➡ In this interview, Nino talks with Douglas McGregor about current events and their impact. They discuss the controversial decision of labeling Antifa as a terrorist organization, the influence of Charlie Kirk, and the skepticism towards the FBI. They also touch on the evolution of technology, mentioning the uneven development and the upcoming era of artificial intelligence. Lastly, they delve into conspiracy theories about technological advancements and their origins.
➡ The text discusses various topics, including the limitations of current technology, global politics, and the relationship between Russia and NATO. It also touches on President Trump’s actions and the potential for World War III. The speaker suggests that NATO should have been disbanded in the 1990s and criticizes the U.S.’s handling of relations with Russia. The speaker also discusses the history and current state of Russia, Ukraine, and China, and questions the effectiveness of tariffs in bringing manufacturing jobs back to America.
➡ The discussion revolves around the shift of manufacturing jobs from the U.S. to countries like China and India, and the challenges of bringing them back. The conversation also touches on the role of technology, particularly AI, and the potential for training Americans to fill these roles. The issue of Taiwan’s political situation and its role in micro circuit manufacturing is also discussed, along with the idea of bringing Taiwanese workers to the U.S. to start the process. The conversation concludes with the need for a strategic plan to address these issues.
➡ The text discusses the need for the U.S. to become more self-sufficient, particularly in the area of rare earths, which are currently imported from China and Mongolia. The author suggests that the U.S. should build its own refinery to process these elements, which are abundant in places like Canada and Alaska. The text also touches on the issue of drug trafficking, suggesting that the U.S. should take a tougher stance on drug dealers. The author believes that the U.S. needs to focus more on domestic issues and less on international conflicts.
➡ The text discusses the deployment of the National Guard in various states to combat crime and civil unrest. The speaker supports the idea, suggesting that the military can help clean up crime-ridden areas, but emphasizes that the police should lead the effort. Concerns about privacy and potential misuse of power are also raised, with the speaker suggesting that these issues need to be carefully considered and managed. The text also touches on the issue of homelessness, with the speaker suggesting that many homeless people are mentally ill and need treatment, but questioning where they are being taken.
➡ The speaker criticizes the Trump administration for its handling of foreign policy and domestic issues, giving it a failing grade in foreign policy and a C+ for domestic affairs. They believe the administration should have had a strategic approach and better communication with the American people. They also express concern about the increasing national debt and suggest that the administration should focus more on domestic issues like border security and crime. The speaker also mentions an upcoming VIP event in Dallas, Texas, where tough issues will be discussed.

All right, folks, welcome to Nino’s Corner TV. I’m with Colonel Douglas McGregor and he just wants me to call him Douglas from here on out. So I’m going to just call him Douglas. Douglas, thank you so much for joining me. I’d love to get your perspective. I’ve seen you all over the Internet. You’re making a huge splash everywhere, especially with the times we’re living in now. I mean, we are on the, we’re on the border of, of chaos, it seems like in the world, and tensions are high. Douglas, thank you so much for joining me. Very happy to be with you.

Nino heard lots about you. Good or bad? What difference does it make? It doesn’t. It’s probably mostly bad, but I’ll go with it. All right, man. So today Trump has declared Antifa a terrorist organization. I mean, I know we all saw that coming, but you know, I’m watching these accounts get pulled from tick tock. I’m watching a lot of these almost like mental illness just spread across the Internet, celebrating a death of someone that, you know, I believe was a patriot and a good man. You know, he spread the belief, the Christian belief and, and nuclear family values.

And a lot of people are just, you know, using their freedom of speech. Right. But at the same time they’re being punished for it. Kind of like we were in 2020-2024. And I’m like, wait a minute, is it. This is like a double edged, double edged sword or the pot counting calling the kettle black. What’s your thoughts on this and what’s your thoughts on Trump labeling Antifa a terrorist organization? Well, let’s take Charlie Kirk first. Charlie was killed not for anything he said, but because people were listening to him. That’s the problem. It suddenly became clear that he commanded the intention of hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of young men and women somewheres between the age of 18 and 30.

And as a result, he was, he was judged to be dangerous because he could actually move things along. Now, let’s be frank. I saw him a few years ago and I for, I’m trying to remember what the issue was, but he was someone who had his pulse on the, on the population, the younger, younger generation. And he listened, which is something a lot of people don’t do. And so he changed his positions. And the most recent change of course was on Israel and what the Israelis are doing in Gaza. He also changed his view on Epstein and the importance of bringing that to light.

And this sort of thing began to spread very, very quickly. You had lots of people listening and saying, yeah, this is outrageous. You don’t kill people at will, men, women and kids, and drive them out of their homes where they’ve lived for a thousand years or more. That’s just not right. And he finally said, no, it isn’t right. And he began telling other people it wasn’t right and the rest is history. Somebody decided to kill him. Right. We could sit here for the next 30 minutes and speculate on who the somebody was, but we do know, for instance, that there were at least three unmanned aerial vehicles, I.e.

drones overhead, which is a little odd for a Turning Point USA rally of what, 3,000 people? NSA reported. I’m told that there were lots of Israeli cell phones in the audience. That’s unusual. I mean, I don’t have an answer and I don’t know. But I am very skeptical of what the FBI says. And that’s not a new revelation. I’ve been very skeptical of them for some time. And if they call, call you up, I’ve been through this. I was called and they asked me, will you tell us a little bit about your views on Russia and your sources? And I said, well, let me give you the telephone number of my attorney.

