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Col. Macgregor: US Will Leave the Middle East Soon
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Douglas Macgregor harshly criticises Trump, Hegseth and Vance over the US war with Iran, its cost and Congress's failure to oversee it, then describes the Russia–Iran meeting as a show of an Moscow–Tehran–Beijing axis and says Putin holds the winning hand in Ukraine.
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“Ukraine is dying as a as a nation-state.”
Ukraine is dying as a as a nation-state.
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Transcript (en, 538 lines)
0:00 Colonel does an electoral defeat of the
0:02 magnitude suffered by the incumbent
0:05 president's party, the likes of which
0:07 happened this week, seep its way into
0:10 the Pentagon?
0:12 >> That's a great question. I'm hearing all
0:15 sorts of interesting rumors that come
0:16 floating over the Potomac in my
0:17 direction.
0:19 And it would seem that there is some
0:20 sort of preparatory bloodbath underway.
0:23 And that that extends beyond the White
0:25 House. I'm told that uh
0:27 the current chief of staff Susie Wiles
0:29 has got the knives out for both Hegseth
0:32 and Vance
0:33 uh who are, you know, I guess um
0:35 potentially sacrificial lambs for the
0:37 failure. Who knows? But I certainly
0:39 think that Hegseth is in a lot of
0:40 trouble.
0:41 He's about as popular as the plague. And
0:43 I think a new Democratic Congress when
0:45 it's uh seated in January would probably
0:47 put him at the top of their list uh as a
0:50 run-up for ultimately going after Trump
0:52 himself.
0:53 >> Who is
0:55 it's probably an unfair question, but I
0:56 have to ask it. Who is to blame for the
0:59 catastrophic effects of the war and for
1:01 its military failure? Is it Donald Trump
1:04 micromanaging? Is it Pete Hegseth
1:06 micromanaging? Is it the planners and
1:07 generals below uh the four stars?
1:10 >> Well, ultimately President Trump is the
1:12 one who's driven the train.
1:14 Uh you know, I don't think that if you
1:16 brought in the Joint Chiefs
1:18 and had a serious discussion with them
1:20 in the so-called tank in the Pentagon,
1:22 that we would have gone to war with
1:23 Iran. I think there would have been
1:24 pushback. It would have been polite.
1:26 They would have rolled out
1:27 >> [clears throat]
1:27 >> a lot of data for the president. They
1:29 would have discussed the realities of
1:31 dealing with a country that size, its
1:32 population, the geography.
1:35 Uh I I don't think it would have
1:36 happened, but President Trump insisted
1:37 on it. And he did not encounter any
1:39 resistance.
1:41 And people say, "Well, that's not true.
1:42 You know, I spoke out. I said this. I
1:44 said that."
1:45 Well, if that were true, there would
1:46 have been a knock-down, drag-out fight.
1:48 Uh you know, remember we we went through
1:50 this at the beginning of the Vietnam
1:51 War.
1:52 And we had Hubert Humphrey who wrote a
1:54 brilliant memorandum outlining
1:56 everything that was wrong with the idea
1:57 of going into Vietnam with conventional
1:58 ground forces.
2:00 And uh it's you can still find it online
2:02 and read it and he presented that to
2:03 Lyndon Johnson and LBJ went crazy.
2:06 Brought him back into the Oval Office
2:07 and did everything but shooting through
2:08 the chest and said, "Either you get on
2:10 board or you get out." And
2:12 Humphrey apparently didn't know Johnson
2:14 very well or didn't understand his man.
2:16 Ended up skulking in the corner of his
2:17 office for a day and then came back and
2:19 said, "Oh, I'm sorry. You're right and
2:20 I'll go along." And you know, it's
2:21 unfortunate because
2:23 Humphrey thought that he was uh going to
2:25 be the next
2:26 vice president and try to become
2:27 president. And what he should have
2:29 thought about it was his duty as the
2:31 vice president to step in and say,
2:33 "Look, I can't support this and if
2:34 you're really going to go through with
2:35 this, you're going to have to go through
2:36 it without me." And that of course is
2:38 what J.D. Vance should have done.
2:40 J.D. Vance is now being presented as the
2:42 man who, "Well, I was really never for
2:43 this and oh, you know, I didn't like
2:45 this." And on and on and on.
