The MeidasTouch Podcast - All Hell Breaks Loose as Zelensky Puts Trump on Notice…

Episode Date: October 4, 2026

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on Volodymyr Zelensky’s defiant response to Donald Trump’s pressure on Ukraine, Ukraine’s expanding long-range weapons capabilities, and escalating strikes ...inside Russia as Moscow continues its attacks on Kyiv ahead of brutal winter. Pre-order the new book from MeidasTouch, WTF America?!: The Way Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy, today: https://bit.ly/wtfamericayoutube Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Pre-order the new book from MeidasTouch, WTF America?!: The Way Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy, today: https://bit.ly/wtfamericayoutube Visit https://meidasplus.com for more! Remember to subscribe to ALL the MeidasTouch Network Podcasts: MeidasTouch: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/meidastouch-podcast Legal AF: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/legal-af Sidebar with Katie Phang: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/sidebar-with-katie-phang/id1886801652 The Parnas Perspective: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-parnas-perspective/id1869165949 The Intersection with Michael Popok: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-intersection-with-michael-popok/id1818863274 MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Ken Harbaugh Show: https://meidasnews.com/tag/the-ken-harbaugh-show The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show Burn the Boats: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/burn-the-boats Majority 54: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/majority-54 On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Five Minute News: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/five-minute-news/id1471715443 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Starting point is 00:00:00 All hell is breaking loose, as Ukraine's president Zelensky just gave Donald Trump the answer that Donald Trump didn't want to hear. Ukraine is not surrendering the Trump regime, depriving Zelensky and Ukraine of interceptors, of interceptor licenses, of critical weapons to strike Russia's ballistic missile launchers. What does Zelensky do? He says, you know what? We don't need you. We've created our own FP9, Ukraine. Ukrainian ballistic missiles. We'll make it all here. It's going to be a difficult winter, but as Russia is clearly prepared to destroy civilian infrastructure here over the summer and destroy the bridges in Kiev and destroy the power grid in Kiev, Zelensky announced, we will be striking the same types of infrastructure all across Russia. And we will not let the people
Starting point is 00:00:56 in Moscow. We will not let the people in St. Petersburg and in all the various cities that thought they were immune and that they were protected. We will not make them feel comfortable if we can feel comfortable this winter. That's what Zelensky said in an interview that was just released. Let me show you what went down. First, let me show you what took place as Russia struck the northern bridge in Kiev, one of the main bridges. I'll show you as this Garon-4. This jet fuel drone struck the bridge. Look as this was captured on tape. Play it.
Starting point is 00:01:37 We have some other angles of the bridge and Kiev being struck. Let's play this clip. Let me show you one more video of what that looked like from just another angle. Let's play it. Now, Zelensky gave an interview, and here's what he announced. Pursuing compromises with Russia is a waste of time
Starting point is 00:02:03 because Putin constantly invents new conditions to exploit U.S. politics, Zelensky warned. He stressed that America is 100 times stronger than Russia and should remember its own strength. In other words, Donald, you are weak, you are not helping us, you are easily manipulated, and Putin can exploit you, and he is exploiting you, and you should recognize what the United States could do
Starting point is 00:02:31 if you actually fought back. Zelensky also saying, We've got these FP9 ballistic missiles, and we will use them this autumn. These are the first of its kind. We could definitely hit 800,000 kilometers with these FP-9s. You know, the drones, the FP-1-2 long-range drones, can already hit 3,000 kilometers. They can reach deep into, even like areas like Siberia. In the past 24-48 hours, we saw refineries.
Starting point is 00:03:05 in Samara burning, deep in Russia. I'll show you the B-roll of that right there. And last night, Ukraine launched a drone swarm consisting of 400 to 500 drones striking Russia. And it's just notable to because as Zelensky engages in these strikes, we learn more stories about how, now that Donald Trump's like, all right, there's no way we're going to be able to ever do a deal,
Starting point is 00:03:33 which obviously Trump is so weak and pathetic. can ever do one to begin with. So Trump's like, I want to try to make some money with Putin, basically. And so we learned about a, and I'll talk about it a little bit later in this video, when Kushner and Witkoff visited Moscow early September. I think it was September 5th.
Starting point is 00:03:54 One of the things that Putin said is, you know, we'd love for a major international deal between Luke Oil, the Russian oil company, and our assets internationally, with American corporations, and you can even bring in Kushner, some of your buddies in the Middle East, into this consortium for tens of billions of dollars. A lot of money could be made if you remove the sanctions against Russian oil companies. And so we'll talk more about that as well. But let me show you what Zelensky said in this interview that he gave, where he said, look, Russia is deliberately
Starting point is 00:04:31 attacking civilian infrastructure. And he said, look, we won't hesitate. to do the same. We'll respond how we need to respond, but we're not going to give up even if it is a torturous winter, which is what is expected here. Play this clip. Infrastructure. Yes. Logistic. And especially to attack in the cities, in the villages everywhere, roads, schools, hospitals, to pressure people, to leave the kids. capital live different cities. Yes, and because this is the goal of the operation. More from Zelensky over here in this interview he sat down with here. Let's play this clip. In any way with their attacks on our energy, we have to respond on their energy. First of all, oil
Starting point is 00:05:29 refiners, et cetera, what gives money them for this war. But we will not rest. Of course, just like them, any civilized objects. I mean, we can't do so because we are not a people or at least we are people. We know and we saw documents and we know that they allow them attack infrastructure. I'll talk about that deal now. Reuters was the first to report it. U.S.-Russia talks on Ukraine involved multi-billion-dollar oil deal. As reported by Reuters, the U.S. and Russia are not.
