Trump Just Secretly Retreated…

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Bush, this aircraft supercarrier, has arrived in the Strait of Hormuz. has arrived in the Strait of Hormuz. has arrived in Phuket in Thailand. It has turned its tracking device, its AIS, on. And it appears it will be there for at least several days. This leaves only one aircraft carrier now as part of this so-called U.S. impenetrable blockade in the Strait of Hormuz. That's the USS George Washington. Now, yesterday, we were tracking the USS George H.W. Bush as it was in the Indian Ocean. Hegseth denying this yesterday. And I said, hey, I can see in the satellite footage where it's located. It's a very big ship. You can literally locate it. And it appeared to be headed towards Phuket in Thailand. We can see that it has docked there. We believe our service members, our sailors and marines, are heading into Thailand now. We previously saw that with the USS Abraham Lincoln. And it's unclear if the USS George H.W. Bush will return to its mission. In the Middle East or if it will return home thereafter. But it does appear that we will only have one aircraft carrier in the Arabian Sea. That would be the George Washington, at least through the midterms. And I think that's a big deal. Now, there are other signs as well that we do not have the same amount of resources as when there was other incidents of escalation. Let's take a look at what's going on here as well. So in addition to this. Bush carrier strike group that's now arrived in Thailand. We also see that CENTCOM has dropped below 100 aerial refueling tankers for the first time since March 2026. Overall, tanker numbers are down to about 165 from the peak of 232 during the war. The Fairford bomber fleet now rarely flies the training sorties. Into the Mediterranean, opting for shorter runs in the UK North Atlantic airspace. The fast jets being rotated with mostly F-16s being sent into CENTCOM. Electronic warfare attack aircraft numbers have been reduced for now down to about 7 EA-18Gs on land. One EA-37B, which lots of people, Defense Greek included, expects to leave. And of course, here in the United States, Donald Trump has said, well, after the midterms, that's when we're going to escalate. It's going to we're going to wait until the midterms. And of course, Donald Trump has been extorting, threatening European countries to release 100 million barrels of diesel and gas from its strategic petroleum reserve. 50 million of diesel, 50 million of crude to try to manipulate gas. Diesel prices before the election, although one of the things that we've seen is it dropped 3% on the news of 100 million barrels being released with a heavy front load of those 100 million barrels. And then the price of crude went up and the price of diesel continues to be bidding at a higher amount. Same thing with gas. So this has not actually had the impact. That the Trump regime was planning. And I said it this way in another video as well. Let's just assume, arguendo, for the sake of argument, that all the oil is getting out of the Strait of Hormuz, which it's not. But just assume more oil is getting out right now than when before the war started. Now, one of the things we're learning is that these VLCCs, these very large ships that have the crude on them, they're charging somewhere in the range of a million three, a million. Each time it takes a trip, it's about 47 times what it costs before the catastrophic war started. And so you're already adding about $33 to $34 a barrel on the shipping costs to get through the Strait of Hormuz. So even if you said same amount of oil is getting out, which it's not, it's far less. It's fractions of what was getting out before. The cost to get out is so much higher because around. Iran continues to strike ships in the Strait of Hormuz that that cost is spread throughout the production chain, the refining chain, and ultimately passed on to the consumer or the business or the end user of the fuel or the end recipient of the fuel, be it diesel or be it gas. Speaking of which, Iran struck another tanker in the Strait of Hormuz yesterday. We can see on the satellite imagery. It. Appears to have been a major tanker. We saw the smoke and we can see what's going on over there. Now, yesterday, Pete Hegseth was saying in response to a question, will the USS Roosevelt, which is coming from San Diego, is that going to replace one of the two carriers? That's part of your so-called impenetrable blockade. Watch what Hegseth says here. Play this. Play this. It's a fair question, but I will never answer it. I'd say maximizing the decision space for the commander in chief at any point is my job. While also recognizing the way we balance global demands as a force with global responsibility. So the president's going to have options. Let's put it that way. And I'll leave it there. Interesting. When Hegseth said that, we knew at the Midas Touch Network that and lots of other people knew if you looked at the