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Oct. 1, 2025 - Ron Paul Liberty Report
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'Hot Spots' Where Will Trump Strike Next

President Trump has US troops and equipment poised to directly or indirectly begin military operations against Venezuela, Iran, and possibly even Russia, but the one "hot spot" that he described in his speech to the military brass yesterday could be the most disturbing of all...

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Ukraine's Missile Threat 00:15:07
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 this morning.
Good morning, Dr. Paul.
How are you this morning?
Doing well.
Doing well.
Good.
So, we have a few things to talk about today.
You know, I try to keep up with all the hot spots of the world, and maybe there's only one or two, but I want to check over and doing this checking and visiting with you a bit.
You know, there's quite a few hotspots.
You know, I came up with four that are significant, but I think that's way undernumbered.
Probably, yeah.
Yeah, a lot more.
So, we'll pick up some of the more idiotic hotspots that are so unnecessary.
It doesn't do a thing for our national defense, doesn't do a thing for our budget except make it work.
And people marching on and marching on it, as special interests, you know, have no problems.
They line it up, they get control of the machinery to print money, the fiat, fraudulent monetary system that we have with the Federal Reserve.
No sweat.
It doesn't matter whether the Congress appropriates it or not.
I mean, it's good to let the people know they're taking care of their business.
But, well, they say, well, aren't you going to do all this stuff, all this intervention around the world?
Where are you going to get the money?
No sweat.
We don't have to do it.
Are you going to raise tax?
Oh, no, we wouldn't raise taxes.
We'll just print the money and the tax will be there.
It's a way of taxing, and the people will never know.
Well, they know, but they don't quite understand.
Most people don't understand, or this stuff would stop.
But we want to start off with one hotspot that has been around unnecessarily, especially has been manufactured since 2014, you know, with what was going on in Ukraine.
And now we have our administration and his advisors.
Ex-Trump officials say, advisors, and he's talking about the current advisor, are pushing war with Russia.
Why would we do that?
You know, I keep thinking our leaders have lost their minds.
And I decided that's too harsh.
I think they've lost their moral compass.
You know, and they pretend their minds are sharp and they just have changed their opinion because they're smarter now.
They're smarter.
They're there.
And we don't know.
We're peasants.
So we have no idea what's going on.
So this to me is tragedy.
But what is Trump saying about what he wants to do is make it easier for our side to be able to lob missiles into Moscow.
That makes a lot of sense.
And first off, we've dated 2014 to a significant period of time where we, through the operation and the control we have there, because we control all the money with NATO, and we break the promises of NATO, and we've encouraged them to get close to the Russian border.
And things have gone haywire ever since.
They're getting worse.
And both sides then get angrier and angrier.
And then it gets politicized and emotional.
And that's where we are now.
It is escalating.
I think it's dangerous.
And the placement of weapons has a great deal of significance.
And this move now to put the tomahawks in, I guess, into Ukraine, and they'll be able to hit Moscow.
They're not going to ignore that.
Oh, and I think Trump's attitude was it might calm them down.
They might become frightened.
That was his reason.
Yeah, exactly.
And put up this first clip.
This is from Dave DeCamp a couple of days ago.
And this is what we're talking about.
So, yeah, our show is about hotspots.
Where in the world might Trump flex military power?
Vance, Vice President Vance says Trump is considering supplying Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles.
They have a range of over 1,000 miles, putting Moscow in range.
That would mean that Zelensky would be able to blow up Red Square and the Kremlin.
Vice President JD Vance said in an interview aired Sunday that President Trump was considering the possibility of supplying Ukraine with Tomahawk missiles, a step that would mark a significant escalation of the proxy war.
Well, of course it would.
But the thing is, Dr. Paul, that is well understood is that the Ukrainians cannot fire these missiles.
You don't just send them over like here's the instruction.
Type this in and hit go.
It doesn't work that way.
It's going to be U.S. intelligence, geospatial intelligence.
It's going to be U.S. military officers, NATO military officers programming it in, hitting the button, and sending the missiles.
