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MACGREGOR: U.S. Carrier Raises ALL-OUT WAR Risk

(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0HOC7KXIuiY&t=106s)

Colonel Douglas Macgregor breaks down the chain reaction now unfolding across global geopolitics – from Israel, Iran, and the conditions that could trigger the next major escalation. Macgregor explains why America’s foreign policy is creating blowback across the world, why allies and adversaries alike are recalculating their security posture, and why the nuclear question may no longer remain theoretical. We also discuss the realities of America’s defence and manufacturing base, the strategic risks of relying on foreign refining and production, and what Washington may be underestimating as global power dynamics shift. This is the kind of analysis you won’t hear in mainstream Western coverage – delivered plainly, without spin.

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CHAPTERS

00:00 – Striking Iran Triggers a Global Tripwire

07:17 – Iran Strike Risks: China Reacts, U.S. Assumptions Fail

12:23 – Netanyahu’s Window: War Before the Fall of 2026

14:55 – What Americans Think Doesn’t Matter

18:40 – U.S. Police Show Up Over Posts

24:47 – Eastern Med Energy War: Russia & Turkey Sidelined 31:04 – Tripwires, Alliances – and the Nuclear Spread Ahead

36:40 – Greenland Hype Masks China Dependence & Resource Blindspots 42:54 – Gold Returns as the Dollar Fractures

45:58 – Threats Invented, Markets Shaken – For What?

49:07 – Trump’s “Board of Peace” Bypasses Gaza – and Bypasses the UN

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Striking Iran Triggers a Global Tripwire

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So whenever we build an F-16, we’re doing it with  the permission of China. This can’t last. We’re  

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not thinking things through. We’re creating chaos  everywhere because assets are continuing to move  

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into the region. Now, I know that Trump doesn’t  want to do that. I I know the man and that’s not  

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something he wants to do, but uh Mr. Netanyahu  does. So, I think we’re headed into another  

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conf conflict. But striking Iran has a lot of  implications. Most of them are bad. Now the Turks,  

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whatever their difference is with Iran, have  decided uh it’s not in their interest for Iran  

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to be destroyed. And the Iranians have  made it clear that if they’re hit hard,   they will close the straits of Hormuz as a  defensive measure. If that were to happen,  

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China is not going to sit quietly and allow us to  essentially starve them of oil. I worry about the  

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automatic trip wire. You were talking earlier.  What do you think will trigger this with Iran?  

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And I also fear that nuclear weapons, despite  our best efforts to suppress those and keep them  

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under control, are likely to proliferate. Welcome  back. A quick thank you before we start. Our John  

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Kiryaku interview crossed well into the six-digit  views, and I appreciate every share and watch.  

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Um so to the matter at hand today’s guest needs  no introduction. It’s Colonel Douglas McGregor,  

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decorated um combat veteran, former senior  adviser to the US Secretary of Defense,  

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one of the sharpest strategic minds on military  and foreign policy in the US and a rare voice  

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willing to call out America’s instit in  institutional blind spots. We’re going to  

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uh go straight into the headlines. Iran  and the escalation risks behind the scenes,   the US first amendment’s free speech issue at  home, the Greenland standoff and a potential  

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US EU economic rupture as well as a US NATO one.  Trump’s Gaza Board of Peace plan at Davos and if  

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we have time briefly, Venezuela’s shifting power  game. And just like we do every time, we’ll dive   into angles the Western media won’t. So, let’s get  into it. Colonel, very warm welcome uh back from  

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me. Thanks very much. Uh sir, let’s start off with  um Iran. As we know, the protests have died down.  

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It also seemed that the Iran unrest, including  an attempt to crash the Iran’s Iran’s currency,  

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was a coordinated Mossad CIA destabilization  operation using preosition Starlink and covert  

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support, which was catastrophically compromised  when Iran, aided by Russian electronic warfare,  

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disabled Starlink. So, Colonel, do you think  the Mossad’s critical on the ground network  

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of assets built over decades, it seems, has been  effectively identified and dismantled this time,  

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leaving it finished and unusable. The entire  Mossad network in Iran that took decades to build,  

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now gone. Well, that’s a that’s a sweeping  statement that, you know, I couldn’t possibly  

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tell you one way or the other. uh as you say  the Mossad invested many many years in you know  

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infiltrating in Iran so we call that in the west  a fifth column and I I imagine that most of it has  

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been disrupted if not destroyed and yes you are  right it was not simply Mossad I think the CIA and  

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MI6 were also involved unfortunately I think that  President Trump and the leadership in the White  

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house had unrealistic expectations of what would  happen in Iran. You know, there’s always a problem  

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in every country with the people at the top who  tend to wish something into existence and when  

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they can’t wish it into existence, they try to  make it work, but they end up in a fantasy world.  

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And I think there were some fantastic expectations  of the unrest in Iran. People first of all didn’t  

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understand what was happening to begin with. When  the unrest began, these were legitimate protests.  

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Uh, and you had a a conflict between conservatives  and reformers. People that wanted to see more more  

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change, more reform more quickly. Conservatives  who had resisted a lot of change, but recognized,  

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yes, there has to be change, but wanted to be  slower and more measured. This then became an  

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opportunity for the intelligence services and  people that were being paid on the ground in Iran  

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to really really launch what they hoped would  be a destabilizing force that could actually  

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overturn the government. I I think that was very  obvious. They had the crown prince of Iran, this  

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uh Pahlavi standing by who’s effectively, you  know, repugnant to everybody in Iran because  

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he’s sold out to the Israelis and the United  States. So, he has no credibility or legitimacy,  

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but they thought that they might be able to  install him. And I think there was a belief that  

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if you disrupted the government, if you could  get people into the governmental apparatus as  

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a result of the disturbances on the streets that  somehow or another a little bit of bombing here or  

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there might be all that was needed and the entire  structure would implode. Well, that was always  

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nonsense. And it’s unfortunate that people believe  that. When it became clear that was not going to  

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happen, I think people in Washington, particularly  the chairman of the Joint Chiefs and others, said,   “Well, Mr. President, uh, it didn’t happen and  we’re going to need a lot more firepower if we  

