All Hell Breaks Loose as Trump Engulfs World in War!!

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1:28Ben Meiselas:All hell is breaking loose across the entire world as Donald Trump's disastrous war in Iran is backfiring. And it is impacting everything. Furious world leaders who were allied with the United States, whether it was French President Emmanuel Macron, Prime Minister Pierre Starmer of the UK, Prime Minister Carney of Canada, the Prime Minister of Spain, you name it, they are calling out the Trump regime in no uncertain terms. Donald Trump is then mocking these other countries when we need them the most. Let me share with you what is going on throughout the world. French President Emmanuel Macron said that the U.S.-Israeli strikes on Iran that began over this weekend and killed the country's supreme leader were conducted, quote, outside of international law.

2:26Ben Meiselas:and that France, quote, cannot approve them and that France will not engage in any offensive measures at this time with the United States. Prime Minister Kierre Starmer of the United Kingdom said, quote, I will not commit our military personnel to unlawful action. This is not what they would expect and deserve. They are entitled to better than them. The Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk signaled that Poland intends to eventually obtain its own nuclear weapons as Europe strengthens its deterrence amid doubts, big doubts, that the U.S. will ever be there to help them again. And Georgia Maloney, the Italian prime minister, is saying it is clear to Italy and Europe that without restoring the rule of law that has been destroyed in Ukraine, the chaos will only escalate.

3:22Ben Meiselas:But specifically, we're seeing leaders throughout Europe, Canada and elsewhere talking about how the chaos that is being demonstrated here comes from a breakdown of the rule of law and order throughout the world that Donald Trump has destroyed. The Spanish Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, said the following about Iran. Today, more than ever, it's essential to remember that one can be against a hateful regime, as is the case with the Iranian regime, as is the whole of Spanish society, and at the same time be against an unjustified, dangerous military intervention outside of international law. that one must be against a war initiated without authorization of the United States Congress or the United Nations Security Council, and as I have said before, one that violates international law.

4:14Ben Meiselas:And there is always room for a negotiated solution instead of being dragged along by the devastation of arms as the only possible way out. Therefore, I would like once again, as we have done since the beginning to appeal for immediate de-escalation for full respect of international law in all the conflicts we are unfortunately suffering and for the urgency of resuming dialogue as soon as possible. That is where Spain will be. And that is where I believe the whole of the European Union should be. Prime Minister Mark Carney of Canada, who's been visiting India, he's in Sydney right now. He's been visiting all of, he's been visiting, taking a trip throughout the globe.

4:55Ben Meiselas:He's saying that the following, here's his statement. The current conflict is another example of the failure of the international order. The United States and Israel have acted without engaging the United Nations or consulting allies, including Canada. And he does say, well, Canada has to be involved and help out now with regret, which is an odd statement for him to make. But he called out the United States there as well. In response, Donald Trump has been attacking these world leaders who you would think if you start a war like this and a war on a world scale, you would want allies or you would try to figure out how to gather support.

5:41Ben Meiselas:Not Donald Trump. Donald Trump attacked Prime Minister Kier Starmari yesterday during a Oval Office press conference with Germany's Chancellor, Friedrich Merz. Donald Trump said, Starmer is no Churchill. By the way, that's the front page of the Daily Telegraph now. Donald Trump attacking Keir Starmer. Starmer is no Churchill. U.S. President attacks Prime Minister over the lack of support for Iran war, saying that Starmer is ruining our relationship and he's ruining the great relationship between the United States and the UK. Donald Trump is also threatening embargoes against Spain for the statement that I just read from you from the prime minister of Spain, Pedro Sanchez.

6:28Ben Meiselas:And then Donald Trump says, I don't care that Spain is saying that we can't use their bases. We will do whatever we want to do. We'll just literally a quote from Donald Trump. We could just fly in and use it. Nobody's going to tell us what to do. I think we should cut off all trade with Spain. Isn't that right? And then Donald Trump asks all of his Epstein class advisors if we should cut off any type of trade to Spain. That's what Donald Trump's doing. Let me just show you some clips of what these leaders said. Let me show you Trump's response. Then I want to talk about what's going on elsewhere in the world.

