Retired Army Col. Doug Mcgregor joins us to talk about the latest in the ongoing Russia scandal, and why we should all be worried about what the Deep state is up to in Washington, D.C. Doug has a storied career in the Army, and served as a senior advisor to the Secretary of Defense in the Trump administration. He's been a strong voice in exposing the forever war agenda inside Washington, DC, and he'll give you all the explosive details that the Swamp does not want you to know. He's also the author of several books, including The Dark Side Of: The Deep State: A Guide to the Deep State, which is a must-listen for every American who wants to know what's going on inside the Beltway, and what the deep state is really up to! Doug also served as the commander of the last great tank battle in the 20th century, The Battle of 73 Easting, which may have been the greatest in the history of warfare, and has been one of the most influential voices in the anti-war movement in the past 20 years. He'll also give us the inside scoop on the latest report from the Durham report, the Steele dossier, and his thoughts on why the whole Russia scandal is a total FAKE NEWS STORY, and how we need to fight back against it. If you haven't checked out The Deep state, you won't want to miss this! Stay tuned for our next episode of Triggered, where we'll be talking all things Deep state and Deep state! - we'll have a special guest on this week's Deep state conspiracies. - Tom Pizzagate, coming soon! . . . - and much, much, MUCH MUCH MORE! - Tom Tom Connelly is a regular contributor to the Swamp Dweller Podcast! and the Swamp in the Swamp is a place where you don't have to pay attention to everything that s going on in DC, so make sure to check out the Swamp Podcast. and stay tuned for the Swamp Media Report, the Swamp Report, which will have the scoop on all things going on there! , and much more! ! And don't miss it! The Swampy Swampy - click here for more Swampy stuff! And stay tuned to The Swamp - The Swamp is not a place you need to know about the Swamp, folks!
00:00:27.000guys good evening and welcome to another major episode of triggered thank you all
00:00:43.000for tuning in as always means the world to us and frankly to the movement
00:00:48.000because we got to fight back against some of the insanity that we see out
00:00:51.000here on a daily basis tonight we're talking with retired army colonel Doug
00:00:57.000Colonel McGregor has a storied career in the Army.
00:01:01.000The colonel directed the last great tank battle in the 20th century.
00:01:07.000I mean, that's sort of an interesting thing.
00:01:08.000I mean, I want to hear all about that because, I mean...
00:01:10.000Tank battles. I mean, when you think about the history of warfare, some of the most major.
00:01:15.000So to sort of see the change out of that is actually incredible.
00:01:20.000So that was the Battle of 73 Easting during the Gulf War back in 91, I believe.
00:01:26.000But most recently, he served as a senior advisor to the Secretary of Defense in the Trump administration.
00:01:32.000And he's been a strong voice In exposing the forever war agenda inside Washington, D.C. And he'll give you all the explosive details that the swamp does not want you to know.
00:01:45.000I imagine a lot of that has to do with money.
00:01:48.000Some of it probably has to do with stupidity.
00:01:50.000But we're going to talk to Colonel McGregor in a moment.
00:01:53.000But first, we finally have the Durham report, folks.
00:01:58.000And... It's basically just telling us what we've already known for years.
00:02:05.000In my case, what I've known since about 2017 when they started saying that we were colluding with Russia.
00:02:13.000And To break it down, they basically say that the Crossfire Hurricane investigation was a total hoax based on the lies of the Steele dossier and the FBI knew it the whole time.
00:04:12.000There was never any evidence of collusion, and it was always obvious.
00:04:17.000But... They play on the minds of people who don't have the time to get into the details, who don't think about it.
00:04:24.000They whisper in their ear for seven years that, you know, a small percentage of people are like, well, there's gotta be something to it, right?
00:04:31.000We gotta trust the FBI. They're honorable and they're acting in good faith and all of this bullshit that we know isn't true now.
00:04:44.000Average people working hard to put food on their table, trying to live their American dream, listening to five minutes of news in the background every day.
00:04:52.000You know what? Nah, there must be some truth to it.
00:04:56.000The reality is that these people are bad actors.
00:05:00.000They're corrupted, partisan, broken agencies, and we need to start from scratch.
00:05:09.000The Russia hoax was an operation hatched by left-wing political operatives, and it had nothing to do with a serious investigation.
00:05:18.000It never did. It had to do with creating a shadow over Trump, trying to hurt him in the midterms, trying to make his job in D.C. harder, trying to make his mission impossible to fulfill, and yet he still did a lot of it.
00:05:35.000But it would have been a lot more because you would have won over some of the weak Republicans that also were afraid of the backlash associated with all of the stupidity.
00:05:46.000Guys, not everyone sees it the way you guys see it.
00:05:51.000And even those sometimes that perhaps know what's going on and eyes are open, they're We're too afraid to take on the machine.
00:06:00.000And we must become unafraid if we're going to push back against the insanity that's enveloping our country and destroying once noble institutions.
00:06:11.000And meanwhile, there's actual threats facing the country.
00:06:15.000Joe Biden is facilitating the entry of drugs, suspected terrorists, and millions of unknown illegal immigrants in our country.
00:06:26.000Title 42, which was instituted by my father, President Donald Trump, in 2020, allowed for the swift removal of illegal immigrants.
00:08:31.000They'll get released into the country and likely never, ever deported.
00:08:37.000The Washington Examiner is reporting that illegal immigrants released into the United States have received notices to appear in court in 2033.
00:09:17.000That's when they're going to start showing.
00:09:19.000How many of you think are even going to show up?
00:09:22.000By the way, even if they do to court and a judge rules that they should be removed, as long as there's a Democrat in office, they're 100% safe.
00:09:33.000They'll be taking advantage of our healthcare systems.
00:09:36.000They won't be paying for any of those things, but you, you will have the privilege of paying for yourselves, your children, and them and their children.
00:09:46.000There's over 1.2 million illegal immigrants currently in this country that have been ordered to be deported by a judge.