2:47 It's all crap. Uh the truth is if he'd
2:49 felt strongly about it at all,
2:51 he'd have taken a position against it
2:52 and then put his uh vice presidency on
2:54 the line. But I think J.D. Vance also
2:57 had his eye on the next job that he
2:58 could get. You see this all the time in
3:00 Washington. The two-star doesn't want to
3:01 do anything for fear he won't get a
3:03 three-star or a third-star. And the
3:04 three-star won't put anything at at risk
3:06 cuz he wants a four-star. The four-star
3:08 wants another four-star command.
3:10 There is no shortage of people willing
3:11 to go along with dumb ideas. And then
3:13 when the dumb idea fails, they all run
3:15 for the hills.
3:16 Americans should be very, very cautious
3:18 about this and very suspicious. Now, as
3:19 far as Heggseth goes,
3:21 I I don't think there was any question
3:23 in Heggseth's mind that this had to
3:24 happen and he was for it and he was
3:25 going to do it.
3:27 In which case uh under the
3:28 circumstances, he might consider
3:29 resigning before somebody pushes him out
3:31 through impeachment. That strikes me as
3:33 as being smart. But what we don't know
3:35 now
3:36 is if President Trump will carry through
3:38 on the next phase and go back uh to war.
3:41 I I think he will. I I don't agree with
3:43 those who think that this is sobering
3:44 him up and he's going to walk away. Hope
3:46 I'm wrong.
3:47 But I think he will. And frankly,
3:49 Heggseth is going to stay there through
3:51 the next phase. And when it fails, he
3:53 should resign.
3:54 >> So, what if any effect does the
3:58 overwhelming shellacking that uh the
4:00 Republicans took uh this week have on
4:04 the war in Iran? None?
4:07 >> None, you idiot. You know, the Democrat
4:09 There are Democrats talking about
4:10 passing a bill that would defund the
4:11 war.
4:13 Uh and that's something they can do.
4:14 There's no question about it. That
4:15 somebody should have been onto that a
4:16 long time ago. This is catastrophic.
4:19 And I think we're going to go into
4:20 another phase. It's going to make
4:22 matters even worse than they already
4:23 are. I don't see any evidence that
4:24 Donald Trump is going to say, "Well,
4:25 I've reconsidered. I'm backing off. I
4:27 guess I was wrong." No, I don't see
4:29 that. I see him saying, "Well, we're
4:30 going to get it right this time and
4:32 we're going to visit hell on uh on
4:33 Iran."
4:34 So,
4:36 no, Judge. I I don't think that. And the
4:38 the other thing is midterms are not
4:40 the same thing as uh the presidential
4:42 elections. We we've been through this
4:44 before. In 1946, the Republicans took
4:46 control of both houses after FDR.
4:49 And that was because a lot of people
4:50 were not happy with the the way the war
4:51 was conducted.
4:53 And the same thing happened to Woodrow
4:54 Wilson. Uh he was bounced out. The
4:56 Republicans came in until the
4:57 depression, they were in power.
4:59 So, I I think you're going to see
5:00 something similar eventually, but is it
5:01 going to be the the big game changer? I
5:03 mean, I guess
5:04 what can we expect from the Democrats? I
5:06 think they'll they'll be very interested
5:08 in suspending the rule of law, opening
5:10 prisons, emptying criminals onto the
5:11 streets. That's what we've got in
5:12 Virginia.
5:14 I think you're going to see borders
5:15 reopened. I think they'll put a stop to
5:17 any effort at all to enforce federal law
5:20 and deport uh round up and deport
5:21 criminals and millions of illegals.
5:23 So, that much I expect, but you know,
5:25 overseas, who who still owns the
5:28 Congress?
5:29 >> Mhm.
5:30 >> Well, we know who owns the Congress.
5:32 Um you have some
5:35 uh interesting intel involving the
5:37 aircraft carrier USS uh Roosevelt.
5:41 What can you tell us is happening there?
5:43 Where is it and what's going on there?
5:45 >> Well, I'm not sure exactly where it is.
