🚨 Iran JUST ESCALATED MORE…

Iran may have struck as many as 60. tankers in the straight of Hormuz since. October 1st. The UK MTO, which tracks. incidents in and around the straight of. Hormuz, is saying that the majority of. vessels struck by Iran are refusing to. report to it. Meaning the true number of. attacks on vessels is at least double. what has been recorded. The UK MTO. recorded 30 strikes on tankers in the.

straight of Ormuz since October 1st. This puts the floor at nearly 60 vessels. struck by Iran since October 1st since. UK MTO previously reported about 30. tankers being struck. The 60 figure is. what we've been saying at the Midas. Touch network based on what we've been. observing on the satellite footage. And. now the UK MTO is acknowledging that the. majority of tankers that are hit by Iran. are not reporting it to the UK MTO and.

they are covering it up. Now on this. news and other news of escalation in the. Middle East and across the world of wars. raging out of control, Brent crude oil. prices have surged above $112. a barrel for the first time since May. 6th and it keeps on going higher and. higher. Inflation expectations continue. to push higher as gas prices in the US.

hit an average of $4.33. cents a gallon and diesel prices are. surging as well. Let's also not forget. other refined products like jet fuel and. I think we are going to see massive. spikes and scarcity there as well. Also, it was reported earlier that the Trump. regime was seeking to draw another 17. million barrels from the strategic.

petroleum reserve in the United States, which has already been depleted to tank. bottom. And the salt caverns here in the. United States which hold those strategic. petroleum reserves are on the breaking. point of kind of structural. decomposition as a result of the. overusage of the strategic petroleum. reserves as we've been previously. reporting. Also earlier today at least. one more tanker perhaps two have been.

struck in the straight of Hormuz. India. says the UAE owned very large crude. carrier the ST3 was struck by a. projectile on October 16th. The AIS its. tracking device switched off for about. 18 days and this seems to be the one. struck this morning. There may have been. at least two tankers that were struck. this morning. It's clear from the UK MTO. report though that these tankers are not. reporting when they are hit generally.

speaking. And you'll recall that there. was at least one, maybe two tankers hit. yesterday. One of these tankers held a. lot of cargo that had like iPhones and. perfume and a number of other products. in addition to the tankers that we've. been reporting about that carry with it. the crude and other uh oil uh derivative. products. Should also be noted yesterday. that Iran launched anti-ship ballistic. and cruise missiles and Shahid 136.

drones toward the port anchorages of. Sharah Ross Alami and Jabel Ali in the. UAE and adjacent areas in the straight. of Vermoose. That was one of the first. things I reported on this morning. There. were heavy flight disruptions all. throughout the UAE, particularly by. Dubai and by Fujera and other areas in. the Middle East as well. We've also seen. continued escalation in the war between.

Saudi Arabia and Ansurala and the. Houthis in Yemen as well as the uh Saudi. Arabianbacked group in Yemen, the PLC. Recall yesterday we reported how. Ansurala the Houthis struck a. presidential palace of the PLC. Saudibbacked group in Aiden which is the. capital for the Saudibbacked group. there. In addition to Brent crude now. hitting $112 a barrel and we expect that.

to continue to rise today and throughout. the week. Um as well um it should be. noted that the NASDAQ 100 and the. markets were absolutely tanking on this. news. Um and it does seem that there. could be some massive escalation in the. war between Trump and Netanyahu and Iran. very soon. Over the past several days, Iran has been conducting ballistic. missile tests and tests regarding their.

new drones and tests regarding their. cruise missiles. We've been seeing uh. those tests take place as Iran says that. it is preparing for a potential Trump. and Netanyahu invasion. We believed here. at the Midas Touch Network that Trump. and Netanyahu are looking for some. national security incident before their. respective elections. In Israel, they've. got elections coming up here in the. United States. Elections in early. November. Both Trump and the MAGA.

