Trump SHUTS DOWN White House as War ESCALATION BACKFIRES!!!

Donald Trump has shut down the White. House. He has kicked out all of the. press for the day as his escalation of. this catastrophic war in Iran has. backfired in his face in the most. predictable way. And it's in a way. that's not getting nearly enough. attention. The biggest way it's. backfiring right now is that the. strategic petroleum reserves in the. United States have basically hit. functional tank bottom. That actual tank.

bottom marker will be hit in the next 5. to 10 days, which means we are on the. brink of global economic catastrophe. while Donald Trump is out there playing. war games, killing people in Iran and. saying, "Oh, they called. they want to. make a deal. I want to go through this. with you with receipts to give you the. analysis you need to hear that you may. not be hearing anywhere else. And I want. to remind you, make sure you subscribe.

to the Midas Touch YouTube channel. We're on our way to 7 million. subscribers and we really need to hit. that 7 million mark soon to get out the. truth, to get out the word. Just take a. look right here of the satellite image. of the straight of Hormuz right now. You. have very little to any inbound traffic. and the only ships that are basically. leaving are tied to Iran. Iran has been. able to get out 10 million barrels of. oil in the past 24 hours. They know what.

is coming. Since the Trump regime. removed the blockade with the memorandum. of understanding, Iran had a strategy. While Donald Trump was ranting and. raving like a lunatic, Iran was able to. get out between 50 and 70 million. barrels of its oil to the market, which. will allow Iran to now survive for at. least another 12 to 18 months if a. blockade was put on it immediately. And.

the blockade was actually enforced to. perfection. So Iran now has bought. itself a significant period of time. The. United States hasn't. And this was all. very, very predictable. As Donald Trump. has shut down the White House, it should. also be noted the escalation in the war. continues. Iran launched phase two of. its retaliatory strikes after the United.

States announced through Sententcom that. 90 targets were hit by the United. States, including areas near nuclear. facilities in Iran, air bases, and. coastal cities. Iran struck earlier this. morning in Jordan uh and was able to uh. target a base there. The IRGC says it. struck a US- linked command and control. center in West Asia at the Muak Al-Siti. US air base in Jordan with 10 ballistic.

missiles. According to Iran, significant. damage was done to that US air base in. Jordan. Iran also targeted US military. assets in Bahrain and Kuwait. You can. see right here, play some B-roll for. you. At least five Iranian ballistic. missiles were launched from northwestern. Iran towards that air base in Jordan a. short time ago. So let's just take a. look right here at the Strategic.

Petroleum Reserve in Cushing, Oklahoma. here in the United States. As Eric Natal. explains, the US strategic petroleum. reserve is now 19 million barrels away. from estimated minimum operating levels. there very soon will no longer be a. safety buffer to protect the world from. further losses out of the straight. Now. when the US depletes those strategic. reserves, it gets sold on the world.

crude market and that's one of the. reasons that the price of crude is going. down despite the instability because. massive amounts of the strategic reserve. get unloaded into the global market. It's not like that crude or that uh that. capacity rather uh all of a sudden goes. to just American gas stations. It's why. the price at the pump for you is not. going down really at all or at any. significant amount. In fact, you're.

probably paying just about the same. Some of you are paying more, perhaps. slightly less. That's called a crack. price, which is the delta or the. difference between the price of crude, which you may see ah $75 a barrel. We. know that's now gone above $80 a barrel, but when theou was entered, that was. like $69 per barrel. But the crack price. is the difference between that and what. the refineries charge. I won't get. overly complicated, but they call it a.

321 crack price because you out of three. barrels, two are used for like gasoline. and one is used for jet fuel or other. types of like distill it or. distillation. Um, but basically that now. the crack price is $65 a barrel, which. is incredibly high, like historically. high. And that means that what you're. paying for gas is still expensive. And.

why is this all happening? Because. everybody recognizes the strategic. petroleum reserve crisis within the. industry itself. And also what seems to. be taking place when it comes to the. market for uh the crude is that that is. being heavily shorted and heavily. manipulated by the United States. government uh through both ways of. releases in the reserves but also um. through shorting. And when you see some.

of the trading behavior happening, you. see aggressive whaleike short. positioning taken as the price is. naturally trying to go up because of the. dynamic in the straight of hormuz which. it is effectively shut down. So you have. this massive market manipulation. underway there while you have these. strategic reserves being depleted and. then the reality of what the oil prices. is reflected in the crack price which is. basically the delta or the increased.

