Furious World Leaders Make Deadly Warning to Trump

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1:30Ben Meiselas:Furious world leaders are striking back at Donald Trump and they are threatening him with asymmetric warfare as the Trump regime puts in a demand for$1. trillion for a defense budget. We're seeing countries across the world saying we can do more than the United States can with their$1.5 trillion defense budget by investing in asymmetric warfare, by focusing on drones and other asymmetric tactics that they observed that were utilized by Iran when the Trump regime and Netanyahu invaded Iran. And so what we're seeing right now is Donald Trump is showing utter weakness after his disastrous trip to China.

2:15Ben Meiselas:More on that in a moment. I'll tell you what Xi Jinping is doing to Donald Trump's undersecretary of war, that Elbridge Colby guy who tries to act all tough and attacks Canada. So while Donald Trump had this disastrous appearance in China, we're seeing countries across the world projecting strength and saying, we don't need the United States. Of course, we saw this with Ukraine. President Zelensky showing the power of his drone army, of his ballistic missiles, of Ukrainians' forces being able to strike deep within Moscow, in oil depots there, and infrastructure surrounding Moscow. That's one of the reasons why Putin had to head over immediately to China and Xi Jinping to help coordinate, because that's the alliance, right?

3:03Ben Meiselas:It's Russia, it's China, it's Iran, it's North Korea. So we saw that happen, you know, in Ukraine. We saw Taiwan just over the past 24, 48 hours. As Donald Trump has shown other weakness, Taiwan is showing that still with those Abrams tanks that the U.S. previously gave them, with the weapons that Taiwan has, they've been running numerous military drills, both before Donald Trump's disastrous trip to China and then after, they're showing two main capabilities. Number one, they're showing the ability to project strength with amphibious invasions by China. And so they ran a lot of drills right on the shore.

3:45Ben Meiselas:And then they've been showing that they're willing to deploy asymmetric warfare within the cities themselves. And they showed that they have capabilities of driving these massive tanks across the bridges and what they would do in the event of an invasion by China. So we're seeing that there. Of course, we're seeing Iran continue to taunt the United States continued to say, if you re-up the invasion, we're going to unleash the same asymmetric tactics you saw across the Middle East. And we've seen these Iranian militia groups and Iranian proxy groups, whether it's the militia groups in Iraq, whether it is Hezbollah, whether it is the Houthis, they've been able to utilize what Iran's been able to utilize as well, which are these FPV drones, the Shahid drones, more of the FPV drones is what they're able to utilize, and other weapons that can be made at a fraction of a fraction of the cost that the United States uses, right?

4:53Ben Meiselas:I mean, the Trump regime was using these Thad and Patriot systems that cost like hundreds of millions of dollars, and each missile can cost millions of dollars. And the Iranian weaponry, you're talking about thousands of dollars,$25 ,000,$30 ,000. And they're able to churn them out on these assembly lines that they've developed in Tehran, in Iran, in the surrounding country, as well as they've developed manufacturing plants in Russia as well, which Russia is able to send through the Caspian Sea. And then that brings us to Cuba. You know about the U.S. blockade there. The Trump regime seems to be moving closer to an invasion of Cuba.

5:39Ben Meiselas:And we see there the leader of Cuba as well, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez. I mean, he's posting, you know, look, you know, we know why you're going after Raul Castro, the 94-year-old former leader. You know, they say, look, this is all part of the pretext to invade. You indict, You have the playbook that she used in Venezuela. You indict the leader, or in this case, the old leader. You come up with additional reasons why Cuba poses a threat. Laundered through Axios over the weekend was the story. 300 drones ready to go in Cuba in order to attack Florida and specifically hit the Keys. Remember the Florida Keys?

6:26Ben Meiselas:Sheriff is like, yeah, we don't know anything about that. And then boom, you know, right on cue, you have the MAGA Republican Congress members saying, aha, Cuba has 300 drones, 90 miles away from Miami, 90 miles away from our coast. Oh, we're going to have to invade Cuba to get rid of the drones. And one of the things that Cuba is saying is, they've been saying, look, you're starving us to death. We pose no threat to you. Obviously, if you invade us, we're going to have to defend ourselves. We don't have a traditional army. People don't know the actual size and scale of the Cuban army. They have a deep seated militia structure there as well.

7:10Ben Meiselas:And while I think that the regime in Cuba is increasingly unpopular with the people, as we saw with Iran or as we saw elsewhere, the US invasions of places does tend to rally people around a national identity as oftentimes the Trump regime attacks the people. And also there's, you know, from what I've read of the intelligence in terms of the Cuban army, there's still sufficient people loyal to the Cuban army, the Cuban militias, the Cuban identity, where this will be no Venezuela. You're not just going to show up and then do a very basic regime change. And all of the leadership in Cuba made it very clear, this will be bloody.

