Rand Paul Calls For The Reexamination Of All Foreign Aid With The US Trillions In Debt

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At the 125th VFW National Convention on Monday, Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) spoke about foreign aid.

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00:00With a $34 trillion debt, our foreign policy needs to reexamine all foreign aid.

00:08As a consequence of being everywhere all the time, American aid flows not only to dependent

00:13allies but to countries that have the audacity to burn our flag.

00:19I promise you this, I will never, ever vote to send one penny of aid to foreign countries

00:27that hate us and burn our flag.

00:47Those who suggest that we need to be everywhere all the time will also do the most to ensure

00:54perpetual conflict.

00:56They throw out historical examples claiming that we're once again in 1938, as we see the

01:02Russians invade Ukraine.

01:04My fear is that we're actually once again in 1914, and that escalation draws a sleepwalking

01:12closer to a nuclear confrontation.

01:15Prior to World War I, the nations of Europe lacked the diplomatic intellect to avoid a

01:20calamity that killed millions of people.

01:23In the horror of the trenches on the Western Front and saw the rise of a communist empire

01:28in the East, how different would the world have been had the diplomats of 1914 been better

01:36thinkers and the leaders more restrained?

01:40Was the honor of Serbia a vital interest to Tsarist Russia or to Imperial Germany?

01:47As we consider history lessons, let us remember that the governments who drew the world into

01:53the Great War and to World War I over something that wasn't a threat to their vital interest

01:58— Tsarist Russia, Imperial Germany, Imperial Austria — all were gone by the war's conclusion.

02:06President Eisenhower said, I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem, and that

02:12yardstick is it good for America.

02:15Ike unashamedly placed American vital national interest at the forefront of his thought.

02:22These philosophies must be our guiding light.

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