Trish Regan reports from London that the US unilaterally enforces a naval blockade in the Strait of Hormuz, going "solo" without NATO to force Iran back to negotiations. She details President Trump's closure of Spain's Rota and Moron bases due to their refusal to contribute 5% of GDP to NATO, citing Iranian influence for Europe's resistance. While asserting all Iranian ports are shut despite 34 ships passing through the strait, Regan contrasts liberal media narratives with rising stock markets as proof of American strength, arguing allies must step up or face consequences. Ultimately, this aggressive stance signals a shift toward unilateral US dominance in global security. [Automatically generated summary]
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US Returns to Global Charge00:03:58
Something's happening right now in real time, and no one in the media is explaining this, at least not properly.
The US is taking charge in a major way, in a way that we probably have not seen since World War II.
And it's going to have major implications for all of Europe, where I'm coming to you from right now, and the world as a whole.
It's going to have major implications.
For our economy, for energy markets, for oil markets.
You're seeing even today the investing community getting excited because the US of A is back in charge.
We're taking over, if you would, the Strait of Hermos.
Aron, do you hear that?
You know, it might be time to actually come to the table because we're going to choke you off, economically speaking, in a massive, massive way.
Hey, Europe, it might really be time to come to the table because if you're not with us, Increasingly, we may just think you're against us and you don't want to be against us in this moment in time.
Because the US of A is back in charge.
Just look at how it's being reflected in markets in the US dollar.
We're going to be running the show.
And if we can't get oil through the Strait of Hermos, guess what?
We're getting oil right through in Texas.
Just look at all the ships right now coming to Texas, okay?
This is the new world order.
The media doesn't want to admit it.
The media hates it for whatever reason.
I don't still fully understand all of that.
And we're seeing it in the media, both in terms of the ultra liberal publications out there.
As I come to you right now from the UK, I was in Spain over the weekend where they're about to close a couple of bases.
We'll talk about that.
But, you know, I look at this, and here we are looking at what the New York Times is printing.
A new world war has arrived.
Not a new world war.
Era as I'm describing to you, but a new era of world war.
In other words, they're convinced that it's all death and destruction.
Again, I would just point back to the markets because if it was all going to be death and destruction, we would actually see that the markets would be tanking.
But that is not the case, okay?
The markets are actually handling this quite, quite well.
Why?
Because it's showing that the US of A is back in charge, which is good news, okay?
Good news for us.
Even though the media doesn't want to admit it.
And by the way, not just the liberal media, you get some wackadoos in the MAGA media as well.
If we can call them any MAGA anymore, I'm not so sure that we can.
Donald Trump really sticking it to them as we went into the weekend, as we have discussed, and maybe we'll get into that a little bit as well, because I think a lot of people, unfortunately, are most influenced in this moment in time by clicks and maybe by the appeal of some libs kind of liking them, right?
They get all tension, all kinds of attention, suddenly in the likes of the Daily Beast, the Huffington Post.
I don't know who wants attention in those places, but some people do.
Some people do, and they like being talked about in ways that they think make them more important.
And so you're seeing that going on.
But in spite of all of it, what's happening?
Donald Trump is doubling down.
Okay, 21 hours worth of talks getting you nowhere.
Well, he's got a solution for that, and he's putting that solution into place as we speak.
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Welcome to the program, everyone.
I am Trish Rian coming to you live from London right now.
Spent time over the weekend in Spain.
Trump Doubles Down on Talks00:10:23
We'll talk all about it because I was near those bases.
There's two of them that are very, very important and they're about to be shut down.
And it's massive for the Spanish economy.
You're talking about 4,000, 5,000 service members there.
You're talking about an influx of cash that's quite significant.
In fact, in just the last year or so, we saw the U.S. spending $200 million in one of those bases, in one of those towns alone.
So that's going to be a big hit.
But apparently, Spain can't quite catch up to it for whatever reason, it seems to be.
On the other side, on Iran's side, on, as they may soon find out, the wrong side, right?
NATO, get with it.
NATO's going to have to get with it.
I mean, Trump's nuclear on them, right?
He said, hey, if you guys don't do this, guess what?
You're going to have a huge problem because we don't need to engage in all the spending we've been engaging in.
