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You can see over here what it looked like in Beirut. Massive Israeli strikes right there. Beirut within Lebanon because Hezbollah is now joining Iran in the war. Also the Houthis in Yemen are joining the war and with Iran and with Hezbollah and with the Houthis, they are working to try to shut down the Strait of Hermuz in order to squeeze the oil supply, liquefy n gas and crude. 20 to 25% of the liquefied natural gas and crude coming from has to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. They're trying to stop that. Most shipping companies are not engaging in the risk of trying to pass through the Strait of Hormuz. You can see over here as OSINT defenders says panic is spreading across southern Lebanon as residents, many who have only returned to their towns and villages within the last year once again are fleeing from their homes due to evacuation orders issued by Israel due to the potential of a looming full scale renewed conflict with Hezbollah, which we've seen and you can see in this next video, Israel launching strikes on multiple Hezbollah targets across Lebanon, including in the capital of Beirut, hitting some of the high rise buildings there. And those buildings came CR last night as well. We'll take you to Athens, Greece where there were thousands who joined an anti war protest outside of the US Embassy in Athens. These protests were peaceful, but let me show you what went down. Play this clip. Pull up the video of the Chinese army, of the CCP army right here. Xi Jinping outmaneuvering Donald Trump quite easily. Donald Trump is so thirsty, so desperate for a meeting with Xi Jinping in China, which Xi Jinping's already given to a lot of other foreign leaders, that Xi Jinping said as a precondition to Donald Trump, quote, the U.S. must handle arms sales to Taiwan with extreme caution, that this is the most important issue in China. US Relations and China will never allow Taiwan to be separated. Will never allow Taiwan to be separated from China. And Xi Jinping told Donald Trump, if you want to meet me in April and you want to have a state visit here, you're going to have to not give Taiwan the $13 billion you promised them. And on the Midas Touch Network, we previously predicted there was zero chance that Donald Trump was going to give Taiwan the $13 billion. By the way, it was an easy prediction because last year when Xi Jinping called Donald Trump and said, hey, do not let the president of Taiwan fly over US Airspace en route to South America or Central America, Donald Trump refused to even let the president of Taiwan fly over the United States. So I'm like, that was a test by Xi Jinping to Donald Trump of, can I boss you around? And if Donald Trump was not gonna let the president of Taiwan fly over U.S. airspace, is not gonna give him $13 billion in aid. So for all of the Republicans were like, yeah, but Donald Trump, strong on China, he's giving Taiwan billions of dollars in aid. No, he's not. Donald Trump, and I've said this before and has agreed with Putin and with Xi that they are going to split the world up into three. That was the plan. US Western Hemisphere, Russia gets Europe, China gets Asia, and then the Middle east and Africa just get carved up, and then imperialist wars happen over there, and then it's a free for all. That was basically the agreement that was made. Rubio's referred to this as the new world order, a multipolar world order where the United States is not the leader of the free world. That's what we're seeing. New York Times reported yesterday that the Trump administration, they've confirmed what we predicted. The Trump administration has delayed arms sales to Taiwan, valued at $13 billion that had been approved by lawmakers. U.S. officials say Trump wants to ensure a smooth summit in April with g. The US War in Iran will also cut into military resources for Asia. So in addition to the fact that Donald Trump is going to listen to Xi Jinping, the United States is running out of munitions right now, which also poses grave risk for our ability to even protect Taiwan or to do anything in Asia at all should China pursue its ambitions in that region. We are running out of our stockpile of munitions right now. One of the things that that Donald Trump's top generals and admirals warned is that if we went to war with Iran the way Donald Trump wanted, we can which he did. We can expend all of our resources very quickly, whether it's using our air defense systems, whether it's using our ballistic missiles. The Gerald Ford has been on a mission now for a very long period of time. It's going to be probably when all said and done, approaching 300 days, maybe even as long as a year. Morale is low there Are you looking

