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大家好，欢迎回到节目，今天我们有一个非常特别的款待，道格拉斯·麦格雷戈上校也加入了我的行列，他是一位功勋老兵，五本关于军事转型的开创性书籍的作者，他拥有博士学位国际关系方面，他是一位备受尊敬的国防和外交政策专家，他也是特朗普政府国防部长顾问，麦格雷戈上校非常感谢您的加入，我确信你的分析和预测非常准确，尤其是对乌克兰的分析和预测。你曾说过，战争很可能会以俄罗斯控制整个乌克兰东部（如果不是整个乌克兰）而结束。我们开始看到媒体上出现了关于真实情况的更准确的图片，所以你能吗
总结一下您认为乌克兰接下来会发生什么以及为什么它对普通美国人很重要。 是的，嗯，我认为了解真相对美国人来说非常重要，而真相在相当长的一段时间里一直很不受欢迎。
有一段时间不想涵盖太多历史，但这场战争已经酝酿了十多年，有些人会争论了至少 20 25 年，因为西方不愿意正视现实，即，地图是乌克兰绘制的，坦率地说，这是不准确的，那里确实有乌克兰人，但他们不住在克里米亚，从来不是乌克兰的一部分
我们称之为顿博斯的大部分地区（顿涅茨盆地）实际上是俄罗斯人和居住在那里的人
是俄罗斯人，最简单的方法是返回并查看选举地图，显示人们在过去的投票情况
呃，你知道在之前的选举中，你看到东方以压倒性多数投票支持亲俄罗斯候选人
NEPA河对岸的西方通常以压倒性多数投票支持反俄派候选人无论是谁，所以总是需要解决这个问题。我曾主张进行公民投票，其他人也曾主张过，我也一直强烈地感觉到，这是在乌克兰。有兴趣成为一个中立国家，它可以像奥地利一样，并且像奥地利一样可以获得巨大的利润中立性，这当然首先是布什破坏的政府随后呃奥巴马，我认为特朗普被颠覆了
他自己的国务卿和国防部长以及他的整个国家安全团队都想施压。随着北约的扩张和乌克兰的吞并，我认为特朗普总统已经做好了准备。站在那里没有人支持他，然后发现自己下台了，不久之后普京就放弃了，因为他说没有人可以和我交谈 没有人会与我谈判 我别无选择，因为我们，2014年之后，乌克兰建立了这个巨大的军事力量，它是旨在从乌克兰东部坦率地攻击俄罗斯 乌克兰人说他们想夺回克里米亚 我们说好吧。他们想惩罚居住在顿涅茨克卢甘斯克的俄罗斯人，因为他们是俄罗斯人
不会收敛为 100 个讲乌克兰语的乌克兰语等等
底线是你会得到这场战争，我认为普京从一开始就做出了一些误判
他认为，如果他表现出他对自己国家的态度是多么认真，那么他就会意识到俄罗斯和东部地区日益增长的威胁
乌克兰，我们会很好地关注他，我们做到了，但我们决定加倍
他对我们所造成的威胁感到不满，他最担心的是，除了这支乌克兰军队之外，
战区弹道导弹将会出现，这将使他的全部核威慑力量以及所有主要武器
城市处于危险之中，所以他进军，最初这是一种非常谨慎的做法，旨在
造成尽可能少的伤害，杀死尽可能少的人，几乎直到
夏天发现外面没有人没有人会和我们说话没有人会谈判我们被困住了
我们将不得不改变我们的整个方法，所以我们进入这个呃长
拖运呃方法基本上是一个
30个月的计划，为期30个月的监护权，这就是他在夏天采用的计划，你拥有如此庞大的俄罗斯军队
现在我们已经得到了拜登和他的支持者所说的他不想要的这么大而且这么大的东西。
强大的俄罗斯军事力量位于北约东部边境，换句话说，他理论上进入了
为了保护北约，但他得到了相反的结果，北约正在迅速崩溃，而我们
从这些泄露的文件中可以看出北约联盟内部的巨大不团结
为了您的目的，我相信您的听众知道我们犯的致命错误之一是假设
俄罗斯是一个经济上薄弱的落后国家，我想有人说是麦凯恩说俄罗斯是一个天然气国家
拥有核武器的空间站是的，他们发现自己大错特错了，所以俄罗斯拥有大量核武器。

当然，这使其成为需要所有这些才能继续发展的中国的完美合作伙伴
