Why Is The U.S. Provoking A Direct War With Russia?
When Americans look outward, we so no foreign military bases circling our nation. No occupying troops. No one is sending missiles to Mexico or Canada that can be fired into U.S. territory. And yet, America’s foreign policy is the exact opposite. Endless wars with 800+ military bases peppered all over the world, surrounding major nuclear powers like Russia and China. We send Ukraine weapons to be fired into Russian territory! Pushed too far, Russia is now sending warships and an unarmed nuclear submarine to Cuba. Why is our government unnecessarily putting our lives into grave danger?
Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report.
With us today we have Chris Rosini, our co-host.
Chris, good to have you with us today.
Great to be with you, Dr. Paul.
Good.
We're going to solve problems as usual.
At least we make an attempt to it.
There are plenty of problems out there.
And there are some people in our government, it seems, that likes war.
But they would deny that.
They're preventing war all the time by making war.
And we're going to talk a little bit more about, we mentioned it yesterday on the program, but why is Russia right now sending warships to the Caribbean?
Should we care?
You know, they have to come a long way.
And they tried that once before.
It reminded me when I heard about this.
And even submarines that are capable of carrying nuclear weapons.
It reminded me very well about the October of 1962 because that was a big deal.
And there definitely were missiles in Cuba and a confrontation.
And it was fortunate that Kennedy and Khrushchev worked that out talking a lot over the phone.
We conceded things secretly, which they couldn't do because we were doing something to them.
We were surrounding their country with nukes.
And they argued, well, we should get a little close to the United States.
But anyway, it was solved by us taking weapons out of Hungary and Turkey.
And then we also had the agreement that they would take the weapons out of Cuba.
So, but this time, now they're getting ready in a way.
And I can't help but thinking about this.
Have we made no real progress in this?
And we haven't really over the long term, but there's no reason why we can't.
Economic Predicament and Wealth Preservation00:14:39
I mean, the logic is on our side.
Peace and liberty is on our side.
So we should do a better job.
But Chris, we want to talk more about that.
But before I do that, I wanted to make a comment about what's going on in the economy.
And it seems like those people who like chaos in the streets, whether it's done socially with borders or the economy, there's lots of chaos in the streets.
And the theory is that there's a group of people who would like to cause chaos and create a mess where Marxism can move in and say, oh, we have it.
See what happens when you have free enterprise?
Just look at that.
That was very disturbing to me when we heard the quotes coming from the opposition.
Well, look at what you have.
And they pointed out all the shortcomings of our economic system and economic system.
You know, the shambles that's in the inflation that we have and all the fighting and fuming going on.
So this bothered me because we don't have free markets.
We have a mess is what we have.
And that contributes to the homelessness and some of the other things.
We all are very much aware of the bubbles that exist.
People are very happy with the stock market right now and the NASDAQ and all the speculative investments being made.
And this morning, there were some employment statistics that surprised people.
And because that statistic didn't satisfy everybody, you know, there were some sudden changes of attitude about who purchases gold today.
And they have the answer, well, it was all China's fault and back and forth.
But it isn't quite that simple.
When they don't understand Austrian economics, they have to look at numbers and figures and dates and timing and what the FUD's going to do tomorrow.
But, you know, in Austrian economics, there's another factor.
It's called subjective information, subjective theory of value.
And people in markets can do just anything they want to do on the short run.
But on the long run, I narrow it down when I wonder, why are they doing that?
Why are they reacting this way?
And it only comes to my understanding that it's because markets work that way and there are emotional reactions.
What happens one day is usually corrected.
Because on August 15th, 1971, to me, a light bulb went on.
And this is bad news.
There's going to be inflation.
The dollar is going down value.
And gold is going to go up and prices are going to go up.
And that's what happened, even though there's been a lot of ups and downs on it.
There was this problem.
Right now, we're in a predicament for many people who are trying to do something about preserving their wealth and protecting themselves.
And that is not easy.
But the one thing over all these years and all my effort to understand this, history shows that the one thing that you can long term predict certain things about gold.
If you take a sound currency and make it unsound and just create new units and print more money, the value of that currency will go down and the price in terms of that unit will go up.
And that is exactly what's happened.
I mean, even though there'll be ups and downs, when people say, well, maybe it's over, maybe we have to quit and it's not a good haven.
And people will point out why gold really doesn't work.
But it is the length of time that it takes for this to work out.
So people say, what do you mean?
How long you have to wait?
You know, you can't wait forever.
But historically, you can look at it and be fascinated with it.
Because when people warned in 1913 about the danger even of a Federal Reserve and said something like something like August 11th would come, that the crisis would come and that's what would happen.
And lo and behold, the ratio between gold and the dollar when the Fed took over was $20, $20 per ounce.
And then it went to $200, and now it's $2,000.
And my prediction is just wait a while and you'll see it.
