Voluntary Multipolar Globalization vs Tyrannical Unipolar Globalization
"Globalization" has been a buzzword for many years. But there are two types, and the distinction is extremely important. There's the globalization of America's Founding, as laid out by Thomas Jefferson: "Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none." And then there's the modern globalization laid out by Paul Wolfowitz after the Cold War, known as the "Wolfowitz Doctrine," which seeks a permanent American global hegemony to prevent the rise of any rival power that can block U.S. unilateral action. Jefferson had it right, and America prospered. The neocons have been wrong, and America has suffered.
"Globalization" has been a buzzword for many years. But there are two types, and the distinction is extremely important. There's the globalization of America's Founding, as laid out by Thomas Jefferson: "Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none." And then there's the modern globalization laid out by Paul Wolfowitz after the Cold War, known as the "Wolfowitz Doctrine," which seeks a permanent American global hegemony to prevent the rise of any rival power that can block U.S. unilateral action. Jefferson had it right, and America prospered. The neocons have been wrong, and America has suffered.
"Globalization" has been a buzzword for many years. But there are two types, and the distinction is extremely important. There's the globalization of America's Founding, as laid out by Thomas Jefferson: "Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations entangling alliances with none." And then there's the modern globalization laid out by Paul Wolfowitz after the Cold War, known as the "Wolfowitz Doctrine," which seeks a permanent American global hegemony to prevent the rise of any rival power that can block U.S. unilateral action. Jefferson had it right, and America prospered. The neocons have been wrong, and America has suffered.
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Great to be with you, Dr. Paul.
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There's interesting things in the news.
The financial markets are alive and well, sometimes, some days up, some days down.
But my comments as far as what to expect, just look at the deficits.
Look at the spending.
If the deficits are going up, as they always do, the Fed reacts and they have to put more money.
And that is all coming to an end.
And we want to talk today and a little bit about globalization.
And we have a leader in our country that wants to be the leader of all globalization.
And that is also worked into the principle of runaway inflation of the monetary system and the value of our dollar.
But before we go any further on that, I do want to mention the metals, the precious metals, because I've been watching them for a few years, like years even before the gold was devalued and the gold window was closed.
We totally separated our dollar from gold.
And of course, we've lost 98% of the value of the dollar since the Federal Reserve has been in there tinkering around.
But this is something I have watched for a long time.
Gold was $30 when the Fed took over.
And during the Depression, of course, we weren't even allowed to own gold.
And it was $30, theoretically, $35 an ounce.
And, you know, and then it took 42 years of us not even being allowed to own the gold standard.
I thought it was a very positive move for identifying gold as money by allowing Americans to buy gold once again.
And now, you know, it used to be that, you know, $5 or $10 movement in gold was big stuff.
But now it's up at $5,000.
And even though I anticipated this, thought that could happen and will happen, and it's a serious problem, still when it happened, it still is shocking to me.
It's just unbelievable.
The same way with silver.
Silver for so long had been predicting it's going to go up.
It's going to go up.
And it never went up like they claim except recently.
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You know, and another, I want to make another point because our subject, our subject today is globalization.
And the term is thrown around, and it sounds good.
Globalism, the world's getting smaller.
You know, the electronic age is here.
We can go to the moon and all these kinds of things.
So the world is shrinking.
And globalism is important.
But we have decided that there are two ways to do it.
You can do it voluntarily or through thugs, the authoritarian.
And there's a big fight going on because we're not exactly our leaders in this country, our country today are not exactly on the path that is challenging the authoritarian approach because certainly what the Soviets did was authoritarianism and they wanted globalism too.
But the market helped us out there because it failed.
And now we have been in charge.
The United States has been involved, the reserve currency of the world.
So our conditions have been in many ways blessed accidentally because we're in an area that's been saved from the devastating results of World War.
And also, we've been rich with minerals.
And that has preserved and allowed us to get away with continuing to inflate the currency.
So I think that is important to understand.
But right now, Chris and I want to talk a little bit about just what is this globalization?
And it sounds good to me, but once again, I think you have to look at it carefully.
