It’s been less than a week since that infamous presidential debate and it is shocking how little the wars in Ukraine and Gaza played in the discussion. Worse, when they did spend 11 minutes total talking about the two conflicts, both candidates were largely incoherent and evasive. If the American taxpayer is going to spend tens of billions of dollars on these wars – which we have already: $6.5 billion in the last eights months to Israel; $175 billion in the last two and a half years to Ukraine – then we should be giving it more than a passing glance in the presidential race.
But alas, no one really wants to talk about it in any meaningful way because it would mean addressing the massive failures happening in both conflicts. So joining me on the episode today to actually give these issues substance is my friend retired Col. Doug Macgregor, CEO of Our Country our Choice, a decorated combat veteran, an author of five books, a PhD, and a defense and foreign policy consultant. Doug has been providing straightforward, common sense, and much needed criticisms of the military and U.S. war policies since I met him during the early days of the Iraq War.
He walks us through the failing trajectory of the Ukraine War, the looming Israel-Hezbollah war in Lebanon, and the weakness of Biden to stop the carnage in Gaza and a regional conflagration — with Washington sucked right into it.
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