And that's very well understood.
And the Foreign Secretary of Russia had made that very clear.
We know that they're not going to fire him.
It's going to be you firing them.
If you fire missiles deep into Russia, from Moscow, for example, we will be at war.
And I think one of the things about this, Dr. Paul, is that Trump is so used to bullying people.
Remember how it was when he summoned the EU leaders and they all came and they sat at his foot, at his feet and were begging like little dogs.
He thinks he can get away with that with everyone, but it's just not the case with President Putin of Russia and with the Russian administration.
And I think it's driving him nuts.
You know, I think Flynn, General Flynn, had some interesting things to say because he was warning, which has been heard from us on this program, is that if you don't know who's working for you and you don't know the system, even some of those individuals that you're supposed to fully trust for information said his argument is they're setting a trap for him.
You know, he can't win this thing.
And the idea that the United States has to shoot these missiles sort of makes it concrete.
But we have said, you know, always, we don't want any body bags.
We don't want any Americans killed.
Americans still get killed, but less in numbers.
We don't have body bags like Vietnam.
But the body bags, we just defer them.
We shift them over to innocent victims.
I mean, no matter what part of the country or the world it is right now that we get involved, there's usually innocent civilians that are getting killed.
Somebody have never, never done any violence toward the United States.
Matter of fact, they probably would like to be more like the United States.
But how can they continue to want to be like us on some of the policies that we do?
Yeah, absolutely.
And, you know, we don't agree with Flynn on everything, but he's no dummy.
He knows what he's talking about.
And I think he sees pretty clearly that Trump is being manipulated by people around him into a place where, I mean, do we really want a nuclear war after the entire Cold War?
We want a nuclear war now over who runs Ukraine.
I mean, it's just bonkers.
But so the second hotspot that we're looking at is the Middle East.
And, you know, there's been a lot going on with Gaza.
So apparently, we talked about it yesterday.
Apparently, there's a peace plan.
There are three parties to the war, and only two parties negotiated the plan.
The Palestinians were not involved in the negotiations.
That's a real possibility.
The other one, Dr. Paul, is Iran.
And there's a lot of sounds out there that the U.S. is getting ready to attack Iran.
Now, put this next clip up because a lot of times you can, and I didn't show this before, Dr. Paul, but I just found it again.
This is really important.
I think this is from yesterday, I believe.
Something afoot.
U.S. air activity surging toward the Middle East.
Tankers are hauling freighters part of the way, then cutting them loose once in range, before immediately turning back to refuel the next wave.
A shuttle of warplanes is moving east.
That's a very clear indication.
The refueling tankers are going all.
Now, where did we see this before?
This is just from yesterday or two days ago.
Well, we saw it back in June.
Go to that next clip.
You'll see the exact same scenario.
This is back in June 15th.
U.S. military tankers are launching in waves, dozens already airborne, more by the minute.
The sky is mobilized.
The routes are locked.
Guess where they're heading?
Europe, the Middle East.
It looks like pre-war positioning, brace for impact.
June 15th, 2025.
And indeed, less than a week later, the U.S. was actively bombing Iran.
So that definitely, I think, qualifies as a hot, hot, hotspot.
And it's been that way, and it looks like it's going to get much hotter.
And there will be money involved.
And they want to make sure they can control the message.
The message has to be out there to fill the gaps when they have difficulty.
This idea that Yahoo's might be a little bit concerned.
His tone was he had a little concern about the evangelicals, you know, because they're being exposed to some moral arguments against the tragedies of the Middle East.
So he says, so, well, we'll just get our influencers.
We just have to have better influencers.
But we have to pay them, you know.
Oh, that's no trouble.
We'll just print them up with bundle and send them some money.
And you get the influence.
Well, we'll manipulate a little bit and we'll get everybody to join in on this disaster.
Yeah.
Well, we'll see.
I've got something on that later if we have time, actually.
It's an interesting article.
So the next hotspot, the third hotspot out of the four, you're right.
There are many more, but we try to pick the top four is Venezuela.
