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May 15, 2023 - Triggered - Donald Trump Jr

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America Last Exposed: Biden Disasters at Home and Abroad, Live with Ret Col Douglas Macgregor | TRIGGERED Ep. 33

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	guys good evening and welcome to another major episode of triggered thank you all
	for tuning in as always means the world to us and frankly to the movement
	because we got to fight back against some of the insanity that we see out
	here on a daily basis tonight we're talking with retired army colonel Doug
	Colonel McGregor has a storied career in the Army.
	The colonel directed the last great tank battle in the 20th century.
	I mean, that's sort of an interesting thing.
	I mean, I want to hear all about that because, I mean...
	Tank battles. I mean, when you think about the history of warfare, some of the most major.
	So to sort of see the change out of that is actually incredible.
	So that was the Battle of 73 Easting during the Gulf War back in 91, I believe.
	But most recently, he served as a senior advisor to the Secretary of Defense in the Trump administration.
	And he's been a strong voice In exposing the forever war agenda inside Washington, D.C. And he'll give you all the explosive details that the swamp does not want you to know.
	I imagine a lot of that has to do with money.
	Some of it probably has to do with stupidity.
	But we're going to talk to Colonel McGregor in a moment.
	But first, we finally have the Durham report, folks.
	And... It's basically just telling us what we've already known for years.
	In my case, what I've known since about 2017 when they started saying that we were colluding with Russia.
	And To break it down, they basically say that the Crossfire Hurricane investigation was a total hoax based on the lies of the Steele dossier and the FBI knew it the whole time.
	I'm shocked, folks.
	I'm shocked. The FBI, I thought they were such good actors.
	I thought everything they do, like, concerned parents being domestic terrorists in their eyes.
	Except for terrorists, they're not terrorists.
	But domestic terrorist parents, like, that's a real thing, folks.
	From the report, and I quote, Ah!
	No shit! I'm shocked!
	You don't say! But where's the accountability for all of this, folks?
	Where's... The action, right?
	These guys get away with it.
	They get busted. They break the rules.
	They don't follow the Constitution.
	They're biased partisan hacks, but the problem is they get what they want and nothing actually happens.
	The Steele dossier was Clinton bought and paid for opposition research.
	It was all lies.
	Now, anyone with a brain knew that, right?
	Yeah, Donald Trump colluded with Russia because, oh, he needed the money.
	Like, It was used as a pretext to spy on Team Trump.
	Remember? Trump was right about that one also.
	They're spying on me.
	It has to be. Because you see this stuff coming out, and you say that there's no other logical answer.
	Of course they were spying on it, whether it was Obama and Hillary and all those people.
	They did it.
	There was never any evidence of collusion, and it was always obvious.
	But... They play on the minds of people who don't have the time to get into the details, who don't think about it.
	They whisper in their ear for seven years that, you know, a small percentage of people are like, well, there's gotta be something to it, right?
	We gotta trust the FBI. They're honorable and they're acting in good faith and all of this bullshit that we know isn't true now.
	But again, we're paying attention.
	We're watching this stuff every day.
	This is what we do.
	Average people working hard to put food on their table, trying to live their American dream, listening to five minutes of news in the background every day.
	You know what? Nah, there must be some truth to it.
	The reality is that these people are bad actors.
	They're corrupted, partisan, broken agencies, and we need to start from scratch.
	The Russia hoax was an operation hatched by left-wing political operatives, and it had nothing to do with a serious investigation.
	It never did. It had to do with creating a shadow over Trump, trying to hurt him in the midterms, trying to make his job in D.C. harder, trying to make his mission impossible to fulfill, and yet he still did a lot of it.
	But it would have been a lot more because you would have won over some of the weak Republicans that also were afraid of the backlash associated with all of the stupidity.
	Guys, not everyone sees it the way you guys see it.
	Not everyone's eyes are open.
	And even those sometimes that perhaps know what's going on and eyes are open, they're We're too afraid to take on the machine.
	And we must become unafraid if we're going to push back against the insanity that's enveloping our country and destroying once noble institutions.
	And meanwhile, there's actual threats facing the country.
	Joe Biden is facilitating the entry of drugs, suspected terrorists, and millions of unknown illegal immigrants in our country.
	Title 42, which was instituted by my father, President Donald Trump, in 2020, allowed for the swift removal of illegal immigrants.
	Biden let it expire last week.
	Shocking again.
	I know we're all surprised.
	You know, we heard the rumors.
	He may be renewing it.
	It's like, I don't think that's going to happen.
	But, you know, Biden let it expire last week, and the flood at the border is exactly what we expected, and it's gotten worse.
	Last week, the Border Patrol reported that illegal boarding crossings topped 10,000 per day, the highest levels ever recorded.
	And guys, that's just counting the ones that they actually catch.
	Okay? Thousands more get away with it.
	Every day. Probably...
	I mean... You know, that's a long border, folks.
	You think that 10,000 that they got, you think that's a number?
	I bet it's double, probably triple, and maybe a lot worse.
	The liberals tell you that these are all, they're moms and kids.
	They're seeking asylum and a better life.
	But take a look for a second at this footage of an overcrowded border patrol station.
	Tell me exactly how many pregnant women you see here.
	Huh! That's funny.
	An overcrowded facility that seems to have zero women.
	Zero young children.
	It's all young men, and they're wearing masks so you know they're voting Democrat.
	And that's the plan all along, folks.
	Okay? That's the plan.
	Overwhelm the systems.
	Let them vote.
	Let them skew the future census data to be able to get more liberals in Congress.
	That's all the game is, folks.
	They'll get released into the country and likely never, ever deported.
	The Washington Examiner is reporting that illegal immigrants released into the United States have received notices to appear in court in 2033.
	Guys, 2033.
	Okay, it's 2023 right now.
	I thought it was a typo.
	Okay, like later this year.
	No, no, no. In 10 years, in a decade, right around the time of the next census, that's when they have their court appearance.
	10 years? 10% of the century.
	That's when they're going to start showing.
	How many of you think are even going to show up?
	By the way, even if they do to court and a judge rules that they should be removed, as long as there's a Democrat in office, they're 100% safe.
	They'll be in our schools.
	They'll be taking advantage of our healthcare systems.
	They won't be paying for any of those things, but you, you will have the privilege of paying for yourselves, your children, and them and their children.
	There's over 1.2 million illegal immigrants currently in this country that have been ordered to be deported by a judge.
	I thought, I was told, because this is what they said about me and my family for a while, I thought and was told that no one was above the law.
	But that's just what Democrats always tell us, right?
	They said it about me, they don't seem to have a problem with Hunter.
	They'd say about someone who's conservative coming in legally, but not someone who will ultimately vote for Democrat, be dependent on their systems, and help further the radical left agenda.
	Guys, apparently if you're an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, then you are above the law.
	You'll actually get better treatment than Americans who are actually subjected to these laws.
	And where do all these illegals go?
	Well, guys, in the case of New York State, they are going into hotels where they are kicking out homeless veterans out of hotels to make room for illegal immigrants.
	So again, no one's looking for equality here, folks.
	They're looking for much more than that.
	They can come here illegally, they'll get free housing, and they'll displace.
	Veterans who need our help.
	Veterans who put their life on the line for our country.
	Veterans who could be suffering from PTSD and other things.
	Why there's 22 a day that kill themselves.
	An illegal immigrant crosses the border, gets a hotel, displaces an American vet.
	Think about this for a second, folks.
	Biden's prioritizing the care of people who aren't even from this country and have no right whatsoever to be here over the people that fought and bled for it.
	Are you fucking kidding me?
	Like, I don't even want to curse.
	I try my best to not do it.
	And sometimes, this is insanity.
	But this is what Democrats want.
	This is Democrat policy.
	They hate you.
	They hate your guts.
	And they're not even pretending to hide it anymore, folks.
	Otherwise, there is literally no sane, rational, or reasonable explanation for a policy like this right now.
	This isn't going to go over well with even liberals, as insane as many of them are.
	In Chicago, for example, they want to put hundreds of illegal immigrants in the South Side.
	Listen to the press conference here.
	The local residents, who are Biden voters, by the way, they are pissed.
	Check it out and see for yourself.
	Resources that have not come to us, now you want to overly compensate for people who've never lived here before and they really need to be taken care of first and foremost before anything else happens here.
	Why would any leader put our black communities already riddled with crime at further risk by placing unbedded non-taxpayers steps away from our seniors, our children, and our homes we've worked so hard on our own to secure?
