The MeidasTouch Podcast - Trump’s Retreat Gets Worse…

Episode Date: October 5, 2026

MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on the withdrawal of 12 U.S. B 1 bombers from RAF Fairford. Meiselas examines the latest developments alongside the USS George H.W. Bush’s arrival in Phuket, Thailand, and explains why he sees these military movements as further signs of Trump’s unraveling strategy in the Iran war. Save 35% on your first month of subscription by going to https://dosedaily.co/MEIDAS or entering MEIDAS at checkout. 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

Donald Trump and his regime continue their retreat in connection with the catastrophic war in Iran. We now learn that the Trump regime has withdrawn all 12 B-1 bombers from the Royal Air Force Base in Fairford in the United Kingdom, following so-called security concerns over suspected Iran-linked terror plots targeting the base, and this information apparently came from Benjamin. Netanyahu, the Prime Minister of Israel. This according to Axios reporter Barack Ravid, who I call Donald Trump's personal stenographer for a lot of the propaganda that gets put out by Ravid in Axios. Also, the Wall Street Journal reporting that U.S. officials believe a branch of the IRGC, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, recruited UK nationals to target the bombers, the 12B.

B-1 bombers and kill personnel, though some British officials have a question how sophisticated the plot was. In other words, some British officials are calling BS on this entire thing. Then Netanyahu has told UK intelligence, UK intelligence told Trump, and Trump got scared and immediately withdrew all 12 B-1 bombers. Now, this is in addition to the Trump regime Netanyahu and even the prime minister of UK, claiming two weeks ago that there were these five individuals who were arrested near Royal Air Force Base, Fairford. And they said they were involved in terroristic activities, but then they were released on bail.

And then it was learned that they were the ones who actually called the police and they didn't have explosives on them. And then Netanyahu was like, yeah, these individuals were going to bomb Royal Air Force Base. And so you had that incident. You had the fly Dubai. incident. There was another incident that seemed to take place in Mecca where it was unclear what was even happening there. And so you have all of these incidents taking place leading up to that Israeli election where Netanyahu is trying to do anything he can to cling on to power there.

Now, this retreat by the Trump regime from the Royal Air Force Base with these 12 B-1 bombers comes at the time where the Trump regime has also been retreating from the Arabian Sea. We reported on the Midas Touch Network, and I think we were one of the first to report because we were looking at the satellite image in the Arabian Sea, and we noticed one of the two aircraft carriers that were part of the so-called impenetrable blockade in the Arabian Sea suddenly started sailing into the Indian Ocean, and I'm like, is this going to Pouquet and Thailand? Is this aircraft carrier leaving the blockade? And sure enough, it docked in Pouquet, Thailand. There's about 5,000 sailors and Marines who are currently in Thailand,

at least for the next three to five days. We don't believe this aircraft carrier is going to be heading back to that blockade in the very near future. So we're going to follow what happens with that aircraft carrier if it is done being part of the blockade. This leaves the only aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea, the USS George Washington. This is the only time we've had one aircraft carrier there since February 28th. The USS Theodore Roosevelt, the other aircraft strike group, is heading from San Diego, joined by an amphibious assault group that also left from San Diego. Thousands of Marines and sailors are heading to the Arabian Sea, right in the Middle East area. They'll be there by mid-November, so after the midterms where Trump's threatened

escalation at that point. But these are, I think, critical. events. I mean, Iran is aware of it, the withdrawal of the 12B1s, I'm sure they're aware of it, from the Royal Air Force Base, and the removal of the aircraft carrier as part of that so-called blockade in the Arabian Sea. And in the past four days now, Iran's been able to strike somewhere in the range of 8 to 10 tankers in the Strait of Hormuz, trying to go through that southern Oman route. And then yesterday, we also were aware that there was an incident. incident in the Red Sea, in the Bob El Mondeb Strait where a tanker in the Red Sea reported explosions, and the UK MTO actually reported it there. And so this also comes at a time where the Iranian

regime claims that the Trump regime has been secretly begging for a peace deal. So Iran's deputy foreign minister, Kazem Garbibati, he said that the Trump regime sent a response to Iran describing a potential peace deal. We'll see what that actually means. Iran's made it very clear that it must be all of the elements that were in the memorandum of understanding that the Trump regime breached. And Iran wants all of those conditions met before any discussions take place at all about the nuclear file or anything else. Deputy Foreign Minister Garbibati says Iran is reviewing Washington's formal response, not what Donald Trump is posting on social media where Trump rants and raves like a lunatic. Iran will respond through the appropriate channels. In addition, one of Iran's

deputy commanders was on Iranian TV and he said, we are aware that there are no U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf, Strait of Hormuz, or Gulf of Oman, the Americans fled. He refers to the missile production or describes the missile production in Iran outpacing its use. He says Hormuz is under 100% Iranian control. U.S. Navy was forced to retreat 1,000 kilometers away, and they're aware that one aircraft carrier is now in Puket, Thailand. He says, this is again, the IRGC deputy commander, U.S. warships attempted to enter Hormuz. This was a little bit a while ago. They were attacked, and then they retreated.

