From the “I finally got to it” pile, Colonel Douglas Macgregor gave an hour of his time to chat with Russell Brand last week. As with most of Brand’s content, it was a great conversation. One portion in particular stood out to me as something we could dig into.
Russell often asks long, complex, multi-faceted questions. They’ve got lots of layers and lots of questions. In this case, the question is no different and includes allusions to national elites, revolution, and the military being asked to suppress any uprising at home or possibly participating in a revolution against the government (question begins at 14:40 is you’d like to hear it in total).
Col. Macgregor provides an instructive response, equally layered, with bits of input on everything from why the US military isn’t ever likely to fight its own government or in that government’s name against its own people to recruitment issues, US provocation, forever wars, Border Security, Child and drug trafficking, and China’s Military problems (it’s not a threat).
It was an interesting response with a lot of launch pads for discussion.
