Thursday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben 9/17/2026
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What is Donald Trump's role in the escalating Iran‑Russia‑Ukraine conflict?
Welcome to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Mycelis. This is your breaking news as a result of Donald Trump's weakness, his lies, the fact that he engaged in this catastrophic and unlawful war in Iran. We see war all across the world right now. Donald Trump, who promised no more never-ending wars. I'm going to bring peace to Ukraine in 24 hours. Lie, lie, lie. Just like Donald Trump saying electricity prices would be cut in half right away and grocery prices would all of a sudden go down right away and gas prices would all be two dollars a gallon just lie after lie and so here we are we saw more escalation of russian strikes on ukraine ukraine responding with strikes deep inside russia you have donald trump calling into his personal stenographer at axios barack ravine one of trump's propagandists who just literally
Posts whatever Donald Trump says. And he says Donald Trump is now saying total annihilation of Iran. We're back to that. Donald Trump also says they really want to make a deal. I'm not sure I want to do a deal with them. But he's back to saying total annihilation. I have a big decision coming up, Donald Trump tells Barack Ravid. Do I want to go in and annihilate them or do I not? It's a big decision. Anything could happen with me. Keep this posted there for a moment, Salty, because I want to show people. what Barack Ravid did there as well. Let's just talk about what Donald Trump actually told Barack Ravid. Trump said, I have a big decision coming up. Do I want to go in and annihilate them or do I not? But notice what Barack Ravid put in there, the Iranian regime.
Do I want to annihilate them, the Iranian regime? No, no, no. Trump, as he has said before, is talking about annihilating the Iranian civilization. It's not just his words, it's his actions. Slaughtering little girls in Manab, slaughtering little children in Le Maire, slaughtering people most recently at a wedding in Sirik. And the recent bout of escalation that Donald Trump's engaged in before that, slaughtering people in Keshem. And he recently sold, what, $2.8 billion worth of 5,000 bombs to Netanyahu to continue the genocide. So you don't need to fill in that Trump's saying the
Iranian
regime. No, he's talking about the people. In any event, Donald Trump is losing this catastrophic war. We're back to annihilate the regime again, should also be noted. we're seeing the consequences of this war here at home as well a newly shaped global world order is forming um and we'll talk about that we'll also talk about how this is impacting the cost of living of course it's making it far more difficult for americans to even survive get to that but we see for example even earlier today prime minister kearney speaking in front of in Brussels before the European Union Parliament talking about establishing a new global dynamic in this new multipolar world where Canada and Europe are aligned behind their values and principles, whether that's associate membership status or something that is equally as meaningful.
Carney made it clear, you know, we're not really all about nomenclature. We're about doing things. Kind of another jab at Donald Trump who just cares about naming things. Carney's about doing things. And we saw Prime Minister Carney for the first time in history being invited, any foreign leader like that being invited to speak in front of the European Union Parliament, delivering a speech following the European Union's state of the union that Ursula von der Leyen delivered in the previous day. He arrived to a standing ovation. We'll cover that. We'll talk about that. Also notable here at home yesterday, interest rates increased by 25 basis points to the 3.75, 4% range. That's the amount that banks the interest that banks lend each other which trickles down to you of course the consumer and the forms of your mortgages and all the different types of money that you um try to seek when when consumers get lent money by banks so that's all going to be going up it's going to make you know housing even less affordable
than it already is.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is Donald Trump's role in the escalating Iran‑Russia‑Ukraine conflict?
0:00–10:36
2
How did Prime Minister Carney’s EU speech reshape the global multipolar order?
10:36–17:19
3
Why are interest‑rate hikes and the Federal Reserve’s leadership under scrutiny?
17:19–23:06
4
What impact does the recent U.S. interest‑rate increase have on mortgage affordability?
23:06–40:39
5
How are sanctions against Russia and Iran being blocked at the UN?
40:39–1:11:58