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Jan. 13, 2025 - Ron Paul Liberty Report
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Biden's Final Foreign Policy Speech Today - How Did He Do?

President Biden will deliver his final foreign policy speech today at the State Department, where it is anticipated he will claim that his foreign policy has left the US in a better position in the world than when he took office four years ago. Is he right? Also today: a new poll suggests that a full half of the executive branch bureaucracy plans to "resist" the policies of the incoming Trump Administration. What should be done?

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Major Events Ahead 00:15:31
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 today?
I'm doing well.
Good.
And the country is all settled.
We have a new group coming in.
The mess is going to be cleaned up, and everybody's going to be happy, except for the people that are in a fire that was manipulated by not so much.
Weather was bad.
That had to do with it.
There were some natural causes.
But guess what?
And I saw one individual, a friend of ours that had predicted a couple years ago, this is coming.
And he said specifically that it was a setup, you know, in a way because of just poor management.
So the government's involved, the weather's involved.
It's really very, very tragic.
But we're not going to spend a lot of time on that other than the fact that government has been, it isn't a clean weather project.
I mean, the government is very much involved in it and will continue to be because they'll want money.
And in the age of austerity, are they going to get the money?
Well, I don't know about that, but we don't have any money, so they can't promise it unless they steal it or print it.
And that's where the real problem is.
But anyway, there are other things that will be pestering the country and the politicians on emergencies.
You know, there'll be an emergency foreign policy episode that we can't do that.
We have to take care of that.
So the pressures are there.
And then the big thing is, is who's on whose side?
And it looks like, you know, on foreign policy is a good challenge, you know, for Trump because I think he's sincere in wanting to change it.
But we also know there's a lot of money behind any effort to undo the current foreign policy that's been going on, you know, 30, 40 years, and that is being challenged.
And we will see.
That's why the emergency will be necessary.
Either come no matter what or it will be contrived.
But this has prompted the president.
And I keep wondering who the president is.
In a way, we know who the president is.
But the big question is, who is acting like a president?
Who makes a final decision?
And I'm not sure anybody knows for sure about that.
But anyway, the president, the current president, nominally speaking, is going to give a speech over the State Department and this at the Pentagon.
And this is going to be well watched because I imagine he'll figure out.
They say that his foreign policy has been the worst or nearly the worst foreign policy of any president.
And that might be an exaggeration, but we know it's been bad.
But my guess is he's going to put on some good spin.
It's sort of, boy, if you're sitting there and say, I'm a Biden supporter, they mistreated him.
The media is against him.
So his spin will be that he has conquered the world and brought about peace and prosperity.
And all he needed was a little bit more money and a little bit more time.
Remember, he said, if I just had a little bit more time, I could stop these wars after working so hard to get them going.
And stopping the war in Afghanistan turned out not to be a very smooth operation for him.
But anyway, they're having a meeting there, and I imagine it'll be internationalism.
It'll be more money and military-industrial complex.
So let's search for.
We're hoping, of course, with our fingers crossed, that in a short period of time, we're going to have a different president.
But in the meantime, we can't be assured that because we don't know about it.
But I would think that people should be cautiously watching what's happening even now and even afterwards, because the one thing that's staring us in the face is we're broke.
And that puts another burden on it.
And the dollar's being challenged.
And oil is still a very important commodity.
So I think there'll be a lot of people watching this speech today.
And there'll be a lot of pundits, you know, to discuss it.
And I am not thinking that there's going to be a miraculous announcement that's going to say, wow, why didn't he do that before?
We've solved all our problems.
That's not likely to happen.
Yeah, and I think this is going to be the crowning achievement of Joe Biden's 50 years in public life.
And I'm sure that's the intent.
This will be him going on.
This is his swan song.
And to a degree, I think they're right.
This is his crowning achievement.
These four years of Joe Biden foreign policy is a crowning achievement of all of his years in the Senate, but not in the way they think.
Because Joe Biden has never seen a war in the entire time he was in the U.S. Congress that he didn't support.
He supported the Iraq war.
He supported the Afghanistan war.
He supported Libya.
He supported Syria as in the war against.
