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Aug. 12, 2024 - Ron Paul Liberty Report
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While Biden Sleeps...US 'Accelerates Transit' Of Military Assets For Iran-Israel War!

President Biden took a restful weekend sleeping on the beach while his Defense Secretary announced a massive mobilization of military assets in anticipation of a major Iran-Israel war. Who is in charge? Who is giving orders? Why is Congress out of the picture?

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Militarism's Shadow 00:05:07
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.
Happy Monday, Dr. Paul.
How are you?
Doing well.
Doing well.
Good.
Did you have a nice weekend?
I did.
I really was busy.
We're still cleaning up from the city.
We were cutting wood, cutting brush all day Saturday.
Somebody told me a story.
Maybe you heard a story or maybe you told me a story that after a real bad storm, Thomas Massey used the lumber to build a house.
I think that was in the movie.
Yeah.
Oh, he's at the movie.
The movie I didn't see.
But I kept thinking about that when I was looking at all our trees down.
But more trees, the greenies must have been awfully upset.
Could save these trees.
And nobody was out building houses with it.
Fortunately, no.
Anyway, there's a lot of activity going on now, and they're not building houses with this activity, and they're not helping the American people.
But the troops are on the move.
They're moving troops and weapons all around.
The markets are shaky.
You know, the markets are a little bit worried about it.
I think when militarism raises its ugly head, the markets reflect it.
I think the markets are reflecting that right now.
But the number one place they're doing this is the West, us principally, NATO and the rest of them, are moving a lot of troops and weapons and navies toward the Middle East, anticipating, I guess, an escalation.
And there's a few episodes, a few incidences that we'll list here that shows that it looks like that's what they're doing.
They can't possibly be doing it on purpose, but there's always an ulterior motive.
People can get scared.
Well, they got to make us safe.
Or, hey, we have to make some money.
We have stockholders.
We've got to make use of all this good military.
And I think one thing is that they're doing this.
And it reminds me of different episodes over my lifetime that I remember seeing troops moving.
And that, of course, was for several years, just as a kid.
It was very impressive and scary.
And my dad was an airway warden, and militarism was there.
And we watched the airplane.
We knew every fighter jet and everything else.
A lot of activities.
And that died down a little bit until Korea, then we had the same thing burst out.
But the other time when there was a mobilization and I saw a lot of military equipment moving around was in 1962, October 1962 with the missiles problem in Cuba.
And of course, I remember that easily because that crisis and seeing all these troops move, I became one of those troops.
I was drafted into the service at that time.
And it is, and then, of course, there was a lot of military operations going on with 9-11.
But we have a couple years of calm, but it persists.
The government gets bigger, the military gets bigger, our empire keeps growing, our civil liberties keep going down, our budget deficits go up, and our huge debt keeps expanding rapidly, which means that that type of militarism is the kind of thing that I'm sure happened in the Roman Empire.
They said the Roman Empire mainly came down because they expanded too fast and too far a distance.
And I think we've done that.
We've already noticed that.
Our empire is a little weaker than it used to be.
Our dollars a little bit weaker.
So all these things are going on.
But the other thing on these troops moving, and I'm sure you'll comment on this, is why are we doing it?
Is there any benefit to do it?
You know, before they used to pretend, well, the Russians are putting missiles in Cuba.
They come up with these reasons.
But they evidently are doing this.
But is it defensive?
That's hard to believe.
What's going on with this?
But militarism has raised its ugly head, and my prediction is it won't last forever.
So how this plays out, but it could be very, very dangerous before it's burnout.
Yeah, I mean, I've been thinking about this all weekend.
I've been watching a lot of things happening over the weekend.
Now, you mentioned a lot of the times that you remember in your life seeing troops and military equipment move.
Syria Conflict Escalates 00:15:12
I remember a few times myself, you know, we had little ones like Grenada, little things like that, and some bigger ones.
But the one thing that, and maybe I'm just remembering wrong, but it seems to me when all of these things happened, we knew there was a president in charge, you know.
And I remember, you know, President Reagan coming on and explaining what's happening in Grenada.
Now, we may disagree with the president, the late president, on the rationale, Panama as well, with George Herbert Walker Bush.
But you always had the sense that they would come on TV and say, I have decided to move our carrier group X and Y over here because of this specific threat.
Hopefully we can deter, you know.
But there was always a sense that there was somebody who was a commander-in-chief of the military.
