Rand Paul Asks State Official Point Blank: What Is Being Done To Find 'Off Ramp' For Ukraine War?
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- At today's Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) pressed a State Department official about the Ukraine-Russia war.
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Early in the war, Putin negotiated settlement, signed by Zelinskyy and NATO quashed it
The younger generation is finally starting to realize that the US is an imperial, hegemony country who starts all conflicts and brainwashes americans into thinking the US is good and everyone that's not a US ally is bad. I never thought this day would come. But people are starting to wake up. Baby boomers destroyed the US
And Putin was 100% justified in invading ukraine
Yes !
The EX UK PM Boris Johnston probably under instructions from the White House told Zelenskyy not to sign it in.
point of the year sir, actually Russian side exposed in public those signed documents about peace settlement where both sides made some compromises and signed a deal, but all of a sudden few days later Boris Johnson showed up in Kyiv and all of a sudden there were no more negotiations by Ukraine and all of a sudden they will fight now "until the last Ukrainian"..
This was during first few months of the war which would meant hundreds of thousands life's would have been saved and Ukraine would had much bigger territory than the territory which they will have at the end of this stupid proxy war. Not to mention, before this war started there was 8 years of bombings in Donbas (region in Eastern Ukraine where most of the Russian speaking people live) and where Russian side pushed European leaders and Ukrainian leaders to a peace negotiations called Minsk 1 and Minsk 2 agreements, where Ukraine would have entire territory including Crimea, but Ukrainians neglected that agreement (who was their advisor back than let me guess)
So this is all bulls%$*t
Yes yes. Russia won the war. They wanted the entire country but they're happy to have these small bits and to have to move the black sea fleet somewhere else negate Ukraine keeps debatable the Russian navy. Ukraine doesn't even have a navy and Russia had to remove their fleet. The Russians aren't winning that hard
US and Gb torpedoed it. All the best from germany
Senator Rand Paul is a sane voice in the room full of insanity . We need many people like Rand Paul in the senate
If Putin is forced to choose between a humiliating defeat.... That is insanity. He won a year ago, media still denying it here.
Maybe the only one who is sane in this room or maybe in every room there
Fully agree.
Very little sanity in the Senate, Sadly.
Hey -- how about THAT alliteration!
This man is lying through his teeth! Putin is the only party that has kept his word regarding peace! The Minsk Accords 1 and 2 were both broken by the West. I the beginning of this conflict Russia with the help of Turkey negotiated a solution to this quagmire. The Russians even went as far as withdrawal of troops. But again the West sent the PM of the UK to Kiev to pressure Zalinski to not sign the deal! Make no mistake what is happening here, the West is trying to destroy Russia and enrich the Arms Industry in the process. They do not care about freedom or Ukraine they only care about profit and hegemony! We are being fed nothing but lies once again and the shameful part is the US public believes these liars no matter how much death and destruction they reap on the rest of the world right in the open!!!!
Did anyone ever think that Ukraine could defeat Russia?? It’s militarily impossible!!!
No, that guy blames Putin for not being cooperant while Zelenski said straight forward he doesn't negociate. With who is US talking about peace if Zelinski doesn't talk?
@@notnotnownow9622Putin does not negotiate. He is the problem. Putin id the one supporting Iran and vice versa.
Not according to the propaganda that the mainstream media spews. I can’t believe ppl can’t figure it out, especially after the last two decades how the deception is so deep.
@@notnotnownow9622there was a plan to negotiate back in Feb 2022. Boris Johnson squashed it.
@@mikepjersey But what negociation when Zelinsky always said he doesn't negotiate with Putin?
Russia is the only country that has negotiated and kept its side of the deal! Multiple times!
Indeed. WHo is fighting on who's doorstep? Is "the North Atlantic" anywhere near Ukraine by the way?
Indeed!✊🏿
U guys just lost this one just take it!!😂😂😂
@andyharpist2938 The US Empire is fighting on its doorstep, which is everywhere!
@@peterm.eggers520 There is no US empire anymore. There soldiers get their ass kicked everywhere they go, and nobody in the entire world is taking the US serious anymore. They can't even pay their debts anymore and has become a banana republic.
