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The MeidasTouch Podcast — Trump Panics as Special Forces Enter War!!!. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
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continues to spiral out of control. And now Donald Trump thinks that if he just throws the special forces at the catastrophic problem he created that that will solve everything. Just send the special forces to go and extract nearly 1,000 pounds of highly enriched uranium. Just put them in a country with 90 million people and see what happens. That's what Donald Trump's apparently planning. Several hundred U.S. special operation forces including Army Rangers and Navy Seals have just arrived in the Middle East, joining thousands of Marines and Army paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division in a deployment meant to give Donald Trump additional options to expand the current month-long disastrous war in Iran with planning underway for possible ground invasions since being reported by the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal reporting how Trump is
weighing a military operation with these special forces to extract nearly 1,000 pounds of highly enriched uranium from at least two sites in Iran. A very complex and risky mission that would likely put hundreds of American ground forces inside the country for days if not longer. But all of this would be expected to have this war drag on for months and months and months. While all of this is taking place as Donald Trump has sent now tens of thousands of additional troops with marine expeditionary units to Iran with the USS Tripoli arriving there on Friday, Donald Trump called up the financial times and gave an interview where he said the following things. I want to seize all of Iran's oil. To be honest with you, Trump said, my favorite thing is to take their oil. That's my favorite thing to take all of the oil of Iran. So what Donald Trump said. He also said that he's considering taking carg island
Iran's main oil export hub. So considering a mission with special forces to extract 1,000 pounds of highly enriched uranium also taking carg island. What could possibly go wrong everybody? He compares Iran to Venezuela saying US could control the oil in Iran indefinitely like we're doing in Venezuela. Trump claims Iran has no real defense anymore. I don't think they have any defense. We could take care of it all very easily. It would be done very, very easily. He said that it would require an occupation, but he says he's got the appetite for it. He says it would also mean we'd have to be there for a while. And he says that mega supports that mega is happy when Donald Trump goes to war in the Middle East. He claims. Trump claims the scale of bombing is that we've already bombed 13,000 targets. We've got about 3,000 targets left. Well, we've learned that a lot of these targets are targets where Iranian civilians live.
Of course, we know about Manab where there were 165 little girls who were murdered by American Tomahawks, but we also talked earlier yesterday about a gym, not the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps facility down the block, but there was a gym in Iran that was attacked by the United States where dozens of people were killed. And we continue to see what hundreds if not thousands of civilians in Iran killed by the United States and Israel. You also have Donald Trump claiming regime change has effectively already happened. We've done regime change. He said, and in fact, Trump said the current regime, very reasonable people. Donald Trump says they've agreed to most of his terms with the 15 point conditions that Trump imposed. Very reasonable things are going great. And Donald Trump said they gave a great gift that they're allowing 20 Pakistani ships to go through the straight of Hormuz, which Trump says is a gift to Donald Trump. It has nothing to do with
Donald Trump. It's two ships a day. The Escort for it is not the United States Navy. It's the Iranian Navy. It has nothing to do with Trump, Iran's president, Posseshkin, and others are saying. But Donald Trump says, look what I got. You got what? Iran controlling the straight of Hormuz. I mean, Marco Rubio at the G7 meeting in France on Friday told all of our allies that the likely outcome is going to be that the world is going to now have to pay a toll to Iran. Also, Iran's speaker of their parliament posted that must be six-dimensional chess being played by Donald Trump. Whereas before the war, Iran didn't control the straight of Hormuz. And now they control it and impose fees on their allies to utilize it. And Iran's like great six-dimensional chess, Donald Trump. Also, the speaker of the Iranian parliament warned everybody before the futures markets opened, which by the way, those future markets were tanking while the price
of oil futures was surging. All the Iranian leadership is now saying, Donald Trump's going to try to manipulate the market. We're not talking to him. We haven't agreed to the 15-point plan. All Iran said is that they have their preconditions to negotiations that the United States must pay reparations. There must be security guarantees that the United States won't strike Iran ever again with Israel. That his bullet won't be hit ever again by the United States in Israel. That Iran's proxy groups like the Shiite militias in Iraq won't ever be hit again. That the Houthis won't be hit ever again. That there will be an addition to these security guarantees, full reparations, that Iran will never give up its ballistic missiles. Iran would like to continue now enriching uranium in the future because they said, why would we agree to any negotiations when that will just result in invasions of Iran? And then Iran continues to say that they also demand public apologies as well. And unless those things are meant also the removal of U.S. military bases in the region. And Iran says, if those preconditions are meant, we're not even
