"This Is What They're NOT Telling You About What Comes Next" - Col Douglas Macgregor Latest

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🔥🌳 You can NOW Become a member of our channel to support us! 🌳👑 👉🏻 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWZg7FTpyFB9lSpk-_cVr3Q/join In this new interview, Colonel Douglas Macgregor says the ceasefire announced this week is not a ceasefire. It is an intermission, a pause for US and Israeli forces to rearm, refit, and get ready for what he believes will be the final round. He argues that the real damage from this war is not the bombs, it is the quiet collapse of the petrodollar, the financial arrangement that has underpinned American prosperity since the 1970s. Macgregor reveals that Pakistan drafted the ceasefire framework with US input, that Netanyahu intervened the moment he saw Lebanon was included, and that Vice President Vance then publicly claimed Lebanon was never supposed to be in the deal at all. He says the episode makes clear who is actually running the show: Netanyahu on top, Trump following, and the rest of the world scrambling to respond. He adds that the Chinese, who import 50% of their oil from the Persian Gulf and 13% from Iran, quietly pushed Pakistan to broker the pause. He warns that when the war resumes, Iran will follow through on its promise to destroy the remaining oil infrastructure on the western side of the Gulf, meaning the UAE, Kuwait, and the pipelines running to the Red Sea. If that happens, he says the Persian Gulf's reason for existing economically disappears, nobody rebuilds it, and the global economy is set back by a decade. He points out that North Africa and the Middle East are already dumping the dollar, that Saudi Arabia quietly ended its side of the petrodollar arrangement two years ago, and that the dollar's share of global reserves has hit a 25-year low. Macgregor closes with a historical warning. He says the people who sold this war got Iran completely wrong. They looked at a civilisational state with 2,700 years of history and a population that fought Iraq for eight years and lost nearly a million people, and convinced themselves it would fold in 96 hours. He compares the moment to Isandlwana in 1879, when 20,000 Zulus killed 1,100 British soldiers in 20 minutes and woke London up to the limits of imperial overreach. This interview was recorded as Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz again within hours of the ceasefire announcement, as Israel struck over 100 sites in Lebanon in 10 minutes, as WTI crude swung 16% in a single session before climbing back above $100, and as Vance arrived in Islamabad alongside Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner for talks Iran has publicly said it wants nothing to do with. 📚 Sources cited in this video: • U.S. Energy Information Administration, Strait of Hormuz https://eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=39932 • International Monetary Fund, Currency Composition of Official Foreign Exchange Reserves https://data.imf.org/cofer • Goldman Sachs, Global Oil Market Outlook https://goldmansachs.com/insights • Brookings Institution, The Future of the Petrodollar https://brookings.edu/topics/u-s-dollar/ • CSIS, Strait of Hormuz and Global Energy Security https://csis.org/analysis/strait-of-hormuz ⚠️ DISCLAIMER: This channel provides geostrategy commentary and analysis for educational and informational purposes only. Views expressed by guests are their own and do not represent the positions of any government or military institution. We encourage viewers to consult multiple sources and form their own conclusions. #coldouglasmacgregor #douglasmacgregor #iran
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