Josh vs the News: Trump Cancels "Project Freedom!"

Uncomfortable Conversations with Josh Szeps

Josh Szeps

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🗓️ 6 May 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

The latest chaotic development under “Operation Epic Fury” has continued to show the catastrophic strategic position the United States has found itself in. But it could be worse! It’s not like the Iranians know about the midterms, and the impending electoral annihilation coming for Trump if this latest oil shock isn’t resolved. Oh wait… Josh breaks down the the failure of “Project Freedom”, how Iran has discovered an asset even more valuable than nuclear weapons, and why the rest of the world is about to pay a tremendous price for America's miscalculation.

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0:00.0	Gahe, humans.
0:05.0	Project Freedom.
0:06.4	It's off.
0:07.5	We're not going to be free anymore.
0:08.8	We're free.
0:09.5	We're free.
0:10.3	The ships in the strait of Hormuz may not be free.
0:13.9	I don't know if you've caught this latest breaking news coming across the transom.
0:17.8	But apparently, President Trump's guarantee that he would change the stakes of what's
0:24.6	going on in the Straits of Hormuz by escorting civilian vessels that are stuck. They're
0:31.7	currently stuck in the... I hadn't really thought about this. Had you thought about this?
0:34.9	When they closed the strait, not everybody was out. So there are still
0:39.3	a whole bunch of ships that are inside the Gulf. That's the Persian Gulf, for those of you following
0:45.4	along at home on your bingo cards. The Persian Gulf, there were still ships that were stranded there
0:50.5	and they've just been sitting there. I mean, the crews are literally just sitting on these ships.
0:54.1	Man, I would not want to be in the, you know, what do they call the part of the
0:57.3	ship, the belly of the ship where all the crew live? That would be getting a little smelly by now.
1:02.8	So they wanted to escort these ships out through the Strait of Hormuz, and Trump had said,
1:08.2	we're launching a new mission, project freedom, we're going to escort the ships.
1:13.3	It wasn't clear exactly how they were going to do that.
1:15.5	They got a few, a small handful of ships out, I think four, and now it's off.
1:20.5	That's the latest breaking news.
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