Tuesday Afternoon Breaking News Updates with Ben — 2/17/26
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What breaking news updates does Ben discuss today?
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Welcome to Ben on Breaking News. I'm Ben Mycelis and this is your Breaking News. Shout out to all of our friends in Dusseldorf, Germany, where they're having their annual carnival parade featuring images of Donald Trump assaulting the Statue of Liberty and trying to stick his tongue down Statue of Lady Liberty's throat. The carnival float of Donald Trump punching Jesus in the face. Jesus is wearing a love and humanity shirt and giving Jesus a black eye. And more floats of Donald Trump and Putin together. Also featured alongside floats of the Ayatollah. and a Taliban. That is the distinction for the United States right now. And you have the images as well of Trump and Putin trying to eat up Europe. And that's about sums up Donald Trump and his fascist regime and how the world feels about us.
Well, we clearly saw how the world felt about us at the Munich Security Conference. And I You know, when Marco Rubio gives his speech and says the world order is now over, it was something that we should never really have felt that that there could be a world where people lived in peace and that there could be multilateralism and free trade. we were hopelessly optimistic and we should have taken into account the 5,000 years of human history before world war II and recognize that at its base, people go to war with each other. And it's the, it's the rules of the strong. And that's you know, that was, that was basically Rubio's speech right there. And what I like to see is, People like the former leader of Estonia, who's now the foreign policy chief at the European Union, Kaya Kalas.
And you had Friedrich Merz of Germany, you know, and others from the European Union and elsewhere at this Munich security conference just standing up to Donald Trump. forcefully against the Trump regime and all of their despicable behavior. We saw President Zelensky giving a speech strongly asserting Ukrainian sovereignty and basically saying, stop trying to force us into concessions without security guarantees. You know, we already agreed to lots of concessions. We've already agreed to so much. What else do you want us to agree to? You want us just to give away all of eastern Ukraine to Vladimir Putin? without any security guarantees, without ceasefire, without putting it to a referendum of our people.
And so it's not really being reported that many places, but there are going on right now, supposedly, trilateral meetings in Geneva following the Munich Security Conference, trilateral discussions between the United States, Russia, and Ukraine. But let's face it, Russia has never agreed At any point in time to a single concession of anything, not even a short ceasefire. Remember a few weeks back when Donald Trump said Putin agreed temporarily to not attack Ukraine for a few days because how cold it is in Ukraine. Putin gave me his word, Donald Trump said. And what happened as soon as Donald Trump said that? Putin launched one of his biggest ballistic missile Shahid drone attacks on Ukraine since the war began.
There's never even been a scintilla of compromise by Russia. And there has been massive compromise by Ukraine.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What breaking news updates does Ben discuss today?
0:00–6:06
2
How does the carnival in Germany reflect global perceptions of Trump?
6:06–12:56
3
What insights were shared from the Munich Security Conference?
12:56–21:51
4
What are the implications of Ukraine's stance in the current conflict?
21:51–39:04
5
How do the Epstein files connect to current political discussions?
39:04–1:09:17