The MeidasTouch Podcast - Furious World Leaders Checkmate Trump with Nukes!!

Episode Date: May 27, 2026

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free of charge. BetMGEMGEMP operates pursuant to an operating agreement with Eye Gaming, Ontario. Donald Trump is panicking as countries across the world are building up their nuclear arsenals. From France to South Korea, they are projecting strength right now as Donald Trump projects weakness by saying any abstention from nuclear capabilities as a result of deferring to U.S. protection. Bye. Those days are gone. We are going to build our nuclear arsenal and we're going to build it now.

I'll share with you what's going on in France. I'll share with you what's going on in South Korea. I'll share with you what's going on throughout Europe. I'll share with you what we're seeing in terms of France selling its planes to India. I'll share with you certain statements that are coming out of Mitt Fredrickson, the Prime Minister of Denmark. about new security doctrines as the United States has fallen as the leader of the free world by far.

Let's break down what's going on right now as the world order has broken down as a result of the Trump regime. So we're hearing the following facts. Number one, in France, as the telegraph reports, President Macron, tearing up 65 years of their doctrine of nuclear abstention because of the United States' behavior. Timothy Milvanov gives a good description of what went down. So France holds about 290 warheads. The UK has about 225. So their combined arsenal, UK, France, about 515 weapons.

That's contrasted to Russia, about 5,580 warheads. America's got 5,225. So without Washington, Russia alone outguns Europe 11 to 1 in warheads. So what is Macron's plan? He wants to make those 515 European warheads as unpredictable enough to matter, as Timothy Milvinov explains. Under Macron's forward deterrence doctrine that was just announced, a forward deterrence plan, these French Rafael jets carrying tactical nukes will rotate secretly through allied bases across Europe. Britain's four Trident submarines and France's four ballistic missile subs will maintain a continuous at-sea deterrent.

Macron is saying that we've got this submarine base, and this is what he said at the base, to be free we must be feared and to be feared we must be powerful. So France will increase its arsenal on top of the plan to shuffle around the arsenal in order to bolster its capabilities as well. Poland, Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Greece, Sweden, and Denmark are now also ready to host these French Rafael jets armed with tactical nukes. Europe is nukin up. Spain and Italy, they've ruled it out. And you have these other countries, though, saying we're in. Very few are saying, we're not really sure yet. So Britain and France signed the Northwood Declaration in July 2025

to coordinate nuclear capabilities and operations against Russia. But now they're also saying, we may need to do a little bit against what the Trump regime is doing. Also, a 2025 Kensington Treaty extended UK nuclear cooperation to Poland and Germany. And it talks about how these French jets carry these weapons on it. These friends, the French doctrine accepts one nuclear warning shot against a military target, then nothing else right there. And so big news out of France, but it's not just France because earlier

yesterday, South Korea unveiled its first official plan to develop nuclear power attack submarines with the first vessel targeted for launch in the mid-2030s. The submarines will be built entirely domestically, none of this U.S. material, using low-enriched uranium reactors, drawing on the country's shipbuilding and civilian nuclear industries. And South Korea's President Lee posted the following message about their new nuclear submarines, he posted. We stand at a crossroads of the most critical choices we have ever faced. The international order is rapidly being reshaped and the security environment is changing so swiftly that it is difficult to predict even a step ahead. In such times, a nation's principles and direction must be clearer than ever.

Self-reliant defense is no longer a choice, but the fundamental and core foundation for safeguarding the survival of the nation and the safety of its people. Let me reiterate, self-reliant defense. In other words, we can no longer rely on the United States. President Lee talks about what they're doing. The security of the future cannot be achieved through the government's efforts alone. It is only when the creativity and technological prowess

of the private sector, the expertise of the industrial field, and the government's strong execution power are organically combined that we can rebuild a stronger defense in a safer Republic of Korea. To achieve a new leap in the Republic of Korea's defense capabilities, we will gather the wisdom and capabilities of the future defense strategy, committee members. The government will steadily advance tasks to strengthen security sovereignty,

such as promoting the construction of nuclear-powered submarines and the early recovery of wartime operational control. In addition, through defense innovation based on cutting-edge science and technology and the enhancement of defense industry competitiveness, we will systematically develop a mid-to-long-term roadmap to ensure the Republic of Korea, Establishes a firm position as the main actor in defending the Korean Peninsula. In other words, bye-bye, Trump, bye-bye, United States. Your security umbrella is trash. It's garbage.

