Transcript of World Leaders Counter Trump as Global Alliances Shift Against U.S.

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Ben Meiselas reports on world leaders pushing back against Donald Trump as global alliances shift. He covers the UN vote condemning the US embargo on Cuba, the clash over Western Sahara, and Russia's diplomacy around the G20 meeting in Atlanta.

The episode also examines Canada's closer ties with the European Union, China's outreach to Europe, and opposition to Viktor Orbán's bid for UN Secretary General. Meiselas frames these moves as signs of US isolation, a view he argues from his own commentary.

Listeners get an overview of the diplomatic developments and the claims behind them.

In this episode Ben Meiselas

This episode on shifting global alliances and the UN vote on Cuba was made with HappyScribe's AI note taker.

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Furious world leaders are putting Donald Trump in his place. In a vote of 130 to 17, the United Nations voted to condemn the United States blockade of Cuba. The United States celebrated the loss. US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Wall said today nearly triple the number of nations voted no, abstained, or just chose not to vote, turning their back on Havana's sham resolution. at the UN. More work to do, but the world is starting to push back on the Cuban regime propaganda as their corruption and oppression is exposed. And then Ambassador Wallace does a photo of himself like with the L sign. Dude, the vote was 130 to 17. You lost the vote, and the United Nations voted to condemn the US unlawful blockade of Cuba which is destroying the lives of civilians in Cuba. And you're celebrating that as a victory. Also, as the United States under the Trump regime invited Russia's Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov to Atlanta for the G20 foreign ministers meeting taking place right now. More on that in a moment. At the United Nations, Russia vetoed a resolution proposal presented by the United States regarding the extension of the mandate of the United Nations Nations mission in Western Sahara.

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Sahara. The Reuters article explains Russia vetoed the US-drafted resolution on Western Sahara. Russia imposed its veto to a US draft resolution that would scale back the military component of the UN peacekeeping mission in Western Sahara and cement Morocco's autonomy plan as the only basis for negotiating a political settlement to the half-century-old conflict. So Russia vetoed the US plan, which the US said is part of its foreign policy. Ambassador Mike Walls then posted, Russia just vetoed the US resolution backed by 11 Security Council members. We must not fall back on a status quo that condemns refugees to another 5 decades in the camps. Well, then you invited Russia's foreign minister, Sergei Lavrov, to Atlanta to the G20 foreign ministers meeting. You see him entering right there. And on U.S. soil, he was holding meetings about transforming the security architecture in the Middle East as the regional powers take more control and push the United States out, as Iran destroys all of the U.S. military bases, and Iran is utilizing, um, Russian and Chinese weapons and intelligence and dual-use parts as well. And then Russia was meeting with Saudi Arabia and all the regional powers and basically talking about moving the United States out of the region.

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And so you have Russia's Foreign Minister Lavrov taking this photo in Atlanta with Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister. And they say they held the meeting on the sidelines of the G20 Ministerial. The foreign ministers discussed the international agenda with a focus on regional security. Just talking about the United Nations for a moment as well. You'll recall that earlier this week, US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Walls, like, just freaked out when he was giving this deranged speech about Cuba. And that's where he was trying to get the votes against condemning the US blockade of Cuba. And so he started holding up these photos of like Fidel Castro wearing a Rolex and of an island where the Castros have homes. And he's like, look at the wealth that they're living in. Look at him having a Rolex while the people of Cuba are suffering. Look at what's happening over here. The people need to rise up. To which the Cuban delegation launched an objection for the ad hominem attacks and calling for people to engage in an uprising against Cuba during the UN speech. And then I'll show you what happens, just to remind you, where US Ambassador Mike Wall started yelling.

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Just completely embarrassing the United States. Starts yelling at the Cuban ambassador. He's like, I'm America, man. You don't treat me like this. I'm— this is the United States. And the Cuban ambassador is like, what are you talking about? Here, play this clip.

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This individual needs to back away from this podium. He's not going to intimidate me in the United States of America like he tries to intimidate political prisoners.

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This individual is the foreign minister of the Republic of Cuba.

