Trump To RESTART Iran War In 48 Hours?!? w/ Col. Macgregor

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Got special guest with us returning to Douglas McGregor is a popular political commentator in retired U.S. Army Colonel who served as Senior Advisor to the Acting Secretary of Defense under President Trump, has served on the board of U.S. military academy and is currently the CEO of our country, our choice, a media company that aims to unite. Like-minded Americans, he recently launched a sub-stack at McGregorwarrior.substack.com.

Douglas, thank you for accommodating my schedule as you always do.

I appreciate it, I know we appreciate your insight. This is my, that's my judge de Palatano introduction. I hope you're- >> I wonder you're about there, I'm trying to figure it out. >> Yeah, yes.

So anyway, I'm glad to have you here. I wanted, of course, to go over the news that's all over the place. So I just wanted, this was from April 28th. It says U.S. by agencies asked to analyze how a brand might react.

“If Trump were to declare victory and back away from military operations, right?”

Well, so that was on the 28th of April, and Trump had launched his new- what is it called?

The Freedom Fultile, whatever it's- >> Project Freedom. >> Project Freedom, where he was supposed to be escort, using Navy ships to escort ships through the Strait of Hormuz, but it turned out it didn't work out because from the Hormuz letter, the cargo ship that a rat attacked one of those cargo ships that were being shepherded

through by- and it says the cargo ship attacked by a rat in the Strait of Hormuz yesterday's been identified as a French owned. It's attempting the U.S. back crossing and designated route by Trump with AIS transponders, switched off, U.K.M.TO hid the locations to avoid admitting the U.S. route isn't safe. And then Trump, four hours later, he canceled Project Freedom after that happened.

And I just wanted to- the vessel that was hit by Iran tried to follow the U.S. route through

the Strait after the failure Trump suspended his project. And well, here it is. Here's Trump saying that based on the request of Pakistan and other countries, the tremendous military success that we have had during the campaign, again, it sounds like Joe Azuzu,

“if you're old enough to remember what that means.”

Against the country of Iran, additionally, the fact that great progress has been made toward a complete and final agreement with representatives of Iran, we have mutually agreed that while the blockade will remain in full force and effect Project Freedom, the movement of ships through the Strait of Hormuz will be paused for a short period of time to see whether or not the agreement can be finalized and signed and that's about signed by President Donald

Trump. And here's Marco Rubio, here's his, his, him saying on Tuesday what he want, what the United States wants. As President Trump has said, and the facts clearly bear out the United States of America holds all the cards.

There is no scenario here in which if they decide to join a ladder of escalation, they wind up getting the last say, but our preference is for these straits to be opened to the way they're supposed to be open, back to the way it was. Anyone can use it, no minds in the water, nobody paying tolls.

“That's what we have to get back to and that's the goal here.”

So if you don't know what he just said is we had to start a war so we could go back to the way things were before we started a war. It's a genuinely one of the most absurd foreign policy statements I ever heard and here is kind of like Donald Trump is, this is from that Austin Powers movie. This is him trying to get out of the strait before moods.

This is what it kind of looks like. So let, let me, that's kind of funny, but let me just, let me just cover it real quick and we'll get your response. This is from Axios, US and Iran closing in on a one page memo to end the wars. But then, that was from Tuesday, then today Trump surrender deal is immediately dealt

to brutal blow. A report that US and Iran are nearing into agreement on a one page memorandum to end the war was met with almost immediate pushback, despite President Donald Trump claiming progress, raining officials and the president have been sending a series of chaotic and mixed signals since Trump announced on Monday that he was pausing project freedom in the

closer to a memorandum of his understanding to end the war and set parameters for nuclear

talks, but a senior Iranian parliamentary official through Cold War around the idea. And what he said was Axios's text is America's wish list until it becomes reality, America will not obtain, will not obtain through a failed war, what they failed to gain in face-to-face negotiations. Iran has its finger on the trigger and is ready if they do not surrender and grant the necessary

concessions or if they or their devilish hedgehog allies try to act mischievously, we will deliver a harsh and regret inducing response.

“So he came back, here's Trump's latest, this is from today, right?”

He says assuming Iran agrees to give what has been agreed to, which is perhaps a big

assumption that already legendary epic fury will be at it end and the highly effective

blockade will allow the hormostrate to be open to all, including Iran, if they don't agree the bombing starts and it will be sadly at much higher level and intensity than it was before. So let me just get you, what's your response to this back and forth by Trump and the Iranian officials?

I think we elected PT Barnum as president. It sounds like it, right? He seems to think that every American is a sucker, obviously the Iranians are not suckers. And the last thing that I was sent was a message that the Iranian government had directed

everyone to evacuate all building official buildings, government buildings, hotels, other

structures.

“I think they anticipate that the war will begin anytime.”

Now, I've read Larry Johnson's Substack and he said there's credible reports, but he not confirmed at all that the plan is to start the war again on May 7th, which would be tomorrow. Do you have any information, can you talk to that? Larry could be right. His source could be right.

