Trump Faces Growing World War III Fears as Ukraine War Escalates

0:00Ben Meiselas:All hell is breaking loose as Russia is invoking the words that they know haunt Donald Trump. World War. Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said the following, Many people are calling the war in Ukraine a world war, but the only servicemen who were in the trenches with us were servicemen from North Korea. Everyone else is on the other side. Lavrov knows exactly what he is doing. As Donald Trump sent over his CIA director, John Ratcliffe, to meet with the top intelligence officials in Moscow this past week, Lavrov is reminding Donald Trump about World War III, which terrifies Donald Trump the most.

0:53Ben Meiselas:While Lavrov is doing that, we should talk about what's actually happening in the world that's being covered up. And then I want to show you the Ukrainian strikes in Russia. I do want to show you the Russia strikes in Ukraine and what is actually happening on the ground that you're probably not seeing anywhere else or probably not many other places. So in the past 48 hours off the coast of Romania, after being hit, a cargo ship called Progress 4 caught fire and sank. The incident occurred in the Black Sea, approximately 20 nautical miles from St. George. There were 12 crew members on board. All were rescued.

1:43Ben Meiselas:One sailor was injured. the president of Romania stated that it was currently unknown who and why the ship was hit, but it seems pretty obvious to those who can exercise a modicum of common sense that it was indeed Russia. So why would the president of Romania be saying, we don't know who did it, because that would require the invocation of NATO's Article 5, or at least Article 4, the consultation provision. And Donald Trump is no longer following Article 5 or Article 4 of NATO. And the NATO members don't want to show how weak NATO has become. And so Russia is picking its targets, NATO member targets, and doing strikes like this to test the resolve, and they are getting their answer.

2:41Ben Meiselas:They're also getting their answer in the form of what I believe is being signaled by Donald Trump and Lavrov to each other following this meeting where John Ratcliffe, the CIA director, visited Moscow. And so look at what Donald Trump threatened on Friday. And this is barely getting any attention. I mean, the Telegraph did write about it, but this is not getting the attention it deserves. So the U.S. is now threatening Britain and its new prime minister over the Falklands. Pentagon officials are warning the United Kingdom, boost your defense spending or risk losing the U.S. support for sovereignty over the islands.

3:25Ben Meiselas:We already know that Donald Trump is a Javier Millay, the president of Argentina, bootlicker. Now, Argentina claims that the Falkland Islands belong to it. Of course, there was the 74-day conflict fought in 1982 between Argentina and the United Kingdom over the Falkland Islands, and the UK clearly won the war very, very quickly. The Falklands are a self-governing Falkland Islands government British overseas territory administered by the United Kingdom. And the U.S. is saying that if you don't meet our defense spending priorities, we will work with Argentina when it comes to their claims in the Falkland Islands.

4:11Ben Meiselas:Now, Donald Trump's demand that countries hit certain spending thresholds is all part of the Trump regime playbook to attack and harass allies. We've seen this playbook repeated for all NATO allies. But the signaling is what I want to highlight as well, because here's what Russia's foreign minister Lavrov said yesterday. Coincidence that this is happening right after John Ratcliffe, the CIA director, met in Russia with the Russians? I think not. Britain's role is the most negative one as it has been for centuries, long centuries, Sergei Lavrov says, certainly in relation to Russia, but also in relation to most of Britain's other, I wouldn't call them partners, rather fellow travelers, because Britain has never had permanent allies, Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov says.

5:06Ben Meiselas:And the United States is no exception. The British have always looked somewhat down on those Anglo-Saxons who went across the Atlantic and created a state of their own. He goes on to say, we have never imposed anything on anyone. All these problems that have arisen around us, if you look at the root cause of each crisis, they were all brought from the outside. And then you have the Kremlin press secretary, Zakharova, threatening strikes on the UK. At the same time, Donald Trump on Friday is threatening the UK sovereignty. Again, coincidence, I think not. Poland's foreign minister, Sikorsky, says, apparently, Putin's spooks told CIA director John Ratcliffe that Putin would not provoke NATO.

