Furious World Leaders Torch Trump and Cancel Deals!!!

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3:59Ben Meiselas:Furious world leaders are canceling their military contracts with the United States. They are canceling investments in the United States. They are blocking the United States from critical international meetings. Let's talk about what NATO is doing, for example. NATO has just announced that it will not be buying any more of the United States E3 Century AWACS, you know, those surveillance airplanes that were the crown jewel of the United States Air Force. You may recall that was one of the airplanes that was destroyed by Iran at the Saudi Air Base. Well, one of the big announcements by NATO as Donald Trump continues to attack NATO is they're going to be buying basically the European version of the E3 Sentry AWACS, which is an airplane made by Saab in Sweden.

4:51Ben Meiselas:And NATO is going to be bolstering its defense capabilities with a plane called the Swedish Saab GoldenEye, which is going to replace the 14 E3 AWACS planes. This is a big deal, folks, because one of the things the United States was trying to do was, first, the United States said they were going to be making this E7 version of the E3. Then they try to hold out with NATO and say, hang tight. We're going to be working through this new generation of the E3. It may not be the E7. And NATO, once Donald Trump just started relentlessly attacking, and NATO said, enough is enough. We ain't doing it. So here's the story, folks.

5:28Ben Meiselas:NATO selects Swedish Saab Golden Global Eye to replace the 14 E3 AWACS planes. As Jim Scuto explains, this shift away from the U.S. are a product of the U.S. shift away from Europe and Donald Trump's constant attack of NATO. As this one account explains, for nearly four decades, NATO's eye in the sky were American planes. The Boeing E3 Century, a militarized 707 with a rotating radar dish on top, has been the alliance's airborne early warning backbone since the 1980s. But the U.S. said they were going to make this E7. They delayed in that. They wanted NATO to hold out. Donald Trump starts saying, I'm going to retaliate against NATO because you didn't support the war crimes I was committing in Iran.

6:18Ben Meiselas:NATO said, thank you. Bye-bye. NATO's procurement division said, we will be ordering the Global Eye, which by the way, it uses a fixed ASA radar rather than the E3's rotating dish, enabling faster target detection across air and sea. Trump spent 14 months telling Europe to spend more on defense and rely less on America. And Europe saying, got your message, Donald. We're not gonna be buying the E3 centuries. See you later. Now it's something similar that we're seeing in Canada right now, where they're doing the F-35 review. Canada was supposed to buy these F-35s. It wasn't even really a question that they were gonna buy these F-35s.

6:56Ben Meiselas:Then Donald Trump starts attacking Canada, says, we're gonna make you the 51st state. All of these demeaning things in Canada says, okay, well, now that you're attacking our sovereignty, also Donald Trump basically saying, why would I even renew Kuzma, the Canadian United States-Mexico agreement? And Trump imposed all of the tariffs on Canada. And then Donald Trump was saying, Well, we could put kill switches in our F-35s and our military equipment. Also, when you get an F-35 or you get American military equipment, you then have to get all of the maintenance associated with it and all of the spare parts come from the United States.

7:29Ben Meiselas:And people saw, look what happened in Iran, where once you had some American parts or if America gave you the THAAD systems or the Patriot systems, like America would like take it back or they would say, oopsies, we don't have the parts. Instead, we're going to send it to the Middle East to help the United States. And, you know, the United States was not a reliable partner. And so while lots of people will tell you the F-35 is a superior plane than the Saab Swedish version, it's called a Gripen. There are lots of Gripen fans out there from Sweden, but lots of people believe the F-35 is probably a superior plane.

8:01Ben Meiselas:But in the long run, where you have to rely on the United States for spare parts and maintenance and Trump's talking about kill switches. One of the things that Sweden has been offering is, look, don't do the F-35s or maybe you could do some F-35s but do other Gripens and let's build it together. Let's build Gripen factories, Saab Gripen factories in Canada. We'll create lots of Canadian jobs and you can be the masters of your destiny, Canada. Let's build a plane together. We can provide the core gripe and plane model, and then maybe we can innovate together. And so in response to that, Lockheed, which makes the F-35s, they went to one of the big defense manufacturers in Canada, and they said, all right, well, I guess we got to run to Ottawa and we got to help make Canadian jobs.

