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[00:00:00] continued selling a battlefield narrative increasingly challenged by
[00:00:04] events. On x Trump's claims from 911 to the war
[00:00:07] against Iran ignite ridicule anger and growing calls for
[00:00:11] accountability. The New York Times examines the economy
[00:00:15] consequences now threatening Trump's
[00:00:17] a political fortunes, while lamon exposes a Europe
[00:00:20] increasingly unable to influence the decisions made in
[00:00:24] Washington. We break down the numbers behind Iran's
[00:00:27] unprecedented missile operations and the mount. pressure on
[00:00:31] US military defenses before hearing a striking
[00:00:34] warning from American commentator Tocker Carlson about
[00:00:38] war, propaganda
[00:00:53] of confronting a story Washington could not successfully
[00:00:56] buried to Fox News, broadcasters framed the... increasingly
[00:01:00] resistant to America's preferred
[00:01:06] report exposes Washington's submersible cover
[00:01:09] up. Fox News declares victory while reality
[00:01:12] tells another
[00:01:14] of story.
[00:01:21] From Washington's increasingly desperate attempts to control the narrative of
[00:01:25] its war against Iran. To western broadcasters recycling
[00:01:28] military claims. predicted by events on the ground. Tonight
[00:01:32] we exposed the propaganda
[00:01:42] thank you. So a great deal has happened this past week in the familiar world of failed
[00:01:45] US propaganda surrounding the illegal war against
[00:01:48] Iran. Perhaps the most astonishing episode was Washington's
[00:01:52] confusion over this unmanned US submarine captured by Iran at the
[00:01:56] entrance
[00:01:58] of of the straight of hormos. Western media initially treated. the claim with considerable
[00:02:01] skepticism, but then Palmer Lucky, the founder of
[00:02:05] of Anderill,
[00:02:06] of directly contradicted Sendcom's attempt to dismiss this vehicle as
[00:02:10] some, insignificant older model, and he actually
[00:02:14] confirmed that it was anderal dive LD that had operated in
[00:02:17] Sencom's area of operation for months and provided what he
[00:02:21] described as significant value before it's capture by the Iranian
[00:02:25] forces, so the BBC, unlike
[00:02:37] Iran claims it seized an
[00:02:39] a unmanned American submersible in the street of Homus, saying its
[00:02:42] forces have taken the vehicle as a prize. It's thought they're
[00:02:46] referring to
[00:02:46] a craft like the one seen in the picture below from the US
[00:02:50] department of defense. Iran's revolutionary guard said
[00:02:53] a in a statement that they captured one
[00:02:56] of the
[00:02:56] of most modern, smart, unmanned underwater vehicles below. to
[00:03:00] the US military at the entrance to the straight
[00:03:02] in a
[00:03:03] a complex intelligence and operational action. the US though hasn't yet
[00:03:07] responded to those
[00:03:08] me claims. well control
[00:03:09] of the straight has become a key factor in this war. Iran has blocked
[00:03:13] access for most shipping since the start
[00:03:15] of the conflict, whilst Donald Trump has repeatedly claimed America is in
[00:03:19] control the key waterway. well with me now
[00:03:28] just today,
[00:03:30] a revolutionar guard
[00:03:31] in a statement, they say, as you just said, an operation, they have
[00:03:34] managed to seiz this us sophisticated
[00:03:38] of underwater vehicle, un meant vehicle in the
[00:03:42] entrance of a straight of
[00:03:43] of hormonepes and underwater cables, and we
[00:03:47] have heard in the past week that us has been
[00:03:51] using these kind of vehicles to detect the
[00:03:55] minds that has been laid by the Iranian to prevent shipping in
[00:03:59] the straight of hormones. and in some cases the report was saying they have been
[00:04:02] successful, the
[00:04:07] of significance here is obvious, mean Washington first attempted to minimize the capture only for the
[00:04:11] manufacturer itself to undermine that narrative by Washington, so this is actually
[00:04:14] precisely how official credibility erodes, the public is told one
[00:04:18] version, then facts emerge and the facts themselves expose these
[00:04:22] gaps, and the idea is that the more frequently that happens, the more
[00:04:26] Americans are forced to look beyond their own government. and
[00:04:30] also media institutions for information specifically they can actually
[00:04:34] trust and find reliable at
[00:04:42] US military confirms all Iranian attack attempts failed
[00:04:46] but one basic reality complicates this triumphant narrative that
[00:04:50] they're claiming US military operations can no longer rely on Kuwait or the
[00:04:54] UAE or Bahrain in the same manner that they once did following the damage inflicted by
[00:04:57] Iran given that these bases reduced to rubble, public
[00:05:01] congressional hearings involving and secretary of state Marco
[00:05:05] Rubio have also made it pretty hard to conceal the extent
[00:05:08] of the casualties and the losses, particularly involving radar.
