I am posting the transcript of Tucker Carlson last night, April 9, 2019, because I think a lot of Americans are unaware of our military presence overseas and the reason for it. At least I was.

TUCKER CARLSON WITH GUEST RETIRED ARMY COLONEL DOUGLAS MACGREGOR ON WHY WE HAVE 175,000 ACTIVE DUTY PERSONNEL OVERSEAS IN 158 COUNTRIES OF THE 195 COUNTRIES IN THE ENTIRE WORLD

TUCKER: We have nearly 175,000 active duty personnel serving overseas. American troops are posted in 158 different countries. There are only 195 countries total on the entire planet. We’re almost everywhere. There is no world war currently in progress. This is what we have signed up for in peacetime. There is one place where our troops are not – they are not on our southern border protecting us. Tens of millions of illegal immigrants already live here….and 100,000 more are showing up every month. Over time, this is how countries collapse…. Nobody in Washington thinks this. You know what they think is a crisis: medical care in Morocco. That’s a problem we must solve immediately. Luckily we have Exercise African Lion. Never heard of it? You’re paying for it…. In the last year 1,100 U.S. military have participated in that exercise.

How about the plight of the Ethiopian Navy. The Ethiopian Navy needs a lot of help considering that Ethiopia is completely land-locked as a country. Thank heaven for our sixth fleet, there on it. The navy just sent a press release last week bragging about new talks with the Ethiopian government to discuss the “exciting task of building the Ethiopian Navy.” Feel safer?

The people of Mozambique feel safer. U.S. military aircraft have flown 60 missions. They transported more than 663 hundred metric tons of relief supplies in there in the wake of a cyclone.

In Honduras where we currently have 400 American troops stationed, our 612th Airbase Squadron recently helped extinguish a wildfire in a small town called Comayagua.

In Malaysia, a U.S. Navy amphibious construction battalion is rebuilding water tanks at an elementary school.

These are all good works, done at taxpayer expense, but what about us, what about our country? We’re being invaded. No offense to the Ethiopian Navy but we could use American troops a lot closer to Tijuana than the horn of Africa.

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TUCKER to Guest Douglas MacGregor, retired Army Colonel and author of the book, “Margin of Victory…” Why do you think it’s so repugnant to our leadership class that they would help protect us?

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DOUGLAS MACGREGOR: First, let me say that contrary to what Max Boot is saying, there are no Russian armies massing on the borders of Europe prepared to strike west and conquer Europe, none. There are no Chinese armies amassing on the borders of Southeast Asia, or on the border with Korea ready to pounce on the Korean peninsula or invade Vietnam and Thailand. They don’t exist. So there is no imminent threat contrary to popular belief. There troops do not have to be overseas where they are. ‘’’So, why are they there’’’? ‘’’Very simply, because special interests enrich the ruling class’’’. ‘’’The lobbies that exist, foreign and domestic, have enormous money and it pays people on the Hill, obviously a great deal of money, to support whatever involves overseas contingencies’’’. ‘’’So the overseas presence is a cash machine’’’.

TUCKER: So first to get back to first principles, the purpose of the U.S. military is to defend the United States, correct?

MACGREGOR: Correct.

TUCKER: So, if there is a threat to the territorial sovereignty of the United States, the U.S. military you would think.

MACGREGOR: Correct. Title X of the United States Code specifically says just what you’ve said, and the army in particular, in addition to conducting decisive operations on land has the task of conducting a mission for wide area security. So the U.S. Army belongs on the border right now. It’s perfectly obvious to everyone on the border, you can add more patrolmen, you can add more customs officers. It’s not just a function of a wall, they cannot possibly cope with hundreds of thousands of people marching over those borders, especially when they’re told if you reach the border you have to be admitted.

We need martial law on the border. I just spoke with people on the border with New Mexico, Arizona and Texas and they all say the same thing, “please send troops, send the United States Army.”

TUCKER: So, we’re going to put on the screen a list of places the U.S. military is committed. I think some of our viewers might not be aware of the scale of the commitment. This is not criticism of those troops who are doing their jobs and doing it well, but they were sent by policymakers who see what they’re doing in Denmark, Fiji, Finland, France, etc. as a good deed, but why would it be offensive for them to protect this country? I don’t understand; why is one good and the other bad?

MACGREGOR: Well, the Democrats look south and they see voters moving across the border. The Republicans are afraid of losing votes and so they lack the courage to stand up and say stop. Those are the two problems. No one on the left is going to advocate for the defense of that border because they see, in the future, a human foundation for a permanent dictatorship of the left.

TUCKER: So, you spent your life in the military. Tell me, if you were to ask your average front line infantryman in the U.S. Army, would you rather, would you feel better about protecting your own country’s border or protecting our “Kurdish allies” whoever they are in Syria?

MACGREGOR: Well, first of all, let’s face it, the average American solider, sailor, airman or marine who arrives in the Middle East and looks around and says, “My God, there is nothing here worth my life, so as a result I’m not going to take any chances, so if I’m going to fight, I’m going to pull the trigger, I’m not going home in a body bag.” The average soldier, sailor, airman or marine doesn’t see anything in Afghanistan or the Middle East. So, to answer your question, they would all be delighted to defend the United States, to defend our borders, particularly the Mexican border, without question. The Generals, of course, are part of the ruling class here in Washington. They’re not interested because they look at the same cash machine. How do we justify bloated ground forces, a huge Marine Corps, a large army, massive investment in surface fleets if we pull back and we admit there really is no justification for it overseas? It can’t be done.

TUCKER: Grim, but smart…

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U.S. Military Personnel Locations

Australia 248

Austria 4

The Bahamas 61

Bahrain 4,376

Belgium 1,074

Belize 11

Brazil 52

British Atlantic Ocean Territory 3

British Indian Ocean Territory 297

Canada 142

Denmark 9

Fiji 3

Finland 15

France 55

Germany 35,220

Greece 410

Greenland 147

Hong Kong 27

Iceland 1

Ireland 3

Italy 12,991

Jamaica 11

Macedonia 7

Morocco 15

Netherlands 411

Norway 619

Poland 158

Qatar 521

Russia 7

Spain 3,346

Sweden 8

Switzerland 28

United Kingdom 9,119