7:57Ben Meiselas:We will fight. We will fight to the death to protect Cuba's sovereignty. We're not just tapping out. And the Trump regime is getting increasingly frustrated because they're like, we did this blockade. We're starving Cuba to death. Why isn't Cuba surrendering? This was the same tactic that the Trump regime tried to use with Iran. Look, we have all our ships there. We're doing our threats. Why isn't Iran just giving up? Well, I think increasingly, though, people see how weak Donald Trump looks. And ultimately, you look to Iran. If the great and powerful United States Army has been reduced to basically being a bunch of bandits or pirates in the Persian Gulf bragging about stopping cargo ships and tankers and Donald Trump brags about being a pirate, I think other nations are saying in different ways.

8:51Ben Meiselas:One, can we stand up to the United States? It's going to be difficult, but they've got this big, massive, Goliath, slow-moving, old-school warfare. Can we look at modern weaponry and adapt our tactics? And I think you're seeing Cuba do that, Iran do that. They're looking there. And by the way. China, unlike the US, they've been focused a ton on developing these nimble weapon systems. And also, I mean, the intelligence suggests that China has been helping Iran, also training Russians in drone warfare with a lot of Chinese technology there. Now, as I said at the outset, I was going to get back to one of the leverage points that China is now using.

9:35Ben Meiselas:And this stuff needs to get way more attention than it is. And that's why we cover this stuff on the Midas Touch Network. So, you know, Elbridge Colby, who's the number two at the Defense Department, they call themselves the War Department or the Defense Department. He's right under Hegseth. So he was the guy earlier this week who threatened Canada. We're pulling out of the joint defense program that's been around since the 1940s. Look how strong I am. I'm threatening Canada. Don't you dare use this rhetoric Canada against us. I reposted the article about Prime Minister Carney's Davos speech, right?

10:11Ben Meiselas:Where Carney wanted to unite the world, multilateralism. This is a massive rupture in the trust of the world that was caused by the United States, right? Remember I showed you that guy's social media posts? Well, what's going on behind the scenes as well is you have Xi Jinping saying, I'm going to ban Elbridge Colby from coming to China, and we are not going to buy those Boeing jets. We did no deals with the United States, is what China is saying. We've made preliminary conversations, but we've made no actual deals with the United States. We want clarification and confirmation that the United States is not going to provide military weapons to Taiwan.

10:59Ben Meiselas:That's what Xi Jinping said. Confirm that you won't give military weapons to Taiwan and we'll do business with you. All of those things. Remember, Donald, you showed up and you then went and you told your country all of these things that you got, by the way, which those things were half the amount as what Biden got, right? I mean, Biden had double these things. I mean, when it comes to the soybeans, when it comes to the manufacturing, when it comes to the chips. Donald Trump caused China to basically go to zero and then China raised it to half the amount of Biden. And then Donald Trump's like, oh yeah, very good.

11:36Ben Meiselas:Very good. This is like, what a art of the deal, art of the deal, everybody. And so now Xi Jinping lured Trump in, cornered him and now is saying, okay, now you don't give this. Obviously is what we said was going to happen. Now you don't give Taiwan any weapons and then we'll play ball. We'll do the chips, you know, because they also said, you know, we're not buying any NVIDIA chips. We're not doing any of these things. So China's exerting its leverage right now and they know how weak Donald Trump looks right now. So we're seeing though Donald Trump respond to these threats that, you know, China's not going to order the Boeings.

12:14Ben Meiselas:They're not going to meet with Elbridge Colby. And just think about what we've seen Donald Trump do over the past 24 to 48 hours. Folks, it is the height of weakness. So this was Donald Trump's speech that he gave yesterday when he was in front of the Coast Guards. And listen to what he says about Taiwan in front of the Coast Guards. Play this clip. Close to 50 % of the chip business by the time I leave. and right now we have none practically and we'll have it was taken by other places it was taken by Taiwan I'm not knocking them I'm saying if they can get away with it but if you had the right president that would have never happened and then he refers to the weapons to Taiwan as quote the Taiwan problem when he was on the tarmac here's what he referred to as the Taiwan problem I mean, what a horrible thing here.

13:08Ben Meiselas:Play this clip. On Taiwan, do you have any plans to call President Lai before you make your decision on the arms deal? What? Do you have any plans to call President Lai of Taiwan before you make a decision on the weapons package? Well, I'll speak to him. I speak to everybody. We have that situation very well in hand. We had a great meeting with President Xi. It was amazing, actually. It was amazing. Many of you were there. we'll work on that Taiwan problem. And then you see him scrambling to help Russia and Belarus. Donald Trump wants Ukraine to help ease restrictions on Belarusian potash. Think about that.

13:53Ben Meiselas:The fertilizer, the US is pushing Ukraine to convince European countries to ease restrictions on Belarus potash, on potash imports of Belarusian fertilizer. Washington believes that softening sanctions on potash fertilizers, once one of Belarus's key sources of foreign currency, could partly pull Belarus away from them. That's just the hell, Putin, what are we talking about over here? Because this has Steve Whitcoff is making his seventh visit to Russia, he just announced. Zero trips to Ukraine, seven trips to Russia right here. I mean, it's unbelievable. And then you had Donald Trump's acting attorney general, Todd Blanche.