I was asked earlier today and I said I think within 48 hours something's going to happen. The Iranians have already attacked targets in the United Arab Emirates, which has been not so secret Trojan horse for the Israelis for a long time. I think the air defense networks are up and running. And as I said, the Iranians have already instructed everybody to go below ground and hide

out.

“So my suspicion is it's coming, but is it coming tomorrow or the next day or the next day?”

I don't know, but it's definitely going to happen. What else can they do, Larry? I mean, this is like Laurel and Hardy is running the State Department on behalf of Trump. It doesn't make any sense. We go for one silly thing to the next.

We claim victory every other hour. We tell everyone how many alleged ships have been sunk in the Iranian Navy, didn't have much of a Navy to begin with. The Iranian Air Force hasn't really been a significant player since the Shah deported. I mean, none of this stuff matters.

Just it's just one unending sort of flow of crap that comes out of the White House. I don't think anybody with a brain is going to believe anything that the White House says anymore. And what do you, what, now I've been pontificating on social media about what would happen if Trump does restart this war and starts hitting civilian targets inside Iran again. Well, I think if you follow this Jeff Curie, he writes excellent work for the Carlisle group on oil and gas.

He's tracking every conceivable trend that you can imagine. He says that by July will have pretty much run through what's left of our petroleum reserve will be close to the bottom of the tank. I think the whole world is in a lot of trouble right now. It's running out of petroleum products.

This morning, I received a note from a friend in India who says it's $118 a barrel for oil right now in India. And I guess, Jeff fuel is up to $250 a barrel, surprise, surprise, it's so many air crafts are sitting on the ground that are not flying, nobody can afford it. I think we're in a lot of trouble and diesel is extremely problematic now to develop.

Everybody talks about, well, you know, we have fracking, but they don't understand that

and then it's refined as a special form of oil and the gasoline or something else. And we've got 70% of our farmers that say that they can't afford to buy fertilizer. We've had a 50% spike in fuel prices across the country.

“I think we're talking about disasters it stands now.”

Now, if we go back to bombing, I think instead of recovering within the next two to three years, we won't see recovery for at least a decade. And what Curie is saying, and I'm hearing this from many, many people, we're going to head into a global depression if we have another phase of bombing. We won't, right now, we're going into a recession.

Our recession is probably going to be very deep, but the world is facing depression, as well as famine and a lot of other things. So how much of a catastrophe do you want? You've got a catastrophe already. We're not going to recover from this very quickly.

All the tankers that left the Persian Gulf that were full of petroleum and other products fertilizer and so forth and aluminum, you name it, they've already arrived. So now we have a permanent disruption if we restart this war. And I see no evidence that we're not going to do it, and it doesn't seem to me that President Trump understands the global consequences of what he's doing.

So no one's telling him, I mean, I know that most of the people in the room when they

he decided to start the war in the first place, were against it, except for Hegseth.

Even Marco Rubio was against it, the head of the CIA was against it, General Kane, everybody JD bands, everybody was advising Trump to get, he only listened to BB Netanyahu. Do you think there's, he's listening to anybody else now, except BB? Well, I, I don't want to rain on your parade, but I, I think you want to consider the possibility that these people who claim that they said they were opposed to something,

may have said something along the lines, well boss, if that's what you want to do, we got it, we'll go with it, you know, I might, you might think about something else. I'm not sure this is the, this is the right move, but you know, I'm with you.

“I think that's what people said, you know, this business of standing up and telling somebody”

that's a disastrous idea, don't do it. Nobody does that, when, when Ian Brenner flew into Baghdad in March of 2003, and he announced, well, whatever else you've heard, forget it, what we're going to do is we're going to dismantle the Iraqi army, dismantle the Iraqi State, dismantle the Iraqi bureaucracy, stand down the police, we're going to rebuild this country from the ground up.

It's going to become the first liberal democracy in the Arab world.

It's going to be friendly to Israel and all this sort of business. Only one man in the room said, I, I'm, I'm concerned, Mr. Bremer, and he said, what are your concerns? He was a full kernel in the chemical core. He was the only man that said anything.

Everybody else sat there and said, well, you know, okay, this is tough. And Dave Petrae has famously said, well, you know, downsizing, it's hard to do. And everybody walked out of the meeting, and after the meeting was over, everybody stood

“around outside and told journalists, oh, I think this is a really bad idea.”

This is something we shouldn't do. But when it was there, turned to stand up and take a firm position, they didn't do it. So I'll be frank with you. I don't believe most of that. I think most of the people in the White House live in fear of Donald Trump.

The people that are working over there told me that they're afraid of him. He blows up. He doesn't like facts that get in the way of his preferences. And so my theory is that what Iran has promised and what Scott Ritter has also said that if Trump restartes this war, they're not going to respond proportionately as they

have been so far that they're going to go for the juggler and they're going to go right after the desalination plants inside the Gulf States. And as we know, that's where 70% of their water comes from, if not more. And so do you think Iran will do that? And will the result of that be the complete desertion of those countries because in 72

hours without water, you have a humanitarian crisis. So they're going to do you think that Iran will do that? Hit their desalination plants and will there be a mass migration from the Gulf States. If that happens.

