The MeidasTouch Podcast - Top Generals Issue Stark Warning on Trump's Iran Strategy

Episode Date: July 26, 2026

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on how the top generals and admirals in the United States military have warned Trump that further escalation with Iran risks triggering World War 3, which may already be in, and the United States doesn't have the munitions left to fight Word War 3. The Korean skincare brand everyone is talking about. Our listeners get 20% off their entire order by using code MEIDAS at https://Jiyuskin.com #JiYu #ad 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 Cult Conversations: The Influence Continuum with Dr. Steve Hassan: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-influence-continuum-with-dr-steven-hassan The Weekend Show: https://www.meidastouch.com/tag/the-weekend-show The Ken Harbaugh Show: https://meidasnews.com/tag/the-ken-harbaugh-show 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 Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you win a $3,000 a month payday for life, what would you feel free to do? Maybe take a long weekend, every weekend, or try a bunch of new hobbies? Would you feel free to upgrade and listen ad-free? Don't worry, we get it. Every $20 ticket could win you $3,000 a month for life and supports life-saving cancer research at the Princess Margaret. Feel free to buy your payday for life ticket today. Raffle number 155-214.

Please play responsibly. Car shopping this Civic Holiday weekend, most car dealerships are closed and all you'll find are crickets. Not Performance Auto Group. They're open this Saturday and Holiday Monday for their annual Civic Holiday Sales event. Celebrate this long weekend with rates from 0%. They might be closed. Performance Auto Group is open to serve you. Join Performance Auto Group this Saturday or Civic Holiday Monday 9 to 5 for the best time to shop this summer. Legendary is here with BetMGM Sportsbook. Sign up to unlock access to hundreds of prematch and live betting options for all your favorite sports.

Download the BetMGM app. See BetMGM.com for terms, 18 plus Alberta only. Please play responsibly. Subject to eligibility requirements. If gambling is affecting your mental health or well-being, 21-Alberta is here to help. Call or text 211 or visit ab.211. BetMGem operates pursuant to an operating agreement

with the Alberta Eye Gaming Corporation. Standard message and data rates may apply. The Hulu original series Furious is coming to Disney Plus. Starring Emmy Rossum, Furious follows FBI agent Alice Black on the hunt for a mysterious and calculating serial killer. Both walk their own paths toward justice, and as their lives start to intertwine, the line between right and wrong begins to blur. Don't miss the three-episode premiere of the Hulu original series Furious on July 27th, only on Hulu on Disney Plus. Summer heats up in FX's The Shards.

Set in 80s, Los Angeles, the Shards follows a group of beautiful, privileged prep school students who are preyed on by The Trawler, a serial killer targeting teenagers across the city. This fever dream of youth, beauty, sex, and mystery is a must see. FX's The Shards, streaming August 5th on Hulu on Disney Plus. Sign up now at Disneyplus.com. Donald Trump's top generals and admirals gave him an urgent warning that the United States

was not able to handle an escalation in the war. And if Donald Trump indeed escalated, it would put the United States in a awful, existential situation. New York Times ran a story about this, but it's much worse than the New York Times is reporting. And if you piece together the reporting that we've been doing over the past week at the Midas Touch Network before the New York Times' latest expose about what's going on behind the scenes, you'll see that this is a very grave situation. And what this warning to Donald Trump was about was actually World War III

and the fact that the United States does not have the munitions not only to escalate in Iran, but this escalation would likely draw in Russia and China in a meaningful way. And if Russia and China were drawn in right now, the U.S. not only doesn't have the Patriot interceptors, the radar systems, and so much of the other necessary military equipment, but it could result in the United States losing on a scale that would be such a night. situation that it caused Donald Trump, at least for the time being, to pause what was going to be an escalation. Let's just talk about what's going on here. I mean, a few days back I did this report on YouTube.

Chairman of the Joint Chiefs gives warning on Trump losing the war. And I was talking about how in Dan Cain, he's the chairman of the Joint Chief's public testimony before the United States Senate. He was making indications that the United States was running low on munitions. But I was describing what I was hearing from my sources and also what you can read between the lines of what he was saying. And if you looked at the satellite footage that was coming in from China and other sources of the U.S. bases in the region that I've been showing you, the U.S. base in Jordan, the U.S. base in Kuwait, Al-U-Did in Qatar, which was abandoned by the United States.

I was showing you the base in Bahrain, the Fifth Fleet. I was showing you some of the bases in the UAE. Iran's been just destroying these bases, and we have a full list right now of what we believe where all of the U.S. assets destroyed. I'll go over with that in a second, but it is bad, bad. I mean, Iran's been surgically and with precision,

just destroying American military equipment and these early radar systems, and it was getting, And it is just a dire situation. And all of these Pack 3 Patriot Interceptors and that interceptors, which cost $3 to $5 million each, we've run very low on those munitions. I'll get into it. But so there was that video I did a few days back before the New York Times did their report.

