Col Doug Macgregor: Threats & Intimidation Don't Work on Iran FINAL

We're not a reliable negotiating

partner. We lie. You show up, you may be

killed during the negotiations. Uh we

cheat. We're not honest. And our our

response is that the Iranians lie and

cheat all the time. I've talked to

people that were inspectors. I've talked

to people that have been involved over

there and they say the opposite is the

case. You know, I remember going through

this in the Balkans and people kept

insisting the Serbs were dishonest. You

couldn't trust anything they say. I

found just the opposite of the three

parties, the Bosnjaks, the Croats, and

the Serbs. The Serbs were scrupulously

honest. If they said they were going to

do something, they did it. If they said

they wouldn't, they wouldn't. If they

were going to show up, they did. You

know, this business of constantly

demonizing your opponent really makes it

very hard to come to some sort of

arrangement that terminates the

hostilities. And that's effectively

what we're doing. You know, we go back

to World War II, this World War II

nostalgia where nobody

actually knows what the hell happened

during the Second World War and just how

difficult the whole thing was. But we

act as though we were the great ones who

solved everything, won everything,

determined everything. Nothing could be

further from the truth. But one of the

things tragically that we did is that we

so completely demonized our opponents

that we made it possible to destroy them

completely to the point where we had to

spend 50 years compensating for the

destruction of the power they once held.

This business of now setting out to

destroy Iran because they refuse to

accept our terms is equally insane. Only

this time around, Iran is in a far

better position than we realize. And the

Chinese and the Russians and many others

are very interested not only in seeing

Iran successfully and survive, but they

want Iran to be a partner in the future

with regard to the straight of Hormuse.

You know, we've mentioned this before,

the Dardinels was a failure. The British

at least had the uh presence of mind to

come to the Montro convention and sign

over the rights to determine who goes

through or doesn't go through based on

very clear unambiguous conditions to the

Turks. There hasn't been a problem in

the straits of in the with the

convention of Montro since 1926. It's

worked very well, but we insist that we

should be the ones to make the

determination and we readily admit that.

But for a few items, we're not really

that dependent on the Persian Gulf. The

rest of the world is. None of this makes

any sense. And we're headed for a

serious, serious fall. And I think we

have to look at the rest of the region.

People are not paying attention to

what's going on in Turkey. People are

not paying attention to Egypt. These

countries are gearing up for some

action. I don't know exactly when,

where, how, and under what

circumstances, but the whole region is

turning against us. And we would do well

to ignore these so-called Epstein elites

that govern the Emirates and places like

that in Saudi Arabia. These people are

finished. The populations there know

they're corrupt and evil and want

nothing to do with them. We need to

start thinking about our place in the

world, not as the world's dictator, but

as a participant in what really is a

multipolar world and a world in which

there are multiple great powers and

start dealing on the with people on the

basis of mutual respect, not bullying.

But that's not going to happen with this

president. That's pretty clear.

>> It's not. And in fact, I I would go so

far as to say is nobody in power right

now. Even you could say the Biden

administration in some ways was even

worse at the at the senior level, though

that's a hard standard to to or to to go

beneath. But there's a there was a a

comment here by uh an Israeli analyst

here that I thought was really poignant.

His name is Danny Sen Senetrinowit,

sorry if I pronounced that right. Um

really I think quantifies why we're in

this trouble. He said Washington still

doesn't understand Iran. Yet again, we

are seeing evidence of how poorly

Washington understands the Iranian

regime. The persistent belief that a

single decisive move like a naval

blockade, strikes on critical

infrastructure, or even targeting and

killing senior officials could

fundamentally change Thrron's behavior

recks a profound misreading of their

system. This point cannot be stressed

enough. When faced with a choice between

conceding to US demands and escalating a

confrontation, it believes it can manage

and even win Iran's decision is not

difficult to predict. It will not

capitulate. And then the I think the

even the more important things you said

there is no scenario in which one

dramatic move forces the Iranian regime

to raise a white flag. No pressure

campaign, not military actions and not

symbolic shows of force. And yet

American polity continues to go after

that elusive silver bullet, meaning a

single action that will deliver quick

decisive victory. That search is bound

to fail. Uh, and I mean I he wrote that,

but I mean it's stuff that you've said

many times, but that that just goes to

show and and whether we're talking Jack

Keane, uh, Mike Pompeo, uh, General

Keith Kellogg at all, Trump, all these

folks, Rubio, Keg Seth, they all seem to

be of the same, I don't know what you

call blindness or self-d delusion, but

something as a as an elite cohort, they

seem unable to come to what it seems to

me to be common sense.

Well, there's a documentary uh that one

can watch on uh YouTube about Secretary

of Defense McNamera and it's all about

Vietnam. And what does he say at the

conclusion? We just did not understand

their culture. We did not understand the

opponent. Well, the sad truth of the

matter is there were large numbers of

people before 1965, during the Vietnam

War, and afterwards who absolutely

understood, gave excellent advice, and

they were ignored. It wasn't a question

of not understanding. It's not wanting

to hear the message. That's a big

problem in Washington. It's not that

there aren't people who know what

they're talking about. It's just that

there are people that don't care. And

President Trump and his so-called

adviserss, this this little circle

around him, fall into that category. And

I think we have to understand that that

also characterizes most of the senior

military leadership because I listen to

all sorts of nonsense from people about,

oh, he's a general and he must know he's

an admiral. Come on, give me a break.

These people are not there because of

demonstrated character, competence, or

intelligence. They are there because of

their readiness to go along. Say, "Yes,

sir. Three bags full. Let's move out."

We got to come to terms with the reality

that if you create a culture that that

favors and and advances the sickopant,

you're not going to penetrate the inner

circle unless you're prepared to go in

there and tell the president or whomever

is in charge whatever the Dickens he

wants to hear. That's the bad news. I

don't see any of that changing. Maybe

the disaster that's looming on the

horizon will have an impact. I don't

know. And uh if anybody's in doubt about

what's going to happen with that because

I mean we're looking we have some

near-term pressure points uh number one

is time because the ceasefire period

runs out at the end of tonight. So

tomorrow uh US time then he's going to

have to make a decision. President Trump

is do you go back to bombing like he

said in that opening clip and we said he

said yeah I'm planning on it or or do

you extend it out and and trying to do