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Furious World Leaders Destroy Trump for Huge Fail

2025/7/3
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Ben Meiselas: 作为MeidasTouch的主持人,我认为特朗普政府对乌克兰的政策是极其有害的。首先,特朗普政府在未与盟友沟通的情况下,单方面停止向乌克兰运送武器,这不仅让我们的盟友措手不及,也严重削弱了乌克兰的防御能力。我感到震惊的是,特朗普政府甚至没有通知乌克兰总统泽连斯基,就停止了武器供应,这使得乌克兰在面对俄罗斯的侵略时,处境更加危险。此外,特朗普政府还取消了对与俄罗斯有关联的银行的制裁,这实际上是在资助俄罗斯的战争机器。我感到非常失望的是,特朗普不仅没有对俄罗斯采取强硬立场,反而一再重复普京的论点,甚至称泽连斯基为独裁者。我认为,特朗普政府的这些行为不仅损害了美国的国际声誉,也背叛了我们的盟友,使世界更加不稳定。我强烈谴责特朗普政府的这些政策,并呼吁国际社会共同抵制这种破坏性的行为。

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This chapter details the outrage of world leaders at Donald Trump's foreign policy decisions, particularly his handling of the Ukraine conflict and his interactions with Russia. It highlights the halting of arms shipments to Ukraine, the lifting of sanctions on Russian banks, and the overall perception of Trump as weak and easily manipulated by Putin.
  • Halting of arms shipments to Ukraine without informing allies
  • Lifting of sanctions on Russia-affiliated banks
  • Trump's two-week deadline to Russia that yielded no results
  • Trump's characterization as weak and easily manipulated by Putin
  • Zelensky's compliance with Trump's requests despite the US cutting off weapon supplies

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Learn more and sign up now at Odoo.com. That's O-D-O-O dot com. World leaders are absolutely furious at Donald Trump. For example, European leaders, our allies abroad, were caught off guard when they found out that the United States was

was halting arms shipments to Ukraine. The Trump regime did not tell anybody in Europe. Maybe when you were at NATO, you know, you could have told them. Maybe when you were at the G7, you could have told them.

Donald Trump and his regime did not tell Ukraine. They did not tell Zelensky. They just stopped providing the arms and had put Ukraine in a horrifically precarious situation as they were expecting these shipments to arrive that were already approved under the former Biden administration and approved by Congress and were not delivered. It's horrific stuff.

Here's how it's being reported as well, that the U.S. Department of Defense made the decision on its own, didn't share with anybody, to halt the shipment of some air defense missiles and other critical precision munitions to Ukraine, citing low stockpiles within the United States. But y'all just depleted 20% of your THAAD, T-H-A-A-D, missile supplies in Israel, which

After you struck Iran, so you did that. Oh, and by the way, we learned earlier today, and I'll play this clip in just a bit, that Iran is going to be able to rebuild all of its facilities and have nuclear weapons in one to two years.

Yeah, a Pentagon official, the press secretary, let that slip. Because when you lie as much as the Trump regime does, sometimes you can't keep track of all of your lies. Our assessment of the battle damage around Fordow, Nantes, and Estefan remains unchanged. I mean, we...

We believe and certainly all of the intelligence that we've seen have led us to believe that Iran's those facilities especially have been completely obliterated. The interesting kind of side point about this, Tara, is that all of the conversations that we've had since Operation Midnight Hammer with our allies all around the world, but certainly also in the region,

They say a couple of things. They share our sentiments about the degradation of Iran's nuclear program and the fact that we have degraded their program by one to two years, at least intel assessments inside the department assess that. And I think their intelligence shares that conclusion. Current assessment.

assessments by this department think it's been degraded or delayed by one to two years i think we're thinking probably closer to two years like degraded their their program by two years here's how people are responding to this in ukraine the u.s suspends armed supplies to ukraine the moment has come masks are off what has been speculated about since trump's inauguration

has become our reality. A year ago, I said that we need to learn to live as if America did not exist. At the time, I was attacked for being too harsh. But today's news only proves we are on our own with Europe.