Well, the short answer is yes, when this war began, there were 67 million people living

from the Iraqi border all the way down to the border with Oman in the Gulf States.

And Saudi Arabia, 67 million people.

I don't know how many people are living here now. But you don't necessarily have to destroy the desalination plants if you've already destroyed the power grid and the source of the power and the oil infrastructure. You can't run a desalination plant on thin air. It needs to be fueled.

You have to have power sources. So if you destroy the power sources, it doesn't make any difference.

“So I think that's exactly what they will do.”

Now, if we are also attacking their oil infrastructure, their power grid and their desalination plants. And I guess the Iranians will respond with the destruction of the desalination plants. But basically, if you don't have power, it doesn't make a great deal of difference. So it's the same outcome either way.

So no, Trump must know this, no, or do you think there's a chance he does not know this? And if he does know this does he just not care? I mean, the Gulf states, okay, look, just to answer that, let's take a one step at a time. Do you think Trump knows this?

And if he doesn't know this does he don't know this does he not care? He may have been told something like this. And he may have said, I don't believe it. Or I think you are exaggerating. I mean, those kinds of things are quite possible.

People that in the Soviet hierarchy and the Soviet general staff before they went into

Stalin were always told, never tell him how many casualties we sustained.

Don't bring it up. So nobody ever said the Soviets had X number of casualties, they only reported German casualties. We have that kind of atmosphere is what I'm told. You can't go in there and tell him things that he absolutely does not want to hear. You're still dealing with Roy Cohn's student, and remember what Roy Cohn told you.

You know, you attack attack, you deny denying that I, and then whatever happens, you declare victory and take credit for it. So this is not somebody who's predisposed to listen to the hard facts and certainly doesn't want to admit that any decision he took could have been flawed in any way. So what, I've mentioned this before, is it not in the Gulf state?

The Gulf states must know this, right? And so wouldn't they be the one haranging Trump and getting in a zero about this? Like, hey, we're going to get wiped out if you start this war again and don't do this? Well, the GCCC already warned you. What could happen?

So he's aware of that. But I think what he's told them is, look, will come, will be back, will win this, you'll get everything back, will help you rebuild on and on and on.

“I think that's what they were told, and I think there's not much they can say in response”

to that. I think the UAE was a little different than the rest because the UAE has actually encouraged him to do everything in his power to utterly destroy Iran. Is that because the UAE is the closest Gulf state with Israel and Benjamin Netanyahu? Yes.

Very much so, and you know, they've also, they've also signed up for dollar swaps. Remember, they stepped out of the out of OPEC very recently. I think all of these things, part of the deal, will rebuild everything, will fix everything and so forth.

The truth is, you're looking at 10 years of total, you know, no recovery for 10 years of this

entire region as a result of this war, if he goes forward with another massive air and missile camping. That's a foregone conclusion, everybody says that, and Larry, we're not going back. The 27 plus bases in the region that are completely destroyed is the Washington Post is now finally admitted, I guess, the CIA told them to tell the truth.

As a result of that, we can't rebuild all those things. We don't have the money for it.

“We can't afford it, and why would anybody living there want us to come back?”

We've turned ourselves and them into a baggedet for attack. We can't defend them. That's being able to demonstrate it. And as I've pointed out here on the Jimmy Dorsho and set on social media that you would think the people, like the money people in the United States, the bakers, the Wall Street

people, even Silicon Valley, a great amount of that oil money that comes out of the Gulf States goes directly into our stock market, and now if they get wiped out, and will they're already not able to make money off oil for currently. And so the money that would have gone into our stock market is not going in, which will

But if it's wiped out for 10 years, so I guess my question would be, wouldn't the money people and the tech people in the United States, along with the Gulf States, be screaming

“at Trump, and do you agree with what I just laid the scenario I just laid out?”

I think your scenario in terms of the outcome is accurate, but I don't think you've accurately evaluated the people in Wall Street or in the tech community. What do these people know about military power? What do they know about warfare?

The answer is nothing, and what do they listen to?

They listen to Donald Trump. We have the greatest military in the world, we can do anything, there's nobody that couldn't compete. Okay. In some areas that's going to be true, in a lot of areas, that's not true.

They don't understand that with the weapons that are disposal, with the forces that we have that are really forces that were designed to refight some version of World War II, are not the right answer to the problem that we confront. We can't fix this with military power. I've had people say, "Oh, you're wrong, an avian Marine, they'll take that straight.

They'll occupy it. It's all done."

“How do you explain to someone that the Iranians don't have to occupy anything?”

If you move a ship into the straight that they do not want to move through the straight,

they're going to pick that up instantaneously, thanks to persistent surveillance from space-based intelligence reconnaissance and surveillance, that data will be sent instantaneously to missile systems, cruise missiles, tactical ballistic missiles, unmanned systems, those will be launched, and that ship will be damaged, or if necessary, sunk. They don't understand what's going on.

It doesn't have to be a little Iranian man standing on the edge of the waterway with an AK-47 in an RPG telling you to stop. That's not necessary. That's not how this works. We're not preparing to deal with this.

