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道格拉斯·麥格雷戈（Douglas MacGregor）：霸權將失敗

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大家好，歡迎回到節目，今天我們有一個非常特別的款待，道格拉斯·麥格雷戈上校也加入了我的行列，他是一位功勳老兵，五本關於軍事轉型的開創性書籍的作者，他擁有博士學位國際關係方麵，他是一位備受尊敬的國防和外交政策專家，他也是特朗普政府國防部長顧問，麥格雷戈上校非常感謝您的加入，我確信你的分析和預測非常準確，尤其是對烏克蘭的分析和預測。你曾說過，戰爭很可能會以俄羅斯控製整個烏克蘭東部（如果不是整個烏克蘭）而結束。我們開始看到媒體上出現了關於真實情況的更準確的圖片，所以你能嗎
總結一下您認為烏克蘭接下來會發生什麽以及為什麽它對普通美國人很重要。 是的，嗯，我認為了解真相對美國人來說非常重要，而真相在相當長的一段時間裏一直很不受歡迎。
有一段時間不想涵蓋太多曆史，但這場戰爭已經醞釀了十多年，有些人會爭論了至少 20 25 年，因為西方不願意正視現實，即，地圖是烏克蘭繪製的，坦率地說，這是不準確的，那裏確實有烏克蘭人，但他們不住在克裏米亞，從來不是烏克蘭的一部分
我們稱之為頓博斯的大部分地區（頓涅茨盆地）實際上是俄羅斯人和居住在那裏的人
是俄羅斯人，最簡單的方法是返回並查看選舉地圖，顯示人們在過去的投票情況
呃，你知道在之前的選舉中，你看到東方以壓倒性多數投票支持親俄羅斯候選人
NEPA河對岸的西方通常以壓倒性多數投票支持反俄派候選人無論是誰，所以總是需要解決這個問題。我曾主張進行公民投票，其他人也曾主張過，我也一直強烈地感覺到，這是在烏克蘭。有興趣成為一個中立國家，它可以像奧地利一樣，並且像奧地利一樣可以獲得巨大的利潤中立性，這當然首先是布什破壞的政府隨後呃奧巴馬，我認為特朗普被顛覆了
他自己的國務卿和國防部長以及他的整個國家安全團隊都想施壓。隨著北約的擴張和烏克蘭的吞並，我認為特朗普總統已經做好了準備。站在那裏沒有人支持他，然後發現自己下台了，不久之後普京就放棄了，因為他說沒有人可以和我交談 沒有人會與我談判 我別無選擇，因為我們，2014年之後，烏克蘭建立了這個巨大的軍事力量，它是旨在從烏克蘭東部坦率地攻擊俄羅斯 烏克蘭人說他們想奪回克裏米亞 我們說好吧。他們想懲罰居住在頓涅茨克盧甘斯克的俄羅斯人，因為他們是俄羅斯人
不會收斂為 100 個講烏克蘭語的烏克蘭語等等
底線是你會得到這場戰爭，我認為普京從一開始就做出了一些誤判
他認為，如果他表現出他對自己國家的態度是多麽認真，那麽他就會意識到俄羅斯和東部地區日益增長的威脅
烏克蘭，我們會很好地關注他，我們做到了，但我們決定加倍
他對我們所造成的威脅感到不滿，他最擔心的是，除了這支烏克蘭軍隊之外，
戰區彈道導彈將會出現，這將使他的全部核威懾力量以及所有主要武器
城市處於危險之中，所以他進軍，最初這是一種非常謹慎的做法，旨在
造成盡可能少的傷害，殺死盡可能少的人，幾乎直到
夏天發現外麵沒有人沒有人會和我們說話沒有人會談判我們被困住了
我們將不得不改變我們的整個方法，所以我們進入這個呃長
拖運呃方法基本上是一個
30個月的計劃，為期30個月的監護權，這就是他在夏天采用的計劃，你擁有如此龐大的俄羅斯軍隊
現在我們已經得到了拜登和他的支持者所說的他不想要的這麽大而且這麽大的東西。
強大的俄羅斯軍事力量位於北約東部邊境，換句話說，他理論上進入了
為了保護北約，但他得到了相反的結果，北約正在迅速崩潰，而我們
從這些泄露的文件中可以看出北約聯盟內部的巨大不團結
為了您的目的，我相信您的聽眾知道我們犯的致命錯誤之一是假設
俄羅斯是一個經濟上薄弱的落後國家，我想有人說是麥凱恩說俄羅斯是一個天然氣國家
擁有核武器的空間站是的，他們發現自己大錯特錯了，所以俄羅斯擁有大量核武器。

當然，這使其成為需要所有這些才能繼續發展的中國的完美合作夥伴
維持經濟擴張，但我們最終站在了錯誤的一邊，因為我們正在遭受苦難
在經濟上，我們的歐洲盟友正因這場戰爭和所有這些而遭受非常嚴重的痛苦
弄巧成拙的製裁很好，我實際上下一步要去烏克蘭，我們似乎已經做出了金融
製裁是我們軍事戰略的核心，將美元武器化，而經濟製裁是有用的
幾十年前你就知道的武器，但世界已經發展到能夠真正中和它們，那麽西方會產生什麽影響
金融製裁在地緣政治領域如此明顯地失敗，請記住，對於許多人來說
幾十年來我們一直使用世界銀行和其他金融中心的指揮權
因為美元實際上主宰了一切，我們不僅將債務轉嫁給他人
迫使除了機構之外的所有人都使用美元 全球機構使用美元是因為它
方便，我們所做的是我們有效地欺負了這麽多人這麽長時間
現在很多人都說得好，俄羅斯說得有道理，中國說得有道理，為什麽我們要不斷地在這個國家做生意？
美元現在這並不意味著所謂的儲備貨幣會立即消失
但我認為它遇到了嚴重的麻煩所以這種去美元化是非常嚴重的
在這一點上我們不應該低估它，但我認為如果你不斷地打敗別人，我們就會自找麻煩
正如你所說，這個武器這個金融武器最終他們回來說我們已經擁有了它我
意味著居住在洪都拉斯或哥斯達黎加或東南亞和泰國的人們已被告知如果您想要我們的
援助我們的支持然後種植這些警察作物想象一下被告知什麽
你將種植的農作物等等，事情已經失控，製裁隻是另一種表現
坦率地說，我們對俄羅斯實施的所有製裁最終都被削弱了，因此石油和石油
天然氣以及稀土和所有其他可以想象的礦物和食品所有這些東西都以一種方式滲出
或者另一個，如果你在美國通過了一項法律，你就知道了
國家，這是一項根本上有缺陷的法律，無論它是什麽，它都是一項法律
每個人都反對，人們真的不想服從 最終發生的事情毫無意義，因為結束了
當警察決定不執行它時，因為他們不能很好，這很大程度上就是我們金融領域發生的事情
地球上的主導地位 你知道我在這個節目中多次談論過的事情是每種法定貨幣
已經失敗了，所以有些持續了幾個月一個世紀，但全部都失敗了，我們在 20 世紀 70 年代脫離了黃金，我們
繼續印製這些文件，承諾我們的支出超過我們的收入，我們是淨消費者，而所有這些國家
我們與淨生產國關係緊張，那麽美元將走向何方，你說過，這不會是
保留它不會很快失去這種地位，但你知道這些製裁是否加速了失去這種地位
[音樂]你知道我我真的希望我能
把我的兒子拖入這場討論，他是一位出色的金融分析師，也是我關注的人，我已經
聽了他很多年，這就是我大量投資數字貨幣的原因
因為呃他指出我們確實正走在通往以下兩個目標之一的道路上
現在的目的地之一當然是美聯儲將印鈔票，這就是
人們普遍認為他們會繼續印刷、印刷、印刷，什麽會阻止我們前進，有很多事情
這可以阻止你印更多的錢，其中最重要的是所謂的惡性通貨膨脹
在我們轉向魏瑪，進入兩次世界大戰期間的魏瑪共和國之前，我們已經沿著這條路走下去了
談論阿根廷，我們去了很多不同的地方並找到了它，所以這就是
一個目的地另一個目的地是在某個時候沒有人購買你的國債
當沒有人購買你的國債並且你無法再將它們全部購買時，更糟糕的是其他國家開始購買
拋售中國、日本、沙特阿拉伯等國家的國債
你必須重組你的債務，這就是所謂的違約
現在人們說哦，我們從來沒有違約，那是很多廢話，32 和 34 我們做到了，我們稱之為重組我們的
正如你所知，正如我兒子所指出的，現在的債務重組債務是非常痛苦的
我一直在擔心信用將會枯竭，你將不得不在一段時間內沒有信用地生活
對於那些習慣了本質上無情的金融擴張的人來說，這將是人間地獄，但
我們麵臨的另一個無人討論的問題是我們經濟的金融化
是的，我們建造什麽，我們生產什麽，我們生產很多軍事裝備和技術，但是，問題在於它的投資回報率並不高，這就是為什麽像總統這樣有理智的人
艾森豪威爾一直試圖將國防開支控製在他所控製的範圍內。
被認為是可接受的最低限度，換句話說，你想維護國家的安全，但他不是
顯然有興趣成為世界警察，他不喜歡所有這些聯盟，但他把它們建立在
這種方式使他們明確處於防禦狀態，例如當奧地利想要保持中立時，他對此表示歡迎
事實上，艾森豪威爾說我們應該努力壓製更多的歐洲國家，因為我們根本無法保衛所有國家
好吧，他的明智之言和明智的建議已基本被放棄，所以現在那麽
這是最後一個問題，除了建立我們無力承擔的帝國之外
英國人這麽做了，然後自己就破產了，你把你的財富儲存在哪裏，你如何保存它
我認為數字貨幣是這些選擇之一，事實上我可能應該製作這些
預測，當然還有約翰·肯尼思的黃金競賽，他曾經說過，經濟預測的存在是為了讓占星家
看起來很專業，呃，所以我覺得我可以做出經濟預測，因為我認為 culbreath 是
是的，我有一種感覺，隨著時間的推移，數字貨幣很可能會取代大部分法定貨幣
你認為比特幣可以作為全球儲備貨幣嗎我不知道我的意思是你是我已經結束了
我的頭腦和那裏的每個人都會說好吧，你沒有上過沃頓商學院，這是真的，現在我的祖父去了
賓夕法尼亞大學的典獄長學校我的兩個祖父都去了賓夕法尼亞大學，但這對我沒有幫助呃我
我我我沒有，我不是商學院畢業生，盡管很多人告訴我
我不擔心，但你永遠不知道這是另一個問題，但
底線是我不知道，但我認為數字貨幣是無法控製的
通過中央銀行係統進行操縱是非常有吸引力的
對現在以外的人我不知道我希望我有我希望我能為你做出更深刻的預測但我不能
但我認為這是真的 我的意思是不是每個人都厭倦了銀行係統操縱財富
我們已經經曆了多少年了，然後有人說好，美聯儲什麽時候成立的
在美國，呃，在接下來的幾年裏，我們的美元價格下降到原來的百分之十
值多少錢 1911. 這是不可理解的
我認為人們對其他東西有渴望，這是毫無疑問的，而且我認為數字貨幣有著光明的未來
除此之外，我不能說太多，我絕對同意我們需要一個並行係統，我認為很多政策
製造商將比特幣用作隱形鬥篷，他們讓比特幣看起來像是威脅，而實際上他們不想承認
他們自己的政策是我們來到這裏的原因，如果我們失去美元儲備地位，你知道我們將無法
維持這些數萬億美元的赤字，其中一部分用於資助軍事權利，所以事情需要改變
軍事預算必須降低到適合我們經濟規模的合理水平，我知道現在從
軍方內部消息人士稱，他們仍然根據 2% 的消費者物價指數 (CPI) 製定預算，而沒有考慮到
通貨膨脹權利將受到影響，因此您如何看待這是否真正發揮作用？有以下三件事：
你的觀眾首先需要明白，花錢去防守並不重要
一定要在另一端產生能力 僅僅花錢並不等於
在大多數情況下，我們為所獲得的能力付出了太多的代價 在某些情況下，我們花費了
很棒，我們確實獲得了很好的投資回報，我認為這在監視情報偵察平台上尤其如此
和能力，但許多其他領域我們根本不知道，所以這是第一個問題
問題是你知道你目前的軍事機構仍然悲慘地是對
第二次世界大戰我們仍在圍繞航母戰鬥建造水麵艦隊
我們仍在部署龐大而笨重的陸軍師
沉重而無法移動，太重而無法舉起，但更糟糕的是，世界不再以這種方式戰鬥，這是我們要做的事情之一
必須關注烏克蘭正在發生的事情，因為它從根本上改變了你看待事物的方式
這是一個大問題，然後你就會麵臨通貨膨脹行業的威脅
你想要維持這個可怕的軍事機構的運轉而你
堅持認為這是極其必要的，因為如果不花 10 美分或 100 億美元
你有被征服、蹂躪和摧毀的危險，我們走吧
返回俄羅斯 俄羅斯不會對美國構成實質性威脅，除非
我們當然決定攻擊俄羅斯，他們擁有巨大的核武庫，我們擁有可以摧毀的巨大核武庫
彼此以及地球上的大多數人多次我們不想使用核武器我
沒有看到普京先生這樣做的證據，所以從第二個角度來看這有點愚蠢
我們繼續通過冷戰的視角來看待俄羅斯 每個人都表現得好像它不是蘇聯
今天的俄羅斯是一個非常不同的國家，你知道人們是共產黨人
中國共產黨就是這麽做的，這就是中國共產黨，中國共產黨就是個笑話
中國共產黨隻是一個精英組織和一群人
全國各地都在管理政府並試圖控製 14 億人，這真是該死的
很難做到他們不是共產黨員我每次去過東北亞都沒有見過很多共產黨員
去那裏拜訪的中國人都是貪圖錢財的人，讓我們麵對現實吧，他們絕對致力於盈利
不惜一切代價所以我沒有看到太多共產主義的證據 我看到了資本主義的很多證據
但我沒有看到中國軍隊在任何國家邊境集結的證據
入侵任何人，當他們看到他們的海軍力量時，記住他們擁有的所有船隻的三分之一
在南中國海或海岸警衛隊船隻周圍，好吧，我們真正在處理什麽
我們真的麵臨來自中國的生存威脅嗎
俄羅斯，我認為總統昨晚說得很好，他說不，他說我們的問題在國內
他們就是這樣，華盛頓的這群人似乎已經準備好這樣做
任何可以維持這些巨額支出的措施，不僅用於國防支出，還用於福利支出，正如您和我們所知
繼續假裝社會保障體係醫療保險醫療補助養老金計劃所有這些都是
確實，他們不是我們知道他們不是我們假裝銀行有償付能力並且
不是缺乏流動性，他們不是，我的意思是這些河流回來了，我認為那是十二月或
去年 11 月，所有這些呃這是什麽壓力測試都是在銀行進行的
有人說，哦，好吧，我們的狀態很好，但這不是真的，我們繼續誤導自己
為了很好地維持這筆巨額支出，什麽時候才能停止，我想什麽
是本·斯坦因說過事情會一直持續到他們無法做到為止嗎？英國人什麽時候離開印度的？
他們的債務占GDP的比例是240%換句話說恐怕
華盛頓特區所謂的統治精英隻會把我們趕入地下
我希望在那之前如果我必須在惡性通貨膨脹和
債務重組方麵的違約 我寧願進行重組，而不是混合
通貨膨脹，但它們都會很痛苦，沒有人願意告訴美國人民真相
正如這些文件發布並告訴我們我們正在烏克蘭失敗一樣，烏克蘭人不會贏得烏克蘭
正在被摧毀，我們在國內也有同樣的問題，我們的金融體係正在被摧毀
我們好，首先讓我們多談談中國，您對習主席之間的會晤有何看法
辛平和法國總統埃馬紐埃爾·馬克龍，考慮到你剛才所講的一切，這對地緣政治意味著什麽
當你看到習主席不再思考共產主義時，就涵蓋得很好，忘記這一點，
把他視為當代中國的皇帝 中國本身就是一個帝國
坦率地說，我們在北美大陸，但中國是一個帝國國家，不與
征服世界的目標和目標，因為他們有 14 億人，他們有足夠多的人，你知道他們是一個國家
20世紀30年代，日本司令在中國呆了幾年後轉向天皇說，你知道
中國的問題是裏麵什麽都沒有，隻有中文，換句話說，我們在這裏做什麽，這太瘋狂了
日本人試圖弄清楚這一點，即吉看著馬克龍，
將馬克龍視為潛在的貿易夥伴 請記住，中國的重點是
恢複這個叫做絲綢之路的東西，你有幾種線路
跨越地圖的通訊 它們都穿過中亞 有些穿過我們過去的地方向南延伸
稱波斯、伊朗或土耳其和中東，但他們中的大多數確實是從東北亞從上海到
北京一直到大西洋沿岸的法國羅奇福德
為什麽這如此重要 這很重要，因為我們擁有最強大的潛艇
世界上的艦隊我們的水麵艦隊可能正在萎縮，但水麵艦隊不會打仗並贏得戰爭
就像 100 100 200 年前他們所做的那樣，今天一切都是
海上的潛艇它能夠從根本上壓製你，讓你破產，一無所獲
如果我們決定在海上部署一艘潛艇，那麽就會離開港口，並且您有空中監視
連接到地麵上的所有東西並連接到各種平台，因此，這是一個很容易獲得的工具
對我們來說，如果我們決定關閉中國港口，我們可以做到
中國知道這一點，並且很長一段時間以來就知道他們與皇家海軍經曆過這種情況
早在 1840 年代，甚至更早，一位中國人就得出了很好的結論：
需要繞過海上，我們已經盡力而為，他們非常依賴它，這對許多人來說都是如此
未來幾年通過馬六甲海峽進入南中國海 食品能源通過那直接進入
但如果你在中亞建立這個網絡，
歐洲將改變遊戲規則，因為俄羅斯擁有世界上所有的能源
可能需要，所以如果你突然斷線，你已經得到了俄羅斯有你要去的大部分食物
想要和烏克蘭一起吃飯，你看看整個地區，它是一個食品生產中心
西方很少有人欣賞的規模，你知道我們過去稱其為烏克蘭“麵包籃”是有原因的
歐洲的底線是這是一個非常重要的發展
這是一個修建一條道路的項目，歐洲人當然希望與中國進行良好的貿易，我的意思是他們為什麽不呢？
中國是世界上最大的市場，或者說是最大的市場之一，這是不可避免的，我們就坐在那裏
試圖阻止它是我們瘋了嗎答案是當然
但我們也錯過了機會，因為當中國人想要搬家時，我們比中國人有優勢