00:09:55.000I thought, I was told, because this is what they said about me and my family for a while, I thought and was told that no one was above the law.
00:10:04.000But that's just what Democrats always tell us, right?
00:10:09.000They said it about me, they don't seem to have a problem with Hunter.
00:10:13.000They'd say about someone who's conservative coming in legally, but not someone who will ultimately vote for Democrat, be dependent on their systems, and help further the radical left agenda.
00:10:27.000Guys, apparently if you're an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, then you are above the law.
00:10:33.000You'll actually get better treatment than Americans who are actually subjected to these laws.
00:10:42.000Well, guys, in the case of New York State, they are going into hotels where they are kicking out homeless veterans out of hotels to make room for illegal immigrants.
00:10:56.000So again, no one's looking for equality here, folks.
00:11:00.000They're looking for much more than that.
00:11:02.000They can come here illegally, they'll get free housing, and they'll displace.
00:11:36.000Biden's prioritizing the care of people who aren't even from this country and have no right whatsoever to be here over the people that fought and bled for it.
00:12:48.000Resources that have not come to us, now you want to overly compensate for people who've never lived here before and they really need to be taken care of first and foremost before anything else happens here.
00:13:05.000Why would any leader put our black communities already riddled with crime at further risk by placing unbedded non-taxpayers steps away from our seniors, our children, and our homes we've worked so hard on our own to secure?
00:15:11.000It doesn't actually have to be anything because it's all bullshit.
00:15:16.000Spoonfed to us by the press secretary and the Biden administration, gleefully carried by big tech and the mainstream media, even if it makes no sense whatsoever.
00:15:26.000But we now have a million gotaways under Biden.
00:17:34.000No, no, no. I think we're all on the same page here, folks, except for the elites in Washington, except for the radical Democrats who are in charge.
00:17:44.000The moderate Democrats, and even those that are probably not so moderate in many respects, they get it and they see it.
00:20:57.000I mean, I guess Biden thinks he's playing to a hometown crowd speaking at a historically
00:21:02.000black college, but like, give me a break, folks.
00:21:05.000Like, I have been all over this country.
00:21:07.000I don't know that I've seen any of these so-called, you know, like, you know, sure, there's a lunatic out there somewhere, and just like there's plenty of lunatics on the left, but, like, the biggest threat to our country, the biggest threat to our homeland...
00:21:21.000I mean, this guy's been smoking a bit of what Hunter's got, okay?
00:21:25.000Give me a break. Biden and the Democrats are undermining our sovereignty.
00:21:30.000What else could explain their actions?
00:21:33.000And by the way, if America was so evil, like we hear from the leftists, if it's so racist, so terrible, Why exactly would millions of, let's say, non-white people journey across our border every year?
00:21:50.000Why would they risk life and limb to come here?
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00:25:49.000And I mean, I think that's reflected in the recruitment numbers.
00:25:52.000You know, it takes a lot of patriotism to sign up for something like the military.
00:25:59.000And it's hard to do that when you're risking your life potentially.
00:26:03.000If you don't believe in the things that are their stated values.
00:26:07.000So when you see some of the woke nonsense that's going on in the military, what do you see yourself?
00:26:11.000Because it's got to be frustrating from someone like yourself, who I know, just staunch America First patriot.
00:26:19.000Well, you know, the American military establishment is in the same boat as your political structure, and I would argue your economy.
00:26:27.000It's afflicted with stage four cancer.
00:26:32.000What I'm saying is that when your dad took office, he spent four years suppressing the cancer.
00:26:40.000Trying to keep it at stage two, because we were already in trouble.
00:26:44.000We've been in trouble for many, many decades.
00:26:46.000That's why President Trump's arrival was a returning faith to tens of millions of Americans, that there was, in fact, hope for the country, a belief in the rule of law, a belief in the republic, belief in our national identity, history and culture.
00:27:02.000Unfortunately, since January of 2020, we've jumped from Stage 2 to Stage 4.
00:27:09.000We're in a lot of trouble. And for the military to get anything right, you'd really have to decapitate it, because most of the people at the top are among the least impressive that I certainly remember in all the years that I served.
00:27:22.000And these people are affected and afflicted, not just with The sort of stage four political cancer of wokeness.
00:27:30.000These are people who frankly will adopt whatever you want them to to get ahead.
00:27:36.000We have a Washington community and a military full of opportunists who don't really believe in much of anything except in whatever gets them promoted, whatever lines their pockets with cash.
00:27:49.000The whole notion of service has largely vanished from the senior ranks.
00:27:54.000We see it, as you point out, at the lowest levels, but we're having trouble keeping good people in uniform.
00:28:00.000They don't want to be there anymore because they're sick of listening to the nonsense, characterizing everybody who ever did anything to build the United States and to protect it as some evildoer that deserves to be erased from the historical record.
00:28:14.000All of this sickens real professional soldiers, sailors, airmen, or Marines.
00:28:21.000That's why I call it now the political equivalent of stage four cancer.
00:28:25.000I mean, that's saying a lot, but yeah, when you see that, when you see Millie, I'd like to learn about white privilege, like, no one's even heard of this shit before he even said that, but he said it in front of Congress.
00:28:37.000Meanwhile, you know, he could maybe learn about, like, winning a war or something like that, or not having the disastrous Afghan withdrawal, but, like, that was his concern as that stuff is going on, and when you say stage four cancer, yeah, it has to be, because there's, again, Let's just say I know nothing about Afghanistan or, you know, military leadership.
00:29:09.000And I feel like they've backfilled all the leadership positions.
00:29:12.000You saw that with the mandates where they're, you know, The highest trained people in the military were the ones that were sort of anti-vax.
00:29:19.000They weren't going to go for it. That's our great fighter pilots, our SEAL team type, you know, and other special operations operators.
00:29:26.000And they're like, no. And they're like, okay, fine.
00:29:29.000Like, they spend millions training them.
