World Leaders Pounce as Trump Retreats

0:00Ben Meiselas:Furious world leaders are easily checkmating Donald Trump as it has become increasingly clear how utterly weak he is. You stare Donald Trump down, you push back, Donald Trump backs down. Exhibit A, Canada. Prime Minister Carney stared Donald Trump down. Trump threatened that he was going to impose 50 % tariffs against Canada. The deadline, 1159 on Tuesday evening. Prime Minister Carney said, we'd rather do no deal than a bad deal. You want to cause mutually assured economic destruction, Donald? Be my guest. Canada will further retaliate. Donald Trump with little time to spare, tacoed. We always knew Donald Trump was going to do this.

0:46Trump gave in and posted the following message on his social media account.

0:51Ben Meiselas:I have paused the 50 % tariffs against Canada that were scheduled to kick in tomorrow morning for a three-day period based on the fact that Canada and the USA, subject to the finalization of documents, have a deal. The Great Keystone Pipeline, long ago killed by sleepy Joe Biden, may be awoken from the grave. Thank you for your attention to this matter, Donald J. Trump. Then he posts an AI meme late at night of himself holding the Keystone Pipeline and showing how strong he is. I mean, how utterly pathetic can you get? I mean, you have to attack former President Biden. Then when you read what he says, is this a framework of a deal that may be awoken, Donald?

1:36Ben Meiselas:Ooh, I guess we're going to have to wait three days and then maybe a two-week extension and then maybe a month extension after that. Prime Minister Carney was calm and confident throughout the negotiation. I think he always knew that Donald Trump would back down as Trump does his performative deal-making. Look what a great deal-maker. I create the problems. I'm the arsonist. Then I pretend I fix the problems. And then I blame the former presidents of the United States. So utterly pathetic. Let's exhibit A. Exhibit B. Let's talk about what's going on in South Korea right now. Donald Trump says that he wants to rekindle the flame, the summer romance with Kim Jong-un from years past.

2:21And Donald Trump orders Pete Hegseth, his Secretary of Defense, he says, Pete, we need to shut down United States military exercises with South Korea. Let's not treat South Korea like our ally, which they've been for a very long time. I'm personal friends with Kim Jong-un. We used to send love letters together. So we want to get out of these military exercises. So Hegseth basically limits the existing exercises, which are already taking place. Donald Trump further attacks South Korea and says, why should we even help you at all? You didn't help us in our catastrophic and unlawful war in Iran. So therefore, according to Trump's logic, and I

3:02Ben Meiselas:I don't mean actual logic. Donald Trump's like, let me promote North Korea then, who brags about nuclear weapons and has been doing multiple ballistic missile tests showing its nuclear capabilities recently. Well done, Donald. And then Donald Trump wants to have a Kim Jong-un summit because Donald Trump wants to change the subject from how catastrophic his war in Iran is. Diesel prices skyrocketing, as we said they would do, with the diesel crack spread, what, over$100 a barrel right now. The price of gas, over$4 a gallon right now. The price of diesel, over$5 a gallon right now. With these dire conditions, Trump's like, can we talk about Kim Jong-un?

3:49Let's bring back the character from my first term again. Again, so utterly pathetic. So what are they doing in South Korea? Well, at the foreign ministry level and at the president's level as well, planning meetings with China. Okay, Donald, you want to attack South Korea? We will then hold meetings at the foreign ministry level. Wang Yi, the foreign ministry of China, foreign minister of China, let's meet with the South Korea foreign minister. We'll meet at the president's level as well soon. And maybe South Korea should build up its nuclear arsenal. If you're going to promote Kim Jong-un and his nuclear weapons and you're not going to protect South Korea, Well, South Korea may need a nuclear deterrent.

4:30So we heard from retired General Chun-im Bum, a well-known general in South Korea. And he says what we've been warning about, that the destruction of the United States security umbrella throughout the world has created a situation where other countries are going to want to get nuclear weapons. I mean, don't you think for a second that what the Saudi civil nuclear program is all about is actually building nuclear weapons in disguise? And don't you think that the United States interactions with the United Arab Emirates may be heading in the same path as well? because Donald Trump's like, okay, I guess there was all of this money given to the Trump

5:10Ben Meiselas:organization and to Donald Trump. How can I do the quid pro quo where I've destroyed the U.S. security umbrella? You want nukes? You want our semiconductor classified chips? All right, let's figure out how to do this. Let me show you what the retired general from South Korea had to say on CNN play this clip. As U.S. allies around the world in Europe and in Asia have adjusted to President Trump's approach to alliances and sometimes dismissiveness relating to alliances, there's been some discussion of not just national security changes, but even steps as far as acquiring nuclear weapons. As you know, that that's been the subject of something of a public discussion in South Korea.

