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The MeidasTouch Podcast — Trump Panics as Ground Invasion Imminent in War!!!. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
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And so folks, things are escalating. We were reporting earlier yesterday how Donald Trump and his military generals and admirals are apparently planning a ground invasion of Carg Island and also the coast of Iran potentially putting troops there and things are getting very, very escalating there very, very quickly. Here's what Donald Trump posted on social media as well though where he tried to act like he wasn't doing what we actually can see these deployments occurring Donald Trump rights. We are getting very close to meeting our objectives as we consider winding down our great military efforts in the Middle East with respect to the terrorist regime of Iran. One completely degrading Iranian missile capability launchers and everything else pertaining to them to destroying Iran's defense industrial base three eliminating their Navy and Air Force, including anti aircraft weaponry for never allowing Iran to get even close to nuclear capability and always being in a position where the USA can quickly and powerfully react to such a situation.
Should it take place five protecting at the highest level our Middle Eastern allies, including Israel, Saudi Arabia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain Kuwait and others, the Hormuz straight will have to be guarded and policed as necessary by other nations who use it. The United States does not exclamation point if asked we will help these countries in their Hormuz efforts but it shouldn't be necessary once Iran's threat is eradicated importantly it will be an easy military operation for them. Thank you for your attention to this matter Donald J Trump. While Trump is deploying all of these troops to the region he makes a post where it seems like he's saying that he's going to surrender and then just leave the straight of Hormuz which he's now responsible for having become closed by starting this war with Netanyahu against Iran and then Iran retaliating as such we'll just leave it to everybody else to deal with but he's also now deploying these troops. There's clearly no actual leadership taking place it seems like they're just winging it one day to the next and you want to talk about winging it while Donald Trump is also saying that he thinks his job is done but while also deploying the 86 they are born and those other troops that I mentioned.
We also learned yesterday that the United States through its Treasury Department Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent announced that they are providing a 30 day sanction waiver for Iranian oil on the water loaded before March 20th. So as Gregory Brook explains so while the U.S. is trying to bomb Iran into submission or decimate them as Donald Trump says it is now permitting nations to buy Iranian oil for the first time since 2019 but it gets even worse than that because if you read the waiver as Gregory Brook explains the waiver actually permits Iranian oil to be brought into the U.S. For the first time since the 1990s it gives access to Iranian oil into the United States while the U.S. is at war with Iran after the U.S. lifted oil sanctions against Russia. This was one of Iran's big objectives to be able to get the sanctions removed think about it they've closed the straight of removes the sanctions are removed against their own oil.
The sanctions are removed against Russia's oil rushes making a killing literally and figuratively right now they're making so much damn money selling their oil and then they've also got the benefit of Donald Trump attacking NATO all day Donald Trump was making social media post yesterday saying NATO is a paper tiger he called NATO members cowards with an exclamation point because they didn't want to go into the straight of her moves after Donald Trump launched this unlawful and unconstitutional war. While Donald Trump is now purportedly building up the military presence in that region Gregory Brewer also makes a great point here I want to share with you. So the marine force that I just mentioned earlier in this video that's being sent to potentially occupy parts of Iran a country of 90 million people is approximately the same size of the force used to invade the island of Grenada in 1983. The island of Kashm which lies along the north end of the straight of Hormuz has a population of 150 to 180,000 the city of Bandara boss on the coast has 500,000 people.
Carg Island has approximately 8,000 people and then Donald Trump's like we degraded and destroyed Iranian capabilities interesting interesting because in the past 24 hours you can see right here. A large fire burning following a direct Iranian drone strike on the U.S. State Department's Baghdad diplomatic support center the BDSC in the Iraqi capital located on the site of Baghdad's international airport you can see that right there. He's got other developments as well orific developments Kuwait's largest refinery was hit by Iranian drones also as a rock declares a force measure on foreign oil fields drop site is a good summary. So Iranian drone strikes hit Kuwait's Mina al-Al-Madi refinery on Friday sparking fires in multiple units for the second time in 24 hours Kuwait petroleum corporation and state news agency Kuna said. Fire crews work to contain the blaze no injuries immediately reported Kuwait's largest but the refinery is Kuwait's largest which process is about 730,000 barrels per day had to shut down affected units separately.
Iraq has officially declared a force measure on all of its oil fields operated by foreign companies Iraqi oil ministry sources told Roger. Do you know what I mean when I say force measure that means like a force of God clause where it's basically invoking a special clause that says it doesn't have to deliver on its commitments. So it's a way of saying week we're not going to satisfy any contracts force measure clause that's what a force measure is. The move allows operators to suspend output and export obligations due to the war efforts in several major oil fields in the southern Basra region now that's in addition to what we talked about those northern oil and energy fields liquefied natural gas facilities rather in Qatar which about 20% or so of that. The field was damaged that was after the United States and Israel struck the South Pars oil oil and energy facilities belonging to Iran Iran also struck re add in the past 48 hours in Saudi Arabia and some surrounding energy fields there.
And as Halas Jabair explains this is escalating quickly as well because in addition to all of the places that I just mentioned there for the first time Iran is now warning about foreign bases to directly not just foreign bases but are directly threatening UAE itself right Abu Dhabi's in UAE Dubai is in UAE. And specifically the area the Roz al Kaima in response to actions involving disputes there. So what Iran is saying is if you're in anywhere in these regions in UAE get out tourist facilities anything is fair game at this point we're going to attack because they say UAE has been used by American high mars to shoot into Iran. So we're going after anything in the UAE at this point as well and so UAE is in a state of under panic as well. And again is Donald Trump's like we've decimated Iran we've destroyed it we've decimated it really because Wall Street Journal CNN and others reported yesterday that Iran was able to target the Diego Garcia base with ballistic missiles.
