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Trump Faces Diplomatic Isolation as New Alliances Form

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump being abandoned by world leaders and forming new alliances as they see how weak he has made the United States. Head to https://zbiotics.com/MEIDA...

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Furious world leaders are abandoning Donald Trump in the United States.

They smell putrid, rancid, failure, and these world leaders are forging their own alliances,

which they're even saying these are alliances that need to do what NATO can no longer do.

I'll talk to you about what's going on, right? You've got Saudi Arabia, got Pakistan, and you've got Turkey forging what they're referring to as the Mecca pact or the Mecca alliance. You already had Saudi Arabia and Pakistan in a defense agreement. Well, now they are bringing in Turkey in order to forge this broader alliance. And you even have the Turkey Foreign Minister, and I'll show you what the Turkey Foreign Minister has been saying.

We should bring in Egypt. We should bring in other like-minded countries to basically form our own NATO in the Middle East.

This, as the United States security umbrella no longer exists in the region. At the same time, you have countries like the United Arab Emirates, feeling kind of utterly abandoned. You've got Hadnach, the Abu Dhabi Oil Company, and the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company. They keep having their tankers struck by Iran. So they're trying to figure out what to do, obviously, there's a rivalry between the UAE and Saudi Arabia,

and now Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey entered into that alliance. So the UAE is like we did the Abraham Accords with Israel, but now the United States and Israel look increasingly isolated in the region.

Seems like joining the Abraham Accords was the wrong move right there.

And so the UAE and the kind of various Emirates within their thinking should we be doing one-off deals with Iran. And of course you're seeing so many countries right now reaching out to Iran directly, trying to do bilateral deals. We're talking about European countries, we're talking about Asian countries, of course, reaching out to Iran to figure out how they can use the straightive removes.

I mean, this says you have Treasury Secretary Bessent, and you have Vice President Vansing, ridiculous things. Like we don't need the Hormuz straight anymore. We'll just build pipelines. And that'll do it really, you know, that's going to cost billions of dollars. It's the United States going to pay billions of dollars to build oil pipelines across the Middle East, which Iran can easily strike or as part of the so-called US security umbrella,

are you going to make the Arab nations now build these pipelines that can be easily struck by Iran.

And also there's a lot more that comes out of the straightive Hormuz than just crude, right?

There's a lot of produce. There's a lot of other material that goes on those tankers and those VLCCs. And just I think all these countries are seeing the fake negotiations that Donald Trump is having with himself. They're seeing Donald Trump post-weird AI images of himself and drone ports and just weird images of himself and former generals, Patton and MacArthur and Trump's doing the stolen Valor thing with the forestar,

pretending he's a forestar general, and he and Higgsip are now posting. We won the war, we won the war, we won the war as Iran controls the straightive Hormuz and these countries are like, dude, what the hell is happening? You know, also there's still a lot of developments that we should be very focused on. We really need to be focused on international affairs.

Like Greenland issued a major warning against the Trump regime, the Trump regime has basically tried to do like a secret invasion

of Greenland in the past few days. Did you know that? I know it's not a top headline, but the United States is trying to push in a mining company and a drilling company to basically start exploiting the resources in Greenland without Greenland's permission.

And they just showed up, like with their equipment in Greenland's like, dude, what the hell are you doing?

We'll talk about that a little more. Israel on Channel 13 at the highest level of the Netanyahu regime. They're out there saying and putting out messages right now that they view the Trump regime as utterly weak. And that Israel's now saying, they plan to do offensive strikes against Iran imminently. They're at least putting that at whether they do that or they don't do that. They are putting that out on their state media in Israel Channel 13 saying, we really don't care what the U.S. does anymore.

The U.S. has demonstrated that it's very weak and that Netanyahu plans to once again invade Iran.

This is part of Netanyahu's play.

That that'll then make Donald Trump. Okay, I guess I got to join you. I guess I got to join you, but I'm not letting Trump off the hook and just like, oh, you're just following Netanyahu.

I mean, Trump is complicit in genocide. Trump is implicit in the war crimes in this disastrous and catastrophic war, but that's what Israel is putting out.

It should be noted that Brad Cooper, who's the head of St. Com and he's really a buffoon this guy and it pains me to say the head of St. Com is an absolute buffoon, but top military generals, top military admirals people who I'm speaking to like what happened to this guy, Cooper. He had a promising career and now he's turned Sen. Com into like a Trump troll account.

Any event, Cooper went to Israel and as soon as he was there, Israel started bullying him and basically putting out statements that they're going to invade Iran.