This is from yesterday, Dave DeCamp, an anti-war.
Top Trump officials intensify push for regime change in Venezuela.
Now, I thought the Trump administration, remember, he was in Saudi Arabia just a few weeks ago saying regime change is a terrible idea.
We should never do it.
And here we go.
Here we go.
We're going at it right here.
Senior Trump administration officials have intensified their push to remove Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro from power and are discussing steps to escalate the military pressure.
It's of course being led by Marco Rubio, who is also the National Security Advisor and Secretary of State.
He's the one who led it in the first Trump administration, as you remember, Dr. Paul, with the international laughingstock fiasco of Juan Guaido being Marco Rubio's brainchild.
Now go to the next one here is from the same article.
The report, now this report is from the New York Times, cited opposition figures who say their movement has been planning what to do if Maduro is ousted and that Rubio met with five opposition figures who fled to the U.S. back in May.
During the first Trump administration, the U.S. backed a failed coup attempt against Maduro, led by opposition figure Juan Guaido.
This really is like a Ukraine in the Western Hemisphere.
You know, a lot of times when things like this happen and past, you also have one or two in the administration not being critical in a vicious way, but just trying to point out a few things.
But you don't hear any of that now.
There's no criticism because whoever's running the show has an iron fist for this.
That people are not standing up to anything that they do and say.
So that to me is a real mess.
And I don't see how that's going to change because one of the things they've used, how many years have they used this?
Who are you?
Well, we've got to stop the drugs.
Just think if we could stop the drugs coming in from Venezuela, we would save 100,000 kids.
You know, they would never become addicted to fentanyl.
And, oh, would they have something else to do?
Yeah.
I mean, this whole thing, the artificialness of the war on drugs is something else.
And you know my position on how stupid the use of drugs are the way it is.
But the whole thing is, there's really accurate information to show that the war on drugs, whether it's been going on five years or 20 years, has never happened, never been beneficial.
Finally, we changed the Constitution because the war on the drug alcohol, people didn't say, oh, alcohol is wonderful.
We'll keep doing it because they knew the war was worse than the problems you get with the alcohol, which is a tragedy.
You made a really good point earlier, Dr. Paul, about the sitting luck of any opposition within the administration.
And I remember back to the Reagan era, you had Catherine Weinberger and George Schultz, and they were at each other's heads, at each other's throats.
And that was probably healthy for debate because one would say, well, look, the military can't do that.
Well, look, we need to do this.
And I think it was very effective.
I think everyone is so cowed by Trump's bullying nature that there's no one that's going to speak up.
And if you watch anything that someone like a Rubio or a Heg Seth says, it's always so obsequious toward Trump.
Oh, the president is so right.
No, that's fine.
He's your boss.
You're not going to say he's a dope.
Nevertheless, the president, I don't think, is being well served by the fact that the people that are closest to him are afraid of saying, Mr. President, that's actually not correct.
And I think it's a big problem.
You know, we're going to have one more conclusion on this where we think the war is a very serious war close to home.
But before I do that, I just want to mention one more that we didn't emphasize, and that is, what about the constant antagonism and trying to stir up trouble with China?
Yeah, yeah, true.
Are they trying to, do we have Richard Nixon around?
And I isn't sure, you know, to break down the barriers and the killing that went on with the Korean War.
And, you know, but no, that was Nixon.
Nixon was a bad guy.
You know, in this day and age, Nixon doesn't look quite as bad as some of the people we have now.
But anyway, we have one.
And this catches my attention.
Not that we don't have enough, because we probably miss four or five or six where we are.
Because, you know, they're back to militantly taking over all of the Americas, South America, that's America.
And that Venezuela, they said, is just an opening thing.
So that's going to go on and on.
I think so.
But the one here is the headline will caught our attention.
Trump tells generals the military will be used to fight the enemy within.
Fight the Enemy Within 00:10:54
So first thing off, who's going to define the enemy?
You know, what if somebody thinks libertarianism is the enemy?
I heard a conservative person on the radio today who was somebody that would brag how constitutionally they are and all this.
