Trump Begs For Help On Hormuz; World Says 'No.'

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All right.

All right.

But we still have a problem or two.

We're still in business of trying to sort things out.

Seeking the truth is not all that easy when you figure

how many people are seeking to hide the truth.

Yeah, that's for sure.

It shouldn't be that hard.

Truth should be easily known and understood.

But if the majority of the people in the world still look for fuzzy answers

and discrepancies and political things,

it makes it a little difficult to find out exactly where the truth lies.

So we're going to make an attempt at this because that's what other scroll is.

That's what we talk about essentially every week or more than every week.

Just try to figure out what really is going on.

And we came across a couple of things and wonder if we want to start off with

is an article about coalition building.

That's not good to me. We should have a coalition.

We want to get together and work out our problems.

It has to do with the war.

The war that's going on that I believe it's safe to say and not embellishing at all.

The war we started unnecessarily.

And we've done that once or twice before.

We've been very much involved in war mongering.

And we always quit after two years, after ten years, after twenty years.

We finally quit.

But the American people basically over the years have been too complacent

as far as I'm concerned, too complacent.

But hopefully, they're starting to wake up.

Get the non-complacent earlier on because of what's coming.

And that is oil shortage.

Gas-lead prices going up.

Other prices going up.

And they start to realize, hey, this is costing us a lot of money.

So this is an article that says White House.

That's the White House.

But let me tell you what they're doing.

White House wants to build a coalition on Iran

to address the energy crisis.

Doesn't it strike you as a little bit weird?

There is an energy crisis.

But who in thunder created it?

You know, it must have been Russia.

Russia probably did all this.

And White House tries to build a coalition.

And they're being met with some resistance.

It seems like when there's a coalition up until now, at least,

when there's bombs to be dropped and land to be taken,

and Middle East problems, there's been easier to get a coalition

to put together.

But there was one article that goes along with this

that I found fascinating.

And there it is.

Under the circumstances here, zero hedge reports,

Hormoush Thaw, question mark,

beset says, Iranian oil tankers can transist

as vessels traffic pick up.

Well, what does he have to do with that place off there?

Wasn't he worried about the Gulf of Mexico or something,

or Chesapeake Bay?

They could worry about that.

But no, he's getting permission.

But that goes to show this thing has mixed up.

I know you can straighten this out.

And get us to understand exactly what's going on here

and what we can contribute to the solution.

Well, you know, after the sneak attack last June,

when the US was in talks with Iran, and they were attacked,

and then the build up toward the end of the year now

in the beginning of the new year, Iran said two things.

If you attack us again, we will close the straight of Hormous,

and we will hit your military bases in the Gulf.

The US President Trump, in particular, didn't seem to care.

He didn't believe them.

He thought they were bluffing.

It was a feeling, quote-unquote, according to Carolyn Levit.

He went with the feeling and attacked anyway.

Well, it turns out that Iran wasn't bluffing.

They were telling the truth.

And they've hit and destroyed every US military base.

And now they're hitting places like our embassy and Baghdad.

They took out one radar installation.

I think it was yesterday.

And they're aiming for the other.

And they closed the straight of Hormous.

We'll low and behold.

Oil was up at 110, I think a few days ago.

Now I think it opened this morning just over 100.

You would know better than I.

The problem is that's put the administration of crisis now

because this could cause massive problems.

It's not just oil.

But without ships going through the straight of Hormous,

it's not only oil, not only liquid natural gas,

but you have urea, which is a key component.

It's fertilizer.

It's spring.

It's the planning season.

You're not going to have fertilizer going through, etc.

So now there's a crisis.

Because the straight isn't closed with a bunch of guns,

necessarily aiming at it.

It's the implication that they can be shot.

Boats can be shot.

Cargo ships can be shot.

So of course nobody can get insurance.

No one insurance company is going to take that risk.

It's impossible.

And so it's de facto closed.

But we know there is that threat that it'll be closed.

So now there is a crisis.

Nobody knows what to do about it.

