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All right, everybody, this is an effing mess.
Protests are currently breaking out in South Korea
as Donald Trump is trying to pressure the South Korean government
into joining his Iran war and giving him a hand
in the Strait of Formuz.
The South Korean government failed to give an affirmative answer
either way on whether they were joining,
so speculation grew, and protests began to spark in Seoul,
the capital, where people are holding signs
that say no war, peace, people have Donald Trump masks
while they are protesting against the deployment of any troops
in the Strait of Formuz in particular.
As it says right here on screen,
South Koreans reject joining US war in Iran.
It says no war, peace, and you can even see a speaker on screen
with translations below.
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the government's to-south Korea has a very reactive democracy,
which is great.
They oftentimes protest issues.
in an attempt to sway their government.
This is a very, very good thing.
And in this case, they're not happy that South Korea
was potentially maybe going to join Donald Trump
after he pressured the government
by stopping the military joint exercises
and pulling our military out.
And this brings me on to the broader point of this video.
The streets of South Korea,
what is happening right now in South Korea,
is a broader signal towards what is actually happening
across the globe.
Donald Trump is alienating
a lot of our allied countries
while getting closer and closer to our enemies.
For example, Trump is starting a trade war with Canada
and pulling our troops out of South Korea
while saying that Russia and North Korea
aren't really that much of enemies at all.
So our democratic allies, which while they're imperfect,
yes, Canada's not perfect, South Korea is not perfect,
America's not perfect, we know this.
We still at least have a common shared value system.
North Korea and Russia exist an entirely different plane
of authoritarianism, as much as I reject Trump's fascistic tendencies.
So this brings me on to how Donald Trump is alienating and pushing away a lot of our closest allies,
countries that have spent decades building economic and political and security ties with America.
South Korea is a rather good ally to us. So is Canada. I mean, I like Canada as an ally.
I like Germany, Switzerland. I like Sweden. I like these countries that are oftentimes
close to the United States or in NATO. And right here, we,
We have Donald Trump pushing them away.
The issues began in mid-August when Trump revealed in an interview and later online that
he had spoken with the South Korean president and asked that Seoul, give a little hand
in the war on Iran.
According to media reports, the two leaders had spoken on May 17th and Seoul said,
no thanks.
We're not going to help you.
However, as South Korea now knows, saying no to Trump has repercussions, I guess.
if you're a good ally. You can't say no to joining some war that's basically a suicide mission and
will last forever. On August 16th, Trump announced that the U.S. would significantly scale back
joint military drills that annually holds with South Korea. The exercises are meant to sharpen
Seoul's readiness in case of a North Korean attack. They usually last for more than 11 days,
but were reduced to five. Trump is scaling them back. He's pulling our military out. He's canceling it.
Can I just point out, this is a global retreat from the United States.
We are losing respect on the global stage.
Number one, by having Trump as the president.
Number two, by losing this Iran war, by also attacking our next door neighbors, Canada,
also by putting tariffs on every single country,
then not actually holding to those tariff deadlines and just blowing all of our credibility.
Now we're saying FU to South Korea, while Trump is also conveniently very soft on Russia in North Korea,
Trump says he had a great conversation with Putin recently and claims that Putin wants to make a deal.
Let me remind you, Vladimir Putin just struck this shit out of Ukraine and out of Kiev only hours after Trump's envoys, Witkoff and Kushner, left.
Russia basically tried to kill them.
Russia was just bombing the streets that they were walking on.
And now Trump is saying that Putin wants to make a deal.
How can we live in this inverse reality where the president of the United States is constantly,
acting like the bad countries are fine and our allied countries are bad. Let me play this clip
and as always, make sure you're subscribed to the Adam Ockler feed below. Helping us grow,
helps us spread the word and it means a lot. I will be debating a conservative commentator in
Nashville, Tennessee on September 12th. You can get tickets in the description below. Let me show you
this clip of Donald Trump right here.
The president, can you tell us about your conversation with President? We had a great conversation.
wanting to make a deal and if Zelensky is wanting to make a deal that'd be very nice.
What is the hold up?
The hold up is two people that hate each other.
What gives you confidence?
I think more than anything else, it's two people that hate each other.
So what has changed that gives you confidence in the process?
I think that because I speak to people.
That's all I do is speak to people my whole life.
I know about deals and these are two people that are tired of fighting.
This is so incredibly sickening.
Say that somebody who was attacked and invaded doesn't like the other side and they just don't like each other.
Sorry to be crude with it, but it's like if a woman were to get raped by her husband and she wants to move out, she wants freedom, she wants sovereignty.