维持经济扩张，但我们最终站在了错误的一边，因为我们正在遭受苦难
在经济上，我们的欧洲盟友正因这场战争和所有这些而遭受非常严重的痛苦
弄巧成拙的制裁很好，我实际上下一步要去乌克兰，我们似乎已经做出了金融
制裁是我们军事战略的核心，将美元武器化，而经济制裁是有用的
几十年前你就知道的武器，但世界已经发展到能够真正中和它们，那么西方会产生什么影响
金融制裁在地缘政治领域如此明显地失败，请记住，对于许多人来说
几十年来我们一直使用世界银行和其他金融中心的指挥权
因为美元实际上主宰了一切，我们不仅将债务转嫁给他人
迫使除了机构之外的所有人都使用美元 全球机构使用美元是因为它
方便，我们所做的是我们有效地欺负了这么多人这么长时间
现在很多人都说得好，俄罗斯说得有道理，中国说得有道理，为什么我们要不断地在这个国家做生意？
美元现在这并不意味着所谓的储备货币会立即消失
但我认为它遇到了严重的麻烦所以这种去美元化是非常严重的
在这一点上我们不应该低估它，但我认为如果你不断地打败别人，我们就会自找麻烦
正如你所说，这个武器这个金融武器最终他们回来说我们已经拥有了它我
意味着居住在洪都拉斯或哥斯达黎加或东南亚和泰国的人们已被告知如果您想要我们的
援助我们的支持然后种植这些警察作物想象一下被告知什么
你将种植的农作物等等，事情已经失控，制裁只是另一种表现
坦率地说，我们对俄罗斯实施的所有制裁最终都被削弱了，因此石油和石油
天然气以及稀土和所有其他可以想象的矿物和食品所有这些东西都以一种方式渗出
或者另一个，如果你在美国通过了一项法律，你就知道了
国家，这是一项根本上有缺陷的法律，无论它是什么，它都是一项法律
每个人都反对，人们真的不想服从 最终发生的事情毫无意义，因为结束了
当警察决定不执行它时，因为他们不能很好，这很大程度上就是我们金融领域发生的事情
地球上的主导地位 你知道我在这个节目中多次谈论过的事情是每种法定货币
已经失败了，所以有些持续了几个月一个世纪，但全部都失败了，我们在 20 世纪 70 年代脱离了黄金，我们
继续印制这些文件，承诺我们的支出超过我们的收入，我们是净消费者，而所有这些国家
我们与净生产国关系紧张，那么美元将走向何方，你说过，这不会是
保留它不会很快失去这种地位，但你知道这些制裁是否加速了失去这种地位
[音乐]你知道我我真的希望我能
把我的儿子拖入这场讨论，他是一位出色的金融分析师，也是我关注的人，我已经
听了他很多年，这就是我大量投资数字货币的原因
因为呃他指出我们确实正走在通往以下两个目标之一的道路上
现在的目的地之一当然是美联储将印钞票，这就是
人们普遍认为他们会继续印刷、印刷、印刷，什么会阻止我们前进，有很多事情
这可以阻止你印更多的钱，其中最重要的是所谓的恶性通货膨胀
在我们转向魏玛，进入两次世界大战期间的魏玛共和国之前，我们已经沿着这条路走下去了
谈论阿根廷，我们去了很多不同的地方并找到了它，所以这就是
一个目的地另一个目的地是在某个时候没有人购买你的国债
当没有人购买你的国债并且你无法再将它们全部购买时，更糟糕的是其他国家开始购买
抛售中国、日本、沙特阿拉伯等国家的国债
你必须重组你的债务，这就是所谓的违约
现在人们说哦，我们从来没有违约，那是很多废话，32 和 34 我们做到了，我们称之为重组我们的
正如你所知，正如我儿子所指出的，现在的债务重组债务是非常痛苦的
我一直在担心信用将会枯竭，你将不得不在一段时间内没有信用地生活
对于那些习惯了本质上无情的金融扩张的人来说，这将是人间地狱，但
我们面临的另一个无人讨论的问题是我们经济的金融化
是的，我们建造什么，我们生产什么，我们生产很多军事装备和技术，但是，问题在于它的投资回报率并不高，这就是为什么像总统这样有理智的人
艾森豪威尔一直试图将国防开支控制在他所控制的范围内。