And I was saying that the chairman of the joint chiefs, Dan Raisin-Kain, who by the way, was not a qualified guy for that job. Remember the United States fired CQ Brown Jr., who was qualified because Pete Hankseth is racist. and he fires black people and women, let's just call it what it is. So CQ Brown Jr. was pushed aside for a three-star general and Raisin-Kain who had to get a waiver for the job,

whereas CQ Brown was four-star, top of the top. Okay, so there's that story. Then there was the statement from Wang Yi, the China foreign minister, a Chinese foreign minister, who was speaking with his counterpart in Iran, foreign minister, Araghi. And following that meeting,

Wang Yi, the foreign minister of China, said that there was going to be major support, more additional support, China to Iran, that China stands in solidarity with its strategic partner, Iran. And China put out that very powerful statement that Iran's an ally. There are a strategic partner militarily, economic, politically. They've said that before, but it was an important statement. And I said, it's not getting nearly enough attention. but that was one of the reasons also that we saw the United States not strike as hard as they claim they were going to strike a few days back.

And that was because I said China is stepping into the fray. And China's like, China's been instrumental in somewhat keeping the oil prices from going up to $200 a barrel. And because they've kept significant reserves and they've been buying in a way that wouldn't just destroy the oil markets. I could get more technical than that, but for this video, we'll leave it at that. And so China said, enough is enough. We're going to get involved in this war. It was more than just the Wang Yi statement. We're going to get involved in this war in a big way if you escalate massively, Donald.

So be warned, and you don't have the ability to help Taiwan anymore. You don't have the ability to help South Korea or Japan anymore. We know you don't. We know you're bluffing. So cut the shit, Donald is basically what Wang Yi, China's foreign. ministry said on behalf of Xi Jinping. And also, Russia's been communicating similar messages. I've been covering Ukraine strikes into St. Petersburg, the Wildberries facilities, those logistical centers inside Russia and St. Petersburg. There was one in the Moscow region. There was another one

in Crimea. I've been showing you the Ukrainian strikes on a lot of the cargo ships and boats in the Black Sea and the Sea of Azav as well. But what I think was also, you know, I've been describing as well as I've been trying to also say, look, it's not just Ukraine hit in Russia. Russia is hitting Ukraine hard as well, both in the cities and hitting Ukrainian ships and transportation and other aspects as well. And I said that's, you know, I said, this escalation that's going on between Ukraine and Russia pay attention to it. One of the, which always be paying attention to it. And then you have the Caspian Sea, right? So you have on one side, you have Sea of Azav Black Sea, right? On the other side, you have Caspian Sea, which has been

used by Russia, obviously, to bring weapons and supplies to Iran and for Iran to give weapons and supplies to Russia. Iran gives a lot of these Shahi drones to Russia. Now, in the past 24 hours, Zelensky was able to strike a Iranian ship, which Iran claims was a commercial ship. There are lots of people believe that that was weapons going from going to, you know, to and from Russia and Iran. And so the Ukrainian strike on the Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea, which Iran then addressed kind of few,

I mean, look, we know, let me be clear too. Iran is giving it Shahi drones to Russia. Those drones are being used against Ukraine. It's why I said, you know, pay attention to Iranian engineering. There's a reason why Russia is buying all of its supplies from Iran. Do not underestimate Iran's engineering. I mean, they're top engineering in the world.

But this fuse the wars, right? It fuse the Middle East wars with the Russia invasion of Ukraine and the Russia-Ukraine war. And so you bring these two wars together with that strike of the Iranian ship. Iran says, we're going to now attack Ukraine. China's saying it's being drawn into the war. Obviously, Russia is invading Ukraine. So what do you have here? Also, you have UK bases now are being used since the switch of their prime minister.

And I think much to the dismay of a lot of people in UK, from what I hear from all of the people who watch from the UK, like seriously, we're giving bases to the, you know, you're now going to put a target on the UK. We don't want to be helping the United States in any war crimes at all. I mean, what the hell is going on there? And then Iran says, okay, well, that's a fair target in the UK. So what was coming together and what was spiraling, because Iran's been targeting Bahrain, all these areas, you know, Qatar, UAE, Kuwait, Jordan,

is you now had the entire world in a war. And I'm not trying to be hyperbolic, but the issue is, and what I believe the generals and the admirals were warning Trump is not only do you not have the munitions to escalate much further in Iran, but now that, this has become a world war in scope.