Only a few European nations still stand behind the US, and that's against the will of the European people.
What about the Minsk agreements? EU/USA honour agreement only when it suits them.
EU/USA only honour agreements when it suits Israel, you mean.
This guy is a liar. He doesn't want negotiations he wants perpetual wars. And he said as much.
Russia used diplomacy to solve the problem that is Ukraine. It was called the Minsk Agreement. It was never implemented. Later, former German prime minister Angela Merkle admitted that the NATO nations never had any intention of honoring the agreement. They had signed onto it for the sole purpose of stringing Putin along while they built up Ukraine's military so Ukraine would be strong enough to invade and subdue its two breakaway provinces.
Before this war started Putin and Lavrov tried their best to engage the US diplomatically to solve the security issues and avoid war. Antony Blinken essentially told the Russians to go fuk themselves because we didn't give a dam about Russia's security concerns.
With this record of US duplicity, why should Putin and Lavrov waste five minutes "negotiating" with the US? Just to be hoodooed again?
Putin is winning this war, and Ukraine is collapsing. Putin will dictate terms of surrender to Zelensky, or whomever replaces him. The US will not be a factor. The US Congress can vote to send Ukraine another hundred billion dollars, but it will only prolong the war a few months while it will hasten the financial collapse of the US.
Because they knew Russia had no intention of living up to their end of any deal.
@@stevenhenry5267 lol, you meant u$$a?
@@stevenhenry5267seriously as an Australian l look at history apolitically based on facts removing the emotion. The facts are that the US has done nothing but provoke and create this war back from 2014 when they were complicit in regime change in Ukraine to suite USA. USA has a long history of not keeping their agreements Minsk case in point. However I firm it reprehensible that USA has even lost ethics and democracy where they support a corrupt Ukraine Govt that has Neo Nazis support that allegedly the CIA funded. So sorry USA has a lot to answer to borrow trillions to fund and make money for the defence industry is incredibly stupid. There has been no off ramp due to these facts, to blame Putin and Russia is disingenuous when Russia tried to negotiate peace treaty at start when USA,UK etc took the deal off the table. Shame on USA, this is war criminal proportions and base on making money at the cost Ukraine lives….. wrong on all levels.
@stevenhenry5267 seriously? Lol that's all you can say? Haha
There is no endgame from this administration and the swampy warmongers.
The "Statue of Limitations" is the end game....milk & drag it out just long enough, to avoid any repercussions of legality's and responsibilities.
The endgame is in 51 weeks when we get rid of Biden
@@hotrox2150 statute*
The righteous indignation of this delusional and dangerous State Department official is astounding.
You can not negotiate with a neocon.
Thank you Senator Paul! We all know why they want to continue the war!
What do people expect? It obvious the moment Biden appointed Lloyd Austin (Raytheon Technologies) as secretary of defense. lol
Because it's righteous
Rand Paul is spot on. Mitch McConnell recently was interviewed recently, he was giddy about the prospect of "rotating" old weapons and replacing them with new weapons. When does the rebuilding effort start? How much will we borrow to pay for that? How much will our Hedge funds extract from our borrowed money to do all of that??? You know Ackman and Blackrock are salivating at the prospect.
If Putin is forced to choose between a humiliating defeat and escalating the destruction he will chose the latter? I think it's the opposite actually. It is us who have been escalating and it is us who are probably staring down the barrel of a humiliating defeat. And it is us also that will probably choose to escalate before accepting that we fucked up in Ukraine. There is very little evidence the Russia is weakened. Their military has grown to nearly 1 mil personnel. They started, back in Feb 2022, with 190k just to give you some perspective. Word is they'll grow that number to 1.5mil. They have centralized industrial base. Endless strategic resources that can be turned into war materiel. And last but not least, they have a high threshold for pain. These are the guys that dropped a million men in Stalingrad, shrug it off and then drove all the way to Berlin smashing the very best of Nazi armies along the way. These are the guys we picked a fight with? The state department and the white house, this generation anyway, are a bunch of dumb, arrogant, self serving cretins if they believe they will somehow walk away from this unscathed.
dont forget that russia lost almost 25 million people from the ww2 but they did not back up
@@nikxohs3925 Yeah. That's a good point. The number is actually higher according to historians. Probably north of 30mil. That's a level of loss that we can't even imagine here. E.g. That's Texas gone. Everyone dead. It's crazy to think that a country that can do that will somehow capitulate to a proxy force stood up by Washington. A proxy force that is much smaller in population and completely dependent on us. It's wishful thinking.