[00:05:12] systems and missile defenses and regional reports have
[00:05:16] described significant damage, particularly following Iran's latest attack on
[00:05:20] the al-az place in
[00:05:28] East, US forces delivering powerful response to the latest act
[00:05:31] of Iranian aggression, the military taking out five oil tankers in
[00:05:35] response to attempted attack on US warships. Steve Harrigan is
[00:05:39] live in Tel Aviv with the latest. Hey Steve.
[00:05:43] Angeley, Iranian forces continue to try and fail to take
[00:05:47] out US military ships in the region and they are paying
[00:05:51] heavy price for doing so. Sentcom just posted, no US
[00:05:55] Navy warship has been struck. All IRGC attempted attacks
[00:05:59] failed. Meanwhile, US forces have successfully destroyed 10 Iranian
[00:06:03] tankers in just the last week. These vessels were part of a
[00:06:06] multi-billion dollar shadow network that funds the
[00:06:09] IRGC, and Iran cannot defend them. "Now right
[00:06:13] after the US destroyed those five Iranian tankers, uh,
[00:06:17] Iran tried once again to hit US forces inside of Jordan. They
[00:06:21] launched a ballistic missile attack. Jordan says 18 of those
[00:06:24] missiles were intercepted, two them fell harmlessly an
[00:06:28] uninhabited area. So
[00:06:31] the reporter speaking from Tel Aviv uh sounds almost euphoric,
[00:06:35] yet nearly every sentence is presented as an unquestionable fact,
[00:06:39] while the wider battlefield tells a far more complicated. Yeah, and this is the
[00:06:43] problem with propaganda masquerading um a journalism, it
[00:06:46] collapses the moment viewers begin uh comparing
[00:06:50] the broadcast narrative with independently reported
[00:06:54] events. Yeah, and Fox News has repeatedly done this, demonstrated this
[00:06:58] willingness to just shape facts around Washington's preferred narrative, so actually
[00:07:01] the real question here when we're pointing this out is not why do they keep doing this, because
[00:07:05] that's a useless question, it's more, how much longer is their audience
[00:07:09] going to continue believing this, exactly, when governments repeatedly. exaggerate
[00:07:13] victories and conceal the failures uh, they're not simply losing control of
[00:07:17] news cycle, they're losing the trust the public. they've lost it,
[00:07:20] yes, and that is perhaps Washington's greatest
[00:07:24] propaganda failure, every contradiction, denial and exposed
[00:07:27] falsehood is pushing the public further away from official
[00:07:31] narratives and closer to the uncomfortable truth. thank you
[00:07:35] for costly wars could turn the economy into his greatest political
[00:07:38] liability to lemon's scathing assessment of europe.
[00:07:42] powerless to influence the very policies whose consequences it
[00:07:46] most and year, the mainstream media exposing the mounting
[00:07:50] cost of Washington's relectless
[00:07:56] Trump's wars become economic liability.
[00:07:59] Lamond, Europe pays while Washington calls the
[00:08:03] shots.