amount that the refineries are selling. at which is why there's this massive. massive crisis right now. I think a good. analysis of what's uh going down when. people say, "Well, Iran is striking. back, but it's notable. Iran's hitting. back at the United States, but it's not. like an overwhelming response as the. United States continues to escalate and. escalate and escalate." So, I've been. asked a lot, Ben, why do you think Iran. is responding kind of, you know, not as.

aggressive as one might expect as Trump. keeps on escalating? Well, Trump's. escalation reflects the dynamic that I. just talked about, which is desperation, and it's based on a fundamentally flawed. assumption, which is if you bomb Iran. consistently, they're going to beg for. mercy and give up when they're not. Iran. is playing actual 3 to fivedimensional. chess. They see what's going on. I think. this description here is apt. So, people. say, "Well, is Iran not responding with.

the firepower necessary to deter Trump?". That's because the so-called four weeks. until global economic crisis that Trump. talked about a few weeks back. Remember. I had to do theou because we're in a. global economic crisis. What he was. talking about is what I just mentioned. and it gets a little bit more. complicated in terms of how the. refineries actually operate. But just. that is referring to the strategic. reserve draw down and depletion. basically. So I'm 33 and suddenly. everything that used to be easy wasn't.

I barely ever talk about this, but it. has to be said. Nobody tells you about. this stuff. One day you're crushing it, and the next day you're wondering why. everything feels twice as hard. Because. here's the thing, most men start losing. testosterone around age 30, about 1%. every year after that. That's why I. started taking Mars men. Here's what I. learned. Your body makes testosterone, but a lot of it gets locked up and can't. be used. There's this protein called. SHBG that basically handcuffs your. testosterone. Even if your body is.

making testosterone, SHBG locks it up so. you can't access it. It's like having. money in the bank, but your debit card. doesn't work. Mars Men is designed to. help free locked testosterone so your. body can actually use it. No synthetics, no needles, just real ingredients that. help optimize energy, focus, and. strength. Since using Mars Men, I feel. the difference every day from my lifts. to recovery. I feel like my old self. again. Mars Men supports healthy tea. levels, energy, and stamina, and has.

eight natural, clinically dosed. ingredients. It's also made in the USA. and third-party tested. There's a 90-day. money back guarantee, so there's no. risk. Worst case, you don't absolutely. love it and you get your money back, but. over 91% of users report higher energy. levels. For a limited time, our. listeners get 50% off for life, plus. free shipping and three free gifts at. mengo tomars.com. That's mengotoars.com. for 50% off and three free gifts when.

you check out. After your purchase, they'll ask where you heard about them. Please support our show and let them. know that Midas Touch sent you. So, now. we're closer to 10 days away um from. that actually taking place. So, Trump. must escalate to break free from this. trap that he announced. Iran realizes. that. For Iran's goals, however, the. situation must continue as is. The Omani. route must be made sufficiently insecure. to take it off the table long term.

That's the southern route and the. straight of Hormuz that the Trump regime. has tried to open using theou to open. their own lane which they couldn't. accomplish when Trump and Netanyahu. launched the war in Iran. So Iran's. basically saying we got to just make. sure we control the straight, deter. tankers, VLCC's and other ships from. using the US lane. Make sure they all. use the IRGC lane and then wait then. wait for the US to hit tank bottom. Then.

they will suffer massive economic. catastrophe and then they will be in a. very precarious situation and Trump has. trapped himself. That's what they. realize. So it goes on to say worse yet. for Trump oil reserves on his side are. steadily decreasing while Iran is. exporting with the blockade lifting. That's what I described at the outset. If Trump reactivates the blockade, markets and the memorandum of. understanding enabling states will be. adversely affected, but it's one of his.

last remaining escalation options. Option he knows won't affect Iran's. behavior because time oil is fully on. Iran's side. thoseou enabling nations. I. mean, we're talking about Qatar, Saudi. Arabia, UAE, Turkey, Pakistan, and. others. Um, and and so if Trump puts the. blockade, he then screws all of those. So those nations saying, "Don't you dare. do that." Trump is also financially.

entangled through all of the quidd. proquo deals, right, with all of those. nations. So Trump is stuck in traps. So, is Iran incentivized to escalate by a. massive missile strike or Iran shutting. down the straight of Hermuz at this. moment? No. Because Iran wants to get. out as much as as its oil as possible. while the strategic reserves are being. deployed in not escalating just builds. clarity with theou enabling nations. Qatar, Pakistan, UAE, Saudi Arabia,

