Hegseth, Trump Call EMERGENCY WW3 Meeting

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going to war and something crazy is

happening with Pete Hexth ordering a

rare urgent meeting of hundreds of

generals and admirals. Oh, okay. There's

a lot to break down here. There's Trump

activity to break down, government

shutdown activity to break down. There's

geopolitical concern to break down,

including Russian violations of Alaskan

airspace along with other airspace or or

Alaskan air defense zone airspace, which

is slightly different. We'll talk about

that. Uh and then obviously also, yes,

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Hags orders rare urgent meeting of

hundreds of generals. So, what's going

on here? Well, they say they have

absolutely no idea. This is basically

being assigned to all of the military's

top commanders in the world and they're

all going to meet in one building in

Quantico, Virginia, which a commenter on

my live stream, shout out to them, they

said this is kind of like the Star Trek

2 movie where a meeting was announced

and all of I guess the military leaders

went to one area uh and the villain

ended up destroying that particular

building where all the militaries now I

don't know basically much of anything

unfortunately I really got to catch up

on this on Star Trek but that's a

comment somebody made and it kind of

makes sense like why are we putting all

of our military leaders in one place

this by the way is super unprecedented

like this hasn't been done before and

it's all happening in Quanico apparently

there are 800 generals and admirals

spread across the United States and in

dozens of other countries and time zones

this order applies to all senior staff

officers ers with the rank of brigadier

general or above or their navy

equivalent serving in commander

positions and their top listed advisors.

Europe, the Middle East, Asia-Pacific,

all generals from all those areas are

being sent to Quanico, Virginia next

week, which is also in line with

government shutdown week. So, we'll have

to talk about that also. But apparently

we're direct anybody with a rank of 07

or grade of 07 to0. So generals, flag

officers, 07 to0 are being directed to

attend. Donald Trump will be attending

virtually. And this is leading people to

say, well, wait a minute. Like we

typically have these meetings uh via

video conference because then we don't

have to worry about the operational risk

of putting all of our country's generals

into one freaking building for you know

Iran to nuke or you know uh China or

Russia or I don't know people with pager

bombs or something. Another person said

ordering hundreds of military leaders to

appear in the same location is quote not

how this is done. Yeah, no kidding. You

don't call general every general and

flag officer out of the Pacific right

now. This is all very weird. They're

saying this, by the way, is all coming

at the same time as back in May. You

kind of have to remember this. Pete

Hegsth, they're doing a few things at at

both with Marco Rubio at the State

Department and Pete Hegth now at the War

Department. What they're doing is

they're saying, "We want more

consolidated power. We want the State

Department to have more power at the

State Department and we care less about

ambassadors. Right now, 55% of our

ambassador seats are vacant because

basically unless you just align with the

Trump memo via fidelity and loyalty

tests, they don't want you. And they're

just not even appointing people right

now. Of course, Trump is like, "It's the

Democrat's fault we're not, you know,

appointing ambassadors." And people are

like, "This is abnormal in history to

have this many vacancies for ambassador

seats. This is very, very strange, but

that's because Marco Rubio wants to

consolidate the Department of State and

have more power centralized around

Donald Trump. Pete Hgsth is doing the

same thing. In May, he said, "We want

fewer generals and more GIs, basically

more soldiers on the ground, fewer

generals." Okay, that was in May of

2025. That's when he promised to cut 10%

of general officers, 100 admirals to be

removed, and to a 20% reduction in

fourstar ranks. And so, a lot of people

are wondering like, okay, like, is this

meeting happening because we're about to

do a giant purge and we're about to fire

a bunch of people? It's like, hey

everyone, you're all fired. Guess who's

going to run the military now? Donnie

and Don Jr. with World Liberty Financial

Token.

Or it has to do with China and Putin,

which is entirely possible because we

literally just asked or or saw Russia

and China ask the United Nations to

delay sanctions on Iran by up to 6

months. Now, keep in mind that's the

axis. Russia, China, Iran, North Korea.

Three of them are nuclear powers. The

only one that's not a nuclear power we

attacked. This makes them all tighter

together. Mind you that at the same time

as this is happening, uh, you look at

the front page of the Global Times right

now, uh, and what is China talking about

on the front page? Let's see if it's

still here. Yeah, I just loaded it.