穿越中亞 他們必須經過多個國家 多個人們說多種語言的國家
語言有不同的法律和習俗，當你穿過每個州時，每個人都會伸出援手，
說拜托呃這是錢拜托因為你將經曆這個我們已經錯過了建設的機會
從大西洋海岸到太平洋橫跨北美的東西
如果我們願意的話，我們可以隨時超越中國或亞洲其他任何國家
太平洋快速海上運輸 大西洋快速海上運輸和 Speedy 列車
就在整個北美，還有什麽是安全的
語言 一種法律 一種民族 一種國家 更快 更便宜 更好 我們做了什麽
看起來什麽也沒有，相反，我們隻是朝著同一個方向前進，更多的恐嚇加劇了緊張局勢。
之前接受采訪時說中國不想與我們發生戰爭，我們華盛頓的領導人不理解
像她這樣的領導者的優先事項他們的文化他們的人民那麽你會做什麽
你認為接下來應該發生什麽，你認為會發生什麽，以及中國真正麵臨的利害關係是什麽？
我們應該談談我們應該了解台灣和中國的什麽，因為他們都有相同的地方
願望相同的目標 坦白說，世界各地的中國人都希望生活在一個
一個看起來像新加坡的世界中的社會
現在新加坡有什麽有趣的地方，大多數美國人都會去新加坡看看並在那裏居住
呆了幾天，新加坡的一切都被政府控製了，這讓我感到震驚
你知道你不會隻是在新加坡占地 20 英畝並建造一些東西
實際上，政府將一切都出租給您，並且他們有非常嚴格的法律法規來管理
一切，但他們做得不好的地方是，他們不會讓你在辦公桌上勞累，換句話說，如果
你足夠富有，可以一開始就到達那裏，他們不會從你那裏偷走它，但他們為你提供了一個市場
而從中國的角度來看，這是理想的，沒有人幹擾你，沒有人
困擾你的是你有豐富自己的自由，這對大多數人來說非常重要
中國人記得中國是世界上數百萬人因各種饑荒和問題而死亡的國家
許多世紀以來，他們隻是想不受束縛地生活
政府和企業現在也有一個巨大的腐敗問題，比我們美國嚴重得多
國家了解，前幾天有人告訴我，他們估計僅台灣就有一百個黑幫
與日本、韓國和中國有聯係，因此腐敗現象非常嚴重
問題和季可能控製很多事情，但他甚至無法控製中國內部的腐敗，他無法阻止一切
從任何一天搬家我的意思是他的他隻受到規模和範圍的限製
所以重點是不，他們不想與我們發生戰爭，他們不想發生戰爭
他們隻是想與任何人做生意，但新加坡模式確實是台灣人和中國人的模式
現在我們無法想象這一點，所以我們投射我們的觀點，我們的價值觀，我們的
把心態強加到他們身上，結果就是這種完全誤導性的觀點，即中國
全副武裝，迫不及待地想入侵台灣，讓你們的聽眾看看台灣
被認為是入侵 他們的海灘很少 你可以登陸 而且它們很小 你說的是純粹的
島的大部分邊緣都有岩石表麵，很難到達，順便說一句，很難上船
中國人不想破壞台灣的一切，他們想與台灣做生意，他們在那裏那裏都有投資
台灣人在中國大量投資，所以所有這些戰爭業務都需要停止
我認為，如果我們閉嘴，讓開，這個問題會在未來幾年內自行解決，但在亞洲
當然，事情需要時間，我們是即時布丁世界
這太瘋狂了，我們希望立即在亞洲實現一切，可能需要 10 年，也許 20 年
年G說他們正在考慮20 40。或2043或2046與統一
台灣人可能不知道我讀了越來越多有關台灣的文章
因為它越來越多地出現在新聞中，並且有人猜測，經過幾代人的戰爭
為了石油，下一場戰爭將是為了這個數字世界的芯片而戰，而TSM就是台灣半導體
製造業 他們控製著大約 90% 的矽芯片生產，所以你
知道我們看到媒體報道有關中國和台灣的基調正在發生變化，變得更加戲劇化，是嗎？
麥格雷戈上校可能知道我們的情報機構對媒體和政客的影響
美國可能是想嚇唬台灣，而我們正在加劇緊張局勢和溫度，以激勵他們采取行動
他們的芯片技術給了美國，因為我們不想容忍中國最終壟斷這一技術
行業好幾點首先記住日本和韓國
同樣依賴於台灣生產的微電路
如果你從純粹的經濟角度來看台灣
台灣和韓國在很大程度上都是日本經濟的延伸
現在日本和中國之間已經冰釋前嫌了，我們一直假設
另一個日本人會在某個地方加入我們並幫助我們對抗中國人，這一切都是不可能的
中國向日本開放市場的事實，也是中國向日本開放市場的主要原因之一
過去幾百年中日之間的衝突是中國人不願意開放
除非日本人向中國皇帝進貢，否則他們的市場
好吧，日本人說不，我們不向任何人致敬，亞洲其他地方都有很多戰爭
本質上是支付了進入中國市場的費用，哎呀，非常明智地
說一切都結束了，因為這一直是亞洲戰爭和衝突的根源
數百年過去了，所以現在日本人對他們的產品非常感興趣
與韓國人一起進入台灣，我們來到這裏，自從
20 世紀 80 年代，我的意思是，在裏根總統的領導下，這種向海外輸送就業機會和產業的業務開始了，但從來沒有人
指出它從 80 年代開始，到 90 年代才真正進入高速發展階段
在克林頓的領導下，記得克林頓說過，就業機會並沒有很好地恢複，隻是沒有恢複我們沒有恢複的東西
做德國人、日本人或其他人所做的事情，並說等一下，我們不會允許 X 數量的
製造商 X 工廠數量 X 數量或者我們生產基地的出海數量
特朗普總統非常努力，在台灣問題上與該公司達成協議
生產這些微芯片，他想在亞利桑那州建立一個工廠
你知道他說我們會給你任何你知道的稅收優惠我們希望有一個
在美國的製造工廠，我們希望在他離開後盡快雇用美國勞動力
辦公室那件事消失了，突然間人們說我們必須發動戰爭才能獲得勝利
能夠很好地獲得微芯片，這太瘋狂了，台灣的每個人都會很高興
把你的微電路賣給你，你不必通過戰爭來得到它，我的一個朋友曾經說過，道格為什麽
美國人是否認為他們必須將坦克停在油井頂部才能獲得石油
阿拉伯人會把它賣給你薩達姆·侯賽因，無論你是否喜歡他，都會把你所有的石油都賣給你
所以最重要的是我們必須擺脫這種 19 世紀的思維模式
我們不是在遊戲中遊戲不是軍事遊戲這不是我擁有的X比
你這樣做，我可以摧毀你等等，這不是討論的一部分，不是戰略的一部分
就東北亞和西方而言，這就是兩個
世界科學工業實力和理解的主要民意調查
我們之間不應該發生戰爭，現在沒有必要，但這並不意味著我們不會發生
其他地方有問題，但重點是沒有必要為微電路而戰，我想我聽說過這個
德克薩斯州的眾議員麥考爾再次發表類似的愚蠢言論，有這樣的潛在假設：
如果你做了我們不喜歡的事情，你一定是敵人，很多人都會做我們不做的事情
不喜歡我們做很多別人不喜歡的事情並不會讓我們成為敵人，其他人不喜歡並不會讓我們成為敵人，說得好，嗯，所以
讓我們來談談這一切的發展方向 千禧一代作為下一代正在掌權，他們正在尋找問題的答案
影響我們的問題，尤其是經濟問題，這就是為什麽像我這樣的人轉向類似的事情
比特幣 那麽您對於美國應該如何應對年輕一代有什麽建議
美國和美國軍隊未來的理想角色是什麽？我們是否可以接受多極化
就千禧一代而言，我希望正確的千禧一代最終能夠進入世界
指控是因為從常春藤盟校和服務學院出來的千禧一代都被洗腦了
全球化主義的世界秩序胡說八道，我們必須退出這個行業，你必須這樣做
明白我們並不是在給世界強加秩序，世界總是有些無序
並將繼續保持某種程度的無序狀態，這並不全是壞事，我們是世界的參與者，但我們不控製它，也不
我們是否希望這是一場破產的活動，所有嚐試過霸權的人都失敗了，最終都以失敗告終
破產了，所以我們無論如何都不想這樣做 其次，我們需要看看
從國防的角度來看，我們需要擺脫幹預別國的事務
因為美國有一個特定的遊說團體，並且美國有很多外國遊說團體
與國防工業有聯係的國家因想要出售而對衝突感興趣
他們的產品，我們必須控製這件事，我們需要縮減規模
我們在國防方麵的投資，但我們需要更加謹慎和自信地投資，你知道我們有 44 名四星將軍
今天在現役時，當我說將軍或海軍上將時 44。我們可能有 1.1
現在正值第二次世界大戰最激烈的時期，當時我們有 1200 萬軍人
製服我們有七四家商店哇這張照片現在有什麽問題
你們的千禧一代一定在商學院學到了一些關於呃管理費用和稅收的東西
支付巨大且不必要的開銷美國國防的開銷是殘酷的
令人憤慨的是，我們年複一年地忙著掏空軍隊
那些實際部署和戰鬥的人，保留所有將軍，並在每次出現問題時再次添加他們
國防部遇到的幹預機會說好，你需要更多的海軍上將更多的將軍來進行幹預
這太瘋狂了，我們必須控製那件事，然後我們必須真正專注於我們需要什麽，而不是
我們真正想要什麽，換句話說，總是有一個願望清單，然後有一個需求清單
我們必須回到我們需要什麽 你真的認為我們需要 10 000
核彈頭 5 000 枚 核彈頭 夠了 兩千夠了 我曾經有過一個法國人
將軍告訴我道格拉斯一枚彈頭就足夠了換句話說任何人都認為
你要用一顆彈頭對付他們，把他們嚇得活生生的，順便說一句，這是合適的
因為核武器可怕地毀滅了地球上的生命，沒有人願意去那裏，因為華盛頓特區是一個金錢
機器以及任何站出來說出這些話的人，順便說一句，特朗普總統也說過其中一些話
它威脅到資金流動，我們必須阻止它
我們負擔不起，我們已經享受了赤字的特權，沒有流淚，我們已經
我們的領導人隻考慮下一個選舉周期，其中一些人無法考慮超過 10 個周期
因為他們已經 80 多歲了，而且像我這樣的人，我們沒有 10 年時間獎，我們正在尋找 40 50
所以我的意思是你認為幾十年後這個國家會是什麽樣子
取決於美國在國家層麵的首要任務
防禦首先是關閉邊境
阻止數百萬人湧入，坦率地說，對我們來說，這不是房間的問題，每個人都會說，我們已經
有很多空間，我們無法使用它們，我們無法吸收它們，收獲並善用它們
目的和用途，這是第一件事，第二件事是我們必須恢複法治
在美國境內，任何來自海外的人都會告訴您他們喜歡在美國做生意
因為他們不必向全世界範圍內的每個人行賄
但法治在我們國家太多地方已經崩潰，你知道，所以這兩件事
這必須立即發生 法治也意味著很多這樣的人
非法來到這裏的人將不得不離開，這並不意味著他們不能合法回來，但我們該去哪裏
把它們放在哪裏，如果我們正進入一個匱乏時期而不是巨大的豐富時期
我們很高興引進數百萬人是非常危險的，我們很高興引進數以百萬計的被你視為外國人的人是非常危險的
因為這樣外國人就會被視為搶走了你的工作並吸收了你的人
好處你明白我在說什麽嗎這是一個非常危險的情況我們沒有考慮過任何
這些事情是因為我們沒有看到我們即將乘坐的痛苦列車
我們看到的是有趣的火車，派對火車開上派對，剩下很多煤炭，最後機車將
保持良好運轉，機車正在慢慢停下來
它可能不會讓時間變得更長，你該怎麽辦然後你就必須開始把人們從火車上扔下來
是的，我們利用了我們作為全球儲備貨幣的地位，我們出口了大部分通脹
我知道我們的時間已經不多了，但我確實想問你們，特朗普總統曾公開表示，如果他
在任期間，他可以在 24 小時內結束烏克蘭戰爭，你知道他會如何做到這一點嗎？我的意思是，什麽是
在這一點上，讓我們擺脫這種情況的最佳情況是我認為總統要做的第一件事
特朗普會做的是，他會向普京總統發送信息並告訴他
我們準備無條件地與他或他的代表舉行會談
我們總是從拜登和澤倫斯基那裏聽到什麽，以及所有俄羅斯人都必須聽到的
在我們與任何人交談之前離開烏克蘭所有俄羅斯人都必須撤離克裏米亞我的意思是這就像說告訴
以色列人，你們必須全部舉行自殺儀式，才能讓數以百萬計的阿拉伯穆斯林感到高興，這是很多
胡說八道，所以這行不通，所以必須在沒有先決條件的情況下進行談判
擺在桌麵上的第一第二中立將接受烏克蘭的中立
我們不需要烏克蘭和北約 北約太大了，因為它是一個巨大的難以控製的國家
怪物，順便說一句，北約 30 年前就應該歐洲化了，為什麽我們呢
仍然支付運費並支付所有不必要的費用，所以這是兩件事
我認為特朗普總統屆時會說絕對中立不存在先決條件
棘手的問題是你在哪裏劃定界限以及你向俄羅斯人提供什麽樣的保證
我們將來不會再回來做我們從 2014 年到 2023 年或 2022 年所做的事情，那就是
現在建立烏克蘭軍事機構當然所有這一切都是假設的
如果特朗普總統進來，普京會認真對待他，我想他可能會記住
普京總統也看著我們說，好吧，你知道特朗普總統上次的本意是好的
他從來不是俄羅斯人民的敵人，他不是中國人民的敵人，他不是任何人民的敵人
但這並不重要，因為在他的政府中任職的人都致力於
對俄羅斯、中國和其他地方的敵意，所以這是一個大問題
他說他必須有一個全新的團隊，然後你仍然要麵對這種貪婪的國會和貪婪的參議院
眾議院想要錢錢錢錢錢他們已經沉迷於經濟的金融化
他們想要交易費，就像華爾街銀行裏的男孩一樣，他們想要得到交易費
嗯，現在在華盛頓特區也是如此，我經常說理想
總統可能會是英格蘭的保護者奧利弗·克倫威爾，因為他結束了很多這樣的事情
腐敗，這是他在英格蘭麵臨的最大問題，是統治精英的腐敗，所以
沒有簡單的答案，但我認為這就是特朗普總統的想法，我知道他對此非常認真
好吧，在我們擁有可以買到的最好的政府資金之前你已經說過了，你知道我認為普京絕對是
如果我們不朝著談判的方向前進，我們準備讓這場戰爭繼續下去，但我想結束的是，我知道
你是一位父親，你有豐富的經驗，你見證了這個國家在過去的變化
幾十年了，我隻是想知道你知道你是否希望情況會變得更好
我們怎樣才能從這次談話中得到一些呼籲
采取行動並做一些事情，今天的觀眾和聽眾如何才能做一些讓我們感動的事情
在正確的方向上，我認為從短期來看，你能做的最重要的事情就是要求政府承擔責任
現在坐在華盛頓的人們我清楚地記得當呃總統
被大量全球主義新保守派包圍的奧巴馬被說服
製定在敘利亞使用的打擊方案，這將擴大打擊範圍
伊拉克和敘利亞正在發生的災難以及當人們聽說此事時
數十萬個電話和信息開始湧入
當他登上講台時，他說我不會這樣做，然後轉身走下舞台
這樣你就可以對這些人產生影響，但是，但你產生影響的唯一方法就是用損失來威脅他們
他們的辦公室，不幸的是這並不總是容易做到，但你可以做到
非常清楚，中國現在不應該把戰爭擺在桌麵上，或者
俄羅斯，我們作為一個大國今天的主要焦點應該是結束
烏克蘭戰爭正如特朗普總統所說，停止假裝
俄羅斯人很邪惡，他們不是像我們一樣的普通人
合法的安全利益 對於中國來說也是如此，每個人都忘記了台灣是不沉的
侵略中國並殺害數百萬中國人的日本帝國武裝部隊的航空母艦，我們可能會這樣做
把它放在一邊並輕蔑地對待它，我們不應該這樣做
理解其他人有合法利益，你必須要求你投票支持的人有合法利益，但是
記住你在競爭是因為你沒有付給他們他們的薪水很低他們很忙
他們的口袋裏裝滿了所有遊說者和幕後其他聲音敦促他們這樣做的現金
有人說的愚蠢之事贏得選舉的不是選民而是捐助者
這就是悲劇，這是我們想要改變的事情，這就是為什麽我對分離的想法非常熱衷
如果可能的話，請國家提供資金，麥格雷戈上校非常感謝你
在更多常識和理性存在的時代，你是理性的聲音
真的很需要所以非常感謝你花時間感謝你有我。
謝謝

Douglas Macgregor : Hegemon will fail

Douglas Macgregor Watch 3,764 times on June 25, 2023

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nO_m9qzXYlk&t=245s&ab_channel=

hi everyone welcome back to the show we have a very special treat today I am joined by Colonel Douglas McGregor he is
a decorated veteran the author of five groundbreaking books on Military transformation he holds a PhD in
international relations and he is a highly respected expert on defense and foreign policy he was also the senior
advisor to the Secretary of Defense in the Trump Administration so Colonel McGregor thank you so much for joining