Turkey and others on who is the. escalating side and makes clear Trump. and Netanyahu are the bad guys. That's. what they're trying to show at least a. restraint credit that can be used for. escalation at a future point in time. And look what Qar has just announced. Qatar is pausing efforts to rapidly. revive protect production at the world's. largest LNG facility after an attack on. one of its tankers in the straight of. Hormuz raised fears that the transit. through the crucial waterway is still.

too risky. As Anmarie Hordern explains, this pause is one of the most high. high-profile fallouts of the heightened. tensions this week with attacks on a. number of ships near Hormuz and the US. striking Iran two consecutive days. Meanwhile, Netanyahu is out there. saying, "The war is not yet over. The. war is not yet over. Attacking Iran is. like removing a cancer from your body.". Israel's defense minister, his name is. Israel Katz, his name is Israel. He.

says, "We did not ask anyone for. permission to enter Lebanon, and we do. not need anyone's permission to remain. in Lebanon." And meanwhile, you have. Trump regime lackeyis and sickens on all. of the morning shows saying the Iranian. people are begging Donald Trump for a. ground invasion. All of those massive. crowds you saw at the Ayatollah's. funeral, that's all astroturfed. Those. are all actors. Yes, that's what the. Trump regime is saying. The tens of.

millions of people out there, while you. say that Iran is bankrupt and has no. money, tens of millions of people were. all coordinated and paid off by Iran to. show up in Thran and K in Nijaf in other. areas in Iran and Iraq uh to to. astroturf this on the biggest scale. I. mean, come on. Th this is such a. reckless and malicious fabricated view. that gets spread on state regime media. that leads to economic depression and.

catastrophe and the loss of American. lives and lives around the world. It's. so ignorant. It's so dumb. And I'm. grateful that I have this Might as Touch. platform that we can talk about the. truth cuz this stuff is what was. polluting the minds of the American. people for generations with state regime. media and corporate regime media. Here, play this clip. >> You see these um astroturf crowds. supporting the regime in Thran. But I. don't believe that propaganda. I think. the Iranian people are supportive of of.

the United States coming in and helping. them to achieve liberty. And I think. that's the direction we need to go. >> Oh, for sure. The Iranian people are. thanking President Trump. Uh, it's all. over social media. >> Then state regime media brings on this. guy Scott Fitzgerald. We're in a war in. Iraq. Okay. You mean Okay, play this. clip. >> Now, we're in a war in Iraq. Uh, that's. once again kind of at the forefront. If. we don't get that done, we're going to.

have serious issues uh down the road. And and then they bring on this guy. Roger Williams who said nobody wants. ground troops on Carg but but maybe. maybe maybe we take Car Island and you. know that'll really hurt Iran. What do. you mean take Car Island? Do you realize. that if US invades Car Island there will. be tens of thousands of US casualties. instantly? Instantly. What do you mean.

just take it? we just gonna going to. hang out. Do do you understand that they. don't it it is such a fatal ignorance. and also andor just malicious. recklessness wararmongering to just kill. Americans and kill everybody not just. Americans kill Iran kill people in the. world here. Play this clip now. The. president telling reporters on Air Force. One coming back from the NATO summit, he. may be eyeing Carg Island, a key Iranian. oil hub. But most military experts say. that would require at least some boots.

on the ground now. So far, the war has. only used air assets. Would ground. troops taking Car Island go too far for. you? >> Well, you know, nobody watched ground. troops. We got the greatest air force. and air air facility in the world. Uh. but there again that's going to have to. be made up by the by the decisions of. our leaders. Uh personally I would I. would really hesitate to put boots on. the ground anyway. American young men. and women car islands something though. that we can if we are able to take it uh.

can really hurt Iran and their future as. far as energy production and living. conditions. So that's always a good. question but right now I'd like to see. that we can do it in other uh in other. methods before we put kids on the. ground. >> Yeah. Good. [clears throat] So, we'll. keep you posted every step of the way as. always on the Midas Touch Network. What's being discussed behind the scenes. in the White House is that the strategic. reserves. are shot, are depleted, and Iran knows.

how to outmaneuver it and now saying, "Oh, now we're going to do this." Worst. decision ever. I mean, unless it's. intentional, because there's not a. better way to send the United States. into a depression than what Trump is. doing right now. Like, if you. intentionally wanted to do it, then it. all makes sense. Makes perfect sense. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million. Thanks for watching, y'all. Want to stay. plugged in? Become a subscriber to our. Substack at [music] midasplus.com.

You'll get daily recaps from Ron. Philipski, add free episodes of our. podcast, and more exclusive content only. available at midasplus.com.