And that was the main thing was to get control of this.
And they want to fight the enemy within.
I thought they were the enemy, what they were doing.
So it's an ideological fight.
And yet, I think it's boiling.
I think it's boiling.
It's going to break loose, especially when the chaos gets serious.
You mean it's not serious yet?
They stuff the way they tear down cities and all.
No, I don't think, I don't think it's anywhere close to ending.
But by that time, the tragedy will be the people will say, You're supposed to make us safe.
Of course, the principle of the government making us safe all the time is not a very good principle because that invites the government in to do whatever they can.
And they say, Well, who would take care of it?
Well, maybe some people would believe in the Second Amendment that you can use it, but they'll never get to the extreme that they will actually believe the Second Amendment was to protect against tyranny, no matter where it was coming from, foreign or domestic.
So, this is a real mess, the enemy within.
Who's going to define it?
And don't and I and I think the war is already, it's been in a way, it's been on going on for a long time.
You can say that really was started in 1913 in argue the case.
And then, all the various wars, the wars they say that we're fighting overseas, they're not against the innocent people we kill, uh, and they're against the innocent people or that have to pay for here from this country.
So, it's a real tragedy, and that's that's a big one.
And they even talk about civil wars, and uh, I that for a long time I thought that can't be possible.
Lately, I keep thinking, well, these factions are getting so bad and so hated, hatred, and I think it's quite possible that it will be escalating.
Matter of fact, I think that's going to happen.
Yeah, hearing the language of things like the enemy within without being well-defined is chilling in a way.
I mean, it harkens back to you know, the McCarthy era or other things where people were, because of their beliefs, not their actions, they were hounded out of things.
I don't think it was a bright spot in American history.
But Trump did mention it in his speech.
He brought together 800 and some top brass from the military.
They all met at Corneco.
The auspices were that they were going to get a pep talk from Trump and Secretary Hegsteth.
We saw both of those speeches.
We're not going to go into a lot of detail, but I did pull one clip, and this is someone helpfully put together a montage of the things that President Trump said, sort of around this theme of the enemy within and what we should do about it.
It's a little longer than we like to put up, it's about a little over two minutes, but I think it does a good job of summarizing it.
So, why don't we grab our earpieces here and give a listen to this a little bit over two minutes of Trump talking about now?
This is these are spliced together, so just understand that, but they're all on the same theme only in recent decades did politicians somehow come to believe that our job is to police the far reaches of Kenya and Somalia while America is under invasion from within.
We're under invasion from within, no different than a foreign enemy, but more difficult in many ways because they don't wear uniforms.
At least when they're wearing a uniform, you can take them out.
These people don't have uniforms, but we are under invasion from within.
We're stopping it very quickly.
What they've done to San Francisco, Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, they're very unsafe places, and we're going to straighten them out one by one.
And this is going to be a major part for some of the people in this room.
That's a war, too.
It's a war from within.
Controlling the physical territory of our border is essential to national security.
We can't let these people live.
Last month, I signed an executive order to provide training for a quick reaction force that can help quell civil disturbances.
This is going to be a big thing for the people in this room because it's the enemy from within, and we have to handle it before it gets out of control.
won't get out of control.
Once you get involved, it all they all joke.
They say, oh, this is not good.
Fire department.
I always put the fire department in because they're great.
They're great.
And I got 95% of their vote too.
That helps.
When you get 95% of their vote, you always have to mention them.
But they're great.
And they're brave in our inner cities, which we're going to be talking about because it's a big part of war now.
It's a big part of war.
But the firemen go up in ladders and you have people shooting at them while they're up in ladders.
I don't even know if anybody heard that.
And I said, don't talk about it much, but I think you have to.
Our firemen are incredible.
They're up in one of these ladders that goes way up to the sky, rescuing people, and you have animals shooting at them, shooting bullets at firemen that are way up in death territory.
You fall off that ladder.
It's over.
And I told Pete, we should use some of these dangerous cities as training grounds for our military, National Guard, but military.
Because we're going into Chicago very soon.
