Ukraine Strikes Moscow as Fears of Wider European Conflict Grow

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2:07Ben Meiselas:or affiliate products not available in every state all hell is breaking loose as moscow is burning insane scenes right now in the heart of moscow where a ukrainian drone swarm struck hard into multiple areas, refineries, infrastructure used for the military in Moscow. I want to just show you some of these scenes in a moment. Now, this comes at the same time where Russia's President Vladimir Putin is saying that European countries are plotting a massive war against Russia, while European countries are saying Putin is planning a massive hybrid war against Europe. One top French defense official told the newspaper over there that there's currently responses taking place, active responses, conventional military responses in response to active hybrid warfare that Russia is engaging in against European nations.

3:15Ben Meiselas:We'll get to that in a moment. But first, I want to show you some of these scenes of what Moscow looks like right now. Then I want to talk about what Europe is doing as it claims it is preparing for a imminent war in the coming weeks, perhaps even days. And we'll talk about what Putin is claiming and what he's saying is going on over there. And then we'll talk about what's going on as Donald Trump cut his trip from Camp David short. He was supposed to be there all weekend. He headed back to the White House looking sluggish, looking like he was rotting away again. And we'll talk about what that may signify as you have a B-1 flying out of UK as well.

4:02Ben Meiselas:Let's get through all of this. Let's talk about it all right now. So over here, you can see probably at least five different fires burning at the Moscow oil refinery right here. Let's take a look at what that looks like.

4:28Ben Meiselas:More insane footage over here from Moscow. I mean, this is, you know, an area that Putin previously thought of as being impervious to Ukrainian drone strikes, but a massive swarm hit. Let's take a look at some of this video right here.

5:02Ben Meiselas:Now, I will show you some of the aftermath as well over here. Large-scale drone attack in Moscow, multiple impacts being recorded across several sites in the oblast. Let's take a look.

5:33Ben Meiselas:Indeed, Russia confirmed dozens of Ukrainian drones targeted Moscow as a broader attack hit multiple regions. Moscow's mayor, Sergei Sabayin, said that air defenses shot down a lot of these drones, but some indeed got through. They say that 76 or more drones were intercepted. But let me just share with you over here what it looked like in the Moscow region. Let's play this clip. here is his direct translation this is what we think the walls of wald profitable

6:38Ben Meiselas:Now you also had Russian drones and ballistics hitting hard in Ukraine. This is the Sofiano area over here by Kyiv. You can see this for yourself. Let's take a look at what that looked like.

7:00Ben Meiselas:yeah i mean this footage that's coming in is indeed uh very very uh powerful i mean these are crazy scenes indeed now as i mentioned before uh an anonymous french defense ministry source is saying that france is already conducting covert conventional military operations against Russia when asked if Paris could retaliate militarily without announcing it. This same source replied, it is already happening. That's what they're saying in Le Monde right now. Even France's far-right National Rally Party, RN, with its leaders Marine Le Pen and Jordan Bardella, they issued a rare condemnation of Russia, warning against Moscow using intimidation threats and destabilization to influence France.

7:51Ben Meiselas:How about that, that you have even France's far right party standing up to Putin more than, say, Donald Trump and Trump's regime? Quote, this is what the RN leader said. We will never tolerate any foreign power. In this case, Russia seeking to dictate directly or indirectly the policy of our country through intimidation, threats, destabilization, or psychological pressure. Meanwhile, Poland's defense minister said the following, missiles are falling, drones are falling one kilometer from the Polish border. If Ukraine does not have air defense systems, if it does not have ammunition to shoot down these drones, most of these drones will fly through Ukraine and reach Poland.

8:34Ben Meiselas:The state interest is supporting a Ukraine that is fighting so that missiles are intercepted there and that they do not reach Poland. Meanwhile, there are alarming signs that the Trump regime is preparing massive escalation in the Middle East. I'm going to do a whole other video on this. And there's lots of reporting that the planning may be to launch massive strikes against Ansar Allah in Yemen because the Saudi monarchy is on the ropes. I'll do a whole other video on this, but just some developments that just took place. Video of B1s taking off from the UK. State Department issuing fresh travel alerts to U.S.

9:13Ben Meiselas:citizens across multiple countries in the Middle East, warning of potential escalation. And Iran Security Services reporting that they are on maximum alert. We'll talk more about that in another video that we plan on doing over here. Let's talk about what Putin has been saying. So Putin has said the following, European leaders are openly declaring that they are preparing for war with Russia and thus we need to be prepared for the strikes by the European nations and NATO. Meanwhile, Europe's preparations for war are reaching an alarming level. We've been covering everywhere from Finland to Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, France, the UK, the European Union generally.

10:01Ben Meiselas:And each of these countries have put out statements that they are preparing for all out war in the coming days and in the coming weeks. I mean, they're all putting out this message. Want more hydration without another sugary drink? Meet Bowie. Bowie is purposefully unflavored liquid electrolytes with 87 trace minerals you could add to any drink, even coffee. No sugar, sweeteners, flavors, or artificial ingredients. I've been adding a squeeze to my coffee in the morning, and I love how hydrated it makes me feel after. One squeeze supports energy, cognitive function, clarity, and cellular hydration.

