Europe Ramps Up Defenses as Russian Hybrid Threats Intensify

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2:02Ben Meiselas:All hell is breaking loose as European countries, as the UK, are all saying that they expect the war in Ukraine to spread throughout all of Europe in the coming weeks and months. It is a dire warning, but we're hearing it from essentially all European countries now and the UK. This as the war is escalating in Ukraine and in Russia as well. This as Donald Trump said during a press conference in the Oval Office on Friday, that there is already a ongoing war in Europe and that Russia is currently attacking all of the various European countries. This as Donald Trump says that he will be removing 25 ,000 or more troops from the United States.

2:52Ben Meiselas:in europe donald trump also says that he will not be delivering a lot of weapon systems not just to ukraine but to european countries and to united states allies throughout the world that the united states committed these weapons to and so we've been hearing this consistently over the past week but it's been especially becoming louder and more pronounced over the past 24 hours it really started with polish prime minister donald tusk warning that russia plans to launch quote hybrid style drone and missile strikes against nations supporting ukraine including nato member poland as the war enters its most crucial phase and then we heard from a lot of other european leaders saying the same i mean switzerland announced that it was adopting switzerland announced it was adopting a new national security strategy in response to an increasingly unstable global environment, citing Russia's war in Ukraine, hybrid threats, and critical dependencies.

3:55Ben Meiselas:We keep hearing that term, hybrid threats. I'm not sure if that's some euphemism. I understand the word hybrid, but when it comes to actual drone strikes and missile strikes, I'm not really sure what's hybrid about that. Just an interesting kind of phrase that we keep hearing over and over again. So Switzerland strategy includes 46 measures focused on strengthening state and economic resilience, protecting critical infrastructure, improving civilian protections, and boosting defense capabilities. You take a look at what multiple other countries are saying right now. For example, you have Sweden announcing the rapid deployment of German and Swedish forces to the Gotland Island that was carried out.

4:43Ben Meiselas:Units from Sweden and Germany are rehearsing swift reinforcement of strategic island protection in order to ensure security of the Baltic Sea. French President Emmanuel Macron says we must remain united in the face of crisis. Donald Tusk also posted yesterday, we all have difficult weeks and months ahead of us. Today in Ukraine, we are showing our solidarity. Finland's President Stubb tells citizens to mentally prepare for sabotage and Russian drones. You have in the UK there, the government announced that it wants the people there to prepare for war. The UK government says citizens should prepare for severe disruptions in the coming months to their lives.

5:34Ben Meiselas:It wants people to start stockpiling canned food and drinking water, strengthening their civic resilience and planning for the possibility of war. It's not just coming from Prime Minister Burnham, the Chief of Defense. Sir Richard Knighton says that the russian threats have made this the most dangerous period of his 35-year military career and work has already begun in the uk for its so-called war book where it wants people to start stockpiling canned food drinking water and really preparing for the possibility of war president emmanuel macron of france called prime minister tusk and all of these warnings that we're hearing sound and well-documented.

6:23Ben Meiselas:And in France, saying they're announcing new critical infrastructure protection plans, saying that, and this is from French President Emmanuel Macron, again, you hear this word hybrid, Russian hybrid threat against Europe and France has intensified in recent weeks. And so again, this is something we're hearing over and over again. And it is indeed worrying to hear all of this, you know, back to back like this. Here's how one account says it. Very worrying signals from European leaders in the last few hours even regarding Russia. It's as if they already know what's about to happen. And it is kind of very reminiscent of when Russia invaded Ukraine.

7:05Ben Meiselas:And you kind of heard lots of people saying it's happening, it's happening, it's about to happen. And then people are like, oh, they'll never do that. They'll never do that. And then it happened. I mean, this is also coming at a time where the United States is the weakest that it has ever been. The U.S. is out of interceptors. The U.S. is out of offensive weapons. The U.S. is out of a lot of its equipment. American military bases in the Middle East have been destroyed. America's security umbrella throughout the world is gone. Bloomberg reported the U.S. warned its allies expect delays of up to five years on key purchased weapon deliveries due to the U.S.

7:47Ben Meiselas:catastrophically exhausting its own stocks in the Iran war. Germany was told wait five years for tomahawks. Japan was told its tomahawks would be delayed up to two years. The U.S. used most of its thads, most of its patriots. And so the U.S. can't even have its interceptors for itself, yet alone for its allies. But this is also coming at a time where the Trump regime Pentagon is saying it will be withdrawing 25 ,000 or more U.S. troops from Europe, nearly a third of the American force stationed there, along with aircraft, ships and weapons, despite warnings from NATO allies about everything I've been saying to you, that this situation is getting dire and the threat of this hybrid war is becoming very real.

8:36Ben Meiselas:This is also coming on the heels of learning that the United States military was about to attack a Chinese vessel after the military received a report that the Chinese vessel was transporting nuclear weapons programs and that it was posing an imminent threat to the United States. But just before, moments before the U.S. was about to strike this ship. Officials discovered that this report was generated by an AI chatbot and that it was all made up. It was all fabricated. The chatbot just created an entirely fake scenario. So as Madi Hassan says, an AI chatbot uncritically relied upon by idiots in the Trump regime almost kicked off World War III.

9:24Ben Meiselas:This as we also learned that a shipment of F-35 fighter jet components from the United States ended up in Hong Kong, likely being analyzed by China this past, in the summer, actually, in the past summer, in the summer of 2025. The shipment included an F-35 canopy containing stealth technology. It just went to the wrong destination, apparently. It was in transit from Australia to the US, and the US was not safeguarding it and it ended up in Hong Kong. Also, Donald Trump announcing two things as well. Number one, the Trump regime wants to sign really big business deals with Russia before the war in Ukraine ends.

