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Ben Meiselas reports on reported U.S. military preparations that he says could signal a dangerous escalation in the Iran war after the midterm elections. He discusses a Pentagon plan called Fortress, which would require major bases to run independently for at least 90 days, and reports that the Army is training soldiers in mass battlefield burials.

He also examines the officially reported death toll of 23 service members, which he argues is likely undercounted, along with estimates of base damage. The episode covers Iranian retaliation threats, the firing of a senior general, and Trump's past World War III rhetoric.

The claims are Meiselas's own interpretation of the reporting he cites, so listeners should weigh them against the original sources.

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This episode's transcript on Trump's reported war preparations and Iran escalation was made with HappyScribe's professional transcription technology.

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Donald Trump is preparing a doomsday caliber event for after the election, and it's not an exaggeration to say he's preparing for World War III. I'll just show you how state regime media Fox is reporting it. And this was leaked directly by the Trump regime, directly from Pete Hegseth, as the Trump regime is planning to escalate this already catastrophic war in Iran after the midterm elections. Let me show you what was leaked to state regime media. Play this clip.

00:00:32

The Pentagon preparing for a nightmare scenario, a global war that could knock out power grids, cripple supply chains, and leave military bases cut off from essential services. Our chief national security correspondent Jennifer Griffin reports live in Washington. This is getting a lot of play online, Jennifer.

00:00:48

That's right, John. Well, the Pentagon has a doomsday plane, and now it's updating its doomsday plan, moving beyond its Cold War-era continuity of government planning which called for key military leaders to retreat to hardened facilities in Cheyenne Mountain in the event of an incoming nuclear attack. Now the Pentagon sees a new nightmare scenario, a global war that knocks out America's power grids, cripples supply chains, and leaves U.S. military bases cut off from essential services. Other allies, including the UK, have been warning their populations to stockpile 90 days of food and water just in case. Under the new Pentagon initiative called Fortress, every major military installation in the continental US would be expected to operate independently for at least 90 days with its own electricity, water, fuel, and communications. Documents obtained by Fox reveal plans for portable nuclear reactors, backup power grids, and massive reserves of ammunition, critical minerals, medical supplies, and spare parts. The Pentagon also wants civilian factories ready to switch to wartime weapons production, alternative supply chains in place if foreign suppliers are cut off, and military communications capable of functioning even if GPS and satellites are disrupted. Experts agree America's next major war could reach U.S. soil through cyberattacks, drones, and long-range weapons, particularly in a potential conflict with China, which appears to be preparing the battlefield by targeting US critical infrastructure through ongoing cyberattacks like Salt and Volt Typhoon.

00:02:27

At the same time that's being leaked to state regime media, we learned that the US Army is now training soldiers to dig mass battlefield graves for American troops for the first time in decades, rehearsing how to handle mass casualties as Trump's war continues. And there's lots of reporting that as soon as these midterms are over, Donald Trump will once again escalate in Iran. The Army has said that it has not needed to do mass grave training since the Korean War, but they are now practicing and rehearsing mass graves in connection with a potential World War III, or kind of massive casualty event arising out of a war. This comes at the same time that Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of CENTCOM, allegedly briefed Donald Trump at the end of this week about military operations against Iran during a White House meeting. Brad Cooper flew to Washington, uh, D.C. He was there with the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Dan Cain. He was there with Hegseth. And Trump regime officials are now warning Gulf states, prepare for a short, intense military campaign after the midterm elections. A short, intense military How do you think you get to determine the timeline that it's going to be short?

00:03:54

Because Iran has said, if you escalate, Iran is ready. It already has its targets locked in, in addition to the cables underneath the Strait of Hormuz that connect the internet and connect to all of the data centers. And Iran says it will— it is prepared to destroy all of the LNG, all of the LPG, oil, all of the diesel refineries, all of these facilities, the data centers, all of the US military bases in the Middle East. much already been destroyed already. But Iran says it is ready to go and it will unleash hell if these strikes take place. MS Now was reporting that Trump is planning to resume these strikes as early as November 4th. A lot of these Gulf countries are trying to do everything they can to de-escalate. They realize that if Trump strikes Iran, Iran's going to strike all the Gulf nations. And so there is just this Massive, massive amount of work going on behind the scenes to try to stop Trump. But as I said, and as you saw from that first clip I shared with you, I mean, Trump is playing for this doomsday caliber event. He is deploying Avenger air defense systems near Mar-a-Lago as he is in panic mode of what could happen once he escalates this war.

