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They won't say what that decision is, but things are going to be happening soon. This follows reports that the Trump regime is preparing for boots on the ground after the midterm election. Donald Trump apparently is quoted behind the scenes as saying nothing will even matter after then regardless. So there will be no repercussions and consequences or words to that effect. We learned that the USS Theodore Roosevelt, one of the big aircraft carriers that was in San Diego, is now departing to the Middle East. It will get there. Mid-November will be accompanied as well by some amphibious assault groups, the Mankin and other ones heading over there to the Middle East. We will have tens of thousands of Marines and sailors heading there joining the two aircraft carriers, the George H.W. Bush and the George Washington. You'll recall the USS Gerald Ford and the USS Abraham Lincoln have already been relieved from their participation in the civilian blockade where the Trump regime is blocking civil tankers, supplies, food, gas,
medicines into Iran, the Trump regime believes if it starves the people of Iran or makes the people suffer in Iran, that will make the people say we want Trump and Netanyahu to run Iran. Me thinks that's not going to happen. You have the Trump regime doing a similar blockade of Cuba making the people of Cuba. We're not talking about the government. The people of Cuba are suffering. The Trump regime believes make the people of Cuba saw starve and suffer and that will make them like us more and they will then want us to rule them the way the Trump regime is exploiting all of these South American countries right now. Separately, I hope you've been watching my reporting on Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, I could keep going. But the Trump regime hoisting up people who are actually in my opinion at the highest level of wrongdoing and misconduct while the Trump regime engaged in these war crimes off the coast of Venezuela. But I digress. Let's talk about these three strikes in the Strait of Hormuz in the past 24 hours.
That means the total strikes by Iran of tankers in the Strait of Hormuz in the past three days is at least seven. Now, there's a lot of data that is being covered up by the Trump regime so we don't fully know the extent it could be more. But we know that Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz. They've been successful in striking these tankers kind of at will at this point. I mean, some of the tankers get out, but as I've been saying, none of this data that's saying, oh, all of this oil is getting out of the Strait of Hormuz. More oils getting out of the Strait of Hormuz now than before the war started. You want to just use some common sense. If more oil was getting out now than before the war started, why did the US just draw down another 40 million barrels of oil from the United States Strategic Petroleum Reserve likely taking the amount down to 230 to 240 million barrels of oil in the Strategic Petroleum Reserve there?
Why if all of this oil is coming out of the Strait of Hormuz, did Donald Trump threaten harass and exploit European countries to release a hundred million barrels of diesel and crude from the European Strategic Petroleum Reserves? I don't want to make this like a compliment. I could do a deep dive with us in Strategic Petroleum Reserves. I won't go there. The US Strategic Petroleum Reserve really just holds crude. Europe holds it differently. They hold it as diesel and crude. So the Trump regime put the pressure on Europe 50 million barrels of crude, 50 million barrels of diesel. Crude comes out of the Strait of Hormuz and then it has to be refined into diesel. I'm not going to go through all the process, but I think you get it. If all of this oil is coming out of the Strait of Hormuz, then why are there these massive drawdowns of Strategic Petroleum Reserves? The answer is because the oil isn't getting out of the Strait of Hormuz.
All the data that's trying to say that in my view is all part of a broader market manipulation scheme. We've seen that paper market of crude be highly manipulated. The Brent and WTI is why I've always been saying, and you're probably like Ben, your adork, stop talking about crack spreads, man. The delta or difference between the paper, kind of futures, price of the crude Brent WTI as we measure that, versus what's actually being charged at the refineries. Right, the refineries then send out gas and diesel and jet fuel. That's called the crack spread, the difference. I'm saying the price of diesel, the price of gas that's being sold from the refineries, record highs. That's why you're paying more for the gas and diesel at the pump. I said pay attention to that number because that's what you are experiencing, regardless. Both numbers continue to go up because the Trump regime freaking lies about everything. There's more escalation in the region as well.
So I think this was something being discussed at this camp, David emergency meeting that took place Friday night. That was allegedly chaired by JD Vans. What if any support will be provided to Saudi Arabia? We're learning Saudi Arabia is planning to work with perhaps as many as 100,000 PLC forces. That's the more international recognized group that's in Yemen. The group that controls all of Western Yemen and Sana in the prime real estate. That's on Surala. That's the Houthis. They made those major advances in Western Yemen. They're pushing east. They're allied with Iran, part of the access of resistance. They've been incredible using the incredible use of the drones and the technology. Kind of out of nowhere. And it's like Saudi Arabia's American backed weapons are struggling against the drones that are being used. The type of weaponry that we're seeing Iran use and we're seeing used in Russia and Ukraine.
