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tv   Direct Impact  RT  December 23, 2023 7:30am-8:01am EST

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it is because i've learned that news needs to be honest and direct and impactful. and this is direct impact the, you know, i noticed recently the global summits, which are not supposed to be competitions. but they seem reasonably like that's the way things are framing up. both with, for example, bricks on the one hand, the summit and the d 20. on the other hand, both were held earlier this year, one in south africa, the other in india, respectively. and i think this may be a good time to assess what we learned from these 2, shall i say competing summit's. the bread summit seems to have put the june 20, kind of the shame. because it actually went as far as to put many of the j 20
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countries on notice telling them in no uncertain terms that there were like economic tactics are not appreciated. so that's what came from breaks kind of targeting g 20 countries. and how did the members of the g 20 countries summit response? basically by telling the birds guys that if they're gonna point fingers, that they're going to do the same and point fingers back. and that's exactly what leading members of the g 20 did then by using their platform to go after russia and to go after china. no surprise there right? from the d. 20. all except for one feng. while the bricks, nations were united on most of the stuff that they talked about, the gee 20 nations were not. i'll give you an example. india and brazil simply did not go along with a narrative and chose not to take part in the china bashing or for that matter the
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rush of bashing i just chose not to do so. despite what the other countries of the 20 were saying. it's important to know that that sentiment, their sentiment reflects a growing power shift from the global south where suddenly countries in both africa, latin america are pushing back, pushing back from rubber stamping that used to be expected of them. in fact, those countries who now say that for years they have been victimized economically seen more interested in overhauling. for example, the world bank, then they were attacking russia on attacking china now and when it comes to global news coverage, you know the g 20 summit. i didn't get a lot. didn't get a lot of coverage. briggs made headline, seemingly all over the world but the 20 then. what does that set? by the way, what little coverage of g 20 did get? it was not all at positive. i'll give you an example. argentina's lot, she own
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a newspaper, wrote about president joe by not knowing who their top or their country's top political candidate was. because when i asked about presidential front runner, javier, i'm a mr. by new port at least said, who is bad character? that's what he said. who is that character in mexico's daily excellence, your newspaper, excelsior, the headline, read, the ukraine war. absent at the g 20. absent at the g 20, as it reported that g, 20 nations were actually more interested in tackling climate change. that in criticizing russia, argentina's other daily and flooding wrote about chinese presidents using thing not showing up at the g 20. and here's conflict with the us. the ongoing conflict obviously, that there's lot of silva who seem to scarf at the international court for issuing an arrest warrant for russian president vladimir,
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put in by inviting mr. fulton through next year summit in brazil with a promise that he will personally protect him from arrest. so look whether it's a latin america, asia, india, or the middle east. there is no denying that countries see the g 20 very different from how they used to see the g. 20. not only are they no longer falling in line with western narratives, they are now also offering their own replacement narratives. is that it's happening more and more slovakia for example, which borders ukraine. they just completed new parliamentary elections and the winter is just ma'am. right here, roberts joe or think go. i think they call them the joe who will now lead slovakia . i mean, which is a nato country. so lock it is
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a made old country. and this gentleman came out feature right after his election. and he said essentially, no more money for your grant. we does that will cause that, that goes. but it's, it'll be just based on a little fuzzy to, but it's of the bodies which, you know, what are the name of the company? will it be described on you or will you give you simple without unusual, you know, suitable reno's mom or damage to shift it's really a spawning statement this that he's doing this thing that he's doing where he's just basically saying, look, you create many money but sort of told him i people and because it's a stunning statement that puts nato in a bit of a precarious place to hear. one of its nations come out and declares something like that after an election. but there's another equally starting statement that i want to share with you maybe even more pointed this one comes from the united states. none other than the southern ran paul, who may have delivered one of the most convincing speeches yet. so many the
