All Hell Breaks Loose as Trump China Trip is Ruined!!

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What challenges is Donald Trump facing before his trip to China?

Ben Meiselas 0:00
Furious world leaders are putting the screws into Donald Trump and twisting it before his trip to Beijing at the end of this week where he will be meeting with Xi Jinping on May 14th and May 15th. World leaders want to show just how weak Donald Trump has made the United States in advance of this meeting with Xi Jinping. We've heard from a prince in Saudi Arabia. We've heard from President Zelensky. We've heard from members of NATO who no longer want to even hold meetings with Donald Trump anymore and push future NATO meetings until the end of Donald Trump's term. We've heard from other world leaders as well. And we've heard from Netanyahu right now who's trying to pressure Donald Trump to invade Iran yet again and reopen hostilities before Donald Trump takes this trip to China.
Ben Meiselas 0:56
I want to share with you what's going on right now in this dynamic to show how weak Donald Trump is before he arrives in China. And then, of course, there is the perspective of Beijing neutering Donald Trump before he arrives there at the end of this week. Of course, we saw Wang Yi, the foreign minister of China, meet with the foreign minister of Iran, Araghchi, last week.

How are world leaders reacting to Trump's upcoming China visit?

Ben Meiselas 1:21
And not only did the chinese greet the iranian foreign minister with a warm welcome frankly they treated iran like a conquering hero and china put out statements strongly condemning the united states and israel for invading iran and china made it clear that it was supporting iran and iran was a close friend the statements from iran where we appreciate china's support of all of our endeavors politically, socially, economically, and in matters of war and peace. Yet Donald Trump's going to be showing up in China looking so utterly weak and pathetic as Xi Jinping has been helping Iran. So why don't we start with Saudi Arabia? We know previously Saudi Arabia would not let the United States use its airspace and airbase after Trump launched Project Freedom.
Ben Meiselas 2:15
And then apparently Donald Trump's like, all right, I'll try to hit Karg Island once and then could we maybe use the airspace and the airbase again? And at least the public narrative is that Iran will let Donald Trump use the airbase there in Riyadh. But what was just published this past weekend was an op-ed from Prince Turki al-Faisal, who's the son of King Faisal, who ran the Saudi Arabian intelligence agency for over two decades. Other than MBS, you don't get any more senior person than Prince Turki al-Faisal. And he wrote for Arab News an op-ed called, This is How Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman Succeeded. And what it frames this issue as is that the United States and Israel have really been the enemy of Saudi Arabia, not Iran.
Ben Meiselas 3:09
Sure, Iran retaliated against Saudi Arabia, But what Prince Turkey al-Faisal says is that what Israel was trying to provoke was for Saudi Arabia to retaliate against Iran and then unleash hell in the entire Middle East, have the war spread so that there was now a war between Saudi Arabia and Iran. where they would attack each other's desalination facilities and other petroleum facilities and crude facilities and liquefied natural gas facilities, then draw in UAE against Saudi Arabia, and then basically have this massive world war in the Middle East where Israel would try to stand back and let the Arab nations destroy themselves. And so what Prince Turki al-Faisal says is, you know, yes, we know that Trump and Netanyahu invaded Iran, and sure, Iran then retaliated against its neighbors, which was expected, Saudi Arabia being one.
Ben Meiselas 4:11
But we didn't respond to Iran because we knew if we did, then it would be mutually assured destruction in the region. if we escalated and that's when netanyahu and trump were trying to trigger the whole time a destruction of all of the arab nations and so the fact that you have prince turkey al-faisal saying this publicly that the real enemy is the united states and israel i mean it cuts against all of these narratives that actually with the abraham accords and this and that you know israel and saudi arabia will be working strongly together and that there's

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