They were warned many times since 2008 that Ukr in Nato is unacceptable for Russia. Any complaints about Nato expansion were ignored by the West. They armed and trained Ukr na$is, made them a de facto Nato member, even conducted joint war games. They thought Russia was still in weak post-Soviet state and was not a force to be reckoned with.
Absolutely correct!
I agree with you 100%... bananato is worthless crap and USA army i hear cant go without a makeup anywhere...if Russians take a mans man walk they will go much further than that Berlin s......e...😊
The money in Ukraine is paying alot of kickbacks to us politicians especially ol joe
What evidence do you have of this? There is no proof for what you said regardless of how smart you think you might be in saying it.
@@doresearchstopwhining well zelensky sent some of the money thru ftx which according to the lawsuit he was found guilty of stealing people's money and giving it to democrats as campaign contributions the entire Ukrainian conflict is another money laundering operation by the government your tax dollars for defense companies profit and the defense companies fund campaigns its a giant money laundering operation
@@doresearchstopwhiningits all the special advisors that help the US congress. US politicians and Military get on the gravy train of Defense contractor, earning millions of $ for nothing.
@@user-tt6il2up4o What proof do you have of these pay offs "for nothing"? Sounds conspiratorial. No doubt the millitary industrial complex is at work but that is simply part of defense writ large which is what Ukraine needs. It is wacky to think the only reason we are defending Ukraine from an invasion by a dictator by some payoffs you can't prove. Insanely dumb if you ask me.
@@doresearchstopwhining the reputation and bank accounts of the "politicians."
I never heard Putin saying he will not talk till next year. That’s a lie! Lavrov said multiple times they are ready to talk but no one is talking
The war is in the White House, Biden was dying to start this War, he knew way before he ran out of Afghanistan this would happen and Putin said what the problem was, too much American government there, too much of our money and BIO-LABS. He stressed he didn't want bio-labs on his Border. Big? Was Trump Impeached to keep him from finding out what more Bio-Labs were up to in Ukraine. We don't need more Wuhan type of mistakes coming from Ukraine.
Let's be clear. No one in the West is fighting this war to "win." There is no such effort. What that would entail is defeating the Russian military directly. Neither the US nor Europe has any stomach for that fight. More importantly, collectively, we don't have the industrial capacity for that fight. Right now, Russia is running a wartime economy. We aren't, nor can we. We've simply de-industrialized and shipped too much of that infrastructure to the third world. We couldn't fight this war if we wanted to. To be clear, no one wants to. The soldiers aren't chomping at the bit to go. The public doesn't support any such thing. There is no viable pathway to fight a war with nuclear armed Russia and win it. What that means is that Ukraine cannot win. All we're doing is perpetuating a war that should be over so Ukraine doesn't keep throwing men and materiel into a meatgrinder of artillery and drone-based weapons. $200 billion dollars, 500,000 Ukrainians dead, 3x that mangled and crippled for life, half of Ukraine's population is living as refugees scattered all over Europe right now, they're drafting women because they've run out of men to kidnap off the streets, and these aholes still have the audacity to talk about "winning."
There is no "winning." If you want to win you bring overwhelming force to bear and you do it as quickly and efficiently as you can to minimize the damage and human suffering. You do exactly the opposite of what these grifters are suggesting. It's evil to just perpetuate a war for war's sake.
The question is why are "we" fighting this war? Why.
It is clear that a confrontation with Russia will end us all, there will be no winners so why start what you can't finish.
I think Germany went all in on sanction war against Russia, clearly to "win" cause their economy is devastated.
This war in Ukraine was always about defeating Russia with sanction war, cause thinking was since Soviet Union collapsed, then Russia would collapse too without using the big boom-booms.
💯 the lure of cheap/free energy siphoned though Ukraine, which is skimmed by the western ruling elite.