Starting point is 00:06:05 negotiating a multi-billion-dollar deal involving Luke oil, the Russian oil company's foreign assets. The transaction concerns the sale of the Russian company's overseas oil assets, including oil fields, refineries, and a network of gas stations. Potential buyers include U.S. billionaire Todd Bolley, a Maga guy, two Middle Eastern groups linked to Jared Kushner and Steve Whitkoff, and also a U.S. government agency. you'll recall the Pentagon created its own Trump oil company that did the deal with Venezuela. If you even want to call it a deal where Donald Trump's pretending that 65 billion hypothetical barrels of oil in Venezuela will immediately be accessible to the United States because U.S. private companies did not feel comfortable investing billions of dollars in Venezuela
Starting point is 00:07:00 because the Delci Rodriguez regime is a continuation of the Maduro regime. Also, the Venezuelan oil is sticky, viscous, sour, dense, hard to actually refine, won't go into the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserves. A lot of U.S. oil companies are reluctant to invest lots of money in there. And also it's an unlawful deal with Delsi Rodriguez for a variety of reasons. So the Pentagon created its own oil company. Sounds a lot like authoritarian communism, doesn't it? authoritarian communism, and they rip away your health care at the same time. But it seems like the Pentagon wants to create its similar oil company structure to do this deal with Putin.
Starting point is 00:07:41 And that's what Putin and Whitkoff and Kushner are alleged to be talking about, not like, you know, Trump standing up to Putin or anything, or representing NATO. No, it's them talking about deals like this. According to the New York Times, Putin raised the subject during a meeting with Whitkoff and Kushner at the Kremlin on September 5th. They source familiar with the matter stated that he proposed the project to demonstrate that a resumption of business ties between the United States and Russia was possible. The U.S. side views the deal as an opportunity to improve relations with the Kremlin and potentially lower global energy prices that the Trump regime caused by engaging in this catastrophic war with, Iran should be noted, Zolinsky striking these refineries in Russia and really picking them off in Zolinsky saying, I'm going to escalate that even more in the winter. We will do what you've seen already to the Russian refineries at multiples you've never seen before.
Starting point is 00:08:45 So, yes, Russia is preparing for a all-out offensive in autumn and winter, destroying bridges and power and logistical centers and everything in Ukraine. But Zelensky is like, okay, we're going to do the same, and you've seen our capabilities already, and we're going to do that. Russia's foreign ministry issued an alert to all foreign embassies saying, evacuate now, get out of Kiev, abandon all Ukrainian cities. We are about to unload on all of the major Ukrainian cities. we've never really seen a notice like this from Russia at this scale.
Starting point is 00:09:33 Abandon all cities, we're going to go after the cities, is basically the notice from the Russian Foreign Ministry, and the Russian foreign ministry told everybody in Kiev, you need to get out of Kiev. If you're a citizen in Kiev, everything's fair game now in Kiev. We're going to just destroy and level the city. Same thing with Odessa. We're going to destroy and level the city.
Starting point is 00:09:54 Same thing with Zaprisha. We're going to destroy and level all of these major cities. And even Lviv in western Ukraine close to the border of eastern Poland. Get the hell out right now is basically the message. And so we're heading to a very, very dark winter indeed. And both sides are saying, prepare for this massive escalation. What I've said before is when we've seen these meetings of the European countries, getting into like World War II posture, getting into World War III posture, and preparing for
Starting point is 00:10:32 this kind of winter of hell, I've been saying what they believe, what they're getting ready for is if this escalation, they're anticipating the escalation from Russia and Ukraine has the types of circumstances that have caused world wars before, right? The types of powder kegs that led to the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand and Sarajevo leading to World War I as the dominoes fell, what we saw in World War II. I mean, with the post-World War II architecture destroyed by Trump, that's what a lot of, I think, these European countries are preparing for. I mean, look, you have Pete Hegsseth behaving like Pete Hegsteth, I would say a buffoon, a lunatic.
Starting point is 00:11:17 You fill in the word. But Hegsteth is spending his time with these like just weird dystopian backgrounds all. also imitating Donald Trump. Here play this clip. He said to me, when he offered me this job, he said, bring him back to being warriors, Pete. I want warriors, not worksters. It was actually quite simple.
Starting point is 00:11:43 Talking about how they've launched the Office of Religious Affairs, which is really important to them, this Office of Religious Affairs, here play this clip. That emulate what you're doing. so that we have more patriotic institutions of character. And then we just launched a Office of Religious Affairs.
Starting point is 00:12:02 We're going to elevate the chaplain's core because I do believe that spiritual fitness is just as important as physical fitness, certainly in the way we understand resilience amongst our troops. Yeah, you know, and his whole thing is, you know, God through the book of Isaiah said, send me to war, send me, send me here, send me there, Whatever you tell me to do, send me and I will die for Donald Trump and Pete Hexon.
Starting point is 00:12:28 That's what Hegson. You know, I've been saying, send me is what Book of Isaiah says. We got some footage coming in from what do we have over here. This is a fire breaking out in Belgarad in Russia. More Ukrainian strikes in Belgarat. I'll show you what this looked like. Here, play this clip. Yeah, and then I saw this video circulating.
Starting point is 00:13:00 A Russian MI2 helicopter was spotted being. transported on the roof of a pickup truck in Russia's Krasnodar region and something went wrong over here. Let's play this clip. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's going to be. Oh, yeah, yeah, bach, yeah. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. There you have it. Let me know what you think about all of this.
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