Think about what we spent on Ukraine.
He's come out very, very, very strong against this.
US at this moment in time enforcing a blockade there in the Strait of Hormuz, cutting off all of the Iranian ports and doing so quite successfully, going solo without the help of NATO.
But they're coming to the table, including the folks right here in the town I'm coming to you from, where I was just going by the Defense Department here in London today.
And it's a very nice building, by the way.
They're coming to their senses because they don't have a choice.
They have to.
Listen to the President of the United States just last night railing against NATO.
You know, we spend trillions of dollars on NATO to help them guard really against Russia.
When you think of it, we're guarding against Russia.
And I've long thought it was a little ridiculous, but we spend trillions of dollars doing it.
And I think that's going to be under very serious examination.
Thank you very much.
Thank you very much.
And with that, he walks away.
Very serious examination, indeed, because we do spend a lot of money, trillions of dollars, in fact.
And if we're there for you, but you're not there for us, then really it's not a relationship that's working out very well, right?
Not that we need you, because apparently we can do this all on our own.
I do think, however, you will have no choice but to come to the table and we are hearing word that the UK is prepared to step up because here's the reality of the situation.
No, the.
The Iranians cannot hold the rest of the world hostage.
We can enforce a blockade and we are enforcing a blockade, but it shouldn't have to be us entirely alone.
In other words, we can do it.
But if we're going to offer you all the support that we've given you, Europe, for Ukraine, then we expect reciprocity, if you would.
Listen to the president earlier today.
Mr. President, as far as the naval blockade is concerned.
What's the end game?
Is it to force Iran back to the negotiating table?
Is it to open up the strait so that gas prices ultimately come down?
Maybe everything.
I mean, both of those things, certainly, and more.
We can't let a country blackmail or extort the world, because that's what they're doing.
They're really blackmailing the world.
We're not going to let that happen.
And, you know, the amazing thing is we don't, can you believe this?
We don't use the strait.
We don't need the strait.
We have our own oil and gas, much more than we need.
We have more oil and gas in Saudi Arabia.
Think of this.
We produce more.
Saudi Arabia and add Russia to it.
Substantially more.
And by next year, we'll have double that amount.
So we don't need it, but the world needs it.
And many ships are heading to our country right now as we speak to load up with the best.
Really, I guess you could say, somebody said the best and sweetest.
I don't know exactly what sweet is, but when it relates to oil, it's a good thing.
But they're coming to our country right now.
There are many boats coming to our country.
It could very well be this is going to be settled before that.
We've been called this morning by the right people, the appropriate people, and they want to work a deal.
They would like to work a deal.
A deal would be good, right?
They want to work a deal.
They're getting desperate to work a deal because they have to work a deal.
Because guess what?
We've just figured out we can completely shut off their entire economy.
The Iranian economy is entirely dependent on its oil exports.
And sure, it's actually gone kind of well for the last six weeks because the price of oil has gone up.
And basically, all of that oil has been going to China.
Mm hmm.
And now China can't get its oil.
So it's not too happy either.
So it's putting pressure on Iran.
I mean, not quite like we are, but it's putting pressure as well.
And so if all of the oil is stopped leaving Iran and its ports, then it's got nothing.
I mean, I think one of the reasons the president hesitated to do that was because he knew that it would affect overall prices, right?
When you take off 20% of the world's supply, which is what the Strait of Hormuz. Is actually accounting for, we don't need the oil.
We have plenty of oil here, of course.
But when you take 20% of the world's supply off, what happens to the price of oil?
It goes up.
And so he didn't want the price of oil to go way up all of a sudden because, well, that's bad for everyone.
Don't forget, it's a commodity.
So even though we have plenty of it here, when you take off 20% of the world's supply, yeah, it's going to go up.
So Iran actually benefited from that.
Think about that.
Because the oil prices were going up, they were still shipping their oil, they were getting their ships out going to China.
And now the president has said, yep, that's not going to happen anymore.
We're not going to allow for that anymore at all.
And so we're shutting it down and we're going in, and all of your little Iranian ports, including Karg Island, are getting shut down.
You're not going to get one ounce of oil out of that country as long as we have anything to say about it.
And hey, Europe, it would be nice if you would step up to the plate too.
I mean, this is him over the weekend.