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question of sending more arms and more money to ukraine. by the way, normally at this time in this show that we bring you weekly, we, we, we bring in a guest and we analyze this. but i want to share a good part of this. i want you to hear instead of part of the speech that was delivered in congress by senator ram paul. but of course generally ignored by most of the corporate media. here it is. if this bill passes the u. s. will authorize roughly $60000000000.00 in total spending for you crime. for those who say this is not enough for those of you and this chambers, say that our military spending is never enough. let's put $60000000000.00 into perspective. according to l. e is yusef. a security assistance at the stems and center gave would become the largest yearly recipient of us military aid of the
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past 2 decades. except for the top 5 countries. $60000000000.00 is more than every other country in the world spends on their entire military expenditures. if this gift ukraine passes, are totally due, credit will almost equal the entire military budget of russia. and it's not as if we have that money lying around. we will have to borrow that money from china to send it to you. great. i gotta tell you, i like most proper journalist, i'm not in the business of promulgating any politicians ideology. and in fact, i probably should let you know that i have on many occasions, disagreed with mr. with us on a, ran paul's possessions on things. but in this case, given just his, if nothing else clarity regarding where we are getting the money that we then send to ukraine, for example. as well as his explanation of why the ukranian government may not necessarily be what we are all told they are. i thought it would be important that
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you and others, even those who may disagree with them, at least get a chance to hear his point of view. ok. so let's talk about this, and let's do so with the perfect guest in this case because daniel mac adams is the executive director of the ron paul institute. and since we're going to be talking about rand paul's statement, um it's, it's really important to have this discussion with dan, dan, thanks for joining us up. i want to start though with something else. i want to start with the, the whole idea of something that i've seen happening recently. and i get a sense that the twenty's of the world and the, the sevens and the american summit. and all of these formerly super cool summit's meetings that were held by leaders from all over the world are not getting the same attention or respect that we're now seeing in the competing summits,
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like the belt road breaks the lula summit for latin america, etc. what's going on here? why is that what, why. a i seem to, to stop today to see rick and thanks for him. you know, by the way, there's a tech tonic shift going on in the world right now. and it's, it's very ironic because of us has done everything. it says that it's done everything. it can to prevent it, but actually us foreign policy is encouraging it and accelerating this move away from the global north for lack of a better term for the global self. and that's why you see things like the brake stomach. everyone wants to join, like you say, it's where the cool kids hang out. everyone wants to join brakes, whereas you have the g 20. it was, it was tired of it. they couldn't agree on any kind of statement. the us one, if you use it again, they one is a hijacked to somebody that's a tool of it's one policy is anti russian pro ukraine form policy that didn't work . so basically nothing came out of it. it was just a very expensive junket. and uh,
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i mean, the contrast with with bricks and the others you mentioned start, are the chickens come coming home to roost when it comes to our foreign policy. i mean, is that why we're seeing countries as you say, wanting to hang out with the cool kids at brooks because they're coming together and saying, you know, these guys have been screw on us for so long economically. and another ways we still want to be their friends, but we're just going to go over here and make our own club. well, what i think happened is the sanctions is the primary to all of us. one policy. that's literally all we have do what we say or will section you if that doesn't work well, bomb you and the rest of the world is understand to be sick of it. and so sanction has reached the point of no return, you sanctioned the hell out of iran. and then mix deals with russia and make deals are in the region. they make peace with saudi arabia with the help of china. i mean, i've been doing for a policy for a long time. rick, i never saw that coming. i never thought i would see the iran saudi arabia
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china sitting down in the 2 of them mending defensive. so i and, and it's actually iran, saudi arabia. it's a china, russia, india, to a certain next step. and prior to this situation that's going on now with a moss and israel, even israel was edging toward grouping with those folks weird. huh? yeah, it was weird and don't forget iran, which is which of regional powerhouse now. and now we're seeing or speaking of israel, i mean, we're seeing a to a degree that it's a paper tiger. it's not the powerhouse. absent nuclear weapons, it would be a pushover. you know, we're, we're, we're seeing the destruction basically of the midst of israel's invest ability. so that feeds iran a major player in the region, syria, now a major player now that the assad has defeated for the most part, the us back outside of an ice. this is a us in israel,