被认为是可接受的最低限度，换句话说，你想维护国家的安全，但他不是
显然有兴趣成为世界警察，他不喜欢所有这些联盟，但他把它们建立在
这种方式使他们明确处于防御状态，例如当奥地利想要保持中立时，他对此表示欢迎
事实上，艾森豪威尔说我们应该努力压制更多的欧洲国家，因为我们根本无法保卫所有国家
好吧，他的明智之言和明智的建议已基本被放弃，所以现在那么
这是最后一个问题，除了建立我们无力承担的帝国之外
英国人这么做了，然后自己就破产了，你把你的财富储存在哪里，你如何保存它
我认为数字货币是这些选择之一，事实上我可能应该制作这些
预测，当然还有约翰·肯尼思的黄金竞赛，他曾经说过，经济预测的存在是为了让占星家
看起来很专业，呃，所以我觉得我可以做出经济预测，因为我认为 culbreath 是
是的，我有一种感觉，随着时间的推移，数字货币很可能会取代大部分法定货币
你认为比特币可以作为全球储备货币吗我不知道我的意思是你是我已经结束了
我的头脑和那里的每个人都会说好吧，你没有上过沃顿商学院，这是真的，现在我的祖父去了
宾夕法尼亚大学的典狱长学校我的两个祖父都去了宾夕法尼亚大学，但这对我没有帮助呃我
我我我没有，我不是商学院毕业生，尽管很多人告诉我
我不担心，但你永远不知道这是另一个问题，但
底线是我不知道，但我认为数字货币是无法控制的
通过中央银行系统进行操纵是非常有吸引力的
对现在以外的人我不知道我希望我有我希望我能为你做出更深刻的预测但我不能
但我认为这是真的 我的意思是不是每个人都厌倦了银行系统操纵财富
我们已经经历了多少年了，然后有人说好，美联储什么时候成立的
在美国，呃，在接下来的几年里，我们的美元价格下降到原来的百分之十
值多少钱 1911. 这是不可理解的
我认为人们对其他东西有渴望，这是毫无疑问的，而且我认为数字货币有着光明的未来
除此之外，我不能说太多，我绝对同意我们需要一个并行系统，我认为很多政策
制造商将比特币用作隐形斗篷，他们让比特币看起来像是威胁，而实际上他们不想承认
他们自己的政策是我们来到这里的原因，如果我们失去美元储备地位，你知道我们将无法
维持这些数万亿美元的赤字，其中一部分用于资助军事权利，所以事情需要改变
军事预算必须降低到适合我们经济规模的合理水平，我知道现在从
军方内部消息人士称，他们仍然根据 2% 的消费者物价指数 (CPI) 制定预算，而没有考虑到
通货膨胀权利将受到影响，因此您如何看待这是否真正发挥作用？有以下三件事：
你的观众首先需要明白，花钱去防守并不重要
一定要在另一端产生能力 仅仅花钱并不等于
在大多数情况下，我们为所获得的能力付出了太多的代价 在某些情况下，我们花费了
很棒，我们确实获得了很好的投资回报，我认为这在监视情报侦察平台上尤其如此
和能力，但许多其他领域我们根本不知道，所以这是第一个问题
问题是你知道你目前的军事机构仍然悲惨地是对
第二次世界大战我们仍在围绕航母战斗建造水面舰队
我们仍在部署庞大而笨重的陆军师
沉重而无法移动，太重而无法举起，但更糟糕的是，世界不再以这种方式战斗，这是我们要做的事情之一
必须关注乌克兰正在发生的事情，因为它从根本上改变了你看待事物的方式
这是一个大问题，然后你就会面临通货膨胀行业的威胁
你想要维持这个可怕的军事机构的运转而你
坚持认为这是极其必要的，因为如果不花 10 美分或 100 亿美元
你有被征服、蹂躏和摧毁的危险，我们走吧
返回俄罗斯 俄罗斯不会对美国构成实质性威胁，除非
我们当然决定攻击俄罗斯，他们拥有巨大的核武库，我们拥有可以摧毁的巨大核武库
彼此以及地球上的大多数人多次我们不想使用核武器我
没有看到普京先生这样做的证据，所以从第二个角度来看这有点愚蠢
我们继续通过冷战的视角来看待俄罗斯 每个人都表现得好像它不是苏联
今天的俄罗斯是一个非常不同的国家，你知道人们是共产党人