5:54I wonder, do you think that that is a serious discussion and might that at some point become necessary? Yes, it is becoming a very serious discussion, especially with the recent very surprising announcement on public media by President Trump. So the uncertainties that is being created by such announcements only accelerate the kind of thinking that we need an independent deterrent, which is a far different issue. But it is becoming more of an issue in Korea.

6:38Ben Meiselas:And folks, even the latest Wall Street Journal op-ed that just dropped, Trump's romance, Trump romances Kim Jong-un again. The president weakens deterrence by limiting U.S. military exercises in South Korea. This is from the Wall Street Journal editorial board owned by Murdoch. Trump is nothing if not impulsive. Trump cites his very good relationship with Kim Jong-un and says, we don't want to do military exercises with South Korea anymore. The Wall Street Journal says this sends a message of weakening deterrence and readiness against a regime that has a history of threats and aggressions to the South.

7:18Ben Meiselas:And then the Wall Street Journal says, Trump regime, didn't you recently say that South Korea had, quote, pragmatism and leadership in raising its defense spending to 3.5 % of GDP? Do you realize how erratic this makes you look? Won't this just reinforce the growing belief in Asia and Europe and elsewhere that the U.S. is unreliable and may also increase the calls in the South for Seoul to develop its own nuclear deterrent. And China is very happy to see the USS George Washington leave the Pacific in the absence of U.S. leadership. We see these other alliances form and we're seeing that everybody views Donald Trump as weak.

8:01You want to see what's going on, for example, in Europe right

8:04Ben Meiselas:now? Well, you had French President Emmanuel Macron say the following about Europe, have confidence in Europe, which is also the source of our independence and which will allow us together to hold our ground in this dislocated world where international law is violated every day, where the logic of blocks is returning and there too, to preserve our independence and our freedom. But take a look and zoom in what is happening in Eastern Europe right now. You take a look at the area of Kaliningrad. Take a look at Kaliningrad on a map right here. It's nestled between Lithuania and Poland. You see over here, Kaliningrad's actually Russia, and it's not connected to the big part of Russia.

8:49Ben Meiselas:It's between Lithuania and Poland, and we've been seeing a lot of unusual activity by Russia in the Baltic area, and we've been seeing a lot of unusual activity by NATO as well. Do you snore? Did somebody hand you a CPAP and did you quietly stop using it? The mask that never quite seals, the hose tugging at you every time you roll over, and a machine sitting abandoned in a closet. Well, Excite OSA works a different way. It treats a root cause instead of managing the noise, and you use it while you're awake. It's an FDA-cleared prescription device for primary snoring and mild obstructive sleep apnea.

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10:30Ben Meiselas:You take a look at what's happened in Kaliningrad over the past 24 hours. We've seen massive NATO surveillance and reconnaissance as a result of this massive Russian buildup here, while Donald Trump seems to be supportive of Putin in every single way. And I'm not even clear that Donald Trump realizes what's going on with NATO right now. I mean, you had a NATO E3 airborne early warning and control AWAC aircraft operating nearby while a U.S. Air Force EA-37B Compass Call 2 electronic war aircraft, which had been operating from Greece in support of operations in the Middle East, repositioned in Poland earlier.

11:14Ben Meiselas:The EA-37B flew a racetrack pattern between Kaliningrad and the NATO E3 for roughly two hours before departing towards Greece. At the same time, a contracted U.S. Army-owned contractor operated airborne reconnaissance and targeting exploitation multi-mission intelligence system, Artemis II aircraft conducted a series of orbits encircling Kalanagrid. Artemis II and NATO E3 missions in the area are not unusual, but the presence of the EA-37B at the same time was indeed noteworthy. The Compass Call is an airborne electronic warfare platform designed to detect, identify, and disrupt enemy communications and other electromagnetic systems.

12:02Ben Meiselas:Its presence alongside the AWACS and dedicated ISR aircraft suggests NATO and U.S. forces had a particular intelligence or electronic warfare requirement in the vicinity of Kalinograd. The timing is also notable given the reporting that Russia may be preparing for potential operations against NATO members. Whether today's activity is related remains unknown, but it's barely being reported anywhere that there may have just been full-fledged electronic warfare taking place between NATO and Russia, while Donald Trump is removing the last aircraft carrier that the U.S. has in the Pacific, the USS George Washington, and moving it now towards the Middle East because Donald Trump is unable to take care of our troops aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, who were suffering and not getting the food and not having showers and not being able to even really to sustain life on the ship because the Trump regime was treating him so horribly.