Maybe it's going to double and triple again.
That would be very bad news, news.
But after looking at all these and all the statistics, there's two things that I think are the most important.
And one is debt.
As long as our government has the privilege, and they still have a lot of privilege in the world, people still want our dollars, even though less so than in recent years.
It's still alive and well and they print.
And if you have the debt, we're still in a position where we can still print the money and they'll still take the dollars.
We exist with it.
No matter what we do today in this country, we usually might deal in property of some other value, but we always go down there and wonder what the dollar is.
So they still do that.
And so I think looking at debt of the government is important.
And the one thing that I came away from Washington on is there's no chance, even with some new members of Congress, in the near future, which is like 30 years in this generation, you're not going to see an intellectual, smart attitude about what we should do in Washington.
And people voluntarily say, I can't use the money.
I don't think so.
What I want to do is I want sound money.
That's not going to happen.
So the debt's going to continue, which means that it does have an effect.
All this attitude, the other thing is very important on anticipating what's going to happen with our finances and what we have to do to preserve our wealth.
And that's the interest rates.
Interest rates are key.
It's the price.
It's the price.
It identifies the real value of that currency that is being used.
And that, you know, something that is really hard to predict.
And there will be a lot of subjectivity in it.
But there will be the Fed policy and what the Fed says and the spending going in.
So there's a lot of things.
There still will be areas of the economy that will have a market effect on the interest rates.
So it is.
But the interest rates is very, very significant.
In economics, I consider it the most important price that it is compared to everything else.
And that's not going to change because they'd have to change the monetary.
So that is the reason a simple prediction of mine is things aren't going to get better until we wise up about spending and monetary policy.
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And I think that's important enough to say you ought to look into it.
You know, I look into everything I can find about investments, even though I've been trying to figure it out all along.
But this is one thing that people should at least look at.
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But it's worthwhile.
And that is the reason.
As chaotic as it is in our market and our foreign policy, which we're going to be talking about, there has to be protection because even the foreign entanglement has an effect on the value of a currency.
And that enters into the calculation.
So this is very important to understand because if you put that all together, you know, you can work a lifetime, but there's been times when countries like Venezuela and Zimbabwe, wealth has been wiped out overnight.
That's what happened with our continental dollar.
that happened.
But there's been a lot of that ups and downs in this country already when people lose, no fault of their own, but the fault of the money manager.
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And Chris, I want to now talk about this other thing that has an effect on finances.
It's spending.
I've made a big point about spending.
And boy, I'll tell you what, the spending that we spend on militarism has nothing to do, they call it the Department of Defense.
We have to have that.
It's patriotic.
We have to protect ourselves.
And they should change the name.
It's the Department of Offense.
Why are we in 120 countries?
And it's crazy.
We can't even pay the interest to get, we don't have enough money to pay the interest on the debt we ran up with the Department of Defense, the defense money.
So this is a big problem.
But it also means this is going to get worse.
No matter what the blips are day to day or week to week or even a year to year, this is locked in place unless we do some fundamental changes.
They have to be fundamental, new principles, understanding economics more from the Austrian viewpoint than the Canadian viewpoint.
And we also have to work in there for a lot of reasons, our foreign policy.
But today we want to talk, Chris, and I know you've looked into this, a little bit about, you know, what's going on with Russia.
Why are they getting nervous?
They're talking about sending war vessels, war ships down into the Caribbean, into Cuba, immediately.
That made me bring back memories because in October of 1962, I got a little notice about being drafted, and I eventually was drafted into the military.
And it was a major deal in 1962.
And it was resolved.
But here it is again.
It's back here.
And the big deal there was the Soviets at the time had weapons in Cuba.
They could have easily reached New York City.
And so that was a big deal.
And now we're back doing that again.
I keep thinking, what have we learned?
Have we learned anything?
Is Russia the Soviet Union?
And some people still think it is or wished it were so that they could keep spending and having all these wars fought without an argument.
But this is similar, but it's a little bit different.
And Chris, I think both the economic thing and the spending is tied directly with our foreign policy.
And the American people need to pay close attention if they want to figure out how do we protect our liberty and how do we protect our earned wealth.
That's right, Dr. Paul.
Yes, it's pretty scary, actually, how reckless our government is.
You know, on this show, we often point out that when we look out of our country, we see no foreign military bases circling our nation.
There are no occupying troops here when I go out today.
There's no checkpoints I'm going to have to go through, you know, because there's a foreign nation occupying.
No one is sending missiles to Mexico or Canada that could be fired into the United States.
So when you look at our country, it's the exact opposite.
We have endless wars for 100 years at least.
800-plus military bases peppered all over the world, surrounding Russia, China, Iran, North Korea.
We're the exact opposite.
We send weapons into Ukraine that could be fired into Russia, and finally, Russia has had it.