中国共产党就是这么做的，这就是中国共产党，中国共产党就是个笑话
中国共产党只是一个精英组织和一群人
全国各地都在管理政府并试图控制 14 亿人，这真是该死的
很难做到他们不是共产党员我每次去过东北亚都没有见过很多共产党员
去那里拜访的中国人都是贪图钱财的人，让我们面对现实吧，他们绝对致力于盈利
不惜一切代价所以我没有看到太多共产主义的证据 我看到了资本主义的很多证据
但我没有看到中国军队在任何国家边境集结的证据
入侵任何人，当他们看到他们的海军力量时，记住他们拥有的所有船只的三分之一
在南中国海或海岸警卫队船只周围，好吧，我们真正在处理什么
我们真的面临来自中国的生存威胁吗
俄罗斯，我认为总统昨晚说得很好，他说不，他说我们的问题在国内
他们就是这样，华盛顿的这群人似乎已经准备好这样做
任何可以维持这些巨额支出的措施，不仅用于国防支出，还用于福利支出，正如您和我们所知
继续假装社会保障体系医疗保险医疗补助养老金计划所有这些都是
确实，他们不是我们知道他们不是我们假装银行有偿付能力并且
不是缺乏流动性，他们不是，我的意思是这些河流回来了，我认为那是十二月或
去年 11 月，所有这些呃这是什么压力测试都是在银行进行的
有人说，哦，好吧，我们的状态很好，但这不是真的，我们继续误导自己
为了很好地维持这笔巨额支出，什么时候才能停止，我想什么
是本·斯坦因说过事情会一直持续到他们无法做到为止吗？英国人什么时候离开印度的？
他们的债务占GDP的比例是240%换句话说恐怕
华盛顿特区所谓的统治精英只会把我们赶入地下
我希望在那之前如果我必须在恶性通货膨胀和
债务重组方面的违约 我宁愿进行重组，而不是混合
通货膨胀，但它们都会很痛苦，没有人愿意告诉美国人民真相
正如这些文件发布并告诉我们我们正在乌克兰失败一样，乌克兰人不会赢得乌克兰
正在被摧毁，我们在国内也有同样的问题，我们的金融体系正在被摧毁
我们好，首先让我们多谈谈中国，您对习主席之间的会晤有何看法
辛平和法国总统埃马纽埃尔·马克龙，考虑到你刚才所讲的一切，这对地缘政治意味着什么
当你看到习主席不再思考共产主义时，就涵盖得很好，忘记这一点，
把他视为当代中国的皇帝 中国本身就是一个帝国
坦率地说，我们在北美大陆，但中国是一个帝国国家，不与
征服世界的目标和目标，因为他们有 14 亿人，他们有足够多的人，你知道他们是一个国家
20世纪30年代，日本司令在中国呆了几年后转向天皇说，你知道
中国的问题是里面什么都没有，只有中文，换句话说，我们在这里做什么，这太疯狂了
日本人试图弄清楚这一点，即吉看着马克龙，
将马克龙视为潜在的贸易伙伴 请记住，中国的重点是
恢复这个叫做丝绸之路的东西，你有几种线路
跨越地图的通讯 它们都穿过中亚 有些穿过我们过去的地方向南延伸
称波斯、伊朗或土耳其和中东，但他们中的大多数确实是从东北亚从上海到
北京一直到大西洋沿岸的法国罗奇福德
为什么这如此重要 这很重要，因为我们拥有最强大的潜艇
世界上的舰队我们的水面舰队可能正在萎缩，但水面舰队不会打仗并赢得战争
就像 100 100 200 年前他们所做的那样，今天一切都是
海上的潜艇它能够从根本上压制你，让你破产，一无所获
如果我们决定在海上部署一艘潜艇，那么就会离开港口，并且您有空中监视
连接到地面上的所有东西并连接到各种平台，因此，这是一个很容易获得的工具
对我们来说，如果我们决定关闭中国港口，我们可以做到
中国知道这一点，并且很长一段时间以来就知道他们与皇家海军经历过这种情况
早在 1840 年代，甚至更早，一位中国人就得出了很好的结论：
需要绕过海上，我们已经尽力而为，他们非常依赖它，这对许多人来说都是如此
未来几年通过马六甲海峡进入南中国海 食品能源通过那直接进入
但如果你在中亚建立这个网络，
欧洲将改变游戏规则，因为俄罗斯拥有世界上所有的能源