14:41Ben Meiselas:So yeah, with Raul Castro, this isn't a show. We really intend to indict this guy, this 94-year-old here playing this clip. We didn't indict. This isn't a show indictment. This is an indictment because we expect that there was a warrant issued for his arrest. So we expect that he will show up here by his own will or by another way. Then a reporter says, it seems like you're just trying to create a pretext for war right here. And watch what Blanche says. Let's play this clip. Thank you. One other question. When, when, when, if people look at this and say, this is at least partially just a pretext to push for regime change in Cuba, what would you say to people who take that perspective.

15:24I don't care what people look at and think. I mean, we returned an indictment and that's what we're here to talk about. If people want to speculate or think what they will, I don't care. Okay, one more question.

15:34Ben Meiselas:So the Midas Touch Network caught up with one of these MAGA Republican Congress members from Florida, a Cuban, and he was one of the kind of warmongers who wants an invasion of Cuba, Carlos Jimenez. And our Pablo Monriquez asked Jimenez, so should the US attack Cuba? And he goes, I don't think it's gonna be necessary because the Cuban people are feeling, you know, are suffering so much that they're gonna take back the country themselves and they're gonna protest and the amount of pressure we're putting on Cuba, we're not gonna need to invade. Let me just show you what he said, play this clip. Congressman, I'm sure you've been asked about this all day, so forgive me, but should the United States attack Cuba?

16:20Say what? Should the United States attack Cuba? I don't think it's going to be necessary. I think the Cuban people themselves are going to do something about the regime. There's been a lot of protests happen every day. Yeah, yeah. Thank you. And so, you know, the pressure, I think, is working. The regime is in the weakest condition it's ever been. Okay. So you're saying just let it play out, but no U.S. intervention is necessary? I don't think right now it's something that's necessary. Okay. Thank you, sir.

16:47Ben Meiselas:Now, isn't this exactly what you said when it came to Iran? The people are going to stand up and say, hey, Donald and Netanyahu, thank you so much. This is exactly what we wanted. And that's obviously not what happened. And this is what they're going with again right here. And so, look, we'll keep you posted every step of the way. You know, again, I mentioned at the outset, you have, you know, people in the inner circle of the Iranian negotiating team saying militarily, Iran is now stronger than it was at the beginning of the war. Iranians are steadfast in their positions regarding sovereignty.

17:26Ben Meiselas:You know, we're not going to make concessions when it comes to basic issues of sovereignty. Iran's bragging about the 42 aircraft that it destroyed thus far in the war. I mean, four F-15s, one F-35, one A-10, seven KC, one 35 strato tankers, and E-3 Century. And this was all just, the United States government had to confess and admit to this. And I'll leave you with this point right here, because to me, this says a lot. This is what they were discussing on Newsmax right here. They brought on James Comer, MAGA Republican, and even Newsmax is skeptical of what the Trump regime is doing in Cuba. Let me show you what down on Newsmax here.

18:09Ben Meiselas:Play this clip. I really don't think, Rob, it'll get to any type of military action, but the president's threatening that. He's increased sanctions on Cuba. I don't know how many more sanctions the Cubans can take, especially after what happened in Venezuela. The Cuban-American population clearly supports what the president's doing in Cuba. Thus far, it hasn't cost any tax dollars other than to send a few diplomats to Cuba. But at the end of the day, I think that we've got to be on guard because of the new types of warfare that's out there with these new drones and this new technology. I get it.

18:44We're seeing it play out in Iran. I understand that. Axios had a report this week that the U.S. is concerned. I'm sure you saw this about a possible Cuba drone strike on Florida. And I'll be honest, Mr. Chairman, I know that you've got the security clearance to know more about this. But to me, this just sounds like we're trying to make the case to attack Cuba. I don't buy it. It sounds like a false flag operation. Would you support military action in Cuba if it came to that? And I guess more importantly, do you buy this report in Axios? Well, I know that I've been one of the biggest critics of our intelligence community over the past 10 years.

19:18They're usually wrong.

19:19Ben Meiselas:And then you had Prime Minister Carney saying, look, everybody, Canada, we're stable here. We're stable here, everybody. Let's play this clip. We're at the heart of the energy transition in so many different areas. And in an uncertain world, we have another commodity that partners are choosing. It's the rarest of commodities, unfortunately these days, which is trust. Canada is a stable, reliable partner in a world that is anything but. And as our strategic value as a reliable low-carbon energy provider is unlocking markets for Canadian products and investments across the board. That's the core point.

19:58There's a huge commercial opportunity, but it unlocks much more, and that's what we're leveraging to make us more independent as a country, more resilient, and more prosperous.

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