World Freezes Him Out…

0:00Ben Meiselas:Donald Trump and his despicable regime are getting completely frozen out of newly formed global alliances. Let's take a look at what's happened in the past 24 hours alone. You have Iran's foreign minister, Aragqi, meeting with China's foreign minister, Wang Yi, in Beijing about closer economic relations. Remember when Treasury Secretary Besant was like, any country that does business with Iran, we are going to unleash hell on you. Well, China and all the BRICS nations over the weekend said, we're actually going to increase our economic cooperation with Iran. Then there was a follow-up meeting in the past 24 hours in Beijing between Iran's foreign minister, Aragji, and China's foreign minister, Wang Yi, which was also strategically timed right before President Xi Jinping is supposed to visit Donald Trump here in the United States.

1:02Ben Meiselas:Xi Jinping is only going to be here for really less than a day. When he previously visited former President Obama, he was in the United States for far longer. Donald Trump is already preparing how he's going to bow down to President Xi Jinping. Trump is making our members of our armed services practice of how they're going to salute Xi Jinping. We've been seeing that rehearsal take place at the White House all day yesterday and today as well. Trump wants the pomp and circumstance to show Xi Jinping just how honored Donald Trump is to have Xi Jinping at the White House, although while Xi Jinping talks about the Thucydides trap.

1:44Ben Meiselas:So Iran, China coordinating closely before Xi's visit to the United States. You have Saudi Arabia begging right now. UK, France, Pakistan, Turkey, Egypt, we need weapons. We are out of interceptors. We relied on the United States for our security umbrella here. We thought we were getting an iron dome like Israel got. Turned out we were the iron dome for Israel is what Saudi Arabia is realizing. And MBS, despite giving all that money to Kushner and to Trump and putting all the Trump properties, all the quid pro quos, MBS realizes he's the mark. He's out of weapons. The Houthis continue to advance as they now head further east after taking all of Western Yemen.

2:43Ben Meiselas:I mean, we've been talking about all those Houthi strikes on the Saudi refineries and oil storage facilities, whether it's in Abqaiq on the east, whether it's Yambu on the west, the east-west pipeline throughout Saudi Arabia damaged. Saudi Arabia is like, we're going to get it back up and running pretty soon. All the satellite footage, though, shows that none of the new pipes are being reconnected. But Saudi Arabia is just saying, here's what we are doing. And it's just fascinating to me as well, because after Saudi Arabia, CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper and Netanyahu's Mossad all met earlier this week, I guess Saudi Arabia's plan was to claim that the Houthis were trying to strike Mecca.

3:28Ben Meiselas:But then they released photos of Medina, Medina, Mecca, tomato, tomato. It was also video from 2025. And I think the purpose of it was try to rally support or symbolic support from the Sunni alliance of Pakistan and Turkey and others. And maybe that's why I was like, we condemn the Houthis. Anyway, Saudi Arabia is reeling. The Trump regime is not a reliable ally with anybody. Surprise, surprise. But we did learn that apparently some Trump regime officials were in Muscat in Oman this past weekend, potentially meeting with the Houthis or perhaps an Oman mediator purporting to be representing the Houthis, where the Trump regime told the Houthis, we give you our word.

4:21Ben Meiselas:We will not help Saudi Arabia actually strike the Houthis. But the Houthis, we got a little bit of a gas problem in the United States, a little bit of a diesel problem as well. Actually, a much worse diesel problem and much worse gas problem than any ever existed in history before. Can you help us, Houthis? So Trump says, you know what, Houthis? We're cool. Keep going after MBS. Attack the MBS tankers, all good. Just can you let our tankers and Israel's tankers through? We won't strike you. And then you could do the war with MBS. And MBS is like, yo, what are you talking about? And then there's another layer here because the Trump regime promised Saudi Arabia, all these F-35s.

