Trump makes DESPERATE PLEA as PANIC sets in

If you're wondering what it looks like. when Donald Trump goes into full panic. mode, you don't have to look further. than his Truth Social. He wrote, quote, "The United States of America has beaten. and completely decimated Iran both. militarily, economically, and in every. other way, but the countries of the. world that receive oil through the. Hormuz Strait must take care of that. passage, and we will help a lot. The US. will also coordinate with these. countries so that everything goes. quickly, smoothly, and well. This should. have always been a team effort, and now. it will be. It will bring the world. together toward harmony, security, and. everlasting peace." President Donald J.

Trump. So, just to make sure that I'm. understanding everything correctly here, Iran is completely and utterly. decimated, but we also need the help of. the entire world to make sure that Iran, which as a reminder is completely. decimated, doesn't stop ships from going. through the Strait of Hormuz, which is. happening because Trump decided to. launch a war with no preparation and. apparently no ability to recognize that. Iran would deploy the most predictable. response at their disposal by closing or. even mining the strait. Did I get all of. that correct? And look, I'm neither a.

foreign policy expert nor a Middle East. expert, but there are plenty of them in. the US government. And yet, Donald Trump. opted not to take anyone's advice into. account because he decided to run. headfirst into a brand new war in the. Middle East despite his own promises of. no new wars in the Middle East because. he decided that he's the world's new. kingmaker and could topple a new regime. every single week. Apparently, it's not. as easy as he's anticipated. But, in. Trump's defense, who could have possibly. guessed that managing the Middle East. would be hard. Truly one of life's great.

Notice too how he said this should have. always been a team effort, but that. would have required some basic modicum. of planning, and that simply never. happened. Trump didn't even make the. case for this war among Americans right. here in his own country, which is why it. is the single least popular war at its. outset in modern American history. We. haven't even been told what the point of. this war was other than to apparently. destroy Iran's nuclear capabilities, which we were already told happened 6. months ago. >> Tonight, I can report to the world that.

the strikes were a spectacular. military success. Iran's key nuclear enrichment facilities. have been completely and totally. obliterated. >> So, Iran's nuclear capabilities were. obliterated and yet we needed to go back. in because otherwise they would have. been able to strike us with the. apparently not anymore obliterated. capabilities. Please, someone who speaks. help me. In fact, just a couple. of weeks ago I brought this point up. with Gavin Newsom and he highlighted. perfectly the incoherence of Trump's.

Iran strategy. >> Trump is consistent in his. inconsistency. The fact that he said he. would never do something like this and. lied about it. J.D. Vance did same. People like Tulsi Gabbard did the same. You go through the list of all these. MAGA guys. They lied. And so that's. unsurprising, but here we are with now a. regional war. We've got the Gulf states. under attack. We've got our allies under. attack. We now have oil prices starting to. skyrocket. We got straight from. Moose which has 20% of the world's oil. blasting through it with not a lot of.

activity. We've seen the market. volatility. We're now going to pay the. price. Six members of the military have. lost their lives. Others likely are. going to lose their lives. And again, Trump can't land on a. rationale. No imminent threat. Yes, there was an imminent threat. Oh, inevitably there would have been because. Israel was going to go anyway, says. Rubio. Then they shapeshift again. Say, well, no, it was about the nuclear. program. Wait, you just said it was. obliterated. So that doesn't fall. through. No, it's about the missiles. No, it's about the proxies and the. militia. No, it's about the navy. They.

cannot simply land on any rationale. And. so it's a remarkable remarkable. expression. of sort of this cluelessness in terms of. the foreign policy, but the profound. consequences in real time, unintended. and intended that we're all going to. have to suffer through. And of course, to watch the full interview with Gavin. Newsom and all other interviews, the. best way to do that is to subscribe to. this channel. It's 100% free, but a. great way to support my work and. independent media more broadly. But that right there, what Newsom said,

that was a couple of weeks ago. Trump's. strategy hasn't gotten any more coherent. since then. And here's the most ironic. part. Trump has spent the last year. alienating all of our allies. He's. basically tried to declare war on. Greenland, threatened to invade or annex. Canada and Panama. God knows how many. threats he's lobbed at Mexico. He. shit-talked most of Western Europe's. leaders. And yet, now that he's turned. the United States into a pariah on the. global stage, here he is asking other. countries to help us. It's almost like. there's some value to having allies. around the world as opposed to being a.