Going back before then, he's been a war hawk for 50 years, and he ended all that time in the Senate now spending four years lighting brush fires as bad as any of those in LA around the world.
So he's going to, yes, get his crowning achievement, but it won't be like he suspected.
Now here's a preview of what we can expect because Jake Sullivan, and we were talking about this just before we went live, we're wondering who's really running the show.
Probably Jake Sullivan, to a lesser degree, Tony Blinken.
Both of those two are substitutes for Hillary because they are Hillary's people.
That's Hillary's foreign policy.
And so that's what we're seeing operative here.
So Jake Sullivan was on TV over the weekend.
We can get our earpieces and listen.
Here's his one-minute preview of Joe Biden explaining what an amazing, fantastic success U.S. foreign policy has been under the quote-unquote Biden administration.
If we can queue up that first video, here we go.
Let's listen to Jake Sullivan.
Joining us to reflect on the past four years, Biden National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan.
Jake, thanks for being here.
We appreciate it.
As we come to the waning days of the Biden administration, where across the globe could you point and say the United States is safer because of what we did here?
Well, I'd start by saying our alliances are stronger than we found them four years ago.
They're stronger than they've been in decades.
NATO is more powerful, purposeful, and bigger.
Our alliances in the Asia-Pacific are at all-time highs.
And our adversaries and competitors are weaker across the board.
Russia's weaker.
Iran's weaker.
China is weaker.
And all the while, we kept America out of war.
So I think the American people are safer, and the country is better off than we were four years ago.
And we're handing all that off to the next team, as well as having the engines of American power humming.
Our economy, our technology, our defense industrial base, our supply chains.
So the United States is in a stronger, more secure position, and our competitors and adversaries are weaker and under pressure.
I think that's the main handoff that we will make to the incoming team.
Joining us, literally everything is interviewed.
All as well?
Everything was a lie.
Literally everything you said was a lie.
And this is a characterization of his entire four years in this position.
You know, we talk a lot about interventionism in foreign policy and the principle leading to so many problems of our moral obligation and military obligation.
But the interventionism probably increased tremendously in the past four years.
And it's been there, but it's been a bipartisan thing.
More intervention and more stuff.
The bigger the country gets, the richer a country gets, the more involvement we have gotten into the various shenanigans through our secret organizations like the CIA and other things.
So this means he was bragging about interventionism and all the tremendous successes.
NATO, yeah, NATO's really been a successful group.
How many wars have they started to contribute to?
How much money have they spent?
So I'll tell you this.
This is pie in the sky.
And I guess there'll be, I guess there'll be plenty of political supporters that will say that was just great.
But if he does give a great speech and he gave us a speech that we say, yeah, not too bad.
A little bit too little, too late.
Well, it was the Sullivans and the Blinkens who lit the fires back in the Obama administration, as we talk about all the time on this show, with the coup in Ukraine.
That set the stage for the war.
So they basically picked up where they left off in the Obama administration.
They took the coup and then turned it into a massive war.
Now, his claim that the alliances are stronger and NATO was stronger is just factually incorrect.
NATO's imploding.
We know that.
It's certainly not stronger because all NATO countries put in literally everything they have, every weapon system.
Remember all the wonder weapons.
It's going to be the leopard.
It's going to be the HIMARS.
This is going to turn the tide.
None of them have turned the tide.
Russia keeps advancing in Ukraine, keeps killing Ukrainian soldiers.
If Ukraine was doing so well, why are we demanding that they start drafting 18-year-olds?
If they're winning, why are you drafting kids and old people?
So NATO has given everything it can.
They literally, their stocks are dry.
They don't have any weapons left to get, and they're still losing.
So how can you, with a straight face, if you have a conscience, which he doesn't because he's a psychopath, how could you go up there and say, we've had success on every single platform.
Everything we've done has been an amazing success.
For him to fib a little bit is expected.
But maybe from their deeply held beliefs of what they would like, they may see themselves as being very successful.
If they lean toward Marxism and some of the radical political groups, and if they want to remake or recontrol or expand the authoritarianism of the international globalist system, they may really believe in their heart that they've done a service for us.