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back of card and isis there. so you're seeing a massive, massive shift in a, in a sense. it's left israel out in the cold. and i think that might explain some of the things that have been happening over the past couple of weeks because we're left with auto protector. i got something for you because as you're speaking, i just looked down at my phone and i just got them alert. you know, as boring, dirty journalist, we literally get alerts from. this is from the miami herald telling me that there's a breaking news story once again that rhonda santas is let me make sure i get this right. randa santas is moving forward on pushing the state legislature to sanction iran. ronda said the governor of florida is going to sanction iran. i guess he thinks he's one. that's what i mean kit. it just,
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it seems foolhardy. it seems like just cock, maybe politics. first of all, he's not a country. i mean what this is like, political showmanship. i guess he wants jewish americans and florida to vote for while he did. i didn't have the he held a meeting of his, of his, the state legislatures and in jerusalem i think last year it was, i think he's done that twice. so he's, he has a very strong tie there, i guess, a little business that i don't want to pick on him. i mean it's, you know, easy but, but it's like, he's a guy running for it. just like, what are you doing? i mean, what about the police? what about fixing my roads? what about make sure insurance policies are going to be able to be available to the citizens of this state where i am right now because they're all leaving because of the hurricanes and yet instead he's worried about sanctioning a ron? yeah, well no, he's got the, he's got the boomer. he doesn't have his ear to the, to the pulse of the people and it's not on the, on israel policy. in fact, rick,
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i was just looking at a new poll that came out cbs, you got full, astonishing. are they asked, do you support sending support and weapons to israel? and among republicans, it was only 57 percent among democrats. it was less than 50 percent. and among independents, it was far less than 50 percent. so the world has changed. you can select the cube a policy of the younger generation just doesn't have these old ideas about we've got a support is on the matter what we've got a section the hell out of cuba, you know, till they feel they all starve and get rid of the economy is the world was changing radically, and people like one of the santas, they just don't see it coming well. and rhonda sanchez's emblematic of what we see in congress. right. the rhonda sent us attitude that we just talked about because that having to come through my iphone is, is similar to what we hear from the majority of the people in the senate who by the way, are almost dead. there are 80 or 90 years is old. and they still live in the 19 forties
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and fifties and where they think there's a cold war going on. and you know, uh the funny thing is, as you say, most people do not feel that way, but they do. that's why recently wouldn't rand paul stood up and made that statement that was not covered by the general media, but we are covering it here. i just thought of nothing else. it was agree with him or not. it was refreshing to hear somebody say, why are we borrowing money from china to give it to ukraine? we can't afford a $100000000000.00 with everything that we've got going on in this country. oh, and by the way, the country we're giving it to that we're saying is a great democracy is really not that much of a great democracy. why don't you think of that? they just out lot of the biggest church in ukraine. i mean, they literally outlaw the church so that what does that tell you? they didn't know elections. they outlawed the competing a political parties. they outlawed the opposition media and now they don't love the
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church. so that's a great, it's a great democracy. i mean, i do think that, that, you know, change who has left the station to a degree. i mean, that's why they're trying to tie together the money for israel and the money for ukraine in this big $100000000000.00 bill. because they see the writing on the wall with regard to ukraine. they know it's a lot last cause the, the american people are absolutely opposed to send the money to crane. i think them on republican voters last pull i saw was like 74 percent against sending more money . yeah. right. so it's deeply, deeply on popular and unpopular view and the politicians. i think you're just starting to catch up with the people. then do me a favor, stay right there, cuz i want to come back and continue to talk about the situation as it can, as, as it relates to both ukraine and the situation that could be escal atory in between our mazda and israel. as far as the whole geo politics shift that you mentioned that's taking place in the world, we're talking to daniel mcadams, will be right back. by the way,
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i always want to continue the conversation with you and all you gotta do so we can continue. that conversation is go over to twitter x where my handle is rick sanchez, tv. look for me, rick sanchez, tv. i would really like to hear what you have to say whether you agree or disagree with me. all right. when we come back, let's talk about that speech by side or ram paul with our guests and questions that are normally once again, not asked, don't go away the the mortgage. right, so see what's printing, what was the route that was correct?