We haven't been prepared for this for 30 years. Back in 1997, I published a book called "Breaking a Falex," and talked about exactly this

kind of thing happening, saying, "You're off shore naval power will be driven hundreds

of miles away from the shore because that they come too close. Somebody's going to launch a missile. It's going to be very difficult to defend against the missile. I used at the time, oh gosh, wasn't he where she was, it was Okinawa.

“I used the example of the kamikaze that Okinawa, and I said, "How many ships were damaged?”

How many were sunk? How many thousands of people were killed or wounded? Well, it was enormous." You had 26, 27 ships that were badly damaged, 23 sunk, so forth, thousands of people. This was a, these were just manned cruise missiles, flying at relatively slow speeds.

Now you're dealing with missiles traveling at hypersonic speeds in many cases. You're dealing with large numbers of them. How do you defend yourself against that? She don't have enough missiles to fire in response to defend yourself, so what does a Navy do?

The Navy very intelligently goes out into the sea. It moves 300, 400 miles offshore because it doesn't want to be tanked, but people don't understand this. So they think we can do things we can't. Well, here's another great way you can help support the show, is to become a premium member.

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Thanks for everybody who was already a premium member, and if you haven't, you're missing out. And lots of bonus content, thanks for your support. Hey, guess what? Speaking of failed media enterprises, Ben Shapiro at the Daily Wire has fired half this

staff and mass layoffs. So, yeah, because they've lost 85% of their YouTube audience since last year, I wonder why? Maybe Ben Shapiro should come out and tell people, "Fuck you, you don't get to live in your own neighborhood.

You grew up in any more. You ask all, and you shouldn't be able to retire. He should tell them more stuff like that, and he should tell them that the United States needs to be a better ally to Israel as they crack down on our free speech rights, and all the stuff and tell students to shut up.

But, you know, everyone had to be with an adult only because they ever went into debate with an adult. But they had lost 85% of their viewers, but the consolation prizes, Ben Shapiro's

Isn't that nice? Well, he's got a greater eyebrow project. You know, once the rest of his audience has bailed on the Daily Wire, he's going to be

a fur-covered wolf man in a Ukrainian zoo where he can finally start making some real

money on my right. Come on. You guys got hit with most ashes for eyebrows. Ben Shapiro's from the rap, Ben Shapiro's Daily Wire hit with layoffs across numbers of teams, largely from Nashville's headquarters, Ben Shapiro's right-wing media company

confirmed the layoffs, saying that they impacted staff for a span of a number of teams, and that the layoffs were largely concentrated at its Nashville headquarters. Today, the Daily Wire made a difficult decision to restructure the organization, which

“and click, yeah, yeah, the reason why is because you're failing enterprise, right?”

The idea that they were going to be able to make it without Candice Owens is like the idea that TPU is saying is going to be able to make it without Charlie Kirk. Okay.

I mean, how about that great snow white that they were supposed to make the rookie man, the

traditional man? That's right. So, I like at the end he says, we are deeply grateful to those impacted their contributions who are instrumental in building the Daily Wire into what it is today. What it is today is a failing media empire spiraling.

Spiraling in the wrong direction. The statement continued. The cuts were largely got to trade it at our Nashville production office as the company has invested in new fall. Yeah, they're just switching their focus, Kirk.

It's not that no one's watching them anymore because everyone has turned against his favorite

“country Israel, which he cares more about than the United States.”

Over the last year, we have added production staff in DC, the Northeast, and Florida. This step allows us to focus our resources on the embits. This is the double-seeking, and ambition slate, but new editor today would project. Yeah, we're going to do, you know, now that the old ones have failed, we're going to try new ones.

So, they're running on fumes and donor money because no one's watching their show. Did you see what happened? They're making an action movie with that guy from Marvel that got run out for beating his girlfriend and then they picked him up, then he got brutally injured crashing through a playground, glass window because they don't have union safety standards.

Oh, no kidding. I didn't know that. We don't like unions, so like the guys all messed up now from crashing through, it wasn't the fake glass. It was like the real glass or something.

You know, but at, you know, just to show Ben Shapiro's gratitude towards the teams, the people he's had to lay off, he has, in a symbol of gratitude for them, he has agreed to do personalize gag answering phone messages for each fired employee. Thanks for your absolute ridiculous, fine. Candace Owen, who worked at the company until 2024, also commented on the layoffs of her

former employer, she hinted that at least 50% of the company staff was affected. Here it is, hearing that the daily wire laid off 50% of their staff today, as much as I am possibly despise what their execs put me and my family through. There's a lot of good people at work there in their families feet. They could use our prayers.

Okay. All right. These cuts at the daily wire are the latest for the company. The last round of layoffs at the media company came in March of 2025. The layoffs at the daily wire are just the latest in the entertainment and media sector.

A couple of weeks ago, Disney announced layoffs, tolding 1,000 people across Marvel, its PR division and home entertainment, Axios and Netflix also announced layoffs in March. In fact, Netflix too, oh, I thought they were doing so good just a couple of years ago, you know, as long as they don't lay off all the brand new comedians with 15 minute

“specials of comedy material that they can milk into a half-hour special, am I right?”