But I think that they don't quite have the same basic thought about what America is supposed to be about.
It's supposed to be about freedom and liberty and peace.
And so far, Not too many politicians have stood out on that.
There have been some, but most of the time they don't get to the positions of high authority.
And that's why a lot of people are holding their fingers crossed and being hopeful that where Trump is at times hard to figure out, he certainly has been saying and taking position.
And I think it's fair for him to say that his four years of intervention and desires held up pretty good.
The new wars were started, but there was a lot of things we complained about when he was president.
But anyway, the country really ultimately is very important.
And the sentiment has finally gotten fed up with what they've been putting with.
And maybe the fire in California will wake up a lot more, even though the Democrats have already developed the system.
It was all due to global warming and try to find an excuse for it.
They'll keep doing this.
But if people are looking for excitement, I think they better be well prepared because I think politically and economically and the whole foreign operations of all the country is in store for some major events in the next couple years.
I mean, I think all you need to know about the Biden foreign policy is that President Biden and his team have spent $200 billion in a war in Ukraine and lost.
And that's what's happening.
Nothing else needs to be said.
You wasted $200 billion.
You enriched.
And he talks about how the defense industrial sector is humming.
They're humming because you primed them with $200 billion of our dollars.
You can't steal money from us and give it to someone else and exclaim about how rich that other person is.
That's what he's saying.
You spent $200 million, $200 billion on a war and lost that war.
It's a failure.
But I'm sure there are a couple wars that have to be stopped, and Trump will make an effort around the globe, I'm sure.
But he'll probably, you know, the most, I'm not sure I was going to be knowledgeable and know which one is the most pressing.
But I don't think one person can pick and say, oh, it's Ukraine.
It's more pressing.
We have to do something.
Oh, no, it's Gaza and the Middle East and what's going on there.
But, you know, for me, it's all the same deal.
It's the outsiders intervening in things that if the countries would be left alone, things wouldn't be this way.
So, but I think they're all very, very serious.
And then if our goal is freedom and prosperity, we still have to deal with our domestic policies and the runaway spending here at home.
So we have major problems.
And if you had to nail the most important issue for me, and that is big government spending too much money in the debt we have to deal with, there's a lot of extra stuff on there, but why, why, why?
But I think that is very serious.
And they're not going to, every time they talk about Scotland, that's one thing about what the Efficiency Committee is trying to do is trying to nibble away at this.
But I tell you what, that is going to be a big job, but the effort has to be made.
Less Weapons, More Chaos 00:11:58
But that is going to be a big one.
It won't be a single country going.
won't be Venezuela or another country just going broke because it'll be the powerhouse, the military powerhouse and the country that's running the reserve currency of the world.
So that's why all this stuff adds up.
And right now, I don't think we're going to see anything but from our viewpoint, we'll say, oh, do we have to listen through this?
And I'll say, no.
I don't know if I could stand it.
Yeah, the whole idea to claim that America is safer now because of Biden's foreign policy is so absurd on its face because we are on the brink of a nuclear war.
Not even in the deepest, darkest days of the Cold War, except for maybe the Cuban Missile Crisis, you could argue.
But I think we're actually closer now.
Have we been as close to nuclear annihilation because of stupid policy of betting everything on a country that doesn't matter to the U.S.?
It doesn't matter who runs Ukraine.
It's not important to us.
You know, if half Ukraine wants to join Russia, they should have been able to do it and save that 600,000 Ukrainian lives who've been killed in the war.
But instead of doing that, they brought to the brink of total human destruction on earth for a stupid neocon idea.
So the idea that we're safer is so absurd, they should have laughed in his face.
Any other news channel would have laughed in the guy's face.
But, you know, the real authority that's keeping people very much involved in the media, how they incessantly talk about Russia's invasion, Russia's invasion.
But they never deal with that in the context of a war that was institutionalized early on.
Like, oh, we'll go back to 2014 and back to your friends that were doing it at that time.
I'll tell you, that is a big deal.
And that's why, so far, the foreign policy has been very, very bipartisan in the agreement for all this.