	Guys, I don't know that man.
	I don't know who he is.
	I imagine we don't have a lot in common politically.
	And yet, on this one, we agree.
	And yet, it continues to happen.
	What good can come from this?
	Who are the people whose jobs are going to be displaced?
	Probably America's lowest income earners.
	People who saw real wage growth under Donald Trump.
	And probably people who saw that disappear immediately under Joe Biden.
	But you think an influx of millions of illegals is going to help or hurt that problem?
	Guys, like the guy says in the video, these are unvetted people.
	Like the unvetted people that they stuck on planes and flew in from Afghanistan.
	What could possibly go wrong, folks?
	But just last week, in one day...
	Five separate illegals on the terror watchlist were caught crossing the border.
	Five in one day.
	For comparison, there were three terror watchlist arrests at the border in all of 2020.
	There were five in one day.
	How many more are getting in?
	Just days before that, an Afghan national, reportedly on the terror watch list, also were caught at the border.
	But ask yourself, again, folks, How many people aren't being caught?
	We know over a million gotaways.
	They're gotaways. A million people because, you know, we can't finish our border wall.
	We can't really patrol it.
	That would be, you know, homophobic or something or misogynist or I don't know.
	One of the ists.
	It doesn't actually have to be anything because it's all bullshit.
	Spoonfed to us by the press secretary and the Biden administration, gleefully carried by big tech and the mainstream media, even if it makes no sense whatsoever.
	But we now have a million gotaways under Biden.
	They've escaped authorities.
	How many of those are on a terror watch list?
	What's the worst that could happen, folks, right?
	I mean, come on, it could only be maybe a few hundred.
	Maybe a thousand? You know, of a million gotaways.
	I mean, what's a thousand terrorists running around our country?
	What could they possibly do, folks?
	And of course, it's not just terrorists coming across, but deadly drugs.
	Biden has blood on his hands.
	Take Santa Barbara County, California, of all places, for example.
	Between 2020 and 2022, Overdose deaths in Santa Barbara have more than tripled, okay?
	And that's not just the pandemic, folks.
	This is going on now, and the pandemic's long been over, okay?
	That's happening because we don't have control of our border.
	It's a sieve, and the Democrats and their policies are just fine with that.
	It's unleashing a scourge that's killing Americans all over the country.
	And now, folks, every state is a border state because of this insanity.
	To you or I, this is a crisis.
	The drug cartels control our border and are sending fentanyl.
	There are millions of unknown illegal immigrants from all over the world streaming across.
	I spoke with a governor in the last week who was down on the border.
	They're finding Chinese nationals, Russian nationals, again, all over the Middle East.
	You've seen the terror watch list items.
	This is real, and yet no one's actually talking about it.
	No one wants to cover it for fear.
	Of being called, you know, again, a bad name, even though, you know, has nothing to do with that.
	Like, God forbid we put America first.
	I know, that's terrible. Putting the citizens of America.
	I mean, it's strange.
	When I say it, it's racist when that gentleman from Chicago says it.
	Like, hey, maybe we should take care of our citizens first when we have crime riddled streets and gang warfare.
	What are we going to do with this?
	No, no, no. I think we're all on the same page here, folks, except for the elites in Washington, except for the radical Democrats who are in charge.
	The moderate Democrats, and even those that are probably not so moderate in many respects, they get it and they see it.
	But Joe Biden doesn't care.
	Democrats encourage it because they know it will get them new voters and cheap labor.
	Here's Joe Biden laughing about our nation being destroyed.
	Much better than you all expected.
	Do you have any plans to visit the border?
	Pardon me? Do you have any plans to visit the border?
	Not in the near term, no.
	No, just be disruptive, not anything else.
	Oh, he has no plans to visit the border.
	What is Joe Biden doing? I mean, he's failing on every conceivable metric that there is.
	We're on the brink of nuclear war.
	Inflation is through the roof.
	Banks are collapsing.
	Interest rates are going up.
	We're no longer energy independent.
	And, you know, he thinks it's just going great.
	It's wonderful. I mean, he's doing as good a job as Kamala Harris with the border.
	The borders are, right? You know, go to the border.
	No, no, no. It's not my job.
	I mean, well, it's my job, but it's not really something I'm going to do.
	I mean, we're just going to cackle like a hyena, and that makes it all okay.
	Guys, you might see this as a violation of our sovereignty and a threat, but Biden says
	the threat is actually you.
	Biden is pushing to ban rifles and AR-15s and we'll actually do a whole show probably
	next Monday on the insanity of the pistol brace thing and again, how you can go about
	doing that if you want to deal with it or not, that's up to you.
	But we'll get into the full details of that probably a week from today because that'll
	give you about a week to get everything squared away if you choose to and I'm not saying I
	recommend that.
	I'm just saying, you know, perhaps me with certain things, I will not be held to the
	Hunter Biden standard.
	I'll be held to the highest possible standard.
	And so it'll be an interesting one.
	So you're going to want to tune in probably next Monday on that one.
	But only the MS-13 gang members that are coming across the border can own guns, right?
	That's fine for them, right?
	And get this. The drug cartels are flooding our nation with fentanyl aren't the biggest threat.
	No, no, no, guys. They're not the biggest threat, right?
	Human trafficking, sex trafficking, drug trafficking, tens of thousands of fentanyl deaths a year.
	A lot higher than that, actually.
	Killing our children, our grandchildren, our friends, our family, and our loved ones indiscriminately across every demographic.
	No, no, no, guys. The people peddling that stuff across the border, they aren't the biggest threat.
	No. It's So-called white supremacy.
	That's the biggest threat that America faces right now.
	Hear Joe Biden in his own words.
	To stand up against the poison of white supremacy as I did my inaugural address to single out
	as the most dangerous terrorist threat to our homeland is white supremacy.
	Yawn.
	I mean, I guess Biden thinks he's playing to a hometown crowd speaking at a historically
	black college, but like, give me a break, folks.
	Like, I have been all over this country.
	I don't know that I've seen any of these so-called, you know, like, you know, sure, there's a lunatic out there somewhere, and just like there's plenty of lunatics on the left, but, like, the biggest threat to our country, the biggest threat to our homeland...
	I mean, this guy's been smoking a bit of what Hunter's got, okay?
	Give me a break. Biden and the Democrats are undermining our sovereignty.
	What else could explain their actions?
	And by the way, if America was so evil, like we hear from the leftists, if it's so racist, so terrible, Why exactly would millions of, let's say, non-white people journey across our border every year?
	Why would they risk life and limb to come here?
	Please explain that to me.
	Maybe, maybe, it's all bullshit.
	Maybe it's just a sound bite that gets him credit.
	Because it is, folks.
	That's all it is.
	We need to take control of our border.
	It's going to take serious leadership, actual leadership, not a demented old idiot that can't find his way off a stage.
	And that means a second Trump administration.
	We need to treat our border with the same urgency that Democrats give to Ukraine's border.
	And until that happens, folks, We're in trouble, and as far as I'm concerned, if we don't have borders, we don't have a country.
	Another very wise man once said that, and that's your favorite president and my father, Donald J. Trump, and he's 100% right.
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	Doug, welcome aboard, or I should say Colonel.
	These days, I have a lot of respect for our military, especially the door kickers and the guys that are doing it.
	I used to probably have a lot more respect for military leadership, but when I see some of the woke crap...
	That has come out of their mouths these days.
	It's actually hard, right?
	And I mean, I think that's reflected in the recruitment numbers.
	You know, it takes a lot of patriotism to sign up for something like the military.
	And it's hard to do that when you're risking your life potentially.
	If you don't believe in the things that are their stated values.
	So when you see some of the woke nonsense that's going on in the military, what do you see yourself?
	Because it's got to be frustrating from someone like yourself, who I know, just staunch America First patriot.
	Well, you know, the American military establishment is in the same boat as your political structure, and I would argue your economy.
	It's afflicted with stage four cancer.
	What I'm saying is that when your dad took office, he spent four years suppressing the cancer.
	Trying to keep it at stage two, because we were already in trouble.
	We've been in trouble for many, many decades.
	That's why President Trump's arrival was a returning faith to tens of millions of Americans, that there was, in fact, hope for the country, a belief in the rule of law, a belief in the republic, belief in our national identity, history and culture.
	Unfortunately, since January of 2020, we've jumped from Stage 2 to Stage 4.
