Trump Caves To Bibi - Agrees To Backstop New Israeli War On Iran
desctipiton: All it took was the fifth visit by Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu to get President Trump to drastically change the US position on Iran from "no nukes" to "no missiles." Trump agreed to support an Israeli attack on Iran's non-nuclear missile program. “We’ll knock the hell out of them," he said at a press conference after the Netanyahu meeting. Also today: CIA airstrikes on Venezuelan territory signal yet another US war escalation.
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Hello, everybody, and thank you for tuning into the Ron Paul 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.
We want to go over something not brand new, but it's a persistent problem that we have, and that is we, as being the American people, our financial situation, and the protection of our liberties here at home.
But we are going to lead off with talking about an article came from Wall Street Journal of all places.
The headline is pretty emphatic.
Trump threatens new military action with Israel against Iran.
Boy, that's just all we need.
They forgot one word.
It should be with Israel against Iran again.
Yeah, again.
Again, over and over again.
We'll never learn.
And this is the way they make a living.
Unfortunately, always at the expense of the poor and the middle class and the innocent, where once you have an empire, you get a lot of allies until the empire ends.
And I think we live in tough times and people are trying to figure out what's happening financially and politically because I believe that the empire is threatened.
And it doesn't mean that I think our empire is going to end tomorrow or the next week, but it's already being weakened when you look at our foreign policy, our obligations, our financial obligations, and the dissent among the American people how people are starting to talk about civil war and things like this.
So these are very important items.
But right now, there was a meeting with Netanyahu and Trump, and they keep talking about the same thing, even though in between the lines, they say, but they don't totally agree with this, but enough to maintain the empire, at least superficially.
But it's out there.
And the major things that happen before the empire ends is that there is a financial collapse and they can't pay the bills anymore.
And the people can't pay the bills very well anymore.
So that'll depend on the trust in the dollar.
The dollar doesn't deserve a lot of trust, but there are conditions have to be to the point where the people lose confidence in the strength and the benefits coming from an empire.
Right now, there's a lot of questions to be answered.
And I think this is just another example of why are we doing this?
Can we afford it?
Even from their point of view of empire, why did they keep doing it?
Because they're participating in ending the gravy train that they've been on for a long time.
Well, you know, Dr. Paul, this is Netanyahu's fifth trip to Washington in just Trump's little under his first year.
That's as many times as Netanyahu went to Washington the entirety of the Biden presidency.
Biden, a self-professed rabid Zionist.
He only welcomed him five times.
He's been here five times just this year.
And it's a big deal because we know that the Trump's base, the right-wing base, the conservative base, is deeply divided.
You have the Tucker Carlson class over here who really are America first.
They don't want foreign wars.
They don't want us backstopping anyone.
And then you have a lot of the neocons, Lindsey Graham, unfortunately, Trump's new buddies, Lindsey Graham, and those types who want all the old wars that we had with the previous presidents.
So there's a deep divide in the base.
And here comes Netanyahu again.
And this is a big deal.
The big deal about this trip, here we go.
Here's the article from the Wall Street Journal.
Now, the important thing about this trip, Dr. Paul, is that Netanyahu is basically trying to move the goalposts.
Originally, it was we can't not let Iran have nuclear weapons.
Now, the U.S. signed on to it.
Personally, a lot of us think it's none of our business what they decide to have, especially since Israel itself has nuclear weapons.
Nevertheless, the problem is that Netanyahu needed to move the goalposts so that Trump would say, no, not only can they not have nuclear weapons, they can't even have ballistic missiles.
They cannot rebuild the missiles that they had that they used to defend themselves after Israel launched a sneak attack in June.
And this is sort of Israel's policy in the region.
Nobody else can be armed except for Israel, so that when Israel wants to bomb you, you can't fire back.
And so Netanyahu comes to Trump yesterday and tells him, look, we've got to change things around.
You have to say that you're going to go to war with us against Iran, even if they just start building their defensive missiles up.
And Trump says, oh, okay, I guess so.
You know, that sounds fine.
