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Ben
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Shannon Maldonado
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Ben
Trump's strikes against Iran in the Strait of Hormuz are already backfiring in his face. Iran responded immediately, striking United States military assets in the region, which Trump and Centcom are covering up. In addition, we are now learning what we all believe took place. The Trump regime waited for the markets to close on Friday so that they could engage in market manipulation with these strikes against Iran. Iran realizes that this is one big market manipulation racket which just further exposes the Trump regime's weakness. By waiting until the stock market closed on Friday, the Trump regime put a gigantic bullseye right on the vulnerability which Trump already admitted to, that he is terrified of global economic depress depression. Allah Herbert Hoover. It's exactly what Donald Trump said he did not want to be. But Donald Trump certainly seems to be ushering that in. And I do want to say this as well. Most Americans right now, not Trump's rich oligarch friends, but most Americans feel we're living through a great depression right now because Americans can't afford anything. And you know the economists talk about the K shaped economy. Well, most Americans live when you do vertical line of the K below the, rather the horizontal line. And so most Americans are feeling a great deal of pain below that horizontal line right now. I want to go over just how this has backfired in Donald Trump's face. I also want to talk about how Marco Rubio's trip to the Middle east, as I was saying early in this week, remember what I said, I said watch out. He, he is an agent of the neocons, he is an agent of Netanyahu and Rubio is there to undermine J.D. vance. Rubio didn't show up at Switzerland. Rubio's goal was to undermine the Memorandum of Understanding. And so one of the things that Rubio did, in addition to meeting with the Gulf states to try to get them to say things to escalate back into a war posture in the Middle East. Rubio worked with Lebanon and Israel to enter into a framework for a potential ceasefire which didn't they claim they've done that seven to eight times ago though. But that recognized and cemented that Israel not only stays within a security zone in southern Lebanon, but that there's future negotiations over pilot zones, additional areas in Lebanon that Israel moves into and that the Lebanese army would take over these pilot zones, not the security zone if certain circumstances are met. In other words, Israel keeps southern Lebanon for the distant future, which of course was a glaring red line and non starter to Iran. And it's codified in paragraph 1 of the memorandum of Understanding that the ceasefire includes Lebanon. And Iran's made it crystal clear for months now they've been consistent as Donald Trump goes this way, that way, this way, the chaos, all of the lies. Iran has said that it is working with its resistance group, the Hezbollah in Lebanon. And it's been clear what its non negotiables have been. And it has said it wants Israel out of Lebanon. That's what it says. Well, whether you like that or don't like that, I just want to give you what Iran has said was their bright lines that they've said very, very publicly and that if you read Article 1 of the memorandum of Understanding, it's hard to read that without saying that Israel needs to get out of southern Lebanon. Let's just go through again the facts of what's happening. And again, you're not going to be hearing or seeing this certainly on any US Corporate news network. So first and foremost, you know, right after the market closes, we learn that Donald Trump strikes, has CENTCOM strike in Kesham and Syric in the Strait of Hormuz attacks Iran. Now, Iran the previous day hit a Singaporean flag tanker that was utilizing a route in the Strait of Hormuz that was not authorized by the irgc. But one of the things that the United States was doing, and this was one of the aspects of Rubio's trip, is to manipulate this MoU, which clearly says that the IRGC, Iran has the authority and control over the Strait of what it says. I mean, go ahead and read Article 5 of it. But to basically open up this other route near Oman. And then Rubio in the US Were going to put pressure on Oman, which then Foreign Minister Ragchi called the foreign minister of Oman and said, what the hell are you doing? We created our joint authority where we're going to do tolls, so don't join with them. And then Oman backed off after like Oman's kind of been caught in the middle, if you will, because it sustained lots of threats from Rubio. And Rubio wanted to rally the countries against Oman. But also the US Wanted to tell the ship, don't listen to the irgc, we control the Strait of Removes. And Iran's like Article 5 of the MoU, we control the straight of it. But that's one of the things that Rubio did. So Iran said, look, if you go with Rubio's route and the US Route, we're going to shoot your ships. So don't do it. We're warning