5:46 I just know that it will be another week
5:48 before they reach the area of
5:49 operations, which is presumably the
5:51 Indian Ocean or the Mediterranean. I I
5:53 don't know which. But, it's pretty clear
5:55 that until you have three carrier battle
5:56 groups on station,
5:58 this uh air and missile offensive is not
6:00 likely to begin
6:02 uh because that gives you if you have,
6:04 say uh 50 to 60
6:07 operational
6:08 quality fighters that you can upload
6:10 then that's 180 to 200 planes and you
6:12 have another you know, 60, 70, 80
6:15 aircraft that support that. If you're if
6:17 you're going to do what Donald Trump has
6:19 been promising with both the air and
6:20 missile power, you'll want that third
6:22 battle group on hand.
6:25 >> Does it matter how many battle groups he
6:26 has? Does he still believe that he can
6:29 accomplish in November what he failed to
6:32 accomplish in June and March?
6:35 >> I think he he has to.
6:37 In my judgment from understanding Donald
6:39 Trump and what he has said publicly,
6:42 this is not a man who retreats easily
6:43 from bad policy positions.
6:45 He he prefers if he can to sort of bury
6:48 the whole discussion and walk away, but
6:49 this is too big
6:51 and too obvious and too public for him
6:52 to do that.
6:54 And and quite frankly, if he did it,
6:56 then I think the demands for his
6:58 resignation
7:00 would would be very loud and very quick.
7:02 So, what does he say? He says, I give it
7:04 the final maximum effort and
7:07 we'll see whether or not the Iranians
7:09 can withstand it and there's a good
7:10 chance we may still get get the kind of
7:13 quote-unquote deal that we need to
7:15 declare victory and leave.
7:17 >> Colonel, how could
7:18 the president have spent
7:21 47 billion dollars unauthorized by the
7:24 Congress
7:26 without a clear attainable military
7:29 goal? Now, the 47 billion is a low
7:32 estimate. It's based on Hagel's numbers.
7:35 So, the real number is probably higher.
7:37 Whatever it is, it's an extraordinary
7:39 amount of money on an unauthorized war
7:41 and unauthorized expenditure with
7:44 catastrophic economic consequences to
7:47 the everyday American consumer.
7:51 >> We spent according to Brown University
7:54 and their supporting uh
7:56 think tank if you want to call it that
7:59 between 2001 and the end of 2022, we
8:02 spent over 8 trillion dollars on the
8:04 wars in the Middle East.
8:06 That's roughly 1/3 of the national
8:09 sovereign debt that we accumulated
8:11 during that period of time
8:12 because we had a national sovereign debt
8:14 of about 24, 25 billion by the time that
8:17 was over.
8:18 So, the question is how could the
8:19 Congress sit quietly, watch those kinds
8:22 of sums of money be wasted? Well, again,
8:25 we have no gold standard. Go back to Ron
8:28 Paul and talk about that and and keep in
8:29 mind that when in doubt we can
8:31 quantitative ease and we can get the
8:33 money we need to do whatever we want
8:34 because there's no war tax. There's no
8:37 war bond. There's no pain for the
8:38 American public. So, that's the first
8:40 answer. The second answer is a lot of
8:42 people benefited from that.
8:43 I don't know where we are in those
8:45 investigations. I don't have much faith
8:46 in the Attorney General's office these
8:48 days to get anything done, but there
8:50 were members of the Senate who made
8:51 millions of dollars as a result of their
8:53 connections to defense industries and
8:55 nonprofits and so forth.
8:57 So, when you ask today, we're paying I
8:59 think 2 billion dollars a day
9:02 on in interest on the national sovereign
9:04 debt right now.
9:06 >> Right.
9:06 >> I've been considering that. That's
9:07 phenomenal.
9:08 I haven't heard anybody raise any
9:09 objections or any concerns. So, I just
9:12 don't think the Congress
9:14 can exercise its oversight
9:16 responsibilities. I think they're it's a
9:18 question of corruption or ignorance.
9:21 They'll get upset about whether you
9:23 know, Lieutenant Suzy Q in the in the
9:25 Navy was able to go to sea and do what
9:27 Suzy Q wanted. They'll they'll have a
9:29 hearing on that and then lambaste a navy
9:31 because a navy is finding that sending
9:33 women to sea is a catastrophe
9:35 for the Navy as it is for the other
9:37 armed services when they have to send
9:39 forces into combat. They'll get excited
9:41 over that, but they won't pay any
9:42 attention to the things that we're
9:43 discussing that really are infinitely
9:45 more important.
9:47 >> Well, the one thing the Congress does
9:48 very well is to do nothing.