Call him, he’ll set it up and we’ll meet with you. No, no, no, no, no, no. We, we don’t want to meet with him. We just want to talk to you. This is, this is a relaxed conversation. You’re not in trouble. I said, well, that’s great. Well then call my attorney and set up the meeting. Well, no thanks. Forget it. Click. It was, wow. I mean, my point is that I’m at the stage now where I don’t really trust that agency. And that’s hard for me. Even, even with Caspitel and Dan Bongino. I mean, they’re the ones that came out and said, oh, there is no Epstein list.

Epstein did you know he did self delete? And it’s just like everyone knows that to be false. Everyone. Let’s keep in mind, you know, you change maybe two, three or four people at the top of any large organization, it’s not going to make a lot of difference. You know, if you’re really going to change an organization has to be huge turnover at multiple levels. That hasn’t happened. So, you know, bottom line is it’s not something I’m comfortable with. And I feel badly because I grew up in a household where everybody worshiped at the altar of the FBI as the defender of everything good in the United States.

I mean, it never Even occurred to me it would be any different. So I think we’re all skeptical now. We should be. And I don’t know that we’ll ever find out what the, what the dickens really happened. I mean, I’m not sure we know what happened in Butler, Pennsylvania, even with JFK. I mean, 50 years or they come out with some information, I still don’t trust it. Yeah, but if I wake up dead somewhere and they say, well, McGregor shot himself, let me tell you right here, now, it’s not going to happen. I’m not shooting myself.

Thank you for making that clear. But I mean, if you really think about it, Charlie Kirk was, was capturing the minds and souls of the, the young generation, spreading the word of Christianity, the nuclear family. And that is a big. No, no, that’s a big threat, right? That’s a big threat to the liberal left or globalist agenda, correct? I think so. And when we talk about these globalists, we have to understand this is not something that popped up last week. This is a movement that began in the 1960s, 1965 onward. It started with project Paperclip when we brought over the German scientists.

And that’s when it was birthed here. Or was it? No, I think Paperclip was an act of national security. You know, we desperately wanted them because without them you wouldn’t have had NASA, you wouldn’t have had intercontinental ballistic missiles, Forget it. The US was woefully behind technologically. Way behind the Germans. No, we were interested in their jet powered aircraft. It took us another 20 years to produce anything close to what they had. So, no, I think that was something that made sense. And you know, when your national survival is at stake, remember the Soviets were just as interested in capturing all of this technology as we were.

And when the war ended, we were lucky because Werner von Braun had contacted us. That’s what people don’t understand. Or I thought, I thought the technology really had that turning point, no pun intended, but that turning point when the Roswell crash happened, I believe that’s what I mean. Really? Let’s think. Don’t you think so? I mean, that’s when everything kind of really shifted and technology just boom. Right after the Roswell crash. Well, somebody, somebody, sir, are people out there who insist that there was such a crash in the Black Forest in Germany in the 1930s. Okay.

And there are. That’s why Germany got the technology first. Well, you know, there’s two people that insist that that’s true. And they also insist that when questioned privately, they said, well, Werner Von Braun, how did you get so far so fast? And he said, well, we had help. And they said, help from whom? And he pointed up. Now that’s something I can’t prove, but supposedly that that was said. I, you know, these are things beyond our ability to confirm. But what we can say when you talk about something like Operation Paperclip, we needed him and we needed about 300 of the technicians that he brought with him.

They made all the difference in the world to our national security over the next 25, 30, 40 years. Right. You know, like when you look at the technology today, man, and I’m just watching these, I thought we would had flying cars before we had driverless cars. I mean, I thought that was a more of an impossible feat. But I mean, cell phones, the whole social media, I mean, we’re going into a. The generation now is going into generation AI. I don’t even know what to expect. What’s coming down the pipeline now. I mean, this is just going to get so insane.

People, you know, people don’t understand that technology develops on a very uneven basis. You’ll have a great leap forward in one area, and the other areas will stagnate for many, many years. Back in the 1930s and then as recently as 2010, I think it was this Mishu Kaku, this Japanese scientists who predicted that by 2020, we would all have laser pistols and laser cannon. Everything else, well, we’re still a long way from that sort of thing. We still are dealing with laws of physics that we have been unable to break. Right. They called fractal mathematics. That is an integral part of that.

We haven’t been able to break the code on a lot of these things. Now, that doesn’t mean we won’t at some point, but that’s why some areas are rapid development. Other areas, not so much. Let’s shift gears just for a second. Let’s talk about Russia. Let’s talk about NATO. We know that, you know, on my channel we talk about this all the time. The globalist, you know, plotting to create a world war scenario, World War Three. What do you make of the situation right now developing with Russia and NATO and Trump’s meeting with Putin in Alaska? I mean, he gave the role.

I mean, he literally gave Putin the red carpet treatment and kind of shafted Zelinsky. That says a lot to me. But what do you make of all this? Well, I’m not sure that President Trump did exactly what you said. I think he wanted a photo op badly. Trump’s very big optics. Okay, Remember he had a. A lot of experience with professional wrestling, so I’m sure he understands what that means very well. True. And he’s a reality TV star. And remember, it was not the Russians who asked for the meeting with us. He sent Wyckoff to Moscow and said, I want a meeting.

