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Sept. 24, 2025 - Ron Paul Liberty Report
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Trump's Ukraine Rant Crazy Like A Fox Or Just Crazy

President Trump's post yesterday on Truth Social left most Ukraine war watchers speechless, as he claimed that Ukraine could not only take back all of its country from Russia but "perhaps even more." Is Trump trolling? Trolling Europe? Or just bonkers? Also today, Syria's "former" al-Qaeda leader makes waves at the UN...

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Interest Rate Manipulation 00:05:19
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 this morning?
Doing well, doing well.
I'm going to start off with a little economic tidbit that has occurred.
We will be talking about foreign policy again because we think we know what the foreign policy ought to be, but our government doesn't seem to know or agree with us.
So we'll make our points and hopefully we're on the right track and that somebody will follow.
Because right now, our foreign policy is a mess, which does, you know, leap over to economic policy as well, because foreign policy causes a lot of spending.
It's sacred.
Foreign policy is literally, you know, DOD is a sacred budget.
There's talk about cutting, but it didn't happen.
It hasn't happened with the new administration.
So that continued.
But I want to reference a heading on Zero Hedge today, which has very good reporting on economic events.
And the headline was, new home sales exploded higher in August, but prices soared.
Well, maybe that should happen in a free market.
You know, if there's a lot more sales, maybe that would push the sales up.
But it's a little more complex than that because government is so much involved.
They're involved in the housing industry, but they're involved in the manipulation of the dollar, the manipulation of interest rate.
So you do come up with some crazy reports.
And the one is in July, there was a record number of cancellation of mortgages.
So people expected the sales to go down this month, but it didn't happen.
The sales exploded.
And I would place all the blame on the manipulation and the pretense that the government can measure these very important economic numbers and lead the economy upward.
But the truth is, is they can't do it, but they have no understanding about what interest rates should be and how the market should decide that.
Instead, they keep saying, well, we can anticipate.
I think it would be a real job if you were in that financial industry that you had to interpret this.
And always the big variable, what's the government going to do?
What's the Fed going to do?
What will the Congress be doing?
But there's one thing that you can depend on, and that is how the government's policy affects the price of gold.
Golds down a little bit today, making a little correction.
But ultimately, if you want something in spite of all the government manipulation, is what is our government doing with the deficit?
Is it continuing to run?
That is probably one of the biggest, if not the biggest issue for the spending for the welfare warfare state.
And that means the pressure is put on the Fed.
The Fed obliges by doing what the Congress wants and a lot of people want, but they don't understand it, is that, yes, these are emergencies.
So we have to keep the money flowing.
So the pressure is on the Fed.
And then there's a confusion on exactly what the problem is.
I mean, Trump wants interest rates a lot lower a long time ago.
But that's pretty typical of a president because they see the immediate effect is if the interest rates are going up, maybe the market will slow up.
But even the report we have today, it doesn't work always that way.
It's more complex.
But the one thing you can rely on is the deficit that's run up by the Congress and supported by the people and obliged by the Federal Reserve.
Well, whatever you tell us I have to do, we'll argue and fight and pretend.
And the president can pretend, the Congress can pretend.
But the thing is, if you run up debt and run up the source, you know, the size of government, the debt will be passed on to the people who have to try to fix it.
And they actually believe they can fix it.
And they just have to modify the interest rate by force and everything will be okay.
I think this typical confusion is going to continue and get much worse because interest rates are so important.
They should be, you know, the one price control that people should say, that's one you should leave alone.
But not under these conditions because people, the Congress and everybody, ANFA is obligated, you know, to continue to do this.
So we saw interest rates go down a little bit and they'll go down again because the economy is going to get worse.
And they will keep thinking because they don't have anything else to do.
So they will print more money.
And of course, that makes the problem worse.
But anyway, I expect more confusion from the government statistics.
And because the government statistics, when they don't go their way, they just want to have more regulations and more controls.
And that, of course, is the source of our problem.
So I think that's enough on economic policy.
That's not very optimistic, but it's the best I can do on what is the truth.
Larry's Different Take 00:12:30
I want to start off, Daniel, on our policy stuff is what Trump's been saying.
And, you know, I came in today because I depend on you.
You're my excellent researcher.
Keep me up to date.
And you know the names and you know what all the conspiracies are about.
And he told them I'm a little bit confused now.
