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

With us today is Daniel Wake Adams, our co-host and Daniel.

Good to see you.

Good morning, Dr. Paul.

How are you this morning?

Doing fine.

Yeah, and at the end of the day.

It's scary day.

I'm doing better than they are over in Germany and a few other places.

That's a sad story.

We're going to start off with talking about, you know, an event that could be, it is,

already very serious matter because we've been following the Ukrainian episode in NATO

and all of a sudden now, I've always said that sanctions, you know, are acts of war.

We better be careful, but nobody accepts it.

Sometimes the most peaceful type of progressives would say, oh, let's have sanctions that we

don't have to fight a war.

And I keep saying sanctions are war as a violation or a blockade or, you know, a, a, a,

isolationism, this kind of stuff where you can't trade.

And this is exactly what has happened here.

The big announcement today was a couple of bombs probably went off and it looks like it's

pretty well established that these were explosion to stop Nord Stream.

And this is to accelerate this contest between, you know, in the articles I read, they didn't

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