And I think initially the Russians were a little surprised because they expected a meeting that would involve a discussion of proposals. People would have studied these things in advance. Each side would come in with its views and there would be a discussion. None of that occurred when President Trump and his team showed up. They didn’t show up with any proposals at all. President Trump said, I want a ceasefire. And once again, they explained why that wasn’t possible. That was not the path. You know, a lot of people don’t understand when World War I ended with a ceasefire, there were weeks before that that there were negotiations.

In other words, when things ended on the 11th, it was because there were negotiations leading up to it. They agreed something, and then there was a ceasefire. And the Russian point is, that’s what has to happen now. We’ve never recognized their legitimate national security interests, and you can’t do business that way. You can’t walk in and say you don’t have any. We’re in charge. We’re no longer the sole superpower. In fact, we’re a shadow of our former selves 30 years ago in military terms, and I would argue economic terms right now, but people don’t understand that.

But President Trump did get a great photo op. It looked great. And he got to stand around near our newest combat aircraft and look overhead as a B2 bomber flew by and feel very powerful. But it all amounted to absolutely nothing. So what about the threatening to withdraw from NATO? Don’t you think that’s the thing he should do over the oil and gas situation? Don’t you think that’s like a move he should make to withdraw from NATO? I mean, we. We are their military arm. Yeah, well, I think NATO probably should have been disbanded in the mid-1990s.

There was no real reason for it. And we ended up doing a lot of things, intervening in the Balkans, first in Bosnia, then subsequently in Kosovo and Serbia in a search for things to give NATO to do. Right. This senator. I don’t know if it was Senator Nunn or I think it was him. One of the senators said, if NATO is not out of area, in other words, outside of Europe doing something, then it’s probably out of business. You know, at the time, I was a major in the army, and a lieutenant colonel. That’s. Those were those years for me, the 90s.

And then I was a full colonel by the time the 90s ended. But in all of that time, I spent a lot of it in Europe, a lot of it in Germany, a lot of it in the Balkans. And I and most of my peers concluded we should leave and go home. There’s no one to fight. The Russians posed no threat. Russia had become a Russian Orthodox Christian country again, Right? It was no longer communist. It did not subscribe to an ideology of expansion. It wasn’t leading any revolutions. It was trying to recover from 70 years of communism.

And our view was, well, let’s get along with the Russians. And in fact, I had meetings with Russian officers and soldiers. They were very professional. What we did together worked very, very well. I’m talking about primarily in the Balkans. I was there in November of 2001, and several of the Russian senior officers, I was with several general officers who were on the Russian general staff. And they said to me, we’ve read your books. What do you think the real problem was during the Cold War? And I said, well, supposedly it was Communism. And they all laughed because they said, well, Communism didn’t work.

We got the message. But they said, they concluded, well, there were people in both countries at the top that had an interest in the hostility and the conflict. There were ways to profit from. And I said, no, I think that’s not an unreasonable assumption. But my point is, everything that I’ve seen since the collapse of the Soviet state and the Soviet state system told me that there was no enemy and there was every reason for us to do business. Now, when it comes to Ukraine, Ukraine’s never been a nation state. This is brand new, right? And it was cobbled together very rapidly at the end by the Communists.

They drew boundaries that made no sense historically, culturally, ethnically, or anything else. And the most important mission that we could see when I was at Supreme Headquarters, Allied Powers Europe for Ukraine was to be neutral and to put hundreds and hundreds of miles between NATO and Russian military power. In other words, if it’s neutral, it works both ways. It’s advantageous to them and it’s advantageous to us. But we didn’t see this vast expansion coming. We saw evidence for it in the Balkans against Serbia, but we didn’t connect all the dots at the time. And unfortunately, when this coup was launched by Victoria Nuland and her friends in 2014 in Kiev, we ended up installing a government that was radical and violently anti Russian.

So it was only a Matter of time until a war broke out, which was stupid and unnecessary. And Trump said that. And by the way, he was correct. Now he’s starting to talk like Biden. Right. Which makes no sense at all because. And every time he comes close to like a peace deal or. I want to get your thoughts on this too, because, you know, this me raises a lot of red flags. Do you think these, you know, like the Nord Stream pipeline, right, that got blown up and we know they blamed Russia and then a US Factory gets blown up in Ukraine, they blame Russia.

Every time Trump comes with a peace deal, Russia bombs Ukraine. Is that a false flag? Is that NATO committing these acts and blaming Russia? Well, first of all, I’m completely unconvinced that the Russians did anything to harm Nord Stream 2. Right, right. It doesn’t make any sense at all. I suspect that Cy Hirsch is probably right in the article that he wrote. I commend that to people. When I was working at the end of the Trump administration, there were already people in the White House lobbying Donald Trump to do everything he could to stop the Nord Stream 2 from operating and trying to break up this.

What, what everybody said was dangerous dependency by Germany on Russian oil and gas. Nobody understood the past. I mean, in 1914, the number one trading partner for Germany was Russia and the number one trading partner for Russia was Germany. In 1941, just before the Germans launched their invasion, the same thing. Each country was the other’s number one trading partner. This has been going on for 300 years. If anything, the two world wars were exceptions for the balance of the 300 years. They got along very well and did a land office business. It posed no threat to us at all.

