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The MeidasTouch Podcast — All Hell Breaks Loose as World Turns Tables on Trump!!!. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
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itself outside of the United States because Trump has not been helping the Ukraine where the Ukraine's been able to shoot down the Shahid drones and the Ukraine knows how to deal with these ballistic missiles. So now the Trump regime and also other countries in the Middle East are begging President Zelensky for help and now President Zelensky says, all right, we're going to help you. But we need your help in the war against Russia from Russia's invasion against us. So that's our stipulation right there. And while that's taking place, Donald Trump's chief propagandist Caroline Levitt is saying the reason that the United States is running out of munitions and why we now need a $50 billion supplemental spending package from the US taxpayers is that all our weapons went to Ukraine so she continues to attack Ukraine. I want to talk more about what's going on there in just a moment, but there's other breaking news across the world as hell is breaking loose from these Shahid drone attacks throughout the
world. Qatar is is suspending its LNG liquefied natural gas production, aluminum smelters in Bahrain and Qatar have declared forced mjores, meaning emergencies to back out of contractual obligations, several refineries in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Iraq are offline. The straight of her muse has come to a standstill in China, China's government has told its largest oil refineries suspend exports of diesel and gasoline right now, the dangers of the straight of her muse are such that China saying we're not going to be taking any oil or crude from there right now. And so there are massive massive economic issues that are spreading across the world right now. And this war is engulfing virtually everything. As Hassan al-Assan explains, Iran's emphasis now is persistence not volume, yes, the rate
of Iranian missiles and their barrages of their Shahid drones has slowed down, but Iran doesn't need to overwhelm air defenses, it needs to keep gulf energy infrastructure and shipping through the straight of her muse under credible threat, which it has right now create instability in the region, harm the markets and then just wait it out. And then if the United States tries to do ground forces, remember Iran was contributing some of the key parts to the IEDs in Afghanistan and in Iraq that we saw kill so many American soldiers. So the Iranian ballistic missiles and Shahid drones is just kind of phase one of their plan. And Iran is now threatening to strike other tourist centers and other kind of main attraction areas throughout the Middle East and in the United States. More on that in a moment. But I want to go back to President Zelensky of Ukraine right now.
As Michael Weiss says, be sure to say thank you, JD Vance, because Zelensky has announced in response to the US begging Trump begging like a dog. We need your help. These Iranian Shahid drones are too difficult for us to shoot down. Zelensky said the following, I have tasks Ukraine's minister of foreign affairs together with intelligence agencies, the minister of defense, our military command, the NSDC secretary to present options for assisting the relevant countries and to provide aid in a way that does not weaken our own defenses here in Ukraine. Our military possesses the necessary capabilities. Ukrainian experts will operate on site and teams are already coordinating efforts. We translated Zelensky speech into English so you can hear for yourself using AI. Here's what Zelensky says about answering America's call for help play this clip. Ape partners turn to us to Ukraine for help with Shahid defense with expertise with real
work. There were requests regarding this from the American side as well. Just in these past few days, I've personally spoken with the leaders of the Emirates, Qatar, Bahrain, Jordan and Kuwait. There will be further negotiations with other regional leaders as well. We are actively coordinating our efforts with our partners across Europe. Of course, any assistance we provide is solely on the condition that it does not weaken our own defense within Ukraine and that it simultaneously serves as an investment in our diplomatic capabilities. We offer protection from war to those who help us, Ukraine, bring about a dignified end to this war. And while Zelensky has agreed to answer America's call for help, it's just notable that Donald Trump's chief propaganda's Caroline Levitt was out there yesterday spewing that venom that does lies in the hate that spews from her mouth. Here's what she said about Zelensky yesterday playing this clip. With respect to munitions and munitions, weapons stockpiles, the United States of America
has more than enough capability to not only successfully execute Operation Epic Fury, but to go much further. And we have weapons stockpiles in places that many people in this world don't even know about. However, the president in that post was pointing out that, unfortunately, we had a very stupid and incompetent leader in this White House for four years who gave away many of our best weapons for nothing, for free, to another country very far away by the name of Ukraine. So the president was pointing out how that was an unwise decision, but nevertheless, don't doubt the strength and the might of the American military. Your credit score may have taken a big hit over the holidays and you may not even know it. Sure, a lay payment hurts, but so does opening a store credit card just to get a discount. And transferring a balance from one card to another, that can drop your score fast. So if you're thinking about refinancing, buying a new car, renting an apartment, anything that requires credit, you need your best possible score and you need it fast. You need smart credit, the new science in credit scoring.