That's a big city with an incompetent governor.
Stupid governor.
Stupid.
They threw him out of his family business.
He was so stupid.
So this whole quick reaction force for civil unrest is disturbing.
This whole thing, how the principle of posse comitatus that we're not supposed to use a military force to maintain order.
The states are supposed to be more involved.
But here it is.
What city are we going to invade tomorrow?
And so on and on.
And then one of the excuses is it's great training grounds.
That's how we can train our military.
So are they going to treat American citizens?
They're supposed to be arrested and have a trial and make charges made against them.
Because now, there's going to be so much stuff, it'll be hearsay or a picture or a missed identification.
There's so many things that could go wrong.
And then some other people have asked, well, where?
How did Trump get so much authority?
Well, he gave it to himself.
He says, I'm the president, you know, and my job is to make people safe.
So I have to do this.
And that attitude is bad.
I think the militarization, even when it was much violent, a little bit different, there were some of our police actually were acting out of step.
And anybody that has this authority, not following the rule of law is bad.
But this one is really bad.
Especially the way, so he casually said, oh, Chicago looks like a bad place there.
We better send 20,000 troops out there tomorrow.
And I wonder how many troops that they have stationed, you know, around the country right now.
Unless people call us a bunch of leftists and wild-eyed Antifa.
We agree with him on the problem.
It is a terrible mess.
These cities are nightmares.
They really are hellholes.
But the idea that you send the active duty military into a city, it makes me wonder if he understands what a military does.
A military goes to places and kills people.
That's what they should do.
They're not social workers.
They're not cops.
We saw what happened in places like Iraq when we had the counterterrorism.
When they had to act like cops, they ended up just shooting everyone.
That's what they do.
So the danger is we'll have the sort of the Venezuelization of law enforcement in the U.S. where we don't stop you.
We just look at your car and take it out with an RPG or something.
It's dangerous.
He's right about the problem, but he doesn't, I don't, in my opinion, doesn't understand that the solution actually could be worse than the problem.
It's sort of interesting how this issue and the problem has accelerated, you know, in the last month or so.
But it looks like one of the assumptions they're making is that the people understood it.
Told him we are not the Secretary of Defense.
We're Secretary of War.
And like you say, the military has different responsibilities.
And it's sort of a shift of attitude that this is a war going on.
But yes, we've had other bad situations, but I'll tell you, this is a big mess that's going.
Because right now, you know, well, I don't know how long it's going to last because the whole system is so mixed up.
I was going to say that, you know, Trump is just going to be a stronger and stronger dictator.
But that's not guaranteed either because the anti-Trump people are loud and noisy and a lot of time for the wrong reason because they'll do a bunch of their own lies.
And it's just the antagonism between two groups.
And then the one person I was listening to today was mocking, mocking the people who followed in Congress on not allowing the legislation to go.
So they were asking, they were against a senator that's related to me, plus Thomas Massey.
They said they were the worst people.
And this was coming from a so-called constitutional conservative station, arguing the case that these people are holding things up.
No, you never can have perfection.
But what if you work in it?
Their record was just mocked.
And that to me has a great deal of significance because that justifies people, you know, not worrying about the rules.
Of course, they haven't been worrying about the rules before because I think the one rule they could have written and clarified was in 1913.
Never tax a person's income and never steal their wealth from them through inflation.
We're not there.
You're not there, no.
You know, a lot of times I think people who have not served in the military, they have kind of a distorted view of what the military does and what it should do.
Remember the famous story of Madeline Albright, Secretary of State, when she told Colin Powell, who was a war veteran, what's the use of this wonderful military you're talking about if you don't want to use it?
Israel's Influencer Scheme 00:03:30
And so I think you have that tendency.
We all know that President Trump didn't serve in the military, and that's okay.
But you have this weird idolization.
And Colonel Danny Davis, whose show I highly recommend, he was talking about it yesterday with Doug McGregor.
And Davis pointed this out.
Now, go to that picture of the two flags next to each other.
Davis recognized this, and you'll see it immediately.