And so a few days after Trump having repeatedly declared victory,

and I have a clip of that, now President Trump put out a,

and I have the post that he did on social media,

essentially begging and demanding that other countries

come to our aid in a mess that we created

and reopen the straight of Hormous.

You know, you know so well the work we did together

in the first part of this century about the Iraq,

the Middle Eastern more.

I imagine it was probably ten years that thing went on.

And we were going to give them democracy,

and there'd be no cost to us.

Few people may die, but we'll get the oil and pay all the bills.

Well none of that came about.

It's been relatively quiet.

You didn't have Baghdad in the news every single day.

But it's back in the news again.

We're getting involved.

So of course we never really left Baghdad.

You know, at times the fighting can quit,

and it sounds like, oh there's peace.

But not the peace they promised when we, you know,

had so many people die, both the enemies and allies.

They end up with a mess, then they hide it,

and they're tired, and they're getting exhausted.

But it's always there because of the overall foreign policy

that's accepted in a bipartisan way.

You know, everybody argues for bipartisanship.

And at times, you know, coalition building is one thing.

That's different.

But they get together, and together they allow presidents

to do way too much, and together they provide all the money they want.

And together they participate in the propaganda,

and the people don't get aroused.

But we're hoping that we're seeing the signs

that maybe all that's going to change,

because we're running out of money,

and the people are starting to resist.

Not only some of our allies are starting to resist,

and not automatically join the coalition,

because Trump, you know, threatens them.

You know, either with bombs or tariffs or whatever,

or handouts.

So these things do come to an end,

but sometimes they end poorly, and they linger.

And if the wars aren't motivated and correctly understood,

they really don't quit.

And certainly the Middle East has been going on for a long, long time.

But now Trump is looking for allies to come to his rescue.

You know, here's the pieces Wall Street Journal that talks about it.

The White House tries to build coasts.

I think that's a generous way of putting tries to build the coalition.

No, it's desperate to have someone take a chestnut out of the fire.

You go to the next one.

Trump and his top aide spent the weekend framing the Iran operation

as a resounding military success,

while imploring other countries to join their effort

to resolve a worsening energy crisis related to the straight-up war moves.

The Trump administration, as soon as this week,

and I highlight this plans to announce that multiple countries

have agreed to form a coalition,

we'll come back to that in a second,

that will escort ships through the waterway,

which runs around the, along the Iranian coast,

as official said.

The US and potential countries are still discussing

whether those operations would begin before or after the war ends.

That is a critical sentence, Dr. Paul,

because everything hinges on that.

Because if it's after the war ends, of course,

there's no need of a coalition, because the war is over.

So this is what they're trying to cover,

the fact that nobody is coming to our aid.

And they say, hey, maybe we'll have a coalition after the war is over.

You know, whether there's no more threat.

So what's the point of having people as warships escorting cargo ships

through the straight?

If the war is over, it makes a zero sense.

So it's a cocking baby scheme

that's meant to try to divert attention

from the fact that things are not going well.

You know, for our activities in this area,

in a broad area over there,

the best cheerleader for it,

well, domestically, it's probably a South Carolina senator,

you know, go, go, go.

But internationally, it has to be Netanyahu.

He's been cheering this on.

So I'm wondering if he's trying to build a coalition,

you know, Netanyahu comes to visit us quite frequently.

He gets to speak on the house floor.

Why doesn't he, why don't they get him to participate?

If they need more troops and all this stuff,

I mean, he participated in the decision making.

So I think that this whole thing that we progress,

you know, participate in is misleading

because it's so chopped up and special interest in this and that.

It has so little to do with national defense,

true national offense,

and it's always designed for characteristic reason.

Well, we have, well, you know, we're going to be bomb soon,

and there's nuclear power there, and we have to stop it.

Well, we already stopped it three months ago,

six months ago, and we destroyed it,

and they didn't even have it then.

No, but we still are after the nuclear power over and around.

It keeps on and on.

But right now, it's sort of a pseudo stalemate,

you know, at least for a pause.

So, you know, the oil prices sort of backed off,

and yet I would say they have a long way to go before this gets really settled

where neighbors can be neighbors again.