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And I'm the representative of the United States of America. Back up.

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Back up.

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Back away. This isn't a way of going to the courts.

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You're not going to intimidate me.

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Do you understand who you're dealing with? Mr. President! America! Back up. The rule is clear. This is the substance of the speech. There are no procedural— you can bring as many people as you want. Please sit down. Sit down. Bye.

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Sit down. Why not even see him? When I resume the meeting, I listen to everybody.

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Then the Cuban Foreign Minister, Bruno Rodríguez Parilla, he then gave a speech addressing the fact that US Ambassador to the United Nations Mike Wall started screaming. Here, play this clip.

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I am compelled to denounce the disrespectful, provocative attitude shown by the delegation of the United States yesterday in this Hall, particularly the harassment and unconsented filming by some of its delegation against our delegation. That incident implicated the— led to the involvement of UN security personnel. These are acts that are incompatible with decorum, respect for personal dignity and privacy that must prevail in this chamber.

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So then the Trump regime said that it wanted Viktor Orbán, the former authoritarian leader of Hungary who lost the latest election, to become the new Secretary General of the United Nations. And then the Hungarian Prime Minister, the new Hungarian Prime Minister, Peter Magyar, said appointing Viktor Orbán as the UN Secretary General would just mean the destruction of the United Nations. The Prime Minister of Poland, Donald Tusk, says, What are you talking about? I haven't even heard about this. He wants to appoint Viktor Orbán. That's what Trump wants to do. These UN reports seem just to be amusing. Is this some sort of joke? And then you had, uh, Poland's foreign minister, um, say the following: Despite our old acquaintances and despite the support that President Karol Narocki provided him during the election campaign, I do not foresee Poland supporting Viktor Orbán's candidacy. for UN Secretary General. We're paying close attention to what's going on in Poland as well. You know, as there's a lot of issues with their high court right now, and there's issues with the far right-wing party in Poland that wasn't swearing in the appropriate judges. And then when the appropriate judges were being sworn in, you then basically have this situation where their high court is, you know, under a lot of, there's a lot of major issues happening there.

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I'll do a deeper report about what's happening in Poland. I'll save that for another video. Um, meanwhile, you have China announcing, uh, that its leadership continues to meet with the European Union. China has always viewed the European Union as a partner, is committed to developing China-EU relations with sincerity and goodwill. And Chinese President Xi Jinping, during his talks with German President Frank-Walter Steinmeier in Beijing on Friday, talked about strengthening China's relationships with the European Union. Speaking about the European Union, yesterday there was a meeting in Montreal between the Prime Minister of Canada, Canadian government, and the European Council and the European Union Commission— Ursula von der Leyen, Antonio Costa, Prime Minister Carney— and they talked about Canada now becoming an associate member of the European Union. As the Trump regime attacked, uh, the, you know, the global structure and attack Canada and continue to attack Canada's sovereignty. You know, Canada and Europe strengthened their relationships, their free trade relationships, um, and their bond. And now they formed an official associate membership relationship. It's basically everything but actually being an official member of the European Union. And Prime Minister Carney said, I really don't care if you call it an associate membership or whatever, but we're going to now be much closer to the European Union.

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Of course, I mean, look, United States is close, so we're gonna, you know, we'll deal with them as we have to, but we no longer see, you know, that relationship is done, it's severed, we've moved on, and now Canada and the European Union are close while the US has further isolated itself. Here's what Prime Minister Carney said. Let's play.

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Canada being an associate member of the European Union creates opportunity that starts with our young people. We'll begin negotiations to expand our participation in Erasmus+, Europe's world-renowned student and skills exchange program. So what does that mean? It means through this program, a Canadian student can pursue their studies in Barcelona just as easily as they could at McGill. It means an apprentice welder in Manitoba can bring and go to complete their placement with an employer in Italy, bringing new skills back home.

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Here's what European Union's, uh, Council, uh, leader Antonio Acosta had to say. Play this clip.

