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Furious World Leaders Make Deadly Warning to Trump

21 May 2026

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Chapter 1: What warnings are world leaders giving to Trump about military plans?

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Furious world leaders are striking back at Donald Trump and they are threatening him with asymmetric warfare as the Trump regime puts in a demand for $1 trillion for a defense budget. We're seeing countries across the world saying we can do more than the United States can with their $1.5 trillion defense budget by investing in asymmetric warfare, by focusing on drones.

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and other asymmetric tactics that they observed that were utilized by Iran when the Trump regime in Netanyahu invaded Iran. And so what we're seeing right now is Donald Trump is showing utter weakness after his disastrous trip to China. More on that in a moment.

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I'll tell you what Xi Jinping is doing to Donald Trump's undersecretary of war, that Elbridge Colby guy who tries to act all tough and attacks Canada. So while Donald Trump It had this disastrous appearance in China. We're seeing countries across the world projecting strength and saying, we don't need the United States. Of course, we saw this with Ukraine.

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President Zelensky showing the power of his power. drone army of his ballistic missiles of ukrainians forces being able to strike deep within moscow in oil depots there and infrastructure surrounding moscow that's one of the reasons why putin had to head over immediately to china and xi jinping

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to help coordinate because that's the alliance right it's russia it's china it's iran it's north korea so we saw that happen you know in ukraine we saw taiwan just over the past 24 48 hours as donald trump has shown other weakness taiwan is showing that still with those Abrams tanks that the US previously gave them with the weapons that Taiwan has.

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They've been running numerous military drills, both before Donald Trump's disastrous trip to China, and then after they're showing two main capabilities.

Chapter 2: How are countries investing in asymmetric warfare against the US?

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Number one, they're showing the ability to project strength with amphibious invasions by China. And so they ran a lot of drills right on the shore. And then they've been showing that they're willing to deploy

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asymmetric warfare within the cities themselves and they showed that they have capabilities of driving these massive tanks across the bridges and what they would do in the event of an invasion by china so we're seeing that there of course we're seeing iran

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continue to taunt the United States, continue to say, if you re-up the invasion, we're going to unleash the same asymmetric tactics you saw across the Middle East. And we've seen these Iranian militia groups and Iranian proxy groups, whether it's the militia groups in Iraq, whether it is Hezbollah, whether it is

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The Houthis, they've been able to utilize what Iran's been able to utilize as well, which are these FPV drones, the Shahid drones, more of the FPV drones is what they're able to utilize. and other weapons that can be made at a fraction of a fraction of the cost that the United States uses, right?

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I mean, the Trump regime was using these THAAD and Patriot systems that cost like hundreds of millions of dollars, and each missile can cost, you know, millions of dollars. And the...

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Iranian weaponry, you're talking about thousands of dollars, $25,000, $30,000, and they're able to churn them out on these assembly lines that they've developed in Tehran, in Iran, in the surrounding country, as well as they've developed manufacturing plants in Russia as well, which Russia is able to send through the Caspian Sea. And then that brings us to Cuba. You know about the U.S.

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blockade there. The Trump regime seems to be moving closer to an invasion of Cuba.

Chapter 3: What military capabilities are Taiwan and Ukraine showcasing?

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And we see there the leader of Cuba as well, Miguel Diaz-Canel Bermudez. I mean, he's posting, you know, look, you know, we know why you're going after Raul Castro, the 94-year-old former president. leader, they say, look, this is all part of the pretext to invade. You have the playbook that she used in Venezuela. You indict the leader, or in this case, the old leader.

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You come up with additional reasons why Cuba poses a threat. Laundered through Axios over the weekend was the story. 300 drones ready to go in Cuba.

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in order to attack uh florida and specifically hit the keys remember the florida keys sheriff is like yeah we don't know anything about that and then boom you know right on cue you have the mega republican congress members saying aha cuba has 300 drones 90 miles away from miami 90 miles away from our coast oh we're gonna have to invade cuba to get rid of the drones and one of the things that cuba's saying is they've been saying look

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You're starving us to death. We pose no threat to you. Obviously, if you invade us, we're going to have to defend ourselves. We don't have a traditional army. People don't know the actual size and scale of the Cuban army. have a deep-seated militia structure there as well.

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Chapter 4: How is Iran responding to US military threats?

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And while I think that the regime in Cuba is increasingly unpopular with the people, as we saw with Iran or as we saw elsewhere, the U.S. invasions of places does tend to rally people around Cuba. a national identity, as oftentimes the Trump regime attacks the people.

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And also there's, you know, from what I've read of the intelligence in terms of the Cuban army, there's still sufficient people loyal to the Cuban army, the Cuban militias, the Cuban identity, where this will be no Venezuela. You're not just going to show up and then do a very basic regime change. And all of the leadership in Cuba made it very clear. This will be bloody. We will fight.

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We will fight to the death to protect Cuba's sovereignty. We're not just tapping out. And the Trump regime is getting increasingly frustrated because they're like, we did this blockade. We're starving Cuba to death. Why isn't Cuba surrendering? This was the same tactic that the Trump regime tried to use with Iran.

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Chapter 5: What tactics are being used by Cuba and its leaders against the US?