13:01Ben Meiselas:Meanwhile, you have Chinese outlets mocking Donald Trump for whatever the hell's going on with Natalie Harp. The South China Morning Post reports, Natalie Harp, Trump's human printer in the spotlight after decoy plane incident. Could you imagine for a second, imagine for a second, if we heard the story of Xi Jinping with this assistant called his human printer was sneaking out of the Chinese aircrafts for the president because he was so scared of being assassinated. Could you think about if that was any other world leader, what we would be thinking? So I've given you exhibit A, Canada standing up to Donald Trump.

13:42Ben Meiselas:I gave you South Korea, exhibit B. We're talking about exhibit C, Europe right now on really a war footing. You've got Russia building up its weapons in the Kalanagrad area. and we had jared kushner recently meeting with netanyahu in the past 48 hours and what netanyahu do yesterday morning he bombed syria's abul al-daur air base a few miles from the turkish border because netanyahu said we don't want turkey helping out syria in any way there was no warning given to Turkey. If Turkish forces were present, that could have triggered war between Turkey and Israel right now. Remember, there's the Mecca pact that I talk about a lot, which was just formed between Saudi Arabia, Turkey, and Pakistan, which has Israel very frightened under Netanyahu, because this is a Sunni alliance, and it runs counter to Netanyahu's desire for the Abraham Accords to try to make Israel the main power in the region.

14:53This is shifting power to the Sunni Arab nations. And then Netanyahu, and again, he's doing a lot of this, one, because he's a genocidal

15:01Ben Meiselas:maniac, but two, as it also gets closer to the election there in October, this was the official message from the Prime Minister of Israel account. The Prime Minister's office says the following, Israel and Syria agreed to a status quo in security matters, which Syria was on the verge breaching by permitting Turkish troops to deploy at an air base near Aleppo. Israel repeatedly warned Syria that such a deployment would pose a threat to Israel's security. Syria chose to ignore those warnings. Israel will not tolerate the threats to its security and would welcome a return to the status quo. Is the return to the status quo a very weak Syria?

15:39Syria is not allowed to have relations with Turkey or other Arab nations or Israel is going to violate its sovereignty and blow it up, the same way Israel carves out its security zones, which is just it taking over massive pieces of land in Lebanon or the genocide going on in Gaza right now or the slaughter in Lebanon. While all of this is going on, you want to see U.S. weakness and capitulation and bowing to Putin while Putin is moving his weapons in the Kalanagrad area. And while there's electronic warfare going on. Yesterday, Rubio announced the attack on the ICC by sanctioning the president of the ICC, Tomoko Akhani, and the senior trial lawyer, Abdule Saeed.

16:25Abdule Saeed was prosecuting Netanyahu and war crimes by the Netanyahu regime. Tomoko Akhani, the ICC president, led the international criminal courts. And now the Trump regime has imposed sanctions, the most serious financial sanctions against the ICC prosecutor for prosecution relating to Netanyahu's genocide and Tomoko Akhani for leading the ICC. Netanyahu said he approves, of course.

16:56Ben Meiselas:ICC has become a kangaroo court. Netanyahu says that cloaks its abuse of power in the language of international law while undermining the very principles of justice. Donald Trump previously said at Camp David that the reason that he and Rubio would be attacking the ICC was to protect Netanyahu from prosecutions of war crimes. Here's what Donald Trump said. Let's play this clip. ...leader and Paul into the hay. So we've begun to, we tried to get them to reform and listen to us. They wouldn't do it. They're very arrogant. We've now begun an effort to really try to bring that court to heel. There's no information that they're after me.

17:34It could happen. Just so you know. He's not trying to defend me. He is trying to defend Bibi and various other people. But there are many people that shouldn't be looked at that way. But there is no indication that I'm one of them at this moment. And then there were more strikes by Netanyahu in Lebanon earlier this week. Israel killed Zainab, the daughter of Nora, and the other four children right here. I'll just show you. This is a video of some of the children who were, I'll show you when they were alive and they were living their life before they were killed by the Netanyahu regime. Here play this clip.

18:32Ben Meiselas:Here's another clip right here. Let's play it.

19:03Meanwhile, you have Iran mocking Donald Trump for claiming he controls the Strait of Hormuz. The gap between America's inability to reopen the Strait of Hormuz and its claim to own it is greater than the 7 ,000 mile distance between Washington and the Strait itself. Welcome to the post-American order in the Persian Gulf is what Motion Resi said, visor to the Ayatollah, mocking the United States for its capitulation and its weakness in the area right there. And so we'll keep you posted, obviously, as we learn more. But there you have it. You can see just the U.S. weakness. You see what's going on with all these other countries.

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