	We're in a lot of trouble. And for the military to get anything right, you'd really have to decapitate it, because most of the people at the top are among the least impressive that I certainly remember in all the years that I served.
	And these people are affected and afflicted, not just with The sort of stage four political cancer of wokeness.
	These are people who frankly will adopt whatever you want them to to get ahead.
	We have a Washington community and a military full of opportunists who don't really believe in much of anything except in whatever gets them promoted, whatever lines their pockets with cash.
	The whole notion of service has largely vanished from the senior ranks.
	We see it, as you point out, at the lowest levels, but we're having trouble keeping good people in uniform.
	They don't want to be there anymore because they're sick of listening to the nonsense, characterizing everybody who ever did anything to build the United States and to protect it as some evildoer that deserves to be erased from the historical record.
	All of this sickens real professional soldiers, sailors, airmen, or Marines.
	So yeah, we're in a lot of trouble.
	That's why I call it now the political equivalent of stage four cancer.
	I mean, that's saying a lot, but yeah, when you see that, when you see Millie, I'd like to learn about white privilege, like, no one's even heard of this shit before he even said that, but he said it in front of Congress.
	Meanwhile, you know, he could maybe learn about, like, winning a war or something like that, or not having the disastrous Afghan withdrawal, but, like, that was his concern as that stuff is going on, and when you say stage four cancer, yeah, it has to be, because there's, again, Let's just say I know nothing about Afghanistan or, you know, military leadership.
	I know he's wrong.
	It doesn't take a genius to figure that out.
	It doesn't take, you know, General Patton to understand that this guy's an imbecile.
	And yet he's there.
	He's amassed that kind of power.
	And I feel like they've backfilled all the leadership positions.
	You saw that with the mandates where they're, you know, The highest trained people in the military were the ones that were sort of anti-vax.
	They weren't going to go for it. That's our great fighter pilots, our SEAL team type, you know, and other special operations operators.
	And they're like, no. And they're like, okay, fine.
	We'll get rid of you guys.
	Like, they spend millions training them.
	It's like, we'll replace you with like a trans, like, checkmark person.
	And, you know, they may not be able to operate or fly a plane, but like, we'll be really woke and we can...
	Pretend that that's important for our military and that's going to somehow help win a war.
	Well, keep in mind that the vast majority of people who govern your country that sit on Capitol Hill, that are operating in the White House, they have no idea what a real war looks like.
	For the last 30 years, we've been fighting people without armies, without air forces, without navies, essentially large numbers of people running around with AK-47s and bedsheets and planting mines.
	Our military has suffered as a consequence.
	One of the reasons that your dad was very interested in extricating our forces from many of these countries wasn't simply because there was no mission.
	This was an open-ended opportunity to throw money into a large pit.
	But there was nothing there to accomplish in the interests of the American people.
	There was no strategic benefit to us.
	We weren't accomplishing anything.
	He understood that, but he also understood that had a very negative impact on our military.
	You get lazy when you can dominate everyone with firepower, when there's no real threat to you and you go to war.
	There is no war.
	This becomes a colonial expedition.
	The problem for us now is that we're looking at Ukraine and the Russians on the other side of Ukraine.
	These are not Iraqis.
	These aren't Afghans.
	This is a real military establishment.
	And when you listen to fools like this Admiral Aquilino from Pacific Command talk about our ability to fight a two-front war, That he's not worried about Russia and he's got what he needs to deal with China.
	This is the kind of insanity that we absolutely do not need.
	Your sober-minded father would have fired him.
	That's absolutely outrageous nonsense.
	The last man to talk about a two-front war being child's play was Otto Hitler.
	We don't need people that even remotely think like that in uniform.
	That's where we are. There's no strategic common sense.
	There's no interest in the national interest.
	The whole thing is about who makes money in Washington and bully whomever we want to overseas.
	All of these ugly chickens are coming back to roost right now.
	The whole world is not with us on this Ukraine business.
	Most of the world is very much against us.
	And everything is at risk.
	Our economy is at risk.
	The reserve status of the dollar is at risk.
	We're facing terrible times ahead.
	Things are not going to get better until we remove the principal metastasizing cancer from Washington, DC. And I'm not just talking about an election for president.
	We need to make a clean sweep.
	So say you were given the keys to the Pentagon tomorrow, or under a Trump administration.
	What are the first moves that you make?
	Because I think, again, you're right.
	It's not just Joe Biden or Milley.
	It's much deeper than that.
	It's much further entrenched.
	And I think you were also right that when you said it earlier, That it's probably been on the wrong track for quite some time.
	But it was Trump and or Trump derangement syndrome that actually brought out the insanity, right?
	We saw the disease much more clearly.
	It was sort of hidden.
	It was doing its damage.
	But Trump really brought it out where they stopped pretending that it wasn't real.
	They were saying the quiet parts out loud.
	But you're handed the keys to the Pentagon tomorrow.
	What do you do? Today, as we speak, we have 44 four-star generals and admirals on active duty in the United States military for a force of a little less than 1.1 million soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines.
	Now, at the height of the Second World War, 1943-44, when we had 12.2 million in uniform, we had only seven four-stars.
	What's wrong with this picture?
	Anyone who has spent more than a few weeks in business and understands how to organize businesses effectively to be profitable looks at the overhead and quickly discerns what he's dealing with.
	We have this enormous bloated overhead.
	Of course the generals hated Donald Trump.
	He was prepared to do something about that.
	He asked hard questions.
	So the first thing you've got to do is get rid of them all.
	They all have to go.
	You need to reduce that number to about 10.
	But all the ones that you've got right now should be retired immediately.
	Go away. Then you have to appoint new service secretaries.
	You cannot appoint a golf buddy to be your service secretary.
	You can't pick somebody because they did well in some corporation.
	You've got to send people in there who know something about the military.
	And they can't just be corporate executives from the defense industry who know how to spend money on weapons platforms.
	You've got to have people that are really qualified, that can make the hard choices.
	And you tell them, you've got to get all these people have to go.
	I want all of their resignations.
	Then you need to convene boards to pick successors.
	And you've got to be prepared to go low.
	This whole thing of, oh, we can't offload General Doofus.
	He's so experienced.
	But getting rid of him may be the best way to possibly improve the whole situation.
	I mean, this thing of he's got experience sounds great.
	But what you need is energy.
	You need integrity.
	You need intelligence.
	People that study their professions, they're out there.
	Most of them are captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels.
	And just as Marshall in 1939 began immediately removing general officers, in fact, the first year that he was Chief of Staff, he retired 54.
	By the time the Second World War ended, every single general officer in the Army had been replaced except one.
	Now we've got to get going, or we're not going to win anything anywhere in the future.
	Look at that withdrawal from Afghanistan.
	Those people are a disaster.
	McKenzie and CENTCOM, a Marine four-star responsible for that?
	Who in the hell was paying attention?
	Who reviewed the plan?
	Who received the briefing?
	Sullivan? Who got it?
	This is outrageous. That should never have happened.
	And they picked the wrong airport for the wrong reasons.
	And we have nice photographs of people hanging onto wings, hanging onto wheels, people that have no interest in coming to the United States for any of the right reasons.
	And we're flooded with people again.
	We know nothing about them.
	We haven't vetted them.
	This is part of the larger problem.
	So when you talk about open borders, uncontrolled immigration, or what I call weaponized immigration, it's weaponized because it's being used against the American people, because the government in Washington is literally waging war on the core population.
	You know, those are the people that say, I'm an American, not something else and then an American, not a part-time American, not a conditional American, but an American.
	That's the enemy, and that's what they're going after here at home.
	And when you go overseas and you look at our behavior there, there's no strategy.
	No one has thought through anything.
	You know, your dad asked an important question when they tried to ambush him into a war with Iran.
	He essentially said, well, if we do what you're arguing, if we launch these strikes against the Iranians, what happens then?
	How do things look afterwards?
	Nobody asked the question.
	Oh, let's go. We can sell a couple missiles.
	We'll get a board seat at Raytheon.
	It's fine. I mean, who cares if we get sucked into another 20-year war and billions of dollars and thousands of Americans maimed, butchered for no real end?
	You know, some general's got a board seat.
	He's making, you know, high six figures to do nothing other than peddle more missiles.
	But, you know, you only keep that job if you keep that cycle going forever.
	And the President said, President Trump I'm talking about now, said just a few weeks ago, said, look, we can handle Russia.
	We can handle China.
	We understand those issues.
