ESCALATION: Massive strikes on Gas fields in Iran and Qatar. Trump expands WAR
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🗓️ 19 March 2026
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ESCALATION: Massive strikes on Gas fields in Iran and Qatar. Trump expands WAR
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| 0:00.0 | All right, Alexander, let's talk about the situation in Iran. We had an attack on Iranian gas facility, |
| 0:10.9 | the South Pars facility, and Iran retaliated by hitting one of the largest LNG facilities in Qatar, and actually the world, about 20% of the gas supply, |
| 0:24.7 | comes out of the facility in Qatar that was hit. And Iran also hit some targets in Saudi Arabia. |
| 0:34.2 | Israel claims that Trump knew about these strikes. Trump comes out with a truth social post |
| 0:39.7 | saying that he had no idea about these strikes and that these strikes against gas facilities |
| 0:45.0 | should stop. But if Iran does hit gas facilities going forward, then the United States is going |
| 0:51.3 | to hit Iran very hard. So you have a denial from Trump saying that he knew nothing about it. |
| 0:57.9 | Israel did this on their own. |
| 0:59.1 | Israel is saying, no, that's not the case. |
| 1:01.0 | Actually, Axios, which is very close to Israel and to Trump is the ones that are putting |
| 1:08.0 | out the story that Trump did indeed know about these strikes. |
| 1:15.5 | And that's where we are. |
| 1:16.9 | This is a big escalation. |
| 1:18.9 | We also have reports coming out of Reuters in the Washington Post claiming that Trump is going to reinforce the troops being deployed into the region. More troops is basically what Reuters |
| 1:30.3 | is saying. And the Pentagon is going to request an additional $200 billion in funding for the war. |
| 1:37.9 | So escalation is where we are. |
| 1:41.1 | We are in a massive escalation spiral. and we also, I think, saw yesterday a sequence of events, |
| 1:50.8 | which to my mind, I mean, they change, they radicalize further the situation in the war. |
| 2:00.3 | I would say that we've actually reached a pivot point and basically have passed it because the attack on the South Pass gas field in Iran, which is enormous. And it's the same gas field that extends to Qatar. |
| 2:18.1 | So it's the biggest gas field in the world in terms of known reserves. |
| 2:23.7 | There might be bigger ones in Russia, but this is an enormous gas reserve. |
| 2:28.8 | It's the one that, by the way, the European Union in the past has wanted to draw gas from, that was many |
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