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Feb. 2, 2026 - Ron Paul Liberty Report
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White House Ignores Congress -Hands More Weapons To Israelis & Saudis

The Trump Administration announced new weapons sales to Israel and Saudi Arabia as tensions in the Middle East threaten to spill over, Congress was not consulted on the sale. Also today, a new record for US bombing of Somalia.

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Bombing, Money, Weapons Attack 00:14:56
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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.
And we'll go back to some of the subjects we visited before.
You know, it's an old-fashioned question.
It used to be thrown around and laughed at.
But I want to talk a little bit about if one country bombs another country, is that considered an act of war?
You've had experience and you've worked even in the government and you even worked in a congressional office.
So you probably have a pretty good feel for that.
So this is what's happening.
But the reason why this is so important and difficult is because there's evidence that our own government bombs other countries, and they have a hard time explaining exactly why and why it's beneficial to the American people.
Yeah, absolutely, Dr. Paul.
We send weapons around the world.
We give weapons around the world and we bomb countries around the world.
And then we insist that we're not at war.
For sure.
Well, there's an article out today in Zero Hedge, our favorite friends, and it says U.S. approves new massive arms sales for Israel.
Saudis bypasses Congressional Review.
Oh, they're not following the rules.
But guess what?
There's also evidence that we continue this bombing that continues to go on.
And it's always an excuse.
It's for our national defense and security.
But it's hard to prove that.
But, you know, right now there's a lot of bombing against Somalia and other countries.
And I think we use a little bit of weaponry in Venezuela.
And I guess we could name a lot of countries.
But it's argued that people are causing a war against America.
But I think our bombing and our episode, that's what's a war against America.
The American citizen has to pay for this.
I think all this needless, excessive bombing and interfering overseas is a war not only against America, it's a war against our Constitution on the way we go to it.
It's a war against Congress.
They're never notified on who did what.
It's a war against common sense.
It's a war against basic morality.
And it's a war against peace.
And yet it's always justified in doing these things opposite.
And I think that's where a problem is.
People have truth and fiction all mixed up and right and wrong.
How they can take a country that's out bombing a lot of the country.
Oh, but we're doing it for good reasons.
But that's, I assume, is part of our foreign policy that we've been living with.
And different presidents do some things.
But for instance, sometimes, maybe a lot of times, both parties do the same thing, but they might advertise it differently.
Sometimes people bomb another country and they don't tell anybody and they try to keep it secret and the sort of information leaks out.
Other times, people say, well, we just did this.
We just bombed this country and they're bowing down and they're listening to us and we put on tariffs and they will obey and everything looks hockey dory.
That is something that concerns me.
Absolutely.
Well, let's look at the article we're talking about.
And what it is, it's a problem the U.S. creates itself and then it decides to solve.
Here's what we're talking about.
Pardon me, this is on the hedge today.
Via The Cradle, which is a great publication, by the way.
I encourage people to read it.
On Friday, the U.S. government authorized significant arms sales to Israel in Saudi Arabia, amounting to approximately $15.7 billion.
Well, at least in the case of Israel, we know that money comes from the American taxpayer.
We give them money and then they buy weapons and they enrich the military industrial complex.
So the Israelis are getting four arms packages totaling $6.67 billion, including a $3.8 billion deal for 30 Apache attack helicopters and a $2 billion sale of joint-like tactical vehicles.
Of course, we know what those helicopters are going to be doing.
They're going to be slaughtering people in Gaza, no doubt about it.
But the issue, Dr. Paul, is that the Congress, generally in a sale like this, will have some oversight, will demand it, will receive some oversight.
With this administration, there is no oversight.
Just we decided that we're going to give it and we're going to give them the sale.
Well, we asked, well, why are they so desperately in need of these new weapons?
Well, Israel is bombing the Gazans, of course, but it's also facing some real problems because of our own policy toward Iran.
The U.S. is threatening to attack Iran, which, of course, in turn will attack Israel because they rightly judge this as basically a war that Israel wants.
So we create the problem by threatening Iran in the region, and then we solve the problem by selling weapons to everyone else in the region and further enriching the people who make donations to political campaigns, i.e. the military-industrial media complex.