Well, I've got a couple of video clips, Dr. Paul,

to give us a sense of what's going on.

I'm just going to start with a review,

because this is Trump about 20 times last week.

You might want to get your earpiece and listen to President Trump

about 20 times last week.

This happens to be him in Kentucky at a rally,

but you can find clips of him saying essentially the same thing

over and over and over again.

Here, listen to what he says.

It's only good if you win.

You know, you can only, and we've won.

Let me say we've won.

You know, you never like to say too early you won.

We want the bet.

In the first hour, it was over.

But they gave me a list of things.

We won the war.

That's saying it.

Now, go to the next one.

Now, this is Pete Hegseth,

who is really starting to look like not the sharpest knife in the drawer.

He's explaining that the straight of Hormuz,

Dr. Paul, is not closed.

Listen to, you can read the list.

Yeah, listen to Hegseth.

Only thing prohibiting transit in the Straits right now

is Iran shooting at shipping.

It is open for transit.

Should Iran not do that?

The Straits are not closed, Dr. Paul.

The only thing that's inferring is that Iran keeps shooting at ships.

So that's the problem.

My other old thing.

And here's something that one other one that I came

because this shows actually more the seriousness of the situation.

This is a former administration adviser on energy.

And I came across this on X today.

This is from a short clip from 60 minutes.

If we listen to this one, put that back in.

This is the last one.

I worked in the White House during an energy crisis.

There are no policy solutions to a prolonged closure of the straight of Hormuz.

You're saying there's not much a White House a president can do to stop this bleeding.

You open up the toolkit and the tools in there.

The options range from marginal through symbolic to deeply unwise.

Escorts are a side show.

Strategic stock releases are a side show.

Gas tax holiday?

Gas tax holiday side show.

You got to restore the flow of the straight of Hormuz.

Even if the White House president Trump declared an end of this war today tomorrow,

is there any guarantee that Iran would open up the straight and its back to business as usual?

No guarantee.

It's not like there's a big gate that swings open in front of the Hormuz and Iran locks the gate.

So all Iran has to do is demonstrate every day, every other day,

that it has the means and the ability to attack ships in the straight.

And that will be enough.

So here's somebody who knows what he's talking about saying,

you can't be fixed.

They can't be fixed.

I mean, why wasn't Trump talking to him before he went into this mess?

They pretend they have meetings, a secret, though.

What they're really talking about is something that nobody else has allowed.

Sometimes I think they don't even tell the president exactly what they're talking about in there.

Sometimes the president tell them either.

Well, certainly the American people do not hear the full story.

And that's why the founders try to protect us against this type of mess.

And that's why only the people through their commerce can go to war.

But we haven't done that.

We haven't done that in a good many years since World War II.

And that's why we have this.

We don't know what we're doing.

When it's over, what the end point is,

where you're going to get the money?

Are there people supporting it?

Will other people join it?

Yeah, I have none of that because it's done with a few people.

So it's done to, you know,

it's done in secret where the American people not only don't get to participate,

they hardly hear about it.

And if they do, they can't trust it.

Yeah.

And that's healthy because the American people should.

And they are waking up that just because the government says so,

it's something that you don't have to take it hook on a sinker.

Absolutely.

Well, here's President Trump's post on his true social on Saturday

that set up this whole situation we're talking about.

If you put that next one up,

and I don't think I'm going to read all of it, but I'll give you the gist of it.

Many countries, especially those who are affected by Iran's attempted closure

of the Hormuz straight,

will be sending ships, warships in conjunction with the United States of America

to keep the straight open and safe.

We have already destroyed 100% of Iran's military capability,

but it's easy for them to send a drone or two, drop a mine

or delivery close range missiles somewhere along or in this waterway,

no matter how badly defeated they are.

Hopefully China, France, Japan, South Korea, the UK and others

that are affected by this artificial constraint,

will send ships to the area so the Hormuz straight will no longer be a threat

by a nation that has been totally decapitated.

In the meantime, the US will be bombing the blank out of the shoreline

and continually shooting Iranian boats and ships out of the sea,

out of the water.

