Last month, Ukrainian drones struck an Iranian ship in the Caspian Sea – the first direct link between the wars in Ukraine and Iran, and proof of a secret arms pipeline between Moscow and Tehran.
The strike came amid an extraordinary shift inside MAGA world.
Pro-Trump influencer, Laura Loomer, who once called Zelenskyy an authoritarian and said Ukraine needed to be “denazified”, has spent months touring Kyiv and doing friendly interviews with the Ukrainian president.
Now Zelenskyy is using his new MAGA allies to argue Ukraine can help Trump too, which is good timing because the US has nearly run out of missiles.
Catch up on our past episode on Russian influence over some MAGA commentators:
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Propaganda trying to tell us MAGA people that we weren't betrayed by an obviously blackmailed Trump regarding the failing Petrodollar war against BRICS allies Iran and Russia
This was very well done. Thank you for your work exposing these spineless influencers, Russian propoganda, and the relationship between them all.
Ukraine is a victim defending themselves ffs
The two MAGA factions are simply whether you are more Islamophobic (pro-Israel) or more anti-Semitic (anti-Israel).
Could be wrong I saw a video where Zelenskyy apologised to Iran saying they're not at war with Iran
Whats amazing about these people is they're never wrong even when they change their stance, lesson we can all be wrong at times but it's best just to educate yourself on the topic before screaming loudly to others they're wrong
Yeah Tim Fool did this after he got caught taking Russian propaganda money
Next thing you know MAGA supporters will be transitioning to become women and talking about how we should get rid of prisons and the police. Then they will say we have to open up the border and let another 12 million people in with no vaccinations. Then they will demand prison sentences for people with no COVID shots. Do you think MAGA supporters will spend a lot of time trying to kill Trump or just go for CEOs or people like Charlie Kirk?
Cosmetics much
@ Matt Bevan, your stores and presentations are so fascinating and must come on prime time!
Fantastic work to you and your team!❤❤❤
Tim Pool are you Bald?
Loved this episode, Matt. But, I am not pleased with your haircut.
Interesting how Loomer’s views are all directly related to her business model. Zero loyalty to any cause that she can monetise.
They thought Russia was going to be their Aryan champion but then he embraced Africa and favored China.
Another great show! Proud to support ABC, independent excellence!
Laura Loomer is truly the paragon of swivel eyed loons.
Omg dude… you are SO far deluded.
This guy is trying to build a narrative on top of lies the media made up a decade ago.
The curious thing to me is there are so many other things you could criticize the Trump administration about. They have fumbled the bag over and over.
However, you can’t criticize MAGA without ensnaring the Israel and their proxy in the White House: the neocons.
I hope at least a couple people read this and understand what is going on here. This is the Uni party protecting itself
Hands down this is the best analysis of the War in Ukraine that I have seen. Look forward to more. Bravo.
Loomer and Levin are people who will grow old without any real friends. They are pathological liars and narcissists put out in public by other pathological liars and narcissists, and there is nothing normal about them. People like that don't fit well into any society, anywhere. Their names will always be associated with public sociopathic case studies after they're long gone.
As a new Viewer from the US, the vilified other MAGA dumbfluencers aka tim, tucker, candace have smaller portions of an audience anymore as they spout more fringe beliefs even for average Americans. Loomer backing away from all russia support at the logical allied with russia means allied with iran all shows the MAGA base can get over autocratic idealism when the fox enters the chicken coop.
The factions always getting the GEO politics hilariously sad have already been russian influenced more than they'd ever care to admit.
Tucker was canned by Fox years ago more than overdue. Tim Pool was also sought by better media orgs in the US the blaze "think Ben Shapiro", but turned big USA money down for even bigger money from Russian supported state info ops. Candace has always been a run of the mill attentionfluencer scraping the bottom of anyone's barrel living under a rock MAGA land.
Hope to see the support of Ukraine return to pre-new US administration, but not counting on it. Ukraine invasion day 1 up to week 1 was clear to anyone Russia would try the old superpower thing, needing bigger "usa" superpower status to tamp that out.
Russia can ruin their future 10x over by destroying their brightest men and weakening a frayed material support with their only real advantage being missels that go faster and out of anyones control.
No one is talking about what's the real reason for Russian attack on Ukraine. From 2014 Ukraine murdered thousands of Russian people in Ukraine the same as ethnic cleansing of Polish (approx 250.000 Wołyń), Hungarian, Jewish between 1938-1947, so brutal you can't imagine.