What is this thing about Trump lecturing at the United Nations?
Are they going to listen to him?
And actually, we discovered there's one item that he wasn't too bad on.
But the headline on that today is Trump says Ukraine can take back all lost territory.
Boom.
We'll just change it.
We'll just exchange property and everything will go back to normal.
Now, that wouldn't be too bad if we've been listening to the administration and the people he appointed, that that's what they wanted.
But, you know, a little while ago, they weren't talking about support, really literal sport for Ukraine.
Now it's up for grabs because I think chaos is still around.
Yeah, I mean, Trump yesterday afternoon, it was right after meeting Zelensky, so we knew that trouble was on the way.
He posted something on his Truth Social site.
You can put up that first one.
This is from the Wall Street Journal that we both read this morning.
Trump says Ukraine can take back all lost territory.
He posted something on his Truth Social, Dr. Paul, that was so out there, so out there that people, their first thought, my first thought indeed was he's gone crazy.
He's completely bonkers.
He's completely lost his mind.
But the fact is, people started thinking a little bit further And they started thinking, you know what?
It is so over the top.
Maybe he's trolling.
Maybe he's actually using sarcasm.
Now, unfortunately, the order of things got messed up.
So go ahead to Trump's post.
Go ahead to two from there, Donald Trump's post on Truth Social.
I'm going to read a little bit of this just in case you haven't read it.
But here's Trump after meeting Zelensky.
After getting to know and fully understand the Ukraine-Russia military and economic situation, and after seeing the economic trouble it is causing Russia, I think Ukraine, with the support of the European Union, is in a position to fight and win all of Ukraine back in its original form.
With time, patience, and the financial support of Europe, in particular, NATO, the original borders from where the war started is very much an option.
Why not?
Russia has been fighting aimlessly for three and a half years in a war that should have taken a real military power less than a week to win.
This is not distinguishing Russia.
In fact, it is very much making them look like a paper tiger.
When the people living in Moscow and all of the great cities, towns, and districts all throughout Russia find out what's really going on with this war, the fact is it's almost impossible for them to get gasoline through the long lines that are being formed and all the other things that are taking place in their war economy, where most of the money is being spent on fighting Ukraine, which has great spirit and only getting better.
Ukraine would be able to take back their country in its original form.
And who knows, maybe even go further than that.
Putin and Russia are in big economic trouble.
And I think it's time that Ukraine to act.
In any event, I wish both countries well.
We will continue to supply weapons to NATO for NATO to do what they want with them.
Good luck to us all.
Good luck to all.
One analysis caught my attention about trying to explain this, and that is because I think obviously what we're thinking about is: has he shifted his position?
A little bit of friendship toward Russia and lecturing Zelensky.
But one person said the Ukraine and facilitating diplomatic efforts did not support the resolution they were working on.
In other words, I think Trump is buying time for Russia.
He's Russia's friend.
We just postpone this thing.
So if Russia's time to finish Ukraine off, that's back to what you were saying that they're so optimistic that they can do that.
Just a little bit more time and Ukraine's going to win.
That's what he's saying.
But I guess time will tell.
I don't think either you or I have bought into the success of that plan.
Well, you know, one of the first things I read when I get up in the morning is Larry Johnson's excellent blog, Sonar21.
Larry always has insights.
He does a little something every day.
And I always want to get his take on things.
You know, he's spoken at our conferences before and consider him a friend.
Well, he, you know, I went to bed thinking, this is this guy has lost his mind.
And by the way, I did steal Larry's title for our title of the show today.
So thanks, Larry.
And sorry for stealing your title.
I didn't, I altered it a little bit.
But Larry had a different take now on this whole thing.
And he's the one that sort of started this crazy like a fox or just plain crazy.
Now, the order's all messed up, but go to the one with sonar 21 on the header.
There we go.
Thank you.
So this is Larry's take.
If you read the latest Trump truth, that's what he calls his post that is posted above.
You will come to the reasonable conclusion that Trump has either changed his position on the war in Ukraine and accepted the delusional beliefs of General Kellogg, or he is engaged in some massive sarcasm.
Now, he comes to the conclusion that that's basically what it is, because as you point out, there was a resolution in the United Nations demanding a ceasefire in the war and a resolution, immediate ceasefire, release of all hostages, and for Russia to immediately, unconditionally lift restrictions on humanitarian aid and entry to the affected regions.
