Hello everybody and thank you for tuning in to 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?

I'm doing fine, trying to sort things out and looking for a spot where there's peace and tranquility.

And it seems like any country I go to where we have a presence, there's not enough

peace and tranquility.

I sure hope the determination of the new administration will find those places and encourage

it.

But some days I think maybe we're not on the verge of that happening break out.

So we want to talk about today about Ukraine.

It's been around a while.

Even before the mischief of 2014, we talked about Ukraine and what the Russians wanted

to do.

The Russians were going to invade Ukraine, which was all fibs, because NATO with the U.S.

and encouragement was getting ready to take over Ukraine.

And I'm just wondering now, Daniel, whether the plant might have been long term.

That maybe their goal was to deal with the minerals of Ukraine.

And that was the strategy because certainly now, you know, same old

story again. We go in and it's not partisan, it's bipartisan. Just think of what was going on,

you know, back in the 70s, there was Iraq and all these, Syria, you know, and minerals and oil are always in charge. But to get the

American people to go along, why are we doing this? Why are invading us? Think that, you know,

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