One way or other, we will get the straight of Hormuz open, safe and free.

President Donald J. Trump, now the person who reposted this made a very

clever quip.

Catherine Rampell said, so we need help to open the straight

that is already open to help protect it from the enemy.

We actually defeated 100%.

So that is right.

Maybe they haven't defined who was the enemy.

And so here's the result if you go to the next one.

He said he's demanding that they come, that they come and work with us

with their warships to open the straight.

So far, it does not look good.

If we go to that next clip here, monitor when this is not a good scorecard

right now, Dr. Paul, if we can have that up, the next...

Yeah, there we go.

Doesn't look good, Dr. Paul.

He said they're going to come to our rescue, Italy rejected,

Spain rejected, Japan rejected, France, hesitant.

Since this came out, they've actually said no.

Norway rejected, Canada rejected, Australia rejected, Germany rejected,

China, no response.

UK, no commitment.

Netherlands, no response.

South Korea, no confirmation.

The poster points out America looks increasingly isolated.

You know, you're so negative.

That was a pretty good coalition.

Oh, they're not.

They're all against us.

Against our foreign policy.

You know, the one thing is that he says in there,

they've defeated everything.

You know, there's nothing left.

You can't read it.

You can't read it.

They have no weapons.

Well, nobody's a lot of have guns like this.

But they've just totally destroyed all military ability to defend themselves.

The one thing they don't...

Even if they got rid of a lot of weapons and ships and things like that,

the one thing they can't stop, and I've mentioned this before,

is the spirit of the home line.

I mean, it does the opposite.

The people...

I mean, the Iranians have been putting up with this for a long time,

and I make 1953 a really big date when the coalition was small,

but we've been trying to own, run, and control the oil out of Iran

for all this period of time.

And it hasn't stopped, but it looks like this time,

there may be a climactic end to this one way or the other,

and who knows what that's going to be,

but it's not going to be done by next week,

a very key meeting between these two factions,

and they come up with a solution like,

we're going to agree both sides to might our own business.

Yes.

They see you later, you know, fishing together.

Well, you make a great point,

which is that they keep claiming all of the things that they knock down

and broke and everything,

but that's irrelevant, just like as Vietnam.

Remember, I mean, I was little,

but I do remember when people talking about it,

and there would be a nightly press conference,

where the general would stand up there and say,

we dropped 4,000 bombs in this area,

we flew 800 sorties over here,

and there was this whole long laundry list of all the things they did,

but it was irrelevant.

If you had an amnesia or underground drinking coffee,

yeah, yeah, they probably were.

And it's also similar with the war in Russia,

how misunderstood, misunderstood,

the Russia Ukraine war is because they'll say,

well, Russia's not taking very much land right away.

Well, that's not what they're fighting.

They're fighting a war of attrition.

Iran is fighting an asymmetric war.

They don't have an air force.

They don't have a navy.

They have missiles.

So they're fighting in an asymmetric way.

So it really is not comparing apples and oranges,

when you say, but we've blown up a lot of their stuff.

Why aren't they, why are they still fighting?

Don't you find it sort of ironic that this backward country

has some defense, and they're called drones,

and they cost a little bit less of the bit than the missiles

that we're using.

And they're actually winning some of these wars and battles

by using weapons that are a little bit less costly.

So they've designed a position where maybe the pause

is, well, we have to build some more weapons again.

We have to collect more money from the taxpayer.

We have to print a run to printing machines.

But Iran also has some of the most sophisticated missiles

in the world.

You know, they have multiple hypersonic.

We have zero hypersonic.

So they have been able to develop the technology

that they're able to use.

So let's move on to our second story.

Since we're getting short on time,

but it really is worth a mention, Dr. Paul.

You and I both noticed this, and it's very alarming.

If you go to that New York Times, we're going to skip a couple.

This is going to shock, I hopefully will shock some of our viewers.

FCC chair threatens to revoke broadcasters licenses

over war coverage.

The comment came from Brendan Carr.