They've watched NATO, which should have been disbanded after the Cold War.
NATO was there, was to counter the Warsaw Pact.
The Warsaw Pact dissolved.
NATO should have dissolved.
But they did not.
Instead, they pushed all the way up to Russia's border.
And Russia said, that's as far as you could go.
We can't have you in Ukraine.
And we're seeing why they don't want NATO in Ukraine because Ukraine is now firing into Russia with weapons that we give them.
So they've obviously had enough.
And now Putin is sending warships and an unarmed, at this point, nuclear submarine to Cuba.
So we're getting a taste of our own medicine, unfortunately.
We don't need this.
None of this is necessary.
It's a total danger.
They're putting our lives at risk.
And, you know, it's just insanity, but we're just here to report the insanity, unfortunately.
Russia's Centralized Control Push00:10:46
Very good, because that's absolutely correct.
I want to mention one time again about wealth and wealth distribution, mal distribution, what it really is as a consequence of spending and inflating and this sort of thing.
And I think that's the main motivation now for the political changes because the rich do get richer and the poor get poorer under this system, but it's not understood.
They think that all they have to do is write a regulation, tax this group, and pass it out and more of the same thing rather than looking at the monetary system.
But I think that's a consequence that could be dealt with.
But we want to talk more now about this thing, about the foreign policy.
But what Chris was saying and lamenting the fact of what Russia is doing, which used to be the Soviet system is doing it, but there is a Putin just made a quote yesterday about this, trying to explain this in his fashion.
And it wasn't wild saying, you know, do this.
And nobody, he didn't pick up his shoe and pound the table like they used to do in the old days.
But he has a statement here that I think sounds more reasonable because it talks more about why they are sending war vessels to the Caribbean with the potential of carrying nuclear weapons.
And this is not complicated.
And here this is this is coming from Putin.
If they consider it possible to deliver such weapons to the combat zone to launch strikes on our territory and create problems for us, why, this is Putin now, why don't we, they,
the Russians, have the right to supply weapons of the same type to some regions of the world where they can be used to launch strikes on sensitive facilities of those countries that do it to Russia.
And then he closes it.
We will think about it.
And that's him saying that.
We will think about it, like a gentle but powerful warning.
And my closing statement on that, which is my words, and so should the U.S. think about it.
So, Chris, do you have an easy answer for us?
Unfortunately, I don't.
But, you know, the more Americans that start to think about this, now that our lives are, you know, being put in danger, it's time to start thinking about this.
And one question that I want to answer the best that I can is why Russia, what is it with Russia?
Why this obsession with Russia?
And this obsession with Russia is not, it didn't just start.
It's hundreds of years old.
What is it about Russia?
Well, think about what has become of our government, of this empire that we have.
It's all about centralized control.
Control the media, control the entertainment, the schools, the food, the medicines, what people say with censorship.
It's all about centralized control.
Well, what is over there in Russia that these control freaks want?
And, you know, someone a while ago, Margaret Thatcher, she used to be the prime minister of England.
She gives us a little clue.
Back then, I don't know when she said this, but it was in a speech and I saw it online.
And she says, I want to read it.
She says, quote, if you were to take a table of countries in proportion to the natural resources they have, the top one would almost certainly be Russia.
She has everything.
Oil, gas, diamonds, platinum, gold, silver, all the industrial metals, marvelous standing timber, a wonderfully rich soil, end quote.
So Margaret Thatcher was describing, what is this about Russia that we want?
She didn't say we, but we can see who wants it.
But centralized control is the worst.
We just went through COVID.
For some reason, everybody had to listen to Fauci.
This is what centralized control is.
You put one guy out there, call him an expert, and everybody listens to him.
And it was a total disaster.
He made everything, this six foot, he made it up, the masking the kids, he made it up.
You know, he had nothing.
We need massive decentralization, you know, and then you don't have these problems.
A Fauci becomes a local problem for somebody, you know.
But when you have centralized power, Fauci becomes everybody's problem.
So that's what Russia has.
Russia has things that others want, these globalists.
And they'll use us to go get these things, and we have to say no.
And they have to know that we say no.
You know, the story you tell is Russia is very wealthy and great, great potential, and yet they've been back and forth over the centuries on dealing with their neighbors.
And it just seems like there's such a tremendous opportunity there.
What are they lacking?
And I think over the years, they're lacking, and we're going in the wrong direction toward that.
And that is they're lacking the principles of personal liberty.
They're better off than they were with the Soviet system, obviously.
But they're lacking on that.
So my suggestion is with all that wealth, maybe we ought to send them our Constitution, load them our constitution for why we're not using it right now.
So let them use it.
And if they used it like it's supposed to be, can you imagine?
You know, I often dream about Cuba.