South Korea goes on to say, the South Korean president goes on to say, I hope that today's first meeting of the Future Defense Strategy Committee will serve as a meaningful turning point in opening a new chapter for the defense of the Republic of Korea. I express my gratitude to all of those who have joined us. Anard Bertrand explains, if some of you still had doubts that the U.S., quote, allies are actively preparing for a U.S. withdrawal from Asia, here's South Korea's president spelling it out.

Meanwhile, you have North Korea testing AI-powered missiles, just taunting Donald Trump and South Korea and the failure of an American security umbrella in the area. every damn day. Kim Jong-un personally oversaw the launch of a new tactical weapon system. Pyongyang claims the missiles are equipped with AI and can adjust their flight path mid-air to strike targets more accurately. The reported range is around 100 kilometers. The new missiles are expected to be deployed near the border. Looks like even North Korea wants in on the era of smart weapons. If you all remember when former president

Obama was the president. And every time Kim Jong-un would do a missile test, that would be used by state regime media, Fox, and all this corporate news, and they would be like, that's Obama's weakness. How do you let Kim Jong-un do missile tests? Well, Kim Jong-un's been doing missile tests every single day.

He has nuclear weapons now because Donald Trump sent him love letters and the entire world is looking at how weak Donald Trump looks, building up their nuclear capabilities and forging these alliances in the absence of the United States shown even a modicom of leadership. So right, then we turn to India. Now, India has finalized a letter of request for 115 Raphael fighter jets from France worth an estimated $39 billion. Around 90 of the aircraft will be manufactured in India under a D'Aault India partnership with the remaining 24 delivered directly from France.

This request is expected to be sent within weeks ahead of Prime Minister's Modi's visit to France in June. Notice, Rubio shows up in India, gets nothing. Meanwhile, India cuts this major fighter jet deal with France right there. Now, as all of this is going on, what's the United States doing? Well, the US cutting deep strike capabilities in Europe by 50%, including aircraft carriers and war planes. So Europe saw this coming. Der Spiegel, the German paper, reports that the U.S. plans to significantly reduce military contributions for NATO allies in a crisis, including

fighter jets, warships, mid-air refueling aircraft and drones. The U.S. will only provide half the previous number of strategic bombers. It will reduce the number of U.S. Air Force fighter jets by a third, make fewer destroyers available and no longer provide any submarines at all to NATO. The U.S. also plans to scale back the provisions of armed drone models and force Europe to provide its own reconnaissance drones. So when the U.S. is out there attacking Europe and attacking Canada and attacking the rest of the world, they're saying, okay, we're not going to buy your F-35s. We're not going to buy your ship material.

we're not going to buy from your industrial military complex. We're going to look elsewhere. I mean, we've seen Germany companies building up its munition plants to develop more munitions than the United States has. We've seen JVs between Canada and Sweden, right? We've seen Sweden making a very strong push to Canada over its gripen fighter jet, saying, use the griping.

Why do you need an F-35? The F-35s are under the U.S. control. You're going to need the U.S. for constant maintenance on these F-35s. Donald Trump has talked about kill switches on the F-35. So why not you just go with the griping? We can build joint production facilities in Canada, put Canadians to work in the process, and let's make this a win-win for Canada right there.

And so you see that taking place. also you have with respect to the F-35s, people weren't paying a lot of attention to this. We've been talking about it on the Midas Touch network. Iran did not shoot down the F-35 that it had on its radar in the past 48 hours. It did shoot down an MQ9 Reaper, which the United States military covered up.