me sure well you have been remarkably accurate with your analysis and predictions especially covering Ukraine
and you have said that the war will likely end with Russia controlling all of eastern Ukraine if not all of Ukraine
and we're starting to see a more accurate picture emerge in the media about what's really happening so can you
kind of summarize what you believe will happen next in Ukraine and why it's important to ordinary Americans yeah
well I think it is very important to Americans to know the truth and the truth has been very unpopular for quite
a while don't want to cover too much history but this war has been brewing for well over a decade some people would
argue for at least 20 25 years because of the unwillingness in the west to look at the reality that the way the
map is drawn of Ukraine it is inaccurate frankly there there are ukrainians true
ukrainians but they did not live in Crimea has never been part of Ukraine
and most of the area that we call the donbos the donets Basin is really Russian and the people that live there
are Russian and the easy way is to go back and look at the Electoral Maps showing how people voted over the last
uh you know previous elections you see that the East is overwhelmingly voting in favor of the pro-russian candidate in
the west which is on the other side of the NEPA river is usually voting overwhelmingly for the anti-russian
candidate whoever that happens to be so there was always a need to address this and
I had argued for a plebiscite other people argued for it I also always felt very strongly that it was in Ukraine's
interest to be a neutral state that it could be much like Austria and like Austria could profit enormously
from its neutrality and this this of course was sabotaged by first the Bush
Administration then subsequently uh Obama and I think that Trump was subverted by
his own Secretary of State and Secretary of Defense and his his entire National Security team who all wanted to press
ahead with this expansion of NATO and incorporate Ukraine so I think president Trump was left sort
of standing there without anybody supporting him and then found himself out of office and it wasn't long thereafter that Putin gave up because he
said there's no one I can talk to there's no one who will negotiate with me I've left no choice because what we
did after 2014 was build this enormous uh Ukrainian military power and it was
designed to attack Russia frankly from Eastern Ukraine ukrainians said they wanted to get back Crimea we said fine
and they wanted to punish the Russians living in the luhanskin Donetsk for being Russians and
not converging to become 100 Ukrainian speaking Ukrainian and so forth so on so
bottom line is you get this war and from the very beginning I think Putin made some miscalculations
he thought that if he demonstrated how serious he was in his country was about the growing threat to Russia and Eastern
Ukraine that we would pay attention to him well we did but we decided to double
down on the threat that we were creating and his great fear was that in addition to this Ukrainian Army that of course
theater ballistic missiles would show up that would put his entire nuclear deterrent as well as all his major
cities at risk so he he marched in and initially it was a a very cautious approach designed to
do as little damage as possible kill as few people as possible and it took really almost until the
summer to figure out there's nobody out there nobody's going to talk to us nobody's going to negotiate we're stuck
we're gonna have to change our entire approach and so we go into this uh Long
Haul uh approach which is uh basically a
30-month plan for a 30-month ward that's what he adopted in the summer you've had this massive Russian military
buildup to the point now where we have what Biden and his supporters said he didn't want which is this large and
Powerful Russian military power sitting on NATO's eastern border in other words he went in theoretically
to protect NATO and he got the opposite and NATO is rapidly falling apart and we
see from these leaked documents that have come out the tremendous disunity inside the NATO alliance and then and
for your purposes I'm sure your listeners know that one of the Fatal mistakes that we made was to assume that
Russia was this economically weak backward power I think someone put it was it McCain who said Russia's a gas
station with nuclear weapons that's right they discovered they could not be more wrong so Russia has an abundance of
resources and energy of course which makes it the perfect partner for China that needs all of that to continue to
sustain its economic expansion and we've ended up on the on the wrong side in the sense that we're suffering
economically our European allies are suffering very very acutely from from this war and from all these
self-defeating sanctions well I was actually going to go there next in Ukraine we seem to have made Financial
sanctions the centerpiece of our military strategy weaponizing the dollar and economic sanctions were a useful
weapon you know decades ago but the world has evolved to really neutralize them so what implications do Western
Financial sanctions failing so visibly have in the geopolitical sphere here well keep in mind that for many many
decades we've used our Command of the uh World Bank and other Financial Centers
because effectively the dollar dominates everything we not only pass on our debt to others
by compelling everybody else to use the dollar but the the institutions Global institutions use the dollar because it's
convenient and what we've done is we've effectively bullied so many people for so long
that many are now saying well Russia's got a point China's got a point why should we do business constantly in the
dollar now this doesn't mean that the the so-called Reserve currency is going to go to go away instantly
but I think it's in serious trouble so this de-dollarization is very serious
at this point we shouldn't underestimate it but I think we brought it on ourselves if you constantly beat people
over the head with as you say this weapon this financial weapon eventually they come back and say we've had it I
mean people are living in Honduras or Costa Rica or southeast Asia and Thailand have been told if you want our
assistance our support then grow these cops crops imagine that being told what
crops you will grow and and so forth it's gotten really out of hand the sanctions are just another manifestation
of this and frankly all the sanctions that we've imposed on Russia turned out to be undercut anyway so the oil and the
gas along with rare Earths and every other conceivable mineral and foodstuffs all those things are seeping out one way
or the other it's it's kind of you know if you pass a law in the United
