Ron Paul: A New Year’s Resolution Worth Keeping

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Ron Paul: A New Year’s Resolution Worth Keeping

A New Year’s Resolution Worth Keeping


Ron Paul
January 2, 2024


In the closing days of 2023, the Biden Administration once again announced a large military aid package for Ukraine, this time a “mere” quarter of a billion dollars. Without a new authorization of funds from Congress, it is said to be the last bit of money left over from the more than $100 billion already authorized by Congress for the proxy war with Russia through Ukraine.

President Biden’s request for an additional $100 billion to spread around Ukraine, Israel, and Taiwan was rejected by a Congress eager for its winter break, and with each passing day it looks like it’s going to be harder to push it through. Poll after poll show that Americans are increasingly opposed to more of their money being spent on the neocon’s lost-cause war to overthrow Putin in Russia.

For example, a recent Fox News poll revealed that more than 60 percent of Republican voters do not want any more money sent to Ukraine. As we enter an election year, it’s probably safe to predict that Republican candidates will be wary of crossing the wishes of the clear majority of voters.

That is why the Biden Administration has been desperately trying to re-frame its request for more Ukraine war money as anything but a request for more Ukraine war money. For example, they even brought back the old discredited “domino theory” used to justify US actions in the Vietnam war. If we don’t stop Putin in Ukraine, Biden said in December, then he will keep going into western Europe where we will be forced to fight him there.

On the one hand, supporters of the Ukraine war warn that Russia is about to reconstitute the Soviet empire in Europe, while at the same time the same people tell us Russia is out of missiles and on its last leg. One more infusion of US money will end the “Russian threat” once and for all. Both of these things cannot be true at once. In fact, neither of them is true.

But still the Administration, much of Congress, and an insatiable military-industrial complex keep selling the lies.

Last month Secretary of State Antony Blinken inadvertently revealed what exactly all the spending for war is about when he stated that as much as 90 percent of the aid for Ukraine is actually spent in the United States. The money is used “to the benefit of American business, local communities, and strengthening the US defense industrial base,” he said in an interview. In other words, the money “for Ukraine” is actually a massive welfare program for well-connected military contractors back home.

As we begin the year 2024, we need to home in on the real threat to the United States. It is not Russia or China or Iran. The true threat is closer to home: it is a corrupt system that bleeds the country dry to fight imaginary enemies while enriching the military-industrial complex.

For the New Year, Congress should resolve to end the stranglehold of the military-industrial complex by reining in out-of-control military spending. Members should simply vote “no” on military spending bills until they are drafted to benefit the American people rather than the Beltway elite. I don’t hold out much hope of this happening in the short run, but it only takes a few dedicated Members to make a real difference.

 

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On the one hand, supporters of the Ukraine war warn that Russia is about to reconstitute the Soviet empire in Europe, while at the same time the same people tell us Russia is out of missiles and on its last leg. One more infusion of US money will end the “Russian threat” once and for all. Both of these things cannot be true at once. In fact, neither of them is true.

Funny, that.

Last month Secretary of State Antony Blinken inadvertently revealed what exactly all the spending for war is about when he stated that as much as 90 percent of the aid for Ukraine is actually spent in the United States. The money is used “to the benefit of American business, local communities, and strengthening the US defense industrial base,” he said in an interview. In other words, the money “for Ukraine” is actually a massive welfare program for well-connected military contractors back home.

The broken-window fallacy is alive and kicking.

As we begin the year 2024, we need to home in on the real threat to the United States. It is not Russia or China or Iran. The true threat is closer to home: it is a corrupt system that bleeds the country dry to fight imaginary enemies while enriching the military-industrial complex.

The problem with this statement, however true it may be, is that it is the dead horse that has been beaten unto dust and long ago scattered by the wind. That so many Americans either remain unaware, don't care, or both, should have the rest of us preparing for the end of the world as we know it.

For the New Year, Congress should resolve to end the stranglehold of the military-industrial complex by reining in out-of-control military spending.

Now there's an idea... But wait. Remember Bohemian Grove? How about Epstein's list? How about all the other little black books with names and dates in them and references to video records of certain people buggering little boys, drinking the blood of terrified little girls, and whatever else people do, thinking they are somehow "edgy" and "in". What were those things all about? Extortionate control over those who thought they wanted to be movers and shakers, only to become the abject slaves of those who are really in charge of the three-ring, and who are anonymous. The jackasses fool enough to want to put their pathetic egos in the public spotlight for fame and what they foolishly thought was actual power, are the one's on Epstein's list. Speaking of which, the fact that it has not been published should alert people to the fact that perhaps those who have copies are either on the same side as Epstein, or at the very least may be seeking to wield similar power over those who are on it. HERRO???!!

Members should simply vote “no” on military spending bills until they are drafted to benefit the American people rather than the Beltway elite. I don’t hold out much hope of this happening in the short run, but it only takes a few dedicated Members to make a real difference.

With all due respect to the good doctor, nobody with a minimally functional brain and moral basis would find this normative declaration to be news. I no longer see the value in belaboring what seems so painfully obvious, like telling people they should not put out their own eyes with their thumbs. What we are witnessing is the wholesale loss of basic sense in vast swaths of the American population. Add to that the millions of illegal aliens invading, yes INVADING American shores, and it becomes clear we are currently finding ourselves once again in an undeclared war, this one making the ones we fought simultaneously with Germany and Japan look like cake walks.

It will be most enlightening to see what happens with/to the judge that has ordered Epstein's list at least partly published. I read that Clintons are expected to be on it, to which I say so what? Both Clintons seem to have served their purposes and are now expendable, so why not reveal that they raped and murdered children? In a land as factious as ours now stands, I will expect a huge sucking sound in the wake of such a revelation - the sound of a hundred million Americans not batting an eyelash at the news of it. And those who will claim outrage... well, that's all they will do. My money says those revealed will face either no charges, will be mysteriously suicided, mysteriously acquitted, or in the case of a handful of less-significants, will be handed gimme-sentences, a year or so, and will be quietly released on parole in short order.

But will the list be revealed in actuality? Time will tell. Will it be revealed in toto? If so, then one must then ask where is the new list, for I guaRONtee there is another list. Of that there can be no doubt. Such things cannot remain static because pawns come and go. Keeping a fresh supply of compliant place-holders is endless convenient to Themme, if not essential. Sub rosa control such that those officially in control will do your bidding as you bid, when you bid, cannot be over-valued. Extortion is the main mechanism by which such compliance is gained and maintained, obviously. And once a network of agents has been established in infiltration of the system, it must be kept intact, generation over generation, at any cost. But I digress.

The point is we are fucked, don't give a real shit that we are fucked, and in a staggering number of cases, welcome... nay, demand it be so.

Humans.