Yeah, our Centcom just covers everything up now, zero transparency. We saw the MQ9 Reaper that was destroyed by Iran. Our corporate news in the United States doesn't talk about it. And, you know, these MQ9 reapers that have been destroyed, there's been dozens of them destroyed, billions of dollars of these MQ9 Reaper drones destroyed, and another one destroyed in the past 48 hours

over the strait of Hormuz. But one of the things that Iran realized, they knew that lots of countries are very skeptical of the F-35s right now for a lot of reasons. But one of the selling points of the F-35s, 35s as it could evade radar detection. And Iran said, really?

You think it could evade radar detection? Look at it on our radar. The IRGC Aerospace Air Defense System tracked the USF35 stealth fighter jet overnight as it went into Iranian airspace. And it showed that it had its target triggered right on it. And it was ready to pull the trigger rather. And it didn't. But it did with the MQ9 Reaper.

And Iran released this back to back to back. That was a message being sent to Canada as well. And while we're talking about a lot of United States allies on paper, really former allies, now developing their recalibrating and developing and further strengthening their nuclear capabilities and their nuclear weapons, I'll make a few quick points. Remember, what was it, last year, about nine months ago or so, when Donald Trump said we are going to resume nuclear testing inside. the United States because Donald Trump thought that Russia and China were doing nuclear testing.

Russia and China were doing testing of the weaponry that holds the nukes inside it, but not actually doing nuclear controlled nuclear explosions. Donald Trump said we were going to do controlled nuclear explosions in Nevada and New Mexico. By the way, you think that would be a big story in the United States? It really wasn't, but we covered here in the Midas Touch Network, of course. So then lots of other countries, because wait a minute. you're doing actual nuclear explosions in the United States. And then the senators of Mexico and about, like, you're doing that. And then one of the Defense Department officials and State Department officials testified before the House and the Senate.

And they were asked about that to, could you clarify what Trump meant? And they couldn't clarify what it meant. So you had other countries saying, should we be doing nuclear testing now, actual exploding nuclear weapons? And so one of the things we've also heard Russia say recently. is that, you know, it said that as part of its nuclear capabilities, it was giving nuclear weapons to Belarus, and that it was saying that, you know, if, they said, if Ukraine continues to, you know, make the advances that they are,

we may use tactical nuclear strikes. Probably should be reported. Probably should be a big, probably should be a big story, right? It was a big story on the Midas Touch network. So you have as a result of what Trump's doing nuclear proliferation that was previously contained taking place across the entire globe right now. And you saw Russia's move, nukes in Belarus.

You see Europe's move with France and UK, with all these other European countries gaining access to the nukes, even though they have less. Let's face it, all you need is one or two of these things to basically wipe out. maybe a few more, but to basically wipe out humanity. So thousands versus 500, not sure that makes any appreciable difference. But France says, okay, we got to project power.

We're going to build more nuclear weapons right now. So that's what happens with the Trump regime's breakdown in the global world order. And so while you have lots of these other countries forging alliances, like, look, Canada's set to announce a deal to supply Germany with liquefied natural gas from a planned export facility on the coast of British Columbia. Deal making. On the other hand, you have the U.S. doing deal breaking. Deal making, U.S. deal breaking. But that's Donald Trump's whole life, a deal breaker, a sucker puncher. Trump was never the art of the deal. Trump used negotiations to lure people into good faith discussions. Then he would sucker punch you, right? The worst form of scum is a

sucker. And that's how Donald Trump always has used negotiations his entire life. He's trying to do that with Iran right now, but they realize his pathology, and they've trapped him in the strait of her moves, and they've blocked it, but he's a deal breaker. He rips apart contracts. He sues. He's litigious. He's a loser. So Donald Trump attacking Canada. Donald Trump sends Pete Hoekstra, this ambassador to Canada, who is hated in Canada. And he says, you know, so Radio Canada asks him, you know, do you understand why people here are frustrated with you? And Hoekstra's like, no, why would people be angry with me? Here, play this clip. So here, you've got folks who are doing everything they can to get the Canadian public to rally against