And again, I'm not being hyperbolic. The world has been drawn in. If China is drawn in, if Russia is drawing in, then you're absolutely screwed. And if all of a sudden the United States home front is now becoming a place that could be targeted. By the way, the way in Moscow, right? Their facilities are being it. The way in Kiev, they're being it. The warning Zelensky gave to Donald Trump in February of 2025.

You may think you're separated by waters, but one day you may need help and you're not going to know what to do. Remember those prophetic words that I showed you? That to me is the warning that I don't think anyone wants us to know about because it's so existential and such a scary thought that this world war is basically happening. And if I were to say, oh, you're being so hyperbolic. You're just saying, no, no, no. That's what's at stake right here. here, and I believe the warning was much bigger than just escalating in Iran, which is bad. We shouldn't. These are war crimes that Trump and Netanyahu are involved in. This is a catastrophic

and unlawful war that most Americans, including Maga people, but most Americans don't want to be involved in at all. But they're saying, you escalate, you don't have enough munitions to even fight a war against Iran, and you've run out of munitions now if China and Russia get involved, and they're going to get involved because now with the strike of the Iranian ship and the Caspian Sea that was destroyed and Iranians were killed, whether it was truly a commercial ship or a military ship,

Iran's now looking at Ukraine. China's coming in now on the side of Iran. Russia is, you know, obviously allied with Iran. Russia speaking with North Korea. North Korea is doing a lot of ballistic missile and cruise missile tests right now. Russia's got its ships around, Japan for a reason. China's got its ships around Australia. I'm just these are all objective undisputed

facts. Let's take a look right now so you can see for yourself the type of damage that's been done to the United States military arsenal and most of this stuff has been geolocated on surveillance footage. The U.S. has suppressed surveillance footage from planet labs and other areas that do the satellite surveillance footage for private use. That's that those those. overhead, you know, those Google Earth type stuff, but these satellite photos. The U.S. also banned Europe, the European Union, or asked the European Union to stop its companies and its assets from utilizing its satellite footage. So a lot of this comes from China and Russia. You still get it from other places. And Iran said, look, here's what we hit and here's

what we can prove that we hit. 47 radar and air defense systems. 44 support and logistics systems. 48 operational infrastructure like those containerized housing and barracks. 49 aircraft and aerial assets. You take a look at this list. Radar and defense systems.

Seven command and control centers. Three satellite communication systems. Six Patriot Air Defense radars. Three air and maritime surveillance control radars. Eight detection and early warning radar systems. 7 air and missile defense radars, 3 EPS radar systems, 2 EPS 1-117 radars, 5 long 117 radars, 5 long range radars, 2 air defense radars, 1 tactical radar complex. Now support and logistics facilities, 6 fighter jet and helicopter maintenance centers, 3 support and logistics centers. These are all U.S. military facilities and equipment.

12 fuel storage tanks, 17 warehouses storing weapons, spare parts, naval equipment, and aircraft components, 6 missile storage depots. operational infrastructure, six MQ drone hangers, one F-15 fighter preparation hangar, one drone hangar, containing eight factory new drones, two command centers, one aircraft carrier refueling platform, one P8 aircraft hangar, four Haimar missile launchers, five firefighter aircraft hangers, four Patriot Air Defense complexes, six missile launch platforms, one fuel pumping station, two signal communication centers, one intelligence data center, one artificial intelligence and data processing facility associated with Amazon. One depot for remotely operated on manned surface vessels.

One fuel pier. Four fighter aircraft shelters. Six aircraft parking and operating ramps. And in terms of aircraft and aerial assets. 11 fighter aircraft and helicopters destroyed or damaged on the ground. 17 reconnaissance and operational drones, including eight factory new aircraft. One F-15 fighter jet. One P-8 maritime patrol aircraft.

One C-17 transport aircraft. eight aerial refueling aircraft, four heavy helicopters, six stored missiles in the past two weeks. All of that in the past two weeks, and you can take a look at that, an 85 to 90 percent, you can locate and geo-target and geolocate on the surveillance footage,

on the satellite footage that we've been showing you. One thing I've definitely noticed as I've gotten older is that you wake up one day, look in the mirror and think, what's going on? Why do I look like this? Your skin just doesn't look as healthy as it used to. Maybe you've got more dark spots from the years in the sun. Maybe your skin looks rougher, less even, or just older than you feel. That's what led me to GU. That's spelled J-I-Y-U. What I like is that they make skincare incredibly simple. No 10-step routine. No spending 20 minutes in the bathroom. They're best known for their rejuvenation toner pads. These aren't your ordinary toner pads. Think of them as more like

an entire Korean skincare routine packed into a single swipe. It takes about 10 seconds, which is about the maximum amount of effort that I'm willing to put into skincare. Wipe your face and move on with your day. I've been using them, and I've genuinely noticed my skin looks healthier, and less tired. Just looks more refreshed, and that's exactly what I was hoping for. G.U is designed to help improve the appearance of dark spots, acne scars, uneven skin tone, discoloration, fine lines, wrinkles, and rough texture.