But people convinced Donald Trump of that. And obviously that was the keystone in the edifice of the argument that Biden made. It was all nonsense. The Russians want to do business with the West. They need the west business. Now. We have so alienated them and so, so damaged the relationship that they’ve turned to China. And what we don’t understand is that China today is where we were in 1945. In other words, we were in the takeoff stage. If you look at. But I got. China’s economy was in shambles right now. No, not at all. No. The Chinese are, have the largest manufacturing base in the world.

They’re desperately in need of oil and gas and. But hold on. Isn’t the point of these tariffs to bring back the manufacturing companies and jobs here in America? So, I mean, it’s going to suck for a while, but I Mean, at some point, like in six months into a year, they’ll start coming back and building here. Correct. I wouldn’t hold my breath. And the reason is very simple. When we lost things, in other words, when we shipped our manufacturing base overseas, and this is the CEO class, okay, the so called shareholder class, these are all the rich people.

And people on the Hill got rich as a result of supporting this. We shipped things overseas, primarily to China. The Chinese did not come to us and ask for anything. They didn’t come to us to try to buy anything. We shipped things to China. We betrayed the interests of American workers. We dismantled our own manufacturing base. Now here we are. Trump says, I want to bring it back. Well, that’s great. So how do you do that? Do you do that by threatening? Which is what he’s really doing with his tariffs. 100% tariff or 50% tariff against India or China.

Is that going to do any good? No, because they have developed to the point now where, where they don’t have to depend on us. Right? Yeah. Just go around us. Yeah, that’s the problem. Now the supply chains are shifting away from us and shifting to China and to India. Because supply chains in business, to be successful, need stability and predictability. But, but the number one opposite, the number one consumer, what he’s trying, what Trump’s trying to play with leverage is that the biggest consumer of all these products is America. Right. So he’s trying to bring the manufacturing jobs back to America.

So we buy from our USA made. Right. But where’s the incentive to build that? How do you bring not only foreign investment, but our people here in the United States that have capital? How do you incentivize investing it here? But, but is, aren’t they. I mean, he’s bringing in a lot of people to bring 600 million. Mark Zuckerberg AI plan to Palantir. I mean, no, I’m just asking. Well, honest question. Palantir doesn’t employ very many Americans. Remember, the future of AI, the future of I is. Is. I mean, the base is going to be here in America.

Correct. And Amazon, the whole thing, technology. If you look at the AI package that we were peddling on the Internet and promoting, the Chinese suddenly developed another AI package for which they charged nothing and put it out there to the whole world. And it’s much better than anything we offer. Let me ask you this, what about Taiwan right now? I mean, they’re in the balance right now. They’re on edge. They’re flying jets over them. There’s battleships out There. What’s going to happen with Taiwan? Did China make a move on Taiwan through all that, with all this going on, or will they wait till Trump’s out of office and then make a move on Taiwan? Well, first of all, I don’t think China is ever going to invade Taiwan.

Let me tell you why. You have two major political parties on Taiwan, and I won’t bother trying to pronounce their names, okay? Because I’m not a master of Chinese. Obviously, I don’t want to offend anybody. But one is the old party of Shanghai Shek. These are the people that retreated to the island when they lost the war on the mainland. That party is very pro unification with China. They control the parliament right now. The other party is a pro Japanese, pro American party, and the president is currently from that party, but he doesn’t control the parliament.

As long as we do not put rockets and missiles on Taiwan that can reach the Chinese mainland, the Chinese don’t particularly care what happens on Taiwan because the Taiwanese banks are as heavily invested in China as China is invested in them. In other words, if you had a crisis tomorrow morning, somebody thought they were going to go to war, the banks on Taiwan would shift all of their assets to China to ride out the war. Now, think about that. Does that sound like an imminent invasion? Now, what everybody talks about, what Donald Trump was talking about, is the micro circuitry they produce, which is the most sophisticated and the best in the world.

Everybody currently needs it. Japan needs it, Korea needs it, China needs it, and we need it. They’re selling to everybody. Nobody wants to destroy that under any circumstances. Why can’t we just bring them here and give them. Donald Trump tried to do that, and at the end of his first term, he had closed what he thought was a deal with the owner of the manufacturing base in Taiwan. But as soon as he was out of office, it fell apart. But it fell apart for a reason, because the owner said, you’ve got a problem. They wanted to go to Arizona.

As I recollect, you don’t have the human capital to man the manufacturing. So bring them. Ah, well, now you’re talking about bringing in Chinese to do the labor. If they’re just doing the labor, I mean. Yeah, but it’s not just labor. You’re talking about very sophisticated, precise work. We need Americans to do that. The Chinese already have lots of people who can do that. We need Americans to be employed in those places and do that work. That’s what Donald Trump wanted, and I agree with him 100%. Yeah, but to get it started and then have Americans come in and train under them.

Ah, that’s different. There was some talk about Chinese management initially, just as we’ve had German management in factories in South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, where we produce automobiles, for instance. We do some of that down in Mexico, where the top management is American or it’s European or whatever, initially. But the problem is it’s more complex than that. Our educational system has failed us. Oh, yeah, but this is not something that you learn on the fly. We need people who are technically competent, who are not necessarily going to four year colleges and studying archaeology or basketball and the year.

But that’s why I’m saying bring them in and have them train us. Have them train us under them, train Americans under them. And that’s what, that’s what we’d have to do. If you really think about it, that’s the only way. Well, the Chinese owner wasn’t terribly excited about that because he met the people that he was going to work with and didn’t think they had what it took to be successful. Now, all I’m trying to say is that it’s sort of like you in boxing, you know, when did you start training to be a boxer? How old were you? Five years old.

