All Hell Breaks Loose as Trump gets Ghosted In War!!

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2:19Ben Meiselas:All hell is breaking loose as Donald Trump's former allies or former allies of the United States are publicly repudiating and rejecting him. Donald Trump is out there lying. He told the Wall Street Journal on Sunday that he's heard from all of these nations and they're forming a coalition with him to head into the Strait of Hormuz in order to secure it for all of the cargo ships and fueling ships to leave and to normalize trade again. That is not happening. To the contrary, you're having nation after nation call out Donald Trump and rebuke him. Should we go through one by one right now? Australia announces, we will not be sending naval ships to assisted reopening the Strait of Hormuz, a government minister said on Monday.

3:13Ben Meiselas:Should we go to Japan? According to Japanese Prime Minister Takeishi, Japan is not even considering sending navy vessels to the Middle East to aid in efforts surrounding the security of the Strait of Hormuz and the wider region. Japan has, however, it will agree to some drawdowns of its strategic oil reserves as part of the multinational efforts of the International Energy Agency to stabilize the market. It ain't stabilizing the market, okay? The 400 million barrels of oil internationally, that ain't gonna cut it. Let's be very clear. How about in Germany? German's foreign minister, Johann Wadfel was asked whether Germany would respond to Donald Trump's call to join a naval mission to reopen the Strait of Hermuz.

4:05Ben Meiselas:Speaking to a local paper there, Wade Fall said the EU's operation mission previously in the Red Sea regarding the Houthis from Yemen has not been effective at protecting commercial shipping from attacks over there in the Red Sea. So expanding this operation to the Strait of Hormuz would not provide any greater security. That's a significant insight there that has a deeper meaning. Remember when the Houthis were effectively shutting down commerce in the Red Sea? And remember Pete Hegsitz, like, we're totally obliterating it. Remember why Mike Walls is now the ambassador to the United Nations and not the national security advisor when they were all involved in those signal chats, that was not Persian Gulf.

4:55Ben Meiselas:That was the Red Sea right there. And there's their own strait, their zone strait in the Red Sea that the Houthis from Yemen have been very successful when they want to of shutting down and shooting at the commercial vessels there. So what we're seeing happen right now is as the Persian Gulf has effectively been shut down, the Strait of Hormuz has been shut down by Iran, people are saying oh well can we get our oil from the red sea and transfer it the red sea out well at a moment's notice the houthis are ready and they're just luring uh ships to basically come in and i think that it's very clear that the houthis are going to start operations in the red sea soon i think the uh germans are aware of that that's why they're saying you know why would we get involved it wasn't effective in the red sea now you want us in these trade-off moves uh it's not going to happen.

5:48Ben Meiselas:What about France? Well, France's leader, President Emmanuel Macron, has been speaking directly with the president of Iran, Pazeshkin. Remember how I've been reporting that both Italy and France have been involved in trying to do direct negotiations with Iran bilaterally to see if they can get their ships through the Strait of Hormuz and basically saying, hey, we want out of this thing, right? Remember how I've been reporting on that? Well, there was another call between Macron and Pazeshkin that took place over this past weekend. And one of the things that Macron has been talking about is a new political and security framework that can ensure peace and security for all.

6:34Ben Meiselas:That's coded language right there. When he talks about a new political and security framework. Inherent in that is acknowledging the existence of the Islamic Republic in Iran as their right to function, and a new framework away from the United States, a framework where you have Europe and Canada and Australia and Asian countries that are allied and united and not dependent on the United States anymore because the U.S. has become a liability, a massive liability under Donald Trump for all of these nations. So not only is France saying, uh-uh, we ain't doing it, they're saying we need to create a new framework to ensure peace and security for all.

7:20Ben Meiselas:That's code for without the United States or removing the United States as a leader in any of these coalitions. You have a lot of other developments as well. I mean, And just take a look at this Goldman Sachs report on the Gulf. They talk about how Qatar and Kuwait could each see their GDP contract by 14 % this year. If this conflict conflicts through April, a 14 % contraction in the GDP of Qatar and Kuwait, resulting in a two-month halt of the Strait of Hormuz. Saudi Arabia and the UAE would fare better, by the way, based on oil at least, given their ability to reroute oil flows away from the critical Hormuz waterway, but would likely see GDP drop by about 3 % to 5%.

