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All Hell Breaks Loose as Trump is Fully Abandoned in War!!!

18 Mar 2026

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Chapter 1: What are the consequences of Trump's actions in Iran?

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All hell is breaking loose as Donald Trump's disastrous and unlawful war in Iran continues to escalate, engulfing the entire Middle East in absolute war. On the one hand, Iran is striking Bahrain and Dubai and Central Israel, Tel Aviv, Northern Israel. On the other hand, Israel is just demolishing Lebanon.

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I mean, southern Lebanon, Beirut, everything surrounding Beirut, utterly destroyed buildings are being toppled in Iran, the United States, and Israel dropping weapons almost indiscriminately all over Iran. Iran keeps launching those ballistic missiles and those Shahid drones. And meanwhile,

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You have President Zelensky of Ukraine speaking before both houses in the UK Parliament trying to explain like, hello, we know how to shoot down these Shahid drones. We've also developed our own drones. We've developed sea drones. We've developed the most advanced drones that are maybe you want to speak with Ukraine because we know a thing or two about modern warfare.

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Also something I want to talk about in this video as well. NATO recently ran a simulation of all of the NATO assets versus Ukraine with Ukraine's sea drones and its air drones and its FPVs, those first person viewing drones that Ukraine uses in all five simulations.

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Chapter 2: How is Iran's military strategy impacting the Middle East?

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Ukraine beats NATO. And what this tells you is modern warfare is all about drones and countering drones with the right types of interceptors. This should have been known to Donald Trump and his idiotic regime, but they were too busy trying to cozy up to Vladimir Putin, which frankly they're still doing right now, removing sanctions against Putin while we know

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clearly in the Wall Street Journal, again reported on this, that Putin is providing Iran with weapons, with intelligence, how to kill Americans, how to destroy American assets. And what does Donald Trump do in retaliation when he knows that Russia's working with Iran to destroy America.

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Donald Trump goes, let me lift those sanctions against Russia to allow Russia to send its oil to the rest of the world and make huge profits so it can then buy more weapons to give to Iran. And it could also focus on destroying Ukraine while Zelensky's trying to help. So let's break all of this down. When I say all hell is breaking loose today, I'm not being hyperbolic.

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I'm just describing what is happening. Watch what just happened in central Beirut in Lebanon after an Israeli airstrike. Israel's just demolishing entire buildings. They say they're going after Hezbollah, which they are targeting Hezbollah, but they're also targeting civilians and they are killing people in hospitals and mothers and children. And it is absolutely despicable. Here, play this clip.

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Now let's talk about what's going on in other areas of the world. In comments that interestingly align with those of French President Emmanuel Macron, as OSINT Defender explains, open source intelligence, Iranian Foreign Minister Arachi has said that a new post-war framework for the Strait of Hormuz must be put into place.

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While it's yet unclear if Arachi's comments were made in an effort to synchronize French-Iranian signaling, it nonetheless aligns with what France's president has said in the past few days amidst increasing communications between the two nations. Do you get what's happening here? There are bilateral discussions going on between France,

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and Iran, between Italy and Iran, between Middle East nations and Iran. And what they're talking about is a new security framework for the Strait of Hormuz, i.e. without the United States being a leader in the area and focusing on bilateral relations where essentially Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz and you need to do one-off deals with Iran to pass the Strait of Hormuz.

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If you watch the ship traffic, and there's not that many ships going through the Strait of Hormuz, they are going very close to the shoreline of Iran. It seems like Iran's laid all of these mines in the Strait of Hormuz. And just a brief primer for those who just don't know what I'm talking about with the Strait of Hormuz, that's the Strait of the Persian Gulf, 20 to 30 percent of

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The gas that we receive, the oil, comes from that Strait of Hormuz. It passes through there. Iran's able to control it. Not just that, though, but fertilizers, agriculture, a lot goes through the Strait of Hormuz. So this has a huge impact. And when Iran shuts it down, which it does now, it has this massive impact on the global economy.

Chapter 3: What role does Ukraine play in modern warfare discussions?

