🚨Trump Stranded as He Has No Way Out of War

0:00all the Donald Trump's temper tantrum. I mean the Iranian war is doing is pulling together our allies. I almost said former allies and making them create military organizations independent of the United States because they can't rely on NATO. And as Donald Trump pounds the table and at one hand demands that the NATO allies and 30 other countries that he and his administration have been bashing and tariffing and taxing and undermining on one hand demanding pounding the table that they join him to open up the strait of harmus the number one waterway for the economy in the world in the Middle East at the same time in the same breath. He says he doesn't need anybody's help. So I need the help. But yet I don't need the help at all. This is doing is forcing our former allies to join together in a way that probably never would have been expected how the United

1:01States continued its proper leadership role in NATO and in other multilateral agreements. I'm Michael Popak. Let's look at what Canada and France, the United Kingdom and Japan are all doing in opposition to Donald Trump. And using this as their moment, almost like they're coming out party to announce that they are working hard to diminish their reliance on an erratic Donald Trump and United States changing the world and the shape of the world, the contours of the world and its relationships with America, probably permanently at least for a generation or more. I'm Michael Popak. You're on legal a F on Tuesday. Hit that free subscribe button and you'll look forward to 12 or so videos all throughout the day. Donald Trump has zero goodwill after 16 or 17 months of office. And now he's paying the price for this lack of diplomacy,

2:03lack of decorum, constantly trying to berate and use a giant stick against our allies. And now they're going, they've gone ahead and Canada is seriously considering joining the joint expeditionary force, the J E F, which will be comprised of Baltic states, Nordic states countries and Canada led by the United Kingdom. It is an alternative to NATO, which is obviously reliant on the United States. The reason that Canada elbows up led by the indomitable Mark Carney himself a central banker in two separate countries much smarter than Donald Trump. The reason that they're even considering it is it's consistent with Canada trying to revitalize its own military while at the same time lowering its dependence on the United States. And what better way to do that and stick a thumb in the eye of Donald Trump than to become one

3:04of the leaders of the joint expeditionary expeditionary force to J E F. Now France, the United Kingdom, Japan and even China have said no go. We're not helping you blow up and stop the blockade of Iran in the state of our moves as one long time observer expert and specialist in that region said if fixing the state of our moves and making it not able to be blockaded by Iran was so easy. Ronald Reagan would have done it in the 1980s. Donald Trump, of course, underestimated what would happen if Iran being cornered, bombed and having its supreme leader taken out, having been effectively left with no choice. But then to blockade the state of our moves where 20% of the world oil usually goes through. The blockade has been so effective on day 19 of the war that the United Arab Emirates and Kuwait, which allies of the

4:05United States, at least on paper, they have reduced their oil production because they can't get it through the straight of our moves. Now there is an alternative to the straight of our moves that's been built in Saudi Arabia. It is a port at Yanbo and there is a pipeline that runs from the Gulf to the Red Sea and they think that'll be in full capacity soon. But it will not totally replace getting tankers and, you know, tanker ships through the straight of our moves for Saudi Arabia, which is why they're reducing oil, which is leading to oil staying up at a very high $100 a barrel every day since the war has started 19 days in a row. The price of gas at the pump for Americans has gone up. You can thank Donald Trump for that. I think the real takeaway here is the permanent change of the face of global relationships because of Donald Trump. What I hope

5:05is that when adults who can be trusted return to the White House where we no longer have an erratic presidency or an erratic United States that the world powers that were normally our natural friends, Mexico and Canada, of course, the United Kingdom and Europe, Western Europe and Eastern Europe and NATO countries that we will reunite. We will heal the scars, but the scar tissue here is going to be very, very long and very, very deep because of the changed relationships. If Canada is going to decide to go into the joint expeditionary force as an alternative as a non-US entity, along with the Baltic states and UK and Nordic states, they're not going to just if Gavin Newsom or somebody gets elected in three years, they're not just going to throw up their hands and say, oh, all right, we're going to go back and put all our eggs in the United States basket. That basket is unreliable because the fear would be even if a president like a moderate or a

6:11Democrat gets in, how long could they last? Look how I think the shocking thing for the globe is how quickly one president with expanded war-like powers used by Donald Trump could completely capture the American set of policies and ideals, rewrite the rulebook, throw away diplomacy, and just and just be so curial in such a short amount of time. That shocked our neighbors and that's why they're working so hard. It's not a bad thing to become independent, to become autonomous from the United States instead of relying on it. And the more that Donald Trump yells and shouts about the need for his and demanding in a bully way in a snowflake entitlement way that our allies come to our rescue, the less likely that they are. They're going to take their sweet time and I don't blame them. Here's Donald Trump at a press conference bemoaning the world

7:15that he created. Play it. We're always there for NATO. We're helping them with Ukraine as many as we can. It's going to go to the end of the minute. It doesn't affect us without them. It'd be interesting to see what country would help us with a very small endeavor, which is just keeping this right open. It never makes it three years ago. We go back and look at the comments that years ago I said, I don't believe they're kidding. They're almost ready. But it's really there for China and many other countries are here. They're doing it. And that's what just me and the leaders are going to be able to bring it up now. I think even longer when they get something that other countries are

8:17going to help us. And again, we're going to go to this about seven. We have the mandate that these countries come in and protect our own territory because it is their territory. It's the place which they get their energy and they should come and they should help us protect them. So where are we after 19 days? We have a strength in Iran. Got rid of its fearless leader replaced them with his with his I think his son, but also an infrastructure that is continues to be strong. As we try to wipe out their missile capacity and their navy, they still seem to be able to hit targets at will. United States targets and assets, those in the Middle East. Now they're going after oil infrastructure to pay back Donald Trump for going after their oil infrastructure. There's no protection mechanism. There's no golden dome as Donald Trump likes to talk about it. There's nobody protecting our allies. That's why they allies

9:19are like we're not blowing up the straight of our moves because who's going to protect our assets around the world. Our bases are diplomatic consulates our embassies our cities the United States a golden missile dome. Where is that? So that is what I meant by. There's just zero planning and and Trump they asked Trump at a press conference could you end the war today? He says oh sure. I think it'll be very soon and every time he says very soon, you know, like the Ukraine, Russia war was supposed to be over within days of his election 16 months ago. Israel, Hamas war was supposed to be over after they met in Alaska, you know, over the over the summer of last year or whatever it was. I mean, it's just, you know, his his magical thinking and belief that the American people are going to continue to trust him or that anyone around the world will is just mind-boggling. But you see a renewed resilience among our allies to strengthen themselves

10:23at the expense of the United States. And we'll continue to follow it. You're here on legal a f hit the free subscribe button until my next hot take later today. I'm Michael Popak. We got interviews. We got ad free versions of the podcast and hot takes where legal a f on sub-stack come over now to free subscribe.