It came on the heels of a social media message

from President Trump criticizing the news media's coverage

of the war with Iran.

If you go to the next one, Brendan Carr,

chairman of the FCC, threatened on Saturday

to revoke broadcasters licenses over their coverage

of the war with Iran.

They'll latest move in a campaign to stomp out

what he sees as liberal bias in broadcasts.

As the war entered his third week,

he announced that he was going to revoke

broadcasters.

He was going to revoke broadcasters

of running hoaxes and news distortions

in a social media post, and warned them to correct course

before their license renewals come up.

That, I think, is very chilling, Dr. Paul.

You know, I don't think the sign is up yet,

but the sign that I'd hang up here is beware.

Danger ahead.

Truth cannot be tolerated.

And that's what it is.

Our government is doing that to us, as well as, you know,

saying that we're trying to, you know, be in a position

where we can finally defeat all these people

who are the revolutionaries.

Oh, yeah, but we have a little gasoline we have to use

because we have to go 6,000 miles in order to find this war.

The whole thing makes no sense.

There's no practical sense to it.

There's no moral sense to it.

There's no constitutional sense to this.

And the sad part, and this won't be well received by some.

And that is, it's tolerated way too much by the American people.

But I lead that up to, you know, the educational system

that we have, that they've been indoctrinated for a long time

because you want to be safe, and you want to be patriotic,

you want to serve your country, and therefore they have

built it into the system that one of the proudest things

you could do when you're 18.

And I've seen it where parents even are saying,

oh, my son is going on toward save our country,

which is so sick.

And that's the condition is not sensible and it's unnecessary.

And one thing that they, and that's the propaganda machine.

So the combination of the machine out there

and the willingness to, because they don't believe

they're committing a sin by lying.

They're committing, they're doing God's work

because this is a holy war.

And in many ways, it's a holy war for both sides sometimes.

And it enters into the equation.

Definitely.

Well, car kind of displays this boom mentality

that they can just shut down the news.

We're going to shut down CBS and shut down CNN.

If you don't report positive things about the war,

I'm sorry, this is no longer 1975.

You know, people are doing all sorts of their own research.

There are so many sources.

There's X. There's telegram.

There are so many sources of news about what actually

is happening in the war.

There's absolutely no way they can put the cork back in this.

They can't put the genie back in the bottle here.

So all of this posturing and bloviating about

we're going to remove your licenses.

Nobody's going to even notice if CBS loses their license

or CNN loses their license.

No one watches it.

You know, all that started when radios became available.

That's when they passed the first act

that the government has to be involved.

Yeah, exactly.

But of course, should have been the whole issue here.

I think the whole issue of the first amendment

should be a property rights issue.

You know, if you're in your home or in your church,

you ought to be able to say anything you want,

but that doesn't mean you get licensed

to go out in the public square

and disturb the peace, this sort of thing.

So I think property rights are,

and that's what happened back

when radio first came out with the licensing,

is to make sure they wouldn't broadcast bad news.

We want to keep them honest.

So we assign that touch to our government

to make sure everybody's telling the truth.

And it doesn't seem to work very well.

Yeah, absolutely not.

Well, I'm going to close out then, I guess.

And if you put that very last clip up,

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Very good.

I'm looking forward to the conference

and one point that I try to make it.

All the conferences every time I speak out

on these issues is that the point is

that economic policy and foreign policy

cannot be separated.

Sometimes people claim that a war can end

at depression and other times they say that

we can have economic policy will solve all our problems

if you use the force and foreign policy

and we will take over their oil

and all that nonsense that goes on.

But you can't separate the two,

it comes together and then that invites

another significant fact

that cannot be ignored is how do you pay for these?

Yes, you can make people, you can use guns

and force them to do things for a while.

But eventually the bills have to be paid

and that's why I think there's so much chaos right now

or the bills have come due

and people don't know exactly how you pay these bills

and they're not exactly interested in doing it

because it's very costly

and somebody has to pay these bills.

So this is why I think relating

whether a economic policy or a foreign policy

to the issue of how do you pay for all these wonderful things

that people are going to do for us is so important.

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