9:51 >> Well, remember what Churchill said, the
9:53 smallest things are punished out of all
9:55 proportion to their importance and the
9:57 big things are largely ignored or swept
9:59 under the rug.
10:00 >> Right. Right.
10:01 Um
10:03 how do you read the meeting today
10:05 between General Rezaie
10:09 the uh
10:11 military adviser to the supreme
10:13 Ayatollah and also the head of the
10:15 Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps
10:18 for a couple of hours with President
10:19 Putin himself. There he is.
10:22 in the Kremlin.
10:23 And with the Kremlin showing these
10:25 videos before the meeting even started,
10:28 they obviously want the whole world to
10:29 know about this.
10:31 What what what How do you interpret
10:33 this, Colonel?
10:35 >> It's the Russian
10:36 segment of the iron triangle that
10:38 reaches from Beijing to Moscow and down
10:39 to Tehran.
10:41 It's a demonstration
10:42 that is designed to tell President Trump
10:45 we firmly stand behind Iran. We will not
10:47 allow Iran to be defeated. We will
10:49 provide the Iranians with whatever we
10:51 possibly can. And oh, by the way, in
10:53 case you haven't noticed, I, Vladimir
10:55 Putin, hold the winning hand in Ukraine.
10:57 Ukraine is dying as a as a nation-state.
10:59 Its government is wallowing in
11:00 corruption and and I would say
11:03 incompetence. Then its population is is
11:06 absolutely wild with grief and and
11:08 despair. They're all afraid of dying or
11:10 of starvation or freezing to death in
11:12 the winter. You put all these things
11:13 together and I think it's a message,
11:15 "Look, we're we're ready to finish up in
11:17 Ukraine. We're ready to end it. But
11:19 we're not going to abandon Iran and
11:20 we'll do whatever we can to support
11:22 them. I'm sure there are last-minute
11:24 coordinations going on and discussions
11:26 about technology transfer.
11:28 But it's it's part of the larger
11:29 strategic picture that is moving against
11:32 us for for reasons of our own.
11:35 Dumb dumb things that we've done
11:36 including the whole war on Iran.
11:38 >> How much longer can Ukraine last? We
11:40 have all said it's on its last leg.
11:42 Somebody put together a montage of my
11:45 guests and me saying Ukraine is on its
11:47 last leg and it looks ridiculous because
11:48 we've been saying it those very words
11:51 for years. You're free, of course, to
11:53 use that phrase or some other phrase. I
11:55 pose the question. [laughter]
11:57 I'm sorry. I pose the question, how much
12:00 longer do you think Ukraine can last
12:02 given this continued and persistent
12:04 reticence on the part of President Putin
12:07 to finish the job?
12:08 >> Well, that's something your your
12:10 expression or your sentiment there is
12:11 something widely shared in Russia.
12:13 Uh the Russian people are all standing
12:15 around and saying, you know, this needs
12:16 to end. Go end it.
12:18 Now, we have seen some turnover in the
12:20 general officer corps. Uh somebody who's
12:22 immensely unpopular in Russia, who is
12:23 seen as partially responsible for the
12:25 slow, methodical grind, of course, is
12:27 Gerasimov, the chief of the Russian
12:29 General Staff. General Surovikin, who
12:31 set up the strategic defense that was so
12:34 effective against the Ukrainians, thanks
12:36 to the wonderful military advice that we
12:38 and NATO provided to them.
12:40 Uh are are not really capable of doing
12:42 anything anymore. And I've seen charts
12:43 showing territory they took or retook,
12:46 and it's it's all been lost.
12:48 They still have thousands of mercenaries
12:49 inside the country. They still have all
12:51 of our intelligence assets working for
12:52 them along with the British. He is
12:54 surrounded, that is, Zelenskyy and his
12:55 inner circle, by MI6, CIA operatives.
12:59 They're going to keep him alive because,
13:01 regardless of what Donald Trump says,
13:03 the CIA is going to fight this war to
13:05 the finish.
13:06 Unfortunately, it would be great if
13:07 somebody would get control of Radcliffe
13:09 and put an end to this nonsense because
13:11 it's in the interest of Ukrainians as
13:12 well as America's, but unfortunately,
13:14 that's where it is. So, how much longer
13:16 can it go?