And in this circumstance, the thing that struck, I think, a lot of people over the weekend, including some good friends of ours who I will put up here, is it doesn't seem like anybody's in charge.
Biden, Kamala, nobody.
And let's start with a couple of things.
Now, this is a New York Times article that came out today.
I have to put this first one up.
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin spoke with his Israeli counterpart, Joe of Gallant, on Sunday, the third call that you are known to have held in a week, amid rising fears of escalation.
Now, here's the part that Glenn Greenwald, who I will read his comment later, this is what he underlined or highlighted.
In the call, Mr. Austin reiterated the United States' commitment to take every possible step to defend Israel, according to a summary provided by the Pentagon Secretary, Press Secretary, Major General Patrick Ryder.
In an unusual disclosure, General Ryder said that Mr. Austin had ordered the guided missile submarine Georgia to the Middle East.
The Pentagon rarely announces movements of its submarine fleet.
And again, a highlighted part by Greenwald, General Ryder noted that Mr. Austin had already ordered additional combat aircraft and missile shooting warships to the region, to which Glenn Greenwald, I think, appropriately reflects our own thinking, Dr. Paul, in saying major U.S. military assets are being deployed to the Middle East as a regional war becomes increasingly possible.
The New York Times says all of this was ordered by Defense Secretary Austin, quote, to take every possible step to defend Israel.
Greenwald continues.
Is the president involved?
Anyone know if Kamala agrees?
I think those are two important questions.
You know, that means we don't know who the government is or what they're doing or who's making the call.
And my thought was, you know, this is not our idea of limited government.
We want limited government, but this is not the kind of limited government we've been advocating.
What has happened here is it's an underground government.
It's deep state.
It'd be charged.
It's probably more tyrannical than when we witness it.
At least when the IRS comes, you know who's knocking on the door.
But this is all deep state.
And even though a lot of that has existed, this seems to be much worse.
Sometimes when they do this, and we talk about troop movements, sometimes they just want to send a message in there called exercises.
But I don't think this is an exercise in that sense.
But we also know that there's been people, politicians, speak out.
Well, you know, it gives us an opportunity to test our weapons.
We need to test our weapons.
So I think that is a big part of it.
But all this is done, you know, all this activity we have out here, and they don't even have a declaration of war to work with.
There's no official war.
So it's already underground how we get into these things.
And unfortunately, the people still allow their congressmen to vote for it.
And there's no legal justification, no moral justification for all this.
And of course, there's no money to pay for all of it.
You think, you know, maybe this is a bad idea.
But unfortunately, so far, you know, I listen for the foreign policy as you do.
I was going to say clowns, but I can't say that about our politicians.
What do they think?
Are they talking about this?
You know, in the sense of why are we there?
Do we have this authority?
Do we have the money?
And you just don't hear it.
Yeah.
I mean, just to recap how we got here, you know, Israel assassinated a political figure in Tehran during the presidential inauguration celebration, clearly violating its sovereignty, clearly an act of war.
And so when Iran says, you can't do that, we're going to retaliate.
The U.S. spends probably billions of dollars so far.
You can't just turn those aircraft carriers around, you know, billions of dollars coming to its rescue.
Maybe the U.S. should have said to Israel, don't do it.
Stop doing this.
But that's how we got to where we are.
But now here's a tweet from CENTCON, the U.S. Central Command, which is headquartered in the region.
Now they make an announcement.
Secretary of Defense Austin, if you can put that up, please.
Secretary, go to the next one, please.
Yeah.
Secretary of Defense Austin, again, here we go, Secretary General, has ordered USS Abraham Lincoln to carry a strike group equipped with F-35C fighters to accelerate its transit to the Central Command area of responsibility, adding to the capabilities already provided by the USS Theodore Roosevelt carry a strike group.
In addition, the Secretary has ordered the USS Georgia to the Central Command region.
This is a CENTCOM readout, to which another friend of ours, Michael Tracy, who I think is an observer, makes another point similar to what we were thinking.
Hope everybody in Congress is enjoying their August recess while U.S. military assets accelerate transit to the Middle East in anticipation of some major new outbreak of warfare.
So again, Congress is at home taking it easy, meeting with lobbyists, cashing those checks.
And if you go to the next one now, this is a map of the region where all this is happening.
The U.S. is accelerating the deployment of the aircraft.
They're all going around to this era you can see here.
And while all this is happening, Dr. Paul, President Biden is at the helm.