[00:08:10] From an American economy increase. burdened by Washington's war
[00:08:14] to a Europe discovering the limits of its own political
[00:08:18] relevance. The consequences of Trump's foreign policy are now
[00:08:21] reverberating
[00:08:33] war of aggression against Iran has not only taken its toe on the American
[00:08:36] economy or you know domestic politics, but actually the consequences
[00:08:40] could now increasingly shape. the primary elections as
[00:08:44] well, so and and while this is happening, Europe finds itself actually
[00:08:47] paying the price for the decisions right, over which it appears to have
[00:08:51] virtually no influence whatsoever, because it's tropped by this inability to
[00:08:55] restrain Washington's increasingly reckless policies in West Asia that it just has to
[00:08:59] go along with. Okay, so the New York Times begins actually with the domestic
[00:09:03] consequences in costly conflicts with Canada and Iran loom
[00:09:07] over Trump's mid-term pitch. Tony ROM argues that Trump has
[00:09:11] plungged the United States deeper into... costly conflicts, uh,
[00:09:14] rattling financial markets, threatening higher prices and unnerving
[00:09:18] republicans ahead the 26 elections. So ROM
[00:09:21] writes, the president's attacks on Canada and his new
[00:09:25] bid this week to block some of its exports to the United States all
[00:09:28] together, risk damage to American states and domestic industries that
[00:09:32] rely heavily on commerce across the border, and his ongoing war with
[00:09:36] Iran contributed to another spike in gas prices, with the average cost of a
[00:09:40] gallon of gas topping $4. in 22 cents nationally,
[00:09:44] so the article then continues, while the economy once might have served as
[00:09:48] Mr. Trump's source of political strength, it has recently become his
[00:09:52] greatest liability, one that may jeopardize Republicans continued
[00:09:55] hold on the House and the Senate in November. So this is what
[00:09:59] happens when governing is replaced by personal impulse, and the
[00:10:03] administration behaves as though policy can be im imposed by royal
[00:10:06] decree, without calculation, without consequence or
[00:10:10] accountability or anything like that, and other hand, an ordinary
[00:10:14] American ultimately pay the price for all these fantasies that CMA
[00:10:17] is highlighting, through higher prices, economic
[00:10:21] uncertainty and wars, they never even imagine that they can endorse.
[00:10:25] Yeah, and the damage is not just confined to the United States, because Trump's
[00:10:28] aggression and constant sabotage that we see in and out,
[00:10:32] has also exposed Europe's extraordinary political weakness,
[00:10:36] and we're seeing
[00:10:37] that the peak of this now, lemond in Pierre Ramon's war in
[00:10:41] Iran, every day the world reminds Europeans that they lack the
[00:10:45] ability to influence decisions made in the US, argues that
[00:10:49] six months into the US-Israeli entities war against Iran,
[00:10:52] Europe is being reminded daily that it cannot truth. influence
[00:10:56] Washington, I mean even through the media, they have to remind them, so the
[00:10:59] article states, indeed, many European diplomats view themselves as
[00:11:03] guardians of US rationality and not as independent
[00:11:06] actors, such a strategy does not seem sufficient to build a foreign
[00:11:10] policy, especially an era of
[00:11:13] neoroyalism, an era of neoroyalism, the term
[00:11:16] used by American political scientist Abraham and Stacy God
[00:11:20] in the journal International Organization to describe the transcendence the
[00:11:24] west. failian model, a world where states, first and
[00:11:28] foremost, the govern by personal clicks rather than
[00:11:31] administrations, and Europe has voluntarily
[00:11:34] reduced itself to anxious spectator waiting to manage the
[00:11:38] consequences of decisions made by one man in Washington, so therefore a
[00:11:42] continent that once claimed that strategic
[00:11:46] autonomy has instead become an uncertain pawn, unable to
[00:11:49] restrain American power, even when its own economies and
[00:11:53] security are placed some... how at risk, and this may be actually the
[00:11:57] defining lesson here, and we see it even with west Asian countries, which is that this
[00:12:01] unquestioning alliance that you may have to Washington does not buy you influence,
[00:12:04] just like it doesn't security, so it's merely guaranteing that when Washington
[00:12:08] is acting recklessly, its allies just inherit the consequences because
[00:12:12] they're forced to play along and yes, therefore from economic pressure
[00:12:16] at home to political paralysis abroad, Trump's wars are
[00:12:20] producing consequences that neither America nor Europe appears
[00:12:23] prepared to confront. The question now is whether those are paying
[00:12:27] the price will
[00:12:39] rewriting history and contradicting his own administration
[00:12:43] to dismissing deadly war as small
[00:12:46] potatoes. Donald Trump found himself under relentless fire
[00:12:50] this week as X turned his latest claims into a spectacle of outrage
[00:12:54] ridicule. and growing demands for
[00:13:00] go viral from 9/11 fantasy to Iran, war
[00:13:04] denial, lawless king. Muchary turns into
[00:13:08] mounting impeachment
[00:13:09] pressure.
