00:00All right, cutting across to a latest comment and a social media post that has come in from Donald Trump.
00:06He goes on to say that, and I quote him here,
00:10all of those countries that can't get jet fuel because of state of Hormuz, like the United Kingdom,
00:16which refuse to get involved in the decapitation of Iran.
00:20I have a suggestion for you.
00:22Number one, buy from us.
00:25We have plenty.
00:26Number two, he says, build up some delayed courage.
00:30Go to the strait and just take it.
00:33You'll have to start learning how to fight for yourself.
00:36The USA won't be there to help you anymore, just like you weren't there for us.
00:42Iran has been essentially decimated.
00:44The hard part is done.
00:47So go and get your own oil.
00:50President DJT.
00:54All right, let me try, try to decode that with my colleagues Geeta and Gaurav joining us now.
01:01I don't know if it's anybody can really understand what these tweets and where this is going anymore.
01:08But Geeta, I'll give you the first word.
01:10Decode it for us.
01:10What's really happening here?
01:12Well, it is a very, very angry, disappointed, as Gaurav and I were saying just a while ago,
01:18very angry, very disappointed president of the United States of America,
01:22who is now hitting out at his European allies, or so-called allies,
01:27who haven't come to America's rescue when it comes to the strait of Hormuz.
01:32And now the messaging is, go take it yourself.
01:35America does not need the oil from there.
01:37And if you're having problems with oil, then buy from America.
01:40We have plenty.
01:41He's also spoken of France that wouldn't let planes headed to Israel,
01:47loaded up with military supplies, fly over French territory.
01:50Now we've seen Spain do it.
01:52We've seen France take a call on it.
01:55Italy very recently has not allowed U.S. bases.
01:57So European countries are increasingly distancing themselves from this war of choice by America.
02:05And American president, certainly over here, President Trump,
02:10looking increasingly frustrated with the situation that he is caught in,
02:15in the strait of Hormuz with Iran,
02:17and the fact that there are no allies coming to his rescue.
02:20Yeah.
02:21Gaurav, very difficult to form a connection or correlation between what he tweets
02:27and what actually happens on the ground.
02:29That's a separate story.
02:30But if you just look at the tone and the tenor of how his tweets have been,
02:34or his social media posts have been over the past one week at least,
02:38you only see him getting angrier, more grumpy,
02:42and literally in this one going and attacking his own allies.
02:47So, you know, all these allies will just turn around and say he started it.
02:51I mean, look, these are his closest of the closest allies.
02:54They're NATO partners.
02:56They're buddies.
02:56They're friends.
02:57You know, when he became president and at his, they were at his beck and call.
03:02They'd go running to the United States of America
03:04because somehow they wanted to ensure that NATO stays together,
03:08especially when it came to that question of Ukraine.
03:10But look at the way he treated them.
03:12Look at the way he ill-treated them.
03:14And now the shoe's on the other foot.
03:16He needs them.
03:17And they're not there.
03:19He's very angry with Keir Starmer.
03:21He said so in as many words.
03:23So much so that Keir Starmer had to, in Britain,
03:27they had to come out and say that this language is completely unacceptable last time.
03:31But this is not UK's war.
03:33And UK understands if they were to get into that,
03:36the consequences would be disastrous.
03:38Yeah.
03:39Given the minority population in the United Kingdom,
03:41it would be disastrous for France.
03:43France is distancing itself.
03:44All the NATO partners are.
03:47And why?
03:48Because Trump said he'll take Greenland by force.
03:50He didn't want to support them on Ukraine.
03:53And this is something that Donald Trump just doesn't understand,
03:56that when he needs them here,
03:58none of them, none of them are there for him.
04:00Right.
04:00In fact, there's a follow-up post to that.
04:02Let me read that out for our viewers as well.
04:04This is one Geeta was mentioning.
04:06He goes on to say,
04:06the country of France wouldn't let planes headed to Israel,
04:10loaded up with military supplies fly over French territory.
04:13France has been very unhelpful, he writes,
04:16in caps lock, with respect to the butcher of Iran,
04:20who has been successfully eliminated.
04:22The USA will remember, again, in caps lock, exclamation.
04:26Three times of that.
04:27And then again, President DJT.
04:30Geeta, correct me if I'm wrong,
04:32but this sounds like he's begging for help.
04:35This sounds like he's begging for help.
04:37This is his way of calling out for help from the world,
04:40because he doesn't seem to be going anywhere with this war.
04:43Well, he certainly needs that help, Sonal.
04:46The fact that this war could not have
04:49and should not have been fought alone,
04:51that there should have been a consultation,
04:53but the fact that President Trump, forget about Europe,
04:55did not even consult with the Congress, with the US Congress,
04:58clearly shows that it was a rather unilateral decision,
05:01where he did not game the war the way it should have been gamed.
05:06Should he have involved Europe,
05:08maybe there would have been better sense in the way
05:10and manner in which they wanted to take on Iran.
05:13And that's the reason why France and many other European countries
05:17do not want to partake in this entire war.
05:20What happens if they do?
05:22What happens if they do allow their airspace and their bases to be used?
05:26Then their assets in West Asia come under attack.
05:31The United Kingdom saw it not so long ago in Cyprus,
05:34which again, which was called a false flag operation by Iran,
05:39saying that they did not attack it,
05:41given the fact that UK had not gotten into or was not a part of that war.
05:48And while they're saying this,
05:49there are certain signals and messaging that is already happening
05:52that should they get involved,
05:54their assets in West Asia will come under Iranian attack.
05:58All right.
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