It's who's running the show that makes the difference.
Chris.
Dr. Paul, and America, you know, under our founders, they had a global view, and it was the right one.
It was peace, commerce, trade with all nations, goodwill with all nations, and a tangling alliances with none.
And multiple founders tried to drill this in, and America prospered.
You know, that was the good globalization.
Then you mentioned the Soviet Union.
They were a world government.
It was headquartered in Russia, but it was not a Russian ideology.
It was imported into Russia.
And the goal was to abolish all nations, all borders, just create this one big hodgepodge of humanity that the Soviets would run.
And it collapsed, of course.
Unfortunately, the ideology did not collapse, and it came across the pond and was adopted here.
We are the new Soviets, you know, in a different wrapper.
We're not outwardly abolishing nations and borders, even though if you look at what happened to Europe and the United States, you know, there's a big hint of that.
But, you know, these nations and borders exist, but they're going to do what America says, you know, they're going to do.
We'll go kidnap Maduro and overthrow Iran or try and all these other nations.
You can have your politicians, but they answer to us.
Your resources belong to us.
And that is the Soviet style of globalization that was adopted, sadly, by America.
And it has destroyed us just like it destroyed the Soviet Union.
You know, there's this term we use, and I use it a lot, is corporatism, because big corporations, which have a tremendous advantage and access to easy credit and other ones who demand low interest rates.
And we notice that this is a big deal for the administration right now.
So there's a lot of corporatism involved.
And some people accuse and challenge them.
Well, they go overseas just for cheap labor.
I don't think it's that simple.
But it is true that if you get something made cheaper, maybe our labor can't compete with some of the world.
Maybe we're 50% higher than the market rate of labor because they get special privileges.
But anyway, that's more complex, but it is a reason why people go overseas to get cheap labor.
And that is not well understood because a lot of good comes from people going over.
Just think if you look at the big picture, it might discipline us.
We might work differently and harder and provide a better job than we've been doing.
But if you go overseas, certainly and have a business overseas, there can be a contribution to our customers as well.
But right now, you know, there's this whole desire to manage things, control things.
Our foreign policy demands globalization, and we're in charge.
And I think this authoritarian approach really annoys me because the authoritarians are numerous and they can band together.
Just like the people who are looking for handouts, the authoritarians who want to run the world, that's what they want.
They want a free ride and they do benefit from it.
So this idea that the rich benefit and the poor suffer, it's true.
But some of that is this so-called effort of globalization and all these good things.
But to say we shouldn't have trade doesn't make any sense.
Trade and the absence of tariff is beneficial to our system because there's more competition, prices are better, and a working person does better, is better off.
So that is one reason why we have to really look at the details of what people want to do because just saying globalism is great, working with people, but I just draw a sharp line.
It should be voluntarism.
It should be not run by one or two individuals saying what tariffs should be.
We shouldn't be threatening our friends and our neighbors and our enemies and say, you do it this way, you do it our way.
That is not the globalization that we're looking at.
And of course, that is what happened to the Soviet system, and it burned itself out.
So you could say, well, on the long run, that's what we're doing.
Yes, but on the short run, it's a battle.
And a lot of innocent people suffer when the market demands changes.
And that's what we're in the middle of.
And I think it's a misunderstanding and a program to deal with this principle of globalization, because in one sense, it's very good.
In the other sense, it's very dangerous.
Paul, and we have been run by neocons.
They're called neoconservatives.
And they were former Trotskyists.
And Trotsky was a Soviet, you know, one of the big Soviet leaders.
And We've been operating under this ideology of America being the only unipolar decision maker in the world.
And no one, no other nation is allowed to check us and say no.
You know, and that's why, you know, you hear about BRICS, you hear about nations that are like, you know what, this is a bad deal for everyone, even America.
So they're saying no.
And they're our enemies.
Wouldn't you believe it?
You know, and like the Soviets, we're overstretched.
We're collaborating our standard of living, us, the American people, we get nothing out of this.
We get the bills, period.