00:29:31.000It's like, we'll replace you with like a trans, like, checkmark person.
00:29:35.000And, you know, they may not be able to operate or fly a plane, but like, we'll be really woke and we can...
00:29:40.000Pretend that that's important for our military and that's going to somehow help win a war.
00:29:45.000Well, keep in mind that the vast majority of people who govern your country that sit on Capitol Hill, that are operating in the White House, they have no idea what a real war looks like.
00:29:56.000For the last 30 years, we've been fighting people without armies, without air forces, without navies, essentially large numbers of people running around with AK-47s and bedsheets and planting mines.
00:30:07.000Our military has suffered as a consequence.
00:30:10.000One of the reasons that your dad was very interested in extricating our forces from many of these countries wasn't simply because there was no mission.
00:30:17.000This was an open-ended opportunity to throw money into a large pit.
00:30:22.000But there was nothing there to accomplish in the interests of the American people.
00:30:58.000This is a real military establishment.
00:31:01.000And when you listen to fools like this Admiral Aquilino from Pacific Command talk about our ability to fight a two-front war, That he's not worried about Russia and he's got what he needs to deal with China.
00:31:14.000This is the kind of insanity that we absolutely do not need.
00:31:19.000Your sober-minded father would have fired him.
00:32:05.000Things are not going to get better until we remove the principal metastasizing cancer from Washington, DC. And I'm not just talking about an election for president.
00:32:58.000But Trump really brought it out where they stopped pretending that it wasn't real.
00:33:03.000They were saying the quiet parts out loud.
00:33:05.000But you're handed the keys to the Pentagon tomorrow.
00:33:07.000What do you do? Today, as we speak, we have 44 four-star generals and admirals on active duty in the United States military for a force of a little less than 1.1 million soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines.
00:33:26.000Now, at the height of the Second World War, 1943-44, when we had 12.2 million in uniform, we had only seven four-stars.
00:33:40.000Anyone who has spent more than a few weeks in business and understands how to organize businesses effectively to be profitable looks at the overhead and quickly discerns what he's dealing with.
00:33:52.000We have this enormous bloated overhead.
00:33:55.000Of course the generals hated Donald Trump.
00:33:58.000He was prepared to do something about that.
00:35:14.000People that study their professions, they're out there.
00:35:17.000Most of them are captains, majors, and lieutenant colonels.
00:35:21.000And just as Marshall in 1939 began immediately removing general officers, in fact, the first year that he was Chief of Staff, he retired 54.
00:35:30.000By the time the Second World War ended, every single general officer in the Army had been replaced except one.
00:35:37.000Now we've got to get going, or we're not going to win anything anywhere in the future.
00:35:43.000Look at that withdrawal from Afghanistan.
00:36:01.000This is outrageous. That should never have happened.
00:36:04.000And they picked the wrong airport for the wrong reasons.
00:36:07.000And we have nice photographs of people hanging onto wings, hanging onto wheels, people that have no interest in coming to the United States for any of the right reasons.
00:36:23.000So when you talk about open borders, uncontrolled immigration, or what I call weaponized immigration, it's weaponized because it's being used against the American people, because the government in Washington is literally waging war on the core population.
00:36:38.000You know, those are the people that say, I'm an American, not something else and then an American, not a part-time American, not a conditional American, but an American.
00:36:49.000That's the enemy, and that's what they're going after here at home.
00:36:53.000And when you go overseas and you look at our behavior there, there's no strategy.
00:37:25.000It's fine. I mean, who cares if we get sucked into another 20-year war and billions of dollars and thousands of Americans maimed, butchered for no real end?
00:37:34.000You know, some general's got a board seat.
00:37:36.000He's making, you know, high six figures to do nothing other than peddle more missiles.
00:37:41.000But, you know, you only keep that job if you keep that cycle going forever.
00:37:46.000And the President said, President Trump I'm talking about now, said just a few weeks ago, said, look, we can handle Russia.
00:38:31.000And the American people, yes, they're beginning to figure it out, but we're about to go into a serious economic crisis.
00:38:36.000And once you start talking to people that can't get enough food, who can't afford to buy the food because the prices are so high, you end up the way the Parisian population did in 1789.
00:38:50.000And we're headed in that direction right now.
00:38:52.000It takes real leadership by the president, but he's going to need an army of people to fight with him.
00:38:59.000He's got to be prepared to come into this city, clean it out, and start over.
00:39:04.000He's got to have foot soldiers in every precinct, in every state.
00:39:14.000We've got to have that or there's no chance whatsoever for us.
00:39:18.000So you've been pretty outspoken also about sort of the never-ending, you know, war in Ukraine, which I feel like, you know, again, first it was just a, you know, $130 billion proxy war.
00:39:28.000Now, not surprisingly to anyone who's been watching for the last, you know, seven or eight years, you know, we have boots on the ground there, and they're doing that without congressional approval and without the approval of the American people.
00:39:39.000You know, just another money pit, you know, creating the next class of sort of Ukrainian oligarch.
00:39:45.000But do we even know what, because they haven't been clear to me, what would victory, you know, victory be like in Ukraine?
00:39:52.000I mean, you know, I know they tried sort of sidelining my father with that at the CNN town hall.
00:39:57.000He's like, I'm not thinking about victory one way or the other.
00:40:04.000To be very clear to these people, where there's a binary victory, it's like they're playing Call of Duty, not actually dealing with real lives.
00:40:15.000Trump said we should be doing everything to stop the bloodshed.
00:40:22.000What is the endgame if that's not correct?
00:40:26.000Well, for the globalists that are running the show, this is the globalist neocon elite, both on the Hill as well as in the White House.
00:40:34.000And these elites in Europe, particularly in Paris, Berlin, London, they're all interested in seeing BlackRock take over Ukraine, number one, so that it can be systematically stripped of its resources and turned into a subjugated state that belongs to the larger globalist elites.
