Trump Crashes Out on Saturday as War Takes Ugly Turn
3/28/202620 mincomplete
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2:45Donald Trump has been crashing out even more than his manic appearance yesterday in Miami,
2:52where he started calling the Strait of Hormuz the Strait of Trump as Donald Trump's
2:58war turns utterly and completely catastrophic and disastrous.
3:04Donald Trump has been posting on his social media platforms things that he finds more
3:10interesting now than his catastrophic war.
3:13His weaponization of the Justice Department, attacking New York Attorney General Letitia James, attacking President
3:20Zelensky of Ukraine, attacking former President Biden, saying that Zelensky helped Biden in the elections.
3:29But what's actually happening in this war, it's getting even uglier.
3:33Donald Trump's unlawful war, an unmitigated catastrophe.
3:38As I reported earlier this morning, last night, the Houthis of Yemen, the Iran -backed
3:45group that controls major parts of Yemen, they have officially entered the war, and they
3:52said, well, they're not shutting down the Bab el -Mandab Strait yet.
3:58They're prepared to, if things further escalate, they started launching ballistic missiles into Israel, and
4:06they said that they're officially in the war.
4:09They're not shutting down the Strait of Bab el -Mandab yet, but they're getting ready
4:13to in the Red Sea.
4:15already know the Strait of Hormuz is now under the iron fist control of Iran.
4:23And even yesterday during a G7 meeting in France, as I reported earlier today, Marco
4:30Rubio told the other G7 nations, we're all likely going to just have to live
4:35with the fact that after this war ends, Iran will now fully control the Strait
4:40of Hormuz and they will set up a toll -like system where you will all
4:45have to pay for access.
4:47But to the rest of the world, that's your problem now.
4:50The United States is not going to do anything about it.
4:53Although Donald Trump will probably declare a victory in the war if he can work
4:58out some deal where now the United States pays significant fees to use the Strait
5:04of Hormuz where there was no fees before.
5:06And he'll go, look at the deal.
5:08We now pay billions of dollars to empower Iran and Russia.
5:12Did I do good, everybody?
5:14Isn't that deal -making? Utterly, utterly pathetic.
5:18Donald Trump is also crashing out because we're learning the full extent of the damage,
5:24destruction, and devastation caused by Iran when they struck a major United States military base
5:32in Riyadh. When the Prince Sultan Air Base was hit by Iran, we knew that
5:40a lot of these big USAF, KC -135 US Air Force, KC -135 strato tankers,
5:50those big refueling planes, multiple of those were destroyed.
5:55And that was devastating because those are really expensive, big planes that we need.
6:00But what we now are also learning as well, and this is absolutely devastating, the
6:04crown jewel of the Air Force, the US E -3 Sentry, which does all of
6:12the surveillance and all of the radar, radar, and it is like the most advanced
6:16system. One of the US E -3 Sentries at Prince Sultan was also severely damaged.
6:24So the Air Force now only has about six.
6:2616 of these E -3 sentries left.
6:30This was one of the, again, most expensive and the biggest crown jewel of the
6:36Air Force. That seems to have been destroyed as well.
6:39And then, of course, of course, the human toll.
6:43About 12 injured, 12 American soldiers injured, 8 very seriously injured, 2 seem to be
6:51in real grave, grave injury as well.
6:55And so we're following that.
6:57But when Donald Trump says 100 % of the Iranian military has been destroyed, again,
7:04it's just utterly false. And Iran was able to, again, successfully strike the Air Force
7:11base in Riyadh. I mean, not to mention you just look at what's happened overnight,
7:15whether it's ballistic strikes in Israel where Iran's now using new forms of cluster munitions
7:22that kind of spread out from these ballistic missile strikes that they hadn't used before.
7:27Whether you see, you know, and causing real serious damage in Tel Aviv and other
7:33areas of Israel. I mean, in the past 24 hours, look at Kuwait, serious damages
7:39there to the airport in Kuwait.
7:4115 Iranian drones were launched against Kuwait, major damages to the airport.
7:48I just talked about what happened in the past 24 hours or so in Saudi
7:52Arabia. You look at the United Arab Emirates.
7:55There was 37 one -way attack drones, 27 ballistic missiles that were launched by Iran.
8:02And the strategy from Iran seems to be shifting, whereas they're not launching hundreds and
8:08hundreds of ballistic missiles at a time.
8:11They're being very surgical about it each morning, each night, launching 12 here, 15 here,
8:1810 Shahids there, 15 ballistics there.
8:21Because they know that they can just keep on doing this every single day.
8:24They're acutely aware of the damage they're causing to the U .S.
8:30economy and the world economy.