8:10Ben Meiselas:But remember what I said before, reroute to where? Reroute to the Red Sea? For now, that may make sense, but if you look at this map that Javier Blas posted, Map of the Day, while the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed. The Red Sea is witnessing the arrival of an oil tanker or armada to the Saudi terminal there. And isn't it just the most obvious trap as this armada is there? You have the leader of the Houthis saying, they literally are saying, we're waiting for you. Come on, we're ready for you. And we're about to be activated. They're saying it out loud, damn it. I just don't get, I mean, I know you appreciate our meticulous reporting here and we're ahead of the curve on what's being reported elsewhere.

8:52Ben Meiselas:And I'm sure you'll hear in the next few days about the Houthis opening up a front on the Red Sea and how it was a trap. And I'd love to take credit and be like, wow, that's so brilliant reporting at the Midas-Ted-Dark. But they're saying it out loud, which is what I'm reporting. No one reports on it until after, like, oh my God, we've been shocked right here. Shocked, I tell you. One of the things though, also about the UAE, which needs to be reported more, and I don't think Goldman Sachs even really capture this. Dubai is dead. Say goodbye to Dubai. Say goodbye to Abu Dhabi. You know, there ain't vacations happening there ever again.

9:30Ben Meiselas:There ain't Formula One races happening there in Bahrain again. There ain't Western vacationers or Asian vacationers going there ever again. It's done. People aren't living there. It's over. All the work they've done, all of the bribes they played to Trump and Kushner and the family, all the quid pro quos, the pay for play. They paid Trump and Kushner too weak to play, but of course they couldn't. And by the way, the Qatari should have realized that y 'all had to bail out Kushner for his real estate project in Manhattan like 10 years ago at 666. You had to bail the guy out. He couldn't even run one building.

10:06Ben Meiselas:You think he could run the Middle East? These are lifelong losers, the Trumps, the Kushners, and you got played the way Trump's creditors screwed him over, The way Trump screwed over his creditors and the way he screwed over his contractors. This is how Donald Trump operates. And I want you to listen to this right here. A Kuwaiti analyst, this was just the other day, openly criticizing Gulf policy toward Washington after the latest strikes, Tom F. Keith explains, saying the region paid billions for influence and received nothing in return. He pointed directly to Jared Kushner, noting all this Gulf money flowed to him and to Trump and the Trump family.

10:46Ben Meiselas:Yet the same states that financed those channels ended up facing strikes and pressure. His conclusion is that appeasing all of these people is the worst that you can do. You're not getting the protection. Watch what he says. And I'm just showing you this for the perspective of you can see what they're saying internationally at this point right now. Watch what they're saying internationally. We need to know that you cannot appease Zionists. You cannot buy influence. Look at Jared Kushner. We know how much he took from the Gulf. It's open source public info. And now the same countries that gave him all that money for zero return are facing strikes and bombs.

11:36And they're trying to make it seem as if it is our duty to carry on the job that Israel wants to continue, which is a very crazy idea to begin with. So we need to change the way we think how we can influence Washington.

11:50Ben Meiselas:Folks, and while that's happening, you have the foreign minister of Iran going on ABC and doing media appearances here. Well, here's what he's saying. He goes, I told this to CBS. Yes, Iran has neither sought a truce nor is engaged in talks. Such claims are delusional. So Trump's out there saying, oh, we're speaking with Iran, but we don't want to make a deal yet, Trump's saying, because Iran is not offering us exactly what we want yet. And Iran's like, we're not even talking to you, dude. You're a delusional nutcase. We're having no conversations. The fact that the Iranian foreign minister has to show up and look sensible while Donald Trump looks like Baghdad Bob, that's a problem.

12:35Ben Meiselas:And we all know that Trump is lying. We know that Trump isn't having conversations. He lies about fake conversations with world leaders. Everything out of his mouth is a lie. And the Iranian foreign minister says, look, our powerful armed forces will keep firing until Trump realizes that the illegal war he's imposing on both Americans and Iranians is wrong and must never be repeated. Victims must also be compensated. And if you look at what's happening right now in the Middle East as well, I mean, you'll see for yourself. Here are, you know, there were reports that there were several fuel tanks ablaze last night at the Dubai International Airport following a drone attack by Iran.

13:19Ben Meiselas:Look for yourself. You can see what's going on right there at the airport in Dubai. That's still being hit by Iranian drones. All throughout the night, you have the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Defense announcing that they've tracked and shot down at least 30 Iranian drones. but who knows how many have hit we know that they lie all the time about everything as well sirens were sounding again across bahrain with residents of manama reporting the sound of explosions and several interceptions in the sky there iran has launched another wave of ballistic missile strikes there um you know that's what's going on that's what's going on there here i'll show you what it looks like, and by the way, it's not to say that the U.S.