I want to give you a few data points as well, because we now know that the Trump regime has removed major sanctions from a lot of Russia-affiliated banks in Russia. Also, banks with ties to Syria, sanctions were removed.

Ultimately, this allows Russia to fund its war against Ukraine. But let me show you this video from May 28th or May 29th when Donald Trump was holding a press conference in the Oval Office. And remember what he said? You guessed it. Two weeks. He needs two weeks. And then he was going to think about those sanctions if Russia stopped behaving the way it did.

Russia has only escalated matters and humiliated Donald Trump even more. Let's play this clip. Do you believe the Russians are being disrespectful when they say that your criticisms of Putin are simply an emotional response? And do you still believe that Putin actually wants to end the war? I can't tell you that, but I'll let you know in about two weeks. Within two weeks, we're going to find out very soon.

We're going to find out whether or not he's tapping us along or not. And if he is, we'll respond a little bit differently. But it'll take about a week and a half, two weeks. We have Mr. Witkoff is here is doing a phenomenal job, is dealing with them very strongly right now. They they seem to want to do something. But until the document is signed, I can't tell you. Nobody can. I can say this. I can say this, that.

I'm very disappointed at what happened a couple of nights now where people were killed in the middle of what you would call a negotiation. I'm very disappointed by that. As our friend Jay in Kiev writes, it's becoming clear that Trump is not only blocking the already agreed air defenses that save thousands of Ukrainian lives every week, but even blocking Ukraine's offers to purchase them.

So just remember, May 29th, you saw the clip. Trump gives Russia a two-week deadline. July 2nd, the U.S. halts deliveries to Ukraine. It's that simple. So Ukraine then summoned the top American diplomat in Kyiv after U.S. halted weapon shipments. Here they are at TVP World breaking it down nicely.

Shout out to Oz, a good reporter who broke this down. Let's play it. Ukraine has summoned the deputy chief of the U.S. mission to Ukraine to Kiev following news that the U.S. has halted shipments of vital ammunition and weapons systems to Ukraine that were already promised to them by the Biden administration. Some of them had already reached Poland.

due to what the U.S. is saying is a DOD review into the amount of ammunition the U.S. currently has for things like Patriot air defense interceptors and 155 millimeter artillery shells. This decision was made by the Pentagon policy chief, Elbridge Colby, a longtime critic of

of Ukraine's war effort. He has repeatedly used his platform during the Biden administration to oppose the U.S. sending weapons to Ukraine. And now that he's the Pentagon policy chief under Donald Trump, he is now using his influence to prevent these attacks

shipments that were already approved by Congress to head to Ukraine. Now, as one commentator notes, so what has Trump done for Russia in twenty twenty five?

lifted sanctions on arms dealers and Kremlin-linked banks, disbanded U.S. sanctions enforcement, blocked Ukraine aid approved by Congress, opposed oil price caps at the G7. What did Trump do for Ukraine? He's called Zelensky a dictator, and he has parroted Putin's talking points over and over again. This commentator also notes a lot of this anti-Ukraine sentiment

implementation is coming from Elbridge Kobe, someone who has always spoken negatively about Ukraine. And he's Trump's hatchet man who has attacked Japan, Australia, the AUKUS deal, the trilateral between Australia, UK and the US. We've imperiled that nuclear deterrence deal.

With Australia, we should be talking about two Australians are pissed. We are screwing with our defense relationship with Japan, Ukraine. We're seeing America's pulling resources out of Africa as China and Russia are moving in.

And just think about it. Donald Trump did that rare earth mineral deal with Ukraine and then allowed Ukraine's lithium fields to be taken over by Russia and then lifted the sanctions against Russia. Think about that.