8:32They fully understand that in a war of attrition, it's something that they can outlast.
8:37the rest of the world in the United States, and that's precisely what they're doing
8:42here. I mean, just look at the social media behavior of their leadership, right?
8:48G .B. Galabaf, Iran's leader of their parliament, M .B.
8:52Galabaf, the leader of Iran's parliament, he's reposting the fact that the S &P 500's
9:00total losses since the Iran war began is $4 .8 trillion.
9:06This was a repost by the leader of Iran's parliament of the Kobayashi letter, breaking
9:12the S &P officially post its lowest close in 232 days, erasing another $1 trillion
9:19in market cap today. This brings the total S &P 500 losses since the Iran
9:25war began to $4 .8 trillion.
9:27And what the Iranians realize is that no, 100 % of their military has not
9:33been destroyed. The true number, which I reported yesterday, was around 33 % maybe of
9:41the missile capability of Iran has been destroyed.
9:44A lot of the other stuff is underground in these highly guarded facilities that even
9:49the U .S. and Israel can strike.
9:51We see Iran exercise its strong control over the Strait of Hormuz right now.
9:56Any ship that dare defy its order, like we saw a ship the other day,
10:00get blown up by Iran.
10:02Iran now has implemented a toll system there.
10:05It's utilizing its proxies in Iraq, now in Yemen, in Lebanon as well.
10:14Iran, with the help of Russia, is giving a lot of these, not just the
10:17Shahid drones, these other types of FPV, these first -person viewing drones.
10:23And there's also ways to wire these FPV drones in order to avoid the drone
10:30jamming technology that the U .S.
10:33may have. And a lot of this stuff was, I don't want to say perfected,
10:38but was practiced and utilized in Ukraine.
10:42That's why Ukraine has developed one of the best best expertise out there, if not
10:47the best in the world, on how to do it.
10:49to use drones, how to intercept drones, how to detect drones, how to stop these
10:55ballistic missiles. The modern warfare was taking place in Ukraine, and the U .S.
11:02should have been watching Trump and Hegseth and all these idiots, should have been watching
11:06what was taking place there and developing the military to be ready for these types
11:12of things. The same way Ukraine has successfully been able to go after Russian naval
11:18equipment and Russian planes and Russia's, you know, kind of expensive, big military equipment and
11:25tanks by using the drones and picking out these kind of defenseless, you know, planes
11:31and things like that that were out there, Iran is utilizing similar tactics against the
11:37U .S. Army bases and the U .S.
11:39military bases and Navy bases and Air Force bases in the Arab nations, right?
11:44There, these are, we have these massive, expensive, hundred million, billion dollar equipment out there
11:50that's just sitting there, and these Iranian drones, pop, pop, pop, pop, pop, and there's
11:56no way to defend against it because the U .S.
11:58didn't prepare, and if you weren't prepared, then you shouldn't have gone into this war,
12:02and you shouldn't have gone into the war for a lot of other reasons.
12:05I mean, let me be very clear about it.
12:06It's an unlawful war. I think it's an inhumane war.
12:09I think it's catastrophic for the United States long term.
12:13I can't believe that this is a chapter of history that's going to be written,
12:17and it may be just fully the end of America.
12:20I mean, it was already being destroyed by Donald Trump, but what we're seeing right
12:23now is horrific, but you have to think about all of these other things, and
12:27of course, Trump and Hegseth and all of these people who are sloppy and don't
12:30think through any details. They didn't think through any of these.
12:32You have the worst people in charge right now doing the worst things.
12:36You have MB Galiboff also posting, The Israeli military chief warned, I'm raising 10 red
12:42flags. The IDF will collapse into itself.
12:46By escalating tensions and attacking Iran's industrial infrastructure, the criminal Zionist regime, MB Galiboff writes,
12:54is attempting to ignore these warnings and restore confidence of its corrupt cabinet.
13:00an army. Instead, Iran's fierce response will accelerate this ongoing collapse.
13:06Now, you may be saying, well, Ben, why are you reading the Iranian guy's propaganda
13:11thing where he's saying the Israeli military chief warned, I'm raising 10 red flags.
13:17Did the guy really say that?
13:19He did. The Israeli chief said it.
13:22That's what he said. I'm reading it because that's actually the words of what the
13:24guy said. The IDF could soon collapse if there is no solution to the shortage
13:30of manpower. IDF chief of staff, Lieutenant General Eyal Zemir warned in remarks during a
13:36security cabinet meeting that was held this past week.
13:39And he precisely said that they're running out of interceptors, they're running out of just
13:44bodies, they're running out of equipment, and they don't have the ability to continue to
13:49fight wars everywhere and to continue to do all this.