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regional tensions escalated. I just want you to think about that right now. China stepping in as a global power that is trying to mediate disputes and de-escalate, whereas once that role may be the United States and coalitions, no more. China is stepping in right now at the request of Middle East countries like Saudi Arabia saying China, we need your help in a notable development as OSI and tea defender explains Chinese foreign minister Wang Yi held a phone conversation with the Saudi foreign minister phasel bin for Han al-sood and committed to send Chinese envoys to the Middle East in an attempt to mediate some sort of peace process between the nations that are involved in the conflict with Iran. Notice not the United States mediating disputes between Iran and other Middle East nations. That's significant, right? So Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Qatar's in the UAE Abu Dhabi in Qatar, sorry, Dubai and UAE,
UAE Dubai and Abu Dhabi, sorry, Qatar, Doha, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Jordan, Oman, these nations Iraq that have been struck by Iran, they are going to China help us mediate because the U.S. isn't going to do that, extricate us to stop Iran from striking us. Our tourism centers like Dubai, in UAE Abu Dhabi, Doha, right in Qatar, they've presented themselves to the world as stable places, tourist spots, show up here and that's all being tarnished right now, who's going to go back to these places, this is existential. So they know that China's helping Iran, China help us with Iran. I just want to explain to you that that's what's going on, contrast that to what the United States is doing with the Kurds, right? The U.S. trying to coerce and threaten the Kurds to invade Iran. The Kurds are like, yeah, we're not going to do that right now, like you've betrayed
us over and over again, the United States. So the U.S. like, okay, well, we're just going to say you're invading anyway to try to provoke Iran to attack you, the Kurds, and then maybe that'll draw you into the war. That was the United States playing with the Kurds, then the U.S. leaked to state regime media in America, Fox, into Axios, and news 12 over in, or in 12 over in Israel, that the Kurds were invading and that was not actually happening. And the leader of the Kurds had to, or some of the leadership of the Kurds had to say, yeah, we're not, we are not doing that at all. We're also hearing from Saeed Abbas, Argiqi, the main foreign diplomat, the foreign affairs minister for Iran. Here's what he said after the United States. So yesterday we talked about how the United States used a submarine to sink this vessel, this Iranian ship that was leaving India.
Since World War II was the first torpedo takedown of a naval ship since World War II, go figure, and it resulted in the death of close to 130 sailors on this frigate called the Dena, which was doing joint exercises with India. The Iranian ship was in India doing joint exercises. It was 2,000 miles away from Iran, the U.S. submarine sunk it or hit it. And resulted in like 130 deaths. So in response, here's what Iran's top diplomat said. The U.S. has perpetrated an atrocity at sea, 2,000 miles away from Iran shores. frigate Dena, a guest of India's navy carrying almost 130 sailors, was struck in international waters without warning. Marked my words, the U.S. will come to bitterly regret the precedent it has set. Our Gichi also said, when a complex nuclear negotiations are treated like real estate transactions,
and when big lies, cloud realities, unrealistic expectations can never be met. The outcome, bombing the negotiation table out of spite. Mr. Trump betrayed diplomacy and Americans who elected him. Also notable as this war spreads, there was word that NATO had to strike down Iranian missiles that were heading towards Turkey, and in most circumstances, we would trust that reporting from the United States, right? We would say, okay, the U.S. they're saying the truth. This is true. That NATO had to actually strike. But now it's possible that it's just more Trump lies in order to now, he needs help in order to try to draw NATO in to help the United States because the United States is floundering to try to invoke Article 5 by saying these missiles were heading towards Turkey. Now you invoke Article 5 because America is running low on resources. Now you would say, and you're so conspiratorial, that's something Putin would come up with.