That was vetoed by the U.S.
And but a lot of the things that were in Trump's post were just blatantly untrue.
There are no gas lines in Russia.
If there were, we would see them.
The economy is not in shambles.
This is what we heard in 2022, if you remember.
Remember, Ursula von der Leyen said their economy is in tatters.
Well, they had a 4.2% growth rate last year.
Now it's down this year.
I think it'll be 1.8%, as Larry Johnson pointed out.
But they have a, I have it in front of me here, but they have a debt to GDP ratio of, I think, 19%, whereas the U.S. debt to GDP is 126%.
So most of what he said was just incorrect, but not just incorrect, but so incorrect that it left people wondering what he was really trying to say, whether he was trolling the Europeans.
You know, Trump uses a teleprompter a lot, more than people realize, but he also rambles at times.
I was thinking, he has to have somebody that has the final say in the printing out of his teleprompter thing.
I wonder if they have ever had a dilemma.
I wonder what he's going to say today.
What is he going to say spontaneously?
And how do we put this out?
But evidently, it has been successful for them.
I don't think there's going to be that many people say, you know, this stuff is making me dizzy.
Yeah, that's a good word.
You know what?
You know what the main thing is, is, and it also, you know, enters into my mind too, is, is the alternative, you know, a lot better?
Would you rather have the opposition that hate his guts and all of a sudden we find out that Trump's pretty good on some of this environmental stuff and weather control?
And that is a big deal.
And so he had some good ideas on that.
He said, when the United States is blamed for stealing everything from the poor people, he was making a point.
How can you steal money from poor people?
Well, I think some more of the indication that Trump may be trolling or doing some sarcasm is you remember, I think we talked about it on the show earlier this week or maybe late last week when he said, yeah, you know, I'll put a bunch of tariffs on India and China, but Europe, you've got to stop buying oil and gas from Russia.
Completely stop it.
And knowing that it would destroy their economy even further if they did.
I think this may be another chapter in this.
And, you know, I'm reading the tea leaves here, and other people have done it as well.
But I think a key passage, Dr. Paul, is this.
He says, with time, patience, and the financial support of Europe, and in particular, NATO, the original borders from where this war started, very much an option.
You notice what he didn't say there.
He didn't say the United States.
He didn't say with our support.
He only said the Europeans.
You know, this is a big issue, but what they're doing or claiming they can do is put price controls.
And that is punish Russia.
If you don't buy it, the price is going to go down and it's going to hurt Russia.
And they've been doing this, and they're annoyed because they're slipping through the crack and they're still selling oil.
And I think that this is an international example of what happens when the government puts wage and price control on.
Because the day the price controls go on, there will be a black market.
And there will be something, they'll be cheating.
There was always some cheating and getting around the government regulations when they put on controls.
And I think this is what this is.
The government, the Europeans are still going to find it, yeah, we'll buy from India.
And now he, and that, that, the, Trump can't stand the idea that they got around what he told them to do.
Don't you know he's the boss?
Yeah, so so he gets a little bit annoyed.
Yeah, he does.
And, you know, it's it's hard to know.
Uh, Trump has flip-flopped on this before.
He did express at the UN, I think he was talking to Macron, and he said he was very unhappy that Trump was being, I mean, that Putin was not being nice and doing what he says that Putin should do.
So, anyway, I think this is a it's a it's a biz, it's either extremely bizarre, or A, or B, someone got his passwords.
You know, someone suggested actually that Sebastian Gorka, who unfortunately is still in the White House, may have may have actually written this.
Who knows?
We don't know.
Or Kellogg is, you know, you know, pounding into his head, or he's saying he's, and I do think this might be the truth.
He's feeding back to Europe the European propaganda.
The Europeans are saying they're a paper tiger.
They can't even take Kiev.
They can't do all this stuff.
And he's feeding it back to them.
Okay, they're a paper tiger.
They can't take Kiev.
So you guys go for it.
Finance it, you know, you know, pay for it, support it.
It's almost like, see you later, guys.
You know, for me, what is much easier is to defend a position of non-intervention.
Yeah.
All this mixed up stuff and bankruptcies and currency arguments and fights.
And it's so unnecessary, but they could continue to do it and think that they can solve the problem.
And it just requires more propaganda.
But sometimes it's outright lying.
And how does it separate the two?
And the market doesn't have a way of knowing.