13:17 Well, we've had some very interesting
13:18 developments. We've seen the president
13:21 of Finland, the prime minister of
13:22 Norway, suddenly get on the phone and
13:24 talk to uh President Putin.
13:26 And I think people in Sweden and Norway
13:29 and and Finland are all waking up to the
13:30 reality that, you know, we better start
13:32 talking about this war against Russia
13:33 because we don't have a snowball's
13:35 chance in hell of fighting and winning
13:36 it. So, let's see if we can get a
13:39 solution without this nonsense.
13:41 That's That's the first time we've seen
13:43 in public, in a demonstrable way, a
13:46 divergence in thinking between the
13:48 people on the continent, that is,
13:49 Germany, France, and to a lesser extent,
13:51 London, and the rest of these people in
13:53 Scandinavia. I think it's the beginning
13:55 of mass desertion of Ukraine.
13:58 So, I I think between now and the end of
14:00 the year, in January, as the weather
14:01 gets worse, the situation worsens.
14:04 Uh it's going to be very tough to for
14:05 this
14:06 phony facade of a government to survive.
14:10 >> The European people are rightly up in
14:14 arms at the incompetence and efficiency,
14:16 profligacy of their governments, but the
14:19 European elites, the globalists,
14:22 uh still insist they can
14:25 have a say in Ukraine and back up
14:27 Zelensky. I don't know how they can come
14:29 to this conclusion, uh but they do.
14:31 Where do you see this going?
14:33 >> Well, remember we have thousands of
14:35 agents on the ground from the CIA and
14:37 the intelligence apparatus in the United
14:38 States as well as Great Britain
14:40 working closely with uh the globalist
14:42 leaders to keep them in power.
14:44 What do I mean by that? I mean that
14:46 they're out there working with the
14:47 German BND, the Bundesnachrichtendienst.
14:49 This is the equivalent of our CIA, if
14:52 you want to call it that, against the
14:54 possibility that German nationalists or
14:56 Polish nationalists or French
14:57 nationalists, anybody who's a
14:59 nationalist comes to power.
15:01 They're obviously focused on AFD, but
15:03 it's a it's a concerted effort and
15:05 again, this is Washington is involved in
15:07 this to prevent any change in the
15:10 governmental structure in Europe. Now
15:12 again, this is This is something else
15:13 that I don't think President Trump has
15:15 looked into very carefully because
15:17 unless he's changed even more
15:19 dramatically than than it it seems to be
15:21 the case now,
15:22 he was always very sympathetic to the
15:23 nationalists because they were the ones
15:26 who insisted that they should take more
15:28 responsibility for their own defense,
15:30 which of course was something that Trump
15:31 talked about when he was in the office
15:33 the first time and continues to mention
15:35 from time to time now.
15:37 I don't know that he understands it
15:39 while he may be saying that, in truth
15:41 we're actively working to prevent it.
15:43 I don't think it's going to work.
15:45 I I think we're in a hurricane and we're
15:47 trying to bail out the sinking the
15:49 sinking ship of the EU and NATO and
15:52 unfortunately all we have are a couple
15:53 of buckets and I think we're sinking.
15:55 But it's going to make things worse than
15:57 it otherwise might have been. The
15:58 opportunity to reach agreements in a new
16:00 security architecture with Russia is
16:02 gone.
16:03 And if we can't hold things together and
16:05 I don't think we can, you're going to
16:06 end up with something that's ultimately
16:08 dictated by Moscow. And people won't
16:10 like it, but we did everything in our
16:11 power to ensure that that happened.
16:13 In fact, I would say globally what we
16:15 should begin to see or come to terms
16:16 with is that you have blocks of nations
16:19 in various regions.
16:20 And these blocks are organized or
16:23 arranged around a major power.
16:25 In the Pacific, Northeast, and and much
16:27 of Asia, it's China, whether we like it
16:29 or not. It's not because the Chinese are
16:31 threatening anybody or want to march in
16:32 anybody's country. It's because
16:34 everybody wants to do business with
16:35 them. It's because they're the economic
16:37 juggernaut. When you move further to the
16:40 to the west, you then encounter India
16:41 and Iran.
16:43 Two civilizational states that are going
16:45 to emerge from all of this immensely
16:46 powerful. Uh they already are in many
16:49 respects, but after this war is over,
16:50 it'll be even more so the case. And then
16:52 we
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