5:04Ben Meiselas:And now as Donald Trump is throwing Saudi Arabia under the bus in Saudi Arabia is looking for a new security umbrella, they may say, hey, yo, China, we got this F-35 technology right now. You want to help us out? Do you see the layers of complexity here that I'm talking about? Why we need intelligent grownups handling foreign policy and not Donald Trump, who yesterday was like, we need to cut off trade with everybody. If we just stop trading with the world, that's how we'll get rich. Every country we need to cut off trade with. You saw Donald Trump say that. I'll just remind you of it. Here's what Donald Trump said.

5:43Ben Meiselas:We're going to cut off the world from trade. Here, play this clip. And if we stop trading with every country that we have a deficit with, which is most of them, and which would be very easy to do, would make at least$1.5 trillion a year. We do that because it's almost like a reflex. The word deficit, you have to understand is nothing more than a fancy word for loss. So we do these countries. We don't need anything for them. And you ever notice they're considered elite. I don't want to mention the names. They're elite. They're only elite because we allow them to trade with us and we allow them to make far more money than they should be.

6:20They're not elite. We're the ones that are elite. And if I ended those deals, you would see a country that would make more money and you You see the elite countries go right down the tubes. We're carrying almost every country in the world. And that really cannot go on that much longer. I'm letting them know. I'm going to say that can't do that. We just can't do it. Why should why should we carry Canada? Why should we carry Mexico? Although we're very close to a deal with Mexico, a great deal. Why should we carry so many countries in Europe? We're carrying the European nations. This episode is brought to you by the Freedom from Religion Foundation.

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8:18Ben Meiselas:So who does Donald Trump think he's friends with? Putin? OK, well, CNN reported and they did this detailed analysis of the satellite data from the time period where lots of U.S. bases were hit by Iran around the time you had the Prince Sultan base with those E-3 AWACS, those hundred million dollar, half a billion dollar planes were destroyed by Iran. And so what CNN's analysis showed is that a lot of these Russian spy satellites were right over the regions, right over the areas and the bases, and were likely beaming the data to Iran and providing the satellite footage to Iran during the relevant time period.

9:05Ben Meiselas:CNN did a very detailed analysis of the Russian satellites that were there, what they likely saw. I don't think it's a secret, though. I mean, I appreciate CNN's report, but you got Putin and China and Xi and Wang Yi and Lavrov. They're like, we're allied. Hello? We're allies. We help each other economically, militarily, politically. And you know what? Unlike the Trump regime, which just recklessly talks about, all right, we've got weapons in outer space, man. And right, that was earlier this week. You had Space Force and others in the Air Force kind of recklessly, in my view, at these keynotes saying, we've got all these weapons in space, which just escalates an arm race.

9:49Ben Meiselas:Whereas before it was strategic ambiguity with the way, you know, the U.S. space military program, you know, these other countries, because they play the game of international diplomacy, they sometimes engage in strategic ambiguity in terms of their dealings on the world stage. You see why, though? There's a whole diplomatic language. And we've just got this freaking lunatic in the Oval Office surrounded by other lunatics like Pete Hegseth and Treasury Secretary Besson just vomiting out a bunch of crap. And this ain't a game, folks. The purpose of this video is to explain to you the layers of complexity as the U.S.

10:30Ben Meiselas:is being isolated and frozen out of these very complex relations where a post-World War II architecture was U.S. dominated. And now it's being reformed with Xi Jinping and China and Russia and Iran and others asserting a bigger block than they ever had before with the strengthening of BRICS. And then we're seeing elsewhere also, I mean, we're seeing Prime Minister Carney's visit this week to the UK. Prime Minister Burnham and him were spending a lot of time together. And then, of course, he's heading to the European Union, where he will be there for the State of the Union European, in the European Union of Ursula von der Leyen, the President of the European Commission.

11:16Ben Meiselas:And as you know, Carney's addressing the European Union during the State of the Union, talking about this associate member status. And then what was Donald Trump's response to that? Well, I mean, Donald Trump's been attacking Canada and not merely in the posture of a trade war. And it's not, you know, oh, we're just going to 51st state. No, it's war. Trump uses the language of actual war. The people of Canada perceive it as a real war, threats of war, a la the threats that Putin engaged in with Ukraine and Zelensky before Putin invaded. That's how people in Canada see Trump's rhetoric to Canada, that Trump wants to take it over.