	He does. He knows there's no reason to go to war with anybody.
	He said, the real problem for us right now is the open border.
	And not just the open border in the South, because the Northern border is equally open.
	We just don't pay nearly as much attention to it, and it's also a highway for drugs and criminality into the United States.
	There is no rule of law in our country.
	Where I grew up in North Philadelphia has, from time to time, been a combat zone.
	I'll tell you right now, it's a war zone.
	There is no rule of law there any longer.
	Criminality is rampant.
	And the American people, yes, they're beginning to figure it out, but we're about to go into a serious economic crisis.
	And once you start talking to people that can't get enough food, who can't afford to buy the food because the prices are so high, you end up the way the Parisian population did in 1789.
	And we're headed in that direction right now.
	It takes real leadership by the president, but he's going to need an army of people to fight with him.
	He's got to be prepared to come into this city, clean it out, and start over.
	He's got to have foot soldiers in every precinct, in every state.
	It's the only way to win.
	We didn't have that the last time.
	We've got to have that or there's no chance whatsoever for us.
	So you've been pretty outspoken also about sort of the never-ending, you know, war in Ukraine, which I feel like, you know, again, first it was just a, you know, $130 billion proxy war.
	Now, not surprisingly to anyone who's been watching for the last, you know, seven or eight years, you know, we have boots on the ground there, and they're doing that without congressional approval and without the approval of the American people.
	You know, just another money pit, you know, creating the next class of sort of Ukrainian oligarch.
	But do we even know what, because they haven't been clear to me, what would victory, you know, victory be like in Ukraine?
	I mean, you know, I know they tried sort of sidelining my father with that at the CNN town hall.
	He's like, I'm not thinking about victory one way or the other.
	I want people to stop dying.
	And that doesn't seem...
	To be very clear to these people, where there's a binary victory, it's like they're playing Call of Duty, not actually dealing with real lives.
	Trump said we should be doing everything to stop the bloodshed.
	Do you agree?
	What do you see happening there?
	What is the endgame if that's not correct?
	Well, for the globalists that are running the show, this is the globalist neocon elite, both on the Hill as well as in the White House.
	And these elites in Europe, particularly in Paris, Berlin, London, they're all interested in seeing BlackRock take over Ukraine, number one, so that it can be systematically stripped of its resources and turned into a subjugated state that belongs to the larger globalist elites.
	But they also want to see that happen to Russia, which is why this war was never about Ukraine.
	It was always about what can be done to destroy Russia.
	And of course, since the people in charge didn't perform any strategic analysis, they never thought about purpose, method, or end state.
	They concluded that Russia today is still the Russia of 1992.
	It's weak. It's prostrate.
	Its economy is ineffective.
	Remember the McCain statement?
	Oh, Russia is Spain with a gas station.
	All of these arrogant displays of American hubris treating Russia as though it was a third-class nation with a fourth-class military.
	Well, we're getting an education right now.
	We paid no attention to the Russians who had legitimate concerns about what we were doing in eastern Ukraine.
	We were building an army to attack them.
	We put a hostile government into that country in 2014.
	And we kept telling them that it made no difference to us what they thought or what they cared about.
	They said, we don't want NATO on our border.
	No one paid attention.
	President Trump tried to listen, but he was surrounded by people who subverted him, people who were not loyal to the president, who took an oath of obedience to the orders of the president and then ignored them.
	So what's the outcome?
	You've got a very serious war that could become regional, even global.
	And no one in the White House seems to really grasp that.
	But we're losing.
	The globalists are losing.
	And when the ground dries, and in June, you're going to see a massive Russian offensive, and most of what we call this thing called Ukraine is going to be swept away, especially that government in Kyiv.
	But that government doesn't represent the interests of the Ukrainian people.
	They represent the interests of this globalist elite who are interested in resources and stripping them and using them and exploiting them to make money.
	Yeah, and there are also people that don't seem to have any of America's interests at heart, even if America's the guy funding all of this to the tune of 130.
	And, you know, that'll double and triple, and the Pentagon lost 220—you know, they lost, they misplaced $220 billion in their budget.
	If you lost $6 in your, you know, IRS statement, they'd be auditing you, but they can lose 220.
	So I imagine most of that went to Ukraine.
	It feels like, you know, the biggest threat to America is actually what's happened to the petrodollar.
	When you have Putin now talking with the Saudis and Putin now talking with Xi, and you get rid of the petrodollar, and all of a sudden all that borrowing that we do, where we're living way above our means, that's no longer possible, plausible, or worse.
	And it seems like we've opened the door for that.
	So, you know, I guess that works for the globalists because they're probably the guys coming up with this idea and they don't care about taking and getting rid of American hegemony.
	That's a real problem for America.
	But again, this is still the Americans pushing this, even though it's literally happening before our eyes and everyone's pretending like this is a non-issue because I guess it's a non-issue.
	If you're in France or the UK or any of the other places, because you get to knock America down a peg.
	But what that does to the American people is disastrous.
	No, I think what you're seeing is this war has become financial as well as military.
	And the globalists understand that they're going to lose this war.
	And what will come of this is that the BRICS, Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, are going to be increased by 81 additional members.
	And all of these people are going to go to a currency that is backed by gold.
	And once they go to that currency backed by gold, whether it is one currency or a basket of currencies, it doesn't make any difference.
	Yes, we are in a lot of trouble.
	The globalists know that, and it is why they are so desperate right now.
	And the greatest fear that I have Is it when the Russians do attack and it becomes abundantly clear that Ukraine is finished?
	I mean, it's already obvious to anybody who visits the place for any length of time, it's in ruins.
	But once that occurs, I fear that there will be pressure to commit US forces in Poland and Romania, along with Polish forces and potentially Romanian ones, to Western Ukraine.
	And if that occurs, the gloves will come off.
	Because truthfully, thus far, Putin has exercised tremendous restraint, tremendous patience.
	He does not want a war with the West.
	If he wanted that, we'd already have it.
	But if we intervene in Western Ukraine, it's over.
	We'll be in a full-fledged war.
	Expand on that a little bit because it's sort of interesting.
	You know, you say, like, hey, you know, this started, maybe Putin was going to do it anyway,
	but the reality, this started, in my opinion, because, you know, NATO was talking about taking a,
	let's call it a 500-mile-long buffer zone that has been historically a buffer zone
	since basically World War II, which was the Ukraine, and moving NATO's borders towards Russia.
	Now, maybe Putin was going to do it anyway.
	I'm not saying he's, you know, a good guy or a nice guy.
	I'm not apologizing for him.
	But no one seems to talk about that the movement of and the talk about moving NATO onto Russia's border when you had this very large buffer zone of the Ukraine was sort of the excuse that they needed.
	I mean, it is as though we were goading him into this to begin with.
	And, you know, what are your thoughts on all of that?
	I think we've grossly miscalculated.
	Putin had made several speeches over the last 20 years, repeatedly saying, please do not advance the border to Russia.
	Do not try to transform Ukraine into a hostile actor, an actor with hostile intentions towards Russia.
	What happens in Ukraine is of existential strategic interest to us.
	Just as Theoretically, what happens in Mexico is of existential strategic interest to us, although this administration has decided to ignore it.
	That's going to come back to haunt us, and if you're looking for future conflict, that's where to look for it, not in Europe and not in Asia.
	But the point is that Putin wasn't pulling any wool over anyone's eyes, and Putin absolutely didn't want a war.
	If you go back and look at the force That he sends into Ukraine earlier in February of 2022.
	He goes in with about 90,000 troops.
	He limits his advances to the periphery.
	Because he expected that we would negotiate, that he would demonstrate that this was serious and that Russia wanted its population in eastern Ukraine, which is really Russian, to have equal rights before the law.
	He wanted to end the oppression of the Russians that lived there.
	And he wasn't going to surrender Crimea.
	The reason he went into Crimea is he was afraid it was going to be turned into a US naval base by the Ukrainians at the earliest opportunity.
	He wasn't going to allow that to happen.
	Now, he went along and thought that he might get a negotiated settlement, and he finally figured out after several months, nobody's going to talk to me, especially after Biden said, our goal is regime change.
	Our goal is to get rid of Putin.
	And our goal is ultimately to divide Russia into constituent parts, then exploit it.
	All of his supporters, his staffers, everyone in the globalist camp knows this is the truth.
	The so-called oligarchs, Kolomoisky, Soros, and others are all part of this.
