WAR 2.0 | Day 187 | Trump ‘very little left’ threat | Iran hits US bases | Throwing shade

**George Galloway** (0:00)
And it's live, if a little late, please accept my humble apologies for that. And it's war, it's war in the Persian Gulf, which started with the massacre of schoolgirls and has now, last night, resulted in the massacre of children and other guests at a wedding ceremony in Iran. Just exactly what are the Americans trying to achieve, except make the entire world hate them.
And Germany has declared war on Russia. How did that end last time? Oh, wait, this is the mother of all talk shows. Stay tuned.

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**George Galloway** (0:58)
Inexplicably, Trump keeps hourly telling us the war is over, Iran is defeated, Hormuz is about to be called the Trump's Straits, that ships are moving in and out of it, like Bileo, and yet he still has to keep returning, like a dog to its vomit, to the scenes of his previous crimes, and what crimes they are. You can't get lower than murdering 180 little schoolgirls at their desks in a primary school on day one of the war, but you can get nearly there when you begin bombing last night and you massacre a wedding ceremony. A wedding ceremony, a bride and a groom, bridesmaids, page boys, mothers, fathers, civilian people sitting in a wedding hall. Suddenly a missile comes through the roof and murders them. At least six have now been murdered and 16 are wounded. And at least one of the dead is a small child attending a wedding ceremony. Leaving aside all righteous outrage, what is this for? What is it for? It cannot be to reopen the Straits of Hormuz because you told the stock market and the oil market that the Straits of Hormuz were open and that you were thinking of renaming them. The Trump Straits, it cannot be for nuclear weapons issues because you already solved that problem last year.
It cannot be for any military purpose because all of your military assets have been trashed, destroyed in the Persian Gulf.
Is there a brick standing on top of another brick in a single American military base, never mind in the Gulf? How about Jordan? Tell us, Trump. Tell us, King, whatever your name is, in Jordan, you've imposed the strictest possible censorship where journalists will go to prison if they are seen with a telephone in their hands, where if they impart the level of damage that Iran has just done to a US Marine Corps base. Tell us, why don't you level with the people you're supposed to represent? You don't have any assets left except in Israel. Your ships lock up your daughters in Thailand, in Pattaya. 5,000 crazed American naval personnel have just docked in Pattaya. They've been at sea for almost an entire year. I don't need to spell out what kind of shape, what kind of mood the sailors will be in on the streets of Pattaya this evening, but I can point to the state of their ship. The USS Abraham Lincoln looks like the grave of Abraham Lincoln. It's rusted entirely. Barnacles are growing on its hull. Creatures have infested it. Its toilets are not working. Its kitchens are producing bilge, which may even be the overflow of the toilets that are not working. I don't know the state of mind of the sailors. I do know the optics of the USS Abraham Lincoln. And I'm asking you again, Trump, what are you doing? What did you achieve by bombing that wedding ceremony last night? Beyond spilling innocent blood of women and children, what are you doing? What do you hope to achieve?
Well, you've already put the oil price up back to just a kick in the arse off a hundred dollars a barrel, and that's a contract price, not a real price encountered in the real world, where a barrel of oil will cost you perhaps 25 percent more than that and climbing. You've certainly not achieved the reduction in prices in the United States. Even ordering the American consumer to start eating horse meat from Argentina, already rejected as toxic by China, has not brought the American prices down. You're certainly not improving your party's prospects for the mid-term elections, which are in November very soon. Of course, the heating season is about to begin. What do I mean by the heating season? When people start ordering heating oil, when the demand for energy, for heat, begins to rise is only two weeks distant. And the prices are going to be worth seeing. But the availability may be even more worth seeing. There has never been a time when gas stocks in Western Europe have been lower two weeks before heating season than they are this day. The reservoirs are 74% full, and they're not going to be refilled. And when the demand starts climbing, the 74% will start declining, and you'll be very lucky to get heat this winter at all. What's the answer of the Western leaders?