Absolutely correct. Money is what it's always been about and to hell with the suffering of ordinary Ukrainians.
The Bidens are a crime family, thus all the crimes we are seeing
Senator Paul has smarts & wisdom...a rare commodity is Washington
State Dept. official forgot to mention that Biden pressured Zelensky to reject two peace talk offers already when he was speaking about how many parties are required for talks.
I'm sure that was a completely innocent omission.
you nailed it.
Finding out how the big guy gets his 10% would be a great start 👍👍😁🇺🇸🇺🇸
Going to be hard going since they haven't been able to find any evidence whatsoever of Biden corruption, despite having a committee dedicated to it
Don't ever think only the "Big Guy" is the only one that gets a kickback from the War Machine. Money is plentiful in Washington, all they have to do is ask for some.
You have no evidence for what you are saying. All conspiracy theories much like 2020 fraud and other right wing talking points. All lies and you fall for them
In the form of $200,000 "barrowed" checks
@@Alienisolationist From family when he was not in government...... Where is the crime? All you have is innuendos that convince idiots because they can't do the math - 2018 - Biden not in government.....
These are called, "Feel Good" meetings. Good folks like Rand speak the truth, try and hold people accountable, actually trying to get a cost of a action. And then the ilks of Lindsey Graham, Moscow Mitch, Biden and 80% of Congress, will make damn sure the status quo continues.
Boy. Do I Wish I could argue with you on this, but sadly I cannpt
Hearings do nothing
CHINESE Mitch
status quo can't continue forever if it means borrowing more than a trillion dollars in 3 months.
@@NineInchTyroneEstonian Mitch! He slow!
Listening to these state officials makes you think they are on another planet, another dimension!
They are on the same planet but try send you to another one.
Just out and out admitting to the greed of the military industrial complex
We need to not get envolved in any wars...none at all unless we are attacked
I lost the thread when the State Department official stated the money “is needed to invest in energy and IT…” here we go again with a green New Deal approach - God help us all and save us from these fools! Sigh….
No doubt! Thanks for posting!
Bless you Rand Paul
"Broken agreements"
Israel and USA know all about that, dont they?
The track record of broken agreements?!? The Minsk agreements anyone? 🤪
The responses to the senator’s questions are beyond ridiculous and are full of mis-truths. In terms of Russia’s willingness to negotiate, the failed negotiations in Turkey are testaments to which side does and does not want to negotiate (hint: it was the Americans and their attack dogs the Brits who stopped the talks and continued the war). And could we please have a list of the agreements that Putin has broken? The US State Department is now the subject of near-worldwide scorn due to its ineffectiveness. Today’s representative of that group only adds to the scorn.
The money is to run Ukraine's gov not fight the war😉
And you have what evidence for this? Nothing but conspiracy theories just like 2020 fraud which is all the right has to try to justify their policies.
Thank you, Rand Paul!!
As long as there's money to be had, the war will continue - War Machine
My biggest hope for the next election isn't about the president, it's that the Republicans take the Senate so Senator Paul can have a leadership position, and then we can finally see something actually come out of these hearings.
Yes, that was Profound!! A problem exists that is Unavoidable, a blind eye can be turned, but it Cannot be avoided!!!
There's too many socialists in America now
We need a good Senate and a good PRESIDENT.
Well said
There are plenty of crappy Republican senators especially and at the top of the list are both mine from alaska.
Ukraine needs to worry about itself and the USA needs to focus on protecting Americans. It is not our job as taxpayers to police other countries
Kremlin bot.
@@andyharman7581just a sane American
@@andyharman7581 LOL 🤣🤣🤣 ok 🐑🐑🐑
If that happened 1/2 million Ukrainians would still be alive .
Than again that was of no consequence compared to the agenda.
@@andyharman7581Ukrainian bot.😂😂😂
Why would Russia be interested, when they're winning the war. It is the side that is bleeding fastest and loosing that needs to make the effort to offer a deal that attracts the side that's ahead. That is diplomacy. I have never seen a diplomat with the kind of arrogance that this man exuded, speaking to a person that is over him in authority. Doubt very much that he can do anything worth while in diplomacy.