But, you know, maybe there will be a new alignment on this because we are sensing, we're sensing that some of the Republicans now are thinking more and are less critical of what we are doing.
And the realignment needs to be replaced.
And along with some of the Republicans becoming more libertarian and constitutionalists on foreign policy, what about the progressives?
What have they decided?
But right now, you know, when it comes to the Middle East, that's a different situation right now.
That is a can, too.
That's about to explode.
Yeah, and that's also a disaster.
But I would just say one other thing about the NATO alliance.
I don't understand Trump.
I think there might be a method in his madness, but it might just be madness.
It might just be entertainment.
He's one of the greatest trolls in the history, I think, of politics.
But this whole business about Greenland and Denmark, and I know you guys covered it on Friday, I think, but I don't know what he means by it.
At first, I thought it was sort of a comical interlude, but it turns out he's serious.
But the interesting thing, and some other people have written about this as well, the interesting thing about him doing is an offshore territory of Denmark.
So what it has done is when he said, well, we're going to take Greenland, we're going to take it.
And Denmark, oh, no, you're not.
And basically, Trump said, what are you going to do about it?
The fact is, which is so hilarious about what Trump is doing, and I don't know if it's on purpose, is that Denmark doesn't have any weapons left.
It's given its entire military arsenal to Ukraine.
So short of going there and holding up signs saying, don't take Greenland, there's literally nothing they could do about it.
And maybe, just maybe, Trump is doing this to underscore the idiocy of Europe destroying its own economy over a war that means absolutely nothing to them or to us.
I can't the same thing happen to us.
I mean, we have debt, but we still have fooled the world by having the reserve currency.
We have enough weapons, but we have less weapons than we used to have.
And if the dollar really gets into big trouble, you know, maybe the threats won't hold water.
We can threaten and say, if you don't do this this way, we're going to do this.
We're going to put on sanctions, and we're going to penalize you and watch out.
We'll take care of this.
But I think that eventually, you know, everybody is going to become a Denmark, which might be switching around and say, time to change our attitude.
Let's give up on this interventionism and globalism and all the people allowing themselves to progress toward a Marxist state.
I think we should make it an opportunity of what the Marxists want.
They want chaos to usher in an age of socialism.
Well, why can't we have chaos, which is here?
I mean, the chaos of whether it's COVID or fires or whatever, why can't we use that for more people moving in the direction of a free society?
Because the evidence is there.
It's just that the educational system and the media system, but the media is changing.
People aren't getting 100% of their news from three major networks.
So there are some good things happening there, but people have to know what the principles are.
They have to stand behind them.
They have to be consistent.
And they can't say, well, this is okay.
It's okay to spend a million dollars on this project, but because it's wrong, it's unconstitutional, it's wasteful, and it's going to cause damage.
Okay, we'll settle for $75.
That's what too often happens in Washington.
They always bid up what they want.
Oh, we need $10 million, and then they settle for a little bit less to people.
Well, we just saved money.
Well, before we move on to our second one, I just want to do a couple of, just a closing thing on this particular segment, which is the, no, I don't have any more videos, but the idea that Russia is weaker and Iran is weaker and China is weaker because of their foreign policy is objectively not true.
Our overuse of sanctions against these countries have caused them to form the BRICS alliance, and now they're in fact trading with each other more than they ever did.
We're forcing them into a very lucrative trading system that we could have been taking advantage of.
So, no, they're not weaker.
Objectively, they're stronger economically, militarily, than they were before the Biden administration.
I want to give the last word on this to Glenn Greenwald, who if we skip ahead a couple of those clips to Glenn's tweet, I think Glenn once again nails it.
He says he posted on X earlier today, Biden's main legacy is paying for and fully arming Israel's destruction of Gaza and isolating the U.S. from the world to diplomatically protect it.
Yet somehow the GOP's attack on him is that he's insufficiently pro-Israel.
You can never do enough for that foreign country.
That's Glenn Greenwald making a very, very good point.
And I like the use of that word isolating because we've always said that we're the ones that are the isolationists with our interventionist families.
That's why what do we get accused of?