00:05:12

So you can see over here this Humvee-mounted Avenger carrying 8 Stinger missiles, um, and it's designed to intercept drones, helicopters, cruise missiles, and low-flying aircraft. NORAD confirmed the deployment, citing heightened security concerns. Meanwhile, Iran is warning of a shocking large-scale retaliation against any new military attack against it. A senior Iranian security official told Al-Mayadeen, Iran's comprehensive military and operational plans are complete. The decision to deliver a decisive, comprehensive, and large-scale response to any military violation is final. In other words, if the US strikes Iran, there is going to be no hesitation. Iran will go ballistic, quite literally, in the region, and it has already developed the plan, and immediately it gets activated. Iran goes on to say, enemies and their regional allies should prepare. The scale and intensity of Iran's response will exceed expectations and be shocking. If the enemy carries out terrorist operations, Iran's list of legitimate targets will be equally extensive or greater. Immediate large-scale retaliation will include political facilities, centers, headquarters belonging to the enemy and its regional supporters. At the same time, you have Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, also launching massive ballistic missile tests. On Thursday, South Korea reported that it launched a— or South Korea reported that North Korea launched a salvo of around 10 short-range ballistic missiles.

00:06:52

Kim Jong-un was bragging about the success of this test. You can see the ballistic missiles over here being tested. Meanwhile, China's GJ-21 reconnaissance and airstrike stealth drone recently completed its first successful takeoff and landing aboard the Sichuan, the country's first Type 076 amphibious assault ship, according to Xinhua News Agency. You can see what that GJ-21 jet looks like over there. I talked before about, uh, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Dan Cain, who was in that meeting at the Oval Office. His top planner, the lieutenant— the 3-star lieutenant general who held the position of a J5, that's Joint Staff 5, that's the main strategic planning advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, like this, basically the number 2 or a top position to uh, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, uh, Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia. He was fired by the Trump regime. The Trump regime said that he was leaking information about the catastrophic war in Ukraine, the catastrophic war in Iran, to members of the media. And the Trump regime said that he confessed to it. He's never admitted publicly. And anytime the Trump regime says that he confessed, I think we should always view the Trump regime as lying because they lie about everything.

00:08:23

And they also pushed out the person who held the position that Brett Sylvia held, the J5, before Brett Sylvia. Just to note about Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, in 1994 he graduated from West Point. During the war in Iraq, he was the leader of the command unit from the 101st Airborne Division Army that was there in Iraq. Then he was appointed to be the commander of the Screaming Eagles, the 101st Airborne Division. For all, you know, the Army folks out there, for all the people who know military history, for all the people in the 101st, you know that that's a— it's a storied, incredible unit. So the fact that this guy was the commander of the 101st Airborne Division tells you, and his background, I mean, he had all the qualifications as a top-level person. And we know that Pete Hegseth is a war criminal and a scumbag and a piece of trash. And, uh, by the way, someone who the Democrats are likely going to move to impeach immediately after these midterms. And I think they'll find bipartisan support with Republicans. But the Trump regime getting rid of a top 3-star general right before this, uh, escalation.

