GONE BALLISTIC | Day 156 | Trump’s 22nd Iran ‘peace’ deal | Strikes paused | Taxi for Infantino

**George Galloway** (0:00)
Spain is under attack, not by migrants, but by the United States and Israel. And as always, a European fifth column emerges, fighting on the side of the enemy. Donald Trump decides, well, he isn't after all going to blow Iran to kingdom come, largely because he's realized he doesn't have the will with all. Not to mention the balls, taco, Trump, taco.
That's the order of the day. Tonight on the Mother of All Talk Shows. Stay tuned.

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**George Galloway** (0:53)
Trump always chickens out, otherwise known as TACO, and he definitely chickened out over a night. I thought I was going to be in my black clothes again. I believed every driveling nuance of his and Hegseth and the rest of the propaganda. I saw that embassies were emptying and evacuating. Talking of evacuation will come to Donald Trump's vowel and urinary problems in just a few minutes. But he definitely bottled it overnight. He decided that he couldn't, after all, restart all out war against the Islamic Republic of Iran. Iran has won again. In fact, all Iran has to do is stay alive, stay afloat, its government remain its government. And it has won, but it's actually achieved far more than that. The American satrapies in the Persian Gulf are in a state of advanced terror because when Trump speaks, nobody knows whether they can believe him or not. But when Iran speaks, everybody knows that they are as good as their word, even if the word is not particularly good news. So when Iran unequivocally states that if our electricity is destroyed, nobody will have electricity, if our oil and gas installations, infrastructure is destroyed, nobody will have any oil or gas, if our desalination plants are destroyed, nobody will have clean water. And in 50 degrees Centigrade in the Persian Gulf, that's going to lead to a mass movement of people. About which also more in a few minutes. When he realized that the inventory of the American interceptor missiles is now so bankrupt, is now so bare, that they've had to strip the anti-aircraft capability from South Korea I just talked to, a South Korean diplomat. I can't give their name or they'll be in trouble, but they told me that South Korea has no defense. You better hope that the young'un, Kim Jong-un, doesn't choose this evening to launch an attack on South Korea. They have stripped the interceptor capabilities of all of the Arab countries in the Persian Gulf that had been paying protection money to big pussy Donald Trump. God rest his soul, big pussy that is, not Donald Trump. Been paying protection money, all of these decades to the United States, and their protection has been removed so that it could be relocated to Israel. And Israel, having all the interceptors, doesn't have enough interceptors to deal with what Colonel Douglas McGregor, veteran of the US Armed Forces, a man that was almost a Trump ambassador in the first term, what he calls Iran's missile dominance. Iran has missile dominance, and the Yanks have no answer to it. That's why they are warships. Remember them? Some of them had a laundry fire, some of them smoked from the chimney, some of them had blocked toilets. You'll remember them all. That's why they are hundreds and hundreds of miles away from Iran, imposing a blockade that isn't a blockade, because hey, in a blockade, you've kind of got to be in the place that you are blockading. Iran's missile dominance has petrified the sheikhs and emirs and princes in the Persian Gulf to the extent that they are begging, they are beseeching Donald Trump not to do this. Well, at least that's what Donald Trump says, and it's perfectly believable in that case. They don't have the men. They don't have the ships. And they don't have the money, too. To paraphrase a very famous djingo anthem. The truth is the United States' economy is in deep trouble. Moreover, the United States' dominated Western capitalist economy is in dire trouble. Even Porsche is thinking of closing its doors. This crisis has the potential of making the 1930s look like a tea party by comparison with the recession, the depression that is stalking the capitalist powers and the countries of the Global South that have still not broken free, burned their bridges with the dying, fading, failing, empire of the West. So they don't have the men, the ships, the money, the interceptors. They cannot do what Donald Trump says they are going to do. And they know that Iran means it when it says what its retaliation will be. So it's all off. I was able to cast off my morning clothes and come amongst you like the summer type of fellow. I always prefer to be. Not that there's not people still being killed, of course. There's the 59 or according to latest figures, 92 Moroccans and other Africans who drowned in the Mediterranean, trying to swim from Morocco to Ceuta, which is the Spanish enclave, autonomous city in North Africa, squatting on what is truthfully Moroccan soil. But that hides a multitude of different aspects of the most extraordinary story that broke in the middle of the night where we are. And I've got to say, she'll kick me for doing so.