可能需要，所以如果你突然断线，你已经得到了俄罗斯有你要去的大部分食物
想要和乌克兰一起吃饭，你看看整个地区，它是一个食品生产中心
西方很少有人欣赏的规模，你知道我们过去称其为乌克兰“面包篮”是有原因的
欧洲的底线是这是一个非常重要的发展
这是一个修建一条道路的项目，欧洲人当然希望与中国进行良好的贸易，我的意思是他们为什么不呢？
中国是世界上最大的市场，或者说是最大的市场之一，这是不可避免的，我们就坐在那里
试图阻止它是我们疯了吗答案是当然
但我们也错过了机会，因为当中国人想要搬家时，我们比中国人有优势
穿越中亚 他们必须经过多个国家 多个人们说多种语言的国家
语言有不同的法律和习俗，当你穿过每个州时，每个人都会伸出援手，
说拜托呃这是钱拜托因为你将经历这个我们已经错过了建设的机会
从大西洋海岸到太平洋横跨北美的东西
如果我们愿意的话，我们可以随时超越中国或亚洲其他任何国家
太平洋快速海上运输 大西洋快速海上运输和 Speedy 列车
就在整个北美，还有什么是安全的
语言 一种法律 一种民族 一种国家 更快 更便宜 更好 我们做了什么
看起来什么也没有，相反，我们只是朝着同一个方向前进，更多的恐吓加剧了紧张局势。
之前接受采访时说中国不想与我们发生战争，我们华盛顿的领导人不理解
像她这样的领导者的优先事项他们的文化他们的人民那么你会做什么
你认为接下来应该发生什么，你认为会发生什么，以及中国真正面临的利害关系是什么？
我们应该谈谈我们应该了解台湾和中国的什么，因为他们都有相同的地方
愿望相同的目标 坦白说，世界各地的中国人都希望生活在一个
一个看起来像新加坡的世界中的社会
现在新加坡有什么有趣的地方，大多数美国人都会去新加坡看看并在那里居住
呆了几天，新加坡的一切都被政府控制了，这让我感到震惊
你知道你不会只是在新加坡占地 20 英亩并建造一些东西
实际上，政府将一切都出租给您，并且他们有非常严格的法律法规来管理
一切，但他们做得不好的地方是，他们不会让你在办公桌上劳累，换句话说，如果
你足够富有，可以一开始就到达那里，他们不会从你那里偷走它，但他们为你提供了一个市场
而从中国的角度来看，这是理想的，没有人干扰你，没有人
困扰你的是你有丰富自己的自由，这对大多数人来说非常重要
中国人记得中国是世界上数百万人因各种饥荒和问题而死亡的国家
许多世纪以来，他们只是想不受束缚地生活
政府和企业现在也有一个巨大的腐败问题，比我们美国严重得多
国家了解，前几天有人告诉我，他们估计仅台湾就有一百个黑帮
与日本、韩国和中国有联系，因此腐败现象非常严重
问题和季可能控制很多事情，但他甚至无法控制中国内部的腐败，他无法阻止一切
从任何一天搬家我的意思是他的他只受到规模和范围的限制
所以重点是不，他们不想与我们发生战争，他们不想发生战争
他们只是想与任何人做生意，但新加坡模式确实是台湾人和中国人的模式
现在我们无法想象这一点，所以我们投射我们的观点，我们的价值观，我们的
把心态强加到他们身上，结果就是这种完全误导性的观点，即中国
全副武装，迫不及待地想入侵台湾，让你们的听众看看台湾
被认为是入侵 他们的海滩很少 你可以登陆 而且它们很小 你说的是纯粹的
岛的大部分边缘都有岩石表面，很难到达，顺便说一句，很难上船
中国人不想破坏台湾的一切，他们想与台湾做生意，他们在那里那里都有投资
台湾人在中国大量投资，所以所有这些战争业务都需要停止
我认为，如果我们闭嘴，让开，这个问题会在未来几年内自行解决，但在亚洲
当然，事情需要时间，我们是即时布丁世界
这太疯狂了，我们希望立即在亚洲实现一切，可能需要 10 年，也许 20 年
年G说他们正在考虑20 40。或2043或2046与统一
台湾人可能不知道我读了越来越多有关台湾的文章
因为它越来越多地出现在新闻中，并且有人猜测，经过几代人的战争