States and it's a fundamentally flawed Law whatever it happens to be it's a law
that everyone opposes and people really don't want to obey It ultimately what happens it's meaningless because over
time the police decide not to enforce it because they can't well that's largely what's happened to us in our financial
dominance on the planet well you know something I've talked about many times on this show is that every fiat currency
has failed so some lasted months a century but all have failed and we de-pegged from gold in the 1970s we
continue to print these paper promises we spend more than we take in we're net consumers whereas all these countries
that we have tensions with are net producers so where does the Dollar go from here you said it it won't be the
reserve it won't lose that status very quickly but you know did these sanctions accelerate losing that status
[Music] you know I I really wish that I could
drag my son into this discussion he's a brilliant financial analyst and he's someone I pay attention to and I've
listened to him for years which is why I'm heavily invested in digital currency
because uh he's pointed out that we're we're really on a path to one of two
destinations right now one destination of course is well the FED will just print money and that's the
widespread assumption they'll continue to print and print and print what's to stop us well there are a lot of things
that can stop you from printing more money not the least of which is something called hyperinflation
we've been down that road before we could turn to Weimar to the Weimar Republic in the interwar period there
talk about Argentina we go any number of different places and find it so that's
one destination the other destination is that at some point no one's buying your treasuries
and when nobody's buying your treasuries and you can no longer buy them all up and even worse other countries begin to
dump your treasuries China Japan Saudi Arabia and so forth
you have to restructure your debt it's called defaulting
now people say oh we've never defaulted well that's a lot of nonsense and 32 and 34 we did we called it restructuring our
debt now restructuring the debt is very painful as you know and as my son points
out to me all the time credit's going to dry up and you're going to have to live without credit for some period of time
it's going to be hell on Earth for people that are accustomed to essentially Relentless Financial expansion but the
other problem we face that no one ever discusses is this financialization of our economy
that's right what do we build what do we produce well we produce a lot of military equipment and Technology but
there's a problem with that it's not much return on investment which is why anybody with any sense like President
Eisenhower was always trying to keep defense expenditures to what he
considered to be the acceptable minimum in other words you want to maintain the security of your country he wasn't
interested in being the policeman of the world obviously and he didn't like all of these alliances but he set them up in
a way that made them unambiguously defensive and when for instance Austria wanted to become neutral he welcomed it
in fact Eisenhower said we should try to neutralize more countries in Europe because we simply can't defend them all
well his wise words and wise counsel have been largely abandoned so now then
here's the last problem in addition to having sort of built the Empire that we can't afford much like
the British did and then run ourselves into bankruptcy where do you put your store of wealth how do you preserve it
and I think digital currency is one of those options and in fact it may be I I should make these kinds of
predictions but of course John Kenneth's gold race who once said that economic forecasting exists to make astrologers
look professional uh so I feel like I can make an economic forecast since I think culbreath was
right I have a feeling that digital currency over time May well replace most of the fiat currency
do you think that Bitcoin could serve as a global Reserve currency I don't know I mean you're I'm in over
my head and everyone out there will say well you didn't go to the Wharton School that's true now my grandfather went to
the warden school at the University of Pennsylvania both of my grandfathers went to Penn but it doesn't help me uh I
I I I didn't I'm not a business school graduate although I have lots of people telling
me not to worry about it but that's never you know that's another issue but the
bottom line is I I don't know but I think digital currency that cannot be controlled and
manipulated through a central banking system is something that's very very appealing
to people now beyond that I don't know I wish I had I wish I could make more profound predictions for you but I can't
but I think that's real I mean isn't everyone sick of the banking systems manipulation of wealth
and power how many to have for how many years have we gone through this and then somebody says well when the Fed was established
in the United States uh in the intervening years we're down to ten percent the dollars at 10 of what it was
worth in what 1911. it's incomprehensible so
I think there's a desire for something else there's no question about it and I think digital currency has a bright future
beyond that I can't say too much right I definitely agree that we need a parallel system I think a lot of the the policy
makers use Bitcoin as in invisibility cloak they make it look like the threat when actually they don't want to admit
that their own policies are what got us here um and if we lose the dollars Reserve status you know we won't be able to
sustain these trillion dollar deficits part of which go to fund the military right so things will need to change the
military budget will have to come down to something reasonable for the size of our economy I know that right now from
sources within the military they're still basing budgets on two percent CPI and not accounting for the increase in
inflation entitlements will be affected so how do you see this really playing out well there are three things that
your your viewers need to understand first of all money into defense does not
necessarily produce capability on the other end just spending money doesn't equal
capability we spend far too much for what we get in most cases in some cases we spend a
great deal and we do get a good return on investment I I think that's particularly true in surveillance intelligence reconnaissance platforms
and capabilities but many other areas we simply don't so that's the first problem second
problem is that you know your current military establishment remains tragically a brilliant tribute to the
Second World War we're still building surface fleets around the aircraft carrier battle
