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Hey, I like your new Rav4. Thanks, yours too. What does Rav stand for anyway? To me, it's the remarkably advanced vehicle. Really? To me, it's the runway approved vehicle for its amazing style. What about remarkably adaptable vehicle because of its versatile cargo space? Or really admired vehicle? Oh, or really awesome vehicle. It really is the recreational activity vehicle. This stylish 2026 Toyota Rav4 limited. What's your Rav4? World leaders are easily outflanking Donald Trump. And in the next few weeks, there are going to be some major meetings of world organizations that are rising in power as Donald Trump attacked the architecture of the post-World War II era that the United States created and weakened US alliances throughout the world like NATO. Pay very close attention to what will be happening in the next few days at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization meeting.

Takes place August 31st through September 1st in Bisek, Kyrgyzstan. This is an organization led by China, but we expect to see Iran have a very prominent role. Russia is going to be there and already Russia's foreign minister, Sergey Lavrov, has stated that a major agenda item will be expediting billions of dollars in investment to Iran's nuclear programs. That is in addition to the Bouchir facility in Iran that is a joint venture between Iran and Russia. Additional investment in nuclear facilities there. And we should expect Iran's president, Pzezhevsky and other top Iranian officials to be speaking at the Shanghai Cooperation Organization. Then a week or two later, there will be the big BRICS meeting that will be taking place in New Delhi, India.

It will be presided over by Modi, the leader of India, who's been making deals all across the world as the Trump regime initially attacked India in favor of Pakistan. And what's fascinating too is if you look at what's going on with Pakistan right now, Pakistan is formally requesting a $10 billion currency stabilization facility from the US Treasury, aka a bailout. The largest such ask in the country's history and they said, look, you like Dart work as a mediator? You want a more close relationship with Pakistan? Pay up US pay up. Bescent the request follows Pakistan's elevated role in mediating the US, Iran conflict, but what's notable as well is that Pakistan rejected US unilateral sanctions on Iran. The economic D day sanctions that Treasury Secretary Besan said, we will go after any country that does business with Iran.

Pakistan and all these other countries were like, yeah, we are not going along with your threats. We're just going to ignore it. I mean, if you think about the BRICS nations, for example, I mean, you're talking about countries like Brazil, China, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Saudi Arabia, South Africa, United Arab Emirates, BRICS partner countries also include Belarus, Cuba, Bolivia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, Uganda, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam. And BRICS cooperation includes things like climate change is what they say, food and energy security, international, economic and financial situations, telecommunication links. And so all of these countries also have rejected the US demands that they don't do business with Iran. There's one little asterisk I should put in there, and it's kind of awkward for them.

The United Arab Emirates previously did the Abraham Accords during the first Trump term, the first Trump regime, although now I think they're regretting that bringing them closer to the Netanyahu regime, as it has put a bigger target on the UAE in the region with those Iranian strikes that we've been seeing. The new BRICS forum that will be taking place starting September 12th through the 13th. The theme is called building for resilience, innovation, cooperation, and sustainability, reflecting India Prime Minister Modi's vision of what he says is a people-centric approach rooted in the spirit of humanity first. It's one gigantic troll to the United States. You get that right. As Donald Trump is out there literally stealing hypothetical barrels of oil from Venezuela.

And I say hypothetical because those 65 billion barrels of provable barrels of provable oil that's in the reserves in Venezuela. Well, I mean, it's sour, sticky, viscous, dense type of crude. You'd have to build all these refinery infrastructures. I think the 65 billion number overstates it. And also, we don't really know what the Trump deal is in Venezuela anyway. It just seems like a market manipulation scheme. And you'll have to build the infrastructure which private businesses are involved because no US businesses really want to get involved. The Trump regime is creating like a US government joint venture with Venezuela, which you also need congressional authority for here in the United States. It's also against Venezuela's constitution, but you want to talk about socialism and communism for oligarchs. You're creating a US run oil company because private companies have deemed Venezuela uninvestable. I've been doing lots of videos raising the red flags. I hope you've been watching them about this Venezuela deal that Donald Trump says the biggest deal ever.

Let's be very clear. The existence of oil underneath Venezuela is different than actual production. It's different than the refining. It's different than actually turning the you have to get the crude. Then you have to refine the crude. And we're nowhere near any of that. So that's years potentially decades away. If that's even going to occur here. But the point I'm making is while Donald Trump's doing that, engaging in war crimes in the Western hemisphere, blowing up fishing boats, this is what's going on with bricks. This is what's going on with the Shanghai cooperation organization. And far from Iran being isolated and Iran is about to surrender. And there's no one wants to talk to them. What are you talking about? They're going to be at the Shanghai cooperation organization meeting in Bishop in Bishkek, Kiergistan on August 31st, September 1st. And then they're going to be at the bricks, some at September 12 through through 13. It should be noted as well. Some of the moves that Prime Minister Modi has been making last night.