为了石油，下一场战争将是为了这个数字世界的芯片而战，而TSM就是台湾半导体
制造业 他们控制着大约 90% 的硅芯片生产，所以你
知道我们看到媒体报道有关中国和台湾的基调正在发生变化，变得更加戏剧化，是吗？
麦格雷戈上校可能知道我们的情报机构对媒体和政客的影响
美国可能是想吓唬台湾，而我们正在加剧紧张局势和温度，以激励他们采取行动
他们的芯片技术给了美国，因为我们不想容忍中国最终垄断这一技术
行业好几点首先记住日本和韩国
同样依赖于台湾生产的微电路
如果你从纯粹的经济角度来看台湾
台湾和韩国在很大程度上都是日本经济的延伸
现在日本和中国之间已经冰释前嫌了，我们一直假设
另一个日本人会在某个地方加入我们并帮助我们对抗中国人，这一切都是不可能的
中国向日本开放市场的事实，也是中国向日本开放市场的主要原因之一
过去几百年中日之间的冲突是中国人不愿意开放
除非日本人向中国皇帝进贡，否则他们的市场
好吧，日本人说不，我们不向任何人致敬，亚洲其他地方都有很多战争
本质上是支付了进入中国市场的费用，哎呀，非常明智地
说一切都结束了，因为这一直是亚洲战争和冲突的根源
数百年过去了，所以现在日本人对他们的产品非常感兴趣
与韩国人一起进入台湾，我们来到这里，自从
20 世纪 80 年代，我的意思是，在里根总统的领导下，这种向海外输送就业机会和产业的业务开始了，但从来没有人
指出它从 80 年代开始，到 90 年代才真正进入高速发展阶段
在克林顿的领导下，记得克林顿说过，就业机会并没有很好地恢复，只是没有恢复我们没有恢复的东西
做德国人、日本人或其他人所做的事情，并说等一下，我们不会允许 X 数量的
制造商 X 工厂数量 X 数量或者我们生产基地的出海数量
特朗普总统非常努力，在台湾问题上与该公司达成协议
生产这些微芯片，他想在亚利桑那州建立一个工厂
你知道他说我们会给你任何你知道的税收优惠我们希望有一个
在美国的制造工厂，我们希望在他离开后尽快雇用美国劳动力
办公室那件事消失了，突然间人们说我们必须发动战争才能获得胜利
能够很好地获得微芯片，这太疯狂了，台湾的每个人都会很高兴
把你的微电路卖给你，你不必通过战争来得到它，我的一个朋友曾经说过，道格为什么
美国人是否认为他们必须将坦克停在油井顶部才能获得石油
阿拉伯人会把它卖给你萨达姆·侯赛因，无论你是否喜欢他，都会把你所有的石油都卖给你
所以最重要的是我们必须摆脱这种 19 世纪的思维模式
我们不是在游戏中游戏不是军事游戏这不是我拥有的X比
你这样做，我可以摧毁你等等，这不是讨论的一部分，不是战略的一部分
就东北亚和西方而言，这就是两个
世界科学工业实力和理解的主要民意调查
我们之间不应该发生战争，现在没有必要，但这并不意味着我们不会发生
其他地方有问题，但重点是没有必要为微电路而战，我想我听说过这个
德克萨斯州的众议员麦考尔再次发表类似的愚蠢言论，有这样的潜在假设：
如果你做了我们不喜欢的事情，你一定是敌人，很多人都会做我们不做的事情
不喜欢我们做很多别人不喜欢的事情并不会让我们成为敌人，其他人不喜欢并不会让我们成为敌人，说得好，嗯，所以
让我们来谈谈这一切的发展方向 千禧一代作为下一代正在掌权，他们正在寻找问题的答案
影响我们的问题，尤其是经济问题，这就是为什么像我这样的人转向类似的事情
比特币 那么您对于美国应该如何应对年轻一代有什么建议
美国和美国军队未来的理想角色是什么？我们是否可以接受多极化
就千禧一代而言，我希望正确的千禧一代最终能够进入世界
指控是因为从常春藤盟校和服务学院出来的千禧一代都被洗脑了
全球化主义的世界秩序胡说八道，我们必须退出这个行业，你必须这样做
明白我们并不是在给世界强加秩序，世界总是有些无序
并将继续保持某种程度的无序状态，这并不全是坏事，我们是世界的参与者，但我们不控制它，也不