groups we're still Fielding large ponderous Army divisions that are too
heavy to move too heavy to lift but even worse the world doesn't fight that way anymore and that's one of the things that we
have to pay attention to what's been happening in Ukraine because it fundamentally changes the way you look at things
that's that's a huge problem and then you've got the the threat inflation industry
you you want to keep this monstrous military establishment running and you
keep insisting it's vitally necessary because if anything isn't spent for 10 cents less or 10 billion less
you're at risk of being conquered and overrun and destroyed by whom well we go
back to Russia Russia presents no substantial threat to US unless of
course we decide to attack Russia they have an enormous nuclear arsenal we have an enormous nuclear arsenal we can kill
each other and most of the people on the planet several times over we don't want to use nuclear weapons I
see no evidence that Mr Putin does that so that that's kind of a dumb way to look at it secondly
we continue to see Russia through the Cold War lens everyone keeps acting as though it's the Soviet Union it's not
Russia is a very different country today China you know people are Communist
Party of China is doing this and this is the Communist Party of China the Communist Party of China is a joke the
Communist Party of China is just an elite organization a a cabal of people
across the country that run the government and try to control 1.4 billion people which is pretty damn
difficult to do they're not Communists I haven't seen very many Communists in Northeast Asia whenever I've been over
there to visit the Chinese are money grubbing people let's face it they're they are absolutely committed to profit
at all costs so I don't see much evidence for cat for communism I see a lot of evidence for capitalism
but I don't see evidence for Chinese armies massing on anybody's border to
invade anybody and when they look at their Naval power remember a third of all the ships that they have floating
around in the South China Sea or Coast Guard vessels so all right what are we really dealing
with are we really genuinely facing existential threats from China
and Russia and I think the president last night said it very well he said no he said our problems are here at home
and they are so you have this group of people in Washington who seem to be ready to do
anything to sustain these massive outlays in spending not just defense but also in entitlements as you know and we
continue to pretend as though the Social Security System Medicare Medicaid pension plans all these things are are
solid they're not we know they're not we pretend that the banks are solvent and
not illiquid they're not I mean these River back I think it was December or
November last year all of these uh what was it stress tests were run on banks
there was like oh well we're in pretty good shape that wasn't true We are continuing to mislead ourselves
in order to sustain this tremendous spending well when does it stop well I think what
was it Ben Stein who said things go on until they can't when did the British leave India when
their debt to GDP ratio is 240 percent in other words I'm afraid that the the
so-called ruling Elites in Washington DC are just going to drive us into the ground
and I hope that before then if I have to choose between hyperinflation and
default in terms of restructuring the debt I'd rather go with the restructuring as opposed to hybrid
inflation but they're all going to be painful and no one wants to tell the American people the truth
just as these documents have come out and told us we're losing in Ukraine the ukrainians are not going to win Ukraine
is being destroyed we have the same problem at home our financial system is being destroyed by
us well let's talk a little bit more about China first of all what do you make of the meeting between President XI
xinping and president Emmanuel macron of France and what does that mean for geopolitics given everything you've just
covered well when you see President XI stop thinking about communism forget that and
think of him as the Contemporary emperor of China China is an Empire unto itself much as
we are on the North American continent frankly but China is an imperial State not with
goals and objectives to conquer the world because they've got 1.4 billion people they've got enough you know as a
Japanese Commander after a couple of years in China in the 1930s turned to the emperor and said you know the
problem in China is there's nothing in it but Chinese in other words what are we doing here this is crazy and the
Japanese were trying to get out the point is that ji looks at macron and
sees macron as a potential trading partner remember China's focus is to the the
restoration of this thing called The Silk Road and you had several sort of lines of
communication that run across the map they all run through Central Asia some run down south through what we used to
call Persia Iran or into turkey and in the Middle East but most of them really are from Northeast Asia from Shanghai to
Beijing all the way to Rochford in France on the Atlantic coast
now why is this so important it's important because we have the most powerful submarine
Fleet in the world we may have a shrinking surface Fleet but surface fleets don't fight battles and win Wars
the way they did 100 100 200 years ago today everything is a function of the
submarine at Sea its ability to essentially neutralize you put you out of business nothing comes in nothing
goes out of a port if we decide to put a submarine out there at Sea and you have the overhead surveillance which is
connected to everything on the ground and connected to all sorts of platforms so this is readily available as a tool
for us if we decided to shut down Chinese ports we could do it
China knows that and has known that for a very long time they went through this with the Royal Navy
back in the 1840s and and even earlier so one of the Chinese concluded well we
need to bypass the maritime we're out to the extent that we can and they're very dependent on it they will be for many
years to come through the Strait of Malacca up into the South China Sea Food energy through that straight up into
China but if you build this network across Central Asia that reaches to
Europe that's a game changer because Russia has all the energy in the world that you
could possibly need so if you're suddenly cut off you've got it Russia has most of the food that you're going
to need to eat as well along with Ukraine you look at that entire area it's it's a food production Center on a
scale that very few people in the west appreciate there's a reason you know we used to call it Ukraine the Bread Basket