And ultimately, it makes Trump, I think, my opinion, I think the opinion of a lot of Americans, it looks weak and foolish.
And it makes it more obvious that, you know, Trump doesn't seem like he's doing the bidding of the U.S.
It looks like he's doing the bidding of a foreign country.
So I think it weakens Trump among his base with no question.
Yes.
And, you know, the ability for Israel to do our bidding and this partnership we have, it's really all the people's money, the American system.
There's no real finance.
What would the Middle East be like if America didn't get involved in the Middle East?
And, you know, the people who disagree with us, boy, they could describe, oh, you know, what would happen?
You know, there'd be so much carnage.
But we do have some examples in history where there was less intervention, especially since it might have been prior to our empire being built.
And it's not like it's impossible for the people in the Middle East to have had different conditions that might even surprise some people that maybe it's the outsiders, you know, that are contributing to this.
And, you know, we had the outsiders of the Europeans.
The Europeans, who knows where they are on this deal now, but they haven't gone back to sort of any non-interventionist policy.
But they were at one time, you know, the big cheese in this.
And we've been there, but they depend on us for the money and technology.
But there'd be no, I just don't believe that, you know, the empire, the Persian Empire would return overnight.
And that was, that one was dismissed because of the, you know, the inability to maintain it.
So this is this is, I think, is at a very, very important point of which way are we going to go.
And I don't think there will be, unfortunately, I don't think that even though there's a lot more people talking and being interested in the policy of non-interventionism, but they're not in Washington.
They don't influence Washington.
Hopefully there'll be more influence.
And we see signs that that might be happening, but they cannot, they cannot continue to do this because eventually, eventually something else has to happen.
And now this is the last resort.
Well, what we have to do, it's like creating the problem.
I mean, they don't have, you know, if you compare it to Venezuela, you know, create the monstrosity that's going to destroy us.
Tomorrow, you and I went through this conversation back during the Middle East war, you know, under Bush, all the kind of things that they'd make up.
So it's the lack of truth that is really impeding this and the control of the scenario is the people who have the money and they know how to manipulate the public opinion.
Manipulating Public Opinion00:08:55
Well, you asked an important question, which is what would the Middle East be like if we weren't there and involved?
And I think the answer is that Israel would have to learn to get along with its neighbors because it couldn't depend on the U.S. coming in every time they got the itch to go bomb someone and give them the bombs and give them the intelligence and give them the money.
They would have to learn how to live with their neighbors.
Now, as a lot of his right-wing Israeli propaganda about Iran is that everyone is suppressed and repressed and nobody can go out without head coverings and everything.
It's not true.
And how do we know it's not true?
Well, we know from our own conference last in August with Max Blumenthal and his wife Anya Perempil, who went to Iran.
They toured Iran.
They visited the synagogues there.
They visited Christian churches there.
Israel would have you believe that there are no Jews in Iran.
Well, they have the second largest Jewish population in the Middle East after Israel.
They would have you believe that there are no Christians in Iran.
That's absolutely not true.
And we know because Max was there on the ground, it took pictures, talked to our audience at our conference about it.
So we know it's just war propaganda that's coming out.
And unfortunately, it's always magnified by the media here.
But let's dive a little bit into the Wall Street Journal article.
Here's, if you go to that next clip, President Trump said he would support an Israeli attack to halt Iran from restocking its missile arsenal.
Now, remember, again, I want to emphasize this, Dr. Paul.
The missile arsenal was used in its own defense after Israel launched a sneak attack.
Israel started the war.
Iran responded.
And now the U.S. says, well, they will go to war with Iran to prevent them from having the ability to respond again to an attack.
So it's a defensive move.
Trump made the comments Monday afternoon at the start of the meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu.
If they continue with the missiles, yes, he said, he will attack.
Now, go to that next one.
On Iran, Israeli officials and independent analysts say the country is reconstituting its ballistic missile program after Israel blew up its factories and launchers during a 12-day war.
What they don't say again is that it was a sneak attack by Israel that blew up the factories and launchers.
Israel wants to destroy Tehran's rebuilding efforts before the country can improve its air defenses, defenses being a key word that were battered by Israel in the previous war.