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have to fight Iran than what we have on station.”  So then you’ve got you’ve gotten this pause,  

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uh, while more assets were moved in from the  Navy, from the Air Force, uh, more munitions,  

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more logistical support, more infrastructure is  ready. So the war isn’t over and the probability  

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of of another conflict unfortunately is  very high because assets are continuing  

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to move into the region. You know, you’re getting  another carrier battle group. You’re getting more   uh ships with anti-missile defence capability,  more more aircraft, more fighters, and you know,  

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I’m sure that there are more bombers ready to  go than there were originally. In other words,  

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it didn’t work. the government was not  destabilized. It did not implode. So now   you fall back on the original idea, well, we have  to bomb these people into submission. Now, I know  

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that Trump doesn’t want to do that. I I know the  man, and that’s not something he wants to do,   but uh Mr. Netanyahu does. And President Trump  is in in the un unenviable position of having  

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to comply with Mr. Netanyahu for reasons that  have to do with his election to the White House.  

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If he had not had substantial monetary, financial  support from Mr. Netanyahu’s supporters inside the  

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United States, he would not now be president. It’s  that simple. So, I think we’re headed into another  

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conflict. So, Colonel, um that that I was going to  ask you because there was this massive US military  

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surge underway with war planes moving in and the  carriers repositioning. So, but we haven’t heard  

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since on what’s happened to those. I mean, what’s  actually happened to that buildup? I understand   from your um analysis now that it hasn’t been  called back. Uh but have there just been like  

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selective withdrawals and protective personnel um  reductions while the broader the broader strike  

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posture stays in place. That’s what you you’re  asserting, sir. Yeah. for for the moment, the  

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strike structure, if you will, is is going to stay  where it is. As far as evacuations are concerned,  

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I’m sure some people have been evacuated.  I don’t know how many. We know that our   bases are very vulnerable. We can’t protect them  all. Uh so, this is a high-risk operation for us  

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from that standpoint. But President Trump,  you know, is convinced that our firepower  

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will be enough to deal with anything that Iran  throws at us. I don’t know. I mean, you know,  

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these things are are hard to understand. Lots of  assumptions are made before military operations  

8:34

begin. Most of the time they’re wrong. I hate  to be frank, but it turns out that way. And as  

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a result, I have a feeling we’ve made a number  of assumptions that may be false or inaccurate.  

8:48

Most of those assumptions apply to Iran. I think  we underestimate the build-up of their missile  

8:54

capability. I think they fully recovered from what  happened in June of last year. I think they’ve had  

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enormous technological support and assistance from  the Russians and the Chinese. Now, you mentioned  

9:07

the Starlight terminals. There were about 40,000  that we had managed to sneak into the country or  

9:14

I would say the Mossad and others. I’m sure those  were all donated under duress by uh Mr. Elon Musk.  

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Now, we also know the Chinese intervene to jam  the satellites. So, we have the Chinese involved  

9:30

as well as the Russians in Iran. The question  that should be on everybody’s mind is that if  

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you unleash this tremendous bombardment that is  planned, what will the reaction be in Moscow and  

9:42

Beijing? Now the the Russians are disincined  to become involved. They they would like Iran  

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to defend itself and they’ve done everything they  can to help them. China’s in a somewhat different   position because the Chinese purchase one-third  of their oil consumption from the Middle East and  

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it comes largely through the straits of Hormuz in  the Persian Gulf. And the Iranians have made it  

10:06

clear that if they’re hit hard, they will close  the straits of Hormuz as a defensive measure. If  

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that were to happen, China is not going to sit  quietly and allow us to essentially starve them  

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of oil. Now, what does that mean? I don’t know.  But striking Iran has a lot of implications. Most  

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of them are bad. Yeah. Okay. And so you are not  of the of the of the belief that the um the cover  

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network that Israel had set up for decades there  has been completely dismantled. That’s you’re  

10:41

clear about that. Okay. I don’t think All right.  You got keep in mind you also have the Kurds   that are next door, the MEK, all these various  organizations. Just a week, a little over a week  

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ago, 400 Kurdish fighters tried to infiltrate into  Iran and the Turks alerted the Iranians to this.  

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The Iranians were able to identify it and destroy  them. So I think that’s an interesting development  

11:05

that we should take very seriously that now  the Turks whatever their difference is with  

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Iran have decided it’s not in their interest for  Iran to be destroyed. We we are interested whether  

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we admit it or not in really destroying Iran. You  know our aim in Iran is very much the same as our  

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aim was in Ukraine. you go into the to the to the  war with the objective of dividing the country,  

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splitting it up, taking its resources, rendering  it essentially uh incapable of defending itself.  

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Now, that hasn’t worked with Iran. But that’s  why we’ve supported the Kurds and the Israelis  

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have supported the Kurds. And now that the Turks  have the Israelis on their southern border down in  

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Syria and see them advancing in Lebanon, I think  the Turks have taken a different posture. And I  

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think they’re interested in seeing Iran survive.  Now, how far will they go? Right now, with Mr.  

12:03

Erdogan in charge, I don’t see the Turks becoming  directly involved. If he were to suddenly vanish  

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from the scene, that would change because it’s  very obvious that the attitude in Turkey towards  

12:14

Israel and Israeli behaviour is extraordinarily  negative. And we’re not terribly popular either.  