00:40:54.000But they also want to see that happen to Russia, which is why this war was never about Ukraine.
00:40:59.000It was always about what can be done to destroy Russia.
00:41:03.000And of course, since the people in charge didn't perform any strategic analysis, they never thought about purpose, method, or end state.
00:41:11.000They concluded that Russia today is still the Russia of 1992.
00:41:58.000President Trump tried to listen, but he was surrounded by people who subverted him, people who were not loyal to the president, who took an oath of obedience to the orders of the president and then ignored them.
00:42:23.000And when the ground dries, and in June, you're going to see a massive Russian offensive, and most of what we call this thing called Ukraine is going to be swept away, especially that government in Kyiv.
00:42:35.000But that government doesn't represent the interests of the Ukrainian people.
00:42:39.000They represent the interests of this globalist elite who are interested in resources and stripping them and using them and exploiting them to make money.
00:42:49.000Yeah, and there are also people that don't seem to have any of America's interests at heart, even if America's the guy funding all of this to the tune of 130.
00:42:57.000And, you know, that'll double and triple, and the Pentagon lost 220—you know, they lost, they misplaced $220 billion in their budget.
00:43:04.000If you lost $6 in your, you know, IRS statement, they'd be auditing you, but they can lose 220.
00:43:09.000So I imagine most of that went to Ukraine.
00:43:12.000It feels like, you know, the biggest threat to America is actually what's happened to the petrodollar.
00:43:18.000When you have Putin now talking with the Saudis and Putin now talking with Xi, and you get rid of the petrodollar, and all of a sudden all that borrowing that we do, where we're living way above our means, that's no longer possible, plausible, or worse.
00:43:34.000And it seems like we've opened the door for that.
00:43:38.000So, you know, I guess that works for the globalists because they're probably the guys coming up with this idea and they don't care about taking and getting rid of American hegemony.
00:43:50.000But again, this is still the Americans pushing this, even though it's literally happening before our eyes and everyone's pretending like this is a non-issue because I guess it's a non-issue.
00:43:59.000If you're in France or the UK or any of the other places, because you get to knock America down a peg.
00:44:05.000But what that does to the American people is disastrous.
00:44:08.000No, I think what you're seeing is this war has become financial as well as military.
00:44:13.000And the globalists understand that they're going to lose this war.
00:44:17.000And what will come of this is that the BRICS, Brazil, Russia, India, China, South Africa, are going to be increased by 81 additional members.
00:44:28.000And all of these people are going to go to a currency that is backed by gold.
00:44:34.000And once they go to that currency backed by gold, whether it is one currency or a basket of currencies, it doesn't make any difference.
00:44:44.000The globalists know that, and it is why they are so desperate right now.
00:44:48.000And the greatest fear that I have Is it when the Russians do attack and it becomes abundantly clear that Ukraine is finished?
00:44:55.000I mean, it's already obvious to anybody who visits the place for any length of time, it's in ruins.
00:45:00.000But once that occurs, I fear that there will be pressure to commit US forces in Poland and Romania, along with Polish forces and potentially Romanian ones, to Western Ukraine.
00:45:13.000And if that occurs, the gloves will come off.
00:46:02.000But no one seems to talk about that the movement of and the talk about moving NATO onto Russia's border when you had this very large buffer zone of the Ukraine was sort of the excuse that they needed.
00:46:15.000I mean, it is as though we were goading him into this to begin with.
00:46:20.000And, you know, what are your thoughts on all of that?
00:46:26.000Putin had made several speeches over the last 20 years, repeatedly saying, please do not advance the border to Russia.
00:46:33.000Do not try to transform Ukraine into a hostile actor, an actor with hostile intentions towards Russia.
00:46:41.000What happens in Ukraine is of existential strategic interest to us.
00:46:46.000Just as Theoretically, what happens in Mexico is of existential strategic interest to us, although this administration has decided to ignore it.
00:46:56.000That's going to come back to haunt us, and if you're looking for future conflict, that's where to look for it, not in Europe and not in Asia.
00:47:02.000But the point is that Putin wasn't pulling any wool over anyone's eyes, and Putin absolutely didn't want a war.
00:47:08.000If you go back and look at the force That he sends into Ukraine earlier in February of 2022.
00:47:19.000He limits his advances to the periphery.
00:47:22.000Because he expected that we would negotiate, that he would demonstrate that this was serious and that Russia wanted its population in eastern Ukraine, which is really Russian, to have equal rights before the law.
00:47:37.000He wanted to end the oppression of the Russians that lived there.
00:47:41.000And he wasn't going to surrender Crimea.
00:47:43.000The reason he went into Crimea is he was afraid it was going to be turned into a US naval base by the Ukrainians at the earliest opportunity.
00:47:50.000He wasn't going to allow that to happen.
00:47:52.000Now, he went along and thought that he might get a negotiated settlement, and he finally figured out after several months, nobody's going to talk to me, especially after Biden said, our goal is regime change.
00:49:03.000So, I mean, yeah, I guess that's interesting.
00:49:05.000I mean, a lot of people probably aren't aware of that, because I think when you look at it sort of on paper, you know, you obviously have the media reports, right?
00:49:11.000Every time, you know, Russia takes a big town, well, it's not really of strategic importance, but every time Ukraine claws back seven inches, In a major military victory.
00:49:23.000So, you know, you see the gamesmanship happening in the media, but I'll say this as an outsider who doesn't know and perhaps, you know, didn't know that, hey, maybe that was the, maybe him coming in was to bring everyone to the table in a negotiating tactic.
00:49:35.000But, you know, you think of it like me with sort of, again, that Cold War mentality of like, you know, the Russian army will steamroll.
00:49:42.000It's like, well, how did they not take over this country in two weeks, let alone, you know, a year and a half now?
00:49:47.000To me, and maybe to the uneducated on the subject, it feels like maybe one of the bigger sort of miscalculations or underperformances of recent military history.
00:50:00.000Is that not the case, or is that also a combination of it?
