Col. Douglas Macgregor : What the Media Won't Tell You
The good colonel takes a wide sweep at current realities and of US not being the "superpower" of yore any longer
Since October 2023, and the Hamas dealing Israel a crippling bloody blow below the belt, the world keeps tumbling from threat to threat of a wider war between the Jewish state and her many bitter enemies in an apocalyptic bras de fer of threats to use nuclear weapons if Iran would initiate a nuclear attack against Netanyahu’s domain.
Israel has already gone overboard screaming in all directions that the Musselman faith, as such, in an existential threat to the whole world, with more somber observers on both sides of the conflict almost equally rejecting this strident “estimate” being well versed in Israeli propaganda ploys. Meantime, Israel continues to butcher Palestinians with the kind of gusto that would have made Hitler’s legions taste bitter shame.
The Palestinian holocaust is, however, only one aspect in the relentless reduction of US global power, with Washington, under the shaking hand of a breathless senile Joe Biden, stumbles from one disastrous step to the next demonstrating that American power is retreating dangerously across the board.
Col. Douglas Macgregor is not only an erudite commentator, he is also a man with substantive hands-on expertise on US military and political power and their impact upon international politics.
He rightly highlights the steady decline of the US armed forces, which never truly recovered from the Vietnam disaster—and have been currently reduced to seeking immigrants, who have resided in the US for a minimum of five years, to sign up as volunteers with promises of eventual US citizenship.
He also points to the robust Russian military currently reducing to smithereens the Ukrainian neo-Nazis and, indirectly, their Western supporters, who voluntarily hoodwink themselves re. Ukraine’s imaginary ability to push back the Russians—who have just displayed, yet again, their robust disciplined armed forces during the Victory Day Parade 2024.
The good colonel’s pessimistic conclusion is the US has lost, perhaps forever, the ability to mold international politics in ways that meet American national interests based on both economic and military power which, in the American mind, at least, could not be defeated irrespective of international changing dynamics.
Older Americans, I’m sure, are already nostalgic of days past when the White House was occupied by a very different group of men.