of Europe so the bottom line is this is a very important development
this one build one road project and the Europeans of course want to trade with China well why wouldn't they I mean
China's the biggest Market in the world or one of the biggest this this is inevitable and we're sitting there
trying to stop it are we nuts the answer is yes of course
but we've also missed our opportunity because we have an advantage over the Chinese when the Chinese want to move
across Central Asia they've got to go through multiple countries multiple States where people speak multiple
languages have different laws and customs and as you move through each state everybody has their hand out and
says please uh it's money please because you're going to go through this we have missed the opportunity to build
something right across North America from the Atlantic coast to the Pacific
coast we could outpace China or anybody else in Asia anytime we wanted to if we had
fast sea lift in the Pacific fast sea lift in the Atlantic and Speedy trains
right across North America and what what else it's secure one
language one law one people one nation faster cheaper better what have we done
nothing it looks like instead we're just moving in that same direction of more intimidation raising tensions you've
said in interviews before that China doesn't want war with us and that our leaders in Washington do not understand
the priorities of leaders like she their cultures their people so what do you
think should happen next versus what do you think will happen and what's really at stake here with China well what we
should let's talk about what we should understand about both Taiwan and China because they both have the same
aspirations the same goals frankly Chinese everywhere want to live in a
society in a state in a world that looks like Singapore
now what's interesting about Singapore well most Americans would go to Singapore and look around and live there
for a couple of days and be horrified everything in Singapore is really controlled by the government
you know you're not going to just show up in Singapore by 20 acres and build something
effectively the government leases everything to you and they have very strict laws and regulations governing
everything but what do they not do well they don't tax you to desk per se in other words if
you're wealthy enough to get there to begin with they're not going to steal it from you but they provide you with a Marketplace
whereas from the Chinese vantage point which is ideal no one interferes with you no one
bothers you you have the freedom to enrich yourself and that's very important to most
Chinese remember China is a part of the world where people have died by the millions from all sorts of famines and problems
over many many centuries they just want to live unencumbered by
the government and do business now they also have a huge problem with corruption much greater than we in the United
States understand someone told me the other day they estimated on Taiwan alone there are probably a hundred gangsters
with connections to Japan Korea and China so the corruption is a huge
problem and ji May control many things but he can't even control the corruption inside China he can't stop everything
from moving on any given day I mean his he's limited just by the size and scope
of the country so the point is no they don't they don't want war with us they don't want war
with anybody they just want to do business but the Singapore model is really what both Taiwanese and Chinese
want now we can't conceive of that so we project our views our values our
mentality onto them and the outcome is this utterly misleading view that China
is armed to the teeth and can't wait to invade Taiwan for your listeners out there look Taiwan
is held to invade they have very few beaches where you can land and they're very small you're talking about sheer
rock face around most of the Island's edges it's very difficult to reach difficult to get on board and by the way
the Chinese don't want to destroy what's on Taiwan they want to do business with it they have Investments there and there
the Taiwanese are heavily invested in China so all of this war business just needs to stop
and I think if we shut up and get out of the way this will sort itself out over the next several years but in Asia of
course things take time we we're the insta instant pudding World
which is insane we want everything immediately in Asia it may be 10 years maybe 20
years G said that they were looking at 20 40. or 2043 or 2046 has reunification with
the people on Taiwan probably haven't you know I've been reading more and more about Taiwan
because it is increasingly in the news and there are some out there speculating that after generations of fighting Wars
over oil the next Wars are going to be fought over chips in this digital world and TSM that's the Taiwan semiconductor
manufacturing they control about 90 of production of silicon chips and so you
know we're seeing the tone of media reports changing about China and Taiwan it's becoming more dramatic so is it
possible Colonel McGregor knowing the influence of our intelligence agencies over the media and over politicians that
the US is maybe trying to scare Taiwan and we are raising the tension and the temperature to incentivize them to move
their chip technology to the us because we don't want to tolerate China eventually having a monopoly over that
industry well a couple of points first of all remember Japan and South Korea
are equally dependent upon that micro circuitry being produced in Taiwan
and if you look look at Taiwan from a purely economic standpoint
Taiwan and South Korea are both largely extensions in economic terms of Japan
now the hatchet has been buried between Japan and China we keep assuming that
somewhere another Japanese will jump on board with us and help us fight the Chinese nothing could be further from
the truth the Chinese have opened their markets to Japan and one of the principal reasons for
conflict over the last several hundred years between Japan and China was the unwillingness of the Chinese to open
their markets unless the Japanese paid tribute to the Chinese emperor
well the Japanese said no we don't pay tribute to anybody and you've got lots of Wars everybody else in Asia
essentially paid a fee to get into the Chinese market well gee very wisely has
said that's over because that's been the source of war and conflict in Asia for
hundreds of years so now you've got the Japanese that are keenly interested in their
access to Taiwan along with the South Koreans and here we come along and how long have we stood around since the
1980s I mean this business of shipping jobs and industries overseas began under President Reagan nobody ever