12:21

Extremely negative and hostile to to them. You’re  right, sir. Um but let’s not forget that there’s  

12:27

also if I’m not mistaken there’s elections in  Israel later on this year. So um this selective  

12:34

draw down is it poly Trump on his part giving  Netanyahu a face saving facade just keeping the  

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Iran war card looking like it’s it’s still up so  Netanyahu isn’t embarrassed domestically from also  

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this negative outcome. It’s his second attempt to  overthrow the regime in Iran in a matter of less   than a year, especially with the elections coming  up this year. Well, that you can speculate about  

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that all, you know, for hours. I’m not sure. Yeah.  I think Mr. Netanyahu understands that he has an  

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opportunity right now between now and the fall to  realize he thinks his great aims if he is going  

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to establish uh Jewish supremacy in the Middle  East. In other words, Israeli Jewish supremacy  

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militarily, politically, financially, he’s got  to do it over the next few months. Now, why is  

13:30

that? Well, you do have these elections coming  up in the United States. You may end up with a  

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Congress that for the first time in a long time is  willing to move in and constrain the president. Uh  

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the president may confront real opposition, making  it much more difficult for him to act as he likes,  

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which is what he’s doing right now. We don’t  know what the world will look like in another  

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6 months. We don’t know if if Mr. Trump’s health  will hold out. Uh he is approaching 80. Uh that’s  

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a very advanced age in a job that would kill  most men who are in their 50s. So, you know,  

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we we don’t know a lot of things. And if you’re  Netanyahu, you ask what what is the incentive for  

14:13

me to sit on my rear end and do nothing? Not much  incentive. Well, I think the incentive for him is  

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to act while he has things in his favour. And that  means while Mr. Trump is there and can support him  

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unconditionally without constraint from the  Congress and while we’re financially solvent  

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because our our financial position in the United  States is weakening by by the hour, I would say at  

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this point and uh put it all together, if you’re  Netanyahu, the implication is you better act.  

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So that’s why I’m betting heavily that we will  see another war break out and how that ends up  

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I have no idea. Colonel, last a last one on Iran  before we move forward. Uh staying on that point,  

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it’s widely known that Netanyahu Netanyahu has  been pushing the US towards war with Iran for  

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decades now and he keeps returning to it. I mean  we’ve seen it happen twice in the last no what  

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is it um seven months. So even if the covert  tools inside Iran have for now been uh exposed

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my concern I don’t know if if it’s also your  your concern isn’t it a big concern that he’s as   you just said he’s still going to try to force  escalation but maybe this time it’s true it’s  

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triple trip trip wire because it’s it’s it’s shown  that now provoking internally you know unrest and  

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protest in Iran it didn’t it didn’t go through  just like what they attempted the first time which  

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to bomb them directly on the nuclear  installations. It also fell through.   So maybe this time he’s going to try attempt a  trip wire. Whether that’s a targeted strike on US  

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forces somewhere or on US interest somewhere. It’s  not something they haven’t done before. Colonel   there’s the historical presidents even the USS  Liberty 67. There’s other presidents presidents  

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in 1994. How worried should Americans be about a  provocation that drags the US in such a war with  

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Iran? Well, the sad truth of the matter is that  what we Americans think doesn’t matter very much.  

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Now, what do I mean by that? Everybody throws  the word democracy around. Well, we’re really  

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not a democracy. We’re a republic. We voted for  a president. We don’t vote on whether or not to  

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uh strike anybody. uh we don’t even follow the  Constitution which says that technically you  

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can’t begin a war against anyone without first  asking Congress for its support and permission.  

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Nobody’s done that since Franklin Roosevelt  in 1941. Uh so this time around we haven’t  

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even gone to Congress to ask for permission  because Congress has been in the pocket of   the Israel lobby. And so their attitude is well  if that’s what the Israelis want you know we’re  

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supporting them. will let them have it. I don’t  see that will change. Even though the public mood,  

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the public attitude in much of the United States  is very negative to the idea. I’ve seen polls   that suggest that at least 70 or more percent of  the American population pled as opposed to any  

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further what’s the right word participation in a  war in the Middle East. Period. It doesn’t make  

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any difference. We also went to war over a lie  in 1965 in the Gulf of Tonkin. There had been no  

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incident at the time that Congress was told that  we’d been attacked. The the whole narrative was  

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a lie. We had not been attacked and no one had  been injured or killed. There was no danger to  

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our naval vessels or anything else. Didn’t make  any difference. The narrative was concocted. It  

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was sold to the Congress. It was it proliferated  in the newspapers and everybody believed it. One  

17:58

officer at the time, a Navy officer in the joint  chiefs of staff, a staff officer called uh the  

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Senate at the Senate Armed Services Committee  and spoke to a staffer and said, “Look, this is   a big lie. There’s been no battle. No one has been  killed. No one has been injured. There’s no reason  

18:14

for this.” And he was thanked for his interest  and they hung up the phone. Uh, I’m afraid we’re  

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in a position right now where the truth may not  matter very much because right now the Congress  

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and the president are largely aligned with Israel  and if Israel wants wants to attack, Israel will  

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attack and we will support it and we will help  defend it. Okay. Um, let’s go on to another thing  

18:44

I wanted to ask you. It’s about um something  disturbing that’s been circulating on on X in  

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two separate viral incidents. I they I just ran  into them over the last 24 hours. One in Miami,  

18:57

the other one in Texas. Detectives were filmed  showing up at US citizens homes over their social  

19:02

media posts trying to question them and asking,  “Were you the one who posted this?” In both cases,  

19:08

the common denominator seems to be that the posts  were being framed as antisemitic. So these things,  

19:15

these occurrences are eerily reminiscent of what  we’ve been seen, we’ve seen unfolding in the UK  

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in the last two years where just in 2023, oh it’s  now three years, police made in 2023 over 12,000  

19:30

arrests linked to online posts with about 1,100 of  them resulting in convictions. And currently as we  

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speak, there are around 4,000 British citizens  awaiting similar trials. a level of enforcement  

19:44

that has alarmed free speech advocates. So  your comments sir are on the exercise of  

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the first amendment in the United States and  whether its safeguarding is endangered now.

