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Chrystal Daniel's avatar

I'm So Happy To See That President Trump & His Administration Have Been Working Hard For Everyone...President Trump Has ALWAYS Been For Peace Through Strength...I Have Been For This Since Trump Came Down That Golden Esclaider...It's Not Political It's Common Sense...I'm American...We Have To Be About SavingTheChildren...So I Will Just Add This I Am MAGA, Our Movement Is #MAGAWWPEACE πŸ˜‰ πŸ™πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡² #MakeYourCountryGreat Again ##ItsAlwaysBeenAboutSavingTheChildren #NoMoreHumanTrafficking #GodBlessTheWorld #GODWINS

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Joy Potter's avatar

Gotta love Rand Paul!

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walter boyer's avatar

Peace, what a concept!

President Trump's overture toward a peaceful mankind shows courage, compassion and strength.

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AMV's avatar

I agree with Rand. Trumps courage and determination will overcome even the harshest obstacles. Americans spoke on 11/5.

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KurtOverley's avatar

Firing missiles at the Houthis is not a great start.

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Kathleen Connors's avatar

It is when the Houthis are attacking ships, killing people, and stopping marine traffic! Not to mention that it is costing the world millions of dollars, etc to follow a different shipping route.Should this terrorists just be allowed to continue, in your opinion? President Trumpβ€˜s decisions are wiping out those terrorists and allowing shipping to continue and lives to be saved. Maybe it would be a good idea for you to do a little research instead of just condemning everything Trump.

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MollieAS's avatar

Are you aware of the reasons the Houthis are blocking that shipping lane? They are doing it to fight back against Israel, for committing genocide on the citizens of Gaza. When there was a ceasefire, they stopped.

You have to ask yourself, haven't we played the role of terrorists in waging military bombing attacks on so many countries, for murky, unsubstantiated reasons, which turned out to be false.

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Maureen Mehlman's avatar

The Houthis aren't justified and neither is Hamas. Terrorists must be stopped. Every group can find justification for murder but it's not ever an acceptable response or reasonable excuse to kill ppl. There are so many rumors and accusations flying around. The middle east has a history that goes back thousands of years and all of it has led to now. It is the birthplace of modern civilization and belief systems that more than half of all ppl hold dear and are passionate about. The problem comes in when one group thinks the other has no right to exist. Iran has vowed to literally wipe Israel off the map and Israel has been attacked repeatedly since it's formation. No group can endure such assault without becoming pretty defensive, maybe offense is a rational defense at times. World history is rife with unbridled antisemitism and I doubt that's just going to magically disappear even though it is undeniably wrong.

Israel has bad actors just like EVERY other nation. Maybe the Gazan ppl need to reject Hamas. Hamas has been documented to highjack aid sent to Gaza for the Gazan ppl among a long list of other egregious wrongs.

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MollieAS's avatar

Israel is not justified to be committing genocide.

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Maureen Mehlman's avatar

Israel isn't committing "genocide". You don't understand what genocide is if you think that.

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MollieAS's avatar

Perhaps your news is limited to the right or left- if so, you don't know what's going on. Yes, it is genocide, by every legal and moral definition.

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Mike Schmitt - Rubra Group's avatar

I agree with this article. Peace through strength has bee a mainstay of traditional American Foreign policy for decades, I am glad we have leaders willing to go back to that tried and true foreign policy.

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Cathy K-Pink's avatar

So why do they need a $1T budget??

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Maureen Mehlman's avatar

You cannot have peace through strength without strength. A fit and ready military is VERY expensive and weakness will will inspire more, not less war. It might seem counterintuitive but history shows that when America is weak bad actors seize the perceived opportunity to attack us or our allies.

Bullies always pick those they think are the weakest to bully, from school yards to nations. They never pick on someone who can/will fight back harder.

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Cathy K-Pink's avatar

Sure. Problem is they’re gearing up for a Middle East war. USA is the bully. Has been the meddling bully for too many years. Lied about, usually takes 5-10-15 years to get busted and have to tell the truth. USA is the reason so many moderate competent African and Middle East leaders were overthrown/killed just to install a USA puppet gov which made the populations very unhappy and very unstable. That’s why hard line extremists are then able to take over - which then gives USA and Israel more β€œreason” to bully harder. Why can’t other countries stand up for themselves? Why are they labeled β€œterrorists” when they resist and try to keep their culture and heritage rather than having western values imposed on them? Why is the only solution USA and Israel have is blowing everything to pieces? It’s ridiculous.