points that out it took it got started in the 80s and it really went in high gear during the 90s
under Clinton remember Clinton saying well the jobs aren't coming back well it's just not coming back what we didn't
do what the Germans did or the Japanese or others and say wait a minute we're not going to allow X number of
Manufacturers X number of factories X number or whatever in our production base to go overseas
president Trump tried very hard and came to an agreement with the firm on Taiwan
that produces these microchips and he wanted to build a facility in Arizona
and that you know he said we'll we'll give you whatever you know breaks are required tax wise we want to have a
manufacturing facility here in the United States we want to employ U.S labor well as soon as he was out of
office where did that go away and all of a sudden now people are saying we have to go to war to gain
access to microchips well that's insane everybody in Taiwan is going to be happy
to sell you your micro circuitry you don't have to go to war to get it it's a friend of mine once said Doug why
do Americans think they have to park a tank on top of the Oil Well to get at the oil
the Arabs will sell it to you Saddam Hussein whether you like him or not would have sold you all the oil you
wanted so the bottom line is we got to get out of this 19th century mindset
we we're not in the game the game is not military it's not I have more of X than
you do and I can destroy you and so forth that is it's not part of the discussion it's not in the Strategic
calculus as far as Northeast Asia and the West are concerned those are the two
major polls of scientific industrial power and understanding in the world
should be no war between us it's unnecessary now that doesn't mean we won't have
problems elsewhere but the point is there's no need to go to war for micro circuitry I think I heard this
representative McCall in Texas make some sort of stupid remark like that again there's this underlying supposition that
if you do something we don't like you must be the enemy lots of people do things they don't we
don't like we do lots of things other people don't like doesn't make us enemies right that's well said uh so
let's talk a little bit about where it's all going Millennials are coming into power as sort of this next Generation that's searching for answers to the
problems that are impacting us especially economically it's why people like me have turned to things like
Bitcoin so what advice do you have for younger Generations on how the US should
position itself what is the ideal role for the US and the U.S military going forward and can we accept a multi-polar
world well as far as Millennials are concerned I I hope the right Millennials end up in
charge because the Millennials coming out of the Ivy Leagues and the service academies are all brainwashed into this
globalist World Order nonsense we've got to get out of that business you have to
understand that we we are not imposing order on the world the world is always somewhat disorderly
and will remain somewhat disorderland that's not all bad we are a participant in the world but we don't control it nor
do we want to it's a bankrupting exercise everybody who's tried hegemony has failed and ultimately ended up
ruined in bankruptcy so we don't want to do that anyway secondly understand that we need to look
at defense from the standpoint of Defense we need to get out of this business of intervening in other people's countries
because of a particular Lobby in the United States and there are many many lobbies foreign lobbies in the United
States that are also connected to defense industries that have an interest in conflict because they want to sell
their products we've got to get control of this thing and we need to scale back
our investments in defense but we need to invest more prudently and confidently you know we have 44 four-star generals
on active duty today when I say generals or admirals 44. and we have perhaps 1.1
million people in uniform now at the height of the second world war when we had 12 million men in
uniform we had seven four stores wow what's wrong with this picture now
your Millennials out there must have learned something in business school about uh overhead and the tax that you
pay for a monstrous and unnecessary overhead the overhead in American National Defense is atrocious it's
outrageous we have been busily hollowing out the military from year to year to year the
people who actually deploy and fight and keeping all of the generals and adding to them again every time there's an
opportunity for an intervention the the defense department comes across said well you need more Admirals more generals to run the intervention
it's crazy so that we got to get control of that thing and then we have to really focus on what do we need as opposed to
what do we really what do we want in other words there's always a wish list then there's a need list
we got to get back to what do we need did you really think we need 10 000
nuclear warheads are 5 000 nuclear warheads enough are two thousand enough I once had a French
General tell me Douglas one Warhead is enough in other words anybody who thinks
you're going to use one Warhead against them scares the living hell out of them and and by the way that's appropriate
because nuclear weapons are terrible ruin life on Earth nobody wants to go there because Washington DC is a money
machine and anyone who steps forward and says these things and by the way president Trump has said some of these things too
it threatens the money flow we've got to stop it
we can't afford it right we've enjoyed the privilege of that deficit without tears right we've
been able to print print our leaders only think as far as the next election cycle some of them can't think past 10
years because they're in their 80s and people like me we don't have a 10-year time prize and we're looking out 40 50
years so I mean what do you think this country looks like several decades from now
depends the the top priority for the United States in terms of National
Defense first and foremost close the border
stop the influx of millions of people for whom frankly we it's not a question of Room everybody will say well we've
got lots of space we can't employ them we can't absorb them and reap and put them to good
purpose and use so that's the first thing second thing is we've got to restore the rule of law
inside the United States anyone who comes from overseas tells you they love to do business in the United States
because they don't have to pay the bribes to everyone in sight that is usually required around the world
but the rule of law has broken down in too much of our country you know so those are the two things