This war it's American proxy war against Russia who is fighting against whole West.
Russia supported Iran from day one. Zelensky going against Iran is to gain support from pro-Israeli lobbies. That is what influencers do, not MAGA. Candice O. has a group of 90 influencers posting against her. She is very clear who is behind them.
My head hurts hearing her voice!!😅😜😋😛
Maga turn on whoever Donny diaper tells them to turn on. It's a cult.
The captions are erroneous in couple of places. E.g.:
Tucker Carlson did not say, "It's a joke." He said, "It's such a betrayal," twice. 13:37
Laura Loomer did not say,'They take clips of Alex Jones…' The name was something like 'Jo/e …..' Kath? 14:20
If there are Americans watching this who think you should pull away from Ukraine, you need a history lesson. America convinced the Ukraine to hand back all the nuclear tech left on their land when they separated from the USSR. America PROMISED that if Russia ever attacked them, America would be there to help. Ukraine would not have given Russia back their weapons except for this strenuous commitment from the USA. If the US were not helping Ukraine now, every ally would know not to ever believe anything the US would promise to them. (Indeed, France knew that the US, despite their promises, did NOT come to their aid in WWII. That's why they've developed their own nuclear program and built up their weapon supply ever since the 1940s. The US promised them but did not show up when it was needed. I'm pretty sure USA schools do not teach about the parts of WWII that America when decided NOT to help. They only teach about the bits when they did decide to join.)
Laura Loomer is a mouthpiece for hire and has no organic audience. If this newsreader thinks Trump voters and former Trump voters are warming to Trump's clear blundering incompetence in not getting us disengaged from the Ukraine war and the catastrophe that is Trump's war on Iran, then he is grossly mistaken in my opinion.
How on earth does anyone want to hear Laura Loomer's voice?
Interesting to see that old school analogue phone there – are they still used in Oz? (assuming this was filmed in Oz, and the phone's not digitalised in some way)
I'm not sure that'd still work here in the UK.
Excellent post by the way – keep up the good work 🙂
This guy is full of shit,
Ukraine is using it's drones but you dumb 🤬 never report that to hit your target, you need satellites
Nato satellites are involved
Slava Ukraini! Heroyam Slava! Obama should never have done that 2014 deal with Putin, because the glutton was never going to be satisfied. The real risk that if it grows, and continues to be linked with Iran, the threat to the rest of the world grows exponentially and one blunder could blow us all up.
8/15/2026 – Why should North Korea use Russian targeting systems to launch the North Korean Zircon ballistic missile against Ukrainian civilians and civilian infrastructure, but Elon Musk and Star-Link will not allow Ukraine the targeting capability that would allow Ukraine to hit ballistic missile production facilities and the infrastructure in Russia that supports North Korean and Russian ballistic missile attacks?
Where is the European and American response to the Russian escalation of its war against Ukraine as Russia adds (in 2026) 409,000 new contract recruits (and threatens forced mobilization if that goal is not reached).
Where is the outcry as North Korea continues to support Russia's war of aggression with 50,000 additional troops and massive quantities of ammunition and ballistic missiles?
Why can't Europe provide the long range missiles and ammunition that Ukraine needs as it prepares for Russia's "Final Assault"??
Remember Russia and its AXIS allies: Iran, North Korea and China have been supporting Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Russia and China support Iran in its war with the US. What will it take to wake up NATO and America to their common threat?
When will President Trump support and sign the Russian Sanctions bill sponsored by the late Senator Lindsey Graham?
When will Trump grant the Patriot License to Ukraine and our NATO allies to significantly increase production levels of this critical munition?
When will the Trump administration provide Ukraine with the Political, Economic and Military Support needed to achieve victory!
If Ukraine is defeated, Russia and its AXIS allies, the rest of Europe will be next.
Perhaps NATO will wake up with a repeat of the 2024 China and Belarus military exercises on the Polish border- only next time, we will see a massive exercise with Chinese troops training with Russian, North Korean and Iranian troops on NATO's borders. If North Korea can make war on a European nation, we could easily see China's military deployed in Europe.