	None of this is news. Finally, he said, enough's enough.
	He stopped. They set up a strategic defense.
	They ran an economy of force mission.
	And now they have a force in place that can go as far as it needs to go, which includes to the Polish border.
	They have a plan for a 31-month war against us if we insist on fighting it.
	And we are in no shape to fight a war.
	We can't even recruit the United States Army or the Marines.
	The Marines are running around trying to recruit illegals and are being encouraged to do so by the administration.
	Is that what you want in the ground force to fight for this country?
	Forget it. It's not going to work.
	So, I mean, yeah, I guess that's interesting.
	I mean, a lot of people probably aren't aware of that, because I think when you look at it sort of on paper, you know, you obviously have the media reports, right?
	Every time, you know, Russia takes a big town, well, it's not really of strategic importance, but every time Ukraine claws back seven inches, In a major military victory.
	So, you know, you see the gamesmanship happening in the media, but I'll say this as an outsider who doesn't know and perhaps, you know, didn't know that, hey, maybe that was the, maybe him coming in was to bring everyone to the table in a negotiating tactic.
	But, you know, you think of it like me with sort of, again, that Cold War mentality of like, you know, the Russian army will steamroll.
	It's like, well, how did they not take over this country in two weeks, let alone, you know, a year and a half now?
	To me, and maybe to the uneducated on the subject, it feels like maybe one of the bigger sort of miscalculations or underperformances of recent military history.
	Is that not the case, or is that also a combination of it?
	Did he misjudge some of it, or is that just because, you know, 130 billion in missiles given to a militia— You know, can still hold back someone who's not going all out or, you know, using tactical nukes or whatever it may be, that next escalation where he could, you know, again, take over the country rather quickly.
	Russia is not the Soviet Union.
	Russia is an orthodox Christian country that is rooted in Russian nationality, history, culture, language and ethnicity.
	So forget the Soviet Union.
	Ukraine is a brother Slavic country.
	The last thing Putin wanted to do was destroy Ukraine.
	Putin would have been perfectly happy to have Crimea recognized, to gain those equal rights for Russians inside eastern Ukraine, and to declare the place neutral.
	Because the neutral Ukraine would have provided exactly what you're discussing, not only a buffer for NATO and the West, a buffer for him, for Russia.
	He wasn't interested in any of the things that he's been accused of.
	That's what Professor Mearsheimer has said.
	Anyone who understands Russia knows what's happened over there since 1992 gets it.
	All of that's over now.
	Your dad, President Trump, could have intervened in February or March and put an end to this quickly, and I'm confident that he would have.
	We would have convened talks without preconditions, we'd have come to some sort of new territorial arrangement, and I think we would have had a neutral Ukraine, which was in everyone's interest, and no war.
	But now, those days are past.
	This government in Moscow, it's not just President Putin, his entire population is enraged.
	They don't trust anyone in the West, especially since Chancellor Merkel and now President Macron have both admitted that the so-called Minsk Accords, which were supposed to address these issues, were a facade.
	They were a fraud.
	They were designed to, quote-unquote, buy time to build up Ukraine.
	And they built it up.
	That was not a militia that was defending Eastern Ukraine.
	They were actually very good soldiers.
	Most are now dead.
	They've had 300,000 to 350,000 dead Ukrainian soldiers.
	Another 300,000 or 400,000 wounded.
	They're now forcibly dragging old men and boys into uniform to fight.
	They're desperate, which is why they'll take anything they can get.
	The Russians are not desperate.
	They don't have a recruiting problem.
	They've had 100,000 volunteers in addition to the 300,000 reservists or more that they've mobilized.
	Russia's population is squarely behind Putin.
	What have we got here in this country?
	We have a divided society, divided along every conceivable issue from economics, class, race, you name it.
	And this Society doesn't even support the military establishment that desperately needs talent and Americans inside uniform.
	And this is what this administration thinks it can commit to a war?
	I mean, this is sheer lunacy.
	We need to get out of this before we're dragged into something.
	And the notion that we could take on the Chinese, a nation of 1.4 billion people, what do you plan to do with your military power against that?
	What makes you think anything we would do would influence them?
	And as President Trump pointed out, that's an economic competition, one that he could handle.
	Unfortunately, we're not even in the competition anymore.
	We've surrendered. Well, the Navy has a drag queen influencer that's going to help the recruitment problem right now, Colonel, so I'm sure things will be just fine.
	What could go wrong? That's true.
	Maybe Xi will laugh himself to death because I have a feeling that's probably not going to have the intended effect.
	Or maybe it will have the intended effect, and that's just where the military is right now.
	But maybe talk about your military background.
	How did it shape your views on foreign policy?
	Because I know as we talk about the wars, I think your views on war and perhaps America's involvement in war have also changed, right?
	Some of the early Middle Eastern stuff, where you were at the beginning of that to where you are now has probably grossly changed.
	So how did that evolve?
	Well, remember I and most of the people of my generation, our formative experience was service in NATO, in Europe.
	And when NATO went away, most of us stood around in 1992, 93, 94 and said, well, NATO has to go in one of two directions.
	Either it becomes Europeanized, in other words, Europeans take responsibility for themselves, we can still be a partner, or we just leave because there's no mission for us in Europe anymore.
	By the way, I had plenty of experience with Russian Organizations and units after the fall of the wall, and I can tell you they were absolutely not our enemies.
	In fact, they did great work for us, particularly before we went into Afghanistan.
	But if I go back to the 1970s and I look at the ruins in which the military was found at that point, and then look through the 1980s where we rebuilt and we improved our position dramatically, it took very little time after 1991 for that military to be dismantled and ultimately to be ruined.
	And we got more and more and more generals and more and more headquarters and fewer and fewer soldiers.
	We lost 163,000 experienced combat soldiers in 1991 and 1992.
	And we kept every general officer we had on active duty and added some.
	This is the problem. This rot has been underway for a long time.
	And we've lost the discipline, the cohesion, the esprit de corps.
	I would say Special Operations Forces was an area where there was a holdout.
	And of course, the administration hates Special Operations because they claim it's another hotbed of white supremacy.
	So they're now talking about trying to do away with as much of it as they can.
	Everything is white supremacy or climate change, just so we're clear.
	I mean, at least in the minds of the left, any problem can either stem from white supremacy or climate change or both.
	So, you know, yes. So my argument is in 1991, we were a very healthy organization, but we were also disappointed, many of us, because we thought that we had gone over there to fight a war and win it.
	We discovered after a very short period of time, hostilities were ended.
	And then the big lie was perpetrated that, well, we really didn't set out to remove Saddam Hussein.
	That's not really why we went.
	We just wanted them out of Kuwait, which is not true because we then began trying at every opportunity to kill Saddam Hussein wherever he went.
	We bombed the place into the Stone Age.
	So the bottom line is we stood around and said, well, wait a minute, we could go to Baghdad with 5,000 men And pick up Saddam Hussein and that bunch and put another group of Iraqi generals in charge and let the UN handle it.
	The last thing we needed to do was occupy anything.
	And of course, when we went back in 2003, originally that was the plan.
	We were not going to occupy.
	But again, the same people that pushed nation building in Somalia, nation building in the Balkans, suddenly we were going to build a nation in Iraq.
	And the insanity took off from there.
	If we had picked up Saddam Hussein and simply said, thanks very much, we're out of here, you and I and a lot of other people wouldn't even talk about the place today.
	But we stayed and tried to govern it with our military.
	What a catastrophe. The last thing you want to do is occupy anything.
	Now we're trying to fight a proxy war for all the wrong reasons, and we're killing the Ukrainian nation.
	They're down to perhaps 14 to 18 million now from an original population back in January of 2022 of about 34 million.
	Everyone's left that could go.
	They've either gone east, almost 2 million into Russia, or 10 million west into Europe.
	And when you talk to them on the way out, as most of the news media have, they say, well, you go back.
	Never. Ukraine is the historic breadbasket of Europe.
	It is enormously productive.
	It could be the gleaming jewel economically if we had neutralized it.
	It could be as wealthy and prosperous today as Austria is.
	That was the model.
	That's what we should have done.
	Instead, we got this terrible war.
	And today, Russia is not weak.
	Russia's military is now larger and stronger than anything that we've seen since the 1980s.
	Its economy is booming.
	And as I said earlier, 81 nations are headed to St.
	Petersburg in June for a major conference, the purpose of which is to bring them into this larger plan To back currency with gold.