you, ask permission from us or we will disable your ships. We will shoot drones or missiles at your ships. The Singaporean ship went with The Rubio path and went around irgc. IRGC disables it. And IRGC said, we didn't want to do it. You just did. Didn't go through our path. And the agreement that Trump signed in Versailles, as we control it once again, you may be saying, but, Ben, are you rooting for Iran to shoot this ship? Come on, Ben, what are you doing here? I'm not. It's not a rooting or not rooting. I'm just telling you what the MOU says. That's it. If we thought we were in a stronger negotiating power as the United States, if Trump said we destroyed their navy and we destroyed their army and they were begging for. They were begging for a deal, Begging. Okay, well, don't have a provision in the MOU that says Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz. Don't have Article 5. Put it in the. Put in the agreement. If you're such a strong and tough negotiator, Donald, say the United States controls the Strait of Hormuz. Say the United States charges tolls, says it's under the control. Why didn't you put that in the mou? Because you didn't have the negotiating power. You didn't have the cards. In any event, then the US Wanted to contrive reason now to attack Iran because Trump leading the US Now a bunch of predators. In my opinion, just liars and contract preachers. And it sucks for me to say that, but I don't know how else to report on it because we're breaching the mou. That's pretty obvious about what's happening. So the Trump regime now feigns, oh, my God, they shot the ship. And now we need to escalate against Iran and we need to retaliate. This is a retell. We need to hit them. So Trump waits for the markets to close. He hits Syric and Kesham, and then Iran says, well, we're not going to. You're not going to make us stop shooting the ships that don't go through the irgc. So Iran gives another warning to all those ships. Hey, by the way, this doesn't change a thing. Donald Trump claims we don't have a navy. Test us. Test us. You see those fast boats? That's safe by navy. We have a navy. And we will shoot your ships if you go through the Oman route. So if you look right now at an overhead view of the Strait of Hormuz, the traffic has been throttled. And by the way, after the United States continued to engage in breaches of the mou, including, as we saw Israel under Netanyahu continue to go deeper and deeper into Lebanon, past the Latani River. I mean, you saw them in Iran's throttling the Strait of. Yes, you had traffic going out, and Trump's like, more barrels have gotten out than ever before. I mean, more Iranian oil has gotten out, but not more oil than before the war. Just the lie. Iran's been throttling it, and now they've throttled it even more because they control the Strait of Hormuz. And now we're in a situation where the MOU is basically, it never was a real thing to be. I mean, it was signed by Trump, but Trump never was going to honor it. Trump doesn't honor any deal at all. His whole life has been about breaking deals. You know, the whole thing with Donald Trump being the art of the deal and the deal maker, it's part of the ultimate fraud. He's never been a deal maker. He's never done a deal. He does frameworks of oral understandings. Anything that creates a framework for him to commit a fraud. And if he actually signs something, go read what the art of the deal even says, which says that for him, a deal is never actually something that you follow in good faith. It's just something basically that you breach. That's his whole view always about everything. And Iran recognizes that. And so the irgc, they're targeting US Facilities in response. You know, you have the IRGC saying that we're going to escalate even more if you continue to violate the Memorandum of Understanding. Iran meanwhile, though, continuing to extract the benefits for itself, you know, and then when it comes to issues like, you know, what the usa, the iaea, is going to do, inspections of Isfahan and of the various other Iranian nuclear facilities, Iran's like, no, that's not going to happen at all until there's a final agreement, until Israel leaves Lebanon. And then maybe we'll have the IAEA under our own terms. Maybe, but that's way down the road. You need to accomplish what paragraph 13 says, which is you got to satisfy the other provisions of giving us money, unfreezing the sanctions, getting out of Lebanon. That's what you promised. That's what you promised to do. So I want you to focus on the efforts that are taking place behind the scenes. And again, this isn't being talked about, but I've been saying this now every morning, and I think I've been proven to be 100% right on all of this stuff. When everyone's like, oh, Ben, you don't know what you're talking about. You're being hyperbole. Remember all the videos I've been doing each morning about the fake ceasefire and all this stuff? So Rubio goes out there to undermine the MoU. Separately, we have Netanyahu violating this MoU. I mean, you've got the videos of what's going on in Lebanon right