Any dimplomacy must involve both parties and possibly a mediator. Neither of the parties is willing to negotiate. Zel is afraid that his own banderites will hang him for any negotiation attempts. So he adopted an unrealistic stance that Ukr should regain all pre-2022 territories before any diplomacy can be talked about. Basically it's never going to happen on his terms because Crimea and other parts had joined Russia and any Ukr attempts to reannex them would lead to actual declaration of war (not SMO but the real one like Israel on Gaza) and nuclear strikes on western Ukr.
And Putin was fooled too many times with Minsk 1,2 and Istanbul to trust Ukr and their western puppet masters.
The guy losses nothing even if ukr losses a million men fighting. These guys will simply say, a bad game, our character lost, time to take a nap and never ever see ukr issue while in office. This is what millions of lives worth to them.
War is a racket. The racket. 1000’s die as Nero fiddles. Sickening.
That IS the choice in front of us. Thank you Senator Paul.
Russia has 750k active on the front lines. Another 750k in training with BTG ISR at division strength. We betrayed the Minks Accords, twice. We’ll be lucky if Putin stops at Berlin.
Don't flatter yourselves. It was never a territory thing for Russia. In Istanbul Putin was ready to leave Ukr their territorial integrity. They just had to stop Russophobia and recognize eastern oblasts as Quebec-style autonomies within Ukr.
@@TheAntsh You’re implying a statement of fact is self serving because you’re uncomfortable with the reality of the situation; you yourself are unprepared to face.
@@kdubs9111 I don't get what "reality of situation" you mean. You say Russia would conquer eastern Europe up to Berlin but that's not reality of situation. That's just fear mongering mass media "Russians are coming" bs propaganda.
Russia has brought question of joint European security many times before. What it wanted is a solution which took into account all European states' and Russia's security concerns but Nato (read US) dismissed Russia's proposals and insisted on expanding East. You may find Putin's answer to an Australian journalist by searching "US is parking missiles on our porch".
Russia doesn't need more territory, SMO was a gambit to force Ukr to negotiate. What Russia needs is a neutral buffer state on its border that has no Nato presence.
750k is a stretch , Russia came in with 170 000, then mobilized a further 350 000, that’s 520 000, and according to Ukraine they killed 500 000 of those 😂.
So Russia is pushing them back with 20 000 troops vs Ukraine’s million+ troops.
It’s shocking how people believe Ukrainian propaganda when it contradicts itself on a daily basis.
I’ll agree with the “we betrayed the agreement twice” though.
He sort of exposed his hand. You pretend to be winning or it's a 'stalemate' so you don't have to negotiate.
There is no stalemate.
Ukraines military is heavily depleted.
a stalemate means Russian victory
Russia had already occupied the land which they initially said they want to protect, why would they go further? They are done and the stalemate these guys are talking about is Ukraine trying to get back that land and failing, everything is stuck where Russia want them to be
@@botshelomoatshe3153 Well, to be fair, Russia didn't get *all* of the territory that it said it wants to protect. There are still parts of Donetsk/Lugansk/Kherson/Zaporizhzhia oblasts that are claimed by Russia but currently not under its control. Also, there's important Odessa that has a lot of ethnic Russians, and by getting which Russia would completely cut off Ukraine from the sea. So, there is actual room for politicians to claim "stalemate", but the dynamic highly favors the Russians, as Ukraine's western support is dwindling, reserves depleting, mobilization failing, economy just barely hanging on on the IV drip feed of western money, and their holy grail counteroffensive failing miserably. All the while Russia's military potential has only grew. It's so funny to me as a Russian to see how western politicians have gone from claiming that Russia is utterly incapable, weak, and would suffer defeat on a battlefield, to talking about a stalemate. Wonder what they will say a year later.