	And the gold in China, the gold in Russia, the gold in India is just the tip of the proverbial iceberg.
	It's just the beginning.
	The question is, what do we do?
	And these people in Washington have no answers.
	And that's why prices rise, services fall apart, the armed forces are in ruins, our borders are open, and there is no rule of law.
	We are being destroyed by this regime in Washington.
	Are there moments in your service that stand out to you?
	You know, what inspired you to join the Army in the first place?
	And, you know, did you see, you know, in a sort of longer and storied career, I mean, you led the last tank battle.
	We've got to get to that one, too. But the last sort of great tank battle.
	Because, listen, I think from a military history standpoint, that's sort of fascinating when you talk about the evolution of warfare and how that doesn't exist.
	But what did you see in those changes?
	What moments... You know, sort of stood out to you.
	Any sort of interesting stories where you're saying, wait a second, this isn't what I got in for.
	This isn't what our military was like when I signed up initially.
	Well, in 1958, when I was five years old, my mother took me to West Point.
	And that was it. I decided that's where I wanted to go and that's what I wanted to be.
	And in the 1950s, as you can imagine, I grew up in a household where people like Douglas MacArthur, Charles de Gaulle, Winston Churchill were heroic figures that I was brought up to admire and respect.
	And that led me down this path of interest in the military.
	And it never changed, to be perfectly frank with you.
	The only other interest I ever had was classical music, and my grandmother was a concert pianist, so I enjoyed playing the piano, but it wasn't something I was going to do for the rest of my life.
	So that was the beginning.
	Then I went to Germany as an exchange student from 69 to 70, and I lived with a family whose father was a professional soldier, a German officer in the Second World War, and at the end of the war had been...
	Except into the general staff system.
	He was fluent in Russian, Greek, Latin, and Hebrew.
	He was a classical scholar, and he spent a lot of time with me and taught me a great deal about the military and warfare.
	My maternal grandfather had served in the First and Second World Wars.
	He was an army officer in World War I, became an officer in the Navy in the Second War.
	My father hated the military, but my parents were divorced.
	But he served in the Second War.
	He commanded what you would call a Higgins boat.
	And his last mission was in Okinawa, where he landed troops in Okinawa in 1945.
	So everybody had served in the military.
	I knew what it was about.
	I knew the good sides and the bad sides, and I chose it as a profession.
	And I didn't get in the first shot.
	I lost out to somebody recruited for football at West Point.
	In Philadelphia, so I ended up going to the Virginia Military Institute for a year, which was a very good thing for me.
	And it did a lot for me, changed my attitude towards a lot of things.
	And it didn't turn me into a Confederate, but I certainly gained an appreciation for the South.
	And then I went on to West Point, and I would think after that I was very fortunate.
	I served under a number of excellent officers and had great success with soldiers.
	I discovered pretty quickly that 90% of the soldiers are top-rate people, top-flight people.
	Our biggest problem are bad officers.
	We had too many officers and a lot of them are mediocre.
	And one of the things that I learned from the German that I lived with for a year was one good officer is much better than four or five mediocrities.
	The soldiers deserve the best.
	And if you want them to perform to the best of their ability, you give them the best possible officer.
	And I've stuck by that for the rest of my life.
	And the other thing was that he and everybody else that I grew up with was very much convinced that you had to lead from the front.
	And so I went into a tank and I led the 1100 man formation from a tank.
	We had 42 tanks, 42 Bradleys, 8 guns.
	We were part of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regimental Battle Group of about 7,000 or 8,000.
	And we were the lead element in the 7th Corps.
	And to be frank with you, there was no plan for us to collide with and fight the enemy.
	In fact, they were trying very hard to position us in such a way that we did not make contact directly.
	They were going to try and destroy as much of the enemy with indirect fires as they could.
	The problem was, we ended up in a sandstorm.
	And we drove headlong into the enemy, but the soldiers were brilliantly trained, great captains, great noncommissioned officers.
	We went into the attack, and within about 30 minutes, destroyed most of what was the rear guard for the Republican Guard Corps, about 25 to 2,800 men, 30 or 40 tanks, 100 other armored fighting vehicles and artillery.
	And then we were told to stop.
	And we stopped at this thing called the 73 Easting.
	This is a north-south line in the desert because, of course, in the desert, you can't point to some town or a mountain.
	There's nothing there. Not a lot of natural waypoints, right?
	Right. So they said, where are you?
	And I remember we reported that we were at 736 or something.
	I've forgotten the rest of it.
	But we were a little bit beyond the 73 line.
	And they said, well, you've got to fall back to the 70.
	I said, fall back?
	And I said, why? You know, why?
	And of course, I got into an argument.
	Finally, I said, no, we're not falling back.
	The regimental commander knew me and the deputy regimental commander said, all right, let McGregor stay there.
	So we stayed there.
	We ended up fighting for another two and a half hours because once we broke through the Republican Guard's rear guard, we started having large numbers, hundreds of tanks and armored fighting vehicles, thousands of troops retreating north.
	Only since we were out in front by about two miles ahead of everybody else, they started slamming into us.
	And so we ended up doing a lot of damage until these people were either surrendering or disappeared.
	So it was an extremely successful battle, and like many successful actions, it was an accident.
	One that I'm very proud that I was part of, simply because of the enormous professionalism, bravery, and courage of these soldiers Sergeants, lieutenants, captains, and warrants that were there with me on the ground.
	Meaning, I cannot begin to tell you what spectacular soldiers they really were.
	If I could have, I'd have given every man in the unit a silver star.
	But of course, you can't do that.
	That's amazing. A lot of history right there.
	It's sort of, I guess, the culmination of a lot of history.
	And I guess you haven't really heard much about tanks since then, except for, I guess, now that we're back to Ukraine, where there seems to be a resurgence, and they're sending American tanks, maybe it's surplus, or perhaps some of the stuff that's more obsolete over there.
	But you're watching these things. A tank goes in, and a missile takes it out from five miles away, and it's It seems like it's a very different game with the advent of a lot of technology.
	I don't know that I'd want to be in a tank right now.
	It's a very secure place when someone's got a rifle, not so much when they have Hellfire missiles.
	Well, actually, when you're walking around on the ground with a weapon, everything can kill you.
	You have no protection at all.
	So you're better off in an armored fighting vehicle in 90% of the cases.
	The problem is that if you go out there without effective air and missile defense, You're done.
	You've got to be able to counter the enemy's air and missiles.
	We have lots of systems, but our army has neglected this for decades, simply because since World War II and even during the Second World War, we didn't need much air defense.
	Remember that when we fought the Germans in Western Europe, their air force was largely stripped away or defending cities against bombing attacks.
	So we were usually dealing with, you know, one or two airplanes, and we had 5,000 over us protecting us.
	Well, that's all changed now.
	But there are lots of systems that can annihilate these small drones.
	You can shoot down cruise missiles.
	What you cannot shoot down are hypersonic missiles.
	But hypersonic missiles are not meant for troops in the field.
	They're meant for headquarters, command and control, bunkers, ships at sea, large capital ships, aircraft carriers, this sort of thing.
	But we have to rethink how we organize.
	And it's a question of, do you need tanks?
	Of course you do. How many do you need versus other things?
	And what kind of air and missile defense do you have with you?
	The Ukrainians are in a lot of trouble right now because the Russians have spent months annihilating all of the air defenses that they have.
	Because the Russians learned from the Second World War, once the air defense is gone, You can operate as you wish and annihilate everything.
	And that's where the Russians are headed now.
	Ukrainians have almost no air defense left.
	And we, by the way, have almost nothing we can afford to ship them unless we're willing to operate without any air defense ourselves.
	We don't have the war stocks anymore.
	We've given it all up. All the artillery, ammunition, missiles, and so forth.
	It'll take years. To replenish the arsenals in the United States and elsewhere across Europe.
	Again, another reason why it makes a lot of sense not to go to war.
	We just don't have the ammunition, the missiles, the rockets.
	We don't even have the right structure and organization for it.
	So back to your first point, you got to get rid of those 44 four stars.
	Then you need a new structure where you take it down to about 10 four-stars and you simplify your structure.
	We've got too many headquarters with too many focuses and too many interests.
	And in the meantime, you take 30,000 or 40,000 U.S. combat troops and you put them on the Mexican border immediately and stop it.
	You had mentioned hypersonic missiles, and I couldn't help but remember around the time that we have the botched Afghan withdrawal and Milley is saying he wants to learn about white rage, China was in the process of literally, I guess, testing nuclear-capable hypersonic missiles.