And, you know, there's a lot of people who make a lot of money, and that might be one of the major reasons we have this foreign policy.
And they pass these things, but it's pretty amazing how many people from so many different states and different parties support this type of thing.
We've seen it before.
It's been around for a long time.
It's a military-industrial complex.
Eisenhower referenced it.
So on and on.
I think we are always hopeful when we do point out where some people, and mainly coming from the people rather than the Congress.
If you're in the Congress and you stand up against this, you know, politically speaking, oh boy, you're in big trouble.
Why would you bring this up?
And this is something that goes on and on.
But I think the profiteering of the arms manufacturers are probably one of the biggest things.
Buy all these weapons.
Sometimes they just, I don't even know why they're bombing.
Then they brag, well, we were careful.
We wanted to want to kill anybody.
You know, it's just total nonsense.
And there has to be an ulterior motive.
And the best I can tell myself, it looks like it's a monetary motivation that really starts this off.
And of course, the other thing that I think makes it easy to do it is the monetary system because we don't have to get the money from the people, but we ruin the people by just printing the money.
And of course, that's another subject.
But those two things keep this going.
You know, they're close.
The budgets are never passed.
And here it is, they're in another mess.
We're up to approaching $40 trillion deficit.
And we can do the same thing over and over again.
And they express a concern, but just so much.
But they don't, where the fear is, they create the fear of we're going to be attacked.
If you don't do this, you know, they're going to come and destroy our country.
And you know how often they've done that, the threats.
The threats, of course.
Well, go to that next clip, and here's how they justify it.
Again, this is what we're saying.
The White House officials justified the approvals without Congress by citing Washington's commitment to, quote, upholding Israel's security, even as war monitors have alleged Israeli forces have committed war crimes in Gaza.
I mean, I think most Americans can insert literally any other country.
We're not picking on Israel.
Anyone looking at that sentence with any country in the middle of that would say, why do we have a commitment to upholding anyone else's security?
How about our own security?
That might not be a bad idea.
And on the other side, in parallel, the State Department also approved $9 billion to Saudi Arabia, covering 730 Patriot interceptor missiles.
I wonder why Saudi Arabia needs so many Patriot missiles.
Could it be because the U.S. is threatening to attack Iran?
And Iran has said, while we don't want to have a war against our neighbors, if they allow their territory to be used to attack us, we will consider it to be justifiable targets, i.e., we're going to take out the U.S. air bases in places like Saudi Arabia if you allow the U.S. to attack our country from your territory, which anybody else would do.
It's sort of a no-brainer in that case.
But they still go ahead and 700 patriots.
Where are they going to get those from?
They're not built.
It'll take probably years to build these.
And Patriots are in massive demand anyway.
So it really sort of is a deal on paper, in fact, more than in reality.
And if you go to the next one, now Trump publicly referred to the deployment of the U.S. Abraham Lincoln carrier and its accompanying warships.
If we could put that next one up, there we go.
Beautiful armada.
But the Iranian officials warned any U.S. base used to attack the country would be considered a target.
Of course, it would, as we would as well.
So there you have it, Dr. Paul.
Big arms sales because we went and we stirred it all up.
We stir up all the trouble and then we go and we send our military industrial complex in to reap the bucks off of it.
You know, to us, it doesn't seem that complicated, but about who really is the aggressor, who really starts this.
And that to me is pretty darn important.
And if it is true that we are an initiator of some of these problems, who should stand in their way?
It should be the American people.
And it's pretty difficult.
I mean, the propaganda machine is pretty darn powerful, and they can scare the people and say this is to save the world.
They bring about world peace.
And this is peace and prosperity.
And it goes on and on.
So ultimately, for anything to change, the people has to change their minds.
And unfortunately, when they do change their mind, it's after a long period of time.
You know, whether it was the Middle Eastern war on Iraq and Afghanistan, we did our best to let the people know this is going to lead to trouble.
But how many years does it go on?
You know, if you add up all the years in Iraq and then Afghanistan and now Venezuela and then Ukraine, I mean, they don't even pause.
Here they are.
They're hardly, they don't finish anything.
But here they come up now with another big appropriation.
And the one thing I think the article implies is it's different this time.