5:56Ben Meiselas:Putin had told President Biden's CIA director that he would not invade Ukraine. So we must accelerate our defense preparations, especially as all of the intelligence communities, the U.S. and other NATO nations, are saying that Putin sees the U.S. as weakened, out of weapons, as having a dilapidated and decrepit military under Donald Trump as a result of the catastrophic war in Iran. And the classified assessment of the Kremlin's thinking is that now is the time to escalate because the U.S. has never been weaker and to potentially consider additional provocations regarding NATO nations. There's a big meeting that's going to be taking place next week.

6:44Ben Meiselas:The SCO, the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, and already Russia has publicly announced its priority will be accelerating the$25 billion investment in Iran's nuclear program. And this is in addition to the Bushir nuclear power plant. And in addition, you have a China meeting with Iran's president as well, Pazeskian. And so they're making it very clear over there that this is going to be a meeting involving furthering the alliance that exists between Iran, Russia, China, North Korea, etc. Okay, so with all of this going on, let's take a look at what's happening on the ground. Let me share with you the moment a Ukrainian FP1 strike hit a target inside Russia in the past 24.

7:34Ben Meiselas:Let's play it.

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8:09Ben Meiselas:A powerful missile strike by Ukraine hit occupied Donetsk. Take a look right here. Some believe this may have been an FP5 Flamingo cruise missile. Let's play this clip.

8:40Ben Meiselas:now checking in on uh what's going on in kiev you'll see over here this is a massive strike by the Russians in Kyiv right here on an ammunition depot. The strike caused a large-scale fire, which spread to houses and then led to this secondary explosion that you'll see. At least, let's see, the number of injured, at least six, and that number has been increasing. Let's play this clip.

9:35Ben Meiselas:you'll see another angle here the massive detonation at a ukrainian ammunition depot in kiev oblast following the russian strikes play this clip

10:01Ben Meiselas:And here is another angle of the strikes right here, acknowledging this military depot near Kyiv exploded. Let's play it.

10:23Ben Meiselas:Take a look right here at this drone attack on Russian equipment that just took place. Let's play it.

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12:22Ben Meiselas:let's look at the skies over the russian port of two ops during a recent evening let's play this clip

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13:16Ben Meiselas:we'll take a look at this footage of a pair of Ukrainian FP-1 deep strike drones pushing through Russian air defenses over Sterla Tamak at the Basht-Korstan, around 1 ,300 kilometers from the front lines. Let's play it.

13:52Ben Meiselas:you'll see this photo right here after ukrainian drone successfully struck a russian 295 bear heavy bomber at the angles air base yesterday morning removing a large portion of its right wing you can see right here i'll play with i'll play for you some b-roll of this ukrainian strike on russia's Yarsoval oil refinery early yesterday morning, setting it ablaze. Multiple pillars of smoke could be seen rising from the refinery complex. That's one of Russia's largest. Show you here, Russia's Kostevo oil refinery, the country's fourth largest, completely shut down after the Ukrainian drone attack caused major damage to the facility.

14:37Ben Meiselas:All of Luke Oil's major Russian refineries are now offline due to Ukraine's strikes. Show you this Wildberries Logistics Center in Russia's Samara region after a recent drone strike. We can see what it looks like today. You can play this clip.

15:09Ben Meiselas:Now, I want you to watch this because you can see how the Ukrainian tactics are working. This footage right here is capturing the moment a Russian air defense position fired a missile at a ukrainian fp2 drone deep strike drone it exposes its location then watch what happens you have one of the drones draws out the fire of the russian anti-drone uh surface to air equipment and then the other fp2 comes in and you can see that right there for yourself take a look right Right here, the Russian air defense rockets almost taking out a cameraman in the morning near the Engrils-2 airbase that we talked about as Ukraine targeted the strategic bomber fleet.

16:00Ben Meiselas:Hat tip to my buddy, Jane Key, for getting this. Let's play it.

