The Jay Martin Show, Released on 1/24/26

Colonel Douglas MacGregor joins Jay to unpack Greenland and Venezuela, rare earths, silver, and copper. This conversation traces how minerals are now shaping geopolitics, national security, and internal stability inside the United States itself. MacGregor challenges imperial thinking, questions Washington’s lack of long-term strategy, and warns that America’s greatest risk may no longer be abroad, but at home.

00:00 – Why America vs. America may be the real conflict
01:00 – Greenland, resources, and 19th-century thinking
04:10 – Venezuela: coercion without strategy
08:50 – Why extraction isn’t the problem—refining is
12:00 – Rare earths, China, and the real leverage
15:00 – Is there a hidden U.S. grand strategy?
19:00 – Lessons from World War I and strategic failure
22:00 – Government becoming an activist mining investor
25:00 – Gold, silver, and the coming supply crunch
29:00 – Copper, uranium, and the permitting bottleneck
32:00 – Empire, republics, and the “state of exception”
36:00 – Insurrection, federal law, and internal fractures
42:00 – Immigration, identity, and national cohesion
49:00 – Rule of law as America’s real competitive edge
54:00 – Term limits, leadership age, and historical parallels
58:30 – Final thoughts on power, resources, and decline

Col. Douglas A. Macgregor USA (Ret.) is a decorated combat veteran with a PhD in International Relations from the University of Virginia. He is the author of five books and is the executive vice president of Burke-Macgregor Group LLC, a Defense and Foreign Policy consulting firm in Northern Virginia. He is the CEO of Our Country Our Choice.

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