7:07Ben Meiselas:Here is what Prime Minister Carney said. You can hear it for yourself. Let's play it. We support efforts to prevent Iran from obtaining a nuclear weapon and to prevent its regime from further threatening international peace and security. Because Canada is taking the world as it is, not passively waiting for a world we wish to be. We do, however, take this position with regret because the current conflict is another example of the failure of the international order. Despite decades of UN Security Council resolutions, the tireless work of the International Atomic Energy Agency, and the succession of sanctions and diplomatic frameworks, Iran's nuclear threat remains.

7:55And now, the United States and Israel have acted without engaging the United Nations or consulting allies, including Canada. So where to from here? with a rapidly spreading conflict and growing threats to civilian life. Canada reaffirms that international law binds all belligerents. We condemn the strikes carried out by Iran on civilians and civilian infrastructure across the Middle East. And we implore all parties, including the United States and Israel, to respect the rules of international engagement. Canada calls for a rapid de-escalation of hostilities and is prepared to assist in achieving this goal.

8:36Ben Meiselas:And here is what Keir Starmer said, the prime minister of the UK. You can hear it for yourself right here. Exposing our military personnel to action that risks their lives, making sure that it is lawful before we ask them to do that. I think that is the duty of the prime ministers, a previous prime minister to take an exact same approach. I will, of course, read the shadow attorney's advice, but I'm very clear in the advice that I received. And I will not commit. I will not commit our military personnel to unlawful action. That is that is not what they would expect and deserve. They are entitled to better than that.

9:15Ben Meiselas:This was Donald Trump yesterday saying that he was not happy with the UK. He said this is not Winston Churchill we're dealing with. that's how he's attacking the prime minister of the UK. Here's what he says. Here, play this clip.

9:34And I'm not, by the way, I'm not happy with the UK either. That island that you read about, the lease, okay, he made it for whatever reason, he made a lease of the island. Somebody came and took it away from him. and it's taken three, four days for us to work out where we can land there. It would have been much more convenient landing there as opposed to flying many extra hours. So we are very surprised. This is not Winston Churchill that we're dealing with.

10:06Ben Meiselas:Here's Donald Trump attacking the prime minister of Spain yesterday. Let's play it. But some of the European, like Spain, has been terrible. In fact, I told Scott to cut off all dealings with Spain. Spain, first of all, it started when every European nation, at my request, paid 5%, which they should be doing. And everybody was enthusiastic about it, Germany, everybody. And Spain didn't do it. And now Spain actually said that we can't use their bases. And that's all right. We could use their base if we want. We could just fly in and use it. Nobody's going to tell us not to use it, but we don't have to.

10:45But they were unfriendly. And so I told him we don't want to. Spain has absolutely nothing that we need other than great people. They have great people, but they don't have great leadership. And as you know, they were the only country that in NATO would not agree to go up to five percent. I don't think they wouldn't agree to go up to anything. They wanted to keep it at two percent and they don't pay the two percent. So we're going to cut off all trade with Spain. We don't want anything to do with Spain.

11:17Ben Meiselas:More from Donald Trump attacking the prime minister of Spain. Has the right to stop. Sort of interesting. I have the right to stop, but under that one law, I didn't have the right to charge him. So I have the right to license him, but I don't have the right to charge, which is frankly ridiculous. But the right was given to us by the Supreme Court. And we have the right, as an example, we talked about Spain. I could tomorrow stop, or today even better, stop everything having to do with Spain. All business having to do with Spain. I have the right to stop it. Embargoes, do anything I want with it.