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there so, so the just so basically of course, with me, the last thing was these really was, can, when we used to live imagine we have support for someone who has this relationship. plenty of people to the, the it's amazing what can happen over the course of a few months, not long ago buying was in fabric that the us went back to craig as long as it takes. now it is as long as we can. what happened? no doubt can reach even to this taken down the
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kind of auto back. how much sanchez, you know, what are the most important transformations that is taking place in the world today, especially in the conflict between east and west. is the union that is being established by certain groupings of country where there used to be 12, or 3 organizations like a way of searching 20 or g 7, who seemed to represent, quote, unquote the world. now there are other organizations out there, but seem to have a competing point of view. and those 2 points of view are reaching a point of almost intersection that will likely create one of 2 things. as we look at it from here. either more conflict or more understanding which will it be they were joined once again by daniel mcadam. he is the executive director of the ron paul institute. many of you who watches from all over the world of millions of
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you, i know, because i've seen the numbers, i've seen conversations in the past that i've had with that. then he is a proponent of trying to come up with a better way of, of handling our foreign policy. and, and to that note, i want to ask you something then about the rush is making incredible in roads in africa, according to all reports that we see globally, china is that in roads all over the world, but in particular, in latin america, interestingly enough. so as an american, as a proud american, it bothers me that we're losing certain parts of the world. and, and, and i guess i would ask you as someone who's been kind of a follower of the ron paul principal that were making too many mistakes and board policy, what do we need to do to get those regions back? or can we, as well, not for awhile, ironically what russia in china are doing is essentially non interventionism. i
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mean, when, in uh, when, uh, i think this, someone in latin america said when china comes, they bring their checkbook. when america comes to bring a lecture in ho, and that's, that's, that's how it is. you know, it's that the russia is not trying to overthrow governments overseas in some ways or not, and dimension as i'm even in place as close by like, armenia, it, you know, you could consider it even threatening to their security, but they're not going overseas. are not telling africa and africa is under going right now. it's very strong and tied colonial spirit. we see it everywhere throughout the region. and part of it is a reaction to us, interventionist one policy starting with libya for example, which on least the forces of hell throughout africa. and that was the us doing, in no rush is trying to pick up the pieces of trying to pick up the pieces are, are there active in rush or the rock given the rest of the, of, of the continents they, they basically took a position of a non intervention in new share with us was telling them you better restore your
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government, got to do this and that they just stood back and waiting for things to happen. so ironically, they're coming with business deals. i'm not claiming that they're angels, but they're not coming with lectures and bombs and sections. and i think that's the key. non intervention isn't friendship with all who seek it. i mean, this is our founders, principles of friendship and free trade with all these states to stay with us. that's how we went back. maybe i should ask the question this way. that makes sense, what you just said, and we shouldn't be looking for friends. and i think we have had experiences in the past with presidents like kennedy perhaps, who tried that. but what are the forces that are keeping us from going out there with an open hand rather than a closed fist? who's doing this and why? well, a lot of the military industrial complex, they drive u. s. foreign policy. they funded the campaigns of people on capital hill or they fund presidents, they fund congressman, they fund the think tanks who come up with the brilliant idea that
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a war would be just a river and they fund the media and they are our tax dollars are being stolen from us to give them a to, to keep replenishing the war machine. so i think that is a critical, this deep, deep corruption in american society. their entire economy is driven by war, and it will come home to roost because of working men and women of this country are seen the dollar being absolutely destroyed. and when they go to the store, they're having a heart attack every time. hopefully at some point they will connect the dots and realize the person picking their pockets are the rich people who live up in mclean, virginia. you know, that's where the problems are. yeah. but you know, it's interesting. everything you just said that is the realization of places like africa and parts of the middle east. and, you know, certainly in latin america, which has been besieged in the past by ca, tactics that have killed hundreds of thousands of people as i will know. because it's where i come from americans, i don't by end of that,