The daily wire is a case study of why personality-driven media companies can't compound.

Take in late 2023, Shapiro's YouTube alone pulled in 170 million monthly views.

Daily wire plus subscriptions, Nashville studio operations, Berkeley kids streaming in an e-commerce arm with razors and chocolates and cigars. The company was running a billion-dollar conservative Disney bet, then they made the studio bet bigger. Pentnetch is what you're talking about, right?

The Pentragon Cycle and Dragon Cycle. Are theory and fantasy series of the kind that has bankrupted larger production houses? Yeah. Pentates. Bill one game of thrones.

They all want their own game of thrones. Pentkey, trying to compete with Disney for kids' attention, daily wire plus, chasing Netflix, running a newsroom of film studio, a children streaming platform, and a private label consumer goods business, simultaneously requires either limitless capital or an extraordinary

Some of it worked.

“Matt Walsers and my racist was the top-grossing documentary of 24, but most of it didn't”

work. No kidding. I didn't know that was the top-grossing documentary in 2024, no kidding. I didn't know either. In March of 24, they parted ways with Candace Owen.

She walked into the open market and built a show that competes with theirs. In fact, blows there's a way.

She's the number one audio bug today, we have 5.5 million YouTube subscribers and added

10.9 million followers across all her platform since January 2025, generating roughly 800 and 5 million views in that window. Daily wire converted its biggest distribution asset into its largest competitor, kind of like what the young Turks did with this show. Daily 2025 co-founder Jeremy Boring stepped down as CEO and launched a solo podcast outside

the company he co-founded, Bentkey was shuttered the same year, the entire team cut.

“Then the audience, math hit Shapiro himself 170 million monthly YouTube views in late”

2023 to roughly 22 million in early 25 and 85% collapse in 18 months, another 60,000 subscribers gone in the last 90 days. LayoffHedge.com estimates cumulative workforce reduction above 60% over the past year. Wow. Wow.

Why did he call it the Greater Boring Project? No kidding. Zucker Carlson left Fox in 2023, he kept his audience, runs his shop with a fraction

of the headcount, Megan Kelly's network drew 138 million YouTube views in February

alone. The personalities figured out they don't need the platform that platform discovered the opposite, which is what I was telling Chris Hedge is all the long and he finally took my advice and started his own. He's killing it.

I told him you don't need a billion air funding your voice on independent media and he figured it out. Daily wire built a billion dollar valuation on names that can walk, take the audience with them and run a competing show from a laptop the next morning, 170 million views to 22 million that company kept the overhead, the audience left with the people.

Candace Owen's tweet is this out, very good read.

I would only add that the daily wire also suffered in the end from a Ben Shapiro problem.

Any plan to save the company would have had to include him stepping away as the public face of it. That's just a reality. His brand has become toxic to grow 100% no kidding. What about the Vek Pastrani as a replacement?

How about it? He's going to be the new governor in Ohio, so he can screw over workers even harder. It's that the daily wire is fired half of its staff because no one wants to watch their lay mass prop again, a Ben Shapiro in the Israeli wire, our reporting financial difficulties and cratering viewership, they were selling Israeli wire memberships for 50% off.

You couldn't pay me to watch that garbage and there it is. There's Candace Owen's given the sign above his grave. Did you see the New York Post I think about the Jesus phone, which is a phone that blocks

“pornography or something for Christians, but here's the thing, it's run by Israeli security”

programs. No. It's so easy. He's just giving Israel your porn viewing habits. Our Zionists, the biggest porn producers in the world anyway, they're both sides of the

game of the war. Yeah. There you go. You create the problem and you sell the solution to it isn't that that's that's kind of what they did with the COVID, Fauci invented the virus and then he sold you the vaccine.

Isn't so that's called the success, that's called a scam. That's called a scam. So Ben Shapiro, good to see him sucking a big bag of dicks, he really is unlikable, isn't he? He may be the most unlikable he is he makes Erica Kirk look like a good time. Well, Kyle, when he would do impressions of a Kyle is not like really, you know, he doesn't

know all the ins and outs of these people like that, but he's just like he's just so twerpy. He has he's got this little twerpy and that's the worst dude, and his eyebrows, I don't know, do whatever with him, but I don't think it's helping. I don't know what, what do you look, let's see, let's see his eyebrows again, they're

all right, I don't those are his war eyebrows and now he's back to see his fly brow. You see his plumage extends when he's under threat from Iran, yeah, that's what you have.

gas deals, Russian rubles or Chinese won only, no dollars ever again.

“So Europe sanction Russia to protect the dollar system, Russia just removed the dollar from”

the European, that is shocking. This is again, having major unintended consequences, the, the, the, the, the international security state and the W. E. F. Davos group thought that they were going to be able to crush Russia and break it up and Balkanize it into play into pieces and then black rocks and state street and Vanguard could buy it up.

It didn't happen, in fact, Russia is stronger now than ever before Putin has got a higher popularity ratings than ever before, 75, 80% popularity ratings and he's closer together with China and now they're trading oil and not the dollar, which is the worst outcome for the United States because our whole economy's based on the petro dollar.