So Israel doesn't want to allow anyone to have any defensive systems so they can bomb at will.
And unfortunately, the U.S. says, okay, that sounds fair.
We will backstop you with money that we don't have, with weapons that we can't build, with an American public who's increasingly wary about our intervention, our constant intervention in the Middle East on behalf of Israel.
You know, I want to remind our viewers, where are we getting this material?
Where did you read that from?
Is some radical right-wing crazy people that they say they're anti-Semitic Semites?
This is part of the agenda, but this is from people now that this might be a sign that the discussion is changing.
And we certainly have seen that, but we have a long way to go to sort it all out.
That's the big problem and the big challenge.
In the middle of the thing that I always talk about is that these changes don't occur by themselves.
There's always economic ramifications, and we're beginning to see those.
And they, of course, are being altered radically, you know, with the new administration, because all of a sudden it's a very neat thing to be for terrorists and control of trade, something the founders sort of frowned upon.
So there's a lot of things going on there now, but I don't think anything can be expected to be positive unless there's an understanding or at least a token agreement of how we have gotten here.
That's to me is the big issue.
Yeah.
Well, let's tune into a couple of videos of Trump and Netanyahu yesterday.
Here's a couple of the main points that were repeated a lot on X. If you want to put in your earpiece and let's listen in.
Let's just play those two one after the other if we can.
Here, here's the first one.
Here we go.
If they will continue with the missiles, yes, the nuclear, fast.
Okay?
One will be yes, absolutely.
The other was we'll do it immediately.
Can I go to that next one?
put that next one on.
Now I hear that Iran is trying to build up again.
And if they are, we're going to have to knock them down.
We'll knock them down.
We'll knock the hell out of them.
But hopefully that's not happening.
I heard Iran wants to make a deal.
If they want to make a deal, that's much smarter.
You know, they could have made a deal the last time before we went through, you know, a big attack.
So anyway, yeah, if they try to reconstitute, we're going to knock the blank out of them.
And you can see Netanyahu over there sneering.
He loves it.
He loves the fact that someone else is going to fight the wars that he started over there.
And it's kind of sad to see a servile President Trump there, you know, just doing the bidding of apparently what his master says.
But the reason now that Israel is panicking, they want to go to war, again, against Iran.
If you go to that next one, this is the Times of Israel.
It's a right-wing newspaper.
I think this is maybe this isn't known by Adelson, but this is from earlier this month.
Israel now realizes that the damage it inflicted on Iran's ballistic missile program was less severe than initially thought.
You know, they sort of believe their own rhetoric, Dr. Paul, that Iran is a paper tiger.
And it turns out when you launch an attack against someone else, you never know what's going to happen.
And sometimes they can fight back pretty well.
And that is what happened to Israel after they attacked Iran.
They realized that Iran's got some pretty good missiles and they've only fired some of their older ones.
So now they're in a panic.
They don't know what to do.
And so they want us to go to war for them.
Sometimes I wonder, it's amazing how long this has been going on.
And, you know, we have trouble trying to convince people to think about 2014 as a significant event in some of the problems that we face today.
And that's not so long ago.
But what about 1953?
Yeah.
You know, and here, you know, for a long time, I just never gave that any thought.
But the boy I got involved with, I said, you know, Eisenhower doing this.
And he actually, he was against the war.
He wasn't for moving the troops and all, but he was for the manipulation and using the silence the security thing to overthrow government.
So he participated in that.
And it's been a mess ever since.
And that's such a great point because these things have unintended consequences.
And just like they wanted, well, they did it in Libya.
They did it in Syria.
Well, the unintended consequences, and now we have Al-Qaeda running Syria, you know, in Libya, no one's running.
Everyone's just killing each other.
And it'll be the same thing in Venezuela, which we're going to talk about next.
There's always these unintended consequences.
And sometimes they take decades to develop.
And that's absolutely key.
We destroyed Iran in 53.
Nothing good has ever come out of it since then.
You know, we started it.
Well, the other thing that I just wanted to point out is that Netanyahu is no dummy.