talking to you. So there's nothing to talk about unless you agree with all of that. Then Donald Trump describes the new leadership as a totally different group of people, very, very professional group of people. Now that group of people continues to mock Donald Trump, call him the Epstein class murderer. They continue to strike their neighboring Arab nations, where there are American military interests. For example, last night, there was at least one killed and severe damage caused following an Iranian attack on a service building at a Kuwaiti power and water desalination station, according to Kuwait's ministry of energy. Specifically, it's this right here. You can see this service building at a power station and distillation facility right here. Also, we saw attacks on all of the neighbors. Bahrain was hit again hard. Iranian proxy groups, these Shiite militias that have been given the green light by the Iraqi government. The war is fully spread to Iraq now. They've successfully been targeting military
bases in Iraq where there's been weapon shared by the United States to the Iraqi government. You can see right here the Iran backed militias targeting a military transport plane that belongs to the Iraqi Air Force and Baghdad International Airport. Look right here at this 32B and a 32B military transport aircraft was targeted by an Iranian backed militant group using drones and rockets. They use these drone swarms, FPV drone swarms. Very, very effectively. Look at this image. You can see the damage that was caused to this Iraqi 32B military transport aircraft vehicle. In addition, you can see the smoke rising in the UAE. We had Abu Dhabi, Dubai, Sharaj, other areas where Iran was conducting large-scale attacks. The Houthis continued to attack Israel. Iran continued to attack Israel. Iran said the here are the targets we're going to hit and they've been going after them. What else has Donald Trump been saying? Donald Trump says on
Iran, I think that they really want to deal. They're practically begging anyone who is being destroyed would want one, right? Then Donald Trump told N14, which is a news channel in Israel. Donald Trump goes, I love Israel. I love the people of Israel. I'm very proud and happy with their support. Then Channel 12 in Israel reported that if US launches a ground operation in Iran, Israeli troops will not take part in any way in the combat. Regarding a invasion in the, to control the straight of Hormuz, Donald Trump said, we're already doing it. It's already underway. It's already happening. No, it's not already happening. There's nothing yet. As I said, he is marshalling these special forces and Marine Expeditionary Units in the 82nd Airborne Division elite paratroopers and others. That's what we know for sure is happening right now. Meanwhile, US government officials and Wall Street analysts are starting to consider
the prospect that oil prices might surge to an unprecedented $200 a barrel level. Right now, the Brent crude market opened at $115 a barrel. WTI crude was over $100 a barrel. The futures markets were tanking. Donald Trump's attempt to manipulate the market were failing. Again, you had all of the Iranian leadership making posts saying, we're not doing negotiations. He's going to try to manipulate the market. Don't believe anything he's saying. We're going to make sure that the pain that's felt by the United States is over $200 a barrel. Iran is acutely aware of the crisis that catastrophe that Donald Trump has put the United States in. They understand that in a war of attrition, they can drag this out as long as they want and cause major catastrophic pain to the United States economy. That's precisely what they're doing. But this weekend,
Trump was outgolfing again. Right. We learned that his second term golf tab has already exceeded $100 million to taxpayers. I believe it's actually significantly more than that. And you know right that two weeks ago, the debt in the United States across that $39 trillion threshold, and that'll be at $40 trillion in no time. I mean, the cost of this war, hundreds of billions of dollars, and we've already lost tens of billions, if not hundreds of billions of dollars, in weapons already. You have the Iranian military chief spokesperson also saying that the Iranian strikes will now target U.S. Israeli residential areas, homes of U.S. and Israeli commanders, and hotels where they're staying. It said the directive is in response to the hostile and terrorist actions targeting Iranian civilians across multiple cities. And we also know that the United States and
Israel were able to target Tehran University and blow up some of its science centers and other areas. You know, we have lots of sources on the ground in Iran. And as we always do throughout the world right now, and just from what we are hearing, there was just an overwhelming amount of military force used by U.S. and Israel all throughout the night. And away, petrochemical plant in Iran was targeted. And lots of civilian areas continue to be hit. You know, Iran keeps making these like Lego mocking AI videos about Donald Trump, like they made this video right here, where they show Donald Trump holding the U.S. E3G, AWACS reconnaissance aircraft, which was the crown jewel of our air force. It was destroyed in a military base in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, at first, the Trump regime. It sustained minor damage. No, it was completely damaged as long as the KC-135 strato tankers. And as part of the video,
they made, they said like for a loser, and they put like a gurney and said for a loser, they've got you know, Donald Trump with, you know, the hands that are rotting away. And they show Donald Trump panicking in their animation that they're making right there. Donald Trump's post was a big day in Iran. Many long sought after targets have been taken out and destroyed by our great military, the finest and most lethal in the world. God bless you all, DJT. And then Donald Trump gave this catastrophic press conference aboard Air Force One where Donald Trump said so when he tries to manipulate the market, but it was really not working at all. I mean crude oil prices dropped like one buck for a short period of time because the markets know that Donald Trump's jaw boning is just just that jaw boning under BS. Donald Trump was holding a photo of his golden ballroom. And while he was talking about the golden ballroom, that's what he really wanted to talk about.