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Maureen Mehlman's avatar

No they are not. America has been guilty of wrong doing but that's not the intent of our current leadership. In fact it's just the opposite.

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Cathy K-Pink's avatar

This is only tip of the iceberg. I can’t put 1000+ hours in a few paragraphs. So go do your own homework outside your echo chamber. When all my reps repeated Israeli lies - yes β€œevidence” verified by IDF a few months after war started, as fabricated - when I wrote to them that I opposed the war. And they said beheaded babies! babies on clotheslines! mass rape of women! … and as a citizen I was able to determine what was and wasn’t true. But my reps send billions and kill thousands - for what? What is the end game? Israeli expansion. So don’t give me any bull about β€œAmerica First”.

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Cathy K-Pink's avatar

And further proof of warmongering - Ukraine could have had a truce 3 months after start of Russia war. USA and NATO had broken the agreement over the last 15 years to keep Ukraine neutral and not put defenses up against Russia. (USA also meddled in elections in Ukraine and Russia in last 2 decades - but hey β€œRussian interference” in USA). But British and USA told Z don’t accept - they wanted the war to continue to drain Russia of resources - why? - one, because too many profit when the war industry is booming, and once again, it all goes back to Israel. They needed Russia to fail so that Syria and Yemen couldn’t defend against Israeli aggression of attacking and stealing more land. And here we are, Russia withdrawn and Israel blowing things up OUTSIDE its β€œborders” (which they never declare bc don’t want to fence themselves in) and taking land in Lebanon and Syria. Forever occupying and making locals lives miserable til they die or leave. And USA keeps funding this folly.

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Cathy K-Pink's avatar

Put down the koolaid. Go do your own research, not just listen to what they’re telling you. A few years ago, I would have agreed. But after a 1000+ hours of my own research especially the last 1.5 years, I found we’ve been lied to. Enormously. Only difference now is they don’t even try to hide the lies. They just repeat them over and over til the public thinks it’s truth because they’ve heard it so many times. It psyops, not truth. Go look up USS Liberty (LBJ denied assistance to men injured and dying onboard. Our own gov wanted that ship to sink and the men to die after Israel pretended to be Arabs attacking so they could start a war - but they couldn’t sink it - see Candace Owens interview with a survivor who is old and tired of being silent). King David Hotel bombing (start of a nation under deception that send billions to so they can continue deception and theft), fake WMD charge against Iraq resulting in killing of saddam Hussein, killing of Ghaddafi in Libya for trying to unite African nations, funding (possibly creating) ISIS to destabilize Middle East, toppling and replacing leaders in Jordan, Egypt, Lebanon and replacing with American puppets that greatly upset the native populations. Meddling and killing and lying. USA has bases surrounding Iran and then points finger saying look at Iran trying to start πŸ’© how else should they defend themselves when USA is complicit in killing all the leaders around them?

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Maureen Mehlman's avatar

As always Dr Paul, I agree. The level of unparalleled hatred of Trump by Democrats and globalists is telling that they really don't support Americans. They view us as an unworthy, lesser ppl and have an anti-human agenda overall.

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MollieAS's avatar

President Trump is not being a peace president both by his rhetoric about Gaza especially, and by proposing a Trillion dollar " defense" budget to fight wars that aren't ours. Arresting peaceful protesters is also a bad sign our country could be sinking further.

I applaud his efforts to trim government waste- but the overstuffed DoD is not the one to feed. Have we become nothing except a giant war machine?

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Maureen Mehlman's avatar

He hasn't made any overture or suggestion that we will fight wars that aren't ours. He was the only president to come even close to brokering a peace deal in the middle east and hasn't given up on that. We do have allies that we agree to defend and then there's NATO. Whether we like it or not, when america is militarily diminished or has perceived weakness then certain aggressors are likely to veer out of their own lanes and get aggressive. A ready military costs billions. The budgets for big city police forces costs tens of millions. It is a lot of money yet it's a necessary expenditure.

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