14:04Ben Meiselas:and Israel are hitting Iran hard. Destroyed a lot of the Iranian Navy, to be clear. Destroyed a lot of Iranian kind of conventional weapons, but Iran still has its ballistic missile arsenal. Its Shahid drones are cheap to produce, and they have a huge amount of Shahid drones that they can keep sending. They control the Strait of Hormuz. Their leadership is in power. So, you know, on balance, this has been an unmitigated disaster for the United States. And then you have the U.S. and Israel striking these civilian targets in Iran, kind of further pushing the people away from the United States and towards the Ayatollah.

14:44Ben Meiselas:I mean, you have Israel preparing for a ground invasion of southern Lebanon. The Israeli government is set to approve the call-up of 450 ,000 reservists as the Israel Defense Forces prepare yet another ground operation against Hezbollah in southern Lebanon. The prior reservist limit in Israel was 280 ,000. They're now raising that to 450 ,000, and they're going to invade southern Lebanon. I mean, they've already destroyed a lot of it. I mean, take a look right here at what southern Lebanon looks like. I mean, suburban areas, Beirut and other places, just leveled. Here's a damaged car near a damaged building in the aftermath of an Israeli strike on a healthcare center where, according to a Lebanese state news agency, multiple members of medical personnel were killed in Southern Lebanon.

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17:06Ben Meiselas:I just can't even emphasize how utterly pathetic Donald Trump looks while all of this is going on as well. I mean, he's out there saying he told the Financial Times that NATO nations face a very bad outlook if they fail to seriously aid in efforts to open the Strait of Hormuz amidst the ongoing conflict between Iran and the U.S. and Israel. Trump also said, I may delay my visit to China for a summit with Xi Jinping later this month should they also fail to aid in efforts to open the strait, adding that nations who benefit the most from trade through the strait should be more invested in its reopening.

17:46Ben Meiselas:Loser. Loser, loser, loser. Listen, you loser. China is invested in your failure and in the failure of the United States. Russia, I know you think that, you know, ha ha ha, I'm releasing these sanctions against Russia and allowing them to, I'm really owning Zelensky right here, right? PT Barnum, you know, continue to mock Zelensky. You've, you know, you're a Putin bootlicker. You've removed the sanctions against Russia. Now they're allowed to sell oil to so many, you know, to basically every nation. Russia is invested in your failure and the death of America. They're helping Iran right now. Okay.

18:28Ben Meiselas:Don't you see that? And you've attacked so many of your allies, so many other nations. You've attacked NATO. You've attacked all the countries in the G7. You betrayed the G7 by releasing the oil sanctions against Putin. Nobody wants to help you in the Strait of Hormuz. Nobody wants to bail you out. You started this unlawful war with Netanyahu against Iran. And now you're like, other countries need to get involved. You sound so utterly weak. And it's really, really embarrassing as an American just to see this transpire like this. And I reported earlier yesterday, and we've seen this reported in Politico elsewhere, how Taiwan is reporting a large scale Chinese military aircraft and naval presence near their island as well.

19:13Ben Meiselas:And by the way, let's not forget what's happening in Gaza, where there's been more murders of people in Gaza by Israel. Israeli forces killed 16 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, health officials said in one of the heaviest death tolls in a single day and weeks, as Israel continued to launch attacks on Lebanon and Iran. And there's been close, maybe more than a thousand deaths in Gaza. And yes, has some Hamas been killed? Absolutely. Absolutely. And Hamas is a terrorist group and they should be targeted, but not innocent people in Gaza. Let me be very clear about that. The atrocities and heinous, heinous conduct in Gaza needs to be condemned in the strongest of terms with Netanyahu's conduct, that of a war criminal, and Donald Trump's as well, that of a war criminal.

20:02Ben Meiselas:I mean, it is horrific to see what is happening there. And again, more Palestinians have been killed as well over these past over this past weekend when there's never a ceasefire to begin with it was just more lies from donald trump and his regime let me show you what uh met fredriksen the prime minister of denmark had to say about trump's greenland threats you can hear for yourself what she had to say when she was in oslo with numerous other nations here play this clip i am very grateful i have to say this for all the help we have received in the kingdom of Denmark, Greenland and Denmark, we have had a totally unacceptable pressure from US and the US president.