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they don't understand i, i've watched the interview the other day with some folks. i don't know if i was watching cnn or fox or one of those cable channels that are all full of crap. and it was amazing to me. they interviewed people and they were saying things like, well, if my president says we need to do that, i trust him because, you know, i in fact, i think he should just choose his a successor. if he gets too old and they were saying things were their, their, their, their trust in these, in this political institution, you know, these politicians just makes me feel like, wow, why aren't they questioning? why are they asking the questions that ran paul was questioning. why is that? i think americans and the most propagandized people on earth, you know, at least in the soviet period they realize the government was lying to them. americans don't, they? you know, they're given their show of the big part of the crap and told that it's delicious. chocolate putting, you know, i mean this is, i hate to be so true,
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but that's exactly what it is. and that's, that's one thing. and the other thing is that americans don't travel, they have absolutely no idea what the rest of the world is like. and that makes our foreign policy cost free. they don't see the results and consequences of sanctions of bombing of starving kids. they never see it, and so therefore they just support it because they think it makes us strong and respected overseas, but it doesn't. and then there's the, the demon ization aspect. i am always taking a bag by how we can, and by the way, we're fickle about this because we demonize today. it will be our friend tomorrow, but like right now it's the demon ization of she khomeini madura o like no there's there's, there's a certain strategy level like a marketing strategy. these are the people we hate and you have to feed them too. so therefore, we're going to make sure our, our media, you know, the answers and cooper's and the world and the sean hannity's and these idiots,
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you know, are going to convince you to hate these people. by the way, i'm no fan of she or khomeini or my door or pull them or any of these guys. but come on, who would you rather have a beer with them or by the by that we'd have to 1st wake him up, but continue pass. i mean a good 5 minutes. so is so detached from reality is his recent speech to america about the middle east was so detached from your, from reality, even try it out. the old domino theory, if we don't stop now, he's going to take over poland, which is absolutely assa 9. it was stupid, the 1st time around, you know, things like america is the essential country. over and over again. you know, it's, it's these, these platitudes that are spoken by our leaders are, are assisting and dumbing us down. well, i'll tell you what, dan, it's a great conversation and i do wish that somebody at the state department or
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somebody somewhere within our system is listening to us and trying to make that deviation because i think if ever we've needed it, it's now, especially in the weeks and months to come. thank you. my friend, daniel mcadam, executive director of the ron paul institute. my thanks once again. thank you to you know, before we go, i want to remind you of our mission what we try and do here on a weekly basis. it's simple, really. i like to be silo the world. we've got to stop living and little boxes because truth doesn't live in little boxes where you only hear your point of view truths are everywhere. i'm rick sanchez and i'll be looking for you right here again as we try to provide a direct impact the the
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release of the russian states never. i've side as a sort of the most sense community. not getting hold of all sense and the in the system must be the one else holes. question about this, even though we will fan in the european union, the kremlin machine, the state on the russians cruising and split the ortiz full neck, even our video agency, roughly all the band on youtube, the payment services to the question, did you fix the requested the
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take a fresh look around is life kaleidoscopic, isn't just a shifted reality distortion by how us to do vision with no real opinions. fixtures designed to simplify will confuse really one say better wills? is it just because it shows you a few fractured images presented to this, but can you see through their illusion going underground? can the people had given a as many in the west without you as being a foolish and wasteful enterprise instead of the building our domestic societies, we have to i to impose based mobile externally. which of course states simply with no success, which is linked to this conflict and relate to the 2nd coma the
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4 or 5 of and give you some people anywhere in the world. and even got some you and a head. so the law move a 100. this all set and in fact, the power sitting on the light while accusing is where i live, obstructing the distribution of humanitarian aid. also next being in situation with people that are leaving, you know, with crowd the spacing sports that became, shows that, i mean, that had a through inside this he's on the home was probably like the why the fire read costs and crescent a person's house all to that goes in a, facing an epidemic, a piney infectious diseases without access to life saving treatment. and some of the us has one.

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