00:50:03.000Did he misjudge some of it, or is that just because, you know, 130 billion in missiles given to a militia— You know, can still hold back someone who's not going all out or, you know, using tactical nukes or whatever it may be, that next escalation where he could, you know, again, take over the country rather quickly.
00:50:41.000The last thing Putin wanted to do was destroy Ukraine.
00:50:45.000Putin would have been perfectly happy to have Crimea recognized, to gain those equal rights for Russians inside eastern Ukraine, and to declare the place neutral.
00:50:56.000Because the neutral Ukraine would have provided exactly what you're discussing, not only a buffer for NATO and the West, a buffer for him, for Russia.
00:51:05.000He wasn't interested in any of the things that he's been accused of.
00:51:10.000That's what Professor Mearsheimer has said.
00:51:12.000Anyone who understands Russia knows what's happened over there since 1992 gets it.
00:51:19.000Your dad, President Trump, could have intervened in February or March and put an end to this quickly, and I'm confident that he would have.
00:51:27.000We would have convened talks without preconditions, we'd have come to some sort of new territorial arrangement, and I think we would have had a neutral Ukraine, which was in everyone's interest, and no war.
00:51:44.000This government in Moscow, it's not just President Putin, his entire population is enraged.
00:51:49.000They don't trust anyone in the West, especially since Chancellor Merkel and now President Macron have both admitted that the so-called Minsk Accords, which were supposed to address these issues, were a facade.
00:53:12.000We need to get out of this before we're dragged into something.
00:53:15.000And the notion that we could take on the Chinese, a nation of 1.4 billion people, what do you plan to do with your military power against that?
00:53:25.000What makes you think anything we would do would influence them?
00:53:28.000And as President Trump pointed out, that's an economic competition, one that he could handle.
00:53:34.000Unfortunately, we're not even in the competition anymore.
00:53:38.000We've surrendered. Well, the Navy has a drag queen influencer that's going to help the recruitment problem right now, Colonel, so I'm sure things will be just fine.
00:54:30.000Well, remember I and most of the people of my generation, our formative experience was service in NATO, in Europe.
00:54:37.000And when NATO went away, most of us stood around in 1992, 93, 94 and said, well, NATO has to go in one of two directions.
00:54:47.000Either it becomes Europeanized, in other words, Europeans take responsibility for themselves, we can still be a partner, or we just leave because there's no mission for us in Europe anymore.
00:54:58.000By the way, I had plenty of experience with Russian Organizations and units after the fall of the wall, and I can tell you they were absolutely not our enemies.
00:55:08.000In fact, they did great work for us, particularly before we went into Afghanistan.
00:55:13.000But if I go back to the 1970s and I look at the ruins in which the military was found at that point, and then look through the 1980s where we rebuilt and we improved our position dramatically, it took very little time after 1991 for that military to be dismantled and ultimately to be ruined.
00:55:31.000And we got more and more and more generals and more and more headquarters and fewer and fewer soldiers.
00:55:37.000We lost 163,000 experienced combat soldiers in 1991 and 1992.
00:55:45.000And we kept every general officer we had on active duty and added some.
00:55:50.000This is the problem. This rot has been underway for a long time.
00:55:54.000And we've lost the discipline, the cohesion, the esprit de corps.
00:55:59.000I would say Special Operations Forces was an area where there was a holdout.
00:56:04.000And of course, the administration hates Special Operations because they claim it's another hotbed of white supremacy.
00:56:11.000So they're now talking about trying to do away with as much of it as they can.
00:56:15.000Everything is white supremacy or climate change, just so we're clear.
00:56:18.000I mean, at least in the minds of the left, any problem can either stem from white supremacy or climate change or both.
00:56:27.000So, you know, yes. So my argument is in 1991, we were a very healthy organization, but we were also disappointed, many of us, because we thought that we had gone over there to fight a war and win it.
00:56:40.000We discovered after a very short period of time, hostilities were ended.
00:56:44.000And then the big lie was perpetrated that, well, we really didn't set out to remove Saddam Hussein.
00:56:52.000We just wanted them out of Kuwait, which is not true because we then began trying at every opportunity to kill Saddam Hussein wherever he went.
00:57:00.000We bombed the place into the Stone Age.
00:57:02.000So the bottom line is we stood around and said, well, wait a minute, we could go to Baghdad with 5,000 men And pick up Saddam Hussein and that bunch and put another group of Iraqi generals in charge and let the UN handle it.
00:57:14.000The last thing we needed to do was occupy anything.
00:57:17.000And of course, when we went back in 2003, originally that was the plan.
00:57:23.000But again, the same people that pushed nation building in Somalia, nation building in the Balkans, suddenly we were going to build a nation in Iraq.
00:57:35.000If we had picked up Saddam Hussein and simply said, thanks very much, we're out of here, you and I and a lot of other people wouldn't even talk about the place today.
00:57:45.000But we stayed and tried to govern it with our military.
00:57:49.000What a catastrophe. The last thing you want to do is occupy anything.
00:57:53.000Now we're trying to fight a proxy war for all the wrong reasons, and we're killing the Ukrainian nation.
00:58:00.000They're down to perhaps 14 to 18 million now from an original population back in January of 2022 of about 34 million.
00:59:18.000And these people in Washington have no answers.
00:59:21.000And that's why prices rise, services fall apart, the armed forces are in ruins, our borders are open, and there is no rule of law.
00:59:31.000We are being destroyed by this regime in Washington.
00:59:36.000Are there moments in your service that stand out to you?
00:59:40.000You know, what inspired you to join the Army in the first place?
00:59:43.000And, you know, did you see, you know, in a sort of longer and storied career, I mean, you led the last tank battle.
00:59:49.000We've got to get to that one, too. But the last sort of great tank battle.
00:59:52.000Because, listen, I think from a military history standpoint, that's sort of fascinating when you talk about the evolution of warfare and how that doesn't exist.