19:58

Well, it very much is at risk. What we have in the  United States is something we haven’t seen since  

20:04

the Bolsheviks took power in Russia. and that  is that the American government has effectively  

20:11

declared Jews collectively as a protected class  of citizens. We’ve never had that. We’ve never had  

20:20

any protective class whatsoever. The closest we  ever came to that was affirmative action and that  

20:26

was designed obviously to be temporary but then  it became permanent and it was designed to advance  

20:32

the interests of uh people that were black because  of the history of slavery. Well, that is no longer  

20:40

valid although it’s practiced in many places.  That’s been overturned by the Supreme Court. Uh I  

20:45

think what you have today that’s different is that  uh the president has appointed a czar a so-called  

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czar in the state department whose mission is  to identify and fight antisemitism not just in  

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the United States but around the world. So this  particular man is a rabbi and he’s talking about  

21:08

uh going to Indonesia and demanding that textbooks  in Indonesia be revised and changed to suit Jewish  

21:15

interest to mirror whatever Jewish history is  according to the Jews. Uh this is backed by the  

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president. There are people all over the country  right now, various governors who have signed  

21:29

executive orders uh about the same subject. And so  this business of antisemitism is a very tricky one  

21:37

because what is the definition of antisemitism?  As one Jewish friend of mine said, well,  

21:43

it’s whatever the Jews say it is. Uh that’s not  a that’s not a good way to do business and that’s  

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the way it looks right now. Uh there are lots of  Jews in the United States who are not comfortable   with this. This is not a universally supported  idea by Jews, but it’s real and it violates free  

22:01

speech. There’s no question about it. The whole  problem with hate speech of any kind is where do  

22:06

you draw a line? When does it become dangerous?  When is it hurtful beyond feelings? When does  

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it lead to real violence? This is a a much more  specific focused effort to suppress anyone who  

22:22

is critical of Israel. And if you are critical  of Israel in any way, you are by definition an  

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antisemite. That’s where we’re that’s where we are  effectively. I think that’s catastrophic. Uh but  

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that’s it. Now, will this last? Can this last?  I don’t know. I know that the people in Great  

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Britain are very uncomfortable with what’s  happening in their country. I’m, you know,   there’s a man named David Betts, a professor in  London who’s written extensively on the potential  

22:54

for civil war in Great Britain. You might think  about interviewing him and ask him what he thinks  

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the potential for that is in in Great Britain.  And that’s something that is worth exploring.  

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Uh the British are very unhappy with what they  see as the Islamization of London. Uh there are  

23:15

people openly declaring that London is no longer  a British city. It’s not the only one. There are  

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a lot of problems right now. And when you pick a  certain group of people and say they’re protected,  

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they’re special. They get to do this  and you don’t, you’re in trouble. You’ve   got a real problem. I think that’s happening.  Fortunately, it’s not everywhere, but it goes on.  

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And as you point out, I’m familiar with the case  in Miami, and it was it was handled intelligently  

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by the people who were being accused. Now, we’ll  see what develops from it. Uh I think they’re  

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going to have a hard time making this work in the  courts, but then again, it depends on the judges,  

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and the last administration appointed  large numbers of judges who were very,   very far to the left. How they interpret the law  is anybody’s guess, but yeah, it’s a problem.  

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Free speech is at risk. There’s no question  about it. And as you know, most of us assume,   if someone’s out there suppressing your speech,  you must be telling the truth. Exactly. Because if  

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you weren’t telling the truth, nobody would give  a damn, right? Yeah. Of course. But this is across   the West, as you point out. It’s everywhere in the  West. We are so close to 10,000 subscribers. So,  

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share, and help this voice reach further. Uh  Colonel, let’s let’s shift over to Greenland now  

24:51

um as we speak. Davos 2020. Aren’t we going to  talk about Cyprus and Greece and uh you know  

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vertical integration and you know the quadrangular  meeting and so forth? I I thought you were going  

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to talk about I wanted to talk about those things  when I when I contacted Carol last week. That’s  

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what I wrote her. But then but then I don’t know  your president and all his posts about the green  

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hand and um the the well before we before we leave  the Middle East I think it’s worth pointing out  

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that this vertical integration Yeah. which is  designed to essentially make Cyprus uh Greece  

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ultimately Bulgaria all the way up to Romania.  You’re talking about the vertical corridor,  

25:33

sir. Yes. So, just to give context to the viewers,  right? The vertical corridor. This is designed to  

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wean everybody off Russian uh oil and gas. It’s  inherently anti-Russian, which is unfortunate  

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because the majority of Greeks, I don’t know  how the people on Cyprus feel, but the majority   of Greeks have historically been pro-Russian. The  same thing is true in Bulgaria to a large extent.  

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Uh the Romanians, it may be mixed. Bulava, it  may be mixed. I don’t know. But the point is,  

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you can’t view that in isolation from everything  else happening in Syria, uh Iran, Lebanon,  

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Israel. It’s all linked and it’s all part of a  larger US strategy. But that US strategy is also  

26:15

inseparable from Israeli dominance and hegemony  in the region because Israel wants to be the hub  

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for the movement of oil and gas and so forth  into Europe. It would like to replace everyone  

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else. In other words, nothing gets anywhere or  goes anywhere unless it moves through Israel.  

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I think these are all dangerous policies which  with you know questionable outcomes but that’s  

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clearly the the strategy. There’s no no doubt  about it and that’s why I think it should be   mentioned because you can’t view that separately  from everything else we’re talking about in the  

26:53

Middle East. um and uh the the new appointment  of a US ambassador to Greece, Kimberly Guilfoyle.  

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It it is her I don’t know how to name name it  correctly like her her focus the vertical corridor  

27:08

it’s now this this yeah she’s strongly yeah she’s  arguing it’s designed to strengthen cooperation  

27:20

as I understand it to combat terrorism protect  critical infrastructure enhance maritime security  

27:25

blah blah blah with plans for cyber security and  the great sea interconnector project underway for  

27:33

electricity cables and so forth so on. Yeah.  Uh that sounds great, but it’s very it’s very  

27:39

anti-Russian and Israel-centric. Let’s be frank.  It is Israel-centric. It is anti-Russian, but  

27:45

it’s also anti-Turkish, sir. So, oh yeah. Yeah.  The Turks are in a different position. You know,  

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they could seize one or two islands in the Aegean.  Uh right now, in fact, I can’t remember the name  

27:57

of it. There’s one island in particular that’s  only 10 miles or so from Turkey that is still  

28:03

controlled by Greece. It’s worth considering right  now that in view of our readiness ostensibly to  

28:10

seize Greenland, uh it would not surprise me if  the Turks took the uh opportunity to seize those  

28:16

islands, that would be a strategic gamechanger  in the eastern Mediterranean. Yes, there’s and  

28:21

there’s not a great deal that the Greeks could do  about it. uh there’s a lot of things uh underway  

28:28

because Turkey has its own strategic corridors in  mind and energy routes in mind and then you have  

