EXCLUSIVE: The Elite’s Game of Fear-mongering for Power

The West’s strategy for confronting Russia, according to Col. Douglas Macgregor, is not about national defense but about elite survival. European and American leaders, he argues, are inflating the threat of Russian aggression to justify vast increases in military spending while ignoring their own fiscal ruin. He sees this as a cynical sleight of hand by entrenched political classes desperate to maintain power as their economies buckle under the weight of decades of deindustrialization and debt.

Macgregor says Western leaders know precisely what they’re doing: they are inventing or amplifying an “external enemy” in Russia to rally populations behind them while institutionalizing surveillance and suppressing dissent. This manufactured fear, he warns, is less about stopping Russian tanks in Warsaw than about securing budget lines for defense contractors and ensuring the continuity of a political order that voters increasingly reject. “The enemy is not coming,” he insists, but the illusion of the enemy is invaluable.

He’s particularly scathing about Europe’s so-called “uniparty” systems. From Paris to Berlin to London, he argues, nominal political competition masks an elite consensus on immigration, fiscal irresponsibility, and transatlantic obedience. Nationalist alternatives exist but are systematically kept out of power, starved of money, and vilified. The real threat to these elites isn’t Moscow—it’s their own publics. So they double down on fearmongering to keep themselves in office.

While the media obsesses over tanks and troop movements, Macgregor says the real destabilizer is economic policy. Western leaders have, in his words, “thrown fiscal discipline overboard,” hoping no one notices that the military buildups are being financed with debt they can never repay. He calls this strategy delusional, warning that the result will be structural inflation, the collapse of the dollar’s credibility as a store of value, and a bond market crisis that could engulf both America and its European allies.

Crucially, he links this strategy to the Israel lobby’s influence in Washington, describing how unconditional U.S. support enables Israeli goals that serve as catalysts for wider conflict. Macgregor argues that Netanyahu and the Knesset delegation aren’t merely lobbying the White House—they’re issuing instructions. The U.S., he claims bluntly, is hostage to Israeli interests, underwriting policies of mass expulsion in Gaza and seeking to destabilize Iran by encouraging Azeri separatism in the northwest.

Macgregor warns that the same elites whipping up fear of Russia have no plan for what happens when the debt crisis hits. Their answer is simply to keep spending—on surveillance, on militarization, on controlling dissent. He sees a surveillance state looming, one that will use laws against free speech under the guise of security while ignoring the social unraveling caused by mass migration and economic decline. He believes the elites’ greatest fear is not Moscow, but losing control over their own restive populations.

In the end, he paints a bleak picture: a West led by bankrupt elites lying to their own people about the nature of the threat while betting everything on a militarized, debt-fueled status quo. As Macgregor sees it, this strategy can’t last. It will end in economic crisis, social fragmentation, and possibly even war—a war not against Russia, but against the people these leaders claim to defend.

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