satellite. Footage that the USS George HW Bush was heading to Thailand and that there would only be one aircraft carrier, which is really the first time that that has existed really since what February 28th, where there was only one US aircraft carrier in that area of operations. So the USS Theodore Roosevelt is leaving from San Diego and it's also arriving with another amphibious assault group that will be supporting or be accompanying the carrier. So amphibious assault group, carrier strike group, they're heading and they'll arrive mid-November. So I think if we're thinking realistically, like when is this catastrophic escalation? When could it take place? Iran knows the stuff that I'm saying. You know, if I have access to it, trust me, they've got access to this data. That would seem to indicate mid-November for any type of catastrophic escalation by the Trump regime. But you see, Iran knows that. Iran knows the vulnerabilities and that Donald Trump and Hegseth and Brett and Cooper, the admiral who leads CENTCOM, incompetent. The plan, the catastrophic plan should never have been happening in the first place. Like we should never have been in this catastrophic war with Iran, which was to cover up Donald Trump's cover up of child sex trafficking rings with the Epstein files and Trump and Netanyahu engaging in these war crimes. Absolutely heinous. We need to hold war criminals accountable. I want to see Trump, Hegseth, Cooper, anybody who's been involved in slaughtering little children, Manab, Lemaire, anybody who's been involved, Netanyahu. I want to make sure that they get sent to the Hague, that there are war crime tribunals and any person running for president and the Democrat needs to call for that. In addition, the way this has been handled is completely incompetent. Right. The Trump regime ran out of interceptors, ran out of weapons, ran. Through a trillion dollars. And if you add the prior years of military budgets, trillions of dollars as part of military budgets ran through them and we ran out of weapons. Iran realizes that to Donald Trump and the regime, the Trump regime, it's always projection. We know that, right? So when the Trump regime says Iran doesn't have missiles, Iran, Trump's referring to the United States and Iran has massive amounts of ballistic missiles, massive amounts of Shahi drones. And upgraded Shahi drones that have that jet fuel powered Shahi. It's like the Garen fours and the Garen fives that we're seeing Russia use against Ukraine right now. But the Trump regime now doesn't even have like an aircraft carrier there. It's got one aircraft. Well, it's got one aircraft carrier right now in the Arabian Sea. It's lost an aircraft carrier. And so Iran sees weakness. As well. as well. strategy. This is why we've seen them strike anywhere from eight to as many as 20 tankers in the Strait of Hormuz. I think the number is probably closer to eight to 10 tankers have been hit in the Strait of Hormuz by Iran. But UKMTO, that was the group that used to report all of these things. And they did a decent job, an accurate job early on in the war. And they always did a decent job before the war started. They're almost worthless now. They're an arm of the Trump regime. They're an arm of Trump's manipulation at this point. So their data is not accurate. The reporting is voluntary. And so the same way the Saudi defense minister doesn't report the strikes taking place in Riyadh, in Yambu, in Abqaiyak, in Jazeera, they just pretend that none of this is happening. And that's why here at the Midas Touch Network, we're breaking down for you piece by piece what's actually happening here and where we're seeing the troop formations. Where's this aircraft caribou? When's the Theodore Roosevelt arrive? And I think this is important data that we know about and we talk about. More from Hegseth right here on Iran, where Hegseth says, That alongside the blockade and they run out of options, which means the longer we hold the blockade and we can hold it as long as we need to. Trust me, we can we can adapt that as necessary, which I know is bad news for Iran and limits their options. So they will they will never have a nuclear weapon and we'll decide. OK, well, we only have one aircraft carrier now that's there. Right. We only have the USS George Washington. Iran realizes that and they realize that. And Hegseth has no clue what the hell he is doing right now as well. And that's pretty obvious. But what Hegseth says is more oil is going through the Strait of Hormuz than before the war. Here's what Hegseth says. Let's play it. By the way, more oil is going through the Strait of Hormuz today than before the conflict even started because incredible pirates pilots control the airspace. OK, entirely false. Maybe 20 percent, 30 percent of what existed before the catastrophe. In my opinion, getting out before now versus before the catastrophic war. In any event, as I said, even if you assume the same amount is getting out, it's far more