Chapter 1: Why are world leaders ghosting Donald Trump during his war with Iran?
All hell is breaking loose as Donald Trump's former allies or former allies of the United States are publicly repudiating and rejecting him. Donald Trump is out there lying. He told the Wall Street Journal on Sunday that he's heard from all of these nations and they're forming a coalition with him.
to head into the Strait of Hormuz in order to secure it for all of the cargo ships and fueling ships to leave and to normalize trade again. That is not happening. To the contrary, you're having nation after nation call out Donald Trump and rebuke him. Shall we go through one by one right now?
Australia announces we will not be sending naval ships to assisted reopening the Strait of Hormuz, a government minister said on Monday. Should we go to Japan? According to Japanese Prime Minister Takeishi, Japan is not even considering sending Navy vessels to the Middle East to aid in efforts surrounding the security of the Strait of Hormuz and the wider region.
Japan has, however, it will agree to some drawdowns of its strategic oil reserves as part of the multinational efforts of the International Energy Agency to stabilize the market. It ain't stabilizing the market, okay? The 400 million barrels of oil internationally, that ain't gonna cut it. Let's be very clear. How about in Germany?
German's foreign minister, Johann Wadfel, was asked whether Germany would respond to Donald Trump's call to join a naval mission to reopen the Strait of Hormuz. Speaking to a local paper there, Wade Falls said the EU's operation mission previously in the Red Sea regarding the Houthis from Yemen has not been effective at protecting commercial shipping from attacks over there in the Red Sea.
So expanding this operation to the Strait of Hormuz would not provide any greater security. That's a significant insight there that has a deeper meaning. Remember when the Houthis were effectively shutting down commerce in the Red Sea? And remember Pete Hegsit's like, we're totally obliterating it.
Remember why Mike Walls is now the ambassador to the United Nations and not the national security advisor when they were all involved in those signal chats? That was not Persian Gulf. That was the Red Sea right there. And there's
their own straight their zone straight in the Red Sea that the Houthis from Yemen have been very successful when they want to of shutting down and shooting at the commercial vessels there. So what we're seeing happen right now is as the Persian Gulf has effectively been shut down. The Strait of Hormuz has been shut down by Iran.
People are saying, oh, well, can we get our oil from the Red Sea and transfer the Red Sea out? Well, at a moment's notice, the Houthis are ready and they're just luring ships to basically come in. And I think that it's very clear that that the Houthis are going to start operations in the Red Sea soon. I think the Germans are aware of that.
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Chapter 2: What did Japan and Australia say about supporting the Strait of Hormuz?
Remember how I've been reporting on that? Well, there was another call between Macron and Pozeshkin that took place over this past weekend. And one of the things that Macron has been talking about is a new political and security framework that can ensure peace and security for all.
that's coded language right there when he talks about a new political and security framework inherent is that inherent in that is acknowledging the existence of the Islamic Republic in Iran as their right to function and a new framework away from the United States a framework where you have Europe and Canada
and australia and asian countries that are allied and united and not dependent on the united states anymore because the us has become a liability a massive liability under donald trump for all of these nations so not only is france saying uh-uh we ain't doing it they're saying
we need to create a new framework to ensure peace and security for all that's code for without the united states or removing the united states as a leader in any of these coalitions you have a lot of other developments as well i mean just take a look at this goldman sachs report on the gulf they talk about how qatar and kuwait
could each see their gdp contract by 14 this year if this conflict conflicts through april a 14 contraction in the gdp of qatar and kuwait resulting in a two-month halt of the strait of hormuz saudi arabia and the uae would fare better by the way based on oil at least given their ability to reroute oil flows away from the critical hormuz waterway but would likely see GDP drop by about 3% to 5%.
But remember what I said before, reroute to where? Reroute to the Red Sea. For now, that may make sense. But if you look at this map that Javier Blas posted, map of the day, While the Strait of Hormuz remains largely closed, the Red Sea is witnessing the arrival of an oil tanker armada to the Saudi terminal there. And isn't it just the most obvious trap?
As this armada is there, you have the leader of the Houthis saying, they literally are saying, we're waiting for you. Come on. We're ready for you. And we're about to be activated. They're saying it out loud. Damn it. I just don't get it. I know you appreciate our meticulous reporting here and we're ahead of the curve on what's being reported elsewhere.
And I'm sure you'll hear in the next few days about the Houthis opening up a front on the Red Sea and how it was a trap. And I'd love to take credit and be like, wow, this is so brilliant reporting at the Midas Touch Network. But they're saying it out loud, which is what I'm reporting. No one reports on it until after like, oh my God, we've been shocked right here. Shocked, I tell you.
One of the things, though, also about the UAE, which needs to be reported more, and I don't think Goldman Sachs even really captured this. Dubai is dead. Say goodbye to Dubai. Say goodbye to Abu Dhabi. There ain't vacations happening there ever again. There ain't Formula One races happening there in Bahrain again. There ain't Western vacationers or Asian vacationers going there ever again.
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Chapter 3: How is Germany responding to Trump's calls for naval support?