[00:13:16] X was a blaze this past week with Donald Trump facing torrent of
[00:13:20] ridicule over a string of extraordinary claims from nine.
[00:13:25] 11 to the war against Sidan while calls for impeachment began
[00:13:32] screens. joining at every corner that it can, from his
[00:13:35] bizarre 9/11 claims to the contradictions over the war on
[00:13:39] Iran, users showed him no mercy, they were mocking him relentlessly, and the backlash
[00:13:43] has now grown into a serious public conversation about beachment. this ridicule can look
[00:13:52] quite frankly as Trump appeared to place himself at the center. the US's
[00:13:55] most traumatic national tragedies as they consider it, so Aaron
[00:13:59] Rupar writes, Trump claims he was basically lifted
[00:14:03] out the rubble on 9/11, two fireman, big strong
[00:14:07] guys, they grabbed me under the arms, got to get out of here, and they literally lifted me up
[00:14:11] and they started running with me, but a community note, which
[00:14:15] you find these have come to the rescue quite often, points out that Trump was miles
[00:14:19] away from ground zero at the time, speaking by phone from his office
[00:14:28] got two fireman, we thought it was coming down top of us and two
[00:14:31] firemen, big strong guys and I'm not the smallest guy in the
[00:14:35] world, they grabbed me under the arms, said got to get out of here, and
[00:14:39] they literally lifted me up, this is not easy to
[00:14:42] do, I'm big, they lifted me up and they started
[00:14:46] running with me, I said fellas, I can run myself, but they were
[00:14:50] amazing, but they thought it was coming down, it didn't come down, US
[00:14:53] steel.
[00:14:57] so what's striking is the sheer audacity of attempts to rewrite
[00:15:00] history or on the event that's been so extensively documented and it's
[00:15:04] not merely exaggeration, it's claim that social media users can dismantle
[00:15:08] literally within minutes, yeah and actually i remember all the way back in the
[00:15:11] day there was a on tv he
[00:15:13] was on the phone with someone on tv, he definitely was not there
[00:15:16] and so the contradictions actually don't stop there,
[00:15:18] his own administration can't seem to agree on you know what it calls the
[00:15:21] conflict with Iran, this the operation, reporter asks
[00:15:25] Trump, how can he deny the conflict with Iran is a war
[00:15:29] when uh US
[00:15:35] reporter goes, the vice president said yesterday, that he would not describe the conflict with
[00:15:39] Iran as a war. if this is
[00:15:41] not a war, what exactly is it? trump goes, i call it a military
[00:15:44] conflict because it's small potatoes for us, it's not a big thing.
[00:15:48] reporter goes, 18 people have died, it certainly doesn't feel like small
[00:15:52] potatoes. 18 service members have died, we're seeing record long
[00:15:55] deployment. so trump goes, why is it record long? how long are we in vietnam? he loves saying
[00:15:59] this.
[00:16:07] uh, the... "vice president said yesterday that he would not describe the conflict with Iran
[00:16:10] as a war, but the US resumes strikes for the first time in recent
[00:16:14] weeks. can you explain to the American people? this is not a war, what exactly is
[00:16:18] it? well, I tell you what, lot of people don't call it a war, I call it a
[00:16:22] military conflict, because it's it's small potatoes for us, it's not a
[00:16:25] big thing, we did Venezuela and we did
[00:16:29] this, and Venezuela, we lost nobody, and this we lost
[00:16:32] 18 people, uh, and Vietnam you lost
[00:16:36] 100,00." people and in other conflicts you lost tens of
[00:16:40] thousands of people, and 18 people have died in this, certainly doesn't feel like small
[00:16:44] potatoes, 18 service members have died, we're seeing record long
[00:16:47] deployments, you initially said this record long, why is it record long? so 80
[00:16:51] air, how long were we in vietnam? how long were we in vietnam? no, how
[00:16:55] long were we in vietnam? we're in five months now, we
[00:16:59] and you
[00:16:59] know what we did in five months, they're not going to have nuclear weapon, that's what we
[00:17:03] did, small potato.