Republicans here in the United States. are um trailing and they seem to be. about to be wiped out in the midterms. Netanyahu is trailing in his election. there. I think both are looking for some. sort of national security incident. We've been seeing lots of chatter on uh. state TV close to Netanyahu or media. networks in Israel close to Netanyahu. talking about how Netanyahu is saying. that Iran may engage in a preemptive.

strike. So Netanyahu and Trump need to. engage in a preemptive strike to preempt. Iran's preemptive strike. Meanwhile, you. take a look at what's happening. throughout the world. We're seeing. places like Bali where they've. completely run out of fuel, we've been. reporting how in Europe there's a lot of. areas where there seem to be out of. diesel in certain stations there uh as. well. And so we're keeping an eye on. what's happening because if you recall. when Donald Trump uh went entered into.

theou. at uh Versailles, remember he held up. theou um several months back and then. swiftly breached theou right away. He. said, 'Look, I have to enter into this. because if I don't, we're going to be in. a global economic depression because um. you know, things are so bad that we have. to be able to get some of the oil out of. these straight moves. We have to. stabilize the markets and that kind of.

line where if you go past it, you're in. this place of no return. That's where we. are right now. And you know, as lots of. uh analysts have said, and I agree with. this, even if you were to have a perfect. deal right now between the United States. and Iran today, and let's just assume. that the US got everything it wanted, which is not absolutely not going to. happen, and everybody was happy with. this deal. the earliest I think you will. see recovery when it comes to the price.

of of oil and generally uh you know. returning normal flows out of the. straight of Hermuz and internationally I. think we're talking about uh 2029 the. earliest is what people are saying so. what is Donald Trump out there saying so. this morning when the Trump regime fired. Katie Zakaria the press secretary who. lasted about five days working for uh. the Trump regime. In that same press.

conference, Donald Trump was asked about. should Saudi Arabia accept the help of. Israel in order to. um uh strike Ansurala and the Houthis in. Yemen since Ansarala is continuing to. make advances east throughout Yemen and. they're striking Saudi Arabia hard. Saudi Arabia doesn't have really, it's. clear, the interceptor capabilities that. they thought they might have to stop on. Sarala. So, watch what Donald Trump says.

here. Let's play this clip. Do you think that Saudi Arabia should. accept the help that Israel is offering. to fight rebels? >> I do. I do. >> Are you talking about that? >> I think they will. Sure. Is been very. helpful to Saudi Arabia and Yeah, they. certainly would do that. Yeah. And then Donald Trump is asked, "Are the. Abraham Accords back on the table with. Saudi Arabia?" Trying to create an. alliance between Saudi Arabia, Israel.

Now, the UAE and Bahrain are already. members of the Abraham Accords. Watch. what Donald Trump says here. Play this. clip. >> Abraham Accords back on the table with. >> Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I think so. Maybe more than ever. The Abraham. Accords is one of our great. achievements. And yeah, I would say. maybe more than ever, but Saudi Arabia. is very happy to have Israel support and. our support. >> Now, the crown prince of Saudi Arabia. and the effective ruler, at least for.

now, MBS has previously said that he. would not join the Abraham Accords. unless and until a Palestinian state was. recognized. Um, but now you're seeing. MBS very, very desperate right now, um, and on the ropes. And so what Donald. Trump is saying there though also very. haphazardly and casually and recklessly. is he's talking about a massive massive. regional war that's already taking.

place. Um and that regional war. expanding. I mean you could imagine you. know if all of a sudden you have Israel. joining Saudi Arabia, UAE, Bahrain. striking on Sarala, then you have Iran. launching its strikes and its attacks as. well. And it's be very clear there's. lots of reporting on this and this is. what I've always expected. Iran's. maintained or has even increased its. ballistic missile and drone capabilities. and cruise missile capabilities from.