They accuse us of being the ones that won't do anything, and yet we are the ones that are quite willing to trade and talk with people.
So I think this is, you mentioned about what China and some of the other countries have done as a reaction to this, moving, becoming like more capitalistic in a way.
And I think that's one of the things that people get upset about is China.
They say, China spent their money on this and this and this.
Well, where did they get their money?
You know, they, oh, yeah, they had slaves.
You know, you have to visualize all the slaves.
So they had slave.
Yeah, they had the market cost of labor, and then they were making products that we bought.
I mean, the American people probably had, I don't know what percent, but maybe they had 80% of the funds that go to China.
And then when China goes and buys something that we don't like, then they say that it's those communists that are doing it to us.
Well, one other thing we saw that we just want to throw up there real quick because I think philosophically we'll have a good response to it.
If you put that Daily Signal article up, we noticed that this morning, the deep state is gearing up.
Nearly half of federal employees in the swamp plan to resist Trump poll fines.
Go to the next one.
This is from the Daily Signal.
It came out today, and they said that a surprising number of federal government employees admit they are gearing up to act like a deep state, opposing the incoming second administration of Donald Trump.
And 42% of federal government managers who work in DC will work against the administration.
Now, I think what the professional right-wing would say is, this just shows that Trump has got to get a hold of these people and force them to do what he says.
But I think the libertarians would have a different response to that, Dr. Paul.
That's for sure.
But I think it's this peace bill stuff that we have to be cautious about because a lot of people say, you're right, there's too much spending.
And there's too many bureaucrats.
But they won't say, well, what are they doing?
You know, there are some, including, I think somebody related to me, puts up this specific incident.
They're small, but the people realize that.
What are they doing that for?
Some silly expenditures.
And that, I think, is, you know, people say, well, just get rid of all that.
And I think that what are hundreds of thousands of pages at the register, at the Federal Register.
And yes, they need to reduce some.
They need to tinker with it.
They need to deal with it.
But I still think you have to take a firm position on support.
You either support it and not have it, or you support it, but you say, well, we'll settle for cutting it back 1%.
But they don't even cut it back 1%.
You try to cut 1% out of a budget.
They won't even vote for it.
So I think that's why I'm pessimistic on the long run, and the long run is getting shorter all the time.
The spending is going to continue.
We're going to be very much involved.
And nobody wants to admit the truth that we're morally and financially bankrupt.
And we better get prepared for it.
Absolutely.
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Manifest Destiny's Promise 00:02:42
You know, a lot of people have gotten excited about Trump's plan to expand our borders.
And I think we have to be cautious about that.
You know, we started our country with a grandiose idea about the manifest destiny that we were destined.
And in many ways, that turned out to be true.
I mean, geographically, we had a great land here.
And then after World War II, it expanded our power and financial position and control of the reserve currency of the world.
And we're still looking for that manifest destiny.
But people think that you have to have an empire to really make a mark on what's going on in the world.
But I think there's more to it than that.
I think I don't like the idea as the goal being bigger, bigger, and more authoritarian and controlling of this.
I think you want the same thing in a different manner.
I think it'd be very neat if we had a lot more ability, a lot more people joining the principles really based in our Constitution.
That is personal liberty, believing in natural law, and having moral people being involved in politics and opening up borders for free trade and travel.
Yeah, you say that's pie in the sky.
But there's been good examples of that happening over many years.
And, you know, in a way, you know, up until recently, I always thought it was pretty neat that when you lived on the border, our northern border, you went across a border and there was not much event to it.
So a lot could happen with a more open society where you can move, but with certain rules.
The simple rules in order for a system like that to work is no lying, cheating, stealing, and killing.
It is the natural law, and everybody knows about it.
It's been known throughout all of history.
But it's the rejection of that and the replacement with that, replacement of it by devising an authoritarian state where people can't take care of themselves and we have to take care of the people.
We have to feed them, clothe them, educate them, and do the whole work.
Well, that is what has brought us to our knees, and that is why we have to really emphasize the importance of having a country emphasizing personal liberty, personal responsibility, and we'd all be better off.
I want to thank everybody for tuning in today to the Liberty Report.
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