In this episode I'm joined by Daniel McAdams, director of the Ron Paul Institute and co-host of the Ron Paul Liberty Report, we dissect three seismic issues shaking the globe: the war in Ukraine, speculative land grabs in Gaza, and Europe's escalating assault on free speech. Our conversation offers a lens to analyze how these crises are not just geopolitical flashpoints but catalysts for a broader fight for individual liberty.

Ukraine: A Neocon Legacy Meets a Resilient Adversary

McAdams frames the Ukraine conflict as a decades-long chess game orchestrated by U.S. neocons, not a spontaneous Russian outburst.

"The U.S. involvement in Ukraine goes back to 2004 and the Orange Revolution," he said, spotlighting figures like Victoria Nuland, whose career spans from Dick Cheney's team to Obama's administration, embodying the "seamless" transition of interventionists across party lines. The 2004 coup, followed by the 2014 Maidan revolution—"she admits her guilt, essentially, on the intercepted phone call," McAdams noted of Nuland's infamous exchange with Ambassador Pyatt—illustrates a pattern of regime change that's left Ukraine a battleground of chaos.