11:51And we may do that with Spain. What do you think? Well, sir, I think we're going to talk about it with you. I know that you have a strong power. We can clarify. We know you can use it. And if you need to use it to assure national and economic security, we'll do it. Scott, do you have an opinion? sir i i agree the supreme court reaffirmed your ability the to implement an embargo and as we've talked the from your first term the section 301s and the 232s have withheld more than 4 000 lawsuits and ustr and commerce are going to instigate are going to begin investigations and we'll move forward with those and we've instituted a 15 percent tariff on everybody as you know, and just used, I'll tell you, we had a couple of paragraphs written in that opinion that were really incredible.

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14:27Ben Meiselas:Look, now more than ever, the United States needs allies, right? Last night, we learned that an Iranian drone struck a U.S. base in Bahrain. We see the video here capturing a loud explosion as it impacts inside a U.S. facility right there, another Shahi drone striking a U.S. base right there. And we had all these images. I did a video this morning right where i showed you uh the the cia headquarters in riyadh saudi arabia being hit by drones the u.s consulate in dubai being hit by drones uh the united states uh air base in qatar being hit by iranian drones uh and and and as i mentioned at the outset too war is spreading though throughout the entire world everyone is being impacted right now by donald trump's uh disastrous behavior and conduct.

15:22Ben Meiselas:Did you know that the United States is in a war in Ecuador right now? Did you know that? The United States Southern Command posted the following. On March 3rd, Ecuadorian and U.S. military forces launched operations against designated terrorist organizations in Ecuador. The operations are a powerful example of the commitment of partners in Latin America and the Caribbean to combat the scourge of narco-terrorism. So you know how the United States was and has been shooting these fishing boats off the coast of Venezuela, in the Caribbean, and also in the Pacific. And we've been reporting how a lot of these fishing boats are not narco-terrorists.

16:05Ben Meiselas:It's just the Trump regime killing fishermen. And there's a lot of evidence to suggest these are not narco-terrorists. And in any event, Donald Trump released one of the biggest narco terrorists, Juan Orlando Hernandez, who was running a narco state out of Honduras, literally shipped massive amounts of cocaine and other drugs into the United States, was convicted in federal court in the United States. And Donald Trump pardoned that guy. This isn't about narco terrorism. So what's going on now in Ecuador? Well, Donald Trump is very close with the president of Ecuador, a guy named Daniel Noboa. And Noboa hangs out at Mar-a-Lago.

16:42Ben Meiselas:Noboa's family owns the Noboa Corporation. And there were allegations that his family's banana export business, the Noboa Trading Company, was used in some instances to smuggle cocaine often hidden in banana containers bound for Europe. the Balkans, Croatia, and Italy. This was allegations, let's be clear, the Boboa family denies it. Investigative journalism from outlets like OCCRP, Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project in collaboration with others, documented multiple large cocaine seizures worth millions in NoBoa trading shipments between 2020 and 2022. Encrypted chats from alleged Balkan traffickers claimed exclusive rights to use those containers for smuggling.

17:30Ben Meiselas:And again, And the Boba, the Boboa family denies all of this. But in any event, Trump and Boboa are launching these missions on the ground. We have boots on the ground in Ecuador right now. I just want you to know that. And there is chaos everywhere in the world right now. I mean, we go from the Middle East to Ecuador. Why don't we take you to Japan? Again, major Japanese shipping companies have stopped their ships from transiting through the Strait of Hermuz following the U.S. and Israeli attacks on Iran. There are concerns that long term disruptions will really harm Japan's oil supply. It's impacting other Asian countries as well.

18:14Ben Meiselas:South Korea being severely impacted. You can see on this chart right here how East Asia is particularly highly exposed to the disruption of oil exports in the Strait of Hermes. You can see the picture right here. The Japanese government has stated that they have 254 days of oil reserves left on an emergency basis. And if the straight of, as Jeffrey Hall explains, if the straight of Hermuses close for an extended period due to the ongoing war, it could be a very serious problem for Japan's economy. That's why we saw Japan's main index crash, South Korea's stock market crashing as well. And I mean, South Korea's main market dropped like 12 percent yesterday.

