing people.
And when you need it, you need to have a Marine.
Well, they've kind of changed their tune a little bit.
Let's put on that next clip if we can.
Here they are with a rainbow bullet in their helmet, and it says, This is the U.S. Marine Corps official Twitter feed.
Throughout June, the USMC takes pride in recognizing and honoring the contributions of our LGBTQ service members.
We remain committed to da-da-da-da-da-da, blah, blah, blah.
Not to say that you should discriminate against people, but the fact is they are pushing this.
And the other thing, Dr. Paul, I'm going to play a short little video clip.
This is the United States Navy.
They actually made a video telling people how important it was to use the right pronouns.
Let's listen to about 30 seconds of this.
It seems like it's fake, but it is not fake.
Hi, my name is Johnny, and I use he, him pronouns.
Hi, and I'm Conchi, and I use she, her pronouns.
And we're here to talk about pronouns.
What is a pronoun?
A pronoun is how we identify ourselves apart from our name, and it's also how people refer to us in conversations.
Using the right pronouns is a really simple way to affirm someone's identity.
It is a signal of acceptance and respect.
If it's a signal of acceptance and respect, how do we go about creating a value?
So the thing is, Dr. Paul, can you imagine watching this video and saying, hey, I want to go join the Navy?
I was thinking, what is Putin looking at this?
He become frightened.
Pronouns of Acceptance 00:04:36
Oh, boy, we better get busy.
Look at the anime at what they're doing.
But then there were how many thousand naval reservists just got fired or will be fired because they won't take the vaccine.
So first, Arm, we report that the vaccine issue is dead and gone.
At the same time, they're firing people because they won't take the vaccine, which causes more harm than good.
And it's all, well, chaos is our goal, and we're achieving it.
And let the Marxists move in.
But the people are waking up, I still believe, because they're going to all turn into the Liberty Report.
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We want to get together.
So the only way we're going to challenge the bad guys is if we get together and compare notes.
This is a good time to come to a meeting like this because there will be a lot of discussion on the current events.
I believe that we're in a position right now where the bankruptcy, both moral and financial, is becoming very, very evident and it's not going to be reversed overnight.
And all of a sudden, we're going to reverse to a much freer society.
It doesn't mean it's not available to us, but I think the climactic end of a bankruptcy, you have to do something about it.
You know, whether it's an individual with financial bankruptcy or a country that becomes morally bankrupt, and in a way, maybe this debate over the abortion issue might be sort of seeing the end of the moral bankruptcy or at least addressing this subject.
But this to me is so important because the change is what's happening.
I think the inevitability of something not working forever is true.
We're broke.
It's going to be that way.
We're not going to work harder.
We're not going to become more tolerant automatically.
And we're going to have a point in time where we as a country will have to make a decision on do we want to move in the direction of more liberty and defend those principles that started our country, or are we going to say, well, it's a losing cause.
I'm either going to move or not pay attention, and it will never get as bad as you guys think.
You worry too much.
I think a bankruptcy financially and morally is something that when it's coming to a conclusion, it's serious business.
It's an ongoing crisis.
The moral standards is an ongoing problem that exists in this country for 100 years, the same way as our economic, philosophic crisis has been here, and the financial crisis is obviously getting much, much worse.
So the climactic end will come.
And the biggest responsibility I believe we have is pointing it out, try to explain it, but then offer a solution to it and offer what is the replacement.
And there is, and it can be found in the cause of liberty.
It's been around for a long time, bits and pieces.
America has understood it for a long time.
Right now, there is a rebirth of some of these ideas, which I think we should look at as being very positive.
So we will continue the fight for more liberty because we happen to believe that peace and prosperity can be achievable in a free society much better than when you are living in an authoritarian society.
I want to thank everybody for tuning in today to the Liberty Report.
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