U.S. Army Colonel @DougAMacgregor doesn't hold back on where U.S. foreign policy is heading and why it could backfire spectacularly.
On Venezuela, he's blunt: America has built up massive military power in the Caribbean but hasn't answered the basic questions that doomed Vietnam.
What's the actual objective? How do you achieve it? What does the region look like when you're done?
He reveals Washington may want to "collateralize" Venezuela's natural resources to the tune of $8-19 trillion to pay down U.S. debt.
The problem? Venezuela is the size of France, Germany, and Austria combined with brutal terrain and 30 million people.
Regime change failed repeatedly under Chavez and Maduro. Military power alone won't work.
His assessment of NATO is withering.
European leaders like Scholz, Macron, and Starmer are "on thin ice" trying to manufacture fear of Russia while their populations want restored relations and cheap energy.
An ex-Pentagon advisor bringing uncomfortable clarity to two conflicts spiraling in opposite directions.
Macgregor breaks down:
• Why the U.S. has assembled overwhelming force in the Caribbean but can't answer what happens after Maduro is removed
• Whether seizing Venezuela's oil, gas, gold, lithium, and rare earths is worth a protracted occupation
• Why killing Maduro just gets you another Maduro
• How Russia will take Odesa within 6 months and control Ukraine's Black Sea access
• Why Trump's peace plan won't work unless it addresses Russian control of the coast
• Why NATO's "preemptive strike" threats are desperate theater from failing European leaders
• How Europe's "tiny boutique armies" would collapse against Russia's rebuilt military power
• Why money spent doesn't equal military capability and it takes 10 years to build real armies
01:28 – Military buildup in the Caribbean makes US retreat difficult
03:49 – US goal has been regime change since Hugo Chávez
04:26 – The “dumb path” of killing Maduro with no plan after
07:31 – Is the real objective resources or blocking China’s influence
08:08 – US idea to collateralize Venezuela’s resources to cut debt
10:08 – Host calls invading to reduce debt a terrifying scenario
11:38 – Any intervention would trigger Venezuelan national pride
13:18 – US action could be the death knell of American influence
14:35 – Monroe Doctrine described as irrelevant today
16:58 – Why Maduro’s oil offer wasn’t enough for Washington
18:49 – Likelihood of airstrikes on air defenses and radar sites
20:47 – Coup success depends on removing Maduro and bribing generals
25:34 – Claim that Odesa is Russian and its fall would landlock Ukraine
27:19 – Prediction that Russia will seize Kharkov and Odesa
30:51 – Russia’s hybrid warfare against NATO: GPS jamming, derailments
34:03 – NATO has “tiny boutique armies” and needs a decade to rebuild