That type of incredible technology, if you will, that's the modern warfare. While the US is stuck in a different era and US allies are stuck in a different era. So on Surala, the Houthis are advancing east. Obviously Trump has all these quid pro quo deals with MBS. MBS, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia's expecting protection. Saudi Arabia intentionally keeps its military week. Because they're always afraid of military coups. They're basically fully dependent on the United States. Most of these Arab nations, same thing. They keep their militaries weak because their royal families are worried about coups. So you keep the population weak. You keep the military weak. In the past, you work with the US security architecture. In the area, you basically funnel all this money to the US and return. You get protection. All the oligarchs and the princes and royal families. All the people we see in the Epstein files, right? The Hens the Epstein class. They all crush it. They do well. And that was, you know, the architecture, not just under Trump, but you go back and back and back in time.
Trump just exploited the architecture even more, made it so damn obvious. And then his incompetence and maliciousness also kind of screwed it up and made the architecture all fall apart. Trump's a lifelong destroyer, not a builder. So MBS has left holding the bag. He's like, dude, what's going on here, man? And so MBS has wanted to Trump. You got to help us with the Houthis because they're now threatening not just all of the rest of Yemen and our PLC back proxies that are here. But the very strength of the Saudi Arabian royal family is in doubt because the Houthis have been able to strike in Yanbu, which is the western port area of Saudi Arabia. Or Jizzan, one of the other western port areas of Saudi Arabia, or Abkiyakh, one of the eastern port areas. The East West pipeline in Saudi Arabia has been severely damaged. And by the way, my view is it's not back online, pumping the way it was before.
I look at those pump stations on the satellite footage. It looks bad. It looks, I don't believe the sources that say that more oils getting out of the East West pipeline than before. I think it's the same sources who were saying more oil is getting out of these straight of horror moves than before. But the developments in the past 24 hours, Houthis continue to advance moving in Ta'iz, moving on closer to Mareeb. Are they going to go closer to Aidan or in the East? What are we seeing over there? Saudi Arabia preparing to work with the PLC group. 100,000 or so forces to try to take back Al-Mokha, take back some of the West where the Houthis made these advances. And so part of what JD Vance was allegedly speaking about at Camp David is all out regional war. Supporting Saudi Arabia and working with some of the other Arab nations to try to go after the Houthis in the area who are allied with Iran, escalating with Iran as well.
Essentially what we'd be talking about is all out war in the region. You may be saying, man, that's hyperbolic, that's hyperbolic. Really? Look at the facts. I've never been a fan of having a whole cabinet full of supplements and trying to remember what to take, when to take it, and how much. That's why I like IM-8. It's made my routine incredibly simple. I mix one drink, I'm done, and I can get on with my day. IM-8 is the way to simplify your supplement routine once and for all. 16 supplements replaced 90 ingredients across nine major organ systems in one drink. IM-8's daily ultimate essentials has 16 supplements in one drink for $2.61 a day. Co-founded by David Beckham and built by leading doctors and researchers, IM-8 was designed by the world's best. 95% of people who tried it for 12 weeks felt more energy, and that's from a clinical trial conducted by the San Francisco Research Institute. I've worked IM-8 into my daily routine, and it couldn't be easier, and I use it myself. I think you should too.
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It's not to Ukraine to Saudi Arabia and Qatar, anticipating Iran's retaliation. I think we're going to see massive escalation. I think it's going to backfire in the Trump regime's faces. Iran's military is not destroyed despite the stupid things Trump says during these speeches in Alabama or Oklahoma or Texas. Iran has massive stockpiles of ballistics, massive stockpiles of drones. The drones have advanced. Look at what's, look at the drones Russia is using. That's the same capabilities that Iran is going to have now. The Shaheeds have been upgraded to Garen-4, Garen-5, Jet-Fuel-Powered drones. They move quicker, harder to intercept. I think if we saw War Escalate, we would see these Shaheeds on steroids, hence the Garen-4, Garen-5s that we're seeing Russia use in Ukraine.