He is making serious decisions.
Let's have a look at him over the weekend in that next picture.
He's just taking it.
He shouldn't be disturbed.
Yeah, that's right.
I'm sure he's planning out some strategy as he lays there.
Joking aside, maybe it's just me.
This seems bizarre.
It is.
And, you know, the one thing they do forget about and they never bring up, it was brought up one time and it didn't go over real well, and that is to bring up the subject of blowback.
You've heard of that, where that can happen.
I remember the debate.
But this is our activity will create blowback.
Actually, the term was coined by the SCIA at the beginning.
But there's another article in Zero Hedge just over the weekend.
Overnight drone attack targets U.S. troops occupying Syria.
All these other things we're doing, we're trying to occupy them.
But, you know, we were involved very much in the breaking up and the divvying up of Syria.
We have a big hunk of it.
But, of course, we have the oil, and there's no likelihood of in the next six months or a year or two that there'll be troops coming in, the Syrian troops, and return it to Syria.
That's not even talked about.
But that's what they're doing.
I think this is going to happen more because there has been an attack.
There was one against, I think it was in Iraq not too long ago that we're going to be here.
I think that's going to be it.
When there's this story about how Israel is going to, how Iran's going to strike back, you know.
And I think there's going to be a big increase in the blowback type of attitude.
And they may even have them lined up in the different places because there's not going to be World War II invasions on the beaches.
I just don't think that's going to happen.
And the thing is that you have the Syria one now.
That's an important one, too.
They can ramp that up and down whenever they want.
These are the militias in the region, the Shia militias in the region.
But each one of these, and we're going to talk about another one or two after this, each one of these would be crises sufficient to wake up a president about, hey, this is what's happening.
We need to deal with it.
Nobody's waking up the president over on the beach.
He didn't dare.
I wanted to bring up the Syria thing because we mention it, but it's not in the news.
I mean, just think the significance of that.
We invaded Syria and we stole their oil.
And we didn't need it.
Yeah, yeah.
So, but that is a shame.
But, you know, the big ones that most of the people will hear on television, but most people also sleep with Biden.
That might be Snoozing on the beach.
But the Middle East is a big thing.
Ukraine is a big thing.
Taiwan, you know, there's lots of threats over there.
And then we have this thing in Syria.
But when you think that we have troops in over 100, sometimes besides 150 countries that we have an involvement, we have a big empire to defend.
So if you don't vote for these people who will spend the money, you don't care about America.
So people do complain, but it seems like if they can get something which seems to be beneficial, some type of a benefit, business people certainly, that's their whole goal.
And other people, you know, all you have to do in order to scare people, and they use the fear-mongering thing, is, oh, if anybody who wants to cut anything, the first thing they're going to do is cut welfare benefits to sick children.
Oh, you can't do that.
You can't cut anything.
But it will be cut because, well, it is kind of ready because the value, they say, well, we're going to increase the output and the giveaways a certain percentage, but they can't keep up with inflation.
They'll say, well, the wages are gone to their, they're not allowing people to get by their groceries.
So we are going to have either price controls on there or we'll send some money.
But the truth is, is all the attempt to try to help the people who got stuck with the bill never can keep up.
They cannot keep up when you see the rapid, unpredictable rate of depreciation of the dollar.
And that's why we have to face this.
That's what's coming, yeah.
Well, let's look at a couple of these crises.
Now, you mentioned the Syria one, put this up.
So this is something that has been waning and waxing, and it's now waxing because they can do that.
They can control.
We have these troops sitting over there illegally, illegally in Syria, as you mentioned, Dr. Paul, occupying about a third of the country illegally, keeping the water from the people who actually own it and keeping the oil from the people who own it.
But they're also sitting ducks.
So you talk about caring about the troops and don't put them in a place where they're sitting ducks, where they're basically their only purpose is to act as tripwires.
So you can actually leave that up, so I'm getting to it.
So if they're killed, then that will give a justification for war.
That's no way to respect the U.S. troops.
So anyway, there were attacks over the weekend.
There were some last week that we talked about in Iraq, as you pointed out.
So the U.S. military initially said there were no casualties in the attack, but later found minor injuries, including smoke inhalation, and some personnel are being evaluated for traumatic brain injuries.
My guess is, Dr. Paul, I'm not a doctor unlike you, but traumatic brain injury does not sound like fun.
It's not like it's something that you'd want to have in any way, shape, or form.