28:34

the other rounds there are other routes underway  that are Israel centric as you mentioned I mean   over the last month since we’re going this  direction over the last month we’ve seen  

28:43

three high-level Cyprus Greece Israel meetings  one in Nicosia with the heads of the Naval and  

28:49

air forces of the three countries the other one in  Jerusalem right before Christmas a couple of days   before Christmas between prime minister of Greece,  president of Cyprus Christodoulides and um Bibi  

29:00

Netanyahu and then again in Nicosia a few days  later where military deals were signed between the   three countries. These military deals involved um  um oh god I’m not very good in the in the in the  

29:13

specifics but it involved officially to protect  the routes that are going to uh go forward. you  

29:20

mentioned the great interconnector which is the  electric cable connection between Israel, Cyprus,  

29:25

Greece um and then further up then there’s the  vertical corridor again which is the supply of  

29:31

natural gas from the oil fields of of Israel,  Cyprus, Greece um then through uh Bulgaria,  

29:38

Romania, Ukraine and from there they have the  pipelines that already supply the rest of Europe   that have been cut off uh that were supplying the  Russian gas. And then we also had the the other  

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big um project that’s underway which coincided  with Prime Minister of India Modi’s visit to  

29:56

Cyprus uh a couple a few weeks before the high  level talks in Jerusalem between Israel, Greece  

30:03

and Cyprus. Prime Minister Modi visited Cyprus and  then followed that visit with his with visiting  

30:09

countries in the Gulf and Egypt. Um and that was  to promote the IMAC corridor India, Middle East,  

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uh Europe uh corridor which is a whole you can  say more about that sir because that is a a huge  

30:21

project that involves all those countries and it’s  not just about the transfer of energies the trade   and goods and services rail lines everything  and these are all Israel-centric these are all  

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anti-Turkey as you say and Turkey is not liking  all these projects well the other issue here  

30:39

though is that it is also anti-Russia Yeah, which  is uh not necessarily a good thing in my judgment,  

30:46

but there is a great hostility to Russia  unfortunately on the uh Israeli right in  

30:54

the United States. Uh so they’re happily  doing everything they can to undermine,  

31:00

obstruct or halt Russian influence. The  problem that I that I always have when I  

31:06

talk to the Greeks about this thing is that  everybody needs to understand something.   And I don’t think most people do. Americans do not  live in the Eastern Mediterranean. We don’t live  

31:17

in the Middle East. We don’t live in the Balkans.  We don’t live in Europe. We live in North America.  

31:25

So a lot of people are quite willing to make  themselves dependent upon American military  

31:31

power on the assumption that whatever happens  this global reach that America appears to have  

31:38

is going to show up and change everything and  protect everybody. And I think that’s a dangerous  

31:44

assumption in the world we live in now because the  world has changed. This is very much a multipolar   world. The cold war is over. Even though  we’ve decided to maintain hostility to Russia  

31:54

and to a large extent China, the truth is these  countries are increasingly peers. In other words,  

32:02

they are other great powers. We are not the only  great power. And as a result, I encourage smaller  

32:11

nations to think in terms of cooperating  and working with their neighbours instead  

32:16

of fighting with them because you may not see the  American military show up when you think it ought  

32:22

to be there because it may be engaged elsewhere  or we may no longer be engaged at all. Does that  

32:28

make sense? Yes, it makes sense. I don’t think  they’re relying so much on America um engaging in  

32:35

a standoff with Turkey. they’re relying Greece and  Cyprus on on um a collective cooperation with the  

32:42

Israelis because Netanyahu did mention publicly  in the statements in the December meeting in  

32:48

Jerusalem with the CRI president and the Greek  prime minister that um regional p powers should  

32:54

I don’t remember verbatim how he said it but he  said should let go of their imp uh the return of  

33:01

their imperial dreams that’s not going to happen  he said so Israel seems that it’s ready to protect  

33:08

its interests in the area because we’re talking  about um of changing regional and global dynamics  

33:16

in a major way in the region that sets Israel as  the the regional powerhouse. They’re not going to  

33:23

let that go. Well, you got to keep in mind that  that Israel’s power really rests on an American  

33:30

foundation. If that should change, Israel is  no longer the great power that it appears to  

33:36

be. Again, this goes back to our discussion  of what’s Mr. Netanyahu going to do. Well,  

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he’s more likely to act now than later because  he realizes privately he may not have the kind of  

33:47

support in the future a year from now that he has  today. Uh my point is that everybody in the region  

33:55

needs to be a little more flexible in their view  of the world. Uh, tightening alliances sounds like  

34:02

a great way to secure yourself, but increasingly  we live in a world of limited liability partners.  

34:10

Someone who was your opponent yesterday could  well be an ally tomorrow. Not permanently,  

34:16

but selectively on a case-by-case basis. These  alliances that were formed in the early part  

34:23

of the 20th century were catastrophic. They  led to major wars that might have otherwise  

34:28

been avoided because the members of the alliances  automatically pulled the trigger and went to war.  

34:35

That’s the worst thing that could happen right  now. And I also fear that nuclear weapons, despite  

34:40

our best efforts to suppress those and keep them  under control, are likely to proliferate. So you  

34:49

put all of these things together and I go back  to what I was saying earlier. Everyone needs to   define their interests carefully and make sure  that they have not committed their interests in  

34:59

national security in survival 100% or vested  it 100% in any other country. In other words,  

35:08

to the extent that you can be independent and  self-reliant, you should do so. Yeah, that’s  

35:14

clear, sir. It’s hard. It’s hard to do though  when um Israeli interests have taken a stronghold  

35:22

within Oh yes Cyprus I understand it’s it it’s  very it was very easy for that to happen be we’re  

35:29

a small country and uh it’s also happening in  Greece so I understand what you’re saying sir it’s  

35:35

very hard for it yeah somebody said to me recently  it looks like the kingdom of Jerusalem in reverse  

35:42

h in other words you’re getting the kingdom of  Jerusalem only this time they’re not Christians.  