	You know, talk about that, the threat of China, the growing concern about Taiwan, and what an invasion by China could look like.
	I mean, I think based on the incompetence that we're displaying on a national stage, you know, there was probably always a timeline that China was going to do this.
	But it feels like whatever that timeline is, it is...
	It has been greatly accelerated.
	What are the national security interests in Taiwan?
	What does that look like as far as military readiness is concerned, etc.?
	Well, remember that all of your intercontinental ballistic missiles that fly at a rate of...
	30,000, 40,000 feet per second, they are all hypersonic.
	So we have hypersonic missiles.
	They're intercontinental ballistic missiles.
	The hypersonic missiles we're focused on at the moment are designed for shorter ranges on a regional basis to be largely conventional.
	Can they be nuclear? Of course.
	But the nuclear option is not the first option for the Russians and the Chinese.
	Both have made that very clear.
	China embraced a no-first-use doctrine decades ago.
	Now, as far as their arsenal is concerned, you're right.
	Over the last 10 years, it's been rather modest.
	They've only maintained what they thought they needed, which was, by our standards, maybe a few hundred warheads to protect themselves against a nuclear attack.
	They're now doubling that overnight.
	They're building far more missiles.
	But the Chinese have been far more afraid of us And afraid of our attacks than anything else.
	And there's no interest in China in conquering Taiwan.
	The timeline for reunification, according to Xi, who is the current emperor of China, we need to stop thinking about communism and now start thinking about the Chinese as an imperial state as it once was for thousands of years, because that's what it is.
	Xi has said 2044, 2045, 2046 was the target date.
	And the thing that we don't understand in this country is that Taiwan and China are very similar in the sense that both peoples in both places want the same thing.
	They all want to live in a society that looks a lot like Singapore.
	None of them are interested in liberal democracy.
	They're all interested in prosperity, making money, having the freedom to make money, having the freedom on a personal level to live as they have lived for hundreds and thousands of years.
	They're not interested in a society like ours.
	In fact, the Chinese look at our society and can't even begin to imagine how we live in it.
	Because if you think the kind of criminality we tolerate would be tolerated in those countries, you're very much mistaken.
	I'll give you a quick example.
	The Chinese military is really largely defensive at its orientation.
	There are no Chinese armies massing to prepare to march into Southeast Asia.
	In fact, they met with the Vietnamese and the Vietnamese and the Chinese have reassured each other there will be no war between them.
	And we have been trying to goad the Vietnamese into a relationship with us, thinking that somehow or another we can leverage them against the Chinese.
	You have a similar phenomenon on the Korean Peninsula.
	South Koreans aren't interested in going to war with China.
	China is their biggest trading partner.
	And then there's Japan, very similar.
	The Japanese now have with China something they have not had ever in their history.
	They have what we would call a free trade arrangement.
	They have access to Chinese markets.
	One of the reasons the Japanese and the Chinese fought with each other is that the Chinese emperors always insisted that you pay tribute to China.
	It was kind of a tax that allowed you access to the market, but you had to pay tribute.
	Japanese don't pay tribute to anybody.
	And so the Japanese went to war.
	Well, that's over. The Japanese have factories in China.
	The Japanese can send their agricultural products to China.
	They may have disputes, but no one is going to go to war with them.
	No one in Asia is talking about a war except us.
	And if you think you can fight a war with China, with the United States Navy, you're insane.
	All those surface ships, if they come within 200 nautical miles of China, they'll be targeted and sunk.
	There's no future for that.
	And we don't need to do it.
	Everything has changed.
	Submarines, unmanned submersibles, space-based intelligence reconnaissance surveillance platforms, those are the things that dominate warfare.
	Large surface fleets are a thing of the past.
	Which I think is part of the reason the Navy is so anxious to paint China as this great enemy on the scale of Imperial Japan.
	But we're not going to fight that way in the future.
	And China is not interested in a war with us.
	Does that mean Chinese are friends of ours?
	Of course not. I mean, we're the ones with the open borders.
	Why is the fentanyl coming into the United States?
	Because our borders are open.
	Why are the Chinese stealing from us our IP? Because we let them in.
	I go to business in Northeast Asia, the Koreans and Japanese look at me and say, what are you, stupid?
	You see any Chinese in our universities, our laboratories?
	This is nothing new.
	The Chinese have been stealing everything for centuries.
	That's why they end up being thrown out of everybody's country across Asia every so many years.
	I mean, the point is, protect the United States.
	That's number one. And much of the difficulty we have with China will go away.
	So you wrote a book a couple years ago called Margin of Victory, Five Battles That Change the Phase of Modern War.
	You're talking about sort of the changes in all of that.
	What, if any, now are some of the history lessons that we can learn from those battles?
	Does it even apply anymore?
	Because you're right, we're waging a different war.
	We could build a thousand aircraft carriers next week, and it doesn't really mean anything given where war is going and what people can have as countermeasures to them.
	What are some of those lessons that we can learn from those battles, again, if it's still applicable?
	Well, I wrote the opening chapter for Americans because it's all about something called the British Expeditionary Force in 1914.
	The British rather haphazardly stumbled into World War I, suddenly saying that the survival and victory of the French was vital to their interest after having fought the French for 800 years.
	Rather a miraculous transformation.
	So they sent this 150,000-man force over initially, eventually it grew to about 200,000.
	They were largely professionals, but they also had a lot of reservists but experienced soldiers.
	And this army performed brilliantly, and it was largely annihilated by the Germans.
	They paved the road to Paris with the dead of the British Expeditionary Force.
	The lesson of that is We, Americans, are not a continental power.
	The British were never a continental power.
	We are primarily maritime and aerospace powers.
	We try to solve our problems as much as we can with air and naval power.
	We don't like to put large numbers of people ashore to fight anywhere because they have a bad habit of getting killed.
	World War I was a great example.
	We sent two million men over there, and in 110 days of fighting, we had 318,000 casualties, including 110,000 dead.
	What was the result of that?
	We didn't have another Democrat in office after Wilson until 1932, when the Depression hit.
	People were furious.
	We should never have fought in that war.
	We should never have been in World War I. That's what most people thought at the time, and they were right.
	We didn't want to become involved in these continental wars that absorb millions and millions of casualties.
	Thomas Jefferson wanted us to join the French in the French Revolution.
	And Washington said, I like Tom, he's a nice man, but I think he's a little crazy.
	If we did that, then we'd have the Austrians, Prussians, Russians, British, everybody landing on the North American continent to destroy the United States.
	The point is, we are not designed as a republic, as a people, to fight large wars on the Eurasian continent.
	We don't usually field millions of men in armies.
	We have no history of that.
	We're not geared for it.
	We don't want to do it. Again, the President, President Trump I'm talking about, understood this instinctively.
	Americans don't want to fight in these wars.
	So now we have forces in Europe, we have forces in Asia, then they're positioned right on the edge of these conflict zones.
	And today, all of them could be erased in the space of minutes by precision guided missiles.
	Because everything is detectable from above.
	So there is no value to putting a large force 6,000 miles away from the United States on the border of a potential opponent.
	All you're doing is offering them up for destruction.
	That was the key lesson to take out of World War I and the British Expeditionary Force.
	We're not going to build forces of millions who are going to fight.
	We don't do that. So we have to limit our interventionist impulse.
	We have to limit what we do to places where our interests are clearly and narrowly focused, and where if we do engage, we benefit strategically.
	That, again, was President Trump's message.
	That's why he told the Europeans, you've got to become your own first responders.
	Stop waiting for us to show up and rescue you.
	But he concluded, I think, very rightly, that until we get out of Europe completely or mostly, no one over there is going to spend the money to defend themselves.
	And that's the problem.
	Speaking of debacles, what should Biden have done to complete Trump's order to get out of Afghanistan?
	I think no one wanted to be in the never-ending wars.
	It feels like until Ukraine sort of became the new religion of the left, I think the one thing that the American populace actually agreed on is that we didn't want to be in the never-ending wars.
	So what should Biden have done to get out of Afghanistan without creating the disaster?
	You know, because I think there's a way to do it.
	I think there's probably a fairly clear way to do it.
	But what do you see?
	You know, they tried rushing it.
	They did it out of the, you know, in the fighting season instead of in the winter when people are hiding in caves.
	And, I mean, it seems like a lot of obvious ones.