They didn't even get even the token review.
Yeah.
Token, not so much having a vote or letting the people know what's going on.
It was just they did it and they ignored any oversight before they did it again because the restraints are very, very minimal.
So the system that the founders provided for us, unfortunately, has been a failure.
Yeah, exactly.
It is a failure on so many levels, not just the fault of the president, but the fault of Congress.
You know, they just don't care.
Well, here's another example.
If you go to the next one, because this is on the same theme, which is a record.
And this is from Dave DeCamp, who's back over there at anti-war.
Glad to see you again after a little break, I think.
U.S. bombed Somalia 25 times in January.
People are saying, remember Trump saying, oh, Somalia is a junk country.
These are junk people.
They're terrible people, et cetera.
We don't want them over here.
Well, why are they coming over here?
It might be related to the fact that we keep bombing their country.
The U.S. forces launched at least 25 airstrikes in Somalia in January.
Almost one every day, Dr. Paul.
Imagine living in a country where the U.S. bombs you every single day.
You know, it's just, it's unbelievable.
If you go to the next one, 25 airstrikes in a single month in Somalia is an unprecedented rate of U.S. attacks.
If the pace continues throughout the year, it'll result in 300 U.S. airstrikes in Somalia in 2026.
Now, you asked me before the show, make sure you get a graph.
Well, here's a graph.
We may have shown it before, but it's worth bearing.
It bears looking at again.
These are strikes, airstrikes on Somalia by year and by administration.
And so you start with Bush, and then you went to Obama.
He ramped it up.
And that's where we got a lot of the refugees in the 90s with President Obama.
And then you got the first Trump administration.
Wow, he ramped it up.
Then you had Biden, who was a little bit more than Obama.
And then you have Trump 2.0 that first year.
That is massive.
Twice as many, it looks to me, twice as many as the biggest previous year.
So absolutely ratcheting up the bombing on Somalia because we've got to defeat ISIS.
That's literally the rationale.
We've got to defeat ISIS.
Meanwhile, the president welcomes the former head of ISIS into the White House and says, yeah, you've got a tough pass, but you're a good guy.
And, you know, you know, this is not just one party.
You know, the bombing, maybe it wasn't quite as much as the Democrat, but the principle was there.
They did it.
And yet, this is something that we continue to do.
Politicizing Epstein Files 00:04:50
And it's something that's, you don't see that chart on evening television.
Even, well, maybe, especially the conservatives nation, they're more likely to put it up.
Now there's a couple liberals.
Of course, there are a few journalists on our side of this thing, but they don't get evening news and they don't get on.
Boy, I'll tell you one.
There was a South Carolina senator on.
And I flip channels a lot.
I'll tell you what, I couldn't flip them fast enough to turn them off.
I mean, they really gave, you know, a big pep on him.
He was a big man in charge.
Every weekend he does that.
I don't think he's on our side.
No, no, every weekend he's on all the shows.
Why?
You know, and in fact, you remind me, I've got a video I wanted to show.
Here he is on the weekend.
And he, listen, this is almost nauseating.
Need to have a bucket right here that we might want to vomit in.
But if you grab your earpiece, let's listen to Lindsey Graham begging President Trump, please, please bomb Iran.
Please do it.
We can't not, and you know, look, you can see that this is a Hebrew.
The Israelis picked this up, of course.
They love it.
Let's listen to Lindsey Graham.
One thing you can't do as president, talk like Reagan and act like Obama.
There's no deal to be done here.
These people are not trustworthy.
The protesters in the street are not protesting for a better nuclear deal.
They're protesting for a better life.
President Trump, you said help is on the way.
That has to be real.
It has to be real soon.
Do it, Mr. President.
The people of Iran are begging you to be on their side.
You have done it so good.
You are Reagan Plus.
This is the defining moment in your presidency.
Stand by the people.
There he is.
Let me make a comment about Reagan Plus because I remember so clearly what happened in Lebanon.
I remember when 243 Marines died and it was brought to Bush, Reagan's attention.
What did he do?
He left town.
He said, we don't belong here.
And he, you know, what was amazing to me when he wrote his memoirs, he mentioned that.
He mentioned it was the worst thing he did.
