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Furious world leaders are abandoning Donald Trump in the United States. They don't just smell weakness, they smell putrid, rancid failure. And these world leaders are forging their own alliances which they're even saying these are alliances that need to do what NATO can no longer do. I'll talk to you about what's going on. All right, you've got Saudi Arabia, you got Pakistan and you've got Turkey forging what they're referring to as the Mecca Pact or the Mecca Alliance. You already had Saudi Arabia and Pakistan in a defense agreement. Well, now they are bringing in Turkey in order to forge this broader alliance. And you even have the Turkey foreign minister. And I'll show you what the Turkey foreign minister has been saying. We should bring in Egypt, we should bring in other like minded countries to basically form our own NATO in the Middle East. This as the United States security umbrella no longer exists in the region. At the same time, you have countries like the United Arab Emirates feeling kind of utterly abandoned. You've got Adnoch, the Abu Dhabi Oil Company and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. They keep having their tanker struck by Iran. So they're trying to figure out what to do. Obviously there's a rivalry between the UAE and Saudi Arabia. And now Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey entered into that alliance. So the UAE is like we did the Abraham Accords with Israel, but now the United States and Israel look increasingly isolated in the region. Seems like joining the Abraham Accords was the wrong move right there. And so the UAE and the kind of various emirates within there are thinking, should we be doing one off deals with Iran? And of course you're seeing so many countries right now reaching out to Iran directly trying to do bilateral deals. We're talking about European countries, we're talking about Asian countries, of course, reaching out to Iran to figure out how they can use these Strait of Hormuz. I mean, this says you have Treasury Secretary Besant and you, you have Vice President Vance saying ridiculous things like we don't need the Hormuz Strait anymore. We'll just build pipelines and that'll do it. Really. You know, that's going to cost billions of dollars to the United States. Going to pay billions of dollars to build oil pipelines across the Middle east, which Iran can easily strike. Or as part of the so called US Security umbrella, are you going to make the Arab nations now build these pipelines that can be easily struck by Iran? And also there's a lot more that comes out of these Strait of Hormuz than just crude. Right. There's a lot of produce, there's a lot of other material that goes on those tankers and those VLCCs and just I think all these countries are seeing the fake negotiations that Donald Trump is having with himself. They're seeing Donald Trump post weird AI images of himself and drone ports and just weird images of himself and former generals Patton and MacArthur. And Trump's like doing the stolen valor thing with the four star, pretending he's a four star general. And he and Hegseth are now posting we won the war. We won the war. We won the war. As Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz and these countries are like, dude, what the hell is happening? You know, also there's just a lot of developments that we should be very focused on. We really need to be focused on international affairs. Like Greenland issued a major warning against the Trump regime. The Trump regime has basically tried to do like a secret invasion of Greenland in the past few days. Did you know that? I know it's not a top headline, but the United States is trying to push in a mining company and a drilling company to basically start exploiting the resources and in Greenland without Greenland's permission. And they just showed up with their equipment and Greenland's like, dude, what the hell are you doing? We'll talk about that a little more. Israel on Channel 13 at the highest level of the Netanyahu regime, they're out there saying and putting out messages right now that they view the Trump regime as utterly weak and that Israel's now saying they plan to do offensive strikes against Iran imminently. They're at least putting that whether they do that or they don't do that, they, they are putting that out on their state media in Israel. Channel 13 saying, we really don't care what the US does anymore. The US has demonstrated that it's very weak and that Netanyahu plans to once again invade Iran. This is part of Netanyahu's play. He thinks if he can kind of bully again, Donald Trump into saying, look, we're going to. Whether you like it or not, we're striking that. That'll then make Donald Trump go, okay, I guess I got to join you. I guess I got to join you. But I'm not letting Trump off the hook and just like, oh, you're just following Netanyahu. I mean, Trump is complicit in genocide. Trump is complicit in the war crimes and this disastrous and catastrophic war, but that's what Israel is putting out. It should be noted that Brad Cooper, who's the head of centcom, and he's really a buffoon, this guy, and it pains me to say the head of CENTCOM is an absolute buffoon, but top military generals, top military admirals, people who I'm speaking to, they're like, what happened to this guy Cooper? He had a promising career, and now he's turned CENTCOM into, like, a Trump troll account. Any event, Cooper went to Israel, and as soon as he was there, Israel started bullying him and basically putting out statements that they're going to invade Iran imminently is what they're putting out over Israeli media. And then you've got North Korea making billions of dollars in selling its weapons to Russia. You've got Russia billions of dollars because the price of oil went up, and that was a kind of windfall to Russia. And the assessment from NATO is that Putin, in the next year, two years, three years max, is likely going to start to try to increasingly strike and test the resolve of NATO and strike within NATO. You got Putin feeling very emboldened right now that the NATO alliance is essentially dead because of Donald Trump destroying NATO. It's exactly what Putin wanted. And then you have Xi Jinping. So Xi Jinping is essentially moving China to now take over the US security umbrella in the Middle East. And those VLCCs, those very large ships, those big tankers, the Chinese ones, they go, IRGC gives them preferential treatment. The Houthis in the Red Sea give them preferential treatment because China looked after them, China helped them. China has always been helpful to Iran. And frankly, China sees this as an incredible opportunity. Not just in the Middle east, but they're aware that the United States has run out of its weapons. Go think about it like this. It's wild, right? Just as Donald Trump has bankrupted all of his casinos and bankrupted all of these businesses, he bankrupted our military man, right? He had a $1 trillion budget last year, and he ran through all of the interceptors, the PAC 3 interceptors, the THAAD interceptors, the SM 2 threes and 6 on the Navy destroyers, those anti ballistics are gone. The atacms, we've run out of those. The US has had to abandon its military bases in the Middle eas. So of course Saudi Arabia is looking at this and they're seeing the Houthis advance in Yemen into northern Yemen and against the Saudi backed government there. They're seeing the Houthis successfully strike in Saudi Arabia. Remember a few weeks back you had the Houthis strike with their missiles and their drones. Three of the main refineries in Saudi Arabia. Yeah, that dealt a massive blow. You've got the UAE having its ADNOC ships, the Abu Dhabi ships, those tankers have been hit by Iran. So they're like, could we do a deal? Like we, we, we need to get our tankers out.