That's something that authoritarians make up. We can't trust the United States that Iran struck Iran shot missiles into Turkey, and maybe Article 5 needs to be invoked now. What's going on? I don't know because the Trump regime lies about everything. The Iranian regime lies about everything. The Netanyahu regime lies about these are all regimes that just all lie right now. And the reporting was NATO intercepts Iranian missiles heading toward Turkey. In first such incidents, I believe it was an attempt by the U.S. I don't know to try to invoke Article 5 or have Turkey invoked to draw NATO in. And Iran's armed forces, they responded right away saying, we respect Turkey's sovereignty. They denied launching any missile towards Turkish territory. Quote, we respect this sovereignty of our neighbor and friendly country Turkey and deny any missile launched toward it. I would normally say they're lying, but with this kind of war, who the hell even knows? Meanwhile, you have Prime Minister Karin of Canada.
He's in Australia with Anthony Albanisi right now strengthening their ties. As the U.S. weakened its ties. Now, here's what Karin said during his speech. Let's play this clip. The fact is, right now, many countries are concluding that they must develop greater strategic autonomy. And this impulse is understandable. When the rules no longer protect you, you must defend yourself. Country that can't feed itself, fuel itself, or defend itself, has few options. And in the 21st century, the requirements for economic security and prosperity of our countries extend far beyond food, conventional energy, and defense as important as these are. Today's sovereignty requires reliable access to space-based communications and storage, vaccine semiconductors, payment systems, and capital.
Because governments and businesses, when for decades prioritizing efficiency over resilience, we've developed supply chains and trading relationships to create dependencies on the great powers, sometimes even individual corporations. All of these affecting essential elements of our sovereignty. And as that integration is weaponized, this creates fundamental vulnerabilities. Yeah, and with each passing hour, we learned more about Iran striking more tankers in the Middle East. A tanker was hit by a large explosion in the waters off Kuwait, for example, causing an oil spill there, Qatar having to shut down its natural gas liquefocation today. It's the second largest liquefied natural gas exporter in the world, shutting that down. China stopping its exports from the region.
We're just giving you the data, folks. It's all right there for us to see. We'll keep you posted every step of the way as always, but I hope this gives you, oh, let me give you this too, North Korea. Kim Jong-un's North Korea testing cruise missiles from a naval destroyer after a few more data points for you. Sorry about that. North Korea testing ballistic missiles after stating that it's a nuclear power, and it says it's testing to demonstrate its capabilities with nuclear weapons. You don't hear Donald Trump saying, you know, anything about that. In Cuba, there were widespread blackouts. There are ground trips, ground troops. American soldiers are currently in Ecuador, carrying out missions or a war with the Maga Ecuadorian president there. Ecuador then expelled its Havana ambassador, kind of just immediately, while the US has ground troops in Ecuador right now. Cuba has a blackout. Is the United States about to invade Cuba? That's a possibility.
The European Union strengthening its Cyprus defenses as fears of regional conflicts bill over to Cyprus and then Donald Trump and Delci Rodriguez in Venezuela announcing a gold deal together where Delci will be giving Donald Trump gold. The Maduro regimes, the Chavista stay in power in Venezuela. Trump's like, okay, you're giving me your oil. Put that in the guitar and make out. Now I want blocks of gold. I kid you not. True story. They did that yesterday. Delci, I remember the story that broke about how Donald Trump was thinking about doing an indictment against Delci having his DOJ indict Delci and then the Trump regime was like, that's a false story. And what seems to happen is they held an indictment over Delci's head in order to get her to give him gold blocks. Judge for yourself, you could disagree with what I'm saying. I'm just giving you data points. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers and thanks so much for watching. Thanks for watching. Be sure to add the minus touch podcast on Apple podcasts, Spotify,
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