The increased suffering and civilian casualties have a face and a name, Elbridge-Kobe. This anti-Ukraine Trump loyalist denied Ukraine air defense missiles that had already been overwhelmingly approved by Congress. Last year, he suggested that...

that and not be funded by the U.S. Elbridge Kobe made a big stink when he was out of government about the need for the U.S. to focus on Asia. Now one Asian dictatorship is deploying more troops to Europe. North Korea is sending an additional 30,000 troops to aid Russia's war. And guess what Elbridge Kobe is doing? Attacking the United States and

in Asia by making us weaker in Japan, weaker in South Korea, weaker in Australia, weaker in Ukraine. Like, who do you think that this is benefiting? It's benefiting Russia and China and North Korea. Why do you all think that Kim Jong-un has been so quiet lately? Odd, right? Because he's getting everything he needs and more.

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Michael Weiss writes,

Now, Peskov, the Kremlin's PR flack, their version of Caroline Leavitt, he's Putin's Leavitt. He's their chief propagandist. He welcomed the pause in U.S. arms shipments to Ukraine, says it brings the war's end closer in the sense that Russia is now pushing forward with a massive offensive as the U.S. causes Ukraine to not have the weapons to defend itself.

Now, as one commentator notes as well, either Europe finally wakes up or it prepares to accept 20 million Ukrainian refugees and soon defend the Baltic states or Poland. Absence of new U.S. sanctions allows Russia to increase its military budget.

Taco Trump, Trump always chickens out, has not imposed any new sanctions on Russia this year, effectively providing Moscow with money and materials for its war against Ukraine. In some cases, the White House has e-sanctions. The impact of previous sanctions is beginning to diminish.

Instead of sanctioning companies, new fictitious legal entities have been established to supply components to the Russian military industrial complex, which Trump is basically completely allowing to happen.

Yarsolov Trofimov says something I think really important. So Zelensky did everything Trump asked him to do, signed away mineral rights, agreed to an unconditional ceasefire, and the US still cut off previously funded weapons supplies, leaving Ukrainian cities defenseless against Russian missile strikes. A lesson to all here. And the lesson is, is the Trump regime is a gangster regime.

Donald Trump is a felon, a fraud, a sexual abuser. His word means nothing. You cannot enter into a deal with the felon, with the sexual abuser, with the fraud, with the bankrupt or with the idiot. You just you can't. You have to stand up. You have to resist. You have to push back. You cut a deal. You give him an inch. He takes your life. That's what he's known for now.

To show you the cruelty in the Trump regime as well, Reuters explains Ukraine's humanitarian lifelines have started fraying after groups like IRC that relied on U.S. funding have cut down aid. Other leading donors, including Britain, are also paring back humanitarian aid as they seek saving boost in defense spending. Play this clip. Ukrainian teenager Nazar was badly injured when a friend threw what appeared to be a discarded munition

which exploded under his feet. After months in a hospital and several skin grafts later, the 13-year-old is now on the road to recovery. But the path forward could be more difficult than anticipated, as funding for his medical care from the International Rescue Committee, or IRC, is running out.

That's because groups like the IRC that relied on U.S. funding are struggling after President Donald Trump paused foreign aid in January and froze operations at the U.S. Agency for International Development, or USAID.

In May, Nazar's mother, Yevhenia Mastova, told Reuters she was worried about paying for his painkillers and medical creams, saying, quote, we do not know what to do next. This is what Donald Trump is doing in the world. Now, it should be noted as well. And here's the thing. Russia is vulnerable right now. The Russian economy is weak.

I know Donald Trump wants to mimic what's going on in Russia, but the Russia economy is weak.

As Steve Rosenberg explains, again today, Russian papers are reflecting economic concerns. New car sales in Russia fall by a quarter. Russians struggle to pay off credit card debts. Wage arrears have tripled. June was a most alarming month for the manufacturing industry in three years. The Russia economy is on a path to destruction. They're not strong. They're weak.

One of the scary things when I watch this video that I'm going to play for you right now from the BBC is this. This looks like a lot of the problems I'm seeing develop in the United States that we're seeing develop in the United States right now as Trump tries to mimic this. Trump thinks this is strong. Let's play it. Lots to get on the economy in today's Russian papers. Newsavisomagazeta, in June, the Russian car market kept up its 25% fall.

