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Trump Threatens Ground Invasion of Kharg Island

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Donald Trump threatening a ground invasion of Kharg Island after 5 US bases for successfully hit by Iran in retaliatory strikes. Head to https://zbiotics.c...

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Donald Trump is panicking and he's now calling for a U.S. ground invasion of Carg Island moments ago. He posted the following message. He writes that the United States will be hitting Iran, whose Navy Air Force radar anti-aircraft and all other

forms of defense together, with the most offensive capability or gun, very hard tonight at some point in the not-too-distant future. We will be taking Carg Island and all other oil infrastructure points and assume total control of their oil and gas markets. Much like we have with Venezuela, which is working out

brilliantly for both Venezuela and the United States. Thank you for your attention to this matter. Donald J. Trump, he then rushed to go on state regime media, which calls itself Fox and they were asking him about blowing up water facilities and this ground invasion.

And he just responded by saying the 2020 election was rigged the 2020 election was rigged. I get to that in a moment. But Donald Trump's been panicking and so has the United States military as we're now getting

confirmation, visual confirmation, despite sent calm in the Trump regime's cover-up, that a U.S. long-range radar station at the Jabal Al Duncan in Bahrain remains a blaze right now.

You can see right here this billion dollar radar system.

Now destroyed as a result of Iran's retaliatory types, you can see right here. Look on the hill in the back. You can see that radar completely obliterated. Also, now that we're seeing the video and the visuals.

Jordan, country of Jordan, got seriously hit in the morning. It looks like U.S. assets were hit there as well. Major U.S. assets. As this one account says, look, the U.S. is saying Iranian missiles hit nothing important.

But when you're seeing in this video over there, I'm going to show you the B-roll is Iranian missiles strike, striking today show how three out of the four missiles penetrated the Patriot defenses and hit a key U.S. air base over there in Jordan.

So the Al salt air base in Jordan was hit the Ahmed Al Jabar air base in Kuwait was hit. The Ali Al Salim air base in Kuwait was hit the U.S. Fifth Fleet headquarters in Bahrain was hit. And the Sheikh Issa air base in Bahrain was hit

and also Iran now has fully set up major defenses around carguer island as seen in reports. Iran spent months preparing for this ground invasion that Trump is now threatening. After U.S. strikes in March, Iran reinforced the island with

additional troops, air defenses, and shoulder fired surface to air missiles, those man pads.

We know that I think China gave a lot of that technology

to Iran as well. It also deployed anti-personnel and anti-armor mines, including along beaches where U.S. forces might land. So Donald Trump then called state regime media to start spreading his threat that he's going to do a ground

invasion. But then he also says, I want to do it tonight. I also think Iran wants to make a deal. But Iran loves the press they're getting. I'll show you this in a moment.

Iran loves that they're getting such positive press. They have like great PR people in the United States. And so I speak to Iran all the time. They want to do a deal, but they love the press. He says that's one of the big issues.

He also says, look, I want to do the invasion of Carg Island tonight, but the American people, they can't stomach it. So I want to do it. I want invasion.

American people, they're scared. So that's what I'm weighing right now. It's utterly deranged. But here, when he's asked about bombing water facilities in Iran,

Trump goes on this bunker's rant as Rupert puts it

about rigged elections. Just even the way those state regime media Fox tries to frame the softball to him though. They're they're just like so. This is all part of your five-dimensional chest, right?

You knock out the water facility to send a message that we're not playing right. You're talking about war crimes. Blowing up water facilities. The bloodlust on these horrible humans.

You're blowing up water facilities so that people can drink water. The people of Iran, and then you think that the people are going to support you. That makes sense to you.

I guess if you're regime media, that's what you think.

Let's play this clip. One of the hits yesterday as our audience probably knows is on a water facility. They were already wearing that of water. So if you continue to blockade and now you're taking down their eyes

in ears, you're letting them know you're not playing games. And the rhetoric that's been coming out of them for the last day weeks really looks hollow today. Well, Brian, if you can hear me, I think you can. Yep.

I will say that first of all, you mentioned 2020, you're right in 2020. I got more votes on anybody in history. We public in party. And we got more votes, but the election was rigged. But in 2024, I really got more.

We made it too big to rig. And so it's, but we did great in 2020. It was a rigged election. Then Trump goes look. We could walk in there tomorrow.

It'll be easy. We walk into car. We set with just the small group of soldiers. They have finished. They're done.

The Navy's destroyed. Their military's destroyed. They got nothing. They got nothing. We fly over Tehran every night.

