Palisades Gold Radio, Released on 6/18/26 (Recorded on 6/17/26)

Stijn Schmitz welcomes back Colonel Douglas Macgregor to the show. Douglas is a Retired U.S. Army Colonel and a Decorated Combat Veteran. In their discussion, Macgregor assesses the leaked 14-point MOU between Iran and the United States as an admission of strategic defeat, signaling that Iran has emerged victorious from the conflict. He emphasizes that the war is not over, predicting Israel will soon resume its offensive, prompting an Iranian counterattack and forcing President Trump to reengage militarily, albeit briefly, before ultimately disengaging. Macgregor argues that the United States was doomed to lose due to Iran’s mastery of integrated surveillance and strike capabilities, which render traditional naval and air superiority ineffective without robust ground forces, a capability he claims the U.S. currently lacks.

(Timestamps are below the video)

00:00:00 – Introduction
00:00:45 – Iran US MOU Assessment
00:06:00 – Energy Metals Commodity Focus
00:08:50 – Oil Prices and Reserves
00:11:50 – Rise of Iran & Turkey
00:20:14 – Trump Pressures & MOU
00:23:30 – Gold and Bitcoin Outlook
00:27:56 – U.S. Strategic Petro Reserve
00:31:38 – Sulphuric Acid, Urea, & Ag.
00:34:47 – Use of Ground Forces?
00:37:08 – Gold In A Tsunami
00:38:50 – Purchasing Power Gold & BTC
00:40:01 – Substack and Final Remarks
00:42:11 – Concluding Thoughts

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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