The state department guy ignores the fact that in 2021, Biden refused to discuss Putin’s objections to the US-led expansion of Nato into eastern Europe and invitation to Ukraine to join. The Russian foreign minister Lavrov said in Geneva before the Russian invasion began that Ukraine joining Nato posed an existential problem for Russia yet Biden still ignored him. He could not have put it more strongly. For the State Department, a proxy war in Ukraine, which the US had armed and trained under Zelensky for the occasion, was seen as an opportunity to weaken Russia and its international credibility. The potentially - and now actually - disastrous consequences for the Ukrainian people were not a factor. The flaw in this strategy, as Paul said, was Putin’s nuclear veto if Russia risked defeat. In fact it never did despite the efforts of the Biden administration and the Western media to convince the US people otherwise. Putin quickly took what he wanted in Ukraine and is sitting on it to this day while awaiting for reality to dawn on Biden and Zelensky. It should be noted that there is no domestic threat to Putin’s power whatever the Western media pretend. In short, Biden gambled and got it wrong as Washington will eventually be forced to admit whatever some State Department hack says.The real reason Biden will not negotiate is that, because the war has been lost and Ukraine is still occupied, the US will do so from a position of weakness. Meanwhile, Zelensky is talking about recruiting women to the army to fight because he’s running out of men. Washington is wringing its hands about loss of life in Gaza while encouraging it in Ukraine.
Absolutely, gambled and lost. To be honest what did he/they thought would happen?
Every single sane person could have predicted that.
But we should not ignore the fact that our Leaders are promoting hate and war just for profit. The last few wars they were lying that we do it for human rights, freedom, democracy and so on. But because the previous wars we took every single lie for granted now they don’t feel the need because they can do whatever they want. That is absolutely wrong and this behaviour will eventually lead us to our and the planet’s destruction. I mean that is not normal. who gives them the right. Absolutely crazy what the humans are doing.
To me this looks demonic… pure evil!
Ukraine went back on agreements made with Russia concerning the Minsk agreement which started the whole conflict. This had been going on for years and Russia finally had enough. Black Sea grain deal fell through impart because they weren't allow access to the SWIFT banking system and the majority of grain was sent to EU instead of impoverished nations. So blaming russia for all your problems is BS. This whole war has cost EU memebers and their citizens greatly and yet the US is only concerned about the defense contractors. So sad
I don't think Ukraine war is a stalemate. It's lost. I noticed how carefully he couched his words. What a terrible game they play!
Russia had already occupied the land which they initially said they want to protect, why would they go further? They are done and the stalemate these guys are talking about is Ukraine trying to get back that land and failing, everything is stuck where Russia want them to be
@@botshelomoatshe3153thats exactly what I was saying. Most of people just watch Media and think that Russia is not doing any progress. But they dont think that Russia have reached its goal its just keeping that territories.
@@TajZverexactly. Russia has Ukraine’s land, not the other way around. And Ukraine couldn’t get that land back.
Ukraine lost the war. Over 500,000 dead soldiers and over 100,00 in critical condition. Also in last few months, every soldier sent to the front has called Russia and surrendered!
And factor 4 wounded and disabled: 2.000.000 men without limbs and physically and mentally dysfunctional.
On top of that 20.000.000 Ukrainians on the run.
No more US tax dollars to corrupt Ukraine. And no more stock trading for members of Congress or the bureaucracy that is associated with policy.
Once again Rand Paul's one of the minority voices of reason and wisdom!
Zelenski even using "F" word towards Putin. What kind of negotiations do you expect from him?
Thank you Senator Paul!!!!!
Instead of politely asking questions at senate hearings, instead the Senate needs to issue sapeanas and press charges of war crimes against these war criminals. The U.S. deliberately started the war in Ukraine in the year 2014, and repeatedly refused to negotiate peace agreement offers from Russia. The U.S. admin started this war, escalated this war, is the aggressor, and continues to launder taxpayer money back to the military industrial complex via the appropriated war budgets. The U.S. started this war and is the aggressor here. So instead of politely asking questions at Senate hearings, instead the Senate needs to charge the State Dept admin with war crimes against humanity and charges of defrauding the U.S. taxpayers. The more I learn about our government the more I realize that the Republican Political Party is nothing more than "controlled opposition" pretending to care. Look, the Republicans can't even indict Biden with all the evidence already available, meanwhile the Dems have indicted Trump multiple times with a complete absence of ANY evidence against Trump. This is why the Republican Political Party is just "controlled opposition", only there to create a false perception to the voters that the voters have some choice in elections. All a lie. We live in a Failed State.
