Three, two, hey, we're live. Welcome to the gray zone. It's just the gray zone. We don't have any other brand. Everybody knows what the gray zone's about. We're bringing you real experts, people who actually have been, have actually seen war, who know what war is really about and who might offer

a different analysis of the war that we're seeing in Ukraine than the cast of neocon chicken

hawks and Beltway hacks that you are seeing on corporate media.

We have a really special guest today, Colonel Doug McGregor, and I'm here with my colleague,

Aaron Mate, who has previously interviewed Colonel McGregor on his show pushback.

But this is live, and I think we're going to get a really candid

assessment of how Colonel McGregor sees the war and also of his own experience being inside

the room, being in the Trump administration's Pentagon, working on really important initiatives

like an attempt

at the Afghan withdrawal.

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Colonel Doug McGregor is a retired U.S. Army colonel and government official.

And you might have seen him recently on Fox News, basically breaking through the wall of, breaking through

the official narrative and making some people in Washington very angry with too many facts.

He was, Doug Douglas McGregor was proposed as U.S. ambassador to Germany and his nomination

was blocked, I think for that very reason, blocked by the Senate. We'll talk about the Senate

in a second. And in November 2020, he was appointed senior advisor to the acting secretary of

defense towards the end of the administration.

And now here we are in a very momentous time. Welcome Colonel McGregor to the gray zone.

Good to be with you. Great. Let's talk about your latest piece just to open. You ask, is there a path to peace in Ukraine?

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