00:09:37

And then Donald Trump was reposting from an account called Cat Turd that firing isn't enough. If he was leaking classified information, he needs to be court-martialed, stripped of all rank, and sent to Leavenworth. That's a Cat Turd account, and Trump is reposting that. Also, as Donald Trump is preparing this doomsday caliber event, he is also covering up the killed in action and deaths in this catastrophic war in Iran. We learned yesterday that 2 US 2 US Air Force airmen supporting the US conflict against Iran, the war in Iran, died this month in what the Trump regime is calling non-hostile incidents. Non-combat incidents is how the Trump regime is categorizing it. And this was discovered because the Trump regime didn't announce these deaths. They just changed the count So they have 2 lists for this catastrophic war because they don't call it a war. They said there's epic fury, deaths and injuries, and then they have miscellaneous conflict is what they call it, miscellaneous conflict. And if you're on the miscellaneous conflict list, you're also not entitled to benefits that people who get killed in the war are entitled to. So they just changed the number on the miscellaneous conflict by increasing the death count by 2.

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00:11:00

So that means based on the Trump regime reporting numbers, there have been 23 service members who have been killed in action in this catastrophic war in Iran and over about 900 injured. And I believe those numbers are low. I think the death count is higher. The killed in action count is higher. And I believe the injured is way higher. I think the injured number, as I've said before, is in the thousands, 3,000 to 5,000 is my best estimate, because I think there was a lot of catastrophic brain injuries that have been occurring at these bases with these Iranian strikes, these ballistic strikes. People are on the bases when these strikes happen, and that could cause catastrophic brain injury. And the Trump regime claims that catastrophic brain injury or traumatic brain injury is just a headache and is not actually an injury. So I think they're just saying— And Trump's done this before, where he just characterizes a TBI, traumatic brain injury, as nothing. And so they're covering that up, in my opinion. Also, they're covering up the extent of the military bases in the Middle East that have been destroyed by Iran. And basically, uh, the Midas Touch Network did a report on this.

00:12:12

I'm sure you remember a few weeks back where we showed all those military bases being destroyed. The Wall Street Journal did an investigative report at the end this week, where they talked about how 274 structures were damaged across 24 installations. Radar, missile defense, communication systems were damaged. And the damage to the bases was about $15 billion. So when the Pentagon claims the war has cost $47 billion, add another $15 billion. I still believe that number. I think the number is closer to $300 billion to $500 billion. And that doesn't even factor in all the consequential costs as well. Just think about it like this way. It's a very easy analysis for me. You have Hegseth demanding $1.5 trillion, right? They've gone through a trillion dollars already, and they've gone through the hundreds of billions of dollars in funding before that. So they've gone through hundreds of billions of dollars. They've gone through last year's appropriations. which was $1 trillion, not a billion, $1 trillion, then the hundreds of billions of dollars before that. And now Hegseth wants $1.5 trillion, which he's now trying to say, actually, can we do $1.1 trillion? Because he knows Congress isn't going to appropriate that.

00:13:29

So just think about those numbers that he's asking for. He needs that to replace what they lost, obviously, to me. So that tells you the number's closer to at least half a trillion dollars. But I think it's more than that. Speaking of, you know, all of the war taking place throughout the world, um, you still have catastrophic escalation in the war in Ukraine. We've been covering Russia strikes. Ukraine responded by striking oil refineries in the Nova Kobaivske landscape. I did another video on that this morning. And I just want to remind everybody that when Donald Trump was running for election in 2024, the main thing that he was saying is if you elect Biden, or if you elect Kamala, they're going to bring World War III, they're going to bring World War III. Watch as he was campaigning, like what his main message was about World War III. Play this clip.

00:14:18

In Ukraine, with potentially hundreds of thousands of people dying, we must demand the immediate negotiation of a peaceful end to the war in Ukraine, or we will end up in World War III. And there will be nothing left of our planet, all because stupid people didn't have a clue. They didn't have a clue. They don't understand. They really don't understand. I rebuilt our military. I rebuilt our nuclear power. They don't understand what they're dealing with, the power of nuclear. They have no idea what they're doing. I withdrew from the disastrous Iran nuclear deal.

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on alarming military preparations that could signal catastrophic escalation after the election. Meiselas examines reports of plans for military bases to operate if power grids fail, Army exercises involving mass graves, and a reported official death toll of 23 amid concerns the true toll could be higher. In this in-depth report, Meiselas breaks down what these developments could reveal about Trump’s plans for the war.

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