I keep thinking, wouldn't Cuba be the fanciest place to ever go and want to visit if they had a constitution, treated it more like the old Switzerland, you know, and have it and have an open borders in the whole world.
So it is there.
But just think, you can't, they can't feel and touch and move it and control it because liberty is releasing of energy and it's disseminated among everybody.
And all it requires is a rejection of the use of force.
So you can imagine with all of this, there would be none of this fighting.
And what are we doing?
We don't use our Constitution.
We're always looking for a fight.
Guess what?
You know, think of the places where right now we're involved in.
We have The Ukrainians and we know all about that, and that's what Russia is so much involved in.
We were very much involved in Gaza and that struggle with Israel.
We're looking for a fight with Taiwan.
The last thing we need is why are we pestering Russia and China, where they used to be a little bit competitive?
We push them closer together and making them think about how are we going to get the Americans and get a new currency.
And that might be the biggest threat that we have to deal with.
And moving into the Caribbean, you know, is obviously another area.
So that's a lot of places.
We have Ukraine, Gaza, Taiwan, the Caribbean.
Even Korea is not exactly our best friend and getting along with them.
But then we have all these problems, and they were looking for another one.
Well, it makes no sense, but I'll tell you one thing is if they have to have something to do, and if they have to help organize a border, why don't they come home and deal with our borders, Chris?
Fantastic, Dr. Paul.
I'm going to make my last point for today.
Yeah, when you look at Russia, you know, Russia wants to be Russia, and that should be okay.
Same thing with China, wants to be China.
We should be ourselves and not try to impose what they call values, which are not the values that we espouse, which is the values from what you said, Dr. Paul, our Constitution.
We don't even follow our own Constitution.
How are we going to impose all the other stuff?
But when you look at Russia, their culture is intact.
They have their own traditions.
Christianity is flourishing.
Christianity is not flourishing around the world, but in Russia it is.
They are not woke.
They do not have open borders.
So imagine them.
Imagine the Russians.
They're there and they peer out over their coastline, over their borders.
And what do they see over in the West?
Cultures are being destroyed.
Open borders in Europe.
Over here.
We celebrated yesterday D-Day.
And people are saying, I don't even recognize this nation anymore that we fought for.
So the Russians look out and see this, and it's on their doorstep, and it's coming for them.
So how do you think they would feel?
And how hard do you think they would fight?
When you think about World War II, they lost 20 million people fighting off the Nazis so that they wouldn't be beaten by them.
We have never, ever come anything close to sacrificing that many people for anything.
But it shouldn't come to that.
Russia should be left alone to be themselves.
We should not be trying to remake anybody.
We have a lot of remaking to do here.
We've gone downhill so far that it's going to take generations to come back.
So that's the way I see it.
Hopefully, we avoid the worst case scenarios.
But the way things are going with warships now coming in our direction, it's heading in the wrong direction.
You know, the war hasn't gone well for NATO in Ukraine.
And it's really NATO.
Instead of saying that war started when Russia invaded Ukraine, it should be said is when NATO committed a coup and threw out an elected government in 2014.
That's really what has happened.
But Biden, the other day, it was announced that he gave permission to the Ukrainians and Zelensky that we have no restraints on you.
Of course, we're not there and we're not responsible.
We don't have troops on the ground and all this, but we pay for the whole thing and then we direct it.
So it was announced.
Biden gives permission to Ukraine to start bombing inside Russia territory, which is supposed to be a red line.
Biden's Apology And Currency Shift00:02:04
You don't cross that line.
And all of a sudden, Russia decided that they would speak out about this.
But also, in a conversation between Biden and Zelensky, this is sort of just so dumb.
You know, we do all this and create these problems, but when Biden got to talk to Zelensky, he've apologized to Zelensky because we're a little bit late on sending him more killer weapons, you know, and spending more money.
I mean, that's how ridiculous is.
And that is so foolish that we do this.
But anyway, Chris, I think the problems are a big mess, difficult to solve, except if you want to pick the free way, the free operations, free markets, and non-interventionist foreign policy, it's very simple.
You just come home, bring the troops home, take care of our people, don't gouge our taxpayers in order to spend more money overseas and buying all these weapons and building up our debt.
You know, if we just change that, change the economic policies, have a sound currency, it wouldn't take a whole lot, and it would be, you know, an adjustment period, but it might be a year to adjust.
But at the rate we're going, in a year, it's going to be worse because we're not slowing up on the spending.
We're not bringing the troops home.
We're looking for more fights.
Where are we doing?
This is what we're doing with Russia.
And now we're going into the Caribbean and the whole works.
So we need to see the shifting of gears.
We might say, well, you're too optimistic.
It couldn't ever happen in a year or two.
But it would be a big deal if the message was sent that we are changing things.
We are going to have an honest currency.
We're going to balance our budget and we're going to bring our troops home.
And I believe that liberty would flourish and so would our economy.