He's like, I think we'll do a deal this week with Iran. I see a deal coming. It's the normal stuff that he does to manipulate the markets. Here, play this clip. White House, which is I think very important. Mr. President, could you first see a deal in Iran that's upcoming week? I do see a deal in Iran, yeah. Mr. President, could be soon. Are you considering? Then a reporter asked Donald Trump about the 15-point plan that was made to Iran. And they're like, well, they come back with a response. And Donald Trump's like, they gave us most of the points. And in fact, the present that they gave us is they allowed these 20 boats to be guided by the United States Navy through the strait of Hormuz. And then you know, the headlines from American corporate news was like, 20 large oil tankers to transit straight of Hormuz under USS Scort starting tomorrow morning. It got community noted right away. The 20 tankers are Pakistani flagged vessels allowed by Iran to transit the strait of Hormuz
under Iranian escort, not USS Scort as claim. No US Navy escorts of tankers are scheduled to begin March 31st. Here's a video of Donald Trump lying about it play this clip. They're agreeing with us on the plan. I mean, we asked for 15 things and for the most part, we're going to be asking for a couple of other things. And just to prove that they're serious, they gave us all these months. When I talked about four days ago, President, I said they gave me a present. But I didn't think I was at liberty to say what it was. What it was was eight plus two. It's ten massive boatloads of oil. And today they gave us another present. They gave us 20 boatloads of oil. That starts being shipped tomorrow. We're having very good meetings both directly
and indirectly. And I think we're getting a lot of very important. And then Donald Trump was saying, we did regime change. We got the regime that we wanted. Everybody as part of this regime is very reasonable. They're good people, actually. They're good people. We like working with them here play this clip. But we've had regime change. You look already because the one regime was decimated, destroyed, they're all dead. The next regime is mostly dead. And the third regime would deal with different people than anybody's dealt with before. It's a whole different group of people. So I would consider that regime change. And frankly, they've been very reasonable. So I think we've had regime change. We can't do much better than that. The regime that was really bad, really evil was the first one that was done. The second was appointed. And they got their whole dead other than one who may have a little life. And then they're really in the third
group. And the third group of people that seemed to be much more reasonable. It truly is regime change. And regime change is an imperative. But I think we have it automatically. I get something today. Now going back to Trump's special forces invasion as open source intelligence defender rights, any move to seize the Iranian by force would be complex and dangerous. Former US military officers and experts said ranking among the most challenging operations ordered by Donald Trump. The potential operation, which would likely trigger retaliation from Iran, could also lengthen the war well beyond the four to six week time frame that Trump's team is publicly out one teams of US forces would need to fly to the sites likely under fire from Iranian surface to air missiles and roads. Once on site combat troops would need to secure perimeter so that engineers with excavating equipment could search through debris and check for the mimes and booby traps. The extraction of the material would likely need to be conducted by an elite special operations team, specially trained to remove radioactive material from a conflict zone.
The highly enriched uranium is likely contained in 40 to 50 special cylinders that resemble scuba tanks. They would need to be put into transportation casks to protect against accidents. That could fill several trucks said Richard nephew, a senior research scholar at Columbia University and former nuclear negotiator with Iran, unless an airfield was available in makeshift one would need to be set up to bring equipment in and take the nuclear material out the entire operation would take days or even a week to complete experts say and yes so as 50,000 Americans are deployed to war now there are special forces as oil is over $100 a barrel in fact Brent is over $114 per barrel cost spiraling out of control Americans can't afford anything we are facing not just a recession but potentially a great depression here in the United States. Our airports are an absolute mess as John Favreau says this is what Donald Trump wanted everybody to know here play this clip.
That's great this is a view of the columns as they are going to be made they're going to be hand carved and they're beautiful top of the line they'll be Corinthian which is considered the best most beautiful by far also should be noted that the US universities in Qatar have shut down their campuses the same way the US has shut down its military bases in the region 13 military bases universities shut down after the US hit Iranian universities Iran said we're going to hit their universities I'll just write wing far right wing individual and culture post of the following watching Fox News assure viewers the Iran war is going super well and Trump is a total stud is like watching the same network assure viewers that dominion voting system rigged the 2020 election and Trump was the winner and folks I am so grateful for all of your feedback
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