我们是否希望这是一场破产的活动，所有尝试过霸权的人都失败了，最终都以失败告终
破产了，所以我们无论如何都不想这样做 其次，我们需要看看
从国防的角度来看，我们需要摆脱干预别国的事务
因为美国有一个特定的游说团体，并且美国有很多外国游说团体
与国防工业有联系的国家因想要出售而对冲突感兴趣
他们的产品，我们必须控制这件事，我们需要缩减规模
我们在国防方面的投资，但我们需要更加谨慎和自信地投资，你知道我们有 44 名四星将军
今天在现役时，当我说将军或海军上将时 44。我们可能有 1.1
现在正值第二次世界大战最激烈的时期，当时我们有 1200 万军人
制服我们有七四家商店哇这张照片现在有什么问题
你们的千禧一代一定在商学院学到了一些关于呃管理费用和税收的东西
支付巨大且不必要的开销美国国防的开销是残酷的
令人愤慨的是，我们年复一年地忙着掏空军队
那些实际部署和战斗的人，保留所有将军，并在每次出现问题时再次添加他们
国防部遇到的干预机会说好，你需要更多的海军上将更多的将军来进行干预
这太疯狂了，我们必须控制那件事，然后我们必须真正专注于我们需要什么，而不是
我们真正想要什么，换句话说，总是有一个愿望清单，然后有一个需求清单
我们必须回到我们需要什么 你真的认为我们需要 10 000
核弹头 5 000 枚 核弹头 够了 两千够了 我曾经有过一个法国人
将军告诉我道格拉斯一枚弹头就足够了换句话说任何人都认为
你要用一颗弹头对付他们，把他们吓得活生生的，顺便说一句，这是合适的
因为核武器可怕地毁灭了地球上的生命，没有人愿意去那里，因为华盛顿特区是一个金钱
机器以及任何站出来说出这些话的人，顺便说一句，特朗普总统也说过其中一些话
它威胁到资金流动，我们必须阻止它
我们负担不起，我们已经享受了赤字的特权，没有流泪，我们已经
我们的领导人只考虑下一个选举周期，其中一些人无法考虑超过 10 个周期
因为他们已经 80 多岁了，而且像我这样的人，我们没有 10 年时间奖，我们正在寻找 40 50
所以我的意思是你认为几十年后这个国家会是什么样子
取决于美国在国家层面的首要任务
防御首先是关闭边境
阻止数百万人涌入，坦率地说，对我们来说，这不是房间的问题，每个人都会说，我们已经
有很多空间，我们无法使用它们，我们无法吸收它们，收获并善用它们
目的和用途，这是第一件事，第二件事是我们必须恢复法治
在美国境内，任何来自海外的人都会告诉您他们喜欢在美国做生意
因为他们不必向全世界范围内的每个人行贿
但法治在我们国家太多地方已经崩溃，你知道，所以这两件事
这必须立即发生 法治也意味着很多这样的人
非法来到这里的人将不得不离开，这并不意味着他们不能合法回来，但我们该去哪里
把它们放在哪里，如果我们正进入一个匮乏时期而不是巨大的丰富时期
我们很高兴引进数百万人是非常危险的，我们很高兴引进数以百万计的被你视为外国人的人是非常危险的
因为这样外国人就会被视为抢走了你的工作并吸收了你的人
好处你明白我在说什么吗这是一个非常危险的情况我们没有考虑过任何
这些事情是因为我们没有看到我们即将乘坐的痛苦列车
我们看到的是有趣的火车，派对火车开上派对，剩下很多煤炭，最后机车将
保持良好运转，机车正在慢慢停下来
它可能不会让时间变得更长，你该怎么办然后你就必须开始把人们从火车上扔下来
是的，我们利用了我们作为全球储备货币的地位，我们出口了大部分通胀
我知道我们的时间已经不多了，但我确实想问你们，特朗普总统曾公开表示，如果他
在任期间，他可以在 24 小时内结束乌克兰战争，你知道他会如何做到这一点吗？我的意思是，什么是
在这一点上，让我们摆脱这种情况的最佳情况是我认为总统要做的第一件事
特朗普会做的是，他会向普京总统发送信息并告诉他
我们准备无条件地与他或他的代表举行会谈
我们总是从拜登和泽伦斯基那里听到什么，以及所有俄罗斯人都必须听到的