America. It just doesn't make any sense. But do you understand where that frustration is coming from in Canada? Because, you know, a lot of Canadians are saying, well, we didn't do anything wrong and suddenly Donald Trump, you know, put tariffs on us. We put tariffs on everybody. in the world. There are two countries that have retaliated against America. Okay. China and Canada. You said it. I didn't. More from this Radio Canada interview with Hoekstra and Hoekstra says, you know, the fact that the Canadians are not buying our alcohol is making it very difficult for us to want to be helpful to the Canadians. Helpful to the Canadians, you try to invade them. You said you wanted their sovereignty. You said you wanted to make them

into the 51st date. That's why they went elbows up. Let's not be sociopath. Oh, you are sociopaths like Donald Trump. This Trump regime is sociopaths. Here, play this clip. You've been also quite vocal about the alcohol ban by provinces that was put in place in retaliation to U.S. tariffs. If Canadian provinces were to put back the American alcohol on the shelves, would that, you know, would that lead to a tariff relief from the United States? No. I mean, we think the We think the alcohol ban is totally unfair. It's a clear indicator of how 11 provinces feel about trade with the United States. They're saying, sending a very, very clear message about how doing business with the United States doesn't appeal to them.

The prime minister has reinforced that message. Okay. And so it creates some questions about, you know, does Canada really want to do business with the United States? And then Pete Hoekstra said, yeah, we're very frustrated and disappointed with Canadians. You're frustrated and disappointed. Maybe don't act like imperialistic sociopaths and behave as allies, behave as friends. And maybe you'll get a different response. Not at this point.

It's too late. But anyway, here, play this clip. There's some disappointment and maybe some frustration. I think we believe we could have moved further on the trade negotiations, which are due in five weeks. You know, so I think there's just a little frustration and disappointment. You know, then as the Trump regime tries to create a pretext for invading Cuba, Cuba's foreign minister, Bruno Rodriguez, Padilla, he says, you really think that our small island, that we're going to use drones to attack the United States that could nuke us?

Like, why would we, why would we use drones against you? It makes no sense here, play this clip. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told me, sir, on Thursday that the Cuban regime poses a direct national security threat to the United States of America. You mentioned an arsenal of military drones provided to the regime by the Russians, by the Chinese. He alluded to reporting in the United States last week that the Cuban government has even discussed internally potential plans to attack U.S. military. targets. Is any of that true? Well, just imagine Cuba is a small island, 100,000 square kilometers, and 10 million inhabitants. Based on what logic, what would be the common sense behind the idea that Cuba could threaten a nuclear superpower?

Second, we will have to ask the secretary, of state if he has any evidence i have heard him lying on and on regarding this issue and one of the things that he also said as well which i thought was important from this interview is he goes okay you keep on saying we're a failed nation we're failed economically but if you thought we're failed then why are you sanctioning us and blockading us if we just can't if you think we can't run this on our own then why blockade us, just let us fail, right? I mean, that's the point that that's the point that he's making playing this clip, play this clip right here. President Trump over the last week said that Cuba is a failing nation multiple times. What's your response to those comments?

If the Cuban state would be an inefficient state and the Cuban economy would not be viable what would be the use for an executive order by the president of the united states issued on january the 29th declaring a complete energy blockade against cuba what would be the need executive order of may the first establishing secondary sanctions against all the economic counterparts of cuba in the world they have also resorted to military threat no political difference no difference between two states, no consideration about the political system or the government of another country could be the reason for provoking a war or to cause a bloodbass or a humanitarian catastrophe.

Now, it should also be noted that it seems the only ally remaining for the United States. Also a country that's allowed to have nukes but doesn't pretend it doesn't have nukes is Israel. And then throughout the day yesterday, I mean, you had Israel's national security minister, Ben Gavir, saying the Israeli government is on the phone with Trump constantly. We will not let Donald Trump sign a bad deal with Iran. If it's a bad deal for Israel, we will not be allowing Donald Trump to sign that. Which Trump then responded by sending, whether it was directly because of this or because of Trump's conversation with Netanyahu or just because. or just because Trump did it, you be the judge. But then Donald Trump made that post over the weekend saying,

to all the Arab nations out there, and you listed every Arab nation, like Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Pakistan, you need to enter into an alliance with Israel, join the Abraham Accords. I'm mandating it. If you want the U.S. to enter into a peace deal with Iran, you've got to become allies with Israel. And these Arab nations are like,

we said that if Israel recognizes a Palestinian state and there's a two-state solution with East Jerusalem as the capital of a Palestine, then we could talk about alliances. Otherwise, there's nothing for us to talk about. And then I think people in the United States and tell me what you think are like, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. So we got into this catastrophic and unlawful war in Iran when there was a deal reach that had a stronger nuclear deal than Obama's because Netanyahu told you. Trump that we got to do it. So then the United States invaded Iran. It's been absolutely catastrophic.