He knows Trump's weaknesses, right?
He knows how to butter him up.
Put this next one up.
This is a post on X that Netanyahu put up yesterday.
You can tell, you know that Trump just loves this.
He said, Israel has never had a friend in the White House like President Trump.
His leadership, clarity, and unwavering support for Israel are exceptional.
True friendship is proven in moments of challenge.
And President Trump has stood with Israel every step of the way.
And while they were meeting, Netanyahu announced that Trump was going to be winning the Israel Prize.
So he knows how to do this to Trump.
It makes Trump look sort of craven in a way, but he's just buttering him up, buttering him up, and Trump's just lapping it up.
But meanwhile, I think his base is looking at him saying, this is not dignified to be sitting here, you know, scraping and bowing to this guy to give you a prize.
CIA Knockout: Facility or Fiction?00:03:57
You know, it's just, it's undignified.
Yeah.
So.
Well, there are economic laws and other type of moral laws that exist that won't be canceled out so easily.
Absolutely.
Well, the other thing, we don't have really any good news today, I guess, but the other one, this has been whispered around for days, and people are scratching their heads.
But it looks like the CIA carried out its first known land strike on Venezuela.
So this is another war, Dr. Paul.
We were told no new wars.
I'm going to end the old ones.
This is definitely a new war.
And this is from Hedge, but it's all around the CIA is reported to have carried out a bombing operation within Venezuelan territory.
CNN and the New York Times report in a follow-up to President Trump's touting that the U.S. had knocked out a big facility.
This is the weird part, Dr. Paul, because President Trump was on a relatively obscure radio interview, and he started talking about how we knocked out a big facility in Venezuela.
And everyone was thinking, did he misspeak?
Did he speak too early?
Did he let loose with something he's not supposed to say?
Well, it turns out that it looks like that might have happened.
And he may have just said it that he wasn't supposed to say.
But whatever the case, the CIA is now apparently running drones and shooting drones into the country of Venezuela itself.
Yeah, but in that paragraph that you mentioned there, to me, it's just so amazing what they try to get away with and citing unnamed resource sources, reports that the CIA reports, that who's where CIA conducted a drone strike on a remote dock along Venezuela's coastline after the U.S. suspected the site was being used to store and transport illegal drugs.
Well, maybe they had a law against alcohol for all we know, which were supposedly bound for America.
Supposedly bound for America, and we risk going to war over this.
Yeah, absolutely.
Makes no sense.
It makes no sense.
The one thing, though, what's interesting about this, and again, everything's up in the air.
We don't know exactly what happened, but apparently no one was killed, and the facility itself was empty at the time.
And as I got to thinking about that, it did remind me of what President Trump did in his first administration when we had this fake news that there was a chemical attack by Assad in Syria, and Trump felt an enormous amount of pressure to respond with some missiles.
And what he did is he hit an empty factory, an empty building, and said, okay, we took him out.
We destroyed him.
We did all sorts of things.
It almost seems to me, maybe I'm just fantasizing.
It almost seems like the type of thing Trump would do.
And if that's the case, what he should do now is say, okay, we were in there.
We blew up that facility.
No more drugs anywhere.
Now it's time to get the heck out.
They learned their lesson from us.
And that would be a way to disengage because he's had a hard time disengaging.
So this is really a time, I think, where you have to choose.
Is he going to really go in and start bombing them regularly?
We're going to have a Cambodia type of bombing campaign in Venezuela, or is he going to use this as a reason to say, okay, that's it.
We knocked him out.
We're out of here.
Let's hope he takes choice B.
Yeah, but not only are they drug dealers, they're probably terrorists.
Yeah, drug terrorists.
Terrorists.
Watch out.
And the Venezuelan officials themselves have remained silent about it, which it makes you wonder why.
They don't want to panic, maybe.
Maybe the whole thing is a psyop and the CIA didn't do anything.
Maybe they just flung, who knows, a rock over there because they want to spook the, you know, the regime in Venezuela.
They want to scare Maduro into leaving.
So maybe, so there's a lot of weird things going on here.