He's demanding NATO send warships to take on Iran or lose support for good because he wants them involved.
Period, full stop.
And this is why the UK is figuring out it doesn't really have a choice here.
It wants to salvage the relationship it has.
It knows that it needs the US for NATO.
But there are other actors that are a little bit more like petrol and children, like Spain.
That don't want to step up to the plate.
But then again, they never do, right?
Spain, I mean, they were told last year, you're going to have to contribute like 5% of GDP to NATO.
And they're like, are you kidding?
They have no interest in it.
So we shouldn't be surprised.
But then again, why should we be spending hundreds of millions of dollars on those bases if we can't even use them?
I mean, literally, we can't even use them.
We tried to, we wanted to.
And they wouldn't.
And France, think about France not even allowing us use of their airspace.
France is going to have to come around too.
I think Spain, however, Is rolling the dice in a bigger way than it should.
Listen to the president again.
Is it your anticipation, Mr. President, that other countries will assist in this effort to blockade Iran?
Yeah, other countries are going to also.
We don't need other countries, frankly, but they've offered the services.
We'll let it be known probably tomorrow.
Has the blockade started, sir?
Yeah, it started at 10 o'clock.
It started all right.
It's going pretty well.
All right.
Iran's not getting anything through.
We've actually seen a number of, I think the number is, I'll get this for you, it's around 34 ships that just went through over the weekend.
They're getting through.
And the president's saying, hey, we're going to announce who is joining this coalition tomorrow.
I can tell you, my source is telling me, and again, my on the ground reporting indicating that Spain is not going to be one of them.
They've actually become the most resistant NATO member.
And as a result of this, we're looking at closing a couple of bases Rota and Moron.
Okay, so these are the two big bases.
We've talked about these a little bit on the show before.
I spent some time over the weekend, as I said, In Spain.
And I can tell you, I mean, here's just, you know, you're looking out here at the Mediterranean.
If you're watching this video right now, you can see this is the Mediterranean Sea there that's pretty key and pretty important in the scheme of things.
It's worth knowing, actually, that might be the Albaran Sea right there, along with the Mediterranean.
You've got the Atlantic and the Mediterranean that meet in Spain.
And so there's a base called Rota, which is near Cadiz.
And the reason this matters, somebody said the other day on the show, they thought that I had.
Confused that Gibraltar was somehow part of Spain.
No, no, no, no.
That's the UK.
But you've got the Strait of Gibraltar.
Okay, that's what's important because, you know, we talk about the Strait of Hermuz, you get the Strait of Gibraltar, and that's what connects the Mediterranean with the Atlantic Ocean.
And so it's another key waterway, which is why we have that operation in Cadiz in that area, Spain, called Rota.
That's a naval base.
And then we have the air base, Moron, a little bit further north than that.
And so this is critical stuff.
You want to have that because you're talking about a waterway that's incredibly important, or you have this connection there through that strait.
And so it's important as an asset for us to be over there.
It's important for them to have us there.
Very, very important because we're the ones that are spending all the money.
I mean, the latest numbers I saw were in the vicinity of $200 million that was being spent just within the last year on these various bases.
And you have roughly 4,000 or so personnel, Army and Navy, Air Force Base being Moron, the Navy base being the Base Naval de Rota, there near Cadiz, Spain, as I said.
And so now Spain is saying, well, you can't use these.
And it's like, guys, we've been spending hundreds of millions of dollars on this.
We ought to be able to use it, right?
Parents Divided, Kids Rebellious00:02:00
Like, it's sort of ours.
And they're like, no.
And on top of that, they're not even willing to step up to the plate and pay their fair share.
That was agreed upon in 2025 of what they should be contributing.
They're the ones, and they got away with it.
How are they getting away with this stuff?
This is part of the problem.
So you got to clamp down on it if you're going to actually have NATO, he keeps calling it a paper tiger, right?
If this thing is going to have any teeth, then everybody kind of has to be on the same page.
And if you have one leader, which effectively is us, it always is, running the show, then everybody else has got to come to the table and contribute likewise and be.
A united force.
It's like when parents are divided, kids try and do this, right?
Divide and conquer, divide and conquer.
They can see if they can get mom and dad on a different point of view and thus get away with stuff because dad said yes and mom said no.