And then you've got North Korea making billions of dollars in selling its weapons to Russia. You've got Russia making billions of dollars because the price of oil went up and that was a kind of windfall to Russia. And the assessment from NATO is that Putin in the next year, two years, three years max is likely going to start to try to increasingly strike and test the resolve of NATO and strike within NATO. You've got Putin feeling very emboldened right now that the NATO alliance is essentially dead because Donald Trump destroying NATO.

It's exactly what Putin wanted and then you have Xi Jinping. Xi Jinping is essentially moving China to now take over the U.S. Security umbrella in the Middle East and those VLCCs, that's very large ships, the big tankers, the Chinese ones, they go around. IRGC gives them preferential treatment, the Houthis in the Red Sea, give them preferential treatment because China looked after them, China helped them.

It's always been helpful to Iran and frankly, China sees this as an incredible opportunity not just in the Middle East, but they're aware that the United States has run out of its weapons.

Go think about it like this, it's wild, right? Just as Donald Trump has bankrupted all of his casinos and bankrupted all of these businesses, he bankrupted our military man, right? He had a $1 trillion budget last year and he ran through all of the interceptors, the Pack 3 interceptors, the Thad interceptors, the SM23s and 6 on the Navy destroyers, those anti-Balistics are gone, the attackums, we've run out of those, the U.S. has had to abandon its military bases in the Middle East. So of course Saudi Arabia is looking at this and they're seeing the Houthis advance in Yemen and to northern Yemen, and against the Saudi back government there, they're seeing the Houthis successfully strike in Saudi Arabia.

Remember if you expect, you had the Houthis strike with their missiles in their drones, three of the main refineries in Saudi Arabia?

Yeah, that dealt a massive blow. You've got the UAE having its ad notch ships, the Abu Dhabi ships, those tankers have been hit by Iran, so they're like, we do a deal, we need to get our tankers out. So I have to tell you about this game of changing product I used before our night out with drinks, it's called pre-alcohol. You have to have pre-alcohol before you go out. I love getting together with friends on the weekend, but I also want to be up early the next morning with my family and ready to go.

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And then you've got Donald Trump, this buffoon, and Treasury Secretary Bezos. We don't need our moves. We don't need our moves. Iran really wants to make a deal.

We discussed yesterday. Iran's been ruthlessly consistent in what its demands are. I see lots of people saying Iran has made these maximalist demands now that Trump's never going to agree to that they want control of the straight of her moves.

Iran sanctions relief that they want to keep all of their weapons that they want the U.S. and Israel out of Lebanon that they want Gaza to be free of Israel that they want a Palestinian state that they want reparations for the war. These are maximalist demands and they're making this now. Just as Donald Trump says they're going to be a deal.

Donald Trump's lying, Donald Trump's not even involved in the discussions between Iran and Iran. Donald Trump entered into an M-O-U with those very provisions that they were in the M-O-U.

They were in the memorandum of understanding. Before the M-O-U, foreign minister Iraq, she made very clear what the points were that Iran was going to want in order for there to be an end to the war that Trump and Netanyahu started.

There are maximalist demands. It is the very Trump and Netanyahu invaded. And Iran has consistently kept these same demands that they just restated. And Iran has said,

"We and Oman will do this deal. We'll create a lane in the straight of our moves. But you've got to end the blockade. We want reparations. You've got to leave Lebanon.

Here are all the things that we want, which is why Israel's now saying, "All right, Donald wants to give up. We're going to invade Donald. We're going to strike again.

So what are you going to do? Trying to call Donald Trump's bluff there?" It's a pretty sad state to see the United States so damn weak right there. I covered a lot there. I want to just share with you some of the underlying source documents just so you can see it for yourself. I know you believe it. We methodically just went through that, but here's the Mecca agreement so you can see for yourself. Any armed attack against any of the three states. I'll be regarded as an attack against them all. Just to get specific and granular on the numbers, Saudi Arabia used 86% of its pack three interceptors in the first 38 days of combat alone. They had 400 left as an April. So as of now, they probably have significantly less than that.

You know that general came the chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He's been desperately trying to find some exit route because the U.S. is out of its weapons. As a relates to the Mecca defense pact, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan Turkey, Pakistan's defense minister says, "The doors really cannot be closed to other countries. This should not be an exclusive club.

This is my personal opinion. It should expand. I think that along the lines of NATO, Muslim countries should put their own differences aside.

The transactional issues are bilateral disputes. They have with one another and stand together on this platform in other words. And Arab, Muslim, security, umbrella by Arabs for Arabs in the region. Interesting, right? Pakistan's defense minister then said the following about Israel. So I know Donald Trump is delusional and it's like, "Well, Pakistan's going to join the Abraham Accords." And Saudi Arabia is going to join the Abraham Accords now. Pakistan, Saudi Arabia and Turkey, forging this alliance is like the opposite of the Abraham Accords.