even when the war began. I believe they. either have the same or even more. launchers and the actual underlying uh. weapons as well. And so I mean you'll. have allout war there. You have allout. war with Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Ukraine striking back there, you know, and you have Donald Trump's weakness, you know, shattering um you know, any. order in the in the world right now. Um. Donald Trump though says, "I have a. great relationship with Saudi Arabia, so. things are okay." Play this clip. Did.

you come back? >> I have a great relationship with Saudi. Arabia and Saudi Arabia is going to be. very good. >> Then Donald Trump says that Zalinsky. wants to keep the war going basically. and Putin wants to end the war. Here's. what he says. >> What about the war in Ukraine? Do you. think Putin will listen to. the war? >> Trump is then asked um you want Zalinski. out. Have you forgotten Putin started.

the war? And Trump says, I know the. details. Okay, you don't. I'll tell the. real details of what happened one day. Um, listen to what he has to say. Play. this clip. >> And you call Ukraine for attacking. Russia's. house. Have you forgotten that President. Putin started the war? >> Well, you know, I know the details and. at some point I'll release the details, but I don't care anything except for. one. I want that war in 25,000.

>> And meanwhile, you had Marco Rubio. saying America, this is an interview. that he gave with Breitbart earlier, saying America first means we're always. going to do what's right for America. before anything regarding the global. world order and the global commons. Here, play this clip. >> World. So, um, but America first, meaning we're going to always do what's. right for America before anything else. We're going to put it before the UN. We're going to put it before the global. commons or whatever you want to call it, the global order that people worshiped.

around here for a very long time. We're. not against any of those things. We're. just not going to put them ahead of. American interests anymore. That's what. the president is doing. And it offends a. lot of people in these think tanks and. editorial writers. But if we had. listened to them, I mean, at this point, America would be, you know, a middle. power. >> You see, the problem with that thesis. there, Marco Rubio, is that these issues. are inextricably intertwined. that. America created the postworld war II. international architecture and that was.

supposed to bring prosperity to the. United States of America. Was it. perfect? No. Did it have lots of. problems? Sure. But the same way that. Donald Trump and these MAGAS destroy. things and don't have plans to fix it. you can tear down the postw World War II. architecture created by the United. States which was helpful for the US. Treasury market and equities market and. real estate market and helpful generally. to US businesses and had the United. States as the leader of the free world. as it was called. Um so you're going to.

rip that down. What did you replace it. with? You replaced it with absolute. chaos that we're seeing throughout the. world right now. Marco Rubio then. continues to say, you know, again, at. the core of our policy is just we just. do what's good for us and we don't care. about anything else. Play this clip. >> America third. No one ever does that. because I think at its core, everyone. understands that our foreign policy, which is what I can speak about, has to. be about what is good for America. I. think every country should do that for. their own countries and foreign.

relations is how you, you know, untangle. the differences. >> Now, hat tip to the Telegraph. They got. the exclusive scoop over here that the. throttling of Ukraine's Star Shield or. Starlink, which blocked Ukraine from. using drones over a certain speeds, was. a joint venture basically, if you will, between Elon Musk and Donald Trump. No. big surprises there. Elon Musk came to. Donald Trump with the plan to throttle. Ukraine's use of Space X Star Shield.

satellite internet network. sources have. told the Telegraph the tech billionaire. made the proposal during the president's. row with Zalinsky over strikes on. Russian oil refineries. The reality is. is that they were both in on it. Musk. and Trump, a senior source said of Musk. and Trump's involvement. But after a. night of carnage in Kev caused by the. slowdown, Musk was alarmed about the. possibility of an adverse consumer. reaction against his companies in.

Europe. The space the space X boss then. proceeded to tweet blaming the US. administration and ultimately Trump for. authorizing the slowdown. He tweeted out. that he was innocent and that it was the. US administration that did it. The. source uh here said that's what we have. right now. We'll keep you posted every. step of the way. Hit subscribe. Let's. get to 7 million subscribers. Thanks for. watching everybody. Before you go, our. book WTF America is available for. pre-order now. It's the story of how we.

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