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June 24, 2024 - Ron Paul Liberty Report
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US Cluster Bombs Hit Beachgoers In Crimea; Russia Issues Strong Warning

US-supplied cluster bombs were used on beachgoers in Crimea yesterday, killing at least six and injuring more than 100. Moscow has warned that "such actions will not go unanswered." Is this a NATO attempt to provoke a Russian reaction to justify further involvement? Next moves?

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Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning in to the Liberty Report.
With us today, we have Daniel McAdams, our co-host.
Daniel, good to see you this morning.
Good morning, Dr. Paul.
How are you?
Ready and raring to go.
Let's do it.
So there was somebody who wasn't sleeping on Sunday and resting on Sunday.
Our military was in operation.
And I said, what do you mean our military was in operation?
Well, they were participating in a war exercise.
They were practicing.
No, they weren't practicing.
They were killing people.
Oh, no, they didn't do it.
They just told them where to shoot the missiles and where to get the missiles.
I think they got them from the United States.
They got them from the United States.
And we're talking about the Ukrainians and our friends in Ukraine who criticize us because we don't give them enough stuff fast enough and they're still after more money.
And there was something written the other day about at a certain point when the establishment is satisfied with the status quo over there, he's gone.
Zelensky's gone.
But anyway, he shouldn't have even arrived under these circumstances, but he wouldn't have if it had not been our policy.
And some people would say we are at war.
You know, we're building a lot of weapons.
We have a lot of co-conspirators and participants and allies.
A lot of bombs are being dropped.
A lot of people have died.
And I believe, this is a personal belief, that none of this would have happened if we did not have an American foreign policy that was very, very encouraging to this situation.
Things would be completely different.
And that is why, of course, we exist is try to point out the foolishness of an interventionist foreign policy, one designed to ignore the Constitution and one to be designed and pressured by the military-industrial complex, ends up in trouble, and a lot of people die.
And Americans, there's been some deaths, but it isn't like Vietnam where body bags were coming home, but it's still just as immoral and just as costly and just as antagonizing.
They last a long time.
So over the weekend, they were looking for some excitement.
So we participated with the Ukrainians in sending some missiles into Crimea.
And if the story is true, that this was directed with our intelligence agencies, at the same time, they knew exactly where they were heading to a beach with people innocently being on the beach.
No, there was not a horutinous number of people being killed, but there were some and children were injured.
It was still devastating.
But it's the principle of the thing.
It was the Ukrainians and the Americans attacked on Russia.
And that's the part that people won't say.
Why did we attack Russia?
And they say, Russia invaded Ukraine.
We're trying to restrain them.
And they'll go back to all this lying.
So that has happened.
It's big in the news.
And there's one question.
And that is, what's Russia going to do about this?
Are they going to twiddle their thumbs and walk away?
They might for a day or two ponder it, but there will be something that they're going to do.
And who knows?
It might be financial and teach Americans that you can't put sanctions and run the world.
But expect Russia not to play Patsy with this and just put up with it.
Yeah, I mean, here's Mike Johnson.
He's the one who made it happen.
He's the one who made this $61 billion happen, which bought these five ATACMs, long-range missiles that were shot into the, one of them at least shot into the beach on Crimea.
This is the Republican leadership.
This is the supposed opposition who facilitated the transfer of these weapons against, you know, certainly the better judgment of cooler heads.
So five attackums were fired.
We can put up that first clip even.
And they were armed, Dr. Paul, with cluster munitions.
These were not warheads.
These were not unitary warheads.
They were clustered munitions.
Cluster bombs are designed to kill personnel.
Should be military personnel.
They're banned by 100 countries because they end up getting lodged into the ground in other places.
They're unexploded.
Kids pick them up years later and get blown to pieces.
Horrible, horrible munitions.
We don't have the capacity to show the video today because of our internet problems we're having.
But you can hear very clearly when the bomb hits the cluster of munitions going off.
So here's what happens.
Now, it's not just any Sunday, but it's Trinity Sunday for those in the Eastern Orthodox Church.
The majority of Crimea would be that, celebrating Trinity Sunday, going to the beach on Trinity Sunday.
They get there, and they're blown up.
You have at least five killed.
I think several in critical condition.
124 injured, including 27 children.
Two of the children, two of those killed were children.