在我们与任何人交谈之前离开乌克兰所有俄罗斯人都必须撤离克里米亚我的意思是这就像说告诉
以色列人，你们必须全部举行自杀仪式，才能让数以百万计的阿拉伯穆斯林感到高兴，这是很多
胡说八道，所以这行不通，所以必须在没有先决条件的情况下进行谈判
摆在桌面上的第一第二中立将接受乌克兰的中立
我们不需要乌克兰和北约 北约太大了，因为它是一个巨大的难以控制的国家
怪物，顺便说一句，北约 30 年前就应该欧洲化了，为什么我们呢
仍然支付运费并支付所有不必要的费用，所以这是两件事
我认为特朗普总统届时会说绝对中立不存在先决条件
棘手的问题是你在哪里划定界限以及你向俄罗斯人提供什么样的保证
我们将来不会再回来做我们从 2014 年到 2023 年或 2022 年所做的事情，那就是
现在建立乌克兰军事机构当然所有这一切都是假设的
如果特朗普总统进来，普京会认真对待他，我想他可能会记住
普京总统也看着我们说，好吧，你知道特朗普总统上次的本意是好的
他从来不是俄罗斯人民的敌人，他不是中国人民的敌人，他不是任何人民的敌人
但这并不重要，因为在他的政府中任职的人都致力于
对俄罗斯、中国和其他地方的敌意，所以这是一个大问题
他说他必须有一个全新的团队，然后你仍然要面对这种贪婪的国会和贪婪的参议院
众议院想要钱钱钱钱钱他们已经沉迷于经济的金融化
他们想要交易费，就像华尔街银行里的男孩一样，他们想要得到交易费
嗯，现在在华盛顿特区也是如此，我经常说理想
总统可能会是英格兰的保护者奥利弗·克伦威尔，因为他结束了很多这样的事情
腐败，这是他在英格兰面临的最大问题，是统治精英的腐败，所以
没有简单的答案，但我认为这就是特朗普总统的想法，我知道他对此非常认真
好吧，在我们拥有可以买到的最好的政府资金之前你已经说过了，你知道我认为普京绝对是
如果我们不朝着谈判的方向前进，我们准备让这场战争继续下去，但我想结束的是，我知道
你是一位父亲，你有丰富的经验，你见证了这个国家在过去的变化
几十年了，我只是想知道你知道你是否希望情况会变得更好
我们怎样才能从这次谈话中得到一些呼吁
采取行动并做一些事情，今天的观众和听众如何才能做一些让我们感动的事情
在正确的方向上，我认为从短期来看，你能做的最重要的事情就是要求政府承担责任
现在坐在华盛顿的人们我清楚地记得当呃总统
被大量全球主义新保守派包围的奥巴马被说服
制定在叙利亚使用的打击方案，这将扩大打击范围
伊拉克和叙利亚正在发生的灾难以及当人们听说此事时
数十万个电话和信息开始涌入
当他登上讲台时，他说我不会这样做，然后转身走下舞台
这样你就可以对这些人产生影响，但是，但你产生影响的唯一方法就是用损失来威胁他们
他们的办公室，不幸的是这并不总是容易做到，但你可以做到
非常清楚，中国现在不应该把战争摆在桌面上，或者
俄罗斯，我们作为一个大国今天的主要焦点应该是结束
乌克兰战争正如特朗普总统所说，停止假装
俄罗斯人很邪恶，他们不是像我们一样的普通人
合法的安全利益 对于中国来说也是如此，每个人都忘记了台湾是不沉的
侵略中国并杀害数百万中国人的日本帝国武装部队的航空母舰，我们可能会这样做
把它放在一边并轻蔑地对待它，我们不应该这样做
理解其他人有合法利益，你必须要求你投票支持的人有合法利益，但是
记住你在竞争是因为你没有付给他们他们的薪水很低他们很忙
他们的口袋里装满了所有游说者和幕后其他声音敦促他们这样做的现金
有人说的愚蠢之事赢得选举的不是选民而是捐助者
这就是悲剧，这是我们想要改变的事情，这就是为什么我对分离的想法非常热衷
如果可能的话，请国家提供资金，麦格雷戈上校非常感谢你
在更多常识和理性存在的时代，你是理性的声音
真的很需要所以非常感谢你花时间感谢你有我。
谢谢

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