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And they're like, we paid you, but where's the play part? Like, we are paying you to protect us, not to screw us over. Take a listen to what the Times is reporting. Despite a $500 million investment by senior UAE officials in a Trump-linked crypto company, let's just call it what it is, a bribe,

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Gulf states still receive no warning about the US-Israeli attack on Iran, reinforcing a sense of unequal treatment. Although the so-called Abraham Accords were meant to ease tensions, resentment is growing, especially as Gulf countries feel far less protected. A young professional summed up the frustration bluntly. So Israel gets an higher dome and we, the Arab nations, get F-U-C-K-E-D.

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Now, let me just show you this, because I think this highlights how the entire world is feeling right now about the United States. Take a look as CNN drops a massive reality check, as Furkan Guzkara describes it. Favorable views of the U.S. have plummeted by a staggering 6%. 79% globally since the war in Iran started.

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The world is completely rejecting Washington's warmongering and refusing to support the Trump regime. Here, play this clip. Yeah, okay, so you see these numbers, you see these shifts down in terms of how our allies or folks in those countries view US military action in the Middle East.

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You see how unpopular it is this time around, Canada, Japan, the UK, and this is just part of a larger picture, Mr. Berman. A larger picture. Favorable view of the U.S. in 2025 versus 2024, of course. Donald Trump being the president in 2025. Joe Biden being the president of the United States in 2024. Look at this. Favorable view of the U.S. Down 79% of 24 countries' residents asked.

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The bottom line is this. The folks overseas are far less likely to view the U.S. favorably. And those chickens, they're coming home to roost in this situation as there's very little support abroad for the U.S.

Chapter 4: How are NATO countries responding to the conflict in Iran?

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military action in Iran. Now, you also know that earlier yesterday morning, Donald Trump, like the little petulant baby that he is, started posting that the U.S. no longer needs or desires help from NATO nations and any other allies or partners. We don't need Japan, South Korea. and Australia. Donald Trump says, I'm not surprised by their action.

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Now we're being informed by most of our so-called NATO allies that they don't want to get involved with our military operation against the terrorist regime of Iran in the Middle East. This despite the fact that almost every country strongly agreed with what we are doing. Donald, over the weekend, didn't you say that all of these nations were supporting the United States?

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Didn't you say you brought this coalition together? Oh, wait a minute. You lie about everything. You lie about ceasefire discussions with Iran. Every word out of your mouth is a lie. And our nation. Allies or former allies just know that everything you say is just complete and utter nonsense and dangerous drivel at that.

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Lindsey Graham saying earlier today, I just spoke with Donald Trump about our European allies unwillingness to provide assets to keep the straight of Hormuz functioning, which benefits Europe far more than America. I have never heard him so angry in my life. I share that anger at what's at stake. All right. Oh, my God. Are you angry? What are you going to do?

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Are you going to write a very mean tweet about it? What are you going to do? Are you going to be very angry? Are you going to yell? Are you going to say mean words? What are you going to do? Are you going to drop some missiles, tough guy? Are you going to start killing people? All of you people are so utterly pathetic.

Chapter 5: What are the implications of Trump's sanctions on Russia?

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By the way, yesterday, Prime Minister Keir Starmer of the U.K., made it clear we will not be drawn into a wider war here. Play this clip of what Starmer said. Play it. Second, while taking the necessary action to defend ourselves and our allies, we will not be drawn into the wider war. And then over here, Kier Starmer in his, I guess his podcast is, what do they call it?

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Fireside chats, if you will, with Kier, as he calls it. He basically says, what we're focused on is de-escalation and trying to reach a settlement and resolution over what's going on.

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I mean, whether it's the UK, whether it's France, whether it's Italy, they want this thing resolved and deescalated while Donald Trump's out there, what, teasing cliffhangers like this is like season three of like the OC or something like, ooh, what's going to happen on next season? Are we going to send those 5,000 Marine Expeditionary

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unit forces that are heading from Japan to the Strait of Hormuz? Ooh, are we going to do a full-fledged ground invasion in Iran? Ooh, what is Netanyahu going to tell Donald Trump next? Ooh, what's going to happen? Watch what Keir Starmer says.

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Whether it's conflict in the region, whether it's the impact on oil and gas, or just the worry that most people have about how's this going to impact me in my home, the best way to reduce the impact is to de-escalate, to get to the end of hostilities. and then get to a negotiated settlement. And we're speaking to all of our allies to try and make sure that that happens as quickly as possible.

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