The New York Times did a very good report on this France, New Zealand, Malaysia, Slovakia, Italy. I mean the EU, the mother of all deals with Ursula von der Leyen and the EU. In the past year Prime Minister Modi of India has zigzagged around the world at a breathless pace New York Times rights, pursuing new partners are bolstering ties with existing ones, jolted into action by a grim reality. India's only way to combat the global turbulence unleashed by Trump and fortify its economy is to spread its bets widely. And we're seeing Canada, we're seeing the EU, we're seeing countries in Asia, making the same bet, they used to think we're partners with the US, we're allies with the US, not anymore. I mean Donald Trump's out there being a Kim Jong Un bootlicker, Donald Trump's out there being a Xi Jinping bootlicker, Donald Trump's out there being a Putin bootlicker.

Donald, you're not invited to the party, you're not invited to bricks, you're not invited to the Shanghai cooperation organization, you're not invited to these planes, you're not invited, you had your allies and you threw it all away, Donald, you threw it all away. Take a look right here, since August 2025, Modi has paid official visits to at least 20 countries and is set to visit more in the coming days, including a trip to Uzbekistan, that starts Saturday, then he's going to visit Kyrgyzstan, then he's going to go back to India, where they're going to have the New Delhi Summit for bricks, which he's going to be prepared for. Then you're going to see Xi Jinping after going to Kyrgyzstan, he's going to go to Egypt for a major visit there, China and Egypt have been doing joint military tests together. So China's out there testing its new planes in the Middle East as well. And so you have all of that going on.

We want to build better ties with the rest of the world as the size of our economy grows says premium Gandhi Modi and executive director of the future economic director of the future economic cooperation council. Many so-called middle powers countries like France and Canada have been knee-capped by the same forces India faces, making them more amenable to Mr. Modi's overtures, some are seeking him out to meet their own strategic needs. India's recalibrated approach to foreign policy made its debut about a year ago following Trump doing 25% tariffs against India. And it wasn't just that it was 25% tariffs Donald Trump treated the students of India in the United States like absolute crap. And it became a major issue for the people in India that their family members and loved ones were being targeted here by Donald Trump. And also Trump made it very clear that he was choosing sides and he picked Pakistan because Pakistan said that he should get a Nobel Peace Prize and credited him for ending the war that was taking place between India and Pakistan.

India said you didn't end the war and you had nothing to do with it. And Trump said well, Pakistan is investing in world liberty financial crypto. They're saying Trump should get a Nobel Peace Prize. And so that opened the door which Trump met with Field Marshal, you near a Pakistan and Trump got along with them and said see you later Modi and Trump kind of immediately kind of changed the balance of you know where the US had previously been. So what did Modi do since December Modi visited 18 countries and 13 countries visited India many meetings produced actual agreements get this real deals Indian France developed an especially close partnership centered on artificial intelligence and governance doubling bilateral trade in the next five years. Modi and Norway's Prime Minister Yonas Gar store reaffirmed Norway's commitment to creating one million jobs in India under an agreement India signed October with the European Free Trade Association.

President Lee of South Korea promised investment in India and shipbuilding assistance India aims to become one of the world's top five shipbuilders by 2047. Modi became the first Indian Prime Minister to visit New Zealand in four decades focusing on maritime security building defense cooperation agreements and doubling bilateral trade. He signed a major free trade agreement with the European Union the world's largest economic block in January roughly two decades of trade negotiations had been sped up by the newly upended world order and you'll recall that Ursula Von July and the EU leader said that this was the mother of all trade deals between the EU and India. Meanwhile you have Iran's top civilian leader the head of their parliament and someone who was their lead negotiator and be Galibov is also applauding the new security arrangements in the Middle East as the US military bases were destroyed by Iran as the US is retreating with the Abraham Lincoln which didn't have the basic necessities for our service members and Marines to even be able to live aboard these ships.

Galibov says security based on extra regional powers is fragile and dependent while security built on the will and cooperation of Muslim nations can be sustainable dignified and lasting. New regional agreements signal a new era in which neighboring Muslim countries rely on their own capabilities and choose cooperation and brotherhood over destructive rivalries. We're referring to the mecha pact the new regional alliance with article five like NATO guarantees and theory between Pakistan Saudi Arabia and Turkey by the way that has the Netanyahu regime very worried that other nations are going to join Netanyahu particularly worried about the rise of Turkey in the region a growing Turkey alliance with Syria recall we saw the Netanyahu region. Netanyahu regime strike a airport in Syria that was allegedly being built in cooperation with Turkey because Netanyahu said we don't want to see Syria grow into a flourishing country with the help of Turkey at all and the way they describe it in the Netanyahu regime is we want to just make sure the status quo remains the same in Syria's new president.

