Col Douglas Macgregor: "Nobody Is Telling You the Truth About What Just Happened" (2026 Prediction)

🔥🌳 You can NOW Become a member of our channel to support us! 🌳👑 👉🏻 https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWZg7FTpyFB9lSpk-_cVr3Q/join In this new interview recorded immediately after the U.S. president's first national address on the Iran war, Colonel Douglas Macgregor delivers his unfiltered verdict: the president looked at the offramp and chose not to take it. Macgregor says the president has turned the global economy into an automobile racing toward a reinforced concrete wall at 100 miles per hour, and instead of hitting the brakes, he stepped on the gas. Macgregor reveals that his trusted sources inside the military estimate only 25 to 30% of Iran's strike capability has been destroyed or disabled, not the decisive blow the national address implied. He points out the fundamental contradiction at the centre of the president's speech: you do not threaten to obliterate a country's entire power grid if you have already won. And every time Washington declares victory, another massive wave of Iranian missiles slams into Israel and the Gulf Emirates. He breaks down what the war is doing to the global economy in real time. Commercial traffic through the Strait of Hormuz has dropped 95%. Tankers headed for Europe are turning around mid-voyage to Japan and Korea. Plastic industries are shutting down. AI infrastructure companies valued in the trillions built their entire cost models on cheap energy, and those assumptions are now obsolete. He warns that if the president pushes harder, the Gulf States as we know them may cease to exist, and that anyone in the UAE should get out because they are at the top of Iran's target list. Macgregor also lays out why the island seizure option is a nightmare. The US Navy is parked hundreds of miles south of the Gulf because it does not want to be sunk. Getting Marines onto contested islands means flying them through shoulder fired missile envelopes under Chinese and Russian satellite surveillance that can monitor every movement and listen to encrypted radio communications in real time. And even if they take the islands, the question remains: what difference does it make when Iran has pipelines and other means of exporting oil with Chinese support. He closes with a comparison to Eisenhower, who shut down the Suez operation in 1956 not because he loved Nasser but because he thought it was wrong, and told the American people they deserved prosperity and security. Macgregor says the current president has lost the plot entirely. This interview was recorded as the S&P 500 dropped 85 points at the open, the Dow fell over 630, oil surged more than 8% in a single session, more than 40 countries convened to discuss clearing the strait without the US at the table, and Iran struck an Amazon cloud computing centre in Bahrain overnight. This is one of the most important geostrategy briefings of 2026. 📚 Sources cited in this video: • U.S. Energy Information Administration, Strait of Hormuz https://eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=39932 • International Maritime Organization, Persian Gulf Shipping Updates https://imo.org • CSIS, Strait of Hormuz and Global Energy Security https://csis.org/analysis/strait-of-hormuz • Congressional Research Service, Iran Conflict and Global Oil Markets https://sgp.fas.org/crs/mideast/ • Lloyd's of London, War Risk and Marine Insurance https://lloyds.com/market-resources/war-risk • Council on Foreign Relations, US Military Operations in the Middle East https://cfr.org/region/middle-east-and-north-africa ⚠️ 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 Col Douglas Macgregor: "Nobody Is Telling You the Truth About What Just Happened" (2026 Prediction)