20:47It has been very difficult for the people in Greenland to experience this. And one of the reasons why we have been able to stand firmly on very common values that you have to respect sovereign states, that you have to respect a people's right for self-determination is because of our good friends in the Nordic countries, in Europe, but also with partners outside, especially you, Mark. So from the bottom of my heart, thank you for that.

21:19Ben Meiselas:Here's what Zelensky had to say, speaking with CNN, with Fareed Zakaria, when asking, well, you know, Donald Trump keeps on attacking you. Here's what he had to say. Play this clip. You worry, though, that you still have not been able to persuade President Trump, it seems to me, because he tweeted out saying, if America does not have enough weapons, it's because Joe Biden gave them all to Zelensky and he compared you to P.T. Barnum. It does seem that President Trump still has some anger or resentment toward Ukraine, and even toward you personally. I don't know, Farid. To be honest, I'm looking just to the facts.

22:09So, what Middle East countries and American bases, what they need now, just to be in more strong security. So they need interceptors. It's drone interceptors. It's new technologies. It's our technologies. So President Biden, we are thankful to America and bipartisan support and President Trump. But we never got drones interceptors from the United States. So we never asked. It's just new technologies. But we've got Patriot missiles. And we are thankful to America that we could get some missiles. But also, at the same moment, I want to underline that Middle East partners had more missiles for Patriots than we've got from the United States and Europeans during all the war.

23:00They used more missiles. They used more than 800 Patriot missiles during first attack, during first 2436 hours. So more than we had during all the months. But when we speak how to close the sky, I mean, we gave what we had and what our American friends, they don't have, or European friends, they don't have, I mean, such a big system of these experts. They have more other things, very strong things, but not these. And Middle East countries asked us exactly about...

23:36Ben Meiselas:More from Zelensky right here. Let's play it. And I'm still sure that America has to make big pressure on Putin. Otherwise, he will not negotiate. He wants only ultimatums from us that we have to withdraw from our territory. But he will not end with this. No, no, it's not enough for him. Of course, this situation in Iran gives him more money. and the process of taking off the sanctions, this new sanctions policy, also helpful for him personally. And that's why, of course, it gives more assurance to Putin that he can continue the war. And we will see. Now we are asking our partners from the United States that we have to fix the date of the bilateral meeting.

24:30We always supported this format, supported President Trump and his team. Now the American side postponed, because of Iran, postponed the meeting. But if we really want to stop the war, we need to meet. We need to meet on technical groups. We need to meet on the level of leaders. We need more pressure on Russia. If we will not do these steps, we will not be closer to the peace.

24:58Ben Meiselas:show you some of the videos that they're making in north korea as donald trump has removed the thad and patriot missiles from south korea kim jong-un in north korea is making videos of himself doing rocket testing his rocket launch systems and just mocking south korea right now because donald trump removed their critical defenses and by the way trump took out our troops who were in Japan, about 5 ,000 of them from a powerful Marine expeditionary unit to send him over to the Middle East. Here's the video of Kim Jong-un.

25:43Ben Meiselas:And here's what the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Aragji said on American media about Donald Trump saying, oh, well, we do this for fun you know we're gonna we may bomb the hell out of the karag island for fun and again this is easily utilized by iraqi and others to say look these americans are war criminals like you're handing the ayatollah and the iranians a gift here why are you doing this Trump's behavior is so repugnant that he's allowing the Ayatollah to consolidate power by Trump's behavior is so idiotic and so weak and pathetic. And it's sad to see as an American how weak we look. We look like Trump's loser bankrupt casinos.

26:41Ben Meiselas:And I try to warn about all this? It's loser behavior. You want to hear a playlist clip. Trump said this weekend he is not ready to make a deal with Iran because the terms aren't good enough yet. His administration is saying this war could last another three and a half weeks or so. Has Iran asked for a ceasefire? No, we never asked for a ceasefire. And we have never asked even for negotiation. We are ready to defend ourselves as long as it takes, and this is what we have done so far, and we continue to do that until President Trump comes to the point that this is an illegal war with no victory, and, you know, there are, you know, people being killed only because President Trump wants to have fun.

27:44This is what he has said. Have fun? Yes, this is what he said, that they are sinking, you know, ships and targeting different places because it is fun. and the Secretary of War has said that there is no mercy and this is actually a war crime. Even saying that is a war crime. So this is a war of choice by President Trump and the United States and we are going to continue our self-defense.