01:00:00.000But what did you see in those changes?
01:00:02.000What moments... You know, sort of stood out to you.
01:00:05.000Any sort of interesting stories where you're saying, wait a second, this isn't what I got in for.
01:00:11.000This isn't what our military was like when I signed up initially.
01:00:17.000Well, in 1958, when I was five years old, my mother took me to West Point.
01:00:23.000And that was it. I decided that's where I wanted to go and that's what I wanted to be.
01:00:29.000And in the 1950s, as you can imagine, I grew up in a household where people like Douglas MacArthur, Charles de Gaulle, Winston Churchill were heroic figures that I was brought up to admire and respect.
01:00:44.000And that led me down this path of interest in the military.
01:00:48.000And it never changed, to be perfectly frank with you.
01:00:50.000The only other interest I ever had was classical music, and my grandmother was a concert pianist, so I enjoyed playing the piano, but it wasn't something I was going to do for the rest of my life.
01:01:01.000Then I went to Germany as an exchange student from 69 to 70, and I lived with a family whose father was a professional soldier, a German officer in the Second World War, and at the end of the war had been...
01:02:35.000We had too many officers and a lot of them are mediocre.
01:02:38.000And one of the things that I learned from the German that I lived with for a year was one good officer is much better than four or five mediocrities.
01:03:15.000We were part of the 2nd Armored Cavalry Regimental Battle Group of about 7,000 or 8,000.
01:03:20.000And we were the lead element in the 7th Corps.
01:03:23.000And to be frank with you, there was no plan for us to collide with and fight the enemy.
01:03:28.000In fact, they were trying very hard to position us in such a way that we did not make contact directly.
01:03:34.000They were going to try and destroy as much of the enemy with indirect fires as they could.
01:03:39.000The problem was, we ended up in a sandstorm.
01:03:42.000And we drove headlong into the enemy, but the soldiers were brilliantly trained, great captains, great noncommissioned officers.
01:03:50.000We went into the attack, and within about 30 minutes, destroyed most of what was the rear guard for the Republican Guard Corps, about 25 to 2,800 men, 30 or 40 tanks, 100 other armored fighting vehicles and artillery.
01:04:48.000We ended up fighting for another two and a half hours because once we broke through the Republican Guard's rear guard, we started having large numbers, hundreds of tanks and armored fighting vehicles, thousands of troops retreating north.
01:05:04.000Only since we were out in front by about two miles ahead of everybody else, they started slamming into us.
01:05:12.000And so we ended up doing a lot of damage until these people were either surrendering or disappeared.
01:05:19.000So it was an extremely successful battle, and like many successful actions, it was an accident.
01:05:24.000One that I'm very proud that I was part of, simply because of the enormous professionalism, bravery, and courage of these soldiers Sergeants, lieutenants, captains, and warrants that were there with me on the ground.
01:05:36.000Meaning, I cannot begin to tell you what spectacular soldiers they really were.
01:05:42.000If I could have, I'd have given every man in the unit a silver star.
01:05:49.000That's amazing. A lot of history right there.
01:05:51.000It's sort of, I guess, the culmination of a lot of history.
01:05:53.000And I guess you haven't really heard much about tanks since then, except for, I guess, now that we're back to Ukraine, where there seems to be a resurgence, and they're sending American tanks, maybe it's surplus, or perhaps some of the stuff that's more obsolete over there.
01:06:11.000But you're watching these things. A tank goes in, and a missile takes it out from five miles away, and it's It seems like it's a very different game with the advent of a lot of technology.
01:06:18.000I don't know that I'd want to be in a tank right now.
01:06:20.000It's a very secure place when someone's got a rifle, not so much when they have Hellfire missiles.
01:06:26.000Well, actually, when you're walking around on the ground with a weapon, everything can kill you.
01:06:34.000So you're better off in an armored fighting vehicle in 90% of the cases.
01:06:38.000The problem is that if you go out there without effective air and missile defense, You're done.
01:06:44.000You've got to be able to counter the enemy's air and missiles.
01:06:48.000We have lots of systems, but our army has neglected this for decades, simply because since World War II and even during the Second World War, we didn't need much air defense.
01:06:58.000Remember that when we fought the Germans in Western Europe, their air force was largely stripped away or defending cities against bombing attacks.
01:07:06.000So we were usually dealing with, you know, one or two airplanes, and we had 5,000 over us protecting us.
01:07:22.000What you cannot shoot down are hypersonic missiles.
01:07:26.000But hypersonic missiles are not meant for troops in the field.
01:07:29.000They're meant for headquarters, command and control, bunkers, ships at sea, large capital ships, aircraft carriers, this sort of thing.
01:07:37.000But we have to rethink how we organize.
01:07:41.000And it's a question of, do you need tanks?
01:07:44.000Of course you do. How many do you need versus other things?
01:07:46.000And what kind of air and missile defense do you have with you?
01:07:50.000The Ukrainians are in a lot of trouble right now because the Russians have spent months annihilating all of the air defenses that they have.
01:07:57.000Because the Russians learned from the Second World War, once the air defense is gone, You can operate as you wish and annihilate everything.
01:08:05.000And that's where the Russians are headed now.
01:08:07.000Ukrainians have almost no air defense left.
01:08:09.000And we, by the way, have almost nothing we can afford to ship them unless we're willing to operate without any air defense ourselves.
01:08:19.000We've given it all up. All the artillery, ammunition, missiles, and so forth.
01:08:22.000It'll take years. To replenish the arsenals in the United States and elsewhere across Europe.
01:08:29.000Again, another reason why it makes a lot of sense not to go to war.
01:08:33.000We just don't have the ammunition, the missiles, the rockets.
01:08:38.000We don't even have the right structure and organization for it.
01:08:41.000So back to your first point, you got to get rid of those 44 four stars.
01:08:46.000Then you need a new structure where you take it down to about 10 four-stars and you simplify your structure.