	But, you know, as someone who's been there, as someone who's commanded these trips, what could they have done differently?
	Well, the very first thing is what you pointed to.
	You don't leave in the dead of summer when all the snakes have crawled out from underneath their rocks and are prepared to bite you.
	So that was big mistake, number one.
	They'd have been better off waiting until November of the year, October, November.
	And then instead of announcing your intention to withdraw, you need to begin immediately taking equipment out.
	In other words, identify everything that you want to keep.
	That you're not going to leave behind and start getting it out of the country.
	That's going to take some time.
	But if you do it intelligently, it can be done in 60 to 90 days.
	The other thing is that you don't identify Kabul, this airport, right next to the city as your departure point.
	That was the wrong place to leave from.
	And then finally, you know, we have this airfield that we built.
	In northwestern Afghanistan, that wasn't something that we necessarily needed to completely abandon.
	That had some strategic value beyond- You're talking about Bagram, correct?
	Yeah, exactly. Strategic value, like it sits close to the border of China.
	Probably a good one to keep, but minor details.
	It made sense to hold on to that.
	But again, these things don't appear to be addressed.
	And then the other thing is we learned from Iraq.
	If you tell everybody exactly when you're leaving and where you're going to go from, you get shot to pieces.
	When we finally left Iraq in 2011, we left in the dark in the middle of the night after telling nobody we were leaving.
	That's how we got out without getting people killed because you have no friends you can trust.
	This is crazy. Everyone is going to rat you out.
	As soon as you told the Iraqi army anything, everybody knew it.
	And that meant you were going to get killed.
	So the bottom line is in Afghanistan, every conceivable strategic mistake that could be made was made.
	And we just kept coming up with excuses to keep people there, once again, because you mentioned money going to Ukraine.
	Well, most of the money never gets to Ukraine.
	The money pays for equipment.
	The money is then laundered through the Pentagon and back into the defense industries to pay for replacements.
	In turn, you get donations on the Hill rewarding everybody for supporting this fiasco.
	So the amount of money that actually shows up on the ground is minuscule.
	And what does show up there pays for the Ukrainian government, just as we paid for the Iraqi government and the Afghan government and the South Vietnamese government.
	We can go down this list.
	It's the same insanity over and over and over again.
	All of it is designed to maintain the fiction that we're doing something good and important.
	It's not. It never was.
	When you look at some of the other presidential candidates out there, besides my father, do any of them actually seem prepared to you to take on the major crises facing the U.S. on a world stage right now?
	Well, let me give that some thought.
	No, none of them.
	I had a feeling.
	Listen, it's always risky putting that out there.
	You never know. But I hear what you've been saying, and I'm like, I'm looking at the other, you know, some of the stuff going on there right now.
	I see the people who flip-flop because of their donors in two seconds.
	You know, some pretty major issues.
	I'm saying, you know what? Let's send this one out there.
	Well, when you look at somebody like DeSantis, and I'm sure Governor DeSantis is a terribly nice guy, that's not the issue, but when he announces very logically, we have no vital strategic interest in Ukraine that justifies our investment there or the commitment of any military power, which was correct, and then just a few days later, after his donors contact him, says, well, I guess I was wrong.
	It's really important for us to be there.
	I mean, you want to put that guy into office?
	What a catastrophe. I can't imagine.
	That's the last thing we need.
	Everybody fails to understand something about President Trump.
	He didn't go to Washington to get rich.
	Too many people do.
	That's our problem.
	Government has become lucrative.
	Yeah, the biggest lie, you know, there's a lot of lies.
	Reagan had a couple of good ones about, you know, I'm here from the government.
	I'm here to help. Like, that's a pretty big lie.
	But the other one is the whole lie of, you know, public servant.
	Once they get to D.C., you know, maybe there's one or two, but man, that's been bastardized a lot, as evidenced by, you know, Nancy Pelosi being a lifetime public servant and being worth a couple hundred million dollars.
	I mean, that doesn't happen if they're actually public servants, you know?
	So the D.C. swamp is a disaster.
	But, you know, for me, what's interesting is, you know, growing up, you know, generals, you know, we're our heroes.
	You know, you've spoken about, you know, we've spoken about Patton, we've spoken about MacArthur, but...
	What happened? Are there any generals left that we could look up to now for real leadership?
	Are there others in there?
	And maybe if there are, maybe don't mention them by name, because if you do, they'll probably be on the chopping block, you know, in the new woke military tomorrow.
	You know, what happened?
	You know, are there guys still out there that we could look up to for real leadership?
	Are there guys, you know, that are children, at least those of, you know, patriotic Americans, you know, that could look up to to be like, you know what, I want to be like that guy.
	Because, you know, I'm not aware of any right now that are in there.
	I see this stuff daily, and the guys I respect from the military, most of them are operators and door kickers.
	They're saying, I can't believe I signed up to defend this crap that I see coming out of them every day.
	We select people for senior leadership, for flag rank, for many reasons, but in most cases they have nothing to do with demonstrated character, competence, or intelligence.
	We pick people because we like them and because they're just like us.
	And in peacetime, where there is no tension, there is no compulsion to get anything right.
	And frankly, when you fight the kinds of enemies we have, where virtually anything you do works, I mean, you're not dealing with an enemy army, an enemy air force.
	You have no air attack to worry about.
	You have overwhelming firepower.
	And in those circumstances, there is no call for any professional competence.
	And again, in this chapter in the book, Margin of Victory, it's one of the things I talked about early on.
	You had British general officers that were very successful in India and Africa who failed miserably in front of the Germans.
	The French had similar problems, though not as severe as the British.
	It's very hard. So you've got to change that.
	And of course, now we want to select everybody on the basis of race.
	And if you're going to compete in that environment, then you have to be subservient, as I would expect a white man or a Northeast Asian, to the wokeness.
	Demonstrate your fealty and readiness to implement these destructive policies that are divisive and will cripple us militarily.
	So I have no faith in any of them anymore.
	If there are any of real character, God bless them, but I haven't found out about them.
	And I'm perfectly willing to just clean it out and reach low and find people who are competent.
	That is what Marshall did.
	And it's not personal.
	If you pick the wrong guy, you fire him and replace him.
	There's nothing special about it.
	Somebody said, well, what is a general?
	And I finally told this senator, Senator, it's a colonel you promoted.
	That's it. What's a colonel?
	It's a lieutenant colonel you promoted.
	Come on, let's wake up.
	And the guy who you actually want in that position is the guy that's never going to get the nod because he isn't going to pledge fealty to the woke bullshit.
	He is going to say what needs to be said.
	He is going to ruffle feathers to ask the questions that those in the D.C. establishment and those in the military-industrial complex don't want the American public to hear asked because they may actually have to answer them rather than cashing...
	Billion-dollar checks paid for courtesy of the American taxpayer.
	Well, remember, it's also a case of when you go to confirmation with the current bunch, the people sitting in this, they don't care about the individual, whether that individual actually knows anything.
	They're very concerned about whether or not he's going to keep the money flowing.
	Are you going to maintain the programs that are there?
	Are my constituents and donors going to benefit?
	Are you going to go along with the policies?
	There's no question about military competence, demonstrated competence.
	What have you done, General, that justifies your advancement to this position?
	Explain it. And most can't because the only thing they've done is go from job to job without notice.
	Yeah. Well, hopefully, maybe.
	We've got to bring you in there to actually clean house one day.
	And again, hopefully the American people wake up to that.
	But, Colonel, I just want to thank you for joining us.
	As more happens on the front in Russia, I'll be curious to see what happens in May, as you said, when things dry out a little bit.
	But we'll have to have you back on to hear from someone who gets it and who's willing to call it out.
	So I really appreciate it.
	Your time today. For those of you guys who are watching, I just want to thank you for doing that.
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	I think we can probably learn a lot.
	And Colonel, you're on social media.
	Why don't you let us also know where we can find you there?
	Actually, I'm not.
	I stay off of it.
	So if you want to know anything about me, you can go to YouTube, Google me.
	You can see lots of podcasts and speeches and presentations.
	You can go and find all my books on Amazon.
	You can go to my website.
	All you have to do is, it's DougMcGregor.com or FutureDefense.com or Colonel Douglas McGregor.
	You'll get there. So, no, I try not to tweet and do things like that because it's kind of an opportunity to be stupid, you know.
	Hey, relax. I don't know.
	But yes, guilty as charged, sir.
	Thank you very much, Colonel.
	I really appreciate the time.
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