Well, okay, five. I didn’t meet you when you were five or six. It could have been dangerous anyway, but the point is you start years in advance, right? And you take years of training and conditioning so that things become automatic that otherwise have to be learned, Right? That’s the problem for us here in the United States. It’s a problem in our military establishment as well. It takes 10 years to build a combat formation from the ground up that’s to be any good. That’s what it takes, and I agree with you. And that’s why the globalists who’ve intercepted or infiltrated America have taken decades to socially engineer Americans.

And our school systems are indoctrination camps, you can call them churches even, to create this army of misfits they have now, which we call, you know, the fatherless take. They took the father out of the home. They implemented all this, like you said, 1960s summer of love and all this stuff. That’s how they engineered and socially engineered culture to where we’re at right now. So we have to start somewhere, right, Douglas? Yeah, well, we do. We do. We absolutely have to start somewhere. And that’s the problem. Where do we start? How do we start? We just start.

We just start. No, no, no, no. For instance. No, no, no. There has to be a strategy. We have no strategy. The Japanese, the Chinese, the. Until recently, the Germans. If I took you to Switzerland, you’d see the same thing. There’s a national scientific, industrial strategy. People sit down and plan out for the next 10 years. What has to be taught, how it’s going to be taught, where the students are, how you’re getting them into the classroom. What do they need to leave with, by the way, the corporations need to be brought in, and they are, for instance, in Germany and Japan to identify students that they can hire when they graduate and put to work.

I agree that things take time. No, and I agree with you, but we should. The only reason I say, say we should start now is because I know this takes time. But why don’t we bring the people in from Taiwan? Give them the. Give them a. You know, start schooling our kids. Start there. Give them amnesty. They’re scared to death of China anyway. Bring them here. Give them Amish. I’m serious. I mean, let them be American. You don’t have to give the Chinese from Taiwan amnesty, for God’s sakes. That’s not required. They’re. They’re not. I don’t think that China is.

I just think China has bad habits for reasons of history and culture that we need to come to terms with. I mean, everywhere. We could spend time talking about that. But listen, in theory, you’re right, but I’m simply saying there has to be a larger strategy because the government has to reinforce and support these activities in a way that makes sense. And let me give you another quick example. You’ve heard about rare earths. Everybody talks about rare earths. You could go look them up on the periodic table. They’re down near the bottom. They are out there.

But they are in great quantities in certain places on the globe. We have been dependent upon these coming out of China and Mongolia for decades. We have rare earths here. There are rare earths in abundance in Canada. Now, here’s the rest. Alaska. Yeah, but here’s the rest of the story. You have to have a refinery that converts tons and tons of material into perhaps 10 or 15 pound bags of rare earths. Okay, where are the refineries? China has a refinery. Kazakhstan has a refinery. Do we have a refinery? No. No. So we’re shipping everything to China or Kazakhstan to be refined.

And then everybody complains about our dependence and our national security. Well, what the hell have we been doing? Who is sitting up in Washington and looking at the strategic picture and figuring out that we need to be as independent as possible. In the area of rare earths, we need to gather them from other sources. Right now, Norway has one of the largest caches in the world, probably the largest single concentration of rare earths in Europe. The Norwegians and we are very close and good friends. And Congo. Correct. And Africa. Oh, of course, of course. So if we build a refinery, we can bring their rare earths here, refine it.

We can ship rare earths back to them in a refined state. But we can also keep what’s here. We pay for it. In other words, we haven’t thought through this thing at all. You know your coal seams in the Appalachians right now, and the seams are rare earths, huge quantities. Nobody ever thought about that. They think coal is only about coal. No, it isn’t. You can mine coal. We have very good, high quality coal, by the way, Desperately needed in China, desperately needed in India and other places. We could be shipping that out in great quantities.

But at the same time, what comes out of the seams can be used for rare earth harvesting. There is so much that we as a nation need to do. It needs orchestration and direction from Washington in order for it to happen. Because if I took you to places in Kentucky or Ohio or Indiana and said, well, we could do X, Y and Z, the first question says, well, where do we get the money? We need capital. But instead of investing it that way, we’ve got a trillion dollar defense budget. We have trillions of dollars disappearing into the black hole of monetary redistribution called the welfare state.

We’ve done nothing to deal with all of the, all of the corruption and scandalous behavior in Medicare and Medicaid. I mean, you had, excuse me, Elon Musk who went in there, he had the right idea. He discovered that we had millions of people drawing cash out of Medicare and Medicaid, that half of them didn’t even exist. We’ve got so, so much nonsense going on. We need to focus here at home doing that. That’s my next question. You know, there’s so many conflicts that America is involved in across the planet right now. You got Ukraine, Middle East, Congo, China, and here domestically, right? You also got this Crocker baby idea to take on Venezuela, right? So hold on, but isn’t China, isn’t there rumors or allegedly, China’s there with their missile systems in Venezuela, aren’t they in our backyard and in Cuba? I mean, they’re, they’re, they’re, they’re, they’re scared of us in Taiwan.