01:08:51.000We've got too many headquarters with too many focuses and too many interests.
01:08:56.000And in the meantime, you take 30,000 or 40,000 U.S. combat troops and you put them on the Mexican border immediately and stop it.
01:09:06.000You had mentioned hypersonic missiles, and I couldn't help but remember around the time that we have the botched Afghan withdrawal and Milley is saying he wants to learn about white rage, China was in the process of literally, I guess, testing nuclear-capable hypersonic missiles.
01:09:25.000You know, talk about that, the threat of China, the growing concern about Taiwan, and what an invasion by China could look like.
01:09:35.000I mean, I think based on the incompetence that we're displaying on a national stage, you know, there was probably always a timeline that China was going to do this.
01:09:42.000But it feels like whatever that timeline is, it is...
01:10:33.000China embraced a no-first-use doctrine decades ago.
01:10:38.000Now, as far as their arsenal is concerned, you're right.
01:10:41.000Over the last 10 years, it's been rather modest.
01:10:44.000They've only maintained what they thought they needed, which was, by our standards, maybe a few hundred warheads to protect themselves against a nuclear attack.
01:10:59.000But the Chinese have been far more afraid of us And afraid of our attacks than anything else.
01:11:06.000And there's no interest in China in conquering Taiwan.
01:11:09.000The timeline for reunification, according to Xi, who is the current emperor of China, we need to stop thinking about communism and now start thinking about the Chinese as an imperial state as it once was for thousands of years, because that's what it is.
01:11:25.000Xi has said 2044, 2045, 2046 was the target date.
01:11:31.000And the thing that we don't understand in this country is that Taiwan and China are very similar in the sense that both peoples in both places want the same thing.
01:11:42.000They all want to live in a society that looks a lot like Singapore.
01:11:48.000None of them are interested in liberal democracy.
01:11:51.000They're all interested in prosperity, making money, having the freedom to make money, having the freedom on a personal level to live as they have lived for hundreds and thousands of years.
01:12:02.000They're not interested in a society like ours.
01:12:06.000In fact, the Chinese look at our society and can't even begin to imagine how we live in it.
01:12:12.000Because if you think the kind of criminality we tolerate would be tolerated in those countries, you're very much mistaken.
01:12:20.000The Chinese military is really largely defensive at its orientation.
01:12:25.000There are no Chinese armies massing to prepare to march into Southeast Asia.
01:12:30.000In fact, they met with the Vietnamese and the Vietnamese and the Chinese have reassured each other there will be no war between them.
01:12:38.000And we have been trying to goad the Vietnamese into a relationship with us, thinking that somehow or another we can leverage them against the Chinese.
01:12:46.000You have a similar phenomenon on the Korean Peninsula.
01:12:49.000South Koreans aren't interested in going to war with China.
01:12:52.000China is their biggest trading partner.
01:13:07.000One of the reasons the Japanese and the Chinese fought with each other is that the Chinese emperors always insisted that you pay tribute to China.
01:13:14.000It was kind of a tax that allowed you access to the market, but you had to pay tribute.
01:13:20.000Japanese don't pay tribute to anybody.
01:13:55.000Submarines, unmanned submersibles, space-based intelligence reconnaissance surveillance platforms, those are the things that dominate warfare.
01:14:05.000Large surface fleets are a thing of the past.
01:14:08.000Which I think is part of the reason the Navy is so anxious to paint China as this great enemy on the scale of Imperial Japan.
01:14:16.000But we're not going to fight that way in the future.
01:14:18.000And China is not interested in a war with us.
01:14:23.000Does that mean Chinese are friends of ours?
01:14:27.000Of course not. I mean, we're the ones with the open borders.
01:14:31.000Why is the fentanyl coming into the United States?
01:15:25.000Because you're right, we're waging a different war.
01:15:28.000We could build a thousand aircraft carriers next week, and it doesn't really mean anything given where war is going and what people can have as countermeasures to them.
01:15:38.000What are some of those lessons that we can learn from those battles, again, if it's still applicable?
01:15:43.000Well, I wrote the opening chapter for Americans because it's all about something called the British Expeditionary Force in 1914.
01:15:51.000The British rather haphazardly stumbled into World War I, suddenly saying that the survival and victory of the French was vital to their interest after having fought the French for 800 years.
01:17:14.000We should never have fought in that war.
01:17:16.000We should never have been in World War I. That's what most people thought at the time, and they were right.
01:17:22.000We didn't want to become involved in these continental wars that absorb millions and millions of casualties.
01:17:29.000Thomas Jefferson wanted us to join the French in the French Revolution.
01:17:34.000And Washington said, I like Tom, he's a nice man, but I think he's a little crazy.
01:17:38.000If we did that, then we'd have the Austrians, Prussians, Russians, British, everybody landing on the North American continent to destroy the United States.
01:17:47.000The point is, we are not designed as a republic, as a people, to fight large wars on the Eurasian continent.
01:17:56.000We don't usually field millions of men in armies.
01:18:02.000We don't want to do it. Again, the President, President Trump I'm talking about, understood this instinctively.
01:18:09.000Americans don't want to fight in these wars.
01:18:12.000So now we have forces in Europe, we have forces in Asia, then they're positioned right on the edge of these conflict zones.
01:18:20.000And today, all of them could be erased in the space of minutes by precision guided missiles.
01:18:27.000Because everything is detectable from above.
01:18:30.000So there is no value to putting a large force 6,000 miles away from the United States on the border of a potential opponent.
01:18:38.000All you're doing is offering them up for destruction.
01:18:41.000That was the key lesson to take out of World War I and the British Expeditionary Force.
01:18:46.000We're not going to build forces of millions who are going to fight.
01:18:50.000We don't do that. So we have to limit our interventionist impulse.
01:18:55.000We have to limit what we do to places where our interests are clearly and narrowly focused, and where if we do engage, we benefit strategically.
01:19:05.000That, again, was President Trump's message.