35:50

Uh it’s an interesting concept. I had not thought  of it in those terms, but yeah, Cyprus certainly  

35:55

understands that. Uh and uh I think you can make  that argument. It’s now the kingdom of a Jewish  

36:03

state, not a Christian one. So anyhow, it it’s  just it’s something that everybody in the region  

36:10

needs to think about. I worry about the automatic  trip wire. You were talking earlier. What do you  

36:16

think will trigger this with Iran? I worry about  the automatic trip wire that brings people into   conflict that they would otherwise choose to  avoid. Let’s put it that way. Yes. Yes. So now  

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you want to go back to Greenland. Yes. Let’s go  back to Greenland because I know Americans and  

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the Westerners are more interested in that matter  than our matters here. So but thank you sir for   devoting your time um discussing that. Well, I I I  would much rather go to Cyprus than to Greenland.  

36:46

Green Greenland is not a target destination I  would ever want to go to. George is laughing. I’ve  

36:52

been close to it. Yeah, I mean I’ve been close  to it. I’ve been to Northern Norway. I’ve been to  

36:57

Newfoundland. Uh I don’t need to go to Greenland.  Just keep this in mind. Since World War II, we  

37:04

have controlled everything militarily from Alaska  across Canada to Greenland and all the way up to  

37:10

Norway. We’re already in control. We already have  a base there. Yeah. There’s nothing to prevent us  

37:17

from doing militarily whatever we think we need to  do in our interest. So, so the notion that we have  

37:22

to own Greenland is absurd. And then the second  thing is the Danes have been good allies. We’re  

37:30

friends with the Danes. Yeah. The Danes signed a  treaty with us. They’ve been very supportive. If  

37:35

we want to extract resources from that place in  the future, we can do it. We can do it jointly  

37:40

with the Danes and others. But keep something in  mind. There is no worse place on planet Earth than  

37:47

the Arctic to drill for resources regardless of  what you’re looking for. Very expensive. So that’s  

37:54

not the driving force here. So since America could  get what it wanted on Greenland without all this  

38:05

all this unfolding could have happened in the  background, then why is all this unfolding?   Even if it’s then it’s not for the resources and  the he already has why is it unfolding in the way  

38:15

it’s unfolding? Why is Trump making it so public  and creating all these? There are a lot of there  

38:21

are a lot of people asking that question and  unfortunately I don’t have a good answer for   you. Uh President Trump seems to be the driving  force here. He’s taken the initiative. He seems to  

38:33

think it has to be tightly in our grip. You know,  for instance, if you go back to this business of  

38:39

rare earths, which are very, very important now,  and they’ve always been. It’s just that it’s like   everything else. Nobody notices that you got  a problem with electricity until the lights  

38:47

go out. Well, that’s the way we operate here in  the United States. Oh, now we need rare earths.  

38:53

Where do we get them? Well, we don’t want to go to  China. China’s a problem. Well, it’s not so much   mining rare earths. You can do that in Canada, and  the United States, many other countries. Norway  

39:04

has the largest concentration in Europe. It’s been  found right offshore in about 250 ft of water. It  

39:11

can be extracted easily. We could go work with the  Norwegians on that. It’s refining. North America,  

39:19

the United States has not built a major refinery  to deal with rare earths and other ores. Costs  

39:28

about 1.2 billion to build. We need to build  it. That would change everything. Right now,  

39:36

we’re hostage to Chinese bureaucrats who decide  when they’re going to refine our ore or when  

39:41

they won’t. So, whenever we build an F-16,  whenever we build a cell phone or something,  

39:49

we’re doing it with the permission of China.  This can’t last. Okay. So, frankly, I would much  

39:57

prefer that instead of spending $1.5 billion to  build a naval base on the Pacific coast of Peru,  

40:05

which is something people want to do right now in  Washington, we don’t need it. There’s no threat  

40:10

to the Peruvian coast there. Just because the  Chinese are doing business in Peru doesn’t create  

40:15

a national emergency. Take that money, build the  refinery. That’s what we desperately need to do.  

40:22

But, you know, right now I’m a minority. But  hopefully more and more people will become  

40:28

interested in that. But as far as Greenland  goes, I I don’t I don’t see the need and I  

40:35

don’t understand it. Frankly speaking, you  can make a similar argument about Venezuela.  

40:40

We spent a lot of money to get into Venezuela  and take the president Madura and his wife.  

40:45

Now we’re talking about the Venezuelan government,  which we decide as communist and anti-democratic  

40:51

and so forth and so on. Now we’re saying, well,  I guess we can work with that government. I think  

40:58

Venezuela is going to drop off the agenda here  over the next several months. Uh, that’s another  

41:04

problem. The oil there is wonderful, but it’s  very, very deep. It’s very heavy with sulphur.  

41:09

Takes extreme refining. Refining. We can do it in  Texas, but you know to go in there and drill and  

41:16

pull anything out substantial costs billions  of dollars. And the oil oil corporations have  

41:22

made it very clear to the president this is not a  financially rewarding exercise. This is not a good  

41:28

place for us to invest. There are other places  we can go. He doesn’t like that. But in the end,  

41:35

I think that’s what’s going to happen.  We we’re not going to invade Venezuela,   replace its government, and govern the country.  we would be insane to do so. So, I think that’ll  

41:47

sort of drift away. Maybe Greenland is the new  distraction uh to divert our attention from  

41:52

Venezuela to Greenland. I don’t know. It’s hard  to tell how these people think. But strategically,  

41:58

we don’t need to commit to the invasion and  conquest of Greenland. You can get the rare  

42:05

earth more cheaply from nicer climates. uh to  extract as I said yeah extract them more cheaply  

42:12

elsewhere I mean eventually you can get around  to Greenland there’s no question about it but  

42:17

if you’re going to drill for oil or natural gas or  any of the rare earth elements uh you know copper  

42:23

is terribly important to us right now silver is  very important we have huge quantities of silver  

42:30

right on our doorstep in Mexico I’m hoping that  no one decides to invade Mexico for the silver  

42:35

mines I’d much rather just buy the silver from  Mexico. Do do you understand? Everything is out  

42:41

there. We can do business with the world. The  world will do business with us. But we got to  

42:47

get out of this unfortunate habit of brutalizing  and bullying other countries. Yeah. Yeah. This  

42:55

whole Greenland debacle though is unfolding in in  manners that you know threaten economically both  

43:01

the EU and the US because the EU is now reportedly  weighing retaliation and enforcing its so-called  

43:09

uh bazooka trade doctrine which I don’t know if  it’s ever enforced it before. It’s a fast acting  

43:16

EU retaliation tool allowing Europe to respond  reciprocally with tariffs and restrictions and  

43:23

market access limits if it feels it’s being  economically pressured, which is the case. So,  

43:29

I mean, when you think the standoff with the EU  is heading, does it actually have the leverage  

43:35

to change Trump’s um calculus? And are Americans  prepared for an economic geopolitical blowback  

43:42

if Europe hits back? Well, remember that  we have been trying to push the Europeans  

43:48

into a hostile posture toward China as well as  Russia. The Europeans can change that overnight.