8:51Ben Meiselas:And so the F-35s, I mean, Lockheed is really sweating it. And they came up with a plan where they're going to basically offer all of these jobs in Ottawa to try to compete with Sweden's griping. But the very fact that, you know, even Canada's like, yeah, I don't think we're going to go with that. And we may go with the griping just goes to tell you how no one wants to basically touch the United States, you know, weapons anymore. And this is all a result of Donald Trump. I was just thinking about this big hearing in Cyprus that just took place where you had all of these world leaders, you had NATO leaders, you had Ursula von der Leyen representing the European Union Commission.

9:25Ben Meiselas:You know, and I was just thinking about how they were all basically moving on from the United States, how you had that meeting earlier. You had a big meeting that was led by Keir Starmer and French President Emmanuel Macron about a week ago, bringing together 50 nations to try to figure out ways to either open up the Strait of Hormuz or figure out diplomatic solutions while Donald Trump is out there contradicting himself each day and posting deranged social media posts. You have these broader alliances forming and the U.S. ain't invited to these meetings. The U.S. wasn't at Cyprus. The U.S. wasn't at the meeting held by Starmer and Macron.

10:05Ben Meiselas:You know, when Donald Trump, you know, starts attacking NATO and says all of these things, NATO strikes back as well. I mean, you had Donald Trump, you know, the Trump regime had this memorandum that was circulating. Colby Elbridge, Elbridge Colby, you know, the number two at the Department of Defense, prepared this memorandum about how can we retaliate against NATO countries and the Trump regime figuring out how do we punish NATO countries, right? At the same time, the Trump regime has invited Vladimir Putin to the G20 in December in Miami at the Trump properties. The Trump regime is figuring out what best can we do in order to hurt NATO.

10:45Ben Meiselas:As Phil Stewart at Reuters explains, Scoop, internal Pentagon emails detail options that the Trump regime is considering for how to punish NATO allies who the U.S. believes fail to support it in the Iran war operations. They're thinking about, oh, should we suspend Spain from NATO? Can we take a new look at the Falklands and other European, quote, imperial possessions? We need to snatch European imperial possessions is what the trump regime is saying and reuters talked about this uh email uh this this email note that was prepared by elbridge colby the pentagon's top policy advisor coming up with ways to attack nato countries to which nato responded by saying bet we're not buying your e3 century awax we're gonna buy the global eye from saab you're heading into summer without a medical emergency kit you're taking a risk that most people don't think about until it's too late Summer colds linger and can turn into sinus infections that last for weeks.

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13:07Ben Meiselas:suspend members from NATO. Yes, it's Russia, Russia, Russia, because Donald Trump is a Putin sycophant, obviously. I mean, what else can you describe of what's going on right now? And by the way, when a Pentagon press secretary, Kingsley Wilson, was confronted with the fact that this note punishing NATO members leaked, this is what Kingsley Wilson said on behalf of the Trump regime. Despite everything the U.S. has done for our NATO allies, they were not there for us. The the president has credible options to ensure that our allies are no longer a paper tiger and instead do their part. Yeah, they're not buying your damn weapons anymore.

13:46Ben Meiselas:They're not they're not inviting you to meetings anymore. America first means America alone right now, you idiots. You've destroyed the strong and soft power of the United States while Donald Trump is social media posting, ranting and raving like a lunatic. By the way, here's Spanish Prime minister pedro sanchez here's what he had to say play this clip spain is a reliable partner within the within nato and uh we're fulfilling our you know obligations with nato we are deploying military capabilities and also soldiers at the eastern flank of europe so therefore no worries at all. I would say that it would be important if European countries, European allies, we can share our thoughts and information before starting wars as the one that we are now suffering in the Middle East because this part of the world is closed by Europe and we need also to be aware and to have an opinion on this.

14:51From my point of view, this war is illegal. is a big mistake. And I hope that in the near future, we can face a de-escalation and of course, a way out thanks to diplomacy and not thanks to wars.