“And when that goes away, our, our, our currency devalues and our, our ability to print money,”

if we're no longer the reserve currency of the world, our whole, everything's got, we can't sanction people. We lose all our power and our, our, our, our economy crashes. So just, whatever you'd like to take it talking about the Ukraine war, the craziness of Europe in general, because they're doubling down, they want more war with Russia and if you have

any ideas on why that is and what's going to happen, go right ahead. Well, just, just in the last 24 hours, King Charles III, you know, has been, has been speaking in the presence of Donald Trump and has been making plain his, his belief, his opinion that we, we being Britain and the United States have to stand fast in support of the, you

“know, the brave people of Ukraine and the, and the independent status of Ukraine.”

Now, of course, you know, the citizen of Ukraine, you know, God help when God bless them, you know, the, the ordinary, the ordinary people that have had this to send upon them, but, you know, the, the Zelensky regime, you know, that being what I mean by, by Ukraine in this context. The fact that the, the, the King is, who's sworn duty is to, is to look out for his subjects, to protect the people, to be, to be their last line of defense in, in many respects.

And he, he's basically, he's basically getting behind the idea of ongoing war with Russia.

Now, I, I, I, I just find, I just find that, that once again, the, he, in this context, is, is again, playing out of the war in a playbook, you know, he was, he was, he was invoking, you know, the, in the aftermath of 9/11, how we, how we, how we, we came together, you know, with unity, and he was also, you know, playing the greatest hits of, of, second world war, and the first world war, you know, how we stood shoulder to shoulder at that time.

It's surely too late for the, for the latest iterations of these people, the, the monarch in Great Britain, the president of the United States, the, the president of the European Union. It's too late, too much has changed, and too many people are aware of too much for them to keep on banging these same drums, you know, you invoke 9/11 now, and too many people say, "Oh, yeah, yeah, you mean the one that the CIA knew about, you mean the one that George

W. Bush knew about, you know, you mean the one that Israel knew about in advance, you mean that 9/11, too many people air those so-called, whatever, conspiracy theories, and

invoke, you know, the, the, the second world war, and by now too many people say, "Oh, yeah,

the one that you mean, in the aftermath, there was the, the Britain Woods agreement that pinned the dollar to gold and pinned every other currency then to the dollar, you know, which then, which then set the, which then set the pattern, you know, towards everything else that has happened in the name of the dollar. You mean World War II, where, you know, it was Britain went to war to liberate Poland, and then by the end of the war, that wasn't even attempted,

and Poland was just thrown under the bus. You mean the, you mean the second world war, where the, the, the communists were handed half of the continent, you mean that second world war,

you mean the second world war, we have Operation Paperclip lifted thousands of Nazis, war criminals

out of Germany and transplanted them to America, you know, for the, for the rocket program

have those responses now, and yet we all still have to sit back and watch the latest monarch

“of Great Britain and the latest present of the United States of America, invoking their greatest,”

invoking the greatest hits in expectation of the kind of response they used to get. Where are they going to realize that those days are over, that on account of what has happened, the realization has been made possible by people's exposure to the information that's on the internet, the information that's circulated and discussed endlessly by the alternative slash independent media, people know too much and yet we're still, we've, we've got, we've

got, you know, the, the, the toy soldiers in, in what remains of the British Army, you know, talking about the necessity for the nation to prepare for war, kinetic war with Russia, European Union promised a 90 billion euros to Ukraine, euros that the, the people of Europe

“need and are being denied, so that are promised nonetheless to the Zelensky regime in Ukraine.”

We all know this stuff and we're still having to watch these tired acts step out on stage and play the same old, you know, the same old tunes, where are they going to realize that nobody buys it anymore and the show's over? Well, they wouldn't that show up in elections then wouldn't that show up in the European elections and we would get new leaders because

I always thought people in Europe were much smarter and more cosmopolitan people in the United

States, don't they know that when they blew up the Nord Stream pipeline that it negatively affected their economy, that people, because people still, because people, unless and until people realize that if you're offered it as something you can vote for, it's another buttuck of the same arse. So people, people are, are offered so-called alternatives. It happens all the, but they are sanctioned alternatives, you know, all across people in good faith,

people in good faith think that they can vote their way out of it, they believe in the concept of democracy and they believe that eventually the right party and the right candidates are going to step forward and if they can just get them into power, everything will change. You know, that's one of that is the, that's the last ridout as long as that

corrupted rotten system is perpetuated by well-meaning people who think that, ah, finally, that's the

party for me, they'll deliver the goods, they'll come through on the promises, they'll stop the, they'll stop the, the population changing mass uncontrolled immigration, you know, they'll get, they'll get us out of this, that and the next thing, they'll stop the, you know, they'll stop all the things I'm frightened of, because people aren't realizing that if it's, if it's wearing a suit, it's got honorisette and it's standing on a soapbox and you're allowed to vote for it,

it's part of the problem, it's just the, it's just the new face of the same problem.

“So what you, I hear you saying is, is that there's no way to vote our way out of this, right?”

