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They feel utterly betrayed right now and they're thinking about should they be engaging in a regional security arrangement with Iran at this point because the US for all of its bravado and promises and Donald Trump demanding quid pro quo tributes to Trump companies, which these Middle east nations thought they were buying security for themselves. That air of security has been completely shattered even with the most powerful military force in the world. And nobody disputes the United States had that. And again, I think I'm speaking in past tense because I'm not sure we have that right now. But even if we had that not being prepared and rushing into a war because Donald Trump was told that Netanyahu was going to invade first. So the US Rushes into war and doesn't heed the warnings of the Arab nations that clearly stated what will unfold if you do that is Iran will attack all of the neighboring Arab nations. They will shut down the Strait of Hermos. Iran has developed these very advanced drones that they are giving to the Russians in Ukraine. The shahed drones that are very difficult to shoot down now based on some of the advancements, ballistic missile developments by Iran, cluster munitions by Iran that have been developed that makes it harder for the billion dollar US Systems to work. The Thaad and the Patriot systems which are billion dollar systems with million dollar missiles trying to shoot at $20,000 drones. You can see how very quickly that is a recipe that is unworkable. The markets right now in the US Are crashing. The oil market right now continues to surge. Iran has made it clear that their goal is $200 per barrel oil, which would mean at a minimum people paying five to $6 a gallon here in the United States. The Iranian foreign minister and National Security Council leader are out there saying things like, yeah, it's very easy to start a war, but if you think we're going to end this anytime soon, you are mistaken. And they understand that this is now a war of attrition. They have made good on their threats regarding the Strait of Hormos. They've shot down or They've shot at five major tankers just over the past 48 hours, 14 tankers since the war had begun and Donald Trump invaded Iran off of the coast of Iraq. We saw during a ship to ship transfer of these major massive fuel ships. There was a Marshall island flagship, which is actually owned by the United States, and a Malta flagship that belonged to Greece, doing a ship to strip ship to ship fuel transfer that was hit by Iran, that American ship burning. You had the three ships in the Strait of Hermos kind of in the Anchorage area shot at by Iran. And the Strait of Hermos is essentially closed. Our navy is unable to help or assist any of these ships getting through, despite Donald Trump saying, these Strait of Hermuza, safe, everybody passed through, everything is going great here. That's actually not what's going on in the ground. Iran is using its unmanned vessels that are being used. They have these drones, these shahids in the air, but then they have the unmanned vessels in the sea that they've been developing, that they are deploying, making it too dangerous to get out of the Strait of Hormoz. So then you look to the Red Sea, which is closer to Yemen, and the Houthis now are thinking about working with Iran, Other kind of Iranian proxies to potentially that's going to be the next big story. What's happening in the Red Sea as well, because ships are now trying to get to the Red Sea because the Strait of Hermos is shut down. So they go to the Red Sea, watch what's going to happen there. Meanwhile, while we know that Russia is out there clearly helping Iran and China is helping Iran, the Russians, their main leadership was in Miami. They were in Miami 24 hours ago. You had Kirill Dmitriev, you had Ushakov meeting with Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, and they're out there bragging about it. Kirill Dmitriev, the main Russian guy, is out there, their main envoy. Thank you, Steve, Jared and Josh for a productive meeting. And Steve Witkoff, who butchered the negotiations with Iran, didn't even understand the technical details of what Iran was saying or what the mediator from Oman that the United States had selected was even saying, because there was actually a deal that was offered as the foreign Minister of Oman Made clear when he went on TV back on February 27 to tell the world we've got a deal. And the deal is just need some technical fixes on Monday, but we basically got a deal. So you had Witkoff and Kushner. And why is Kushner there? Who, who appointed this guy Kushner? And who are these people for real? I mean, like, who the hell are they? Trump's real estate and son in law are out there doing these negotiations. And, and that's one of the contributing factors to us being in this unlawful war against Iran. I mean, how utterly despicable is that? But the Russians are there and the Russians are in Miami and they're talking about economic cooperation deals with Trump. At the same time, they're helping Iran kill Americans, hit American interests. They're loading Iran with coordinates and supplies, right? America's removing sanctions from Russia, moving sanctions from Russia right now. And America's talking about economic cooperation with Russia and helping them. And Russia's been benefiting immensely from all of this. America's bailed out Russia, which had its economy failing as a result of this. And you know who's also moving water through the Strait of Hormuz. You know who's doing it? Iran. Never have they got more water. Never have they gotten more oil through the Strait of Hormuz. They're exporting about 13.7 million barrels of crude oil since the war began. You know who else is getting it through? China. So Iran is allowing its allies to utilize its oil. It's enriching itself, which in turn allows it to build more drones and strike the U.S. and now we have this war of attrition that Donald Trump never planned for. If you just look around in the region, Kuwait residential buildings are being shot, more Bahrainian oil facilities being shot, more Kuwaiti oil depots and residential areas being shot, more ships in the Strait of Hormuz being attacked. And yes, the United States and Israel are attacking Tehran. Yes, they're attacking Iran. We know that. Also there have been these devastating strikes on elementary schools, which our military has now confirmed. 150 little girls have been killed as a result of, of this, which the Trump regime tried to cover up. I mean, how despicable is that? And Donald Trump's like, I don't know. I don't know. I want to show this clip, though, here, very quickly. This is Donald Trump speaking to Local 12 in Cincinnati right here, where Donald Trump's bragging about how good things are. Let's play this clip of Trump on Local 12. Cincinnati, yesterday, bragging about everything's amazing. He says, let's play it that around.
