WASHINGTON, June 27 — A decorated combat veteran and former senior advisor to the Department of War is warning that a global famine is being deliberately engineered, with the daily cost of the current war machine destroying enough grain and fertilizer to feed 30,000 people for an entire year.
Colonel Douglas MacGregor, whose credentials include leading troops in battle and helping plan strategy from the top floor of the military establishment, lays out this argument in his book “The Coming Famine: Engineered Starvation and the Price of Empire.” The evidence, he writes, is undeniable. Strategically, the calculus is stark.
The United States has approved over $113 billion in aid to Ukraine with minimal oversight. Meanwhile, American farmers face doubled fertilizer prices as domestic infrastructure crumbles. The broader stakes involve sanctions on Russia and blockades on Iran that are strangling the inputs needed for modern agriculture.
Natural gas is required to produce nitrogen fertilizer. When those supply chains are disrupted, crop yields fall by 40% to 50% in a single season.
That is not a theoretical projection. The military-industrial complex profits from this destruction. Defense contractors benefit from policies that cause starvation, and MacGregor argues this war profiteering is a deliberate outcome rather than an accident.
What this signals is a system where the machinery of war generates profit even as it destroys the capacity to feed populations. MacGregor has been sounding the alarm that the mainstream media refuses to broadcast. He speaks from decades of insider experience that few can match.
The solution he proposes is humanitarian disengagement. This includes an immediate ceasefire, removal of foreign troops, an end to sanctions on food and fertilizer, and a focus on local food sovereignty and home gardens.
The coming famine, according to MacGregor, will dwarf any natural disaster in human history.