That's in the Indian Ocean. So according to the Wall Street Journal citing multiple US officials Iran targeted the joint US UK base at Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean with two intermediate intermediate range ballistic missiles the IRBMs according to the report one missile failed in flight whilst the other was engaged by a US destroyer utilizing an SM3 interceptor but a successful interception was not confirmed none of the missiles hit the base fortunately. But this is notable as Iranian long range precision fires have not previously been publicly assessed as having a range to hit such a target as Diego Garcia as the base is some 4000 kilometers from Iran proper. As Benham Ben Talbou explains Iran's operational IRBM launch against Diego Garcia means more defanging that term needs to be done against the Iranian missile threat.
The regime still has new capabilities up its sleeve the timeline to ICBM capability shrunk Iran officially attacked a UK territory overseas. And again one of the things as this one account as the open source intelligence technical account explains the bigger story here the implied range of an Iranian IRBM from a launch box in central Iran with a range of 4500 kilometers distance to Diego Garcia theoretically this could also target sites in central Europe. And that was an important message that Iran wanted to send as far as minister Iraqi posted this message vast majority of British people do not want any part in the Israel US war of choice on Iran ignoring his own people here starmer is putting British lives in danger by allowing UK bases to be used for aggression against Iran. Iran will exercise its right to self defend so putting the people of the UK on notice as well.
I mean you see how utterly weakened pathetic Donald Trump looked yesterday when he held that press conference on the White House floor and I did a whole video of his meltdown so I'm not going to do a whole stick where I show you all the clips again because I showed you those clips yesterday. But here Donald Trump's like like I'm you know from or during COVID Donald Trump was like like a miracle COVID's all going to go away it's all going to magically disappear. Well now he's doing the same thing with the straight of her moves right after Donald Trump engages in this unlawful and disastrous war against Iran with net Yahoo. Iran responds by closing the straight of her moves although Iran is also charging two million dollar tolls to its allies that want to pass so China and Indian other countries can pay Iran now. Iran's actually making a lot more money in the US is lifting sanctions while they're all there at it as well. Donald Trump's like at a certain point the straight will open itself remember was it last weekend where Donald Trump posted that he had assembled an international coalition that he was going to reveal at all these countries agreed that they would be joining Donald Trump's coalition.
And he said I'm not going to leak the names yet because I want to keep it a surprise right and now it's like NATO's a paper tiger and the straight will open itself watch with Donald Trump said yesterday play this clip. It's a simple military maneuver it's relatively safe but you need a lot of help in the sense of you need ships you need volume. And NATO could help us but they so far haven't had the courage to do so and others could help us but you know we don't use it you know at a certain point it'll open itself at a certain point but we've defeated the enemy and they are an enemy there is sick group of people. The leadership is gone the Navy is gone the Air Force is gone the anti aircraft equipment that they have the radar they have is all gone everything's gone. The straight itself the actual straight how you straight itself is what you're in a good job but it would be nice if the countries including China if the countries that use it China uses it 90% of their energy.
Japan is 95% of the energy it would be nice if those countries would get involved. And then a reporter says so like do you have a plan on any of this stuff or you literally just winging this and he's like if I had a plan why would I even tell you here play this clip. Donald Trump is crashing our markets yesterday the markets closed the Dow at 45,000 the SNP at 6500 the Nasdaq at 21,000 each of those were down and Nasdaq was down about 2% the SNP was down about 1.5% the Dow was down about 1% the markets have absolutely been crashing as Adam Kobayesi explains in a sudden in a sudden turn of events the US 12 month inflation expectations have surged to 5.2% the highest level since March 2023.
In just three weeks markets have gone from pricing in rate cuts to rate hikes around $1 trillion was wiped off the US stock market. Yesterday alone as these major indexes dropped 1 to 2% amid escalating mid east tensions and those were dropping even more before this week but Donald Trump continues to say that he believes he won that this that the war is over and that he won but we're also sending troops but we're also withdrawing troops and we're also have all these allies who want to help us in the straight of our moves but also we don't want their help and also they're not helping. And also Donald Trump in his regime or a bunch of completed it's covering up child sex trafficking rings and getting us into endless wars while the American people can't afford anything and while people are suffering struggling starving and can't pay their rent here. So here play this clip of Donald Trump saying we won we won here play this clip. What did you mean by that? He said the war was militarily won in Iran. What did you mean by that?
Oh I think we won we've knocked out their navy their air force we've knocked out their anti aircraft we've knocked out everything we're roaming free from a military standpoint all they're doing is clogging up the straight but from a military standpoint they're finished. There you have it folks let me know what you think about this all hit subscribe let's get to 7 million subscribers thank you all so much for watching this. Want to stay plugged in become a subscriber to our sub stack at mightisplus.com you'll get daily recaps from Ron Phil Kowski add three episodes of our podcast and more exclusive content only available at mightisplus.com. Some days call for some oomph to amplify your everyday look like when you want to look a false lashes without the extra effort reach for thrive cosmetics liquid lash volumizer mascara or when you want all eyes on your smile keep them power gloss ultra glossy lip serum in your bag.
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