But at the same time, this is happening.
If you put the next one on, this is from the cradle, which I highly recommend on the Middle East.
At the same time, Dr. Paul, Damascus calls on occupying U.S. forces to stop bombing Syrians and leave the country.
You know, it's just a hypocrisy is unbelievable because we talk about the rules-based order, but we're breaking all the rules by illegally occupying the country.
And they say, could you guys please stop killing us and would you mind leaving?
No, we're staying here.
Wasn't Assad had to go.
He had to go.
He's still there.
Hanging on.
And yeah, making friends in the region again.
But even as this is happening, Dr. Paul, the third one we were going to talk about is this one, if you can put it up.
Now something else is happening, which in itself would be a huge crisis, which is that Ukraine has invaded part of Russia.
They are occupying part of Russia right now.
You say, well, there's a war and stuff happens in war.
Okay.
But they are using U.S. bombs, U.S. military equipment, U.S. guns.
And I watched a couple of clips over the weekend where you could hear them speaking English.
So they're U.S. mercenaries.
So imagine this scenario where Americans are using American weapons in Russia and killing Russians.
That is a major crisis.
No comment at all from it.
And in fact, if you put that clip up, not only are they not pouring water on this fire, they're actually pouring gasoline.
Now here's the headline.
Pentagon refuses to rule out strikes on Moscow in shocking exchange on Ukraine's incursion into Kursk.
They say, hey, this is fine.
Let them do it.
But that'll be ignored.
And in some ways, Russia is a little bit restrained on what they're doing or could have done since NATO made a declaration of war against them.
Yeah, yeah.
So very dangerous, very dangerous stuff that it doesn't seem like.
Well, in the meantime, we don't want to forget Israel.
That's right.
And we have to make sure they're taken care of.
But are we really taking care of the people of Israel and the Palestinian people?
No, it's so much built on hatred that it's going to be pretty hard to calm anything down.
But the U.S. to release $3.5 billion in military assistance for Israel.
You know, it never stops yet.
It will stop.
But once again, that is a mess, and it's been going on a long time.
And quite frankly, I think internationalism and World War I and World War II contributed a lot to the setup of the borders in the Middle East that we've been suffering ever since.
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Yeah.
I don't have the exact numbers.
I just read it before we started.
Some comparison that apparently the Gaza Strip is like half the size of Nagasaki or Hiroshima, but the Israelis have dropped like five times as much firepower on it than the bomb itself.
So an absolute disaster.
And you're right, we can put it up.
This is again from antiwar.com.
The U.S. releases another $3.5 billion in military assistance.
So the world sees this.
The rest of the world, they're not stupid.
They're saying that these weapons that are killing Palestinians all have made in the USA on them.
And the world is getting tired of this.
Over the weekend, the Israelis bombed a school that Palestinians were sheltering in, and they killed 100 of them.
And I hesitate to even say this online, but the body part, the only thing left was body parts.
They had to assess whether it was a child or an adult based on the weight of the body parts that they were putting in plastic bags.
So an absolute massacre, and yet we are fueling it with not only this extra funds, but also these carrier groups and the submarines moving in there.
And what is the goal?
I just watched something earlier, a correspondent from Al Jazeera saying, is the U.S. going to bomb Iranian ports?
Are we in a stage right now, as we're about 85 days from an election, where we're going to get into a major, major war?
And if so, then who benefits?
There's another item I want to bring up.
And when I read it, I wrote on top of it, this is a crazy idea.
But it's not the only one that's been around.
So, matter of fact, I had to read this headline.
Then I read it to you, and I said, does this make any sense whatsoever?
It says, this is zero heads.
They do a bit of research.
U.S. arms maker warily consider production in Ukraine at Pentagon's urging.
Is that like an invasion?
Or what is it doing?
But you know what that made me think of is, you know, how many weapons have we passed out to places like Afghanistan and Iraq and all this?
When we leave, when we finally lose, even in Vietnam, you don't pick up what's good, the equipment you want to use for the next war.
You leave it all there, and the people you had been trying to kill inherit all this.
So that is what's going to happen.
And you know, Afghanistan is, you know, the people we were trying to get rid of.
They ended up with billions and billions of dollars worth of equipment.
But here they want to start manufacturing there.
Now, why would the people, the manufacturers want to go there?
Maybe labor's cheaper?
What's going on?
But it doesn't matter.
That doesn't make any sense.
It doesn't sound like it would be building security.
