Towards a Greater Middle Eastern War & Defeat in Ukraine
Colonel Douglas Macgregor, interviewed by Professor Glenn Diesen
I spoke with Colonel Douglas Macgregor about the deteriorating situation in the Middle East and Ukraine. Colonel Macgregor was a senior advisor to the Secretary of Defence under President Trump, he has written several books on military strategy, and is the CEO of Our Country Our Choice which seeks among other things to challenge the bipartisan support for the militarisation of US foreign policy
The war in Gaza has now spread into Lebanon and can seemingly no longer be contained, which threatens to pull in other actors in the region such as Iran. However, leaders in the region are already facing angry populations for failing to take a more hardline position against Israel and the US. Yemen is already striking ships passing through the Gulf of Aden and the Red Sea, while attacks have also increased on US occupation troops in Syria and Iraq. The US and Israel continue to play good cop / bad cop in which the US provides the weapons and intelligence for the onslaught, while simultaneously complaining they are not able to impose a ceasefire. Israel is in deep trouble as its military exhausts itself and there are no desirable paths to peace, which is why pulling the US into a wider war appears to be the sole solution.
In Ukraine, the situation is also deteriorating quickly as the army suffers from a shortage of manpower, armoured vehicles, ammunition, air defences, aircrafts, and a multitude of other areas. Furthermore, Ukraine’s electric grids are severely damaged, the economy falters, the public grows more unhappy with the aggressive “recruitment” of new soldiers, while political divisions are yet again emerging in Kiev. In the West, there are fewer and fewer weapons to be sent and the US is seemingly reluctant to become directly involved in deep strikes within Russian territory as it will trigger a NATO-Russia war with the possibility of a nuclear exchange. War fatigue is growing throughout the West, with the exception of the UK which remains gung-ho for more war. When the US sabotaged the Minsk agreement and the Istanbul peace agreement, the objective was to use Ukrainians as a proxy to bleed and exhaust Russia to knock it out from the ranks of great powers, and thereafter shift focus to breaking China and thus restoring US global primacy. Instead, we are seeing a Russian victory, a pending unmitigated disaster in the Middle East, while the global majority is constructing a post-American world with BRICS.
We have crossed the point of no return in terms of reaching a peace in Ukraine and the Middle East. The world is heading towards major wars – and the US is approaching this dangerous situation with empty slogans rather than a strategy.
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It is not a ‘war in Gaza’ and it has not just ‘spread’. Israel is a settler-colonial state. It has always intended in accordance with the Zionist programme that created it, to replace all the non-Jewish indigenous people of Palestine with Jews. The historical evidence has always been there and Israel’s actions have always been consistent with its desire to complete its project. Israel is desperate for a big war, because it will provide the smokescreen to eliminate the millions of Palestinians that are in Gaza, the colonised West Bank and in Israel itself. The kind of narrative you use continues to ignore the historical context, what Israel really is, what Israel’s actions mean and the fact that it has been aided and abetted by the world’s greatest powers who could stop this crime against humanity overnight if they wanted to. From its beginnings in the late 19th Century, the Zionist movement has been supported and encouraged by countries like Britain and France. The US joined in after WWII. It is shameful that you write the way you do. I recommend Prof. Rashid Khalidi’s excellent book The Hundred Years' War on Palestine, and Prof Ilan Pappé’s Ten Myths About Israel, just in case you really don’t know what is going one, which I find doubtful. It is not a ‘war’ it is settler-colonialism aided and abetted by the whole world.
The greatest problem the West has, is lack of education and the training of rational and logical thought processes, combined with indoctrination that has led Western nations to falsely believe in their supremacy, which has brought on copious volumes of hubris and accompanying arrogance, which all in combination prevent clear and objective view of the global realities.