43:59

We’re we are right now a great power that  has dominated the world for 80 years.  

44:05

the financial system that that you are part of  and and I am part of is a system that was created  

44:12

in the aftermath of the second world war. It’s  been through a series of changes and evolution.  

44:18

And that financial system is no longer attractive  to much of the rest of the world because they’ve  

44:24

learned that if you give your money to the  American financial system, you put it in an  

44:29

American bank, you have no guarantee that you’ll  ever get it back. All they have to do for evidence  

44:35

is look at what’s happened to the $300 billion  dollars that the Russians deposited. And that  

44:41

money is sitting in Brussels. And everyone is  trying to get at it and steal it from Russia. And  

44:48

we unfortunately are part of that. We’ve destroyed  the faith and confidence of tens of millions of  

44:54

people all over the world in our system, in  our way of doing business. It’s a disaster.  

45:01

But I think what’s going to happen as a result is  you’re going to see a split in the world. One side  

45:07

of the world will stay largely with our system  and probably with the fiat currency and and some  

45:14

of it will be backed by commodities and perhaps  some of it uh will be backed by other means. I  

45:20

mean may have digital currency and so forth.  I don’t know. But then the rest of the world,   and that’s going to be a large portion of it,  more than half I suspect, will operate in a  

45:30

world where the currency is backed by gold. Gold  will come back, huh? That’s already begun. You now  

45:38

have the Chinese that have opened a gold vault  in Riad as well as in Hong Kong. And the yuan  

45:45

is being used to trade in oil. So the petro-dollar  is being replaced by the yuan in the Persian Gulf.  

45:53

There’s a reason for it because it’s  backed by gold. Gold. Yes. Yes, sir. So,  

45:58

the world is changing. We don’t like that. NATO  is going to go out of business. We don’t need it.  

46:06

The Europeans need to be independent again. They  need to be responsible for themselves. They need  

46:12

to be their own first responders in conflict.  I think that’s a good thing, not a bad thing.  

46:20

Uh the world needs to move on to this new po  multi-polar environment and I think we need to  

46:26

come to terms with something else. Military  power is nice. Everybody wants it in some  

46:31

degree but it’s not the answer to solving our  problems. We need to solve the problems that we  

46:38

have in other with other ways and other means.  And if we can’t solve them, we have the should  

46:44

have the good sense to walk away. And that  I include in that category Greenland because  

46:50

we’ve tried to buy it several times and each time  the Danes have said no. No. Well then no. But at  

46:56

the same time we have a treaty that allows us to  do anything we want. Yeah. Make business with So   where’s the problem? Yeah. Where’s the logic  gone? I don’t know where’s it going. Really?  

47:06

They’re creating all this unnecessary stress  all over the world. I mean people personally  

47:11

there 57,000 now Greenlanders. I don’t know  if you’ve seen them when they make comments   on TV. Everyone’s descended. There are all these  international channels and they’re saying we’ve  

47:20

lost sleep. We’re stressed. There’s this all the  ladies who say I see Trump in my sleep. I see him  

47:26

coming. I I feel so sorry for them. But all this  it’s just it’s just business. Why don’t they just  

47:34

do business? It’s creating unnecessary stress  to people on a personal level. And it’s also,   you know, screwing the markets everywhere  and the sense of security around the globe.  

47:43

There’s no logic left. There are a lot of  people in Washington and I think also in  

47:48

Jerusalem who see lots of threats everywhere.  Whether or not they’re real, that’s part of the  

47:56

problem. They’ve forgotten to um uh I don’t  know, believe in the goodness of people,  

48:02

in the goodness of the people that you converse  with and the people that you want to do business   with. You don’t need to be going to war with  everyone and threatening everyone. Mm- No,  

48:12

no. I think that’s the bottom line. I think  that needs to be understood. And right now,  

48:18

it’s not. And Americans are like anybody else.  They tend to believe what the government says. At  

48:26

some point, they may suddenly no longer believe  in it. There’s a lot of evidence that that’s   beginning to take hold, that there are a lot of  people who are losing faith in the government and  

48:36

its institutions. And there are good reasons for  that. You know, we’ve been through an awful lot  

48:41

over the last 80 years, and Vietnam had a terrible  impact on us. And most of us thought that that  

48:47

experience in Vietnam would inoculate us against  any future stupidity. It did not. We’re back where  

48:54

we started. Yes, sir. Involving ourselves in  places we don’t need to be, imagining enemies  

49:00

that don’t really threaten us, and certainly  from our standpoint, hardly exist at all.  

49:07

Colonel, I wanted us to finish off by touching  upon Gaza because it’s come up again in the  

49:14

forefront, the Gaza peace plan now entering phase  B as Trump and BB call it. Um we have President  

49:21

Macron who just re has just signalled that um he  doesn’t want France to join the so-called board  

49:27

of peace. He doesn’t want France to join Trump’s  so-called board of peace. And Trump immediately  

49:33

told reporters when he was um slapped with this uh  comment of Macron um right off the bat right off  

49:40

the bat as he heard it you know standing on the  tarmac there talking to reporters that okay I’m   going to consider slapping 200% tariffs on French  wine and champagne and in Europe the mere mention  

49:52

of the word consider by Trump is been now taken  as a given with Trump you know and so we had Euro  

49:58

news yesterday which is like the CNN of Europe It  even run it as a top story. You you saw, you know,  

50:05

French wine makers already sounding the alarm.  What’s your take on on what this tells us about  

50:10

how Trump is building this coalition when it comes  to this board of peace? Is it essentially invite  

50:17

only and does participation come with a required  monetary commitment from each country? Meaning  

50:22

that this isn’t just a political club but a pay  to enter structure tied to funding this plan.  