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16:38Ben Meiselas:and then we talked earlier about this is 6 000 kilometers from ukraine at the amur gas chemical complex the death toll there rising to 15 this was a joint venture between russia and china um it's totally took like eight years to build this seven years to build this And looks like there was sabotage from near where this gas chemical complex was. And that is going to, again, cause massive damage over there in Russia. Zelensky notes, we received information from the American side on the meetings in Moscow that took place these days. There were a number of meetings there, and we spoke the day before.

17:26Ben Meiselas:So we're still talking to the American side. I thank you for the information and for the necessary tone of the conversation. We appreciate the consistency, he says. But let me share with you what it looks like right now in the Kyiv underground. You'll see the subways overcrowded with crowds as Russia continues to hit Kyiv very hard. Kyiv is out of interceptors and they don't have the interceptor license, which is causing a lot of issues. Let's just show you what it looks like inside the subway. An important point to mention as well, in Belarus, their leader, Lukashenko, was urgently summoned to meet with Putin this past week.

18:08Ben Meiselas:And I want everybody to pay attention there. Putin will obviously be discussing the war with Lukashenko. People wondering, will there be a northern front in this winter opened up with Belarus and Putin? so we're going to be of course focusing on that zelinski also writes over the past day our warriors imposed sanctions on 16 targets in russia in particular there were long-range responses against oil facilities russia's oil wallet that finances the war they also struck airfields a missile unit and infrastructure that is constantly used to launch attacks against ukraine our sanctions, Zelensky refers to the drone strikes as long-range sanctions, also hit a military enterprise and Russian logistics.

18:58Ben Meiselas:The war must return to where it came from. Ukraine responds to Russian strikes, and we do so in a way that ensures the cost of the war for the aggressor inevitably rises, is what Zelensky says. And while all of that is taking place as well, I want to share this video with you, this crazy footage out of Kyiv. A Russian drone pulled a full 180 after diving onto a target and then turning back around at the last second. Seems like a new drone capability right here. This is pretty crazy to watch that this drone just stops right before the target and then goes in the other direction. I want you to watch this for yourself.

19:40Ben Meiselas:Let's play it.

19:46Ben Meiselas:Now, I finally want to share with you what Donald Trump has been saying. Trump says, I've had good talks with Putin. He's not going to be attacking NATO territory, which usually means the exact opposite, because Trump lies about everything. So that's a red flag that Zelensky is looking to attack NATO territory. Play this clip. Why did Putin agree or committed to not attacking a NATO territory? I've had good talks with Putin. He's not going to be attacking a NATO territory. And then Donald Trump said that Ratcliffe was in Russia. The CIA director was in Russia in a very routine way, very routine.

20:26Ben Meiselas:I hate to disappoint people. Again, we know Donald Trump lies about everything. So we know that's absolutely not routine. Let's play this clip. Adam, can you tell me why our CIA director flew in the middle of the night to meet with the Russians? Well, none of the above. He's there on, you know, very sort of semi-routine. I hate to disappoint people. We would like to see the war with Ukraine end. That's a war would have never started. Lenovar were president. That's one of the negatives of not having it done that way. I think this way has actually turned out to be bigger in many ways. But you wouldn't have had the war with Ukraine, and you wouldn't have had 25 million people coming into our country like they did just come in like we were a bunch of fools.

21:10It was so sad. And I think the number is higher than 25, frankly, but they came in from prisons and they were drug dealers and they were murderers and everything.

21:20Ben Meiselas:And then Poland's foreign minister Sikorsky says apparently Putin's spooks told CIA director he would not provoke NATO. That's what we talked about this earlier. Putin told that to Biden's CIA director, and that's a big red flag. So we'll keep you posted every step of the way, I wanted to arm you with that data, those data points. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks so much, everybody, for watching. We appreciate you. We're grateful for you. Hey, if you want the full story, how democracy got here and how we take it back, pre-order our new book, WTF America, today. Just scan the QR code or click the link in the description.

21:56Ben Meiselas:Let's do this.

22:06We'll be right back.