now. You have, I'll show you this. Israeli airstrikes in the Upper Nabat in southern Lebanon. You have Israel tanks advancing in Bayada in Tire, which is, sir, so expanding more into Lebanon. I mean, the tanks are moving in, not moving back, moving forward. Israeli drone strikes that killed two young, two young men and, and, and that were in, that are in the area killing two people. More strikes taking place inside Lebanon by Israel. And Israel will say, look, we're targeting Hezbollah, that's why we have to do it. And then in Lebanon, the people are saying, no, you're killing, you know, lot, I mean, killing lots of innocent people. And let me be very clear, 4000 people in Lebanon have died since the Israel began this mass slaughter inside Lebanon since Netanyahu led them to do that. And I would say most of those people are civilians who, mothers and children and medics and doctors. That's just the reality of what's happening under the auspices of, oh, we're going after Hezbollah. There are lots of innocent people who are being killed. And so yesterday, so this whole week was Rubio, let's destroy the agreement. That's what it was all about, the mou. And one of the ways to undermine it. Go to the Gulf Council cooperation countries, get them to try to undermine it. Try to put out a statement that undermines the MoU and attacks Iran. Threaten, coerce them. Step one, because Rubio is aware that these Gulf countries want to do a reconciliation meeting with Iran and improve their relations with Iran because there's a new security architecture in the region. The next step, if you want to destroy the MoU, is just try to gut Article 1 of the MoU, which is the ceasefire in Lebanon, but do it in a very nefarious way. Try to destroy the ceasefire provision by claiming you've entered into a ceasefire, but actually codify Israel's right to keep territory of southern Lebanon. But call that the ceasefire, which we all know is a non starter for Iran. And Iran's made that clear. So pretend you're doing the ceasefire by saying, look, don't invite Hezbollah to the ceasefire negotiations when you would think that they would be invited to the ceasefire negotiations. Don't invite the member of parliament from Lebanon who's associated with them to the ceasefire discussion. Have the Lebanese president Ioun there and then have Israel there play it out like it's this tough negotiation, which is bs. They were going to come to this conclusion, and then they come to the conclusion, okay, Israel, here's the deal. We'll give you the security zone, plus you can take a pilot zone and another pilot zone, and then the Lebanese army will go into the pilot zones. You keep the security zone, but if we can figure out how we could improve, we'll then let you get out of the pilot zones and we'll take over. So it creates a new zone, zones for Israel to get into, for Netanyahu to get into, so that then they can claim they're withdrawing from it by keeping the security zone and then calling this the ceasefire, so that then the United States can say, you see, we complied with Article 1 ceasefire. To which Iran's going to say, that's not the ceasefire. We're saying, Israel is not Lebanon. Lebanon is not Israel. Israel. Netanyahu, you need to stay in Israel, not in Lebanon. And, and Netanyahu says, no, we need to be in Lebanon because of Hezbollah and Arends. That's not your country. So that's, I mean, this is an issue that will also be an escalatory issue that's going to lead to more violations of the MoU and more attacks and ultimately this unpredictability, this instability, this lack of any agreement. They're never going to do an agreement in 60 days. As I've calculated before, there are 15 and a half more 60 day cycles until Trump's term is over. 60 days. 60 days, 60 days. There's going to be 15 of those cycles. Okay, I would say once every 10, 12 days, we're going to have a situation like this. There's going to be some worse than others, but ultimately what it means is global instability, global economic calamity, massive inflation, massive interest rate hikes in the United States, massive poverty here in the United States. And then it's going to things that get worse, worse, worse, worse, worse, worse, worse. And then someone's going to have to come in to fix it, and then that person's going to be blamed for it. But that's all being created by this escalatory trap. But when we talk about an escalatory trap, it's, you know, Trump's a psychopath also. Like, we're not dealing with a sane, rational, rational, sound mind person. The rational thing would be not to be involved in the catastrophic war in the first place. But the rational thing would be, when you lose is you take the L and you enter into this Memorandum of understanding. It's the only option, and you comply with the terms. And that's it. That's it. Perhaps a new security architecture in the Middle east that makes America weaker in the Middle east, maybe it makes us stronger at home. Maybe we could focus more on domestic issues and housing and. But guess what? When we go back home, guess what. Donald Trump didn't even sign the housing