Our standard of living goes down, costs go up, and that's what's in it for us.
Now, Dr. Paul mentioned corporatism.
They're benefiting.
They're getting their billions.
They're becoming billionaires.
But us, the people, we suffer, period.
And we have senators who glopetrod all over the world.
They're not even, they're supposed to be representing their states.
Do they even know who their states are anymore?
All they care about is going and getting this foreign leader who doesn't want to obey the United States.
And President Trump, you know, we're getting the story that he's changing this, that we're pulling away from this.
And, you know, but his actions are the opposite.
Like I said, kidnapped Paduro.
War for over a year now, one after another.
We're just going all over the world.
And he's trying to take these areas close to us that Russia and China can't reach and loot them and try to absorb Canada.
This is not trying to get away from the unipolar.
They're trying to shore themselves up to maybe go take on Russia and China later once they loot South America and absorb Canada.
This is all the wrong direction.
We have to go back to our founding Thomas Jefferson, and that would be a good multipolar world.
Very good.
You know, the foreign policy is very instrumental with this concept of globalization.
It's the opposite of the voluntary approach of people having more freedom to trade, the minimalization of tariffs and regulations.
There's all those kind of things that can be done in a voluntary way.
But our military, you know, it does two things.
At first, it really builds up the weapons industry.
And a lot of people make a lot of money, the military-industrial complex.
At the same time, it's always protecting our interests.
And then we use not only the military to threaten people, you do it our way or we'll bomb you and behave yourself.
And we'll give you some more money.
We'll put more money and give you more money.
And they just go on and on.
But they believe that they continue to do this.
And the military there is to protect our interests.
And also, we're on all these countries spending all this money being involved in all these wars because we want to preserve peace.
We want to protect our national interest.
It's protect us.
This is all defensive money.
And most Americans know that isn't true.
If they look at the numbers of dollars we spend in the Middle East, in Ukraine, and now we have numerous other countries that we're involved in.
It just goes on and on.
But there's no way they're going to quit spending because it does bring on the payment and you have to pay for the sins of counterfeit money.
So this is the reason why this process is going to continue, but it will dissipate when it becomes overwhelming.
So the market handles that.
Morality handles it as it did with the Soviet system of communism.
And we're sort of entering into this.
I think Chris alluded to this, that we're in the middle of our contraction.
And yet, so far, the people are still satisfied, you know, with us just putting more money.
But when you see gold going up a couple hundred dollars in a day and all this nonsense, people are getting to the point where they're waking up.
And even though I may have anticipated this, actually, when I see some of these reports, my eyes open.
I said, I didn't really think it was coming, you know, but deep down, it was predictable because of the type of government we have.
But people argue the benefits of tariffs and controls.
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And, you know, our country, when it was started, they sort of wanted to have the states look like separate countries, but they also wanted to have unity in it.
But, you know, in the United States, you know, we pretend that tariffs and regulations will be helpful.
But can you imagine what it would be like if we were moving a little bit further away with independent states?
And then somebody say, well, what's the balance of payments between New York and Texas?
We have to regulate this.
We have to put a tariff.
Can you imagine running the United States, how we think we can run the world?
I mean, it'd be a joke.
It's the fact that we have freedom of movement.
And right now, if you don't like the school system, you can move out of the state.
We still have freedoms that were built into the Constitution that they could depend.
They could move around and states could change laws.
And some of this social nonsense that's going on, that's been effective.
So there are things to be happy about.
But the one characteristic of a globalist system, when it fails, they also attack our civil liberties.
And I more and more talk about that is a violation of the First Amendment because you're not supposed to talk about the honesty of this.
Just think of the good people in Congress that have followed the Constitution more than the rest are getting a really rough time.
And they're considered the enemy of the people, the enemy of our country.
So finding the truth is very important.
And I think that's part of the chaos that we have now.
And some of the stuff that we read today is, to me, unbelievable of the example of the moral bankruptcy of this country.
So those things have to be dealt with because I think it's not just changing tariffs and everything's going to be all right.
The people's minds have to be changed.
