The Dollar’s Final Act? Col. Douglas Macgregor on Collapse, War, and Bitcoin

Natalie Brunell sits down with retired U.S. Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor to unpack an uncomfortable reality: America’s national security depends on supply chains tied to China. Decades of money printing and financialization helped create billionaires and politically connected elites while hollowing out the industrial base we’d need in a real crisis.

We discuss:
- Is GOLD the new reserve currency instead of the U.S. Dollar?
- How reliant the U.S. military and defense industry is on China
- The reason the U.S. went into Venezuela
- Why Macgregor sold his bitcoin and thinks he’ll be able to buy back at lower prices
- The “financial armageddon” he believes is coming—and what breaks first

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*IN THIS EPISODE*
00:00 What happened to the US Dollar?
6:00 Gemini Bitcoin Credit Card | Bitcoin is For Everyone
6:46 Ledn Bitcoin-backed Loans | Abundant Mines
7:40 Close to financial armageddon
11:01 The uniparty problem
16:00 Debt we can't escape
17:40 Weapons without readiness
27:29 Speed Wallet | Bitkey | The Bitcoin Way | BitcoinIRA
29:12 No quick fix for industry
36:14 War against China
41:09 Military power without strategy
49:57 Crash is coming
54:24 Bitcoin price falls, then rises
58:24 Immigration and the economy
1:09:16 "We have to go back to sound money."

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Producer: Aron Bender https://www.linkedin.com/in/aron-bender/
Editor: Silas Foley

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