19:03Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump finding a way to profit off of all of this as well. Remember when Donald Trump posted yesterday the following, effective immediately, I have ordered the United States Development Finance Corporation to provide at a very reasonable price political risk insurance and guarantees for the financial security of all maritime trade, especially energy traveling through the Gulf. This will be available to all shipping lines if necessary. The United States Navy will begin escorting tankers through the Strait of Hermes as soon as possible. No matter what, the United States will ensure the free flow of energy to the world.

19:39Ben Meiselas:The United States economic and military might is the greatest on Earth. More actions to come. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Remember when Donald Trump posted that? Well, as Congress member Joaquin Castro points out, The president just announced that the United States government will provide insurance and U.S. Navy escorts for oil tankers in the Middle East after causing a regional crisis by going to war with Iran. Very few, if any, of these tankers are coming to the United States. The single biggest buyer of crude oil from the Persian Gulf is China. Also, you saw Japan, South Korea and others as much as 40 percent.

20:16Ben Meiselas:So this certainly looks like the United States will be subsidizing and protecting oil shipments to China and elsewhere. And again, Trump says we're going to be sending naval ships now into the Strait of Hermes and also offering insurance. So we're going to now send our troops into harm's way for some pay for play scheme right here. Is that what's going on? And I'll point this out as well as Brett Bruin writes, I've done evacuations and extractions of Americans in war zones. It is so highly irresponsible to do what the Trump regime just did, to tell people they need to leave all of the Middle East, right?

21:00Ben Meiselas:The Trump regime, State Departments, and everybody in the Middle East get out when missiles are falling without providing them the necessary security to actually get out. It creates chaos and confusion. Ultimately, it can put our citizens in greater danger. And that's what the Trump regime is doing there. I'll point out some more things as well that I think are worth pointing out here. The United States meddling with the Iraqi election. So the Iraqi coordination framework voted yesterday to withdraw the nomination of Nouri al-Maliki, the Iraqi politician and former prime minister, for the role of prime minister.

21:41Ben Meiselas:According to local news, the vote took place without Maliki, whose nomination suffered from intense pressure from the U.S. due to his close ties to Iranian principal decision makers. The current prime minister, Mohammad Shia al-Sudani, who is not seen by U.S. decision makers as a subordinate to Iranian interests in the same way Malaki is, is currently at the top of the list as a potential consensus candidate. So the U.S. putting in someone in Iran who, I mean, sorry, putting someone in Iraq who's less friendly with Iran. And as I've been saying, what's happening in the Middle East right now is all of these sectarian issues that Sunni versus Shiite, all of the things we've seen, you know, that we're at play in all of these forever wars on a Middle East wide basis.

22:34Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump is provoking right now. And Trump's response now is to have the CIA arm Kurdish forces, who the United States has betrayed over and over again, and demand or ask the Kurdish forces to now invade Iran and to help the United States in the war in Iran. I mean, do you think that's what's going to go on? And then there was reports by Reuters that the United States has drafted an indictment. The DOJ has drafted an indictment against Donald Trump's buddy, Delcy Rodriguez, from the Maduro regime, who's now leading Venezuela. That's Donald Trump's little authoritarian stooge in Venezuela, who's helping Donald Trump sell oil and move the money to Qatari bank accounts.

23:26Ben Meiselas:and Donald Trump wants to hold this indictment over Delcy Rodriguez's head that if ultimately you don't do what I want with the oil for me, I'm going to indict you. But then Donald Trump's former criminal defense attorney turned number two at the Department of Justice, Todd Blanche, says that's completely false. Not sure how such fake news makes its way to publications, But we know the Trump regime lies about absolutely everything. So that's your update on world events. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe and let's get to 7 million subscribers. New Midas merch. Head to store.midastouch.com today and get yourself the best pro-democracy gear and show your support.

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