Some of the injuries, they say, are severe, which you can imagine with the cluster bomb and all that shrapnel going around everywhere.
So anyway, children are among the mass casualties after U.S. supplied missile targets crowded Crimean beach.
Now, the reaction, as you point out, Dr. Paul, from Moscow, is they're not very happy at all.
If you go to the next one, Moscow is calling it a terrorist missile strike on Sevastopol.
A separate Russian Ministry of Defense statement directly accused Washington, quote unquote, flight missions for ATACM missiles are programmed by American specialists based on U.S. satellite reconnaissance, making Washington primarily responsible for the deliberate missile strike on Sevastopol's citizens, the Russian Ministry of Defense says.
So they clearly are viewing the U.S. as a central player in this attack.
You know, we've already talked about this for five to ten minutes and expressed who started what and who's responsible, at least hinted strongly to this and why it's going on.
But sadly, though, if you went out and did a polling of the average American who watches TV and watches Fox and all the rest, they will still say, well, Russia invaded Ukraine.
Russia invaded Ukraine.
They won't talk about a coup that went on and us providing it and NATO being involved and this whole thing.
But the propaganda machine is very powerful.
That's why the message that we have, I think, is important.
And we also can work on the assumption that if you're working and making a sincere effort to reveal the truth and not trying to brag that we're the only ones that know the truth, but seeking the truth in a sincere way is far superior to those who say, we don't even want to hear the truth.
In their hearts, what they try to do is destroy the truth, and that is why the propaganda keeps rolling out and rolling out, repeated over and over again.
And of course, we've pointed out that once we started sending missiles over there, there's going to be some accidents happen.
There's going to be problems.
It's going to escalate.
But almost, that we talk, there's some point that is subtly at least escalating.
I mean it's not de-escalating.
We're spending more money.
We're getting more involved and there's more antagonism and the Russians are getting probably very annoyed and our propaganda machine here unfortunately is really not helping us reveal to the country that our foreign policy should be reassessed.
And I was sort of kidding.
I said, I wonder what the president has to say with the assumption of, I wonder if he's up on this issue.
But anyway, whoever runs the shows, they're up on this issue.
And they're very consistently, from my viewpoint, it's not pro-American.
It's pro-something else.
To me, it's pro-globalism run by people who don't have never heard of the word Thomas Jefferson or the U.S. Constitution.
Yeah, yeah.
And you use the word escalation, and it is important because this is one.
But a lot of people have been asking why this escalation, why these missiles are shot in there, what's going on.
Well, you know, there's going to be the big NATO yearly summit coming up soon.
And the rumors are that NATO, i.e. the U.S., okay, we know they're desperate.
No matter what they do, it's not working.
Ukraine is still losing the war.
They spent $200 billion, $300 billion.
They're still losing the war.
They will lose the war.
So they're trying to throw a Hailmary pass.
So one of the rumors are that they're trying to provoke Russia into a serious reaction to this.
And that way they can say, see, look, look, they're getting violent and they're attacking us.
We need to send NATO troops into Western Ukraine because that apparently is the next wonder weapon is NATO troops in Western Ukraine.
So they're trying to get Russia to do something dramatic so that they can justify sending these troops into Western Ukraine.
That's at least what they're saying.
And I think there's probably some justification for that speculation.
Mark Rutte is going to be the new Secretary General of NATO.
He makes the current Secretary General like a dove.
This guy is a super, super hawk.
He hates Trump.
He and Trump hate each other.
So you know they're going to try to do some kind of a final move before the at least seemingly pretty obvious election of Trump come November.
So I think these are dangerous months now.
I think NATO's trying to provoke a reaction.
I think they are too.
I think Russia is working hard to have a minimal response.
I mean, they can't not respond because they have the same political situation in their country.
The Russian people don't want it.
And this is an attack on, historically, it was Russia.
And most of the people that are living there are Russian.
So the response, there's political pressure on Russia to respond.
And there's a natural desire to do it.
And they can get fed up for so long.
But it's not only impractical sometimes for them to do too much.
It could be very, very much, we're worried about escalation.
But it looks like the people who do this, are they pro-escalation?
That's the big thing.
And those are the kind of things that are so hard for me to believe and come around that we would do things even prior to the big wars.
Even back in World War I, how necessary was it for us to do that?
And how necessary was it to, why in the world did we refuse to even talk to the Japanese who were seeking a peaceful answer to avoiding World War II.