11:55Ben Meiselas:And so that is something that I think we need to be paying attention to. So what was Donald Trump saying when he was asked about the strengthening of the relationship between Canada and Europe? Here's what Donald Trump said about that. And he said, well, we'll go after Europe, too. We'll attack Europe. Here's what Trump said. Let's play it. Now, I think it's laughable. Look, the whole thing with Canada, Canada has been a terrible trade partner. And no, I don't see that. And if they do that, if I think it's an all a hostile act, I will put very serious tariffs or stop trading with Europe on many things.

12:32So if they do that, if Europe does that with a bad intention, if it's a good intention, that's fine. If it's a bad intention, we'll put very heavy tariffs on Europe.

12:44Ben Meiselas:which is a which is a possibility and so i talked about russia um what about north korea well you have kim jong-un and kim jong-un's sister and she's got a very powerful position over there they scoffed and laughed at the idea that they're somehow going to denuclearize they said their position in the world as a nuclear power will never be tested will never be undermined north North Korea will always be a nuclear power, is what they said. Great work, Donald Trump, during your first term by ripping apart the JCPOA, which was also a deterrent for North Korea in getting their nuclear weapons because it showed that a multilateral coalition could stop them from doing that.

13:23Ben Meiselas:And now we see on a regular basis, Kim Jong-un is testing ballistic missiles, which could be capable of carrying nuclear warheads. And he shows that he's got those capabilities. What about Argentina? Javier Malay, Donald Trump's butt, right? What did Javier Malay have to say about the recent escalation regarding the Falklands? Javier Malay kind of throws Trump under the bus too. Malay's like, look, we are only bringing up the Falklands the way we are right now because Trump is basically saying that the Falklands belongs to us in Argentina. And so if Trump's on our side and he's giving us weapons, we perhaps need to assert more our claims to the Falklands.

14:06Ben Meiselas:Now, they've made that claim before. There was a Falkland War three decades ago that the UK won. There's a complex history there, Falkland Islands being an independent sovereign, but part of the United Kingdom and UK viewing it as, of course, part of the UK. Okay. But Donald Trump, I guess, you know, just think about what Trump does, right? He creates the issue. He's the arsonist. And then he wants to say, look, I mediated it. I solved it when he's the one creating the wars and creating the problems. But Javier Malay's statement is, no, no, we're responding to Trump saying he supports us getting it basically.

14:43Ben Meiselas:And so again, another thing that we saw with Prime Minister Carney, with Prime Minister Burnham, through Prime Minister of the UK together, you know, is also showing that transatlantic alliance. And there is discussions. What's UK's role going to be vis-a-vis the European Union? We saw Brexit. And for those who remember Prime Minister Carney's history, not only was he the main central banker of Bank of Canada during the Great Recession there, he was the main central banker. He was brought in because of his skill to be the central banker, basically the chair of the Bank of England during Brexit to help deal with the chaos that ensued there.

15:27Ben Meiselas:So Prime Minister Carney is someone who knows how to coalition build, alliance build, and that's what you're seeing on that trip. And what's Donald Trump doing while all of this is taking place? Again, ranting and raving like a lunatic. We heard from Premier Ford over in Ontario, Doug Ford, and here's what he had to say about reliability and predictability as he was reflecting on Canada's big investment summit, where you had trillions and trillions of dollars in assets show up in Canada with these sovereign funds and pension funds and big companies throughout the world looking to Canada as basically the predictable, reliable ally that the U.S.

16:11Ben Meiselas:once was. But Canada's kind of new position in this world as bringing together the mid-majors into a major power. Let's listen to what Doug Ford, Premier Ford, has to say. Play this clip. Team Canada was united in our pitch. In an increasingly unstable world, there's no better, more reliable, and more stable place to invest. It gives our investors certainty and stability and rule of law too. And I told each investor, we promise you one thing, we aren't going to wake up in the morning and change our mind like some other leaders in the world. More from Premier Ford right here as well. Let's play it.