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Look, we have all our ships there. We're doing our threats. Why isn't Iran just giving up? Well, I think increasingly, though, people see how weak Donald Trump looks. And ultimately, you look to Iran. If the great and powerful United States Army has been reduced to basically being a bunch of bandits or pirates in the Persian Gulf bragging about stopping

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cargo ships and tankers, and Donald Trump brags about being a pirate, I think other nations are saying in different ways. One, can we stand up to the United States? It's gonna be difficult, but they've got this big, massive, Goliath, slow-moving, old school warfare. Can we look at modern weaponry and adapt our tactics? And I think you're seeing Cuba do that, Iran do that. They're looking there.

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And by the way, China, unlike the US, they've been focused a ton on developing these nimble weapon systems. And also we, I mean, the intelligence suggests

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Chapter 6: Why is the Trump regime threatening military action in Cuba?

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that China has been helping Iran, also training Russians in drone warfare with a lot of Chinese technology there. Now, as I said at the outset, I was going to get back to one of the leverage points that China is now using. And this stuff needs to get way more attention than it is. And that's why we cover this stuff on the Midas Touch Network.

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So, you know, Elbridge Colby, who's the number two at the Defense Department, they call themselves the War Department, they're the Defense Department. He's right under Hegseth. So he was the guy earlier this week who threatened Canada. We're pulling out of the joint defense program that's been around since the 1940s. Look how strong I am. I'm threatening Canada.

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Don't you dare use this rhetoric, Canada, against us. Remember we posted the article about Prime Minister Carney's Davos speech, right? Where Carney wanted to unite the world, multilateralism. This is a massive rupture in the trust of the world that was caused by the United States, right? Remember I showed you that guy's social media posts?

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Chapter 7: What role does public perception play in the US's approach to Cuba?

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Well, what's going on behind the scenes as well is you have Xi Jinping saying, I'm going to ban Elbridge Colby from coming to China and we are not going to buy those Boeing jets. We did no deals with the United States is what China is saying. We'd made preliminary conversations but we've made no actual deals with the United States.

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We want clarification and confirmation that the United States is not going to provide military weapons to Taiwan. That's what Xi Jinping said. Confirm that you won't give military weapons to Taiwan and we'll do business with you.

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All of those things, remember Donald, you showed up and you then went and you told your country all of these things that you got, by the way, which those things were half the amount as what Biden got, right? I mean, Biden had double these things. I mean, when it comes to the soybeans, when it comes to the manufacturing, when it comes to the chips, Donald Trump,

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caused China to basically go to zero, and then China raised it to half the amount of Biden. And then Donald Trump's like, oh yeah, very good, very good. This is like, what a, art of the deal, art of the deal, everybody. And so now, Xi Jinping lured Trump in, cornered him, and now is saying, okay, now you don't give, obviously is what we said was gonna happen.

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Now you don't give Taiwan any weapons, and then we'll play ball.

Chapter 8: How is the current geopolitical landscape affecting US foreign policy?

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We'll do the chips. You know, because they also said, you know, we're not buying any Nvidia chips, we're not doing any of these things. So China's exerting its leverage right now and they know how weak Donald Trump looks right now. So we're seeing though Donald Trump respond to these threats that, you know, China's not gonna order the Boeings, they're not gonna meet with Elbridge Colby.

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And just think about what we've seen Donald Trump do over the past 24 to 48 hours. Folks, it is the height of weakness. So this was Donald Trump's speech that he gave yesterday when he was in front of the Coast Guards. And listen to what he says about Taiwan in front of the Coast Guards. Play this clip.

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665.216 - 682.611 Donald Trump

Close to 50% of the chip business by the time I leave. And right now we have none, practically. And we'll have, it was taken by other places. It was taken by Taiwan. I'm not knocking them. I'm saying if they can get away with it. But if you had the right president, that would have never happened.

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And then he refers to the weapons to Taiwan as quote, the Taiwan problem when he was on the tarmac. Here's what he referred to as the Taiwan problem. I mean, what a horrible thing. Here, play this clip.

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On Taiwan, do you have any plans to call President Lai before you make your decision on the arms deal? What? Do you have any plans to call President Lai of Taiwan before you make a decision on the weapons package?

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Well, I'll speak to him. I speak to everybody. We have that situation very well in hand. We had a great meeting with President Xi. It was amazing, actually. It was amazing. Many of you were there. We'll work on that Taiwan problem.

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And then you see him scrambling to help Russia and Belarus. Donald Trump wants Ukraine to help ease restrictions on Belarusian potash. Think about that. The fertilizer, the U.S. is pushing Ukraine to convince European countries to ease restrictions on Belarus potash, on potash imports of Belarusian fertilizer.

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Washington believes that softening sanctions on potash fertilizers, once one of Belarus' key sources of foreign currency, could partly pull Belarus away from that. That's just the hell, Putin, what are we talking about over here? Because this has Steve Witkoff is making his seventh visit to Russia, he just announced. Zero trips to Ukraine, seven trips to Russia right here.

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I mean, it's unbelievable. And then you had Donald Trump's acting attorney general, Todd Blanche. So yeah, with Raul Castro, this isn't a show. We really intend to indict this guy, this 94-year-old here playing this clip.

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