The staging of President Trump's speech to the generals looked exactly like the scene from Patton, George C. Scott over there on the left.
Now, this may have been a coincidence, but he certainly seemed like he wanted to make himself look like a General Patton up there on stage.
So I think there's this sort of strange view of the military.
So I guess the last thing, I'm going to cover it really quickly because we are getting quick on time.
Now, you alluded to it earlier, but this is sort of a follow-up to we've talked about the danger of what's happening with TikTok and other social media.
And it's because of the government's involvement.
Well, this is responsible statecraft, hardly a radical publication, let's put it that way.
They're a voice of realism, I think, in D.C.
They put out a piece earlier today, I think, or yesterday they put it out.
Israel is paying influencers $7,000 per post.
Now, Dr. Paul, I'll be honest with you.
My first thought was, where do I get in on the action?
I do about 100 posts a day.
So maybe I'll switch my views if Bibi wants to write me a check for $700,000 a day.
But more seriously, if you go to the next one, in a meeting dedicated to hearing pro-Israel media to harnessing pro-Israel Israel Media Energy on Friday.
And we talked about this on Monday, Dr. Paul, where Netanyahu alluded to the influencers.
We have to fight back.
How do we fight back?
And then he said, being paid by Israel to post on social media is also very lucrative.
According to previously unreported recent documents, these influencers are likely being paid around $7,000 per post on social media such as TikTok and Instagram on behalf of Israel.
Now go to the next one.
This is why we need, why the FARA Act is good because it lets us know what foreign governments are doing to propagandize Americans.
Bridges Partners, a firm working for the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs, sent a series of invoices for its influencer campaign to Havas Media Group, Germany, an international media group working for Israel.
The invoices detailed a sum of $900,000 starting in June, slated to end in November, filed under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, which is good.
So I'll just skip down to it.
Taking the legal fees, banking fees, marketing fees, and all this stuff out, it leaves about a half a million dollars for the influencers, the designated influencers, 14 to 18 of them.
Now, if you go to the next one, he does the math here in this article.
I do recommend the article.
The firm expect that the cohort was expected to produce 75 to 90 posts in that time.
Doing the math, that would be $6,143 per post on the low end.
On the high end, each influencer could be making as much as $7,372 per post.
You would say, well, how is it our business?
And to which I would channel my inner Ron Paul and say, well, the money is fungible.
We're the ones that are giving Israel the aid.
And they hire firms to propagandize the Americans.
Money Is Fungible 00:02:17
Yeah, you know, you mentioned that kiddingly, obviously, but you said, I just changed my view.
This looks like it's pretty lucrative.
We're in the business of trying to change people's opinion.
But we want to make sure that the people that want more liberty and respect for the Constitution are respected and encouraged.
But no, in this case, though, the people who pay the money will attract people who will be willing to sell their soul and say whatever they want to say.
And most of the time, people do that for either power or money.
And that's why the system is so rotten, you know, in Washington.
And you lived in the part of Washington where you actually saw that guy, you know, he's a bad guy.
He belongs to this lobbying group and that lobbying group.
But I think that this is not going to end well.
We're going to have to go through lots of problems.
But I search every day for some optimistic thing we can say.
To me, it's in the area of education.
I think our numbers are growing.
I think when people get exposed to the truth, they will change their opinion and they will be really tested, will be tested.
Everybody's going to be tested because the conditions are going to deteriorate.
They're going to get worse.
The economic problems, we heard today that gold was hitting $4,000.
You know, even though I've been looking at that gold market for a long time and assume that there will be a day, it could be $4,000.
But even when it happens, it's still startling, you know, and what it really means.
Because the predictions are that it's going to get much worse, which means the dollar crisis is going to get much worse.
And all this talk about the complaint we have on all this warmongering and policing the world, things will change.
And I think they're in a process right now.
And the people who come out on top of this are unknown.
And I think that what we should do is work for the effort to have the principles of liberty and the Constitution come out on top.
That would be a blessing to us all.
I want to thank everybody for tuning in today to the Liberty Report.
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