But aren’t they already in our Backyard? No. The Chinese are making investments, but they’re not necessarily military now. Could they become that way? Well, if I were sitting in Venezuela right now on potentially the largest oil and gas reserves in the world, even though they’re very deep, they’re not easily attained, and that’s something we do better than anybody else in terms of deep drilling. We have the best technology, the best technicians in the world. We could go down to Venezuela, we could restore that very, very quickly. We could improve the lives of the people in Venezuela.

But we’d have to do business with Maduro. In other words, we’d have to accept the fact that he’s in charge and work with him. And don’t you think it’s important to overthrow him? I mean, he’s accepting from the Chinese, well, the drugs that come through Venezuela to Mexico, to America. No, no, no. All of the few drugs that come out of Venezuela come out of Colombia. They go through Venezuela, and the generals in the Venezuelan army are skimming off the top of that trade to make themselves rich. But the stream of drugs that come out of there is minuscule.

So what’s the strategy then? Why are we. Why are we going after Venezuela? What’s your view on that? I think Secretary Rubio has turned this into a crusade that he and his supporters want to conduct. I don’t see any reason for it. I think it’s a very dumb idea. You really want to stop the drug problem, you’ve got to begin here at home. Well, okay. I live on the border, so I’m here, right here in El Paso. And I witnessed the Ciudad Juarez killings, the wars that happen here. It’s bad, but right now it’s the safest it’s ever been.

The military is all up and down. This border is complete. From what I see, my friends in the Border Patrol. Border Patrol tell me, dude, this is like the best I’ve ever seen it. It’s almost completely stopped. It’s almost at zero. But, I mean, they’re still finding other ways to come into Canada. Well, the problem is not with the Border Patrol. The Border Patrol has always been, in my judgment, underfunded and underpaid. Well, I mean, the military is here now. Now it’s all military zoned. I can’t even get near there now. It should have stayed military.

You know, that’s where General Pershing, as a one star, commanded the entire Mexican border in. In 1917. We should never have given that up. The military should have always been there. It was there since 1846 because Mexico has Always had problems internally. That place has been in some form of revolutionary upheaval almost from the time the Spaniards left. Right. I mean, will the cartels run Mexico, man? I mean, they do, they do. You’re absolutely right. And. And by the way, that’s far more serious than anything happening in Venezuela. But my point to you is it’s not enough to guard the borders.

First of all, the legal points of entry are a big problem because the cartels can pay every customs officer on the legal points of entry, 30,000 bucks a month on time. I used to pay him a couple hundred to cross stuff over when I was a kid. I’m just saying. Yeah, well, you got off cheap. You got. I did. It’s a lot more sticks. Well, not. We’re seeing not only drugs and people being trafficked through these legal ports of entry. We’re also seeing trucks with full of cash. You’re talking millions of dollars moving from north to south.

And again, you’ve got people there at the legal ports of energy. Say, come on through. Come on. Paid to let them through. My point is this. First of all, I would take over all those legal points of entry with the military, and I would guard. I would take them over on a rotational basis, rotate battalions in every 30, 45 days, whatever is necessary. We’ve done that before. We did that on the Czechoslovak and East German borders. I did that as a young officer. And we did it along the Euphrates river after, in 1991, and controlled that border.

The military knows how to do it. And our technology today is brilliant. It’s so much better than anything we had 30 years ago. It’s not even funny. Now. Having said that, though, where’s the problem? The problem with drug use and distribution is here at home. Now. Lee Kuan Yew was the president of Singapore. He built Singapore after World War II, literally himself. And they had a terrible drug problem. And so he established a law. If you come into Singapore and try to distribute drugs, you will be executed. Right? Yeah. You know what? It went away. It went away quick.

You’re damn right. And people say, well, are you going to execute users? I said, no, I’m not interested in that. I want to get the people that are selling the drugs. If you come into this country and you try to sell drugs, I don’t care if you’re an American citizen or a foreigner, we should execute you. I agree with that. To be quite honest with you, I agree with that method. That’ll stop it immediately. Exactly. Even the guy down the street that’s selling bags of whatever, the small time dealer, they’ll be scared this will stop immediately.

Right. You don’t need to execute that many people to make your. No, just one publicly. But. So what’s your thoughts on, you know, Trump now deploying the national guard into what, 19 states? It looks like he’s going to go into Chicago. They’re expecting a lot of civil unrest, even like a minor, you know, I don’t imagine it’s gonna be much of a civil war, but let’s say civil rest, civil unrest. What’s your thoughts on this? Is he going about it the right way to clean up our streets and take these drug dealers, these, this crime off the streets of violent crime at least? And do you feel like he’s getting ready for something bigger like arrests? Do you think that that’s why he’s putting his chess pieces in order to get ready for.

Because if they, if they, if they protested and rioted for George, they’re going to do well. In 2003, I was still in active duty and I was following the news about the deployment of our forces to Iraq or actually at that point to Kuwait to move into Iraq eventually. And in the Washington Post, it was an interesting article, an interview with people in Washington. And the interview that really, really had an impact on me was with an elderly black woman. She was probably in her late 60s, maybe 70. And she said, well, I know that we’re sending forces to fight in Iraq, but I wish the army would come and occupy my neighborhood and get rid of all the drug dealers, pimps and criminals that threaten all of us.

Now, that was 2003. If you talk to the people living in the neighborhoods right now, I think you’ll find that most of them would welcome the US Military in that area to clean it up. Yeah. Now, do they want it permanently? No, they gotta leave. And does the American military want to do this permanently? No, but there is a requirement. Because if you look at the criminality that, that has risen in these cities over the last 30 years and remember that a lot of it is not reported accurately anymore. We, you know, that’s the other problem with the government doesn’t always report the statistics honestly of who’s killing whom and why.