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you know, one telling sign as well of America's fractured relationship with allies, too. There was this whole report, I'm not sure if you caught it, where people were like, the French aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, it's going to come to the Middle east to help the United States. And that was being spread. And then France had to come out with a statement saying, uh, Charles de Gaulle Income in to help the United States and France and other European countries, they use language that was very weak in terms of saying their support. They're like, we'll help the United States defensively. And obviously, if Iran goes after our bases, we're going to have to respond in turn. It was really a message that they wanted to send Iran. And I think what happened behind the scenes was that the French diplomats spoke with the Iranian diplomats. They got a deal that no more attacks on France. And then once they got that confirmation, because the Abu Dhabi base was struck by Iran, once they got that confirmation, France agreed. I think behind the scenes with Iran, we're not going to send our aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle to help the United States because it was a very interesting sequence of events. And I'm fairly confident that's what is happening. Like it should be noted as well that while Donald Trump is cozying up to Xi Jinping, Xi Jinping and his foreign ministers have been the biggest critics of Donald Trump's invasion of Iran. Xi Jinping and Russia obviously now moving closer together as well. And they are allied with Iran. And so you had China's top foreign ministers strongly condemning the United States, calling for a halt in the military actions. Beijing's Foreign Ministry said this is a serious violation of Iran's sovereignty, trampling on the aims and principles of the United Nations Charter. China firmly opposes and strongly condemns the United States. We demand they immediately halt military operations. And that was done as well after a phone call between Beijing's top diplomat Wang Yi and Russia's counterpart Sergei Lavrov. And they're like mocking the United States. And Donald Trump's response after being mocked by China and Russia who are supporting Iran and Iran is giving it shot drones over to Russia to kill Ukrainians. Donald Trump cozies up to Putin and he doesn't help Taiwan. And of course, remember what went down last week where there was a unit vote on lasting peace in Ukraine and the United States abstained. Even Donald Trump's former top general, Ambassador Keith Kellogg, who was out there, diplomat, who was out there to be the envoy to Ukraine. He was first supposed to be the envoy to Russia and Ukraine. Keith Kellogg makes a social media post attacking the Trump regime's foreign policy. Here's what Keith Kellogg writes. A UN Vote on lasting peace in Ukraine and we abstain. The Russian Federation was against the proclamation. Is not four years of war enough? Is not missing children, shelling of cities and the killing of innocents enough? It is not a business deal. It is a war. That's Donald Trump's own envoy to Ukraine saying that it criticized former envoy to Ukraine. All of this is taking place. Kim Jong Un Putin declared North Korea's nuclear status permanent and irreversible during a major party Congress parade and vowed to continue upgrading the country's nuclear force and prepare for confrontation with the United States, CBS reports. At the same time, he signaled conditional openness to dialogue, saying there would be no reason not to maintain good relations as long as the U.S. recognizes that North Korea is a nuclear power and withdraws what he called its hostile policy. He's taunting Donald Trump to his face. And frankly, there's nothing that Donald Trump can do about it at this point. Then you have Lindsey Graham calling for war in Cuba. And by all accounts, this is what Donald Trump wants to do. One administration official told the Atlantic. The president feels like I'm on a roll. Look at what we did in Venezuela. Look at what we've done in Iran. I want Cuba next. And Lindsey Graham was on TV saying that as well. Here, play this clip.

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Is President Trump finished the job that President Reagan failed to do. I am a big admirer of Ronald Reagan, but I'm here to tell you that Donald Trump, in my opinion, is the gold standard for Republicans, maybe any president. And when it comes to Foreign policy. Maduro, everybody talked about him. Well, Donald Trump's got him in jail. Cuba's next. They're going to fall this communist dictatorship in Cuba. Their days are numbered. The Iranian regime, the mothership of international terrorism is about to collapse. The captain of the ship, the ayatollah, is stone cold dead.

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And then finally, I'll show you this video right here as clashes erupted between Shiite protesters and Bahraini security forces after pro Iranian protests surfaced there. Let's play this clip as well. Now, with all of this taking place, Donald Trump is saying that he expects that there will be a lot more deaths of American soldiers. But it is what it is, Donald Trump says. That is what it is. Donald Trump says when it comes to, you know, American soldiers dying, that's what happens in wars, that people die, Donald Trump says expect a lot more deaths. Donald Trump said that one of the reasons he went after the ayatollah is he said the ayatollah tried to kill me. So I got him first, Donald Trump says. And then he also said that, you know, he thinks that it'll just be just like Venezuela. He's just trying to use the Venezuela template on Iran and that he's going to just try to put somebody in place in Iran who still part of the Islamic Republic, but is a little bit nicer to Donald. That's what Trump's hoping to achieve after all of this is to after lives in treasury laws to prop up somebody else from the Islamic Republic, is what Trump said. So someone still from the regime, another ayatollah is what he's telling the media as well. So we covered a lot there. Giving you the geopolitical. I'll give you the quick update on Ukraine. I should always talk about Ukraine on these videos. You know, I dedicate full videos to Ukraine, though, to Ukraine as well. So Zelensky has been making some incredible moves, I think, as he sees that Donald Trump is, you know, now focused on Iran and Donald Trump's doing with his, you know, dealing with his stuff. Zelensky struck with inside Russia, and it was a very powerful strike over at the Novorossi port and oil terminal in Russia. And that was a big move, you know, that was kind of unprecedented in the war so far. And so I think Zelensky is just showing strength. He's going to go after Russia to protect Ukraine while Donald Trump is distracted on this. And of course, Donald Trump showing his colors anyway, which is look what he's doing with Taiwan. And of course, Donald Trump's already shut down weapons to Ukraine. So Ukraine's like, all right, it's on. We're going to defend ourselves. But I don't know how we look at this and not reflect that. Like the war. We don't have to call this World War three. We don't have to say that. But the world, everywhere is at a war is in a war right now. Like, we all agree that almost everywhere in the world there is war. Now, whether you call that a world war or not, I'm just letting you know I gave you all these data points, like a lot of the world is in a war right now. One way or another. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe let's get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks so much for watching. Want to stay plugged in?

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