01:19:08.000That's why he told the Europeans, you've got to become your own first responders.
01:19:14.000Stop waiting for us to show up and rescue you.
01:19:17.000But he concluded, I think, very rightly, that until we get out of Europe completely or mostly, no one over there is going to spend the money to defend themselves.
01:19:30.000Speaking of debacles, what should Biden have done to complete Trump's order to get out of Afghanistan?
01:19:37.000I think no one wanted to be in the never-ending wars.
01:19:40.000It feels like until Ukraine sort of became the new religion of the left, I think the one thing that the American populace actually agreed on is that we didn't want to be in the never-ending wars.
01:19:52.000So what should Biden have done to get out of Afghanistan without creating the disaster?
01:19:58.000You know, because I think there's a way to do it.
01:20:00.000I think there's probably a fairly clear way to do it.
01:22:19.000The money is then laundered through the Pentagon and back into the defense industries to pay for replacements.
01:22:25.000In turn, you get donations on the Hill rewarding everybody for supporting this fiasco.
01:22:31.000So the amount of money that actually shows up on the ground is minuscule.
01:22:35.000And what does show up there pays for the Ukrainian government, just as we paid for the Iraqi government and the Afghan government and the South Vietnamese government.
01:22:58.000When you look at some of the other presidential candidates out there, besides my father, do any of them actually seem prepared to you to take on the major crises facing the U.S. on a world stage right now?
01:23:20.000Listen, it's always risky putting that out there.
01:23:23.000You never know. But I hear what you've been saying, and I'm like, I'm looking at the other, you know, some of the stuff going on there right now.
01:23:28.000I see the people who flip-flop because of their donors in two seconds.
01:23:33.000I'm saying, you know what? Let's send this one out there.
01:23:37.000Well, when you look at somebody like DeSantis, and I'm sure Governor DeSantis is a terribly nice guy, that's not the issue, but when he announces very logically, we have no vital strategic interest in Ukraine that justifies our investment there or the commitment of any military power, which was correct, and then just a few days later, after his donors contact him, says, well, I guess I was wrong.
01:24:00.000It's really important for us to be there.
01:24:02.000I mean, you want to put that guy into office?
01:24:23.000Yeah, the biggest lie, you know, there's a lot of lies.
01:24:25.000Reagan had a couple of good ones about, you know, I'm here from the government.
01:24:28.000I'm here to help. Like, that's a pretty big lie.
01:24:30.000But the other one is the whole lie of, you know, public servant.
01:24:34.000Once they get to D.C., you know, maybe there's one or two, but man, that's been bastardized a lot, as evidenced by, you know, Nancy Pelosi being a lifetime public servant and being worth a couple hundred million dollars.
01:24:45.000I mean, that doesn't happen if they're actually public servants, you know?
01:25:10.000And maybe if there are, maybe don't mention them by name, because if you do, they'll probably be on the chopping block, you know, in the new woke military tomorrow.
01:25:21.000You know, are there guys still out there that we could look up to for real leadership?
01:25:25.000Are there guys, you know, that are children, at least those of, you know, patriotic Americans, you know, that could look up to to be like, you know what, I want to be like that guy.
01:25:34.000Because, you know, I'm not aware of any right now that are in there.
01:25:37.000I see this stuff daily, and the guys I respect from the military, most of them are operators and door kickers.
01:25:42.000They're saying, I can't believe I signed up to defend this crap that I see coming out of them every day.
01:25:49.000We select people for senior leadership, for flag rank, for many reasons, but in most cases they have nothing to do with demonstrated character, competence, or intelligence.
01:26:02.000We pick people because we like them and because they're just like us.
01:26:08.000And in peacetime, where there is no tension, there is no compulsion to get anything right.
01:26:15.000And frankly, when you fight the kinds of enemies we have, where virtually anything you do works, I mean, you're not dealing with an enemy army, an enemy air force.
01:26:26.000You have no air attack to worry about.
01:26:32.000And in those circumstances, there is no call for any professional competence.
01:26:36.000And again, in this chapter in the book, Margin of Victory, it's one of the things I talked about early on.
01:26:42.000You had British general officers that were very successful in India and Africa who failed miserably in front of the Germans.
01:26:49.000The French had similar problems, though not as severe as the British.
01:26:52.000It's very hard. So you've got to change that.
01:26:55.000And of course, now we want to select everybody on the basis of race.
01:27:00.000And if you're going to compete in that environment, then you have to be subservient, as I would expect a white man or a Northeast Asian, to the wokeness.
01:27:12.000Demonstrate your fealty and readiness to implement these destructive policies that are divisive and will cripple us militarily.
01:27:19.000So I have no faith in any of them anymore.
01:27:22.000If there are any of real character, God bless them, but I haven't found out about them.
01:27:28.000And I'm perfectly willing to just clean it out and reach low and find people who are competent.
01:27:55.000And the guy who you actually want in that position is the guy that's never going to get the nod because he isn't going to pledge fealty to the woke bullshit.
01:28:03.000He is going to say what needs to be said.
01:28:05.000He is going to ruffle feathers to ask the questions that those in the D.C. establishment and those in the military-industrial complex don't want the American public to hear asked because they may actually have to answer them rather than cashing...
01:28:20.000Billion-dollar checks paid for courtesy of the American taxpayer.
01:28:24.000Well, remember, it's also a case of when you go to confirmation with the current bunch, the people sitting in this, they don't care about the individual, whether that individual actually knows anything.
01:28:33.000They're very concerned about whether or not he's going to keep the money flowing.
01:28:38.000Are you going to maintain the programs that are there?
01:28:40.000Are my constituents and donors going to benefit?
01:28:43.000Are you going to go along with the policies?
01:28:46.000There's no question about military competence, demonstrated competence.
01:28:50.000What have you done, General, that justifies your advancement to this position?
01:28:56.000Explain it. And most can't because the only thing they've done is go from job to job without notice.
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