10:09Ben Meiselas:This is according to the New York Times, marking a ship from Trump's claim that we would only do economic or he would only do economic deals with Russia once the war was over. But the Trump regime says, let's do deals with Putin now, which if you say, doesn't that contradict the fact that right now the United States Congress passed a Russian sanctions bill that Donald Trump had to sign into law in which he did sign into law. But ultimately, the enforcement mechanism to take care that the sanctions are actually implemented requires Trump to activate the sanctions themselves, particularly the potent secondary sanctions against people who do business with Russia.

10:51Ben Meiselas:But if you've been watching what's been taking place this past week and just watching in general, I mean, the U.S. sent an envoy to Belarus to open up more trade there. Donald Trump can't wait to greet Xi Jinping, which, of course, does a lot of business with Russia and Iran. And so ultimately, you know, I think that Donald Trump's not going to actually execute the law and impose secondary sanctions over here. you take a look at what's happening in Odessa right now in Kyiv right now throughout Ukraine again the war escalating there let me share with you the moment of this strike in Odessa that looks like it was hitting the Ukrainian railways but also it was right by a residential area as well let me play this clip

11:51Ben Meiselas:more video footage of Odessa right here where you'll see it looks like a command center of the Ukrainian railways, but it also looks like it's very close to a residential area. Let's play it.

12:06Ben Meiselas:And a Russian strike. Here's another angle hitting the Ukrainian railway. You can see it for yourself right over here.

12:22Ben Meiselas:With all of these deeply serious things going on as well, Pete Hegseth rolled out his plan with mandatory testosterone screening. On Friday, he says we're going to have high T service members. So there's mandatory testosterone screening for male U.S. service members age 30 or older. And according to the report itself and the mandatory screening guidelines, the Trump regime will be checking spontaneous erections and the quantity of erections of service members over 30 to see if they need to have testosterone supplements, which interestingly, testosterone supplements have not been proven to actually help with like physical activity performance.

13:11Ben Meiselas:of people age 30 or over. It is known to increase sexual drive, but they're going to be doing erection tests right now in the United States military. Also, with all of this taking place, flights in and out of Luxembourg's Findel Airport were temporarily suspended yesterday on September 18th following suspected drone activity there. And this incident comes as various European leaders warned of this growing hybrid threat of Russia. There was a notice to air missions, a NOTAM, which basically shut down lots of the airport for a significant period of time. And this is as we learned about similar incidents previously taking place in Europe.

13:56Ben Meiselas:This is what Donald Trump said in the Oval Office on Friday about how Europe is under attack already from Russia. You can hear for yourself here play this clip. President, Polish leaders have expressed concerns that Russia may attack Ukrainian allies. Do you agree with that assessment? I think they already have attacked Ukrainian allies. They've been attacking Ukrainian allies for approximately five minutes.

14:28Ben Meiselas:Earlier yesterday, Putin said, I want to thank Russian weapons manufacturers for their initiative and innovation for serious, intense, and sometimes simply heroic work without any exaggeration. Putin also said, modern and in many ways unique weapons and equipment are being created, which are rightfully considered not only in our country, but also in the world, among the most reliable and effective. Russia has been increasing its Shahid drone capabilities and the speed of the Shahid drones, as well as the capabilities of their ballistics working with Iran for that. Netanyahu also said, since the Trump regime wants to give F-35s to Saudi Arabia, while the Trump regime lost F-35 parts in Hong Kong, Netanyahu's regime says, well, then we need to extract some sort of benefit because we don't support the U.S.

15:22Ben Meiselas:giving these F-35s. So you need to arm us with more weapons, Trump regime, to compensate us for the fact that you're giving these weapons to Saudi Arabia. Israel is expected to seek additional weapons systems since as compensation, perhaps classified defense projects, hour four, hour five, interceptor cooperations, because of the F-35s being given over to Saudi Arabia. And then the Trump regime announced on Friday what it said was a deal where it's basically gonna be taking over Greenland. And Donald Trump made this whole post and says, you know, we made this really strong deal, it's ours. But when you really look at what the deal is, it basically looks like the same agreement as 1951.

16:09Ben Meiselas:It's just restating the agreement. But Donald, we're gonna put all of our military troops Inside Greenland, people in Greenland like Orland Jolson are saying, our fight against Trump's ambition to take over Greenland has been won. The new agreement explicitly recognizes the sovereignty and territorial integrity of the kingdom of Denmark and the Greenlandic people's right to self-determination. Thank you to everyone who has stood with us and supported Greenland. And so in Greenland, they're looking at it as a win that they maintain their sovereignty, but Donald Trump is using it as a way to attack Greenland and Denmark further with all of this going on.

16:46Ben Meiselas:Finally, I'll just say this, both Ukraine and Russia, if there's anything uniting them, they both hate Whitcoff and also likely Kushner, but they definitely hate Whitcoff. Everyone hates Whitcoff, Kiev Independent writes. Kiev and Moscow are growing increasingly frustrated with the US-mediated process and Washington's envoy, Steve Whitcoff. They're like, all Witkow wants to talk about is like restaurants. Like we don't even know what this guy's even doing. He seems uninterested in the process. He just seems enamored by Putin and his friendship with Russia envoy Kirill Dmitriev and Yuri Yushikov.

17:23Ben Meiselas:And you're like, Witkow's just like a weird guy, doesn't know what he's doing. Putin thinks he's a weird guy. Zelensky thinks he's a weird guy. And he is a weird guy. And so is Kushner. It's a strange thing that they're involved in this process at all. Well, there you have it, everybody. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. And thanks for watching, everybody.

18:05Thank you.