If something is said, then they have to make a major market decision.
If they made one market decision on housing from last month, things are way, way down.
Then the next month they find the prices are going up and everybody's happy.
And that would you would not get statistic like that in a free market if you had pre-market collection of data.
Al Qaeda's Shadow 00:10:53
But when you have government politicians trying to influence a certain direction, that's what you get.
And that thing's that makes things worse.
It does, yeah.
Well, thank Georges for kicking in 40 bucks.
He's upset that we're not talking about Gaza genocide, not meaning us, meaning the world, because it takes center stage.
And I think, you know, that is a good point.
A lot of things are taking that out of the headlines, which shouldn't be the case.
The second thing we want to talk about is something that for me, it just makes me angry.
And I'll go to that next clip, skip all the other ones.
Syria's former Al-Qaeda chief.
Let's go to that one.
This happened yesterday, Dr. Paul.
And I had to blink.
I thought I was losing my mind.
Syria's former al-Qaeda chief arrives in New York and sits down with the former CIA director.
Syria's de facto president, Ahmad Al-Sharrah, a former al-Qaeda leader, arrived in New York City on Sunday, where he will attend the UN General Assembly, making him the first Syrian leader to do so since 1967.
On Monday, Shara, formerly known as Abu Mohammed Al-Jolani, attended the Concordia Summit, where he sat down with retired U.S. Air Army General David Petraeus,
who was a CIA director from 2011 and 12 when the U.S. began a covert CIA operation known as Operation Timber Sycamore to funnel weapons into Syria that ended up in the hands of that country's al-Qaeda affiliate.
And when you read this and ponder it, we've talked about it before, the whole thing was a farce.
The whole war on terror was a farce.
We were arming the people who blew up the, they say, blew up the Twin Towers, and now they're sitting down together and it's all funny games.
We're supposed to roll over and believe everything.
But by this time, everybody forgot about the rest because, you know, as we went along, nobody remembers 2014 on how we got into Ukraine.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But, you know, Assad was the big shot there in Syria for a long, long time.
He was no angel.
But for some reason, I couldn't build up enough hatred to send my kids and steal the money from the American people and say, we have to have a regime change.
So I think it starts there.
And here we are.
Syria has been fighting over and arguing about who's going to be their leader.
But how many times have outsiders been involved?
Just think of what it might have been like if we had followed through on some of the fancy talk even in World War I, self-reliance and self-determination and all that.
Here we are, how many 6,000, 7,000 miles away?
And we have to send them money.
We get involved.
And it keeps getting worse.
And here it is.
Oh, well, we give up.
We surrender.
Will you come on our side, please?
We need help.
And I mean, they face that kind of condition.
You know, what they're trying to do, and they've tried for 20, 30, 40 years in Afghanistan.
Okay, we're going to get rid of you.
But, you know, traditions are pretty important.
And you don't erase them.
And that's what they don't recognize.
And they don't.
What they really don't recognize, and the American people don't recognize is it's not necessary.
We shouldn't be stealing money from our people, ruining our currency, and doing this as a pretense that we're saving the world.
And it's bipartisan.
That's why people can't understand because I am pretty accurate, at least vocal on the fact that the big stuff is bipartisan.
You know, they're fighting and arguing all the time.
But yes, do you think they're going to have, what are they fighting, though?
Just on the edges of who should be shot and who should be put in place.
Instead of saying the big issue is, should we be involved or shouldn't we be?
The founders gave us some advice.
We haven't followed it and we're suffering from it.
I do think, Dr. Paul, that if foreign policy, if U.S. foreign policy was a photo, this would be the photo.
Put that photo up and you'll see what I mean.
This is U.S. foreign policy in a nutshell.
David Petraeus, who commanded troops fighting al-Qaeda in the Middle East, sitting down with Al-Qaeda in the Middle East.
20 years of a war on terror, a million people killed, including several thousand Americans, countries destroyed, obliterated, their future erased, and these two sit down together and yuck it up afterwards.
Ha ha ha.
Wasn't that so funny?
In fact, one of the questions Petraeus asked this al-Qaeda leader is, have you been getting enough sleep lately?
I mean, it was almost like a little they went on a date.
Go to this next one.
Here's a couple of things.
Now, here's Petraeus.
And this talk about, this is understatement of understatements.
The fact is, we were on different sides when I was commanding the surge in Iraq.