We want to grow as a country like why are you blowing up our our air bases but I would not be shocked from what we hear if Egypt eventually joins the mecha pact if Syria joins the mecha pact and if other nations join the mecha pact as well. Gala Baf explains that these are the regional agreements that there was rumors by the way that Iran may join one of these regional alliances. Qatar's Prime Minister and Foreign Minister Al-Fani had a meeting in call with Foreign Minister Aragji or actually traveled to Tehran and met in person with Aragji to discuss the current status of I guess Donald Trump pretending that the United States controls the straight of Hormuz and other deranged behavior by the Trump regime and so you have again this rapidly changing world order and you see Iran's not going to be able to do that. Iran's not I mean Donald Trump's acting like Iran's completely isolated I mean they're not I mean yes you had CIA director John Ratcliffe take this trip to Russia what happened the next day Russia launched ballistic missile strikes against Ukraine at a significant level.

We also saw a strike near Romania of a boat by Romania tanker that we believe Russia hit that we think that Romania and NATO and others are kind of covering up because it should trigger at least Article 4 consultation of NATO but more like Article 5 and I think NATO realizes that Article 4 and Article 5 is dead under the Trump regime. So that if they invoke it Trump's not going to abide by it so even though it seems that Russia struck a tanker by Romania in Romanian waters which would be clearly Article 4 Article 5 territory no one's invoking it and what's why we talk about the here and Russia saying we're going to go put billions of dollars to build nuclear facilities with Iran and they said we're going to talk about that at the Shanghai cooperation organization we're going to talk about that at bricks China's not hiding that they're allied with the United States. With Iran it's all out there it's all out there so here is what the US ambassador to the United Nations will to have to say here play this clip.

But it did shine a light on Russia's relationship with Iran and the potential for a nuclear deal between the two. Do you think Vladimir Putin knows better than to try and undermine President Trump's strategy there in the Middle East? Well look I mean you know I just outlined what our what President Trump Scott Bessent Marco Rubio would all of our messages you need to stop supporting this genocidal regime and we know Iran has provided Russia drones that they're using to hit Ukraine. Russia has provided Iran with certain technology and economic support and it needs to stop so I don't want to speak for director Radcliffe I'm glad he went I'm glad he went over to deliver a very direct message from the president. But the other piece Laura as the president is repeatedly said this war has to stop in Ukraine. There are over a thousand people dying per day and there are constant constant threats of its spilling over into NATO countries or elsewhere.

That would drag in the United States and in a way that nobody wants. So look it has to stop Steve Whitkov Jared Kushner the president have put a plan on the table and we need everybody to get on board. More from him right here let's play this clip but the message that secretary Bessent will send and that I will send here at the UN is you're either against us you're with us and you don't want to be siding with Iran right now. And by the way that's not just a US message there have been dozens of UN Security Council resolutions saying Iran cannot have a nuke cannot have ballistic missiles to terrorize the world and that we actually had last year snap back sanctions for where the rest of the world got back on board with our sanction regime. So at the moment you can put sanctions in place but you have to actually enforce them and that's the next part of the message you have all of these institutions and banks and shell companies that frankly even some of our friends have turned a blind eye on no more let's crack down let's cut these economic life lines let's create as president Trump envisions a world where our children aren't terrorized by a genocidal Islamic regime with nuclear weapons.

You know and then I had the opportunity to interview the former United States ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice and ambassador I spoke to me I just want to contrast those two clips I just shared with you there of walls with ambassador rice so I showed you walls this is ambassador rice let's play this clip. Well rhetoric aside and memes aside and I don't dispute that they're childish and and grotesque often laughable and make him look like a laughing stock sadly which is very detrimental because as you mentioned he is our commander in chief. But I also think you have to add to that the repeated extraordinary threats of you know inflicting world war two style catastrophic damage on Iran only to walk them back and rinse and repeat I mean the bluster the threats the lies of course they're all horrible and they all serve to undermine the perception and the reality of American power globally.

So when you take the failures that I described in terms of the execution of this conflict this war and our inability to achieve any of the varying objectives that have been stated. The world is looking at this and seeing the United States and Israel throwing the military kitchen sink at Iran and failing and if you're in China or Russia sadly they may look at that and see themselves as strengthened and emboldened and questioned. Our willingness and ability to use force when necessary when it directly serves our national interests or the national defense in the Asia theater or the European theater so it's it's more than the lives and the bluster and the memes and the threats it's the real perception of a weakened American deterrents and and calling into to question. The credibility of our military power this is a case sadly when the threat of the use of force has had proven more effective than the actual use of force and the ramifications of that I think we will be living with for quite a while.

The ambassador rice was the ambassador under former president Obama. All right we'll keep you posted every step of the way I hope that gives you broader context of what's happening in the world. We need this international perspective it's vital. Go and subscribe to this YouTube channel if you can I hope you'll subscribe to this channel let's keep it growing and get your copy of WTF America also that's the book that comes out October 20th that I wrote with my brothers. Thanks everybody for watching we appreciate you breaking news right now my brothers and I wrote a book it's called WTF America and well doesn't that just say it all it comes out officially this October but you can pre-order your copy today just scan the QR code or click the link in the description below. Bandoo is now available everywhere in the US.

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