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50 years ago, our first framework agreement spoke on common heritage and especially affinity and the shared aspirations that unite us. Today, the time has come to build a broader and deeper political and institutional partnership, one that reflects the major partners. Strategic allies and close friends we have become. That's why we are starting a Never Closer Association. Our relationship is so special that we want to create something new. To go beyond a simple association— everything short of a full EU membership. Our association will be the closest, deepest, and most unique of its kind. We will do it through closer engagement at the highest political level and by identifying shared priorities and coordinating our responses to common challenges. We are already putting these into practice.

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So what about the Trump Globalist Authoritarian Network? Now, you know, from reading WTF America, the Out of This Hell and Back to Democracy. Get it on hardcover and ebook or audio. We talk about the real globalists are the globalist authoritarian network. Trump and all of these stooges, the Trump, Putin, the Bolsonaros, the Orbáns, the Reform Party in the UK, the ADR in Germany, uh, Le Pen's party in France, uh, in El Salvador, Bukele, uh, in Colombia, the new leadership over there. Um, Paz in Bolivia. Uh, I could keep going on and on. You get, you, you get it. Um, Flávio Bolsonaro, he's under the Trump regime protect mafia protection racket, and he put out a video yesterday from Florida basically saying the elections were rigged. The mathematical analysis shows it's impossible that I could have lost. This was all one gigantic rigged election. I am the real leader. We're going to do opposition of the Brazilian democracy. from here in Florida. So you have that happening. Meanwhile, you had Delcy Rodriguez, Donald Trump's stooge in Venezuela, basically saying, hey, there's no real timeline for when I'm going to be doing, you know, an election. Well, we, we will see when it is.

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And, you know, Donald Trump continues to go out in these deranged speeches that he's giving. And he's like, don't worry, all of the money we've spent in the catastrophic war in Iran, we've made 10 times that from Venezuela, which is just a complete and utter lie. But now you have Maria Corina Machado, who was able to sneak back to Venezuela without the Trump regime, uh, support. She made her first comments publicly the other day where she said that Delcy Rodriguez destroyed Venezuela, turned it into a sanctuary of criminal groups and the international mafia. And, uh, she called for elections and the international mafia, although she has to still praise Trump and Rubio just because, you know, of their, you know, if she doesn't, then they'll, you know, go after her. And we've seen You know, I've done lots of reporting on all of the horrific things that Trump and Rubio are doing in, in South America and throughout the world. Um, but you're calling the international mafia— who do you think she's— what do you think she's talking about right over there? You know, I'm not the biggest Machado fan after she's had to— you know, she's done some horrific things with the Nobel Prize and everything.

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But look, I guess you can argue, look, she had to do what she had to do to get back to Venezuela. Meanwhile, in Albania, You have the prime minister there, Edi Rama, you know, who allowed the Sazan Islands over there to be handed over to Kushner and Ivanka, who were on a boat with the Rothschilds. And they were with the Rothschilds and they saw the island in Albania. They said, look, look, honey, I discovered the island. It's mine. Can I ask Prime Minister Edi Rama? There have been ongoing protests in Albania. A lot of these protests are now turning A bit violent in Albania as well. For most of the protest, it was peaceful, and now it's turning violent. Um, but any event, you know, the people that were protesting the corruption by this, you know, uh, Albanian regime that's, you know, given this— turning this beautiful island to this like Trumpenstein oligarchical, you know, island. They're freaking pissed, and it highlights the broader corruption over there. Let me show you what it looked like in the, uh, parliament as opposition lawmakers lit flares inside the parliamentary chamber after weeks of protests demanding that the Trump-aligned, Kushner-aligned puppet Eddie Rama resign.

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Play this clip.

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Zoti Blendy Himchi, presta odnase antsa. Zoti Vikaso, presta odnase antsa. Zoti Blendy Al-Bati, presta odnase antsa.