Like a frog being slowly boiled, Europe and America quietly watch as the AXIS pursues their imperialistic ambitions:
A) Europe is being attacked with HYBRID WARFARE and UKRAINE HAS BEEN INVADED,
B) Asia- Chinese territorial ambitions include: Tibet( already conquered), border disputes in the South China Sea, Taiwan, Philippines, Japan, India, Southeast Asia, and Hong Kong's democracy has already been destroyed. ,
C) the Middle East where Iran and it proxies attack American allies and military bases while strangling the world's economy in the strait of Hormuz and the Red Sea,
D) NATO and America remain silent as Russia is allowed to continue its strategic naval and air force military bases in Syria to provide Russia with a port on the Mediterranean Sea, and a logistics and training hub for Russia and its AXIS allies including IRAN.
E) North Korea now serves as the ARSENAL FOR AXIS TOTALITARIANISM while maintaining its repressive police state as a nuclear power. NORTH KOREA HAS DECLARED WAR ON UKRAINE when it fires Zircon missiles on Ukrainian civilians, deploys an additional 50,000 troops to support Russia's invasion of Ukraine and provides Russia with massive quantities of ammunition, drones and missiles.
– RUSSIA HAS HAD NO REASON TO AGREE TO ANY PEACE PLAN THAT DOES NOT INCLUDE UKRAINE'S SURRENDER AS LONG AS THE UNITED STATES CONTINUES TO DENY POLITICAL, MILITARY, AND ECONOMIC SUPPORT FOR UKRAINE. THROUGHOUT 2025 and 2026, THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION HAS DENIED MILITARY AID TO UKRAINE WHILE TRUMP AND WITKOFF ENGAGED IN PHONE CALLS AND NEGOTIATIONS THAT ONLY CAPITULATED TO PUTIN. Trump's special envoy to Russia, Witkoff has never been to Ukraine, he dId not include experts on Russia in his 8 meetings with Putin, and did not consult our European allies or Ukraine in preparing his "peace" proposals with Russia which ignored the long-term strategic interests of America and our European allies!!! President Trump and Witkoff do not share the content of their conversations with Putin by using the NSC Secret Code Word System, and they even use Russian translators to keep these negotiations secret from national security advisors and Congress.
-The earlier pro-Russian 28 point "peace" proposal presented by Army Secretary Dan Driscoll to Zelensky asked Ukraine, which is the victim of Russia's illegal invasion, to surrender the rest of strategically critical Donbas giving Russia a total of 20% of Ukraine, rewarded Russia by recognizing the conquered territory as part of Russia, ended sanctions on Russia, returned Russian assets that could be used to rebuild Ukraine, disarmed a third of Ukraine's army, while disallowing a peacekeeping force, or NATO membership. This proposal ignored the long-term strategic interests of Ukraine, America, and our European allies!!!
-PUTIN'S LONG-TERM GOAL OF SEPARATING THE US FROM NATO IS BEING REALIZED BY TRUMP'S TARIFF WARS, THREATS TO GREENLAND'S SOVEREIGNTY AND THE END OF AMERICAN DIRECT MILITARY AND ECONOMIC ASSISTANCE TO UKRAINE.
– If Ukraine is defeated, Russia can claim the status of a world power as it turns the second largest European country, the breadbasket for the world with 38 million tech savvy, battle tested Ukrainians into "cannon fodder" for AXIS imperialism. Europe and NATO will be next because Russia is a totalitarian
state that can not allow democracy and freedom on its borders.
UKRAINE IS THE FRONT LINE IN THE GLOBAL DEFENSE OF DEMOCRACY AND FREEDOM AGAINST AXIS IMPERIALISM AND A TOTALITARIAN WORLD ORDER! Surrendering Ukraine to Russia or rewarding Russia for its illegal invasion would be a tragic loss for the entire future of humanity, and a Russian victory will only embolden further aggression by the AXIS, its allies and proxies. The only path toward peace in Europe would be if Ukraine is integrated into both NATO and the EU with the full support of the United States of America! David A. Mangs Ph.D.
It’s like her face is cemented in place. I don’t think she’s physically capable of showing an expression.
MAGA can't ditch Putin, because it's absolutely no matter which of your siamese joint parties are at the helm – they all follow the the same foreign policy. Every opposing nation must be destroyed, be it Iran, Russia or China. And your government showed again and again that all their talks or deals are just time-outs for gathering forces. Same goes for your media and influencers.
Soo, pretty much EVERYTHING coming out of USA or Europe can be ignored and viewed as hostile by default.
This re-inforces my belief that these right wing influencers are the worst people on the planet.
some levels of stupid have an ick factor that is repulsive
cool ..like the haircut Matty..