[00:17:07] for his president, perhaps, but certainly not for the families
[00:17:11] of those killed, as you're highlighting, sima or soldiers and
[00:17:15] during prolonged deployments, for unnecessary war of
[00:17:19] aggression, as some actually perceive it, the contempt in that
[00:17:22] language is kind of astonishing, yeah, trump is astonishing, and
[00:17:26] you now the next post highlights actually the absurdity, even more clearly, this absurdity that
[00:17:30] we've been talking about, the vice president says trump won the
[00:17:34] Iran
[00:17:39] JD Vance and Trump just gave two very different
[00:17:41] descriptions the Iran conflict. JD Vans
[00:17:45] goes, "nobody has want to warn the last 42 years of American history.
[00:17:48] President Trump did that by winning the Iran war and then
[00:17:52] Trump goes, "We will not give payouts for US soldiers who died in the
[00:17:55] war against Iran because it isn't a war," side by side. So
[00:17:59] according to Vans, Trump won the war, and according to Trump, it
[00:18:03] wasn't a war. Same administration, two completely different.
[00:18:07] descriptions side by side shameless, shameless, so it's an absolute clown
[00:18:11] show, even towards their soldiers, yep,
[00:18:15] yeah, it's definitely clown show, and it's political double speak at its
[00:18:19] most blatant, they want the glory of winning a war while avoiding the
[00:18:23] legal political and financial consequences of admitting that one exists, yeah, and
[00:18:27] as ridicule, it has intensified online, impeachment has increasingly entered, the
[00:18:30] conversation has you mentioned, and it's gone beyond x, mr. producer
[00:18:34] rich sementa wrote, rep jamie raskin, permits:
[00:18:38] everybody on our side understands that impeachment is critical tool in the toolbox for
[00:18:42] constitutional self-defense against the president acting like a king, an
[00:18:46] imperious, lawless, arrogant king, we won't hesitate to use
[00:18:49] it if we need to use it, not no, not yes if we need
[00:18:53] to, after he
[00:18:59] trump, do you support that? would you want to move to impeach president
[00:19:03] Trump? should democrats retake the house? look, everybody on our side understands that
[00:19:07] impeach. is critical tool in the toolbox for
[00:19:10] constitutional self-defense against a president acting like
[00:19:14] a king, an imperious, lawless, arrogant
[00:19:17] king. on the other hand, Donald Trump already has 50%
[00:19:21] the impeachments of a president American history, and we saw what
[00:19:25] happened last time, he incited mob to storm the
[00:19:29] capital, to attack his own vice president and congress, we impeach him in the
[00:19:33] house, and we could get only seven republican senators to join us, we
[00:19:37] were... and short again because of Mitch McConnell, so you don't, you don't support
[00:19:40] impeachment, you think it would be waste of time? no, impeachment is not a taboo with
[00:19:44] us, it's
[00:19:45] not a fetish with us, we understand it's
[00:19:47] not a panasia, it is a tool in the tool b, we will not hesitate to use it
[00:19:51] if we need to use it, but we also understand the framers gave it to Congress rather than the
[00:19:55] Supreme Court, because they wanted us to contextualize impeachment
[00:19:58] in the whole sphere of things we got to deal with, like getting healthcare back to
[00:20:02] our people because they've thrown millions of people off their healthcare with the medicaid
[00:20:06] cuts and the destruction. the aca tax
[00:20:08] credits,
[00:20:12] well, what began as mockery online is now intersecting
[00:20:16] with an unmistakably serious political question, how
[00:20:20] many contradictions, abuses and extraordinary claims can accumulate
[00:20:24] before
[00:20:35] a massive Iranian ballistic barrage and strain. patriot defenses to
[00:20:38] threaten pergian golf shipping lanes and increasingly militarized
[00:20:42] skies. The numbers are exposing the mounting pressure on American
[00:20:46] forces and the widening vulnerabilities of Washington's regional war.
[00:20:50] Here are the headlines: 30, 40 missiles, 12 launch
[00:20:54] sides. Iran overwhelms the American defense
[00:20:57] narrative. Patriot under pressure, US
[00:21:01] defenses struggle as the battlefield
[00:21:03] expands.