While the Trump regime is dealing with what interceptors that each one cost $4 to $10 million depending on if it's a Patriot 3 or a Thad. That's what's going on behind the scenes. Meanwhile, I had the opportunity to speak to a pro-Houthi on Serala journalist whose brother the journalist I spoke to is Hussein Al-Bukhati. His brother, Muhammad Al-Bukhati, is a governor for Ansarallah and part of the political bureau. This guy is very con... Hussein Al-Bukhati knows his stuff. He speaks with the people who are in the leadership. Here's what he told me about Trump. Or the Trump Xi Jinping meeting. You can listen to it for yourself. To become to China, we've seen that he's rolling those red cards. I mean, we're going to say this, we can consider it as a state to visit. But he looked like... some of his behavior. That's actually made a lot here, like in Sanhala at Trump.
When he, after the president of China, has gone out of his plane and then that B2, or you know that the United States fighter get over what they call him B2, I mean Trump, he brought it there. He thought you were scared. That guy and Trump was looking at it like a child and trying to tell him, have you seen what we have? He totally ignored Trump. China knows everything about the United States. China is building their own army. So it's exactly what we say here is like a child now who is in control, a stupid child actually. Who is in control of the White House. One of the most powerful countries, someone who keeps threatening country that he will annihilate Iran. And then here's what Donald Trump said in Alabama. Donald Trump said the following regarding Iran, he said there's nobody to deal with in Iran. Nobody wants to be the president to your play this clip.
And it's part of our problem. I don't know who to help to deal with. There's nobody to deal with. Nobody wants to be president. I say who do I speak to in Iran? There's not nobody around. Knock knock, nobody home. And again, the level of ignorance and stupidity is deadly. Iran's president is president, Pzezskian, a world renowned cardiovascular surgeon. He's been the president all throughout this war. There's never been a doubt of who the president is. He's been in lots of public events. He was been at all these been at the UN. He's been at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. He's been at Bricks. We all know President Pzezskian. We know they're foreign minister, Iraqi. You know, I know they're deputy foreign minister, Garbibadi. We know who their parliament leader is. And Begala Baf. I mean, we know who their top advisor to Ayatollah, Mojtabak, Komeninus, Moshenrazai. We know the difference between the IRGC and the Army. We know the main kind of group that issues the press statements on their behalf.
I mean, we know that. I mean, we have to, we have to speak with the level of sophistication when we're talking about this. Oh, they don't have a president. They're president doesn't exist. I mean, it's just so stupid. And it's dangerous when you think these things. It's the level of ignorance is actually deadly. And it's killing Americans. And it's killing people throughout the world with this utter stupidity to watch this lunatic Trump talk like this. And then he goes, we could leave tomorrow. We already won. I just like being there. This was his closing message in Alabama. I mean, how utterly pathetic is this? You're watched this. And we could leave tomorrow. And it would take them years to rebuild from what we did to them. Because they just wouldn't, they shouldn't have come shit. They played their cards. They played their cards too tough. But think of it. I said two or three weeks they killed me. The fake news there. They said, he's served two weeks. And now I said, well, no, I'm just, we're cleaning up. We're staying there. Because I don't want another president in a number of years.
Who knows? Who knows? Who knows? So folks, we'll keep you posted every step of the way. Obviously, things are escalating. There was this meeting in Camp David, the tankers being hit on Serala moving east Saudi Arabia advancing or Saudi Arabia preparing a 100,000 troop force. Perhaps back by the US, the plan, the meeting is about all out regional war in my opinion, potential US ground troops in the region. I mean, it has all the earmarks of the type of escalatory trap that everybody warns about. And again, I don't want to be like, we're getting into World War III. I remember the Magga Republicans, everything Biden did. World War III, World War III. Remember everything, right? But you look at what's happening in Russia's invasion of Ukraine. You look at what's happening in the Middle East. You look at what's happening in South America and in the Caribbean right now. You look at what's happening in Asia right now. You look at what's happening everywhere right now.
And I don't know how you're not, how you don't come away with this conclusion. Remember World War I began with the, you know, there are a lot of factors, right? But Archduke, Ferdinand and Sarajevo assassinated and all the alliances and everything kind of came to a domino effect. Boom. World War II, based on the failure of kind of World War I's oversimplifying everything. Peace treaties and how things were handled and the rise of Hitler and everything, right? Post World War II, the architecture was created by the US to try to stop future world wars. That was, you know, not a perfect architecture by any mean, but to stop another World War. That was a deterrence, mutually assured destruction. Trump got rid of that. Trump destroyed that. And so we're back to multilateral pre-World War I law of the world law of the jungle style stuff.
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