The guy lies about everything. When the U.S. is conducting these strikes, what we've seen that seems that they're doing. The U.S. is hitting certain radar. And the straightive removes because Trump's plan

is that he thinks if you knock out some of the Iranian radar, some of the cargo ships and tankers, they can turn off their tracking systems and then try to sneak out in the middle of the night and Trump brags.

Like we got out a hundred million barrels of oil

since the war began. Okay. That's like three days and how it normally is. That's not a break. It's like when Donald Trump boasts about

China's buying 12 million metro tons of soil. Look at the deal I did. Yeah, without any of this chaos, they were buying 28 million metric tons under former president Biden.

Trump just hopes that people conflate millions, billions, trillions and it's all just like, and he just keeps on saying it. So you're like, "Good job Donald."

Anyway, let me show you what he says. Let's play it. We only have a minute left. We will be more bombing tonight. Yeah, there will be more bombing tonight.

It'll be a...

A bigger, a bigger, more powerful.

Don't forget, we've knocked out all of their anti-aircraft. They don't have any anti-aircraft, nothing. They may get lucky with the shoulder weapons or something. But for the most part, you know, they have no defense.

What does the representative say in your follow-up?

They've managed. Excuse me. They're finished. But the papers that media refuses to write it. They're finished.

We can walk in there tomorrow. We could take soldiers. Because I don't want to have boots on the ground. But if I wanted to, we could put a small group of soldiers and take over the whole place.

They have finished. And the media is crooked. Then he says, "I don't know if America has the appetite to do what we need to do." So now he's scapegoating the American people

for why he's frozen. And why he just needs... Just get the hell out of there, man. Take the U.S. military and leave. Try to enter into a deal that resembles as much as possible.

The Obama JCPO-A deal. It's going to have to be weaker now because you lost the war. But then get out of there. Get out. Let's play this clip.

It's like an anaconda. You'll talk to them. But you're slowly squeezing them to death. They're not good, though. I'm trying to get a deal now.

Less than three or four weeks ago. Because, you know, once you do this, I just... You can just go step further. But I don't know that America has the appetite to do what I would really much prefer to do.

You remember in Iraq, I said, "Don't go in."

But they went in. They made a big mistake.

It should have never let you know that war lasted ten years.

And go tens of thousands of people. Minions of people. But both sides. Minions of people. Nobody ever reported that.

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That's M-E-I-D-A-S. And then Trump says they're dying to make a deal. The Iranians, they want to make a deal so badly.

He goes, we dropped $250 million of bombs on them last night.

So that's where our money's going.

The money that could be going to health care.

That could be going to helping people in the United States. A Ford things. You're just dropping $250 million of bombs and a night and not changing anything. That makes sense to you.

Let's play this clip. The publicity that they have is incredible. It's almost like they're doing well. And they're getting decimated. They're decimated.

They're dying to make a deal. They want to make a deal so badly. But you read the New York Times and you read the Wall Street Journal, which is so fake. I mean, I know you guys own it, but it's a real piece of garbage.

And you read the Wall Street Journal. It's like, they did an editorial today about, "We're not hitting them hard enough." I mean, it's just not hitting them hard enough.

We dropped $250 million worth of bombs on them last night.

You know, it's the whole thing is crazy. But then they're really in submission. They just don't know it yet. Okay, to be honest with you. They just don't know it yet.

And then Trump goes, "It could be the greatest deal in history.

It could be the best deal ever." And he goes, "But at the end of the day, you know, they could say praise be to Allah. But I'll still get criticized for the deal. I'll still get called out for the deal."

Here's what he says. Let's play it. Mr. President, so I get the impression that you're frustrated with the run. I'm not frustrated. I don't get frustrated.

Well, I'll say this way. That is almost an ultimate of now. There's no more negotiation at this point. You went back and forth with him. You gave him two weeks.

And now they have to take the deal that you have offered them. That you try to negotiate in good faith. Or everything goes. And the people can be liberated. Is that what's happening right now?

Well, that could happen if we want to keep going. And, you know, the deal is a very good deal. The problem with the deal is that it could be the greatest deal in history. They could wave the white flag of surrender. They could say, we surrender.

We surrender. We're finished. We've had it. The United States is the greatest power. Praise be to Allah.

And they could do all of this. They could say it. Loud and clear. And the fake news would say it was a great victory for Iran. Have you?

That's the craziest thing I've ever seen. We're killing them. Yes, killing them. They have no navy. They have no air force.