tough guy and going at it alone. Although, I must note that one country. Trump did suck up to while he was. alienating all of our allies was Russia. Vladimir Putin's Russia. The same. country that is right now helping Iran. against the United States. I'm going to. repeat that. The country for which. Donald Trump has alienated our allies is. actively working against the United. States in Trump's war with Iran. And. yet, Trump couldn't even bring himself. to condemn Russia. >> Mr. Pompeo, have you communicated to the. Russians not to send targeting. information and other assistance to the.

Iranians? >> I strongly said that. >> And do you believe that they are? >> I hope they're not. >> And do you see any evidence? >> We don't know, but it's not doing very. well. If they are, it's not helping much. If you take a. look at what's happened to Iran in the. last week, uh if they're getting. information, it's not helping them much. >> What would it mean to you if they were? I mean, even if it's not helping the. Iranians particularly much, it's still. involving themselves in a conflict that.

they're not directly. >> They would say we do it against them, wouldn't they? Wouldn't they say that? We do it against. them. Uh. I don't know. Look, they can give all the information. that they want, but. the people they're sending it to are. overwhelmed. >> That's right. Wouldn't want to utter an. ill word of Daddy Putin. And now, the. rest of his administration has to. prostrate themselves as well to Russia, just like Trump does. >> Sources tell CNN that Russia has been. providing Iran with intelligence to help.

Iran better target US service members. You said in an interview last week that. President Trump will quote deal with it. accordingly. Here's what President Trump. had to say about this on Friday. >> [snorts]. >> You think Putin is helping them? >> I think he might be helping them a. little bit. Yeah, I think yes, and he. probably thinks we're helping Ukraine, right? China would say the same thing, you know, it's like hey, they do it and we do it. In all. fairness, they do it and we do it.

>> Do you see an equivalence between the US. helping Ukraine defend itself and Russia. Russia helping Iran target US service. members? >> Well, Jake, we've known that Russia and. Iran have this symbiotic have this. strategic partnership uh for some time. now. Uh I'll tell you what Russia has. lost out of this. They've lost their. biggest manufacturer of the Shaheed. drones. Uh Russia's been licensing those. drones for quite some time and hitting. uh Ukraine with it. All the more reason.

uh why uh we need to defang this regime. and all the more reason that they cannot. have a nuclear weapon. And I'll just. point out too because a lot of critics. out there are are making hay of this. It. was President Trump that put sanctions. on Russia's largest oil producer, Rosneft. He also put sanctions on. Lukoil. The Biden administration did not. do that for many years. They only did a. kind of a pinprick action at the very. end of the administration. Uh he also. took tough action on India. Uh and now.

he's put a temporary uh pause on that in. order to calm energy markets. I think. these are all pragmatic common sense. approach approaches while we deal with. uh the Iranian regime. >> But surely. surely Russia. helping Iran target our service members. is. upsetting and distressing and action. needs to be taken. >> Well, I'm I'm not going to get into, you. know, leaked assessments of what. intelligence is being provided or not. I.

just can't and won't do that, but I'll. tell you if they are doing it, it. certainly hasn't been affected. or effective, excuse me, because. the Iranian Air Force air defenses, missile forces, and navy have been. completely decimated. >> But sure, these are the tough guys, got. it. The reality is that Donald Trump's. frantic posts betray an obvious reality. He has lost control of a war that. frankly he never had control of in the. first place. When he starts begging for.

help from other countries that he'd. spent the last years denigrating, you. know that things are bad. Maybe this. will make him think twice about making. the US a pariah on the world stage. Although if history tells us anything, Donald Trump will likely only double. down. >> [music]. >> Before you go, if you enjoyed this. content and you want to see more and. support independent media, please. subscribe to this channel. The subscribe. button will be right here on the screen. But second, the reality is that we are. now in a political environment where. this administration can lean on any of.

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