expensive to pay a VLCC or another type of tanker to carry the crude and get it out of the Strait of Hormuz because let's just assume Iran has one out of every 20 ships. I think it's more than that gets struck and destroyed. Well, that's. A risk premium that has to get priced into the cost of shipping, which adds 33 based on my estimates and other experts I've been reading about thirty three dollars a barrel potentially is being added to the cost of a barrel of oil based on the costs attendant to the transport of it. But you have Treasury Secretary Besant on Axios bragging for the first time in history since they started pumping oil. Iran. Iran will have no oil this week. They will be totally begging here. Play this clip. The isolating them economically like it's never happened before. Right now, the score terms of barrels out of the Strait U.S. about one point one billion Iran zero for the first time in history. They since they started pumping oil, they will have no oil on the water this week. They will have no revenues. And so that leaves us kind of in the middle and that leaves us kind of with the propaganda machine, because this is really what the Trump regime and the Netanyahu regime have propaganda and one of and kind of the psych, the psyops, the psychological operation. So what they tried to spread yesterday is this rumor that Foreign Minister Aragchi of Iran was begging the Trump regime for asylum when he was here for the United Nations. But Donald Trump denied Aragchi asylum. And then the Iranian regime, the Iranian regime found out that Foreign Minister Aragchi wanted asylum. So they killed Aragchi's family. It's this whole cosplay fiction. None of this happened. Foreign Minister Aragchi is one of the most well-respected. You can say what you want about, you know, Iran, this, that and the other. The fact is, Foreign Minister Aragchi's treatise on international diplomacy is something that's read by foreign ministers across the world. It's actually a book on deal making. He's one of the most well-respected foreign ministers that there is. And again, setting aside your views, just known in terms of just the kind of diplomatic treatise that he wrote. He's not defecting. It's nowhere near. It's just a completely made up story over there that's being spread. And then there was then there's like contradictory stories. They're like, and then Marco Rubio demanded Foreign Minister Aragchi, get the hell out of here and kicked Aragchi out of New York. So part of the story is he begged for asylum. And then part of the story is Rubio kicked him out. It makes no sense. It's all false. It is part of this psyop that's being launched consistently by the Trump regime and people kind of in the proximity of the Trump regime. You know, and then I'll I'll just leave us with this right here, which is the the latest reporting on the. On the alleged co-pilot who attacked the pilot on the fly Dubai, Al Hammami, 29 years old, the son of an Omani father and a Syrian mother. He was apparently banned from flying in Oman because of his extremist views. The latest reporting from this is that he used the emergency acts and then use this emergency acts in the cockpit to try to kill the pilot. And then I've gone over all of the things that I have a lot of questions about in other videos. I don't need to repeat all of that here. I'll just give us the latest update. Israel received the passenger and crew list for fly Dubai 48 hours in advance, including the Omani citizenship of the co-pilot who allegedly tried to crash the plane. Security sources said the Transportation Ministry Security Division and Mossad were supposed to review foreign flight crews and flag potential threats. The tax authority confirmed the list was received, but the Transportation Ministry would not say whether it examined it. A 2023 law created a system for passenger and crew data to be shared with police, Shin Bet and Mossad. And also there was a law in Israel. They don't allow Omani pilots to fly into Tel Aviv from Dubai and especially this pilot who was banned in Oman from flying. How did he get the job in the UAE? And how was he allowed to fly into Tel Aviv? And how was this not flagged by Mossad? And why did the plane after it allegedly nosedive 17,500 feet? Why did the interior not have any oxygen masks drop? Why did the plane by and large look pretty intact? There's so many questions to be asked, right? How was it a guy who was not a pilot and he was a plumber? He pulled the control yoke up. He pulled the control yoke up as it was no diving 17,500 feet. There's a lot of questions. But the point is, as the Trump regime is in retreat mode and is moving the aircraft carrier, they really ramp up these psyops right now. And I think it's incumbent upon us to call them out and talk about it. Hit subscribe. Let's get to seven million subscribers. Thanks for watching. Appreciate you. Get your copy of WTF America. Get the audio book. 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