50:31

Well, two quick observations. Gaza is never  mentioned in the charter for this board of  

50:38

peace. Uh-huh. It doesn’t it’s not even  mentioned. If you read through if you read  

50:46

through what they’re saying the board of peace  is supposed to do, Gaza is not mentioned in  

50:52

there. And most of us thought the board of peace  would be designed to deal exclusively with Gaza.  

50:59

So it’s clearly not exclusively Gaza, if it’s  Gaza at all. It looks more like something which  

51:07

people in the 19th century, certainly before the  first world war, called the concert of Europe.  

51:13

The concert of Europe consisted of Tsarist Russia,  the Empire of Austria and the Kingdom of Hungary,  

51:21

uh the Imperial Germany, the British Empire,  France, Italy, Spain. Now, this was the concert  

51:30

of Europe. They were the decisive actors.  They were the ones that would periodically   meet and decide what would or wouldn’t happen,  who got what, and who traded what, and so forth.  

51:41

I think that President Trump is moving in  that would like to move in that direction.  

51:47

Most American presidents and leaders have never  cared for the United Nations because in the United  

51:53

Nations some very small country like Sri Lanka has  a vote along with the United States and presidents  

52:01

say why in the hell am I being obstructed by  Sri Lanka? Who is Sri Lanka to obstruct me?  

52:09

And so you have this predisposition to evade  the UN to stay out of it as much as possible,  

52:15

talk about it, pay lip service to it, genulect to  it as as needed, but in reality it’s it’s a lot  

52:22

of trouble. It’s an irritant. You’d rather sit  down with the other big boys at the table and  

52:29

make decisions. So I think that’s really what’s  behind all of this. It’s not working very well.  

52:36

Uh now the president of Hungary, Orban, who very  much wants good relations with the United States,  

52:43

has said he’ll pay the fee, the billion  dollars that you have to pay to be in it,   and he’ll join the board of peace. Orban  is trying to straddle the fence. He wants  

52:53

to have good relations with Moscow as well as with  Washington and also Jerusalem and uh Ankara. So he  

53:02

he’s he’s doing what he needs to do for Hungary.  Hungary is a small country. Used to be a large  

53:09

kingdom. It now consists of what, seven or eight  million people at most. But most others are not  

53:16

seeing it in those terms. In other words, they’re  not willing to pay the billion dollars to to sit   at the table. They don’t see that the investment  is worthwhile. They think that they’ll be ignored  

53:28

anyway. And I think that’s the case with Mr. Cone.  Uh, the other thing is people become grow tired of  

53:35

being insulted and offended by President Trump.  And he does that sometimes without even thinking,  

53:41

without even realizing it. So, we’re not going to  see too many more Orbans show up. They’re they’re  

53:48

unique. An Orban is unique. The rest of them are  probably going to say, “The hell with this. It’s  

53:54

more trouble than it’s worth. I’m not going to  be part of it.” Now, I suppose when push comes   to shove, the British as always will saddle up  with uh with us. The English-speaking countries  

54:05

tend to do that. Uh but beyond that, I don’t  know. I think Canada has said no uh along with  

54:13

uh France and there may be others. The more who  say no, the more unlikely this is to ever come  

54:19

into existence and mean anything. So, we have  a bad habit in the United States. we we get an  

54:26

idea and we think oh this is a great idea let’s  go do it without sitting there and saying now  

54:33

wait a minute uh are we sure this is a good idea  who else is going to support it who else will be  

54:38

against it who can afford it who cannot think  those questions were addressed that we do this  

54:46

in military operations you know it was like Hitler  was told by his generals in 1940 after the French  

54:53

campaign he talked about going into Russia Russia  and he was told privately by the senior generals,   you realize in Russia there are no roads. There  are no gas stations. In France, when we ran out  

55:04

of fuel, if we had to, we could pull into a French  gas station and we could replenish the fuel. You  

55:10

can’t do that in Russia. And he didn’t listen.  He didn’t understand the logistical nightmare of  

55:18

moving over a,000 miles, millions of troops  and equipment. that more than anything else  

55:24

defeats every army that goes into Russia. It’s too  far. It’s too difficult. And it’s too cold. So,  

55:31

we’re in the same boat. We’re not thinking things  through. We’re taking shots. That’s a great idea.  

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Boom. Let’s Let’s shoot that one over there. Oh,  there’s another target. That’s a great idea. And   we shoot it. The outcome is chaos. And chaos is  something business hates. If you’re in business,  

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you want stability. You want certainty. You  want stability in supply and resources. You  

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want stability in prices. We’re doing the  opposite. We’re creating chaos everywhere.

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So, with this board of peace, uh, we come  to an end of our of our, um, chat today,  

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sir. um this board of peace that seems to be an  attempt as you say to build a parallel crisis  

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management structure that sidelines the UN. So we  have now NATO and the UN trying to be sidelined  

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um by Trump, their credibility and their uh  function. Uh I want to thank you Colonel for  

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your insight for breaking all of this down so  clearly for our viewers and to the viewers. I  

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want to thank you all for watching. I need your  help with one thing. One year in broadcasting   from the Eastern Mediterranean, I never expected  to be this close to 10,000 subscribers. And the  

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fact that most of you are American is incredibly  encouraging. It’s powerful. It’s powerful to   see Americans actively seeking alternatives to  mainstream western narratives. And I’ve always  

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had a soft spot for the US. I still fondly  reminisce about my years studying there. So,  

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joining me today. Sure. Happy to be with you.  Thank you for inviting me. Always a

pleasure,  

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sir. Always. This is the only English language  woman-led geopolitical platform broadcasting from  

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the Eastern Mediterranean. So subscribe,  share and help this voice reach further.

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