13:53He said that out loud.
13:55And again, Iran is very much aware of America's market crashing.
14:00They're very much aware of America going through its interceptor stockpile, going through its tomahawk
14:05stockpile. I mean, one of the really insidious and disgusting things that America is doing
14:11amongst many other things right now.
14:13So the U .S. is now using money, we should say stealing money that was
14:19given to it from Europe for certain types of military equipment.
14:23The U .S. is stealing it for itself so that the U .S.
14:26can now make interceptors for itself because the U .S.
14:30is running out of its own equipment and the U .S.
14:33doesn't have the funds right now allocated in order to rebuild some of its equipment.
14:38So I'll give you this example.
14:40Of all places, you know, Donald Trump's been bashing Switzerland a lot.
14:43Remember, Donald Trump's like, I got a call from the leader of Switzerland and I
14:47didn't like the way she was talking to me.
14:49Remember all of that? So I put more tariffs on her.
14:52That was before the war.
14:53He was talking and bragging about attacking Switzerland.
14:57So here's what we're learning.
14:58Here's what's being reported. By the way, in Swiss media and across Europe, they very
15:02much see what's happening. Let's talk about it.
15:04U .S. arms manufacturing is totally broken.
15:07So Switzerland put a freeze and stop.
15:11paying for the Patriot system that it ordered because they're not coming.
15:15The U .S. is not able to deliver on the Patriot interceptor systems.
15:20And the U .S. said it would take, I'm going to go into it a
15:22little more detail. The U .S.
15:25then took money that the Swiss wanted to use for F -35 payments.
15:32And the U .S. then put that towards Patriot interceptors for the U .S.
15:37So the U .S. stole F -35 money given to it by Switzerland to build
15:43F -35s and said, whoop, we're going to buy the interceptors that you now have
15:48put a, that you've now frozen payment on.
15:51We're going to, we're actually going to allocate it to that, not to the F
15:54-35s, even though you want to pay for the F -35s and no longer the
15:58interceptors. And we're all going to use the interceptors now in the Middle East.
16:02And Switzerland's like, what are you talking about?
16:04Here's, here's a decent breakdown of it, a good breakdown of it.
16:07The United States just took over $126 million from Switzerland's fighter jet account to cover
16:13missile shortfalls in the Iran war.
16:15Shanaka does a good job putting it up here.
16:17Switzerland did not approve this.
16:19Switzerland did not consent. Switzerland had already frozen its Patriot system payments after learning deliveries
16:25would be delayed for four to five years.
16:28The U .S. circumvented the freeze.
16:30SRF, Switzerland's national broadcaster, reported on March 26th, that Washington redirected Swiss funds originally allocated
16:39for 36 F -35 fighter jets to cover Patriot air defense shortfalls using the foreign
16:46military sales pool trust fund, a structure that allows the Pentagon to reallocate payments across
16:53a buyer's contracts without the buyer's permission, but which is never invoked because you want
17:00them to buy more of your stuff.
17:02So this is only to be invoked in the most severe of emergencies.
17:05It's almost like a version of a force majeure, if you will.
17:10Swiss armaments chief Urs Lohar confirmed the diverted amount is a low three digit million
17:15Swiss francs and called the situation very unsatisfactory.
17:20The money Switzerland paid for.
17:22jets is now subsidizing a war in Iran that Switzerland refused to participate in.
17:28And they're furious and they're saying, why would we do contracts with you in the
17:32future? By the way, this is why all of Europe, Canada, Australia, we can't buy
17:36military equipment from the United States.
17:38Even if military equipment in the U .S.
17:41is better than the stuff that we have, how can we buy it when the
17:47U .S. basically puts kill switches on all of their products?
17:51And by the way, the U .S.
17:52brags about putting kill switches under Donald Trump on its military equipment.
17:57And that's going to have a long -term damage because people aren't going to buy
18:00United States military equipment anymore.
18:02That's going to really harm our manufacturers.
18:04Finally, I want to just point this out as well.
18:06So CENTCOM has announced the arrival of those 3 ,500 additional soldiers aboard the USS
18:13Tripoli in the region today.
18:15U .S. sailors and Marines aboard the USS Tripoli arrived in the U .S.
18:20Central Command Area of Responsibility.
18:22On March 27th, the America -class amphibious assault ship serves as the flagship for the
18:28Tripoli Amphibious Ready Group, 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit composed of 3 ,500 sailors and Marines
18:36in addition to transport and strike fighter aircraft as well as amphibious and tactical assets.
18:43So you have that happening as well.
18:46And lots of people believe that group was being put into place for staging regarding
18:52a potential invasion of Karg Island.
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