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Trump Fires Nuclear Commander as Iran War Escalates

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump suddenly and abruptly firing a top nuclear submarine commander as he continues losing the war to Iran. For up to 65% off your order, head to http...

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I've just recorded the first episode of our new season, talking about the sta...

the IMO's Net Zero framework, in the wake of the just concluded latest MEPC meeting.

The big question I hear again and again is, what happens next and how quickly?

In this episode, I unpack what's moving, what's stolen, and what that means for future decisions and timelines. Search for maritime impact on your favorite podcast platform. Stay tuned. The commander of a nuclear submarine was just relieved of duty by Donald Trump and Heggsett,

and this follows a lot of turnover within the navy in some of our most important and powerful

ships. Donald Trump and Heggsett tried to fire this commander of a nuclear submarine quietly. They cited quote maintenance issues, but we need to really drill down what is happening here on this nuclear submarine. What happened to the top US navy commander who was mysteriously killed in the Arabian Sea. We also know that the former secretary of the navy, John Felen,

was fired in the past several months during this catastrophic and unlawful war in Iran.

Hunkau is now the secretary of the navy. We also know that the commander of the USS Mason was recently fired before the ship went into the Arabian Sea. We also learned that another nuclear submarine made a surprise stopover in the straight of Gibraltar, which is interesting as well because rarely do these nuclear submarines announce their presence, and this USS Alaska submarine did that. And what happened recently in that area? Well, we know

Donald Trump is threatening the sovereignty of Spain. We now believe it's pretty clear that it was Trump Net Yahoo and the King of Morocco working together to put the tens of thousands of Moroccan migrants in Siyata in northern Africa in order to attack Spain. And Spain did actually a very

good job, I think, with the humanitarian crisis created by King Muhammad of Morocco there.

But you had that nuclear submarine announced its presence. And, you know, these nuclear submarines form the sea leg of the nuclear triad. These nuclear submarines, the Ohio classes they are called, they are divided into two teams, usually. For example, the nuclear submarine that we're going to be talking about right now, where Commander Joseph Samar was fired and relieved of duty. Had a blue team and a gold team, he was the blue team commander. Usually the teams go out for 70 to 90 days,

while the other team is involved in training. And this is a really big deal, especially as we're seeing a lot of other top commanders get fired, the Secretary of Navy's been fired. And it's part of this pattern of Trump and Higgsith firing, these top people now. Maybe there was grounds for it, but for all of these people, especially during a catastrophic war, raises many red flags.

And, and, and, or are they hiring people who are qualified in the first place? For example,

we know that the Trump regime has not promoted any female to become a one-star general. Higgsith has pursued racist misogynistic policies to not promote minorities, not promote women. We know that the United States has pushed out some of its top military talent, right? The former chief of staff of the Army was well-respected, former top commanders in Europe, well-respected, the former chairman of the Joint Chief, CQ Brown, Jr., the four-star,

replaced him with a three-star and they fired CQ Brown, Jr., because he's black, they brought in a guy who, a white guy who they liked his nickname, "Rays and Cain," who needed a waiver because he wasn't qualified. And, again, this is the chaos that the Trump regime has engaged in, while engaging in this catastrophic war, no wonder Trump surrenders over and over again. And also, the amount of times that Donald Trump says, "We've destroyed Iran's Navy." It's at the bottom of the

sea. We know with Trump its always projection. When I'm sharing with you right now, seems that there

is a massive crisis going on in the United States Navy right now at the leadership level of promotions of who is in charge, why are commanders constantly being fired? You had to, by the way, the former secretary of the Navy, Philan, he was in the Epstein files, he was on the flight manifest,

No shocker there, hung cow, has said some of the most deranged and lunatic th...

Let's go through this, shall we? The Navy relieves the commander of the USS West Virginia,

commander Joseph Samore, you see him right here. He was relieved of the blue crew duty. You see

this photo of him taking over command, August 14, 2025. So, he didn't even make it one year. And this guy was rising through the ranks. So, the fact that he didn't make it one year raises lots of red flags. There was apparently an investigation into, quote, "maintenance issues." And that's kind of the broad term that they use because they don't want to say misconduct or inappropriate conduct. They say maintenance issues. And so, he's been relieved of his command right there. And this follows numerous

other people who have been relieved of their command. For example, in June, the Navy fired three

top officials at an overseas maintenance center after losing, quote, "confidence in their ability to command loss of confidence." In February, the Navy relieved the commanding officer of the destroyer, the USS Mason, for the same reason. The USS Mason was recently in the straight of Hormuz, along with the USS Truxton. You saw these destroyers right there. They were sent to that area a few months back as Trump was escalating over there. Another U.S. Navy Ohio class nuclear

arm ballistic missile submarine, right? The USS West Virginia is also this Ohio class nuclear arm ballistic submarine, the sea leg of the triad. So, this one, the USS Alaska docked publicly in Gibraltar with the Royal Marine Security in a 200 meter exclusion zone following Trump's rejection of Iran's, you know, is one of the times where, you know, Trump was saying, "Oh, we're going to do a deal. We're not going to deal. We're not going to deal. We're not going to deal. We're not going to

do a deal." The Ohio class submarines carry up to 20 triedent nuclear missiles. They almost never

make public port calls. Let's just say they rarely ever make public port calls. They stay under their stealthy. There are nuclear triad. They don't pop up and they popped up in Gibraltar, which is just fascinating. Straight of Gibraltar, Mediterranean sea, right? That was that area right by Sita, where Morocco sent 50,000 migrants who were returned, although there was some tragic incidents where there was a lot of death actually as well from them as well. Right? You got the Gibraltar

straight. Straight of Gibraltar, then we're looking over here. You got the Red Sea, Bob Almondob straight, Red Sea, Persian Gulf, what do you've got? You've got the Hormuz straight right there. So projecting the nuclear submarine there, you know, and it making a port call again, very odd, but when it comes to the Trump regime, all of this behavior is odd. Raise your hand if you want an all natural GLP1 alternative to help you hit your weight loss

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mitis so they know that I sent you. This also happens at the same time that China's Navy

successfully test fired a nuclear capable ballistic missile carrying a training simulation

warhead from a strategic submarine into the Pacific high seas. The launch triggered swift condemnation from New Zealand, Japan, Papua New Guinea and they all called this a threat to regional stability. And as I've done another video about in the past this past morning, you have all of these admirals and generals leaking to the press that the United States does not have the forces to escalate in Iran and certainly doesn't have the forces to protect the United States anymore.