bill. Why? Because he says these housing bills are scams. Remember what he said yesterday at the various press conferences that he did? He attacked Mom, Donnie, and all this Communists. They want to do rent stabilization and they're going to turn all of these apartment buildings into squalor, and they're going to make it so horrible. We don't want rent stabilization and freezing the price of the rent for two years. We don't want them. That's what Trump's saying. There was a bipartisan affordability housing bill, and he's against it. So where we're heading is massive inflation, massive economic calamity, massive instability, and we're run by a psychopath. That's where we are. And him attacking in Chesham and Sirik after he violated the MOU shows there's zero restraint. And this will be the path that he will continue to go in over and over again. I'll show you this footage right here coming out of Lebanon so you can see for yourself. Protests erupting in Beirut as crowds blocked roads and burned tires over this agreement between Lebanon and Israel. And from Rubio and Netanyahu's perspective, they're like, great, we could incite perhaps a civil war in Lebanon between the Shias and Lebanese government, and maybe we can get that going and then we can kind of sit back. That's one of the. Do we see what's happening? Come on, let's report on what's happening. Like, this is what's going down here. Play this clip. Yeah, that's what's happening there. And then, as I noted before, you know, you look at the satellite footage of the Strait of Hormuz, you can see the throttle and you can see that ships really aren't leaving. So then when I go and I see, okay, the price of Brent crude is $72, $71, far cheaper than it was under former President Biden's term. I'm like, really, really? Like, don't you see that? The oil companies conspire and they Say, okay, what are we going to do? And the speculators, look, let's bring this down now for Donald. He'll get us the tax cuts, he'll make sure that we get the subsidies. He'll do the communism and socialism for the billionaires, right? He'll do the bailouts for us. But when we have someone who wants to have a fair tax code and help the workers, that's when we jack up the prices and then we go, ooh. The market feels lots of instability. The market sees a lot of it. The market, the market calling the market is code word for the price gouging from the oligarchs who are involved in the manipulation right now. And then you've got Marco Rubio there, right? It's, this is like right out of the Usual Suspects, right? You've got Kaiser Sosei right there pretending he's for a ceasefire and for the MoU while trying to rip it up. And here he is right here, you know, basically undermining the deal. And he says, you know, in the question, so did you talk about the $300 billion fund? Now why would we talk about that? Because it's in the deal, Marco, because that's one of the main points here. Play this clip. Mr. Secretary, in the meeting with the GCC allies, did any of them make any commitments to pay into this $300 billion reconstruction? No, it was not discussed. I mean, the reconstruction cut, that's way down the road and that's something, you know, that'll be dealt with at the appropriate time in this process. But that was not discussed by any. What about the MoU, does it provide a spec timeline for Iran in terms of down blending its nuclear material? Like, does it have specific timelines? Rubio's like, the MOU is not even a real agreement. It's like a framework where we then negotiate in the future. No, the MOU is a binding short form agreement. The long form final agreement is supposed to memorialize the terms and provide the technical details. It's not a new agreement. But this is the bad faith by which Rubio in the United States behaves. Right? And it's sad for me to say this, but I have to be an objective journalist reporting on what's the facts. That's what my job is. That's what all people's job should be when you're reporting here. Play this clip. Mr. Secretary, the MOU did not include a specific number of years during which Iran could not develop nuclear weapons. Should a final agreement have a specific number? And is the us pushing for that.
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Shannon Maldonado
No, that's a.
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Ben
Why would an MOU would not have that? Because the MOU is not a final agreement agreement and MOU just creates the construct and the outlines for a negotiation. And there's no doubt that as part of that negotiation, very specific terms like years and limits will be discussed and that includes the mechanisms by which is verified and enforced. But is there a number of years? Anyway, there you have it. Let me know what you think. Hit subscribe let's get to 7 million. Thanks for watching everybody. The truth is more important than ever. Check out our new Truth over lies collection@store.midas touch.com All 100% USA Union made.
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Shannon Maldonado
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