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and then you've got Donald Trump, this buffoon and Treasury Secretary Bess. We don't need Hormuz we don't need Hormuz. Iran really wants to make a deal. And we discussed yesterday, Iran's been ruthlessly consistent in what its demands are. I see lots of people saying Iran has made these maximalist demands now that Trump's never going to agree to, that they want control of the Strait of Hormuz, that they want sanctions relief, that they want to keep all of their weapons, that they want the US And Israel out of Lebanon, that they want Gaza to be free of Israel, that they want a Palestinian state, that they want reparations for the war. These are maximalist demands. And they're making this now just as Donald Trump says, they're going to be a deal. Donald Trump's lying. Donald Trump's not even involved in the discussions between Iran and Oman. Donald Trump entered into an MoU with those very provisions. They were in the MoU. They were in the memorandum of understanding before the MoU, Foreign Minister Aragchi made very clear what the points were that Iran was going to want in order for there to be an end to the war that Trump and Netanyahu started. There aren't maximalist demands. It is the very Trump and Netanyahu invaded. And Iran has consistently kept these same demands that they just restated. And Iran has said, we and Oman will do this deal. We'll create a lane in the Strait of Hormuz, but you've got to end the blockade. We want reparations. You've got to leave Lebanon. Here are all the things that we want, which is why Israel is now saying, all right, Donald wants to give up. We're going to invade. Donald, we're going to strike again. So what are you going to do? Trying to call Donald Trump's bluff. There's. It's a pretty sad state to see the United States so damn weak right there. I covered a lot there. I want to just share with you some of the kind of underlying source documents, just so you can see it for yourself. I know you believe we methodically just went through that, but here's the Mecca agreement, so you can see for yourself. Any armed attack against any of the three states shall be regarded as an attack against them all. Just to get specific and granular on the numbers, Saudi Arabia used 86% of its PAC3 interceptors in the first 38 days of combat alone. They had 400 left as of April. So as of now, they probably have significantly less than that. You know that General Kane, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, he's been desperately trying to find some exit route because the US Is out of its weapons. As it relates to the Mecca defense Pact. Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, Turkey. Pakistan's defense minister says the doors really cannot be closed to other countries. This should not be an exclusive club. This is my personal opinion. It should expand. I think that along the lines of NATO, Muslim countries should put their own differences aside. The transactional issues are bilateral disputes they have with one another and stand together on this platform. In other words, an Arab Muslim security umbrella by Arabs for Arabs in the region. Interesting, right? Pakistan's defense minister then said the following about Israel. So I know Donald Trump is delusional. And it's like, well, Pakistan's going to join the Abraham Accords and Saudi Arabia is going to join the Abraham Accords. No, Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey forging this alliance is like the opposite of the Abraham Accords, and the UAE and Bahrain, which joined the Abraham Accords, they really don't want to be a part of it anymore. And Israel sees that they're increasingly becoming isolated in the region because of Netanyahu and Trump and the genocide and their horrific behavior by the Netanyahu regime. So they're like, we desperately need to strike Iran. We need the war. Iran strategically did not strike Israel. In order to create this dynamic, I just want to lay out the strategy here because it's very rarely laid out like this. By the way, it's why you should get a copy of WTF America? That I wrote with my brothers, and it'll be out in October. This is the type of stuff we discuss. It's not a political book for an election cycle. It's this deep layer of analysis which I think is important. So here's what Pakistan's defense minister says. It says, given Israel's conduct, as well as the historical evidence of what it has been doing. At one stage in 1948, what I consider an illegitimate state came into being. It was, I believe, a product of the Belfor Declaration. During that period as well, fighting continued and the Palestinians continued to resist. So in my view, this is at the very least a situation that the entire Islamic world will have to come together and confront. In my view, there is no room for disagreement on this. And until the issue of the Palestinian people is resolved according to their aspirations, until there is a permanent solution, the issue will remain, again, very important. I want to read that to you, because Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia are saying that when Trump goes, ah, Saudi Arabia joined the Abraham Accords. They're saying the opposite. Turkey's foreign minister says, egypt is our natural partner in all issues. I believe that in the next phase, Egypt will join us as part of the alliance, the Mecca alliance. And then Turkey's foreign minister says what Israel fears most is international isolation. Up to now, it has used the extensive resources at its disposal, including resources located in other countries, to create an illusion. They're