Because of expensive credit, the central bank has crashed car sales and manufacturing. Sales of new cars in Russia in June may have fallen by a quarter. Car dealers do not believe demand will return this year. Meanwhile, the Russian government has promised to solve the crisis in the coal industry in 2026. Russian officials are hoping for a rise in global prices, although this contradicts international forecasts.

Moskovsky Komsomolets, Russians with credit cards are struggling more and more to pay off their debts. According to data at the start of the summer, 8.3 million Russians were more than 90 days late in settling credit card arrears.

On the 1st of January, the figure was 7.7 million people. A year ago, even less, 6.9 million. And again, we read about the rise in utility bills. From the 1st of July 2025, utilities and communal services are now on average 15% more expensive in Moscow. Electricity tariffs have gone up 23%.

Kommersant Industry notes a fall in demand. June 2025 was the most alarming month for Russian manufacturing industry in three years. The S&P Global Russian Manufacturing Purchasing Managers Index collapsed to 47.5 from 50.2 in May.

A fall below 50 signals a drop in business activity. Now, here's what President Zelensky of Ukraine wrote. Today, Ukraine's Minister of Defense and Foreign Affairs gave reports, in particular, on relations with the United States. At the working level, Ukraine and the U.S. are clarifying all details of defense support, including air defense. One way or another, we must ensure protection for our people. That doesn't sound too great right there when you hear that.

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Gil McGowan has a good point. As Prime Minister Carney thinks he's going to negotiate a trade deal with Trump, what just happened to Ukraine should be seen as a cautionary tale. The U.S. president behaves like a mob boss. How can we trust any commitments he makes? You can't. While Prime Minister Carney, I think, is buying time on the trade deal, he's smartly doing the following. Yesterday,

He met with car industry CEOs as U.S. trade talks continue. He brought over the CEOs of Ford Canada, Stellantis and GM, and they all met with Brian Kingston of the Canadian Vehicle Manufacturers Association with a lot of discussion about bringing manufacturing and factories together.

to Canada as the United States has imposed 25% tariffs on vehicles manufactured in Canada.

Donald Trump claimed he made a deal yesterday with Vietnam where it's basically what 20% tariffs that a 20, 25% tax that the United States is going to have to pay from goods imported from Vietnam and a 40% tax if it goes from China to Vietnam and into the United States. I think that's what Donald Trump rolled out. And Trump's like, now we're now the Vietnam market is open for American products.

Because Trump's an idiot and he doesn't understand that there's a deficit in trade between the U.S. and Vietnam because Vietnam is a developing country. The people in Vietnam cannot afford to buy the products from the United States, but the United States can afford to buy cheap products from Vietnam. If you open the market from Vietnam, which was already open, there wasn't barriers, there wasn't anything. What do you think they're going to be buying from the United States?

when they can't afford the stuff. So Donald Trump views deficits as a form of a tariff when it's actually a reflection of the wealth of the United States of America vis-a-vis a country like Vietnam.

And why did Donald Trump do this deal with Vietnam, which isn't a deal? It's a social media post. I think I should clarify that as well. Trump says these things are deals. Trade deals are comprehensive 500-page, 1,000-page documents that detail a comprehensive trading relationship. What Trump is calling a deal is an adjustment on tariffs.

which are taxes on the United States of American people because they're taxed on the importer, which is causing inflation to rise here in the United States.

but donald trump has a personal business deal for 1.5 billion dollars in ho chi minh city in vietnam for the trump uh for trump's family to take over a management company there um that's going to make a huge profit for donald trump so it's just enriching donald trump personally that's what's going down you see why world leaders are furious at uh

Donald Trump will keep you posted. I just, I think it's important that you understand all of those data points because I know American media isn't covering it in detail and with the comprehensive facts that we provide you here as always on the Midas Touch Network. And it's an honor to do so. Hit subscribe and let's get to 6 million subscribers, please. Can't get enough Midas? Check out the Midas Plus sub stack for ad-free articles, reports, podcasts, daily recaps from Ron Filipkowski and more. Sign up for free now at MidasPlus.com.

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