The MeidasTouch Podcast - Putin Puts SCREWS IN TRUMP with NUCLEAR BLACKMAIL

Episode Date: December 8, 2024

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on how Putin is outmaneuvering Donald Trump with blackmail and psychological warfare. Get 30% off any subscription or one-time purchase of Create 90-count bags at https://TryCreate.co/MEIDAS Visit https://meidastouch.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 MissTrial: https://meidasnews.com/tag/miss-trial The PoliticsGirl Podcast: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-politicsgirl-podcast The Influence Continuum: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan Mea Culpa with Michael Cohen: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/mea-culpa-with-michael-cohen 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 Political Beatdown: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/political-beatdown On Democracy with FP Wellman: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/on-democracy-with-fpwellman Uncovered: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/maga-uncovered Coalition of the Sane: https://meidasnews.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We've got big red buttons. They're using that language that they know scares Donald Trump, big red buttons. This from the Irish star. Putin's chilling map showing the 14 U.S. cities Russia could nuke amid World War III fears. And at the same time, this is all happening. Putin's pal says Tucker Carlson is acting as a secret back channel to Trump. Tucker Carlson has been in Russia over the past week meeting with Vladimir Putin's top advisors to spread Russian propaganda or having the consequence of spreading Russian propaganda. And one of Putin's closest advisors is saying that he believes that Tucker Carlson is acting as an emissary for the Trump transition, the same way they use

Viktor Orban, the authoritarian leader of Hungary, for that purpose as well. Then I want to go and show you MAGA Mike Johnson from the House of Representatives, Speaker of the House, saying that he will not support any current aid to Ukraine while Biden remains in office. I want to then show you what Angela Merkel, the former chancellor of Germany, has to say. Then let's talk about what's going on on Russian TV right now, how they're mocking Donald Trump and continuing to mock him. So one of the things in Donald Trump's psychological profile is actually how weak he is. As I've said before, in the past, American foreign policy was the big stick policy. Under Donald Trump, it's the teeny tiny stick policy, right? It used to be you walk soft or you talk soft, but you carry a big stick. You ultimately can back up what you're saying.

You don't have to be loud and obnoxious, but you've got actual power when the time comes. With Donald Trump, it's the opposite. It's puff your chest and be loud and obnoxious and wave your accordion hands, but ultimately you are a scared little person. When Donald Trump is confronted face-to-face, he often backs down.

And Putin knows that pathological profile of Donald Trump. And one of the things Putin wants to terrify Donald Trump with is the threat of a nuclear war and having Donald Trump's entire legacy, entire tenure being known as the person who resulted in World War III. Remember Donald Trump's language during the campaign? World War III, World War III, World War... Well, Putin is basically saying, okay, we'll bring that to you unless you basically give us everything that we want, nuclear blackmail. Now, you'll recall after Donald Trump, after the election, where Donald Trump won the election, you'll recall that Donald Trump leaked to the Washington Post that he had spoke to Putin and he told Putin, do not escalate. Remember, Putin responded saying, not true, never happened, total fiction.

And then Putin continued to escalate. We talked about Putin using North Korean troops on the front lines in the unlawful invasion of Ukraine. And now one of the things that Putin did is over the past week, he met with the dictator of Belarus, Lukashenko, and he said, we'll give you nukes, basically, and we'll allow you to control them. This is how it's being reported by the Los Angeles Times. Putin gives Russian security guarantees to ally Belarus, including possible use of nuclear war. Here's another article. Nukes of hazard.

Russia deploying nuclear missiles to NATO's doorstep as Putin and his crony Lukashenko brag about big red buttons. Lukashenko now has control over the potential use of Russian tactical nuclear weapons. Russia is set to deploy a hypersonic missile capable of carrying nukes at NATO's doorstep in a chilling taunt in the West. Taunting, let's be clear, in a chilling taunt to Donald Trump. It comes as Vladimir Putin and his pal Alexander Lukashenko signed a security agreement that finalizes the deployment of Russian tactical nuclear arms in Belarus, Moscow's closest ally. You can see right here where those nuclear weapons are going to be positioned relative to where the NATO bloc of Europe is. Putin also shared a map of the 14

U.S. cities that Russia could nuke, and as they were mocking Donald Trump, saying that they've got their big red button. Well, all of that's happening. Putin's pal says Tucker Carlson is acting as a secret back channel to Trump. This from the Daily Beast. Tucker Carlson, the darling of the Russian state media, returned to Moscow this past week, apparently intent on boosting Vladimir Putin's key message on Ukraine. The Kremlin's TV stooges suggested

he may have had an even more sinister ulterior motive, you think? During Carlson's second pilgrimage to Moscow, he interviewed Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov. The interview broadcast Thursday night allowed the former Fox News star to push the Kremlin's agenda

that the U.S. should back off the war in Ukraine to avoid sparking a global nuclear crisis that could doom us all. The nuclear blackmail I was referring to, using Tucker Carlson to push that out. It goes on to talk about this sit down, but Kremlin insiders believe that Carlson was doing something else while in Moscow. While the former Fox host is positioning himself as a dove of peace toiling to prevent nuclear war, Putin's acolytes say he is also acting as a carrier pigeon for the Russian president and privately delivering his messages to Trump. During Wednesday's broadcast of Full Contact on channel Soliev live host Vladimir Soliev told American

Americanist Malik Dudikov, quote, What is important here is that the man who came to talk to Lavrov spent the last six months shoulder to shoulder with Trump. Obviously, he didn't just come to conduct an interview. He has something to say. Apparently, he has a message that he is bringing to Vladimir Putin. Dudikov confidently surmised, yes, we currently see quite a few similar emissaries. It seems Viktor Orban is again planning to meet with Trump. And after that, he may come to Russia once again.