It'd be another vulnerable spot, you know, of sabotage and all these other things.
So it's something that it's still going to come in, you know, raise the debt.
I mean, they're not going to go over there and have a free market and get paid by the Ukrainians.
I mean, we're going to give them all this money to build weapons.
And most of the time, or very often of the time, when we get involved in two factions in a country, we end up one way or another supporting both sides.
And maybe it doesn't start that way.
And even if you say, no, we're humanitarian, we're just going to send them food and clothing and to help them out a bit.
Well, the party that's the strongest just takes all the food.
It doesn't go to the people who had been bombed on with weapons that we've sent over there.
But I think it doesn't make a lot of sense.
I don't know whether it's crazy or not, but it sure doesn't make any sense to me to go over there and start manufacturing our weapons in Ukraine.
I mean, I think this is indicative of the circular thinking that pervades the expert, the foreign policy experts, the military experts in the Beltway, because they all say the same thing.
Anyone who says something different is laughed out of the room.
They don't want to listen to them, so they're all saying the same thing.
And they've all agreed two years ago that Ukraine is winning.
Ukraine is going to win.
So it's only a matter of time before we build these big new factories there, making lots of weapons, making lots of bombs.
And, you know, Northrop Brumman and Lockheed Martin are rubbing their hands together in glee, not realizing even an amateur like myself, you know, watching what's happening there, it's clear that Ukraine is not going to win this war.
Yeah, they've had a little incursion.
Even the pro-Ukrainian people are saying, why are you doing that?
But nevertheless, it just reflects the lack of reality-based thinking, to quote Karl Rove, I think it was, that pervades Washington.
A Great Shift in Beliefs 00:03:11
But the statement that came from Russia after this happened is a very strong statement.
They know exactly, and they listed the things that we have done.
It's our money, our bullets, our bombs, our drones.
And it sounded like they weren't going to easily forget it.
Yeah, yeah.
Neither would we.
Right.
Well, anyway, I'm going to close out.
It's a Monday, so I'm going to remind everyone that this is a very good time to get your tickets to the Liberty platform.
Put that very last clip up, if you will, if you remember, our conference is coming up in just over two weeks in Dulles, Virginia.
It's going to be an absolute great lineup.
I think Dr. Paul, I was counting it up.
I was trying to do the program over the weekend.
We've got nine speakers.
I think it's about the most we've had.
And so that means you're going to hear a lot of different perspectives, a lot of different pieces of information.
It's a great day, great speakers, great audience, great people.
You're going to want to get those tickets right away.
And I will put a link in when the show is over to how you can get those tickets.
And we'll see you on August 31st.
Very good.
And I expect we'll have a great crowd there.
I will become energized because I feel very good about the idea that our message is spreading.
I urge all our viewers and supporters to try to spread our message because that's the thing that's most important.
And I've argued the case that because at almost every all of our meetings, somebody will come up and say, well, you know, I've just really put this together just recently, and I think it's great, great, great.
And they want to do something.
And I think that is great.
And I really urge people to do something because ideas can't be stopped, but ideas have to be good, positive, and people have to voluntarily try to spread that message, which is quite a bit different than the propaganda we hear from the major policies, major parties.
And that is the problem because philosophically, most Republicans and most Democrats were educated in government schools.
And yes, there's a difference in opinion and there's a difference enough that they do a lot of fighting and filming.
But when it comes to intervention overseas, too much agreement.
When it comes with intervention in the monetary system and too much support for the Federal Reserve, too much intervention when they spend the bills and they run up these deficits, it takes two.
And when people discover, you know, it's an attitude, the big things that people agree on.
And they get frightened, they are intentionally frightened by those who want to spend more money.
And the people feel desperate.
The government creates the problems.
And then they don't say, well, sorry, we created this problem.
We're going to change our policy.
They don't do that.
They say, okay, what we're going to do is fix the problem.
But they'll never admit they created the problem.
So it takes a lot of education.
Encouraging Change Through Education 00:00:39
And that's why I'm delighted with Daniel's pick of the theme this year on our conference.
And that is a platform.
What will it be like?
And I can guarantee you, it will not be a platform in defense of the greatest empire ever.
No, and it will not be, let's clean up the mess at the Fed because we need the Fed to pay our bills.
No, it's more seriously, and it's going to be a lot of people that will encourage us that there's more than just a few of us out there.
I think our numbers are growing, and I'm delighted with that.
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