Front page of the Global Times. China

hits US firms with export controls,

unreliable entityless sanctions and

moves. Uh basically

these are specifically happening against

like defense companies and American

defense contractors. And China is

bragging about how they're hitting

specific American companies with

sanctions or restrictions because this

is not just about Russia or China. It's

about all of them together. Russia and

China supporting Iran uh and all of them

trying to attack the United States to

weaken the United States while Putin

probes Europe and the United States.

This is all connected. Look at what's

happening. Golden oil up in the last few

weeks at the same time. Now, Lavrov, the

Russian defense minister, is apparently

saying the following. NATO and the

European Union through Ukraine have

declared war on Russia and are directly

participating in it. Now, of course, you

know, Poly Market sees only a chance uh

a 13% chance of a NATO and Russia

military clash in 2025, but that's Poly

Market. Ignoring that for a moment,

you've got to recognize Donald Trump's

massive flip-flop while at the same time

we've got, you know, jets scrambling off

Alaska and now minutes ago talk of this

in Hungary as well. This is really

weird. While we're going to put all of

our generals in the same freaking room,

like this is weird. This is really

weird. But look at what Donald Trump

says. Donald Trump says, "After getting

to know and fully understand the Ukraine

Russia military and economic situation,

and after seeing economic trouble it is

causing Russia, I think Ukraine, with

the support of the European Union, is in

a position to fight and win back all of

Ukraine in its original form." Okay,

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>> That's right. Thank you uh to um what's

his name? The Halo man.

Okay. But look at the second problem

that you have here. Okay. It's not just

a matter see like Donald Trump a few

months ago uh his impression of the

Ukraine Russia situation was hey you

know Russ Putin Zalinski is going to

have some kind of land swap. we're going

to give up some land from Ukraine and

give some to Russia and Russia will give

some to Ukraine and then we'll end the

war. So, we went from we'll end the war

in 24 hours to we're going to have a

land swap to JK, we're not going to have

a land swap. Ukraine is actually likely

to win back all of its land. But then

listen to this. Ready for this? Trump

goes on to talk about how Russia's

fighting this endless war and is a is a

paper tiger. Look at this right here.

This is bad for like World War II

concerns. Listen to this threat. This is

a blatant threat against Russia. Ready

for this? Ukraine, which has great

spirit and only getting better. Ukraine

would be able to take back their country

in its original form and who knows,

maybe even go further than that. Putin

and Russia are in for big economic

trouble. And this is the time for

Ukraine to act. This is a blatant threat

against Russia. So it's no surprise, you

know, Lavrov, the defense minister, is

like, "Yo, what the hell? Uh you guys

are basically declaring war on this."

Well, at the same time, you know, NATO.

Well, at the same time, look at what

we've got over here. This is the Alaska

uh defense uh international zone, and

NORAD had to scramble jets. uh to to you

know see what's going on basically with

these Russian war plananes flying near

Alaska. Now they said that even though

they scrambled jets to intercept four

Russian war plananes, they said this was

not necessarily uncommon, but it seems

to be sort of a probing like uh there

it's like Russia's testing like let's

just see how ready the United States

actually is to fight us. But the same

thing is actually happening now with

we're seeing this with uh Hungary. This

was just minutes ago. Look at this.

Minutes ago, two Hungarian

Griffins assigned to the NATO Baltic air

policing mission were scrambled earlier

today in Lithuania to intercept a large

group of Russian fighter aircraft,

including three MiGs and two other

aircraft near the Latvian airspace over

the Baltic Sea. Now, this is important

because now when we look at where we've

had violations of airspace, look at

this. This is from uh the Doombergs.

Doomberg here has Russian violations of

NATO airspace in September. Now, what I

did is I um uh I put together the uh

these little yellow labels over here.

the uh uh Estonia right here just had

jet incursions from Russia that they

complained about violating their

territory. You had drones that were

identified as likely from a state actor

by Denmark. So Denmark isn't saying that

it was definitely Russia. And there's

plenty on social media circulating that

this was just the Ukrainians, you know,

flying these drones to try to like get

NATO involved in this war. which makes

sense. You know, NATO, I mean, Ukraine

obviously wants the United States, NATO,

and Europe to fight Russia because it's

good for Ukraine. And this is why, you

know, we expect that the Biden

administration destroyed the Nordstream

2 pipeline uh to make it look like it

was Russian sabotage, but then it turns

out it was almost certainly US CIA uh

and intelligence that blew up the

Nordstream 2 pipeline as a way of

justifying

US monetary support or fiscal support

for uh the war effort against Russia. So

it's window dressing, right? to say like

this is why we're spending money. See

how crazy Putin is. Anyway, Latvia and

Lithuania right here. So, Hungarian jets

are scrambled over here. So, these are

going to turn red now in terms of where

we have, you know, Russian violations of

airspace. And then you have Poland who

had the 25 drones that accidentally went

into Russian air or went into Polish

airspace, which, you know, we we know

that is uh uh ridiculous.

uh you know this this idea that there's

a mistake. Um let me see here. Uh

let's see.

