Doug Macgregor
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first heard Mar 2025
last heard Mar 2025
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And in all the old slag heaps and all the containment pools from many, many decades of mining, there are rare earths. So Kentucky, southern Kentucky, should be a boom economy in the future. If anybody has any brains, go down there and start mining for rare earths. You don't even have to dig it up. It's in the slag heaps and in the pools.
Yeah, now we don't have a refinery. I don't know if we have a refinery here in the United States. The biggest refineries that do the best job are in Kazakhstan, outer Mongolia, and in China, inner Mongolia. So we ship this stuff over there. Wouldn't it make sense to... pass a bill and build refineries so we refine our own rare earths here inside the United States.
And this is the sort of thing President Trump talks about all the time. And he's absolutely dead right. That's what we should be doing. Forget this business in Ukraine. It's a waste of time. We don't need to do that. We need to search for opportunities right under our noses right now in this hemisphere. This is where we live. You might as well do it here.
Oh, and he's, listen, he's done so many good things with his executive orders here at home. Now, I don't know about the depth of planning. I don't know about the strategy. It'll take time to see what's there. But he set the forces in motion in the right direction. All of that, all of that could be lost. By bad decisions in the Middle East or Eastern Europe.
Who is the CENTCOM commander right now? Carrillo, I think. Oh, no. Really? You have that impression?
Oh. Well, then it's time to ask for his papers and send him on his way. It's like saying, I think it's a great time to contract syphilis. Let's go get it. You know, to hell with that.
Well, first of all, remember that your general officer corps is different from the rest of the officer corps.
That doesn't mean there aren't lots of full colonels out there who are desperate to be generals. And so they'll try to provide you with the answer they think is most likely to get them promoted. Right. Okay? But when you go into the general officer corps at the three- and four-star level, they have been conditioned for decades to look for trouble, literally. Right.
In other words, go out and find a reason why we need Central Command. We need Africa Command. We need European Command. We need Pacific Command. Now we call it Indo-Pacific. Insane. When I was sitting over at the National Defense University before I retired, they came over and said, well, we're going to have Africa Command. And I looked at, and Abizade at the time was the J-5. I said, why?
I mean, how would you feel if you're an African? Well, the United States military has now created a command and calls it Africa Command. How's that good for Africa? Are you planning on invading? I mean, having been to Africa, the last thing Africans need is a column of U.S. or British or French troops marching through the neighborhood. It's a disaster.
They have enough violence and problems there. We don't need to add to it. I think President Trump wants to get rid of Africa. We don't need most of these. We should have four. We should have Northern Command, Pacific Command, Southern Command, and Atlantic Command. That's it. You know why? Because that's all we need. You know why we have all these commands?
This all emerged as a result of the Second World War. because you needed layered commands over distance to communicate. I mean, if you take a drive out to Kansas, one of my favorite states, and I was stationed at both Leavenworth and Fort Riley. Why is Fort Riley where it is from Fort Leavenworth? Because it takes exactly one day on horseback to ride from Fort Leavenworth to Fort Riley.
And that was important 130, 140 years ago because you had Arapahos and Comanches and other people who could interfere with you. So you had to be able to get somewhere to reinforce or support someone else. That's gone. We don't have to do that now. You can have instantaneous communications almost anywhere in the world if you want it immediately.
You can have visibility of everything thanks to the satellite arrays that we have of everything. You don't have to have commands for every region in the world. And we don't have to strive for global military hegemony. What we need to do is be resolute in the defense of our country here in the Western Hemisphere. So those four commands make sense.
They make sense because we are also primarily a maritime and an aerospace power. We're not a land power except in the United States. And that's why the United States Army for over 100 years was always on the Mexican border. Because that's where the hotspots were.
We forget that Mexico was the one that the Germans approached in 1917 as a potential ally against us, and the Mexicans were only too happy. After they left, you got the communists, and they moved into Mexico. And the Mexicans were very pro-communist all up through the Second World War. And beyond, the largest KGB operation in North America was in Mexico, Mexico City.
And, of course, our friend Castro and Che Guevara. Che was always special to me. He's a Bosque. But that's another story. Anyway, the point is, you know, good Lord, what are we doing? We should be concerned about Mexico, right? It's a permanent issue for us. It's as important to us as Ukraine is to Russia. Exactly.
Yeah.
Back to ours with fat chance.
What happens to Germany? That's going to depend a great deal on the emergence of real leadership in Germany that is clear-eyed and focused on what's important to Germany. I think the last time they had that kind of capable leadership was really with Bismarck. I think Wilhelm I was a good man, but he wasn't strong enough to resist the dumb ideas that came his way.
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