It's basically the low effort way to look more refreshed, more confident, and a little less worn down. A great way to cover up after a night of bad decisions. If you're trying GUU for the first time, I'd recommend the glow-up bundle. It includes their best-selling toner polishing pads and moisturizer. It's dermatologist tested, trusted by over 650,000 customers, and comes with a 90-day money-back guarantee. For a limited time, GU is having a crazy deal for our listeners. Their glow-up bundle is already up to 45% off right now,

but our listeners can get an additional 20% off plus free shipping with our code Midas, that's M-E-I-D-A-S, at G-U-Skin.com. J-I-Y-U-S-S-D-com. That's J-I-Y-U-S-N-D-com and use code M-E-I-D-S for an additional 20% off. After you purchase, they will ask where you heard about, them, please support our show and tell them we sent you. And by the way, you have IRGC spokesperson, Brigadier General Hussein Muhabi.

He told Tasneem in a podcast, basically that. And they went through it one by one by one by one. And we've been showing you, and this is, these are in the bases in Bahrain and Qatar and Syria and Arbil in Iraq and Jordan and all of these areas that we we've been covering. That took place, folks, in two weeks. So don't tell me, oh, this wars cost at $37 billion. No, hundreds of billions of dollars in military equipment has been lost and probably over $50 billion in the past two weeks alone. And those early radar detection systems,

if you now were to escalate and Iran has its ballistic missiles and its Shaheeds, which it does, Iran would be able to strike the U.S. bases with impunity and all of our service members are sitting targets in these containerized barracks at this point. And if Iran wanted to wipe out these containerized barracks, they could inflict if they wanted to right now tens of thousands of casualties on service members. They're not doing it because they know that they've got momentum on their side. why would they want to rally U.S. public sentiment against them right now when most people in the U.S. are against the war. They know that between their control of Hormuz straight,

Bob El Mondeb through the Houthis at this point, that they're positioned and Donald in a way that's way stronger than Trump is right now and way stronger than the U.S. is. That time is on their side, not on the U.S. side. Iran was able to get out billions and billions of dollars worth of oil during the ceasefire. They were able to rebuild.

They had a plan while Donald Trump was out there acting like a maniac. And so they have the ability to go on right now. 18 months, two years, at least, at least. And they've got the support of China and they're working with Russia. And so that's what the warning was from Dan Raisin-Kane.

It was bigger than what's being reported in the New York Times, which is still big in and of itself. I mean, the headline from the New York Times, Trump holds off on major escalation against Iran as advisors raise concerns. Among the worries is that expanded hostilities could dangerously drain and diminish could dangerously drain the diminished stockpile of air defense munitions. It goes on to say how Dan Raisin-Kane, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, told Donald Trump,

look, we're alienating our Gulf allies right now already because we're showing that the U.S. security umbrella doesn't work, and Iran's able to strike them with impunity right now, and their economies are suffering right now. I mean, look what you're doing to Saudi Arabia. Also, the Houthis hit those two major oil refineries, the Aramco oil refineries in Saudi Arabia. And so everybody's like, let's, maybe we could talk, maybe we can do a deal as well. You have the top of military officials warning Trump about the shrinking inviating. at Patriot Interceptors and other air defenses, which I just laid out for you the full nature and extent of that. And I may be downplaying some of it. There may be even more than what's been

reported right there. And so, as I said, though, the broader issue is China, Russia being drawn in. We already have the Ukrainian strike on the Iranian ship. The wars are merging. And the U.S. is unable to fight a world war. And our homeland is defenseless. And what happens if China strikes Taiwan? What happens if China, if there is a world war, what happens to the Southeast Asian country? The U.S. security umbrella is shattered. The Iranian Kaibar-shekkin ballistic missile right now is proving to be also incredibly effective. U.S. officials also warning Donald Trump, hey, these K-Bar, shaken missiles right now by the Iranians are cheaper to make also are cheaper to make and they're able to also evade the remaining interceptors that we have. I are whether this is actually happening

or a bluff, but IRGC potential, according to the telegraph, is IRGC positioning people inside the UK now that their air bases are being used to help the United States. And by the way, the intelligence coming out of Israel from the Mossad and from all of their state, all of their media in Israel is that Trump's genuinely afraid to ramp up strikes because, and you know, who knows, he's a maniac, so he may end up doing it anyway, but because the U.S. ran out of munitions. So Al-Mai-ed, you know, all these other networks over here, like Al-Mai-Din, Al-Maid Dean talking about how Trump will not, according to Israeli media like Israeli Channel 12 and 14 and others,