They have no anti-acrypt. You know, we're flying planes over the middle of the terrain. And then he says, I can't believe the press they're getting. They're getting such great press. Let me show you this clip right here.

Let's play behind the scenes. I won't tell you. They won't even dispute it. Although they probably would because it makes sense. They're very good.

Iran is very good at publicity, but they're not good at fighting. So I took a look. And I must tell you, if they can't believe the press they get. They can't even believe it.

And they told me they said, amazing.

Well, we're going in the papers, we're not doing so. They're negotiating with us to make a deal. Well, Mr. Ford for them, because they are proud. They're very proud. They've been the bully of the Middle East for 47 years.

They've been ripping off our presidents and other countries for years. They've been they played Obama for a fool. The JCPOA is the worst. One of the worst deals I've ever seen. Other than the NAFTA, the NAFTA trade deal,

which was maybe the worst deal I've ever made. Mr. President. But the JCPOA was a road to a nuclear weapon. Mine is a road to no nuclear weapon. They can't have a nuclear.

It says you cannot have a nuclear weapon.

We will not have. And I didn't like it. It wasn't strong enough. Because it said develop. You cannot develop.

I said, no, I want buy also.

So they fought me on that for a day. And then they agreed to it.

You cannot develop or purchase a nuclear weapon.

So we got everything. But the press just covers it so crazily they stick. Don't worry about it. No matter what I do, no matter what I do, the press will say it was a great victory for a lot.

These people are great. Mr. President. It's Trump the arrangements. Yeah, Mr. President, I agree with Brian. Don't worry about it.

Our viewers are watching Fox. And so they see this coverage. They're not reading the New York Times. But we know that you've destroyed their air defense systems. They're ready.

Let me just cue you in on other dynamics at play right now. So European unions number two. Kaha Kala, who's their chief foreign policy leader in the EU. Having direct discussions right now with foreign minister, Iraq, Chief of Iran.

Because everybody knows, you know,

the US can't be relied on for everything.

So Europe involved in bilateral conversations with Iran. Also, the UAE, which has been one of like the United States's staunchest allies in the region. And they entered into those Abraham Accords with Israel. And they've come under attack from Iran.

And they, you know, were someone who was always like all right.

We're just going to. We trust the US security in Brella. Even while other Arab nations have been giving up on it. The UAE and Iran had their first high level face to face security meeting. Since the US and Israel war against Iran began signaling a move towards easing

tensions after months of conflict, despite viewing Iran as a regional threat. The UAE is increasingly prioritizing stability to protect its economy, financial sector tourism industry, and major investments in oil and AI infrastructure. Iran has also an interest in improving its ties with the UAE. So Iran is further strengthening its cards in its position,

while the US is out there weakening it. One more point I want to make. One of Iran's senior officials, a direct aid to the Ayatollah. Motion Razi rights.

The unhinged US president imagined that bombs can get him out of the Quagmire.

He himself created. But Iranian missiles will sink him even deeper into it. Washington must choose between accepting Iran's terms and losing the last shed of its credibility in the world. And Bigalabaf Iran's lead negotiator posting.

Wrong strategies and impulsive decisions will reset the entire board for the worst. Explode energy infrastructure and markets and create an endless quagmire that you will be stuck in four years. You will see a different Iran. While Senkham, US Senkham.

Right, once the strongest military entity out there,

something that would always be a sober and serious voice.

This is what they just posted. The straight of Hormuz remains open for transit. Straight of Hormuz is open. It's not open. And it is so embarrassing that Admiral Brad Cooper,

who runs Senkham. Shame on that guy. Shame on that guy. While all of this is taking place, the producer price index,

PPI, rose 1.1% month over month. PPI, that means the wholesale inflation, is now 6.5% year over year. 6.5% more this year than last year than that gets passed on to consumers.

So while we see CPI consumer inflation, 4.2% right PPI, which is kind of an indicator of where CPI is going, is increasing about 1.1% every month. So what does that mean?

That means at this rate, PPI, by the end of the year, could be close to 7% maybe more. Maybe 8% rather, 9%, if it's 1% a month,

PPI can be 10% 12% by the end of this year. And what does that mean for inflation? That means inflation can be 6%. You could have 6% inflation, CPI inflation,

and like 12% PPI. That's where this chart is going. And then by the end of Trump's term, we could be looking at, if this doesn't reverse,

I mean, we could be looking at 12.15, 20% Argentina style inflation. And that shouldn't be a shocker when Trump and Javier Malay and these guys, this is what they do. This is what they do,

but that's where this is headed.

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