15:08Ben Meiselas:And here's what French President Emmanuel Macron had to say when he was in Greece about how America is no longer a reliable ally or even an ally at all. This is from French President Emmanuel Lecron's recent trip to Greece. I'm going to do a whole other video on this, but let's play this clip. I think this very moment could be the European moment, and for several reasons. Number one, everybody in this world have a clear view that this is a world of disorder. second everybody sees that the number one power the u.s could be an ally for certain countries but this ally is not so much certain and nobody is totally sure is this ally is reliable now i was just watching this meeting in cyprus you see right here all the world leaders donald trump not invited to this america not there at all.

16:12Ben Meiselas:And I was thinking about the news also about how Saudi Arabia keeps on canceling financial commitments in the United States, right? We learned about how the Live Golf Tournament, which is basically fully funded by the Saudi Sovereign Wealth Fund, Saudi Arabia is like, yeah, we're only going to be focusing our money now on essential projects. And sorry, your Live Golf Tournament isn't essential. And so you hit Donald Trump where it hurts. You hit him with the golf league that the Saudis propped up. They giveth, they taketh away, they prop it up, they rip it apart, and now the whole live golf tournament's in jeopardy.

16:50Ben Meiselas:In addition, as Mark Levine reports, Saudi Arabia just backed out of a deal to provide $200 million in much needed funding to the Met Opera. The reason? Because of the war's impact on the Saudi economy. They are pulling back on funding commitments, anything they deem non-essential in the United States, Saudi snatching up and they ain't going to be paying. This is a terrible blow, Mark Levine says, to one of our nation's great cultural pillars. Although, may I push back, Mark, for a second and suggest that perhaps one of our nation's big cultural pillars should not be dependent on the Saudi sovereign wealth fund?

17:28Ben Meiselas:Maybe I'm going out on a limb here to say that they shouldn't be fully funded by the Saudi sovereign wealth fund. But what do I know? People don't realize this, but those Middle East sovereign wealth funds funnel a lot of money to the United States. A lot of American corporations, private equity. I mean, setting aside, obviously, Jared Kushner, who's basically fully funded by Middle East countries while he's out there undermining American national security while negotiating on his behalf and Netanyahu's behalf, not on the United States' behalf with Middle East nations undermining our security.

18:00Ben Meiselas:him and frickin' Whitcoff, whether worse, don't even get me started there. But lots of our private equity firms here in the United States, lots of our, there's a lot of media companies, lots of mergers and acquisitions are funded by Saudi money and Middle East money that pours into the United States, real estate propped up by that money. So much money used to come in and now you're seeing a pullback, not just a pullback there, but a pullback from our bond market from international buyers as well saying, I don't know, the America doesn't seem like a safe, stable place to put our money anymore. So we're seeing that.

18:39Ben Meiselas:So we have all of these things going on at the same time. Also, you have Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk, you know, and he's been commenting that, you know, the United States just isn't really an ally anymore. I mean, he came out with a very strong statement, Donald Tusk, saying, you know, we can't rely on the United States for an ally. Did I show you the clip where French President Emmanuel Macron also said he's echoing the words here of Prime Minister Donald Tusk? They both said this, which is basically Article 5 of NATO, which is the joint defense article. If one person gets attacked, all of NATO supports each other, that Donald Trump's basically destroyed Article 5 of NATO.

19:24Ben Meiselas:Tusk said that in a recent article. And here's French President Emmanuel Macron saying it as well. Let's play this clip. Everybody is spending more. And at the same time, there is now a doubt on the Article 5, not put on the table by the Europeans, but by the U.S. presidents. And I mean, it's clearly de facto weakening the strength of the alliance. I think NATO is very useful, first, for interoperability. Second, because it was a very interoperability of our equipment, our armies and so on. And it is a source of efficiency. And because it's a good strategic alliance, very useful for all of us.

20:01But I really, I'm a strong believer in the European pillar of NATO. I advocated that years ago. As your prime minister mentioned, we together pushed forward this agenda of strategic autonomy. and this is where we are. So my view is that we have to strengthen this European pillar. We should not be the one to weaken NATO. We have to preserve NATO and its interoperability, but the Europeans have to be much stronger and work together and launch together common operations and what we are ready to do in the Baltic Sea.

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