It's like, well, dad said I could do this, or vice versa.
Mom said I could do this.
And this is what Spain's trying to do, for goodness sakes.
They're like, well, we still want to be part of NATO, but we don't actually want to have to do any of the things that would require us to be part of this.
And then you have a lot of other countries that are saying, well, if Spain's doing it, then.
I guess we can too.
And so you're coming apart at the seams, on top of which you've got this media bias that's built in.
A lot of people have talked about the soft spending that you see with the Iranian influence in Spain.
There's actually a television network that has Iranian sponsorship.
And so that starts to take effect, I think, in the psychology of the mindset there, where you have an influence that is not aligned with Western culture, but more so with the Iranians.
And so consequently, the Spanish people.
Don't want to have anything to do with this.
The Europeans in general, right?
They don't want to have anything to do with this.
But this is, again, a community that thought it was perfectly fine to go and take all their, well, Germany anyway, their natural gas from Russia.
Iran's Influence and Oil Boats00:04:09
It's like, you know, guys, you get what you pay for here.
I mean, you're not very smart about these things now, are you?
No, they're not.
They're consistently not very smart.
And it's actually a sticking point.
I remember President Trump trying to encourage them not, Germany, not to get all their natural gas from Russia.
But they didn't listen.
They didn't listen.
And so then you're in the Ukraine situation, and eventually you have sanctions that are kicking in.
And so then they definitely can't go get their natural gas from Russia.
But by the way, Russia was willing to shut them off.
So now, why would you be so dependent on someone that you didn't really consider an ally?
Again, the Europeans are not thinking.
Their heads are in the clouds.
I don't get it.
I don't understand it.
I mean, but they're so unlike us in every way.
I mean, a lot of great things about the people here.
Don't get me wrong.
But there's just sometimes, I think, a lack.
Of basic common sense.
And that may be in part because of the educational influence of wokeness that has infiltrated all of Europe over the last couple of decades, which was trying to infiltrate the United States of America, but it's not getting very far, at least not lately.
But I think that there's just a lack of reality.
So they don't understand quite how serious this is.
And so Donald Trump's trying to hit them over the head with this.
And as a result, maybe then the world will be a safer place.
But I'll tell you what, it will be because of us.
So once again, the U.S. leading the way, the U.S. willing to go where no one else will, the U.S. of A willing to come forward with that blockade, doing so solo so that ships can get through.
And now, Iran effectively on its knees, begging to make a deal.
Are another round of talks planned with Iran?
And if so, will you send Vice President Jane Vance with?
Well, he's done a good job.
But Steve and Jared, they've all done a very good job.
And I can tell you that we've been called by the other side.
They'd like to make a deal very badly.
Very badly.
They'd like to make a deal.
Well, I should think they would want to, right?
I should think they would want to make a deal in light of how critical it is for their economy.
And I mean, really, really, really critical.
For their economy, we did get word that 34 ships were going through.
Boy, I'm getting close to the camera.
I realize it.
And then Donald Trump saying that 34 ships were going through the highest number since this whole thing started.
And finally, you know, maybe the Iranians might be realizing that they don't hold all the cards in any of this.
They really don't.
I want to go to a Fox report ahead of the blockade earlier this morning.
Now, the Iranian military is warning that no Gulf ports will be safe if their own ports are threatened.
We understand there are a variety of contingencies in place, and U.S. Central Command.
Says that humanitarian vessels and regular commercial ships not coming from Iran will be allowed to use the Strait of Hormuz.
CENTCOM releasing a statement of their own this weekend saying the blockade will be enforced impartially against vessels of all nations entering or departing Iranian ports and coastal areas, including all Iranian ports on the Arabian Gulf and Gulf of Oman.
CENTCOM forces will not impede freedom of navigation for vessels transiting the Strait of Hormuz to and from non Iranian ports.
President Trump this weekend speaking about the situation saying this.
Other nations are working so that Iran will not be able to sell oil and that will be very effective.
But what we want to do is we want to, and again, we don't need it.
What we notice and what we see and what I think is maybe my idea, maybe not, I don't know.
But there are many boats heading toward our country to fill up with oil and then go and take it.
So they're not going to go through the Hormuz Strait.