There are more people who are willing to pass messages back and forth. Dudikov hypothesized that Trump and Putin are exchanging messages as to the terms of their future negotiations about Trump's alleged 24-hour peace plan. Soliev replied, quote, Trump will understand that his plan, what his plan is only after he personally meets with Putin, implying that the Russian president will dictate the terms to his American counterpart. And you see how Putin is already conditioning the battlefield, both the literal one and the psychological one, by engaging in this nuclear blackmail to Donald Trump.

All of that's going on. But yes, corporate media, please keep whining about President Biden pardoning Hunter Biden. Please keep, I'm of course being sarcastic there. Let me just share this with you as well. We'll remove the lower third right now from our YouTube so you can read the captions right here. This is Russian state media from this week as well, celebrating all of Donald Trump's cabinet picks, saying if they're allowed to get in, Trump's going to have them dismantle America for us. Here, что их правда не пропустят. Но такая отличная команда идет вместе с Трампом. По Украине think creatine is just for bodybuilders or athletes,

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right word here, but you know, you still have some Republicans who pretend that they care about foreign policy. You know, for example, you've got Republican Don Bacon, you know, and he's posting things like this, but at the same time, he's supportive of Donald Trump. Don Bacon, Republican, says the following. Russia has lost 700,000 casualties and its economy is in shambles. Putin's threats and nuclear saber rattling shows he's a cornered rat. He's finding out that he's not entitled to control his neighbors who want democracy, free markets, and the rule of law. And it's showing the front lines in Ukraine compared to two years ago with Russia not really making any advances at all. You then have Don Bacon repost this image of Ronald Reagan saying, quote, isolationism never was and never will be an acceptable response to tyrannical governments with expansionist intent.

Okay, but quite literally isolationism is what your party's doing, Don Bacon. I mean, this is one of their most important issue to just like post tweets and then support an agenda that directly undermines their entire position right here. I do want to read this history though, so you all know the history of Don Bacon, the Republicans reposting this. That's why this is Don Bacon's view, but it's obviously at odds with Trump's view. It says the following. Here's the photo of US, Russia, and Ukraine right there at the 1994 Budapest memorandum. I like injecting a lot more history into these videos that I've been doing right now. On this day, 30 years ago, Ukraine signed the Budapest memorandum. According to the memorandum,

Ukraine agreed to relinquish its nuclear arsenal, third largest in the world, in exchange for security assurances from the U.S., the U.K., and Russia. Before the memorandum was signed, a famous political scientist and international relations expert, John Mearschmeyer, published an article in which he argued that Ukraine should be encouraged to keep nuclear weapons. According to him, this was the most effective way to prevent a Russian-Ukrainian war. He characterized the potential war itself as a catastrophe capable of leading to the repeated conquest of Ukraine and, quote, undermining the prospects for peace in all of Europe.

Unfortunately, Ukraine was politely forced to sign the Budapest Memorandum and relinquish its nuclear arsenal. As a part of the memorandum, Ukraine has destroyed its fleet of long-range strategic bombers and relinquished over 1,000 cruise missiles. In exchange, the U.S., U.K., and Russia have provided security assurances to Ukraine. Obviously, Russia has gruesomely violated this, as well as dozens of other agreements. In fact, the very same rockets that Ukraine has relinquished to Russia are now being used against Ukraine today. While the U.S. and the U.K. are not Russian, have not violated their agreements after disarming Ukraine,

they have an obligation to help Ukraine. Steve Peiffer, a U.S. diplomat who participated in the talks leading to the Budapest Memorandum, said, quote, there is an obligation on the United States that flows from the Budapest Memorandum said, quote, there is an obligation on the United States that flows from the Budapest Memorandum to provide assistance to Ukraine, and that would include a lethal military assistance. I hope the U.S. will behave honorably and will keep its promise by continuing to provide assistance to defend Ukraine's sovereignty.

Well, that's being posted by Republican Don Bacon of Roman Shermeta, giving that nice historical perspective right there. Well, Don Bacon, the Speaker of the House in your own party, took to the mic at the end of last week and said, no, we're not going to be given a security assurance as to Ukraine. This is your party, Don Bacon. This is who you are. Play this clip of MAGA Mike Johnson. Let's play it. Additional aid to Ukraine to bring $24 billion. Are you planning to do that? What is your prediction?

I'm not planning to do that. There are developments by the hour in Ukraine. I think as we predicted, and as I said to all of you, weeks before the election, if Donald Trump is elected, it will change the dynamic of the Russia war on Ukraine. And we're seeing that happen. So it is not the place of Joe Biden to make that decision now. We have a newly elected president and we're going to wait and take the new commander in chief's direction on all of that. So I don't expect

any Ukraine funding to come up. So folks, the time why I'm giving the historical perspective, why I'm calling Don Bacon out as well as someone who claims to want to be bipartisan and Democrats to work by. These are areas where there could be matters of agreement. We need to understand the historical context. We also need to understand, obviously, what it is Putin is doing with his nuclear blackmail of Trump because Trump's already destroyed his negotiating position by saying that he was going to get a deal done on day one. Right. How do you commit to an unrealistic time frame in a negotiation like that? It's negotiation 101, the worst thing you can do.

So how is Putin taking advantage of it? leading to day one, and then put maximum pressure on Donald Trump, essentially threaten another Cuban Missile Crisis type scenario by cutting this deal with Lukashenko. And then when he meets with Donald Trump, sticking the screws through Donald Trump and saying, now what? Now what you gonna do? That's what's happening. I want you to be aware of it. I hope you appreciate the deeper context of these videos that we're giving, historical context.

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