Yeah, absolutely.
Well, let's do a couple more quick things.
Let's look at what Sergei Lavrov had to say.
If you skip ahead one and do that with his picture.
Now, this is a quote from the foreign minister, the Russian foreign minister, and here's what he had to say.
This is the Ministry of Defense.
The U.S. is responsible for this massacre, and they will get an answer.
All flight missions for American attacks missiles are programmed by American specialists based on their own U.S. satellite intelligence data.
Therefore, the responsibility for the deliberate missile strike against the civilian population of Sevastopol lies primarily with Washington, which supplied the weapon to Ukraine, as well as with the Kiev regime, from whose territory the strike was launched.
Such actions will not go unanswered.
That's the Russian government.
Now, if you go to the next one, this will show you this is where the Global Hawk was positioned as the attacks were taken out.
You can see those red lines were where the U.S. surveillance drone, Global Hawk, was circling and circling and circling, providing intelligence to the Americans who were programming the missiles to hit Sevastopol.
The person who wrote this said, provocation is the fact that the U.S. Air Force using Global Hawks to direct the fire of U.S.-provided cluster bombs on Russian civilians in Sevastopol provocatory?
Are we winning hearts and minds?
How hard will Biden continue to poke the bear ahead of the November elections?
And Marjorie Taylor Green retweeted this with some good comments.
Now, go to the next one.
She makes a couple of good points, Dr. Paul.
She says, this should not be happening.
Imagine if Russia, using a Russian satellite, fired cluster munitions on a Florida beach.
The only border our American military should be defending is our own border.
And the Constitution mandates the federal government to defend the states.
So I see a pretty good quote from Marjorie Taylor Greene.
Oh, boy, sounds good.
Maybe we ought to get her on this program.
We should, yeah.
She's absolutely welcome.
You know, the escalation thing, which is hard for me to understand, but the more I look at it, the more it comes across as it can't be an accident.
It can't be a coincidence.
So the escalation there and the plan for escalation there.
But the escalation that very few are talking about, and that has to be the escalation against the liberties of American citizens.
We're paying, we know that.
We're not sending really boots on the ground, but that's a fib too, because we have lots of people there, but they're pretty secret right now.
But the biggest escalation now in the preparation for what's going on worldwide is registering for the draft everybody as they're 18.
So that's part of the conditioning that's going on.
And you will hear that if you're opposed to that, you're not a very patriotic American.
If you defend individual liberty and the founders, I think they skipped that part in the Constitution.
Everybody will have a draft at 18, and you will do what the government told you.
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They didn't even say back then.
They didn't even say the other half of slavery and control is our income tax.
None of that is in the Constitution.
I wonder why they don't pay any attention.
Remember, we all, when I took, we raise our hand, take Ota office, and yet they always have a, oh, that's a different document.
The document changes gradually.
You have to have it.
It has to be flexible.
Yeah, a living document.
Yeah, living document.
Well, we'll keep an eye on this, Dr. Paul.
Hopefully it won't escalate.
I'm going to close out by thanking all of our viewers, reminding you of my announcement on Thursday that our great friend and RPI board member, Judge Andrew Napolitano, will be at our conference on August 31st in D.C. He's going to give a great talk on what we've been talking about, which is lawfare, the attacks on the Constitution.
And it's going to be great.
We'll make some more announcements.
I'll put a link in on the description.
Get those tickets, get them while you get a little bit of a bargain.
We're doing an early bird special still for a couple more weeks, so get them now.
Over to you, Dr. Paul.
Very good.
And I too am anxious to be at the conference and meet as many people as possible.
Because one thing I find out is I get information.
People think that we provide it and it helps you.
Well, yes, but I think it's mutual because I like to find out what people are thinking about.
And you say, well, they'll all be friendly.
They're going to agree.
Yeah, that's good.
But everybody has an idea or an approach.
And I think that's why discussion and pursuing truth is the YOLA we should all have.
And without the idea that we know the absolute truth and you listen to us, then it drifts over into dictatorships because we're imperfect people.
But I tell you what, there's no denying that a decent individual wanting to seek out the differences between peace and war and good and bad, it's possible.
And we want to contribute to that system that promotes peace and prosperity because I think that is a worthy goal.
I want to thank everybody for tuning in today to the Liberty Report.
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