But if you go in there, you’re going to have an impact. Now, will that be permanent? Well, that depends on how you work with the police, because the liaison between the police and the military has to be very good and the police have to lead the effort. The military can back them up and can intervene where required. But the police need to be in charge. Now. If you’ve got corrupt police, you got to get rid of them. If you have police that don’t want to support the government, you got to get rid of them. The point is to enforce the law and get the criminals apprehended and dealt with quickly.

That’s the other problem of the courts. We have too many people in the court system, appointees over the last 30 years under the left that are anxious to release all these people at their early and they’re using lawfare to do so. The things that, the tactics that they’re used. So you could, you could set up panels of justices appointed by the President. In other words, judges that are appointed for the express purpose of supporting the effort to clean up. Chicago, Philadelphia, New York City, Los Angeles, New Orleans, St. Louis, San Francisco. These are just some of them.

So I think what Trump wants to do is good. What I don’t see any evidence for, once again, is the strategy correct? Okay, so just for a second, I’ve always said on my channel, you know, the pendulum swings far left, it’s going to swing far right. The cure’s got to be greater than the disease. But, but what do you have to say, like to the left or the people out there screaming that he’s bringing in a police state? I guess, you know, the, the globalists are getting what they want anyway. They’re getting the police state. Right.

So the military is coming on the streets. So what do you say to people like that? I mean, they gotta leave after a certain amount of time, but are they going to, you know, impose this AI surveillance? I mean, we’re already being watched anyway. But once the military comes in and takes over all the cities, the democratic hell holes, let’s say, are they going to leave? Is that, I mean, how long do you expect the military to stay there to, to effectively clean up the streets? And are they going to leave this AI footprint there that’s going to be surveillance surveilling the whole city? I mean, is that where we’re headed in this? Well, the surveillance footprint is, is a matter for decision by the law.

In other words, you’re, you’re, now, you’re exploring this area of privacy. We don’t, we want our privacy as Americans. That’s essential to our freedom. That’s something I can’t answer. In other words, that has to be adjudicated. That has, someone has to sit down. Legal, legal authorities as well as people who understand the technology and sort through that. What I will say is that the military should have very carefully framed described objectives. You’re going into this city, within the city, you’re going into these areas. What are your objectives in each area? Who are the police who are going with you, who know the area and are going to advise you, bring you in and use you when necessary? Because, once again, I don’t think we have to spearhead everything with military power.

There are going to be hard cases where the military is absolutely needed. But the police that live there, work there, serve there, ought to be in the lead, and there should be an end state. You know, when we’ve reached this point and crime is at this level, that’s when we begin withdrawing. That should not. If we do our jobs properly, we know what we’re doing. That shouldn’t take longer than 120 days, maybe 180 days. That’s. That’s no more than six months. Have you heard of these SUVs pulling up and dragging the homeless people off the streets and nobody knows where they’re going? I mean, this is a huge problem right now.

I’ve been watching a lot of this on YouTube, and it only started happening under this administration. And I’m wondering, I mean, obviously we don’t want degenerate behavior. We don’t want people shooting up and defecating all over the streets. I’m all for that, but there’s a lot of videos coming out right now that I’ve been watching that the homeless people are disappearing in places like Houston, Austin, and. And they’re. They’ve been doing a lot of reporting on this and asking other homeless people, and they’re saying, we’re scared. We don’t know what’s going on. They’re dragging people out.

They’re coming into these SUVs and just taking them off the streets. What do you think’s going on there? Do you have any insight on that? Well, the first person to deal with this problem, believe it or not, was Gavin Newsom. And that’s when President Xi from China came to San Francisco for a conference and he suddenly made the decision to clean up San Francisco. And thousands of homeless drug users who were doing all the things that you described disappeared. Where do they go? Well, I. I don’t know where they went, but I know that they didn’t all die because large numbers of them came back again after Xi left.

Now, I think what you have to do is understand that large numbers of these people are mentally ill, right? And they have to go into some sort of treatment center. You have to set something up. You can’t release them on their own recognizance, because if you do, they’ll go back and repeat the behavior they were, you know. Right. And nobody wants to, you know, step over needles and feces and tents. Nobody wants that. And I agree with that. But where are they going is the question. I mean, all I can tell you is that Gavin Newsom did this in, at least for a temporary period because of Xi’s visit from China.

I think that, first of all, I see no evidence that anybody’s being executed. That’s a lot of nonsense. Okay, where are they going temporarily for treatment? Who’s viewing them? Who’s interviewing them? I don’t know. I’m told that they are apprehending people and then interviewing. In other words, they’re separating what you’re describing as homeless from people who are actually illegally here in the United States. That’s going on ice is contrary to popular belief. And I know Tom Homan. He is a decent, honorable man. I don’t think he has any real authority, sadly, doesn’t have much money, but everybody respects him and knows him.

And I’m absolutely confident that he would never engage in that kind of behavior. And I don’t see any evidence, from what I’ve seen in Washington with the National Guard of any, you know, Gestapo tactics or brutality. In other words, we all have to step back from all the abuse that is hurled in the direction of the government, of the Trump administration, of the president. A lot of that is just nonsense designed to discredit everything and anything he says. I mean, you started earlier. You mentioned Antifa. We never talked about that, but Antifa did a couple of billion dollars worth of damage across the country.