Okay. Uh that's that. All right. Then

you have Romania that about 11 days ago,

I think it was on the 14th, reported uh

uh drone incursions into Romania. Mind

you, these are NATO members, right? So

NATO members. Here's Ukraine. Here's

Barus. So you can see they're not listed

as NATO members, but NATO members are

like, "Yo, what the hell are you doing,

Russia?" This comes on top of what's

going on off the coast of Alaska.

This is probing. It's constant probing.

So, uh, this comes at the same time as

you have this potential government

shutdown that would lead to potentially

a lot of layoffs. You know, you have uh

air traffic control and the FAA arguing

that a government shutdown would halt

ATC hiring and cost $1 billion in travel

expenses per week. On top of this, the

Wall Street Journal edi editorial board

is suggesting that Donald Trump needs to

fix what he's doing with Ukraine uh and

Russia because so far he's screwing up.

The Wall Street Journal editorial board

says Trump inviting Putin to Alaska

might be like JFK inviting uh uh Kruev

to Vienna in 1961, convincing Russia

that he could get away the Russian that

he could get away with missiles in Cuba,

which then led to the Cuban missile

crisis. Basically, the Wall Street

Journal editorial board is saying Putin

has Trump by the balls because Putin

convinced Trump that they're friends and

it bought Putin a lot of time and no

action. That's the thing. I mean, even

the editorial board right here says, uh,

for the first time, Donald Trump is

U-turning, articulating that you want

Ukraine to win, but also for eight

months, Putin has watched Trump do

nothing. Trump talks big about

threatening Putin uh and tariffs against

Russian oil or or tariffs against

countries that import Russian oil, but

so far nothing has happened. You know,

there's a bill uh for 500% tariffs

against countries that import Russian

oil in Congress that has 82 co-sponsors.

Yet, when Trump was asked about that a

couple of months ago, Trump says, "Uh,

that's excessive. you know, anything

really over 50 or 100%. You know, that

basically kills trade anyway. So, we

don't need anything more than that,

which again is a way of sort of like

patting his buddy Putin on the back

where it's like, h, you know, we don't

have to be that Putin's being a little

knucklehead, but we don't have to be

that mean to him. We're 500%.

Well, you know, now people are like, I

do you see why this isn't working out,

Donnie T? And this is why, you know,

people are reporting. I mean, even

Donald Trump himself has said, "H, my

relationship didn't work out the way I

thought it would in being able to end

this war quickly." Here's the quote from

Trump. Trump told reporters he thought

the Ukraine war would be an easy war to

mediate. Quote, "Because of my

relationship with Putin." But

unfortunately that relationship didn't

mean anything. In addition to that,

European allies are now quietly telling

Russia that we will shoot down your jets

if you keep violating our airspace. That

in addition to Trump's truth social

posts are being seen as basically, you

know, what Lavrov is saying and he's a

wararmonger though. Lavrov's basically

saying, "Hey,

you guys are declaring war on us. This

is crazy. How could you declare war on

us like this? This is terrible." And so,

you know, what are we getting? We're

getting an escalation of geopolitical

tensions. And this isn't good. Markets

don't like that. The crypto market

doesn't like that. The stock market

doesn't like that because it's

inflationary. What ends up happening is

you end up getting uh you get oil prices

that rise over time. You get gold prices

that rise over time. Gold just turned

positive on some of this latest

geopolitical drama. Uh and when you look

at oil prices uh now turning green, so

rising. If you look at oil prices, I

mean, you could see the last 6 months

over here since liberations crash.

You're trending up. It's not dramatic

up, but you're trending up here. More

recently, you got over last year, we're

lower than where we were last year

because of, you know, liberation and the

idea that our economy would kind of

compress a bit, but now we're seeing

some early signs of of oil and gold move

up on some of these geopolitical issues.