But I do see progress there because every time there's more trouble, more people say, enough is enough.
You know, we don't need to keep bombing Ukraine.
Quit it.
So there are signs of that.
That's why, you know, in spite of all the problems we have with the internet and other sources of information, the ability for us to still talk about this and go out and lecture, it's worthwhile.
But we still have to compete with a system where not only is the military might on one side, interventionism is, and a false sense of globalism is available to the people.
We still have a great challenge.
And I think just recognizing the problem and understanding the answer, we have come a long way.
And I think we're at that point.
Excellent, Dr. Paul.
I'll finish up with my closing thoughts.
Yeah, the bad globalization that we have today with our nation, it ultimately comes down to a mental problem.
One of the worst things you can do as an individual is to think that you are a superior human to another person.
Now, you can have superior talents, Attributes, but when you make yourself into a superior being over another person or any other person, now you have problems.
And when a nation succumbs to this, now you have big problems.
And that has happened to America over many years, where many people think that America is exceptional.
And there are exceptional attributes, but that's, you know, that's not the way when you're saying go bomb those innocent people as if they're trash, that's where your problem is, because now you're viewing other people out there as subhuman, not as people that are like you.
And that has happened to our nation, sadly.
And we've had many wars to confirm this, many wars that people have supported that thought was right because they're bad guys over there, you know, and we are supposed to export our freedom, they call it.
You know, we'll bring you our McDonald's, we'll bring you our wokeness and all of our depravity, and we're going to call it freedom, whether you people want it or not.
It's what's good for you because we say it's good for you and we're better than you.
So this is what happens.
A lot of Americans, I had a little bit of this, you know, as I, when I was an early Republican.
Yeah, let's go get those bad guys.
I was wrong.
You know, so this is not, I'm not above being succumbing to this, but this is what happens to a nation.
And, you know, we're turning into a total disaster because of it.
So it's a pipe dream.
We have to let nations, just like other individuals, be who they are.
They have their own unique cultures, their unique traditions, their languages.
We don't have to shove McDonald's down their throat because we have political power to do it or anything else.
So that would be the good globalization.
If they want it, if it works, great.
Let's bring them McDonald's.
But that's, you know, we do it for the bottom line.
They got to get that stock price up.
So do what you have to do to get our corporations in there.
That's wrong.
You know, and it's shown and the world has had enough of it.
And I think a lot of Americans have had enough of it too.
I frequently talk about the need for a moral reform if you want to have good government.
And the founders talked about that as well.
Because without a moral society, the society that emphasizes liberty doesn't work so well.
And I think that's what we've drifted into.
And the principle of natural law was something that the founders understood.
And that to me means that there's a natural instinct of all human beings going back from the beginning of history and recorded history that there was an understanding about good and evil, that you weren't supposed to lie, cheat, steal, and convey and create violence.
And that is pretty well understood.
It's not followed all that well, but at least it's still on the table.
It said, no, you're not supposed to steal from your neighbor or whatever.
People say, oh, no, I see the more you can steal from your neighbor, the better.
They may be doing it, but they don't.
It is not so bad where the people argue, argue this case.
But I think there's a natural tendency to understand what natural law is all about.
But our problem really is that individuals basically believe this.
And most individuals, I believe, don't lie, cheat, steal, and kill.
But our governments do.
And if you want to think about a tragedy of fraudulent money, militarism around the world, how many people have died from our bombs?
How many people have suffered economically and financially by these silly monetary systems and the bankruptcy that we're in?
See, we tolerate way too much of that.
And the people, you know, struggle, and then it leads to what I'm fearful, most fearful about, and that is, you know, an economic discrepancy between rich and poor.
And we're seeing more and more of that because we haven't corrected the basic system of the monetary system and the basic principle of non-intervention.
Non-intervention in the lives of people, in the economic lives of people, and the intervention in the affairs of other nations.
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And those are the things the founders actually believed in and promoted to the best of their ability by our Constitution.
We have to pass a stage where somebody who defends those principles and vote that way, they don't become the enemy.
And a lot of that is going on today.
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