And so do you think you think that's what he's talking about?
That Reagan?
Or who's Graham talking about?
Yeah.
He himself.
Not that Reagan.
And everything he said was a lie, by the way.
You know, he said, oh, you're, don't be an Obama.
Like, Obama was a peacenick.
Obama didn't bomb everything he had he could get his eyes on.
Of course he did.
What is he talking about?
American citizens.
American citizens, too.
And he talks about the protesters are begging you to overthrow their government.
There are no protesters.
The protest is over.
The CIA and Mossad, who infiltrated the country, they're gone.
It's over.
So this whole idea that they're begging to have their country overthrown, I mean, it's funny, but it's also disgusting.
He's really a disgusting person, I have to say.
And I, like you, I wish I could go on X or whatever and not see his face anywhere.
But I got one last thing to throw up there, Dr. Paul.
And this may shock you.
I was, to be a little more serious, I was kind of disgusted over the weekend looking at some of this stuff from the Epstein stuff that came out.
I still don't know what to think about it.
We're not going to talk about it today.
Maybe not at all.
I've got some weird feelings about it.
But Dr. Paul, I was shocked when I saw you are in the Epstein files.
You are in the Epstein files.
You better clarify this pretty soon.
But as one of our good friends said, you are literally the only person in the Epstein files who actually comes out looking better because you're in it.
And here's the example.
If we put this one up, two instances of you appearing in the Epstein files.
And I admit I did not look this up.
I don't have the entire context, but it is funny enough to have up.
Any conceivable GOP candidate, with the exception of Ron Paul, will be far friendlier to Israel than the current administration.
This is when you are running for president.
And then the second one is the Republican presidential candidates, with the exception of the anti-war libertarian Ron Paul, have seized on Iran as a possible winning issue.
So you are in there, but not for any shenanigans for being anti-war.
The one thing that I couldn't avoid because it was everywhere was, you know, the investigation has been going on.
There's a little bit of politicking involved.
But what amazed me was how much was involved, not only in the sexual mess, but also the other stuff.
And all the people, what is going on?
Millions and millions of documents that they do.
Belief and Benefit 00:03:52
And they're able to sort it out.
Guess what?
The biggest issue is, is who gets blacked out?
Who gets saved?
So, boy, they didn't save me.
They put my name in there anyway.
What should I do?
Run for president again.
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Over to you, Darling.
Very good.
And I too want to thank our viewers for not only tuning in today, but to all that they have done for us, because without the viewers and supporters, we don't have a program.
And yet, we've been doing this for a long time.
And some days seem to be scarce where we get much attention.
Even when I was in Congress, sometimes I had to vote by myself.
And everybody thought that was terrible.
It was ridiculous.
What's he doing?
He's a clown.
But it turns out that long term, it's a benefit.
If you stick to what we believe in, I believe all of us will benefit from it.
And the message will be louder and clearer if people are willing to stand up for it.
If you have a message where you have to blend it in and work with the system, it doesn't have as much effect.
And that's the one tool that they use in Congress to laboriously push people into voting differently than they believe.
And they lecture, preach, and threaten.
They do all these kinds of things to give up what they believe in.
So that to me is a sad story because it doesn't do them any good.
It doesn't do the country any good.
And they are giving up telling the truth as they see it for just joining in a position that is going to blend in and try to convince the American people: oh, things are pretty good.
Don't worry about it.
We'll take care of you.
But I think it's all based on philosophic principles and morality.
And whether it's an economic crisis and bankruptcy or a morale problem, a moral crisis, it has to be done by the people waking up to what they believe government should be like.
And believe me, people ask me, well, what percentage of the government would you keep?
You don't like this government.
What would you do with it?
Well, you know, I don't want very much, but I'd be satisfied if we could get rid of 80%.
I believe we'd have such tremendous prosperity and we wouldn't have to go to war constantly to satisfy the military-industrial complex.
So that is the reason that we argue the case and work hard to promote the cause of liberty by pointing out that interventionism is the problem that you have to deal with.
We ought to mind our own business, whether it's at home dealing with our citizens or with foreign countries.
It's a much better way to do it.
Voluntarism is an answer to many of our problems that we have.
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