3/6/23 Douglas Macgregor on Ukraine, China and the Military Industrial Complex

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🗓️ 8 March 2023

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Douglas Macgregor is back on the show to talk about the war in Ukraine. Macgregor gives his assessment of where things stand on the ground. They talk about the astounding casualty numbers and the horrifying nature of the battle over Bakhmut. Macgregor then gives some predictions for the next stages of the war. They talk about the rising tension with China. They agree there is no need to go to war with China but discuss what may explain the sudden attention shift towards Beijing. Lastly, they talk about the effects of cronyism in the weapons industry and the probability of a nuclear war. Discussed on the show: “This Time It’s Different” (The American Conservative) “Ukrainian soldiers in Bakhmut: ‘Our troops are not being protected’” (Kyiv Independent) Douglas Macgregor, Col. (ret.) is a senior fellow with The American Conservative, the former advisor to the Secretary of Defense in the Trump administration, a decorated combat veteran, and the author of five books. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, y'all welcome to the Scott Horton's show.
0:02.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute.
0:09.0	I'm the director of the Libertarian Institute,
0:14.8	editorial director of anti-war.com.
0:17.6	Author of the book, Pools Arren,
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0:39.1	archive is also available at YouTube. YouTube. Of course he's the hero of the Great Big Tank Battle of Iraq War I in 1991 and he wrote the margin of victory and happy to have you back on this show.
1:02.0	Colonel, how you doing?
1:03.4	Great, thanks.
1:05.1	Good, happy to have you on the show here.
1:07.1	And so we got important news to talk about.
1:10.2	If I can find the right tab, I have your very important piece here the last one you wrote for the American
1:15.5	conservative this time it's different and it's about well how we've essentially had our soldiers and Marines patrol and postunes in
1:25.4	Pactica for the last 20 years and seemingly the likes of Biden think that that's
1:32.2	what war is like and those wars have been
1:35.0	absolutely horrible for the Iraqis, the Afghans, and the Americans fighting them too.
1:39.5	But this is an altogether different type of war and it is so far removed it 7,000 miles from America's eastern most point.
1:52.0	And so, you know, we're still very far removed from it and I think the
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