Is that what you're saying? No, that system, that system's been corrupted all the way, liberals aren't liberal, conservatives aren't conservative, labor doesn't work, no, the greens aren't green, the greens are about greed, yeah, so how do you say that? People, people have people that have not understood, it's, it's a very, that people say that to me all the time, how do we get out of it? You know, it does come, it does come back to people understanding certain things,

democracy is not made manifest by voting in an election, that's not, that's not democracy, democracy is people governing themselves, self-governing people, and you only govern yourself if you have the last say on the law, the laws under which you're expected to live. And then let, if there's a mechanism for manifesting that as a reality, then you've got democracy. Now in Britain for 800 years, we had trial by jury, whereby an accused person is brought before

a jury of his or her peers, and that jury, whatever, listens to the story they're told, and decides based on their conscience, whether or not they think the person should be convicted or not of, of whatever breach of legislation has seen them land up in court, but much more importantly than the guilt or innocence of the individual, they are there to weigh up the justice of the legislation,

with every case, a jury is empowered to check the justice of the law, that's being taken away in Britain,

“trial by jury is all but gone, and if you end up in a situation as we will in Britain,”

where an administration can write its laws, get them passed because it has a majority or otherwise controls the parliament, and then decides what the punishments will be for anybody breaking that law and employs the judges that will make the decisions about guilt or innocence, that's text, but tyranny, we in Britain have watched that happen, that's the end of democracy, that is the end of democracy, voting in elections, that should only be about having a momentary concern about

the makeup of the administration that will look after, that will administer the wishes of the

people, because of what's been done to trial by jury in Britain, for example, we don't have

“democracy, the people are not government themselves, because the only mechanism that manifests”

that as a reality, which is trial by jury, we're the jury sitting as a little parliament, tests, the justice or not of the legislation, once that's gone, it's a dictatorship, people, so announce up to your question, how do we get out of this, you're not getting out of it by voting, because if you can vote for it, it's one of them, yeah, I had tried to explain that to people, and it's hard to get it over on people like this can't, you know, in the United States,

people just see Trump as the ultimate evil instead of just a continuation of what will you all have had, and, you know, they somehow turn a blind eye to Joe Biden, forcing experimental medical

“treatments on people, they turn a blind eye to Joe Biden, starting a proxy war with a nuclear”

power, they turn a blind eye to Joe Biden, funding a genocide right in front of our faces, they turn a blind eye to him smashing a union strike, they they turn a blind eye to the Democratic party, rigging three primaries in a row, so we don't even get a choice, three primaries in a row, and the last one, they'd even bother to have a primary, but anyway, go ahead, you wanted to say, we, well, we as a species are watching genocide, I know, the 20th century was supposed to teach

all of us that if we so much has smelled the smoke of a potential genocide, we were supposed to show it fire, that that was that that was supposed to be the lesson of the 20th century, don't wait until it's happening, if it's happening stop it, but don't wait until it's happening, but we are watching a genocide unfold in in in Lebanon, Christians Christians in Lebanon are being murdered and dispossessed in Lebanon under our gaze, how can the so I mean, you know, before you get

to things like, democracy and union strikes being smashed, we have we have disregarded lesson number one that as I understood it, we were supposed to get from the 20th century, which is, which is, you don't stand by, well, someone somewhere moves the grass, don't do that, that's that's that's step number one, if we're going to if we are going to watch a genocide, we've got we've got a present in the United States of America vowing to to bomb into the

Stone Age of 4,000-year-old civilization, promising, promising that it will never rise again that civilization,

unless he gets his way, like J.D. Vans is still saying, oh well if, if Iran will just, if the people of Iran will just do what we need them to do, they'll just go where we want, then it'll be an economic success story, how many how many times are people going to watch that playbook played by America, you know, after the, you know, the seven wars in five years, the Libya, Libya was promised a, you know, a bright new future, if it wasn't for the Gaddafi regime,

now what happened there? Well, Gaddafi was so demise today, the scaffold pool and now you can buy slaves in Tripoli for 400 bucks, how many, how many people, how many people are going to look all

as, as we predicted, if you get rid of Assad, they're going to install an al-Qaeda's going to take over, and that's exactly what happened except he took off his terrorist car, but he put on a Brooks brother's suit and he's welcomed that downing street, he's welcomed at the White House, everybody loves the, the former chief head chopper of al-Qaeda in Syria who's now running that country, but of course he's working with Israel because that's part of the greater Israel

project, and now Israel does control about a third of Syria. So yeah, it's exactly what you're saying,

exactly what you're saying. Look at Libya, look at Iraq, look at Sudan, look at Somalia, look at Afghanistan, one country after another, look what's happened, it's the same thing that happens every time, you know, Iraq and Saddam who's saying that had to be taken on because, you know, he was, he was looking at trading oil and other resources in his own currency or without the petrol dollar. You know, so he was hanging by the neck until he was dead,

look what happened to Muammar Gaddafi, same thing, he would contemplate and step out of line, yeah, you're not, you're not having a central bank, not, you know, not playing by the, by the, by the playbook of the bank for international settlement, that runs the central banks, you wouldn't do it. So, you know, he ends up, you know, in a, in a drain pipe with a, you know, with a mob. And yet, these are the, these are the things I have to be, God, it's a lot, it's a long road,

but to me, in my lifetime, that we're watching, that we're watching a genocide and excusing it, we're watching a genocide and seeing, and listening to people say, well, someone's got to do it. Back to Marco Rubio, according to our friend Fercan, he is visibly panicking, he's literally begging Beijing to step in and save the collapsing economy.

