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Celerity

(54,116 posts)
Wed Mar 4, 2026, 02:32 PM Yesterday

US and Israeli strikes are deliberately targeting Kurdish regions of Iran: border posts, police stations, military bases

This isn’t random. This is preparation.

The CIA is already arming Kurdish forces for an uprising. Now airstrikes are clearing the path for thousands of Kurdish fighters from Iraq to pour into western Iran.

They’re engineering a civil war inside Iran.

While Trump claims he “forced Israel’s hand” and Colonel Macgregor says our bases are destroyed — the US is quietly opening a fourth front.

This war is expanding by the hour.




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US and Israeli strikes are deliberately targeting Kurdish regions of Iran: border posts, police stations, military bases (Original Post) Celerity Yesterday OP
Who's Col. MacGregor? Esox Lucius Yesterday #1
Douglas Macgregor, a RW POS Celerity Yesterday #2
Ahh...one of those. Thanks! Esox Lucius Yesterday #4
he is a massive racist Celerity Yesterday #5
This won't work leftstreet Yesterday #3

Celerity

(54,116 posts)
2. Douglas Macgregor, a RW POS
Wed Mar 4, 2026, 02:58 PM
Yesterday
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Macgregor

Douglas Abbott Macgregor (born January 4, 1953) is a retired colonel in the United States Army, former government official, author, consultant, and political commentator.

An Armor Branch officer by background, Macgregor was a leader in an early tank battle in the Gulf War[2] and was a top planner in the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. His 1997 book Breaking the Phalanx argued for radical reforms inside the United States Army.[4]

After retiring from the military in 2004, Macgregor became more politically active. In 2020, president Donald Trump proposed him as the U.S. ambassador to Germany, but the U.S. Senate blocked the nomination. On November 11, 2020, a Pentagon spokesperson announced that Macgregor had been hired to serve as senior advisor to the acting secretary of defense, a post he held for less than three months. Trump also appointed him to the board of the U.S. Military Academy, but the appointment was terminated by president Joe Biden in 2021. Macgregor's commentary has been noted for placing a lower significance on Ukraine, illegal immigrants and refugees than competing priorities in terms of overall U.S. foreign relations considerations.

Celerity

(54,116 posts)
5. he is a massive racist
Wed Mar 4, 2026, 03:22 PM
Yesterday

In a 2013 radio appearance, Macgregor spoke of an "entitled" "underclass" of people that were concentrated in "large urban areas", and the threat he said they posed: "And when the food stamps stop, when the free services end, when the heating bills aren't paid and the heating doesn't come through in many of these large cities—Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, Washington, Baltimore, St. Louis, Detroit, New Orleans, San Francisco, Los Angeles—this underclass that resides in these places, I think could become very violent." In 2019, he argued that there were more mostly Irish "slaves" than African slaves in America in the late 1700s.

A CNN report in 2020 said Macgregor had often used racist comments and had "demonized immigrants and refugees". It quoted Macgregor as alleging that Mexican cartels were "driving millions of Mexicans with no education, no skills and the wrong culture into the United States". It noted that Macgregor had "repeatedly advocated instituting martial law at the Mexico–United States border and to 'shoot people' if necessary". Another CNN report said he had described Muslim migrants in Europe as "unwanted invaders", arriving "with the goal of eventually turning Europe into an Islamic state".

In 2019, on the Conservative Commandos radio show, Macgregor alleged that George Soros was financing the transportation of foreigners to the United States, purportedly to destroy American culture; he made similar claims about Soros on Lou Dobbs' Fox show. In April 2021, on Frank Morano's radio show, Macgregor blamed the Democratic Party for non-European immigration purportedly to "outnumber the numbers of Americans of European ancestry". Such comments by Macgregor were described by Maddow Blog, Media Matters for America, and Insider as a version of Great Replacement Theory.

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In an October 2021 speech to the Serbian American Voters Alliance, Macgregor blamed America's problems on what "the Russians used to call certain individuals many, many years ago, rootless cosmopolitans". Commentators noted that "rootless cosmopolitans" (Russian: Безродные Космополиты was a Soviet antisemitic trope.

leftstreet

(40,044 posts)
3. This won't work
Wed Mar 4, 2026, 03:03 PM
Yesterday

The Kurds won't "rise up."

They've seen this a million times. Bush fanned the uprising flames in Iraq, then the US stood back and DID NOTHING

The military better get ready to run a lot of spec ops and pretend it's actually Kurds

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