A Kuwaiti analyst. This was just the other day, openly criticizing Gulf policy toward Washington after the latest strikes. Thomas Keith explains, saying the region paid billions for influence and received nothing in return. He pointed directly to Jared Kushner, noting all this Gulf money flowed. to him and to Trump and the Trump family.
Yet the same states that financed those channels ended up facing strikes and pressure. His conclusion is that appeasing all of these people is the worst that you can do. You're not getting the protection. Watch what he says. And I'm just showing you this for the perspective of you can see what they're saying internationally at this point right now. Watch what they're saying internationally.
We need to know that you cannot appease Zionists. You cannot buy influence. Look at Jared Kushner. We know how much he took from the Gulf. It's open source public info. And now the same countries that gave him all that money for zero return, are facing strikes and bombs.
And they're trying to make it seem as if it is our duty to carry on the job that Israel wants to continue, which is a very crazy idea to begin with. So we need to change the way we think how we can influence Washington. Folks, and while that's happening, you have the foreign minister of Iran going on ABC and doing media appearances here. Well, here's what he's saying. He goes, I told this to CBS.
Iran has neither sought a truce nor is engaged in talks. Such claims are delusional. So Trump's out there saying, oh, we're speaking with Iran, but We don't want to make a deal yet, Trump saying, because Iran is not offering us exactly what we want yet. And Iran's like, we're not even talking to you, dude. You're a delusional nutcase. We're having no conversations.
The fact that the Iranian foreign minister has to show up and look sensible while Donald Trump looks like Baghdad Bob, that's a problem. And we all know that Trump is lying. We know that Trump isn't having conversations. He lies about fake conversations with world leaders, everything out of his mouth.
And the Iranian foreign minister says, look, our powerful armed forces will keep firing until Trump realizes that the illegal war he's imposing on both Americans and Iranians is wrong and must never be repeated. Victims must also be compensated. And if you look at what's happening right now,
in the Middle East as well I mean you'll see for yourself here are you know there were reports that there were several few fuel tanks ablaze last night at the Dubai International Airport following a drone attack by Iran look for yourself you can see what's going on right there at the airport in Dubai that's still being hit by Iranian drones yeah all throughout the night you have the Saudi Arabia Ministry of Defense announcing that they've tracked and shot down
At least 30 Iranian drones, but who knows how many have hit. We know that they lie all the time about everything as well. Sirens were sounding again across Bahrain with residents of Manama reporting the sound of explosions and several interceptions in the sky there.
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Chapter 4: What insights did France offer regarding the security framework in the Middle East?
It's just new technologies. But we've got Patriot missiles. And we are thankful to America that we could get some missiles. But also at the same moment, I want to underline that Middle East partners had more missiles for Patriots than we've got from the United States and Europeans during all the war. They used more missiles.
They used more than 800 Patriot missiles during first attack, during first 24, 36 hours. So more than we had during all the months. But when we speak how to close the sky, I mean, we gave what we had. and what our American friends they don't have or European friends they don't have. I mean such a big system of these experts. They have more other things, very strong things, but not these.
And Middle East countries asked us exactly about More from Zelensky right here. Let's play it. And I still sure that America has to make big pressure on Putin. Otherwise, he will not negotiate. He wants only ultimatums from us that we have to withdraw from our territory. But he will not end with this. No, no, it's not enough for him. Of course, this situation in Iran gives him more money and
The process of taking off the sanctions, this new sanctions policy, also helpful for him personally. And that's why, of course, it gives more assurance to Putin that he can continue the war. And we will see. Now we are asking our partners from the United States that we have to fix the date of trilateral meeting. We always supported this format, supported President Trump and his team.
Now the American side, postponed because of Iran, postponed the meeting. But if we really want to stop the war, we need to meet. We need to meet on technical groups. We need to meet on the level of leaders. We need more pressure on Russia. If we will not do these steps, we will not be close to the peace.
Show you some of the videos that they're making in North Korea as Donald Trump has removed the THAAD and Patriot missiles from South Korea. Kim Jong-un in North Korea is making videos of himself testing his rocket launch systems and just mocking South Korea right now. because Donald Trump removed their critical defenses.
And by the way, Trump took out our troops who were in Japan, about 5,000 of them, from a powerful Marine Expeditionary Unit to send them over to the Middle East. Here's the video of Kim Jong-un. And here's what the Iranian foreign minister, Abbas Araghchi, said on American media about Donald Trump saying, oh, well, we do this for fun. We may bomb the hell out of the Karag Island for fun.
And again, this is easily utilized by Araghchi and others to say, look, these Americans are war criminals. Like you're handing the Ayatollah and the Iranians a gift here.
why are you doing this what trump's behavior is so repugnant that he's for he's allowing the ayatollah to consolidate power by by trump's behavior is so idiotic and so weak and pathetic and it's sad look it's sad to see as an american how weak we look This is what, we look like Trump's loser bankrupt casinos. And I try to warn about all this. It's loser behavior. Here, play this clip.
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