Let's listen to what he said.

On the first point about the visit, it's fine. I hope the Chinese tell him,

because Trump is scheduled for a visit in just a few days in China. So, this is what he's referring to. On the first point about the visit, it's fine. I hope the Chinese tell him what he needs to be told, and that is that what you're doing on the streets is causing you to be globally isolated.

“You're the bad guy in this. You guys should not be blowing up ships, you should not be putting”

minds, you should not be holding hostage, the goalable, trying to hold hostage, the global economy. I hope the Chinese bring, whether it's done privately, but I hope it's done directly, that that's the message they delivered to them. As I outlined earlier today, China is an export-driven economy. Okay, I'm not here to speak on behalf of what's in the best

interest of China, but it's obvious. China is an export-driven economy. That means they depend on

other countries to buy from them. Well, you can't buy from them if you can't ship it there, and you can't buy from them if your economy is being destroyed by what Iran is doing. So, just to let you know, a Chinese, according to reports, Chinese oil takers are passing the straighted-forward moves daily, and the United States hasn't said a word about it. What's your reaction to Marco Rubio and to this report? Everything that Marco Rubio said to Chinese should

communicate to Iran will be communicated to President Trump when he shows up in Beijing. Yes. Iran isn't going to tell -- or rather, China is going to tell the Iranians that President Xi understands exactly what's happening. He knows who started the war, and he knows why. And he takes the position. I'm sure in private. What are you doing? Why are you going to war

“on behalf of Israel? This makes no sense. This is destructive. That's what President Xi will probably”

say in private. But otherwise, he's going to give him exactly that message. He's going to say President Trump, you need to stop this before the entire world. Economy is destroyed. But he's not going to turn on Iran. Iran is defending itself. He's helping Iran to defend itself. So, it's Russia. So, I think Secretary Rubio has turned everything on its head. And that's not surprising. That's what he's being paid to do, I guess.

And do you have any information on this report that Chinese oil takers have been passing through the Strait of Formus daily? Well, I don't know about daily, but I know that the Chinese went quickly to the Iranians, and the Iranians made it clear that they would allow all the Chinese tankers to pass through unmolested. By the way, similar arrangements have been made with the

“Japanese and similar arrangements are in progress now with the Koreans. And I think we're going to”

see more and more nations, particularly in Asia, who are sympathetic to Iran's position,

headed in the right direction. It's China that needs to be very straightforward with President

“Trump. Let me let me go a little bit further, because people don't understand how important”

China is. If President Trump thinks he can go to Beijing and make demands and expect President Xi to comply, he's lost his mind. Beijing recently announced that Chinese companies will not observe and abide by U.S. sanctions. Not on private refiners, certainly not linked to the Iranian oil trade. Absolutely will not hinder or limit heavyweight, hang Lee Petro chemical refinery company. This is a sea change in Beijing's relations with Washington. Beijing is normally

“always trying to accommodate. They tried to accommodate us on tariffs and other things. They're not”

going to accommodate on energy. China is now tightening its grip on trade with us. They're expanding

export controls on critical minerals. They're reinforcing their own supply chains. In addition to

cornering Washington on trade, Beijing is also reducing its holdings of our treasuries. They are reallocating the reserves toward harder assets like gold and reducing reliance on U.S. debt. Let me tell you, if he goes there with anything other than an attitude character arrived by cordiality and humility, he's going to be embarrassed. He's going to be shown the door pretty quickly. So if what you say happens, if what you say is true that Korea, Japan, China

have a deal with the Iran to let those ships go through the strait of our moves according to Trump, they're going to stop it. Do you think that they will? Do you think that they that means them attacking China, Korea and Japan? Do you think that will happen? No, I don't. But I do think

“you are right. And I think within the next 48 hours, whether it's the seventh of May or the 8th of”

May, we're going to restart this here in missile campaign. That will in fact do the same thing is stopping trade period because as soon as the missiles and bombs start to fall and strike targets, that's over. Everyone in the Gulf is going to baton down the hatches and try to ride this thing out. There will be no movement to the straight-of-war moves. So he'll accomplish his blockade

by going back to war. The problem is that that's going to permanently alienate most of the world

against us and especially China. Okay. Well, you've been even very gracious with your time. I appreciate you accommodating our schedule as always do. And you're back to the Nepal Autoruitia. We appreciate your insight as always. You have a great knowledge and I appreciate you sharing it with us and I look forward to talking to you again soon. Douglas McGregor. Thank you very much, sir. Hey, thanks. Good to see you again. Good to see you. Hey, become a premium member. Go to jimmydoorcomedy.com,

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