Trump would say something like, well, both sides hate each other and they refuse to speak and they're making this hard right now.
No, one side is the aggressor, is an absolute piece of shit.
One side can just back off entirely and just remove their forces.
the other side has been attacked repeatedly and has no absolutely zero requirement to play this game and have a conversation with Russia.
It is despicable how Donald Trump gives infinite charitability towards countries like Russia and North Korea
while then attacking Canada and posting memes.
For example, when Donald Trump did announce he was splitting off with South Korea,
he included a bunch of praise for Kim Jong-un.
He said, based on my very good relationship,
with Kim Jong-un of North Korea,
I am not happy with the fact
that the United States
has long ago agreed to participate
in joint military exercises
with South Korea.
Dude, the reason why
South Korea needs protection
is because North Korea is aggressive.
Conservatives have this backwards frame in their head.
And even some people in the commenters
think that, you know,
that North Korea is the good guy
or that Russia is the good guy.
The reality is that the reason why NATO exists.
The reason why South Korea partners with the U.S.
The reason why these defensive alliances exist
is because Russia is a territorial, hostile state
and so is North Korea.
That doesn't mean U.S. foreign policy is perfect.
We've made a lot of mistakes as well.
Of course, Trump is, like, the worst in the world.
The difference is Russia is actively invading Ukraine.
Russia is an active authoritarian state.
So is North Korea.
Donald Trump, so he posts this.
He says, these exercises are not only costly,
which must have these costs paid for by the United States of America,
but send a signal that is totally inappropriate and hostile.
He will get swindled by any foreign dictator possible
while posting memes like this,
posting videos of himself beating the shit out of Mark Carney,
our neighbor in Canada.
Let me tell you guys something.
I have a lot of audience members who watch this show in Canada
and in the European Union, in the EU,
all across Western democracies,
I have no fans that watch this show in North Korea because they don't have access to internet.
I don't have any Russia fans due to lack of access to internet that live in those countries.
The reason why I make this point is because we can build alliances with countries like Canada or countries like Switzerland or Sweden.
We have built alliances with them.
Countries like North Korea and Russia are fundamentally just not our friends.
So right now, South Korea, Trump is alienating them.
And that's what I find despicable.
100 anti-war protesters gathered in Seoul to protest this war.
The United States is escalating in Iran, and Donald Trump can't get out of it in any meaningful way.
Here is him being asked about when negotiations will restart.
And Trump has a weird, odd moment of truthfulness, where at the end, he says,
the war will end immediately after our election, which seems to indicate that he understands that this war is dragging on so long.
that basically it's going to ruin his midterm elections,
and the Iranians are doing that on purpose.
Let me show you this clip of Trump talking to the press about it.
What about negotiations with Iran?
Do you expect that to be started something like?
We're not looking for it, to be honest with you, Jeff.
Originally, I wanted to make a deal.
We're so far down the line.
They have very little country left right now,
so we're not looking for it.
Yes, a negotiation could possibly happen,
but it's not something we're looking at.
This war will end immediately after our election.
Thank you very much.
Look at his hair blowing in the wind.
He says, this war will end immediately after our election.
It's like a weird moment of clarity.
Yeah, I mean, Iran probably is trying to drag this out past the election.
Trump then snaps and yells at a reporter who asked him about Republicans who are not coming to Trump a Palozo.
And Mr. President, several Republicans in competitive races are not coming to the convention.
Do you understand why they're deciding not to come?
Everybody that's coming to the convention.
Everybody wants to come, but we only want, and the people that are coming.
By the way, we're going to be sold out tonight just so you understand.
Who are you with?
ABC News, sir.
ABC fake news.
What are the worst?
You are the worst of all, in my opinion.
The reason that some people are not coming is because we don't have room for 500 politicians.
We have room for the ones that have a close race.
Oh, they just don't have enough room.
He just snaps at this reporter and says they don't actually have enough.
room. That is why Trumpopalooza is not going to reach capacity and why basically nobody is going.
So as the protests in South Korea breakout, as the war with Iran gets worse and as Canada continues
to get pushed away by Donald Trump's juvenile memes and his symbolic changing of Lake of
Ontario to Lake America, we should just keep a focus on the type of global order that we want.
We will return to a democratic administration that can focus on human dignity and steady-handed
sovereignty for countries like Ukraine or Palestine, Gaza and the West Bank both. We need to make sure
we're not funding countries like Israel while they're waging a genocide and starving people.
We need to make sure that we're not soft on Russia and North Korea, countries which genuinely
oppress their citizens. We need to uphold better values. And that starts with voting Republicans
out. I love you all. I will see you all in the next video and peace out.