Douglas Macgregor: A New World Emerges: Iran Will Win & Israel May Not Survive (Glenn Diesen)

Douglas Macgregor is a retired Colonel, combat veteran and former senior advisor to the U.S. Secretary of Defense. Col. Macgregor argues a new world is emerging with a new Middle East - in which Iran will win and Israel may not survive.



In reaction to the title of this video, Israel will probably survive, with continued US support, but there's little that can be done to dismantle Iran as opposed what happened to Iraq, Libya and Syria. Unlike those three countries Iran is much more homogenous and there's no open borders that would allow attack by US ground forces - Iraq is blocking the way, and their Government is now allied to Iran, so will not let in large numbers of US military. They'll likely expel them. While Iran does have minority populations, the country is run by a majority group which makes turning the place into a failed state, through internal unrest, a very difficult proposition.

The one thing that might happen, aside from the country rallying to fend off US-Israeli attacks, is that the religious leadership may be diminished, in the long run. The country was moderating in any event. What won't change is the power of their military and their collective willingness to stop attempts at turning the country into a failed state - particularly at the hands of Israel.

If an extended shooting war persists the world economy will suffer through shipping blockades and high oil prices so that a resolution to the crisis will be pushed by the rest of the world, including from within the USA, and especially from China and India (countries with some leverage vs the US).

Another thing that might happen is that the US may be forced to leave Iraq, and other various Middle Eastern countries. In that circumstance expect ISIS and Al Qaeda (intelligence agency puppets) to reinvade Iraq from Syria and then move on to Iran. But any attacks of ISIS forces from Iraq going into Iran will be like a conventional fight, and not so much an insurgency, where Russia and China will lend a lot of assistance. ISIS may likely be stopped inside Iraq too, before it can go further. Nevertheless, some insurgency action will undoubtedly occur within Iran, as is has recently, but the Iranian security services will most likely deal with it. 

Whatever is tried against Iran will almost certainly fail. Iran, when it was left alone, was slowly moderating. There's videos from shopping malls showing a very secular middle class society in the country. Head coverings were optional. The idea that there was a lot of religiously driven oppression is false, although the system of religious oversight they have, over elections and the country as a whole, is not a good thing.  

The trouble with the sort of interventions being pushed presently is while they're sold as bringing freedom and democracy the action is ultimately aimed at destroying entire populations, to turn countries into failed states, like we saw for Iraq, Libya and Syria. It's a US-Israeli neocon project and it does not matter whether they have a secular Government or not. The plan is simply to eliminate any future threats to Israel. This is what this is all about. In this situation the neocons seem to have run up against a wall. But who knows what will actually happen? 

[Posted at the SpookyWeather2 blog, March 4, 2026.]