Trump will not escalate with Iran soon because the Iranians destroyed a significant portion of the defense system in the Gulf. And fears of further escalation led Trump to refrain from expanding the military campaign. But now I do want to mention this. Israel Broadcaster News 12 reports that, Prime Minister Netanyahu of Israel is scheduled to meet with Donald Trump in Washington on Tuesday, where Netanyahu is expected to present intelligence, claiming Iran is once again racing towards nuclear weapons and accelerating its actions. Now, with all of the background that I am giving you, what's the Department of Defense posting? I mean, they're posting, you know, just the dumbest,

most infantile, elementary, ineffective propaganda. They're posting photos of U.S. drones, which the U.S. drones, called the Lucas drones, kind of copy the Shaheeds. That's how effective the Shahids are, is that the U.S. ones copy the Shahids. And then the Department of War goes, the War Department doesn't miss, to which Professor Mirandi of the Iranian negotiating team of Professor in Tehran, he posts the photos of all of the little girls, the United States, slaughtered at the Minab Elementary School and says, we know. We know. So, we know. With that as background, I want to share this video with you. This was Donald Trump during all of his campaigns where he said, I'm not going to get the U.S. into World War III. I'm not going to get the U.S. into World War III,

but basically drew us into World War III. Here, play this clip. These globalists want to squander all of America's strength, blood, and treasure. chasing monsters and phantoms overseas. In addition, there must also be a complete commitment to dismantling the entire globalist neocon establishment that is perpetually dragging us into endless wars, pretending to fight for freedom and democracy abroad. We should have never got into the Middle East. We should have never got into the Middle East.

Under my leadership, we will turn the page forever on those foolish, stupid days of net. ever-ending war state. We're rebuilding our military stronger than ever before, and we are not going to deplete it again on stupid, senseless, endless, endless wars. World War III has never been closer than it is right now. We need to clean house of all of the warmongers and America last globalist in the deep state. I am the president who delivers peace.

I was the first president in decades who didn't start a war. and the worst, most incompetent, most corrupt president in history is going to drag us into World War III. And then to remind you during the hearing, when Pete Hegseth was asking for more money of the United States Senate, Republican Senator Hoven asked him, are Russian and China helping Iran here play this clip? Important, and we'll make a big difference for our farmers right now, so thank you for that. Secretary Hague, Seth, are Russia and China helping Iran? And if so, how? Well, Senator, as the chairman alluded to, there's definitely adversary alignment attempts to do so. And there are many ways that we deter that, some of which are, and the depth and extent of it ought to remain classified, and it should.

But there are ways in which both of those countries are limiting. at different levels, enabling some of the things Iran is doing. Yes. General Kane, would you like to add? Sure, I'd rather not opine on the specifics because that would divulge what we know, and I never want the adversary to know what I know. I just want to know it. And hopefully we'll get a chance to do that in the skiff. Yes, sir. Happy to do that in this gift, sir. this so and then do see on friday notably right because that's finally when donald trump didn't escalate

when everyone thought he was going to escalate for all the reasons that i'm telling you right now said you said to you said today russia and china are not helping but earlier this week hegsit said that they are here play this clip and you said today that russia and china are not helping earlier this week, the war secretary, Hague said that they are enabling. So what is the difference? Well, I don't know that they're enabling. I mean, I will tell you that President Xi said he will not partake. And President Putin said the same thing. I think, you know, I trust them. Do they, they've had a long-term relationship. There could be some things you do. But thus far, at least, it has not been major. I don't think they'd want to have me disappointed.

And the reality is that they are. They are publicly allied with Iran. That's the access. And while Donald Trump is out there attacking Canada and NATO and saying all of these horrible things about the U.S. allies, while also threatening to escalate and have more crimes in Iran, Trump has created the conditions for essentially a World War III, to which is top military people are saying,

military people are saying, dude, look what you started. And we've run out of munitions. We run out munitions in Iran. And if this escalates, if China joins and Russia joins, we're done. We're cooked. That's how serious the situation is. It's not being reported like that anywhere else. We'll find out that just like we've been accurate, each of these reports, we'll see, you'll see that this is the intelligence that he's getting. I have no doubt about it. Will you tell me what you think? Hit subscribe. Let's get to 7 million subscribers. for watching, everybody.