[00:21:10] This week, the numbers tells the story, Washington may struggle to spin an
[00:21:14] unprecedented Iranian missile operation, strained American
[00:21:18] air defenses and rapidly militarizing region
[00:21:22] stretching
[00:21:31] The most significant development was a one's
[00:21:34] largest reported ballistic operation
[00:21:38] against you as positions in
[00:21:43] the aggressor, between 30 and 40 missiles were reportedly
[00:21:46] launched simultaneously from 12 bases across central. and western
[00:21:50] Iran, primarily targeting Azrak airbase.
[00:21:54] now reports indicate Iran used Koramshah missiles equipped with
[00:21:58] cluster or submunition warheads designed to spread explosives
[00:22:02] across wide areas and the apparent objective was not
[00:22:06] only to, not only a single point of impact, but
[00:22:10] rather air fields, maintenance facilities and aircraft
[00:22:13] shelters. yeah,
[00:22:15] you know, this distinction actually matters enormously because the defense system may intercept
[00:22:19] individual missiles. but actually repeated waves combined with dispersed
[00:22:22] submunitions can rapidly overwhelm and
[00:22:29] sources, sema, patriot pack 3 batteries
[00:22:33] are reportedly fired around 100 interceptors against the first
[00:22:37] wave, yet were then unable to respond effectively to
[00:22:40] subsequent waves, and the explanation is still contested here, because
[00:22:44] interceptor stocks may have been either depleted or elements
[00:22:48] the system may have been damaged. Either way, it exposes
[00:22:52] serious vulnerability here, hibba, defense system costing
[00:22:55] enormous sums, um, is only as effective as its
[00:22:59] ability to stain
[00:23:04] the escalation is equally dangerous for after us strikes
[00:23:08] reportedly destroyed Iranian tankers, Iran
[00:23:12] warned oil crews in Emirati, Kuwaiti and Bahraini
[00:23:16] ports to leave, signaling that commercial infrastructure linked to.
[00:23:20] as military operations could increasingly be drawn into the
[00:23:24] confrontation, which means
[00:23:26] that the war is slowly but surely expanding geographically, even
[00:23:30] countries attempting to remain on the margins, we see now
[00:23:33] confronting direct economic
[00:23:39] reflect the same escalation, according to source sources,
[00:23:43] if one issued critical aviation warning covering parts
[00:23:46] the Gulf of Oman and the Arabian. see
[00:23:50] up to um FL100 citing military
[00:23:53] activity, electronic warfare and possible GPS
[00:23:57] intervention interference. Okay, Saudi Arabia has also
[00:24:00] activated extensive restricted and danger zones,
[00:24:04] while US aerial surveyance, refueling and fighter
[00:24:08] deployments have intensified across the region as well. In other words, the
[00:24:11] battlefield is no longer confined to a single front. It now
[00:24:15] extends undergrounds, extends across the sea and
[00:24:22] Farah reflect you know that Washington is confronting
[00:24:25] precisely what it sought to avoid, yes, a prolonged regional
[00:24:29] war in which every new military response creates
[00:24:32] additional fronts and vulnerabilities. Okay, so
[00:24:36] therefore, from dozens of ballistic missiles and
[00:24:39] exhausted defenses to threatened shipping, lanes
[00:24:43] and militarized skies. The numbers reveal a conflict growing
[00:24:47] costlier, more complex and increasingly. difficult for Washington to
[00:24:51] control. Thank you. Thank
[00:24:52] you.
[00:25:00] The US war of aggression against Iran is also producing increasingly
[00:25:03] uncomfortable voices from inside the United States itself. Tucker
[00:25:07] Carlson, a prominent American political commentator and former Fox
[00:25:11] News host, argues that Washington's media establishment
[00:25:15] has abandoned its responsibility to inform the public
[00:25:18] instead. helping sustain what he describes as a war
[00:25:22] driven by interests far beyond those of ordinary
[00:25:35] the only reason we're having this war is
[00:25:38] because Israel wants it. This is their last chance they
[00:25:41] believe. This presidency is the last presidency
[00:25:45] where they're going to have unequivocal bipartisan
[00:25:48] support.
[00:26:32] 'Hey, wake up! The world could be changing and it's going to affect you and your
[00:26:36] family. That's their job, and instead, they've been lowing
[00:26:40] you to sleep with the same variety of transparent
[00:26:44] lies and