16:56I'll tell you one thing. He brought a tremendous amount of opportunity to all the entire country. All the premiers were there. We were all pitching all the sovereign wealth funds. They were very, very interested because we're a stable country. And the rule of law kept coming up. That is so important. You can't have leaders. There's, well, the guy south of the border, he wakes up and all of a sudden he changes his mind. Like, how do you have certainty and stability in the country? Even his own citizens, when he changes the, you know, changes the game every single morning, you have certainty and stability, pro-business, pro-jobs, lower taxes, lower regulations.

17:43That's what companies and investors are looking for. And there's no greater place than Ontario and Canada.

17:48Ben Meiselas:And then, you know, Donald Trump's ridiculous and performative concept of the board of peace, right, all falling apart. It's obviously the opposite. The board of peace has caused death, devastation, destruction. We're still seeing innocent people killed in Gaza every day, innocent people killed in Lebanon every day. While Donald Trump's like, what do you mean? We did everything's great now. There's total peace there. That's a success. I mean, no, No, it absolutely isn't. But as you take a look at what's happening at the United Nations in the coming days, here's what we just learned. The United States State Department denied visas to Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas and his delegation ahead of the UN General Assembly session.

18:36Ben Meiselas:And then the U.S. State Department bragged about it, sanctioning officials of the Palestinian Authority and members of the Palestinian Liberation Organization. the state department has reported to congress that the plo and palestinian authority have once again failed to live up to their commitments as described in the plo act of 1989 this includes initiating supporting actions and international organizations that undermine and contradict prior commitments i mean you want to talk about violating prior commitments talk about the netanyahu regime what they did in the genocide they engaged in. So what, Netanyahu, the war criminal shows up in the United Nations and you're not going to, how could you even encourage a dialogue of creating a unified peace when you're not even allowing the PLO Mahmoud Abbas to even show up at the United Nations?

19:31Ben Meiselas:I mean, to weaponize access to the United Nations, to the UN? I mean, we're talking about war criminals who shouldn't be there then if we're going to ban, not just Netanyahu Trump. I mean, Trump's the biggest war criminal in the world right now, in my view, responsible for slaughtering so many innocent people, so many. And then this is the message that was posted by the Department of War, the Defense Department. This is what they posted yesterday. The United States will never be an effective altruist country. And then they post this weird meme of Donald Trump, Americanism, not effective altruism.

20:15Ben Meiselas:Well, I looked up effective altruism, reason, logic, empathetic, caring, compassion about the world. Effective altruism is like, Like it's a peculiar phrasing, but like for them to pick that out and go, screw effective altruism. Like we are the bad guys in the United States and like the stupid bad guys. Like we are the dumb, dumb bad guys. Like we are the way Trump behaves is malicious. And also it's a potent combination of that. And meanwhile, 200 nights, 200 nights of Iranians filling the streets. You can see in Tehran what that looks like right over there. All the while, the Houthis are celebrating shooting down Saudi F-15s, which were provided by us, our taxpayer dollars.

21:14Ben Meiselas:And so now, I guess what Donald Trump and Netanyahu are trying to scheme, because that's who Donald Trump has left is bring Netanyahu here and what? And then you're going to bring the Arab nations on the sidelines of the UN and say, what, you won the war? What's the end game here? This is, as I said, you have other countries playing four or five 20-dimensional chess, and Donald Trump's playing pickup sticks and he's stabbing himself in the eye with those pickup sticks. This was a complicated video. And so we covered a lot of ground, but I think it's important you understand the international framework of what it looks like now that the U.S.

22:01Ben Meiselas:security umbrella in the Middle East, in Asia, throughout the world has been destroyed. So it gives you a good summary. All that stuff has happened in the past 24 hours, by the way. This is like going history and fast forward right now with the U.S. decline. Thanks for watching. I talk about a lot of these ideas in WTF America, the way out of this hell and back to democracy. It's pre-order it right now. Comes out October 20th. Let's keep the pre-order momentum. Thanks so much. We appreciate you. Thanks. Thanks for watching. Breaking news right now. My brothers and I wrote a book. It's called WTF America.

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