that have to happen right away the rule of law also means a lot of these people
who come here illegally are going to have to leave that doesn't mean they can't come back legally but where do we
put them where do we house them and if we're headed into a period of scarcity as opposed to the enormous abundance
that we've enjoyed it's very dangerous to bring in millions of people that you look at and regard as foreigners
because then the Foreigner is seen as somebody taking your job absorbing your
benefits do you understand what I'm saying it's a very dangerous situation we haven't been thinking about any of
these things because we don't see the Pain Train that we're about to ride all
we've seen is the Fun Train the party train get on party away there's plenty of coal left the end the locomotive will
keep running well the locomotive is grinding slowly to a halt
it may not make it much longer what do you do then you have to start throwing people off the train
right we've taken advantage of our our position as Global Reserve currency we've exported much of our inflation I
know we're starting to run out of time but I did want to ask you president Trump has said publicly that if he were
in office he could end the Ukraine war in 24 hours do you have any insight on how he would do that I mean what's the
best case scenario for extracting us from this situation at this point well the first thing that I think president
Trump would do is that he would send a message to President Putin and tell him
that we are prepared to hold talks with him or his Representatives without preconditions
what have we always heard from Biden and from zelenski well all Russians have to
leave Ukraine before we'll talk to anybody all Russians must evacuate Crimea I mean it's like saying telling
the Israelis you must all commit ritual suicide to make you know millions of Muslim Arabs happy that's a lot of
nonsense right so that's not going to work so it has to be talks with without preconditions
that's number one number two neutrality is on the table will will accept neutrality for Ukraine
we don't need Ukraine and NATO NATO is too big as it is it's a huge unwielding
monster and by the way NATO should have been europeanized 30 years ago why are we
still there paying the freight and paying for everything it's unnecessary so those are two things right away that
I think president Trump would say no preconditions neutrality absolutely then
the tough questions are where do you draw the lines and what kinds of assurances do you give the Russians that
we will not come back in the future and do what we did from 2014 until 2023 or 2022 and that is
build up the Ukrainian military establishment now all of this assumes of course
that if president Trump got in there that Putin would take him seriously I I think he probably would but remember
President Putin has also looked at us and said well you know president Trump meant well the last time president Trump
was never an enemy of the Russian people he's not an enemy of the Chinese people he's not an enemy of any people
but it didn't matter did it because the people that held appointments in his administration were committed to
hostility toward Russia China and elsewhere so that's a huge problem who's
he put in he's got to have a completely new team and then you're still dealing with this sort of greedy Congress greedy Senate
and House that wants money money money money money they they've become addicted to the financialization of the economy
they want the transaction fees just like the boys in the banks on Wall Street they want to get their transaction fees
well that's the same thing true now in Washington D.C I often say the ideal
president would probably be Oliver Cromwell the Lord protector of England because he put an end to a lot of that
corruption and that was the biggest problem he faced in England it's the corruption of the ruling Elites so
there's no easy answer but I think that's what's on President Trump's mind and I know he's very serious about it
well you've said it before we have the best government money can buy and you know I think Putin is definitely
prepared to keep this war going if we don't move in the direction of talks but where I want to end it is I know that
you're a father you have so much experience and you've seen this country change over the last
several decades and I was just wondering you know do you have hope that it will get better
and and how can we take from this conversation something that is a call to
action and do something how can the viewers and the listeners um do something today that will move us
in the right direction I think in the short run the most important thing you can do is demand accountability from the
people who are currently sitting in Washington I remember vividly when uh President
Obama surrounded by large numbers of globalist neocons had been persuaded to
put together strike packages for use in Syria which would have expanded the the
ongoing disaster in Iraq to Syria and when people heard about this
hundreds of thousands millions of phone calls and messages started pouring in so
by the time he got to the podium he said I'm not going to do it turned around and walked off the stage
so you can have an impact on these people but the only way you have an impact is to threaten them with the loss
of their office and that unfortunately is is not always easy to do but you can make it
abundantly clear that war should not be on the table right now for China or
Russia and that our principal Focus as a as a great power today should be to end
the war in Ukraine exactly as president Trump has said and stop pretending that
the Russians are evil they're not they're normal people just as we do with
legitimate security interests same thing's true for China everyone forgets that Taiwan was the unsinkable
aircraft carrier for the Imperial Japanese armed forces that invaded China and killed millions of Chinese we may
brush that aside and treat that with contempt we should not we need to
understand other people have legitimate interests you've got to demand that of the people that you're voting for but
remember you're competing because you're not paying them their salary is modest they're busy
stuffing their pockets full of cash from all the lobbyists and the other voices in the background urging them to do
stupid things somebody said it's not voters who win elections it's donors
that's the tragedy well it's something we want to change that's why I'm very passionate about the idea of separating
money from the state if it's possible Colonel McGregor thank you so so much
you're a voice of reason during times where uh more common sense and reason is
really needed so thank you so much for all your time well thank you for having me [Music]
thank you