Hello everybody and thank you for tuning into the Liberty Report.

With us today we have Daniel McAdams, our co-host.

Daniel, good to see this morning.

Good morning, Dr. Paul, how are you this morning?

All set and ready to go.

All right.

I understand there's a little trial going on and we don't know the results.

Yeah.

We're not going to talk much about it.

We talked about it before.

Unless there's breaking news, the whole thing was closed down,

and everybody admitted it was a farce,

and they pulled it off, and it wasn't even April Fool's Day.

Anyway, history will show it was a forest maybe, but not right now.

But I want to talk about something that has not been a forest.

It's been around and I around and it's always been a pet peeve of mine and there are more people starting to realize it's not the greatest organization ever.

And when you look back even from the beginning and I'm talking

about NATO. This wonderful plan to have peace in our time we fought that horrible

war and so as the World War II passed, you know, it was over, you know, the Western

Nations, mainly the Atlantic type of countries in Europe, it was mainly for Eastern Europe, you know, to be prepared so they never have to be

unprepared if they had to fight Russia again. So this has been around for a long time, but it's completely morphed into something that it's always has nothing really to do with defense or peace.

It has to do with how does a special interest group manipulate politics and budgets,

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