That the U.S., I mean, this is essentially what the U.S. allied commander from NATO and Europe Grinkowitch was very well respected. General Grinkowitch is like, look, the United States is now protecting Israel and we don't protect the United States anymore. We don't have our capabilities

to protect the United States and if there were to be any conflicts in the rest of the world

that the United States would need to project strength and we don't have the capabilities. And of course, Grinkowitch and a lot of these generals, what they're not saying out loud or even on background, China, China's building its ballistic missile nuclear class of submarines. We just talked about there. And then, of course, you also got Russia and Russia and Ukraine in the escalation taking place there. This also comes at a time where we learn that Navy seals in the past year used two boats

to escort cash-patel and nine others on what a Pentagon email called a VIP snorkel trip next to one of the military's most sacred sites, the underwater tomb of the USS Arizona. And as I note before over the last year, the Navy has not promoted a single female officer from Captain to one star

admiral, because Hexith and Trump hate women and hate black people and hate minorities.

And as I'm given, it's my opinion. You can have a different opinion. I'm sharing with you my opinion

protected by the First Amendment as evidenced by their actions. Let me be very clear. It's a

opinion speech. You can disagree with the opinions. And then that brings us to US Secretary of Navy John felon, who was terminated by the Trump regime. He was named on a flight manifest found in the Epstein files showing that he flew in 2006 from London to New York on a Boeing 727 own by convicted sex offender and trafficker Jeffrey Epstein, aboard an aircraft known more commonly as the lollita expressed 12 other passengers listed on that manifest. Beside felon include Epstein, John Luke

Bernal, his trafficker, a French modeling agent who trafficked and others. And then to remind you what felon was saying before he was fired, was that for the first time in generations, we will have a new leg in America's nuclear deterrence because they wanted to build Trump class battleships. They were going to call it Donald Trump doesn't like stealth. He didn't like this submarines. He wanted his own battleships that look like World War I battleships. So look

with the former Navy Secretary had to say about building Trump battleships that look like World War I or like yeah, like World War I ships that are nuclear powered, which is by the worst idea given drone warfare, unmanned submersives. I mean these people have the dumbest people. I know we've got a lot of military people who watch this. I mean I hope you appreciate that we do the deal with you. Like y'all must, if I'm thinking like yo, these people, these Trump regime is like

the biggest group of idiots. They're like the worst of the military. I can only imagine what the people in the Navy who watch this and there are other armed force members who watch. And we know we have top people in the military who watch us. I'm just wondering which of the anyway, play this clip of the Olympics, play it. This ship isn't just to swat the arrows. It is going

to reach out and kill the archers. And for the first time in generations, we'll have a new leg in

America's nuclear deterrence. Because the Trump class battleship will carry the nuclear armed sea launched cruise missile. Striking dominance isn't all that the Trump class battleship brings to the fight at sea. It has the size and capacity to serve as a flagship for our fleet commanders. So they can command and control naval forces far out to sea. And it doesn't get much better. The guy who took over from Feline is Hongkhao. Here's Hongkhao saying that he believes

which is have taken over California. Let's play it. There's a place in Monterey, California called

Lovers Point.

the Christ. It's Lovers Point. And it's really Monterey. It's a very dark place now. A lot of

rich, rich craft. And the the the the Wicken community has really taken over there. And we can't

let that happen in Virginia. Virginia is I mean, especially down down and and Roanoke, they're God love people. Right. Richmond, too. And Virginia Beach. And we just need to mobilize Christians across the nation. I mean, and he claims he's African American because he lived in Africa for a

little bit. Okay, let's these people are crazy. Let's play this clip right here. And and you're

conservative. And you love God. And you love America. Like all the things that African American because I grew up in Africa too. So. Yeah. And African American Vietnamese here. No, but significantly hung cow again, current Navy secretary said at a recent appropriations hearing that we're doing a pause on giving interceptors or any arm shipments to Taiwan because we've run out of our weapons. And

he said that a few months back, remember I showed you that, which was a monster red flag to me. I'll

show you what he said here. Let's play it. Goodbye, arms from us. And all of a sudden there's a pause. What are you hearing from the Taiwanese about the pause? Chairman, I have not heard. I've not spoken to the Taiwanese. However, we are. We have done some military form military sales to them. And it's just right now we're doing a pause in order to make sure we have the munitions we need for epic fury, which we have plenty, but we're just making, making sure we have

everything, but then the military sales will continue when the administration deems necessary. And that brings me to the top U.S. Navy commander killed in the Arabian Sea. Commander Gabe Edwards was killed after his helicopter mysteriously crashed into the sea July 1st. The U.S. hid all details he went missing after an MH60SC Hawk helicopter made an emergency water landing in the Arabian Sea on July 1st, 2026, during an operation tied to the carrier USS George H. W. Bush right there.

And so I think that the totality of what I've just said raises some massive red flags. I'd

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