Now we're trying to get out of it. And now the precondition to getting out of it is Arab nations need to enter a peace deal with Israel. What does it have to do with the U.S. and Iran? What are we doing here? And I think the people across the world are saying like, what the hell is even happening? Then Netanyahu's like, we are intensifying our operations against Lebanon. the IDF will be intensifying its positions.

Then the IDF issues displacement orders for 27 towns and villages across southern Lebanon and Beirut late on Tuesday night. And we're like, we're Chiquitas try to make peace here, please? Can we stop with all of this? Can we stop with the war? Can we stop with the demolishing of Lebanon and the genocide and Gaza?

Could we just be freaking using? human beings and live in a and live in a basic humanity. And with all of this chaos taking place, I know Donald Trump is a Putin bootlicker, right? Donald Trump removing these sanctions on belt, you know, removing sanctions against Russian oil, telling Ukraine, hey Ukraine, can you help us remove the sanctions against, uh, against Belarusian potash, please.

We need Belarusian fertilizer. Well, you have all of that going on, you know, and Donald Trump's going out of his way to help Putin. And then Russia's ambassador, you know, is out there saying, look, here's what we're telling the Islamic countries. We're out there telling them that America's not your friend. You can't rely on America. So while Trump thinks this guy is his friend,

here's what he's saying. Here, let's play this clip right here. It was warning in advance that had this started, it would attack the military infrastructure that the U.S. built in those countries. And I'm telling them you are the hostages of you of the American policy in the Middle East. And we were saying a long time ago that if something like that would happen, you will inevitably be, you will get into this crisis whether you want it, whether you are willing or not. And that brings me to Denmark's prime minister, Mette Frederiksen.

And she just gave an interview where she talked about the changing world order as well. And I think she sums it up quite succinctly right here. Here's what she says, let's play this clue. Do you agree with the Canadian Prime Minister Kani that the middle powers should unite in a collective response against coercion? Absolutely. That's the short answer. There's no way around the old world. Either it is changing rapidly or it's gone and it will probably not return as.

as we knew it. So we better hurry up. We have to speed up, we have to scale up. And yes, there are still democracies in power, and we have to join each other. And actually, that is what's going on now. So, I mean, it's very easy to be, to have skepticism about the European Union.

But if you look at the way EU works today, compared only, I mean, when I came into office, it's a much stronger European Union. We manage going through crisis, UK, let's see what will happen during next elections. But until now, they are moving closer to the rest of the Europe again. If you look at the Nordic region, now we have Sweden and Finland and NATO, and we are much more coordinated. in our daily life politically, in defense, in security. Canada is moving much closer to its European partners.

And if you look at NATO in the last couple of years, Japan is now participating every time we have a NATO summit. The same goes for New Zealand, Australia, South Korea. Yes, so I think those of us who still believes in the old world order and who have the capability to change our world into a new world, but based on the same values as the old one, should get much closer together. And that is what we're doing right now.

So my guess is that coalition of the willing, the idea that some countries goes together and move things forward is one of the methods you will see in the future, like we did on Ukraine, And like we are doing right now in Europe when it comes to defense and security. Because if you look at the northern part of Europe today, it's like a horseshoe with the Netherlands, with UK, with Scandinavia and the northern countries, with the Baltic countries, Poland. It's like a horseshoe and it's the strongest defense region now in the world. And if we have Germany one day to structural participate in our enhanced cooperation,

Well, then it's not just a horseshoe. Then it's a brick and it's a strong one. There you have it, everyone. Thanks for watching. Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. Double check that you're subscribed. Love this video?

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