Good summary. Never forget us planned provoked and pushed this and now nearly million men in their graves. I truly hope biden sullivan blinken nuland zelensky and rest rot in hell for what they have done to these poor men. Russia ONLY party who wanted to end this with peace agreement. Never forget they deceived putin over minsk and stopped istanbul peace agreement. For what? Us hegemony, military industrial complex and to weaken russia. It is us who culprit pulling strings and they sicken me
Preach it Rand! As usual!
I pray that Rand Paul runs for president in 2024. Senator Paul if you read these posts please know that a majority of Americans support you and your positions. 🇺🇸Rand Paul For President 2024!!🇺🇸
Putin waiting to talk to a president with a brain. GO TRUMP 🏴
The only thing trump will do is kowtow to putin and sell out ukraine. He has no plan but pulling support for ukraine
And Vivek
Go to jail and do not pass GO!
Trump was calling Iran the axis of evil. Nothing will change with Trump
Ok putin doesn't want to come the negotiation table .....
What about understanding and admitting and apologizing for the fact we the US did Not live up to our agreements to not expending Nato
Does vthe US Ever going to apologys ???
As always….Rand Paul is correct
The hypocrisy of these people is beyond belief, and Paul calling them all out is priceless.
American diplomacy is the oxymoron.
Like asking a homeless person If u can live with them !
Negotiations? Ukraine could have had a better deal long ago and an even better deal before that. If they don’t wake up soon they are going to be negotiating with Gen. MacArthurkov on a ship.
Putin’s first offer is mutually beneficial. But each subsequent one is worse for the opponent. The last one for Ukraine was to officially forfeit 4 eastern regions and Crimea forever. I wonder what the current one is…
Diplomacy and to negotiation will never happen when the losing side demands for an unconditional surrender and withdrawal of troops from the winning side… If this doesn’t make sense, I really don’t know what will…😂
I remember when Russia started lining up and the media went ape shit with the hype.
Rand Paul is SPOT ON. 👍🏻
Well done sir, keep it up.
From Brett, in South Africa 💯
Come what may, Zelinsky is a billionaire
And other corrupt politicians around him are extra filthy rich now too. So is Biden family
Oy vey dont notice!!!!1
They say it's better to be an alive mongrel than a dead lion
@@TheAntsh Mongrels say that because they are envious of not getting to be born a lion.
US has to ensure Blackrock does not lose money in Ukraine.
Zelensky refuse peace talk..😂😂😂 what two party he is talking about??
Why do these politicians have ppl have the ppl who wrote there monologue sitting behind them?.....We are all doomed...........
It is actually Zelensky that said that he will not negotiate with Putin, until Russia completely withdraws all of its troops from Ukraine. Well, at that point, what would Russia be negotiating anyways? Doesn't make any sense.
Not ukraine any more. The people voted remember
What brand of washing machines for laundry did they get with our stolen tax? If they got a good one it could be years!
What he's really saying is..'I just bought a shitload of stocks in War Stock" we really need this!? And hey, "Were helping out even yet more" because we're successfully making other people rich too!!
Uhm, it's quite mind blowing to hear these people say that Putin doesn't want to negotiate while the ukrianian nazi regime is screaming and kicking "no negotiation!!! War only!!"
Like.....
'Russia won't talk' seems to have forgotten the nine years previous
In Ukraine there is a law that forbid negotiation.
But defense secretary Ostin said Ukraine is advancing, they are taking their territory back from Russia and the Russians are losing big! If he said so we have to believe him! Right?
🤣🤣🤣🤣right
How can they win armed with spades and using washing machine microchips in their equipment, right?
BLinken even said Ukraine had got 50% of the land back from Russia since the SMO started 🙆♂️🤣🤣🤣
@@botshelomoatshe3153 language or land???🤣
@@nikxohs3925 sorry autocorrect, LAND🤣🤣
The State official clearly doesn't understand basic economics if he doesn't understand that fiscal spending is not productive, and he believes debt is a real investment when it doesn't even get paid by tax revenue. Much less understand that the budget deficit is at 2 trillion, and that the national debt is so high that the interest payment will soon reach a trillion once the debt rolls over. Not like he would care anyways, it's the people that become poorer.