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11:26Ben Meiselas:I'll give you an example. You take a look at Finland over there. They raised the military reserve age to 65. They're building a reserve approaching 1 million people, remove legal barriers, preventing allied nuclear weapons from entering Finnish territory, withdrew from a treaty banning anti-personnel and mines. Estonia declared its willingness to host NATO nuclear weapons if necessary, building bunkers, trenches, anti-tank barriers along its Russian border, participating in the new Baltic defense line. Latvia constructing border fortifications, barriers, and military positions. They withdrew from the treaty prohibiting anti-personnel missiles, expanded civil defense, and national resilience preparations.

12:05Ben Meiselas:Lithuania stockpiling anti-tank barriers and mine capability, building fortified defensive positions near Russia and Belarus. Poland offered to host NATO nuclear weapons pursuing an army and reserve system totaling approximately 500 ,000. People planning to train as many as 100 ,000 reservists considering military preparation for all adult men building the eastern shield of fortifications withdrew as well from the anti-personnel mine treaty. Germany cataloging subway stations, tunnel garages and basements for use as bomb shelters, seeking shelter capacity for approximately 1 million people, registering and assessing young men for possible military service, preparing to move hundreds of thousands of NATO troops and vehicles during a major war.

12:51Ben Meiselas:Sweden sent citizens and in case of crisis war handbook, instructed families how to survive blackouts, air attacks, disrupted communications of possible occupation. Denmark, expanded military conscription to women, increased military service from four months to 11 months. France, developed public survival guidance covering emergency supplies, radio communications, radiation precautions, encouraging participation in military service and civilian defense organizations. UK, reviving government war books, integrating military, civilian, and industrial utility planning, preparing a national home defense exercise, strengthening protection of energy systems, water, communication, undersea cables, planning for cyber attacks, making it easier to recall former service members, potentially up to the age of 65.

13:38Ben Meiselas:I mean, I could keep on going on, but we've seen a lot of these developments and statements from Europe, as we've been talking about in the past 24 hours, 48 hours alone. Then you have Pete Hegseth delivering this deranged message that he reposted on social media, send me, send me. And he cites Isaiah as though the passage in the Bible talks about sending Americans to go to catastrophic wars. That's not what Isaiah chapter six, verse eight actually means. but he goes, this is like, and some bizarre, deranged, religious fanaticism crap right here. He was at Texas A &M and he said, this is the send me tour.

14:22Ben Meiselas:He goes, this is literally posted. If you know book of Isaiah chapter six, verse eight, the Lord said, send me to war, send me to fight the communists, send me to go fight the Islamists. Remember MAGA 2024? They're like, Biden's going to send me to wars. We don't want to be involved. And then literally they're deranged, lunatic, religious, fanatic, extremist, war criminal defense secretary is like, send me, send me to all wars. I mean, this is what he's saying here. This is the video. Let's play this clip of what he said. Let's play it. This is actually our first stop in what you see up on the screen right there, which we're calling the send me tour.

15:00You know, your book of Isaiah, chapter 6 verse 8 the Lord said who will I send? and Isaiah says Lord I'm here send me send me and if you think about it across the 250 years of our country I know you got 150 years of this great core here over 150 years of this core and 250 years of the country there have been men and women who raised their right hand and they said send me send me to go fight the Redcoats, send me to go fight the Communists, send me to go fight the Islamists, and you are saying send me to go fight whatever threats threaten our nation for the next 250 years. If we don't have Texans like these out there on the front lines, we don't have a republic.

15:48So we need the nation to raise their right hand and say, send me. I'll serve something greater than myself, God and country. I'll swear an oath to something timeless, the Constitution that doesn't bend, it doesn't break, and that we swear that oath to to defend. It's not about a political party. It's not about a point of view. It's not about an ideology. It's about a belief in our declaration and our Constitution and the principles that those stand for. This ground that we stand on, that we pledge to protect, our homeland.

16:20Ben Meiselas:And I do want to note NATO military chief Dragone gave a speech at a NATO conference, the NATO military's annual meeting in Copenhagen. And here's what he had to say about preparation for war with Russia and that NATO is ready. Let's play this clip right here so you can see it for yourself let's play it. That's the meaning of the family of plants that we do have. I mean our plants at the eastern we have three plants over there but they are just to be ready in case of an escalation of course over there. So it's there is something that there are action there are movement there are reaction that are supposed to be there.

17:08Everything is just pretty much standardized to make the decision process as quick as possible but everything is already is already studied I mean we have four thousand pages of plans for for the eastern flank and this goes from the minimal crisis or interference in our soil with I mean article 5 and on but everything the alliance is ready the structure is ready the the soldiers the system the weapons are ready we are of course increasing them in number on one side and also in sophistication to match the evolution of the threat but i mean everything is there and it is it is right because i mean this alliance has 77 years and has been adapting to the i mean to the evolve evolving of the of the threat in this in this time frame so i mean that's that's something in case of an attack we know how to do it and in case of an attack i can tell you that today they have much more to lose than to gain that's for sure and that's the terence if we stay in let me play for you the sound of the

18:23Ben Meiselas:u.s air force b1b lancer strategic bomber spotted taking off of the royal air force fairford in the uk unclear where it was heading but you know when these head out it usually signals that there's war uh that's imminent i mean not always but you know it's it's a sign to watch here play this clip

19:18Ben Meiselas:And finally, let me share with you more scenes right here from Moscow. You can see for yourself what's going on. Let's play it.

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