I’ve forgotten the exact number of people that were. There were a lot of people who. A lot of people seriously injured, and we didn’t do much about it. Right, right. And then we went to this thing, January, which was never what it was billed as, in the mean. Right. Sort of dangerous insurrection. And I. I was actually dragged in and they asked me questions in connection with it, even though I was in the Pentagon on that day. And I said, well, my definition of an insurrection is when you have a few thousand men with guns who show up and shoot their way in.

I said, I didn’t see any guns. The only people that I saw with guns were policemen. Right. And they were being let in by them. Yeah. So I. You know, everybody has to exercise a certain amount of judgment when they hear a lot of these allegations and test, you know, for the truth. I don’t think we’re getting a lot of truth. I think we’re hearing from senators like Dick Durbin, who’s a very prominent Democrat who utterly hates and despises the Trump administration and is going to try and discredit anything it does. And he’s not the only one.

There are many others. I think Schumer is similar. The point is, you’ve got to step back from this and see what’s real and what isn’t. And I saw it on the other side. I saw a lot of things said about his administration that weren’t true. And nobody in Washington is neutral. Everybody is on a side. Right. And it’s unfortunate. But we’re Americans. We’re supposed to listen to this stuff and ask ourselves a question. Does it pass the smell test? Most of it doesn’t. So before I let you go, I want to get a grade from you on Trump thus far in his presidency.

What kind of grade do give him thus far? Well, it depends on what you look at in terms of foreign relations altogether. Like, if you give separate grades, if you like. But I think he has blown it in foreign policy, foreign relations. We should have simply walked away from this Ukraine thing, told the Europeans to stop the nonsense, get our troops out. He should have come in with a plan for the whole border, to militarize it quickly. Remember, the president is most powerful in the first 90 days of his administration, and he could have done wonderful things here at home, on the border immediately.

And it took far too long for him to take action. The same thing is true for the criminality. Let me say one other thing. Franklin Roosevelt had something that he called the fireside chat. I think there were only five or six fireside chats, but he would come over the radio and he would spend 15, 20 minutes explaining to the American people why he was doing what he was doing. One of them was extending lend lease to the British. We were not at War. It’s 1940. And he said, what do you do if your neighbor’s house is on fire? Well, if he needs a hose and water, you lend him a hose so that he could put the fire out.

That’s what I’m doing. Suddenly, all the opposition to helping Great Britain went away because it was explained in a way that Americans could understand. I think President Trump needs to have a similar approach. He needs to have a strategy with a goal, and he needs to explain that to the American people. That’s not what we’re getting. What we’re getting is impulse. I Decided. We’re going to go into Washington. I decide on Chicago. Oh, no, we’re going to Memphis now. Right. And listen, I have no objections to going to Memphis. That’s a hellhole for criminality. Right? All these democratic hell holes need.

Yeah, So I understand that. But there has to be a strategic approach. It has to be coherent. And when you do that, you immunize yourself against a lot of the attacks that he’s getting right now from people on the Hill and the media. So no grade, I think in, in foreign policy, defense policy, I think we’re at a, an F. I think here at home. I give him a C plus. All right, so he’s failing. He’s about to get A minus. The other thing is this, this economy. I mean, he knows. I know he knows that we cannot sustain this national sovereign debt.

Right? Impossible. Every 110 days we add another trillion dollars to it. It’s crazy. You know, we’re spending more to service the debt for with debt payments than we are spending on national defense. This is not sustainable. He’s got to grab that and he’s got to come up with more than smoke and mirrors to deal with it. He’s got to admit that this is going to be painful. But he’s 79. The probability that he will run again is not high. Anybody is in a position to administer pain pills for the right reasons. He’s the man. But he’s not doing it.

Got you. And I would get out of the war business. Forget this crap of invading Venezuela. That’s ridiculous. Let’s focus on what we talked about. Your borders, your airspace, your airports, your ports of entry, your harbors. And let’s go after the dealers, the networks in our country, that’s where you straight laws and you got to enforce them and enforce them. Right? Colonel Douglas McGregor, everybody. Thank you so much for joining me. Where do people find you? Do you want them to find you? Maybe on the Internet, but that’s it. Yeah, I, I live somewhere in the.

I mean, what’s your social media handles or anything that you want to put out there? I’m on X. You know, you Google my name, you’re gonna find all sorts of stuff, good and bad. And I’m on YouTube and you know, I. There is a. There is an event coming up on the 4th of October in Dallas, Texas. And we were going to hold a large gathering of four or five hundred people. But in view of Charlie’s assassination, a lot of people expressed concern about security. So now it’s a VIP dinner. Not inexpensive. But it’s going to have a VIP reception and a VIP dinner in Dallas, Texas, on the 4th of October.

Little run from basically 5 or 6 until 9 or 10 o’ clock at night. I think we’ll have a limit of maybe 60 people, 50 people, something like that. I encourage anybody who wants to talk about these tough issues to come. Judge Politano will be there. He’ll cover the legal waterfront. Natalie Brunel, very bright financial analyst, very high on crypto. She will be there to talk about the realities of our financial situation. And I’ll be there, trying to stay out of sight and a low profile in the corner somewhere. Oh. All right. Douglas, thank you for joining me.

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