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Now, Donald Trump's good friend Kim Jong-un launched 10 short-range ballistic missiles, released photos of what those ballistic missiles look like. Take a look over there. These are unmanned aeronautic technology exhibition that took place at the end of this week. And Kim Jong-un is showing that he believes the Trump regime is utterly weak and pathetic. And, you know, showing that he's prepared as the Trump regime is seemingly preparing for World War III, that Kim Jong-un is preparing for World War III as well. Meanwhile, you had the Pentagon under, uh, Defense Secretary Hegseth and his number 2, uh, Elbridge Colby, over at the Defense Department urge the NATO allies, please tone down your rhetoric regarding Russia. Um, you gotta stop poking Moscow, Elbridge Colby said, citing statements portraying Russia as cornered like a rat. One European official summarized the US message as, come on, man, we're trying to help you. This is America here. Can you not be loud? Just don't make noise. Stop saying that Russia is a cornered rat. To which the Estonian Prime Minister Kristian Makkel says, we're not going to soften our criticism of Russia. We're not scared of what the US is threatening us with.

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And he says, I'm not going to hold back. Putin is a dictator who kills women and children, and he will continue doing so until he is forced to change course. Germany's foreign minister said the following about Sergei Lavrov arriving at the G20 in Atlanta: There will be no family photo featuring our European partners together with Mr. Lavrov. There is no normality with Russia. We must not send false visual signals. Meanwhile, part of the Trump globalist authoritarian regime in El Salvador, their leader Nayib Bukele deploying 2,000 Salvadoran troops to Haiti backed by the Trump regime. The operation follows the capture of 4 Salvadoran military personnel by gangs over there, allegedly, with sources suggesting the force could eventually reach 6,000. So now you have El Salvador basically invading Haiti. Well, it's like war everywhere under the Trump regime, and this is all part of the Trump globalist network. Also, you had the Trump regime agreeing to provide $35 million in military aid to Cameroon, specifically a Cameroonian unit accused of war crimes, in exchange for accepting US deportees. So the Trump regime is deporting immigrants to a Cameroonian unit accused of war crimes. The package includes armored personnel carriers for the Rapid Intervention Battalion, which previously lost US assistance over allegations of torture and human rights abuse, and Cameroon has accepted 36 deportees under this arrangement.

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So $35 million in military aid to a Cameroonian unit accused of war crimes for 36 people, $1 million a person basically, to destroy their lives and give them to Cameroon. Also, You had this development. The Trump regime is now sending dozens of Afghan immigrants in Louisiana and other areas, but particularly in Louisiana, including relatives of Afghans who helped the US military in the war against the Taliban. And the US will deport these Afghan immigrants who are relatives of family members who helped the US fight the Taliban back to the Taliban. to be killed by the Taliban. So the Trump regime is sending these immigrants to their death, to the Taliban, when they were protected here because their family members helped the United States in the war against the Taliban. And meanwhile, the Trump regime is pressuring Lithuania to help crack the European Union's potash sanctions on Belarus. Donald Trump is so desperate for potash right now from Belarus, he wants to use Lithuania in order to block the EU from sanctioning Belarusian potash. And the Trump regime, of course, preparing for catastrophic war with Iran. They've covered up the death— the US is covering up the deaths of the war.

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Another 2 deaths were added to the killed-in-action count yesterday. The Trump regime is sending interceptors to Israel. 80 US refueling aircraft have been deployed to Israel. And the Trump regime is now likely going to strike the day after the midterms. which would potentially unleash World War III based on what the consequences would be. And we heard from Senator Chris Murphy where he talked about what the consequences would likely be and how devastating it would be if Trump actually goes through with this bombing campaign against Iran, because Iran is prepared to obliterate the entire region. It has all its ballistic missiles, it has all of its cruise missiles, and it has all of its, uh, drones and upgraded drones ready to go. Did you get WTF, America? Let me know. Thanks for watching. Appreciate y'all so much.

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MeidasTouch host Ben Meiselas reports on furious world leaders putting Donald Trump in his place as they outmaneuver him on the world stage. From the UN vote condemning the U.S. embargo on Cuba to Russia’s diplomatic moves and deepening ties among Canada, Europe, and China, Meiselas breaks down how global alliances are shifting as Trump leaves the United States increasingly isolated.

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