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Chapter 1: What recent events have escalated the US-Iran conflict?
Donald Trump is panicking as his unlawful war against Iran is spiraling out of control. Folks, we just learned from US Central Command that they are aware of a loss of a US KC-135 refueling aircraft. The incident occurred. in friendly airspace during Operation Epic Fury. Rescue efforts are ongoing.
Chapter 2: What details are known about the downed US KC-135 aircraft?
In the KC-135s, there are six crew, and as of this recording, those six crew are still missing. There were two aircraft involved in this incident. The other aircraft was another KC-135, which was able to land safely. One of the aircraft went down in western Iraq. The second landed safely. According to U.S.
Central Command, which unfortunately does lie about a lot right now under the Trump regime, this was not due to hostile fire or friendly fire. We will keep you posted there. At the same time, drone attacks from Iran have now struck a French base, a joint Peshmerga France base in the Makhmur region in northern Iraq. This is according to a statement from the Erbil governor.
Based on what just took place, we have video of it as well, of these Iranian drones hitting a French military base near Erbil Airport in Iraq. This injured six French soldiers. So I believe there are six American crew that are missing from the KC-135. Six French soldiers have been injured as this war is expanding rapidly.
And we're learning that one of the main beneficiaries of this is Vladimir Putin, who's basically making hundreds of millions of dollars every day right now from selling oil. Should also be noted that the Strait of Hormuz, while closed by Iran, remains open, though, to Iran and China. Donald Trump is
is panicking, according to multiple sources from NBC and elsewhere, that the market is turning against him and that high gasoline prices pose a political danger to him. You think so, Donald Trump's posting. Where's the Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome too late Powell today? He should be dropping interest rates right now immediately, not wait for the next meeting, Donald J. Trump.
Well, inflation is surging. So I think your ability to drop interest rates right now would probably be one of the most disastrous things. Everything this guy does is the most disastrous thing ever. And now you have Treasury Secretary Scott Besant. He's been giving interviews saying, we need an international coalition to protect ships in the Strait of Hormuz.
America doesn't have the capabilities to do it alone. Well, as we wrote on the Midas Touch Network, guess the America alone strategy isn't working out too well right now.
Should also be noted, Donald Trump is panicking right now as Gulf states, with all of this going on, are having very serious discussions about engaging in new regional security arrangements, not with the United States, but with Iran.
as they do not believe that the US is able to protect them anymore and that this US-Israeli war has brought instability to the region and that Donald Trump doesn't know what he's doing. Reuters reporting that, yes, US ignites this Iran war, but the Gulf Arab states pay the price.
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Chapter 3: How are Iranian drone attacks impacting military bases?
And she says, to be clear, there's been no such threat from Iran to our homeland ever. It never existed ever, she says. Well, that's quite an admission because. Weren't you saying that that was one of the pretexts for the war right here?
And just so you see what's going on in the region, we've been pointing out how ships in the Strait of Hormuz have been blown up by the Iranians, how oil depots, whether it's Bahrain or UAE and Kuwait and Iraq have been targeted by the Iranians. Here's what's going on in Kuwait, just so you can see right here as these kind of residential areas where it's believed that there may be American
military presence or just commercial centers are being targeted by Iran. Let's just watch this briefly.
This This is from a drone. It came in from across the sea out there. Just across the sea is Iran. And look at all the debris you can see on the ground down here. This has all come out of this civilian apartment building. This is what government officials tell us. Civilian apartment building. Two civilians injured here, been taken away for treatment. Multiple attacks on Kuwait last night.
Attacks on the airport.
Let's bring in Democratic Congress member Jimmy Gomez from California. Congressman, these things that we're seeing, it's horrible to see, but these were all things that were very foreseeable. These were things that Trump was warned about by people like you and people in Congress and by his military leaders.
He was warned about this from these Arab nations that now want security guarantees from Iran, not from the United States. Trump was warned by NATO, but Donald Trump, you know, just one night was like, you know what? Netanyahu's calling me up and saying, I guess he's going to attack Iran first. So I guess I've got to do it as well. Let's do it. No one was prepared.
Our State Department wasn't prepared. The Arab nations weren't prepared. And this is the result. What do you make of it all, Congressman?
I think it's a complete and total mess. Everything from his justification of why he launched this attack, why he launched this war has shifted.
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Chapter 4: What concerns are raised about Trump's handling of the war?
not only our allies, but also our adversaries.
Right. And when you watch Donald Trump's speech in Kentucky and he struggles to put together sentences and he says we won the war and that there's no danger in the Strait of Hormuz and that this is great. You know, look, that still may play to 30 percent of the population here. And Donald Trump has Fox, which basically functions as a state regime media here.
Lots of other corporate networks have Fox. you know uh been kind of co-opted by trump and maga but like internationally this is playing not just bad but like atrocious and everybody's looking at his speeches and and his and and just the way he's talking and the way exit talks We're gonna rain down terror and death and lethality.
And people are, whether it's the NATO, Asian nations, Arab nations, they're looking at this and saying, this ain't it. I don't know what the hell this is. This stuff's demented. We've been used to it. We see it every day. Now in this international, they're like, this is demented stuff.
Yeah, no, absolutely. One of the things is that they ruin the credibility of the United States. Your allies start questioning your word. They actually question your motives. They question if you're doing it to protect them or to protect the pocketbooks of the Trump family. And it also puts into question what happens if something happens in their region in Asia, the Middle East and Europe?
Is the United States going to step forward? Are you going to or are they going to continue this kind of belligerent behavior that we've seen everything from talking about taking over Greenland to the stuff that's going on in the Caribbean and Latin America? That's what people are concerned of. Yes, we have the largest military
on the face of the planet, but how you use it matters and undermining people's trust and the word of the United States makes everybody worse off. And it's going to be expensive, not only in money, but also in lives.
that brings us to domestic issues because if you and i were to do this interview before february 27th america was already suffering um you know you're a congress member from california los angeles area but the entire country suffering healthcare being ripped away prices surging people unable to find jobs jobs recession i mean there was a lot of things that were going on already
now you add this and it is uh they're really it really is unprecedented i know sometimes that word is thrown around but like we are truly in unprecedented catastrophic economic times and unlike some past great recessions or depressions this one was fully man-made manufactured by donald trump and maga gift wrapped with the middle finger to the american people
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Chapter 5: What implications does the Iran war have on US allies?
uh against something we have to be for something we can do it both we're going to fight trump every step of the way we're going to call out his hypocrisy and his lies but we're going to say you know what if we take power this is what we're going to fight for and one of the things we're fighting for is making life affordable making sure that people can actually buy a home raise a family afford child care and then if their parents suffer
from old age or from a stroke or something that they can actually afford to take care of them because that's what we're dealing with american people don't want to see billions of dollars spent on foreign wars and supporting other governments what they want to see us is to really fight for the american people and restore confidence that the the
the government can actually work for them and that's why we're on the 17th of march we're hosting the first ever national summit on the caregiving crisis because we want to say this is what we're going to fight for caregiving paid family affordable housing housing that's affordable all of it because we need to do something that just not what we're against but what we're for
Congressman, appreciate you so much for joining us as always. If everyone knows too, go back, what, four years ago, Congressman Gomez was on the Midas Touch Network when I don't think we even had a million subscribers. I remember doing that. I think I was still a practicing lawyer at the time and I was in my office doing that interview. But anyway, thanks so much for joining us.
No, thank you for having me. And everybody hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers.
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