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Now, Iran's parliament leader, M-B-Gal-A-Bah, was basically their top civilian political official. He was the lead negotiator, along with Foreign Minister Araghi in connection with the Memorandum of Understanding. Ghalabab said, Iran does not set its grand policy or national security based on the tweets or daily interviews of American officials. We act based on the enemy's actual behavior, not on rhetoric or false media dichotomies. The Americans who say something different in the media have recently put forward. forward proposals through an intermediary, but they must understand that this era of dragging out time and dictating unilateral demands is over. Our position is clear. The Strait of Hormuz will not reopen until our seven conditions under the Islamabad Memorandum are fulfilled.

This is Iran controls the Strait of Hormuz, and if it so chooses to impose tolls on the of Hormuz, that the Trump regime and the Netanyahu regime make sure that there is a Palestinian state, that they leave southern Lebanon and other bases in the Middle East, that the Iranians be permitted to maintain their ballistic missiles and their drone capabilities, that funds, about 12 billion funds in a Qatari bank account, are unfrozen, that there be a $300 billion fund for reconstruction of Iran. This is all stuff that was in the memorandum of understanding. And that this is what M.B.

Ghalibabaaf is saying is critical for Iran agrees to anything. So while Trump's like, oh, they're begging for a deal, they're begging, they're about to surrender. What Iran is saying is Donald Trump is begging for a deal. And Iran is rejecting it unless its terms are met. and Iran is seeing that the Royal Air Force Base has seen these planes leave, and the aircraft carrier has left, and you have, again, you know, remember, Netanyahu told Donald Trump back in early July after Trump was leaving Ankara in Turkey that Iran was going to blow up Trump's Air Force

won, and so that's why Donald Trump slipped into, you know, the catering truck. with Natalie Harp and they went on the military plane. That was based on what Netanyahu said. Obviously, it was Netanyahu and Trump who initiated this war in late February and they said they were going to be greeted by heroes by the people of Iran, which of course didn't happen. Netanyahu had also told Trump that Iran wants to kill him and Ivanka and Melania and Barron and everybody. And so, you know, look, Netanyahu before the election, which takes place in a few weeks, clearly wants to try to also provoke some incident. I think we all agree that that's probably what's going on behind the scenes. Meanwhile, we see escalation of the war in Yemen. Yesterday, we saw the PLC leader, Yemen's

Saudi-backed president, the PLC leader, Rashad al-Ali. announced the start of a massive military operation on all fronts. And according to him and MBS and everybody, they want to try to not just take back some of the areas in Western Yemen that Ansarala, the Houthis were able to take control of, like the areas in Moka and areas by the Bob Elmandab Strait. But they're saying that they want to also take over Sana, which is the capital for Onshawa. Serala and the Houthis, which the Houthis have controlled for a very long time. I mean, longer than a decade. And so that's what's being announced by the Saudi-backed forces. And they say they're going to commit 100,000 troops to this.

They're calling it a counteroffensive, although the Houthis would say it's an offensive. And we did the counteroffensive because they struck Sana's airport back in July. and that's what led to a lot of this escalation. Meanwhile, we saw the Houthi strike Yanbu and refineries in Riyadh within Saudi Arabia. And the East-West pipeline looked like it was flaring a bit. Unclear if it was hit again. But obviously, we know the East West pipeline was previously struck by Ansarala. Meanwhile, MBS through his brother had been, his brother's the defense minister.

they were asking Pete Hegsith, we want the United States to join Saudi Arabia to strike the Houthi, Saudi defense minister, Prince Khalid bin Sama, KBS, is MBS's brother, you know, asked Defense Secretary Hegzith for U.S. air strikes in Houthi-controlled area in Yemen. U.S. officials said Washington is not taking, quote, kinetic action for now, meaning the U.S. will provide intelligence, but will not actually strike on Sarala. and a lot of defense officials are saying the U.S. is stretched in right now. The aircraft carrier is in Pouquet. We have one aircraft carrier.

We're out of interceptors or we're severely low on interceptors, pack threes, thads, or we're out of a lot of offensive capabilities. And so having the Houthis potentially blockade the Red Sea from American-linked vessels is not something that the Trump regime is capable of dealing with right now. And so as you see the Trump regime retreat, you are seeing a very big reluctance on helping out MBS militarily, despite all of the quid pro quo deals that MBS did directly with Donald Trump. So that's a noteworthy development as well right there.

I want to mention this also. Some of the updates on that fly Dubai incident, apparently the Omani co-pilot, Hamam al-Hamami. He's been speaking to investigators. He's been cooperating. This is the guy who allegedly took the emergency axe, tried to strike the pilot. The pilot survived. Someone who was not a pilot, who was a plumber, saw what was happening, rushed to the cockpit as the plane was nose diving, 17,500 feet, pulled up the control yoke and managed to, uh,

save the plane and everybody survived. And there's a lot of people have lots of questions about what happened. The oxygen mass didn't come down. There weren't a lot of injuries on the plane other than, you know, the co-pilot and, you know, the plumber had blood on him. But the latest is that he was planning this for some time and, you know, and he's cooperating. And he was a lone wolf, but Netanyahu, I think, is trying to link him to Iran right now. And so that's the update.

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