Russia offered a cease fire months ago and Ukraine refused it !
You mean NATO told Zelenskyy No a number of times
Every dollar borrowed for Ukraine costs us $2, the $1 we borrowed to give them plus the $1 we have to pay back.
Thank you, Sen. Paul
"I'm sorry if that's the way you want to frame it ... ", in other words, debt don't matter.
Paul the best!
Oh, and good on Rand Paul!
Just look at the guy behind Paul.............ughhhhhhhhhhhhhhh We are getting played Folks!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
He should be shaking his head in agreement with Rand instead of that stupid look on his face.
Love Rand Paul! Keep asking the questions!
Soooooooo...if we have to spend billions on Ukraine to keep from having to spend more on our defense at a later date then
Let's spend those billions at our borders so we won't have to spend more at a later date ON OUR SOIL!
Zelenskyy signed a decree banning any negotiations with Russia. Putin has always held up his part of any negotiations it was nato and Zelenskyy that didn’t hold up their end of the deal
Exactly
The dude behind Paul is tweaking bad. He's wired all the way baby !
One of Obama's classmates who never knew of or saw Obama at Columbia even though they graduated together on the same day both political science majors, both pre-law students in a class of 100-150 students. He said,
"America’s decline under Obama isn’t due to mistake, ignorance, or incompetence at the hands of a community organizer. It’s a purposeful, brilliant plan hatched at Columbia University to destroy capitalism, American exceptionalism, Judeo-Christian values, and the American Dream."
This was in 1983. He said: "My classmates hated America. They spoke with glee about one day "taking the system down." They blamed America for “unfairness, racism, inequality, and lack of social justice.”
I remember in 1984, Pakistan had encouraged their men to take up flying, learn to fly and go to the USA. 1984 is the year no one can find Obama. He had traveled with his 'friend' first to Moscow, then to Pakistan. Pakistan had blocked USA Visa Citizens so what passport did he use to get into Pakistan.
Same one he used to go to Occidental College in Cali?
He further said,
My classmates hated America. They spoke with glee about one day "taking the system down." They blamed America for “unfairness, racism, inequality, and lack of social justice.”
My classmates proudly called themselves socialists, communists, and Marxists. Even though almost all of them came from wealthy families (or perhaps because of it), they hated the rich and despised business owners. They talked about how the “white power structure” had to be dismantled, business owners bankrupted, and capitalism destroyed. Everything in their minds was based on “social justice.”
It's all about about lying to coverup the Marxist agenda of destroying the middle class, redistributing wealth, and putting big government in control of our every move.
excellent points senator rand
Who is this guy????? I'm NOT impressed...
this guy talks EXACTLY like Mayorkas
Fix America.
Fix America
Fix America
It’s all about the military war machine business & the political kickbacks & union ( democrat) jobs. War toys are a multi billion dollar business. As of lately ,democrats have garnered billions in the arms business, as if you didn’t already suspect that!
just to see if he really care of people instead of "doners", I would provoke him asking to pass a legislation to nationalize the entire military industry (profit zero driven or even deficit driven), then even double the defense spending. I'd be curious to hear the answer from him and his many friends.
War is America's primary business - we are the worlds largest arms dealer - and war is something that happens 'over there' so it doesn't really affect us... until it does
Paul is the sharpest person in DC.
Bravo Rand Paul. Hold them to account.
Love gives everything and requires nothing in return. love creates meaning for every particle in universe. it is the ultimate force
World needs peace. Recession is already grippling.
Where is the US going to get money to attack Russia?
The appearance of Treasury Bond selling as they used to,
appears to have hit an all time low?
The US Treasury last encountered economic stress like this
during the Colonial Conflict that was sponsored in Southeast Asia.
We since then adopted Fiat Dollars that now appear to lack any real support.
This Senator seems to have the right advisors on this issue.
Well done, Senator Paul.
Rand Paul!!! THANK YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Rand Paul, the only voice of reason in the Senate!
Thank you Senator for the question
Bravo to USA to have such conversations ! Here in Europe and especially in France, The UE commission or the french president decide alone what to do and have NO debate with the Senate !
WOW I didnt think the US had anybody as rational as this guy very refreshing !!!!