Realizing Reach Limits00:05:45
I just get a sense of it.
But it does at least at this point appear like an escalation against Venezuela.
Yes.
And each time that we see these things, we mention it.
And there's, you know, it's sort of a back and forth method, you know, a couple steps forward, one backwards.
But I think long term, if you look at, I already mentioned an example, 1953 was an important year for what we're talking about today, and it's been accepted.
So it's discouraging to find how difficult it is to get attitudes changed.
But I still think it's easier.
Daniel, we have complaints, you know, and we don't get high praise from the conventional media.
But I tell you what, we reach a lot more people now.
When I was asking you and other staff, well, I want to know how many we saw.
You said, well, you can't go by that.
You know, sometimes things spread out.
And it's one of those things you don't know exactly, you know, how many people have seen it.
But we do actually believe that we're seeing it and reaching a lot of people.
So that means this internet, if used, you know, properly and not used to destroy people's minds and an educational system.
But, you know, we have the homeschooling program and the internet is used for that.
So it seems like you can find good and bad in most everything.
Yeah, and you're right.
I mean, we do reach a lot of people, but we also realize it's difficult for people right now.
After these nasty four years of Biden and that nightmare that we had to live through, people want to have a savior.
They want to have a white knight and a white horse coming in and everything is perfect.
Well, it would be easy for us to just, you know, sing the praises of everything no matter what it is, but then we wouldn't be doing our jobs.
And people are disappointed when we have to criticize some of the things that we think go against the principles that we hold value.
And it does hurt us.
I mean, our numbers would be a lot higher if we were just singing the praises, regardless of what.
So it always is always going to be a challenge for us, unfortunately.
But that brings me to my final point, which is if you put that very last clip on, we are in our last full day of our RPI challenge.
If you put that on now, we've gotten some progress since last time I showed you guys this chart.
We're at 64,000 out of 100,000 raised.
That is our matching funds.
We have to raise that 100 so that our donor will unlock his matching funds.
So every dollar you give to RPI between now and midnight on the 31st will be doubled.
Every $50 check will be $100 in our bank account.
And we need it.
Trust me.
It's going to be a rough year next year.
We've got elections coming.
We're going to have a lot of garbage coming out of DC from all sides.
We got war.
We got silver at about $80,000 an ounce.
We got all kinds of stuff going on.
We want to be able to continue talking about it and to bring you the unvarnished truth no matter who is in office.
So there is a link in the description.
If you can please help us get to this get to this goal by tomorrow night at midnight.
We certainly appreciate it and we appreciate you watching the program.
Over to you, Dr. Very good.
And once again, I want to express my appreciation for all our viewers for tuning in and encourage them to continue to spread the message.
One-on-one is a very, very, you know, thorough way of spreading a message.
Of course, we like to see numbers.
We like to see big converts and all these things.
But still, it's a personal thing.
And I think that that is what we promote: getting the ideas out and trying to explain things as they are and should be.
But the challenge are there.
Everybody think is so tempted to see a free ride.
That's how this system is.
Oh, well, if you have an authoritarian government, you could just get the oil.
You don't have to pay for it.
Oh, you mean to run up a little debt doesn't matter?
Yeah.
And look, you could live for a long time.
We're a wealthy country.
We've been living high on a hog for a long time.
But eventually, reality sets in.
People are starting to realize it.
And I think it's a very important period that we're living in today.
And it's more vulnerable than ever.
So tomorrow, the next day, a major event could occur that could be very, very significant.
But then again, since we don't know exactly what human action is all about and how people will respond, we could still go on for several years just deteriorating and getting poorer and more aggression being expressed.
That is why we need to fight these things intellectually because people have to understand it.
And that's why I enjoyed campaigning the most with young people because I really believed their minds were open and they were excited about that there are answers to these problems as long as it's not too complicated.
And believe me, freedom and liberty is not complicated.
Just stay out of our lives and recognize that we as individuals can deal with our lives and be responsible for all our action.
I think that's what America's all about.
I want to thank everybody for tuning in today to the Liberty Report.