And the UAE and Bahrain, which is joined the Abraham Accords, they really don't want to be a part of it anymore. And Israel sees that they're increasingly becoming isolated in the region because of Netanyahu and Trump and the genocide and their horrific behavior by the Netanyahu regime. So they're like, "We desperately need to strike Iran, we need Iran strategically, did not strike Israel in order to create this dynamic." I just want to lay out the strategy here because it's very rarely laid out like this, by the way.

It's why you should get a copy of WTF America that I draft that I wrote with my brothers and it'll be out in October. We, this is the type of stuff we discussed. It's not a political book for an election cycle. It's this deep layer of analysis, which I think is important. So here's what Pakistan's defense minister says. It says, "Given Israel's conduct, as well as the historical evidence of what it has been doing, at one stage in 1948, what I consider an illegitimate state came into being. It was, I believe, a product of the Bel-Four Declaration during that period as well, fighting continued in the Palestinians continued to resist. So in my view, this is at the very least situation that the entire Islamic world will have to come together and confront in my view.

There is no room for disagreement on this and until the issue of the Palestin...

And very important, I want to read that to you because Pakistan, Turkey, Saudi Arabia are saying that when Trump goes, "Ah, Saudi Arabia joined the Abraham Accords, they're saying the opposite. Turkey's foreign ministers as Egypt is our natural partner in all issues.

I believe that in the next phase, Egypt will join us as part of the Alliance, the Mecca Alliance."

And then Turkey's foreign minister says, "What Israel feels, what Israel fears most is international isolation. Up to now it has used the extensive resources at its disposal, including resources located in other countries to create an illusion."

They're referring to the United States, that's Turkey referring to the US as Turkey enters this pact with Saudi Arabia and Pakistan.

There is a political practice that has been built upon this illusion, one that consistently works in Israel's favor, they commit genocide and even then nothing may happen. The whole world can now see the sinister difference between its own conscience and the illusions that has been created. Now interestingly, Iran's member of parliament, Daseenia Iranian member of parliament, Abraham Azizi says the following, The Mecca pact shows that Arab countries have finally realized that security depends on the cooperation of regional countries, but they still haven't found the right path.

We warn about the potential miscalculation, powerful Iran has proven that no mistake will go unanswered. It's an interesting response thing.

We're getting closer, we're doing an Arab nation alliance, but still you're doing an alliance against us, wouldn't it be better if we've all our allies together against Israel and the US?

That's what's being said there. Now I'm just providing for you the analytical framework of what's taking place.

Do it what you want, but we need to live in an objective world where that's what they're saying. That's what's happening. That's what's going on behind the scenes. So I talked about Israel already and how the Israel military has informed sent com commander Brad Cooper. Israel does not need approval for Trump to wage war against Iran and their preparing unilateral strikes against Iran in the coming days. And again, a lot of that's coming from feeling very isolated right now as well and needing to try to get Trump and the US back into this thing in order to have this never ending war, which Netanyahu feels is critical for him.

It's precisely why Iran has not taken the bait or Iran has not gone on the offense against Israel and this latest solvo talked already about North Korea. We talked about Putin, how US intelligence finds Putin will test NATO's resolve because he sees weakness. Zelensky has been saying, look, we need anti-belistics. The US has it you're not giving it to us. And this is a big deal. Russia keeps striking our logistic facilities. This is disastrous. Zelensky says, look, Russia and North Korea have an alliance with each other and about 50,000 North Koreans are in Russian territory getting ready to join the front to fight in Ukraine and we've already seen huge amounts of North Koreans fighting.

Then that brings me as well to some of the other issues that we've been discussing thus far in this video, which I want to chat about briefly.

Let's talk about Greenland, Greenland's warning to pegs up to everybody, and Greenland's basically said, you need to immediately stop these having your companies here trying to drill and mine and engage in all this stuff.

So this is a violation of our sovereignty. It needs our permission always and we're not okay with it. You've got Donald Trump and egcs that saying all their dreams stuff as well.

And then you've got at the end of the day, what's the US doing? US threatening Cuban out. That's, you know, they have been for a while. This was from the New York Times, Trump regime increasing pressure on Cuba trying to find other leadership in Cuba. But then realizing that there isn't other leadership in Cuba, despite how much they want to claim that there's all this leadership ready to go. To replace the current leadership in Cuba, there really isn't. And so there is a situation where they're basically stuck. So that's what we've got going right now. We'll keep you posted, of course, every step of the way here.

And we're grateful for you watching this. You know, I know these videos can be dense and long sometimes, but it's important that we hit all these topics, right?

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