There are serious concerns. At the same

time, as this crazy meeting where we're

going to go put all of our war generals

into the same room, this just sounds, I

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>> coupon link below. So put all of this

together, you've got a big pooper

dupers. You've got Donald Trump also

potentially now using the government

shutdown as an opportunity to say, "Hey,

we're going to permanently lay off a

bunch of people." Uh this is leading to

now concerns over you know what is that

going to mean for the economy. Look at

this Washington Post White House begins

plan for mass firings if there's a

government shutdown. And we don't mean

temporary. A memo from the White House

directs agencies to consider firing

employees working on any program that is

not funded by another law basically

under the cover of the government

shutdown. The whole point of that is to

be able to blame Democrats. So, first

you blame Elon at Doge. Now you turn

around and blame Democrats

during the government shutdown to go

fire more people. It's crazy.

So, you know, you've got

you've got a wild situation going on

where now people are also talking about

this this demand that all these generals

come to DC or Quanico rather erodess the

military's ability to stay insulated

from the nation's toxic politics. This

is all, by the way, coming at the same

time as the Pentagon is not being

allowed to share as much information

with reporters as it used to be able to.

You know, we now have a communications

oversight rule that only approved

information is allowed to be disclosed.

That's not been done before. So

basically, the Pentagon and the War

Department have to approve information

that journalists are allowed to post,

which is crazy. You're also now limiting

what officials can say at think tank

events or public events, limiting

reporting that is usually considered

transparent.

But that free speech investigation by

journalists who are now having to be

escorted around the Pentagon, which that

hasn't been done for generations,

is all sending a signal that something

weird is going on here. Either a lot of

people are expected to get fired at the

Pentagon or there's some kind of war

brewing. Uh, you know, we just changed

the name of the Department of Defense to

the Department of War.

So, what's going on? you now you're

putting all of our generals in one

place. So, it's possible that there's

going to be talk about Russia, Iran, and

China and some kind of joint strategy uh

against the axis of evil, if you will.

It's also possible that in addition to

talking about a strategy, they just tell

people in the defense department or now

war department that they have to go fire

a bunch of people

uh under the cover layoffs under the

cover of a government shutdown. But it's

also on top of that possible uh that

they want to restrict and control media

access even more that they end up

saying, "Hey, you know, all of you risk

being fired if you tell the media

something that we don't like."

That's scary.

So now what we have is a lot of change

happening within the next

what two weeks or so. Government

shutdown next week. Massive war meeting

in Quanico.

Russia being more aggressive. Donald

Trump flip-flopping, suggesting maybe

Ukraine could take Russian land

uh and and basically grow Ukraine larger

than before. We've got jet incursions

off the coast of Alaska and NATO

countries.

Uh and now we're going to put all of our

war staff under one roof. I I oil prices

rising, gold price. This is just none of

this sounds good. So, is it a surprise

that we've seen a billion dollars of

crypto liquidations in the last 24

hours? We're now at $1.12 billion of

crypto liquidations in the last 24

hours. In the last 4 hours, half a

billion dollar have been liquidated of

longs. Actually, here's why you had that

drop in the last hour right here.

Oh, almost $200 million within just the

last hour. liquidated, eradicated,

destroyed, gone.

Yikes. Under 10. Uh, yeah, under 110

now.

No. So, watch watch this line. Look at

this beautiful bounce, by the way. Look

at that beautiful sexy bounce on my

line. Meet Gavin membership.

So,

I don't know. I don't know, folks.

Uh somebody uh let's see here. Somebody

says, "Hey, we've been uh

oh, we need the Halo man to say

liquidated."

Yeah, kind of like in the voice where he

goes

>> betrayal.

>> Okay, somebody else here says,

"I miss Trump 2016.

Does this mean recession?" I mean, if

you go into war, it's going to mean

problems, that's for sure. Uh, you've

got

1984 George Orwell was not wrong about

what, just when? Somebody else replies,

"Most transparent administration ever."

Uh,

yeah. Get the Russian point of view.

Yeah. Telegram.

Wow.

Somebody says military stocks will be

okay. Well, yeah. When Donald Trump

flip-flopped on uh Ukraine, you did

actually see military stocks move up. Uh

so,

I mean, let's let's go see Loheed for

example.

Loheed Martin.

Yeah, look at that. on Donald Trump's

flip-flop right here.

Uh you have Loheed Martin. See, when

Trump was elected, Loheed Martin

plummeted.

And Loheed Martin has been on a rally

since Trump has flip-flopped on Ukraine.

Straight up. I mean, you're up 20% from

your low.

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