referring to the United States, that's Turkey referring to the US As Turkey enters this pact with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan, there is a political practice that has been built upon this illusion, one that consistently works in Israel's favor. They commit genocide, and even then, nothing may happen. The whole world can now see the sinister difference between its own conscience and the illusions that has been created now. Interestingly, Iran's Member of Parliament, a senior Iranian Member of Parliament, Abraham Azizi, says the following. The Mecca Pact shows that Arab countries have finally realized that security depends on the cooperation of regional countries. But they still haven't found the right path. We warn about the potential miscalculation. Powerful Iran has proven that no mistake will go unanswered. It's an interesting response saying, okay, we're getting closer, we're doing an Arab nation alliance, but still you're doing an alliance against us. Wouldn't it be better if we've all our allies together against Israel and the US that's what's being said there now. I'm just providing for you the analytical framework of what's taking place. Do with it what you want, but we need to live in an objective world where that's what they're saying, that's what's happening, that's what's going on behind the scenes. So I talked about Israel already and how the Israel military has informed CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper Israel does not need approval for Trump to wage war against Iran. And they're preparing unilateral strikes against Iran in the coming days. And again, a lot of that's coming from feeling very isolated right now as well, and needing to try to get Trump and the US Back into this thing in order to have this never ending war which Netanyahu feels is critical for him. It's precisely why Iran has not taken the bait or Iran has not gone on the offense against Israel. In this latest salvo, talked already about North Korea, we talked about Putin, how US intelligence finds Putin. Putin will test NATO's resolve because he sees weakness. Zelensky has been saying, look, we need anti ballistics. The US has it, you're not giving it to us. And this is a big deal. Russia keeps striking our logistic facilities, we're striking their logistic facilities. This is disastrous. And Zelenskyy says, look, Russia and North Korea have an alliance with each other and about 50,000 North Koreans are in Russian territory getting ready to join the front to fight in Ukraine. And we've already seen huge amounts of North Koreans fighting Then that brings me as well to some of the other issues that we've been discussing thus far in this video, which I want to chat about briefly. Let's talk about Greenland. Greenland's warning to PEGSITH to everybody. And Greenland's basically said, you know, you need to immediately stop these having your companies here trying to drill and mine and engage in all this stuff. You know, this is a violation of our sovereignty. It needs our permission always. And we're not okay with it. You've got Donald Trump and Hegset saying all their deranged stuff as well. And then you've got at the end of the day, what's the US Doing? US threatening Cuba now that's, you know, they have been for a while. This was from the New York Times. Trump regime increasing pressure on Cuba, trying to find other leadership in Cuba, but then realizing that there isn't other leadership in Cuba, despite how much they want to claim that there's all this leadership ready to go, you know, to replace the current leadership in Cuba. There really isn't. And so there is a situation where they're basically stuck. So that's what we've got going right now. We'll keep you posted, of course, every step of the way here. And we're grateful for you watching this. You know, I know these videos can be dense and long sometimes, but it's important that we hit all these topics right. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks for watching. We appreciate you. Before you go, our book, WTF America is available for pre order now. 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In this episode, the Meiselas brothers dive into the consequences of Donald Trump's foreign policy, focusing on how the U.S. is facing significant diplomatic isolation on the global stage. The discussion centers on the emergence of new international alliances—particularly in the Middle East—that are forming in direct response to the decline of U.S. influence and the collapse of traditional security arrangements like NATO. The episode unpacks recent geopolitical shifts, new defense agreements, fractured alliances, and consistent missteps by the Trump administration, peppered with candid, critical banter and sharp insight.
The episode maintains the brothers' signature blend of ardent pro-democracy advocacy, dry wit, and withering criticism of the Trump regime. Discussions are detailed, blunt, and analytical, inflected with exasperation—and humor—about current U.S. policy failures.
This episode offers a comprehensive, unflinching look at how Trump’s foreign policy is unraveling decades of U.S. influence, triggering seismic geopolitical shifts. The Meiselas brothers walk listeners through the collapse of alliances, the forming of new power blocs, America’s growing irrelevance in key regions, and the existential threats now facing both U.S. interests and global stability. Through sharp analysis and candid commentary, the brothers make a compelling case: America is at risk of losing its position as a global leader, with monumental consequences for democracy worldwide.