You were, of course, detained by U.S. forces for some five years, including, again, when I was a four-star there.
And here you are, president of Syria, which your forces liberated from the murderous Basar al-Assad regime to participate in your first U.S. General Assembly.
The former CIA chief continued, earlier this year, you met the president of the U.S. among world leaders.
Please help us understand how you got from al-Qaeda in 20 years ago to where you are today, Syria's head of state on stage in New York City.
I mean, this is fanboy stuff.
It's in the article, and he has a quote from the CIA director, former CIA director, and he said, you know, I've grown to like you.
I'm a fan of you.
Yeah, yeah.
I mean, this is disgusting.
You know, it's political schizophrenia.
Yeah.
It is disgusting.
And I mean, how much do we have to pay for this war on terror?
And I think maybe it might hopefully inspire some anger, cynicism, but anger as well that this is what we were robbed for for 20 years to enrich the military-industrial complex for these two to sit down and yuck it up.
People ask me so often, well, why don't we change it?
Why don't we do that?
Would it help if we had a few more new members in the Congress?
And the answer is no.
It's a bigger deal.
It's a whole philosophic position that people hold.
And they've held this for a long time.
I mean, it's been steady.
It's been deliberate.
It's been consistent.
And for the last 100, 125 years, it's been consistently undermining the independent sovereignty of this country.
And along with it, goes the independent sovereignty of the individual.
And that's why I think the world is in deep, deep trouble.
And it can be changed.
And they say, Ron, why do you think and pretend once in a while that there's optimism?
I would say that there's a competition out there with the deep state.
And I would say there is a remnant of people.
And I would say it is growing.
I would say that the majority of the American people would like to live with peace and prosperity.
And that they have been brainwashed and lectured by an educational system.
And I see changes coming in the educational system.
I think homeschooling is going to grow, but I also think the opposition to it will grow too.
And that's why it's so dangerous.
Yeah, I think that's true.
Well, I'm going to close out.
My final word is just that the world has gotten so weird that, you know, with Trump going off on this crazy rant, with Petraeus sitting down with Al-Qaeda, who, by the way, is not elected and is not going to have elections.
The elections they have, the people aren't allowed to vote.
But nevertheless, we're all just friends here.
Everything is fine.
Anyway, I do want to thank everyone for watching the show.
On my behalf, I want to ask you again, I'm looking over here at the thumbs ups, and I'm seeing 28.
You guys can do better than that.
But we do appreciate you watching the show.
Over to you, Dr. Paul.
One thing I want to mention, because I mention it so often, I think I did yesterday, is this whole idea of isolationism.
Ron, you're just talking isolation, the world is too big, and you have to do this, do that, and you have to have a policeman of the world and on and on.
And yet, the founders suggested that we have avoid entangling alliances.
I think Washington was a promoter of that idea.
Non-entangling alliances.
Because that doesn't mean that we don't talk to people.
We talk to them in different ways.
This whole idea of oil and Russia right now, here the market is breaking out.
The Europeans, in a brief spell, you know, when the Cold War broke down, you know, they even built pipelines out of Russia into Europe.
And now the Europeans have to sneak it in because the United States say, don't you dare buy their oil.
And we threaten all of Europe for dealing with Russia.
It could be settled by just getting the American people to wake up and say that George Washington and other founders had the right idea to implant the idea that we should avoid entangling alliances.
We should participate in participation in free trade and as much free travel as possible for people to get along.
But as long as there's this effort to reward the people who have more guns and more money, encourages the system we have, but still there's a remnant out there and it's growing and people do need to speak out.
And everybody that accepts this idea has a responsibility to speak out softly if possible because you can get more converts that way than you can by yelling and screaming.
And yet at times I'd like to yell and scream a little bit.
And it'll come to that because the yelling and screaming, unfortunately, is done with the guns and weapons and bombs.
And Trump has correctly pointed out the danger of some of the weapons, the biological bombs, as well as the nuclear.
Soft Voices Gaining Ground 00:00:29
And there is a place for this, but it isn't gained by more authoritarianism and somebody arguing, I'm the boss.
No, I'm the boss.
I get to turn the switch on.
I get to print the money.
I get to tell people who gets these benefits.
So there is a difference.
It's not complex.
We just need a little help for a lot more people.
And I believe the world would improve tremendously.
I want to thank everybody for tuning in today to the Liberty Report.
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