Col Douglas Macgregor appeared for a sit-down interview with Tucker Carlson tonight to discuss the latest developments in the Russia-Ukraine conflict.
So far, Macgregor is the one who has been the most accurate in his assessments when compared to the results on the ground in Ukraine. If what Macgregor outlines in this interview is correct, and there’s no reason to believe it isn’t, then President Putin has been planning this operation for a long time.
As the multinational corporations, multinational banks, collective corporate and political west along with the EU, NATO and media, tell Ukraine to keep fighting, it appears Russia is moving through a methodical plan they have no hope of stopping. This would explain why the Russian convoys are pausing before going hardcore on the cities and population centers. WATCH:
Basically every conservative pundit I’ve heard on tv/radio has championed the Globalist narrative on this conflict, something which shouldn’t surprise me though in my perhaps naieve hope of at least a smitten of honesty out of some of them it still alarms me to just how much these are all paid actors playing the role of “controlled opposition” according to the script given them. For sure, they’ll criticize Biden for being weak and on policies like the energy issue, but they won’t diverge from the script of declaring Ukranian Govt good and Putin completely evil.
So the fact that Tucker is at least engaging a different take/narrative, giving it at least a little bit of exposure DOES surprise me given he works for Fox News. I can’t imagine Paul Ryan is pleased about it. I’m not sure how Tucker is allowed to get away with it and still keep his job unless it simply has to do with the massive viewership, rating$$ he brings to the network.
Pedro L. Gonzalez
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This would make sense in a war of extermination–which this isn’t.
Russia has repeatedly asked civilians not to fight and taken POWs.
Zelensky has responded by positioning defenses in densely populated civilian areas and now his commanders are endorsing war crimes.
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This guy Gonzalez makes a mistake. In 2014 Hillary was out of State running her kingdom of graft from the Clinton Foundation. It was John Kerry’s state Department.
No mistake. It was Hillary’s appointee and operative Victoria Nuland who led the effort and distributed the money and weapons. Hillary was SOS until 2013, just before the onset of the coup, and most of the”5 billion dollars” contribution to the cause was spent during her term. The Maidan was mostly Hilary’s show. The events were already in motion when Kerry arrived. Kerry was complicit, i.e., and made no attempt to reverse course, but he was mainly just along for the ride and probably lacked the savvy to comprehend the long term implications of the operation. The demonic Hillary , on the other hand, knew exactly where this all was headed.
It’s also incredibly stupid militarily since it will cause the enemy to fight to the death as they have nothing to lose and encourages them to do the same to your side.
“Russians don’t take a dump without a plan, son. And senior commanders don’t take on something like this without having thought the matter through.” —Adm. Painter (Fred Thompson) in The Hunt for Red October
The only problem I’ve got w/ his analysis is @5:00 when he says Biden will have to back track because we can’t afford to stick w/ it cuz it’ll be “self-defeating”.
MacGregor ‘s analysis is coming fr/ the point of view of a sane person who has a healthy sense of self-preservation.
Biden Admin. has proven that they have no such principles or concerns and , in fact, they seem to enjoy taking the U.S. down.
Pipeline? Supply Chain? Afghanistan? etc.
I agree the best single word descriptor for Biden admin policies is INSANE, and the single best descriptor for motive FOR the policies seems to be “to DESTROY the U.S.”
MacGregor was trying to describe this, in terms of enlightened self interest, apperently choosing not to go into the broader question of “What the hell are they THINKING?”
given that the motive FOR the policies seems to be “to DESTROY the U.S.”
I think the best descriptor is not ‘INSANE’
but ‘PURPOSEFUL’
I think “Colonel Macgregor” is being worshiped as a Holy Cow here.
Joseph Macgregor is not a general, and technically not a full colonel either unless you mean Kentucky Colonel. His title at retirement was Lt. Colonel, sometimes called a “light colonel.” There is a big difference between a Lt. Colonel and a Full Colonel in the US Military.
The US Military has a policy of “Up or Out.” Meaning you are promoted or sidelined. “The summer of 1997 marked the third time the Army refused to put him in command of a combat brigade,” a virtual death warrant for his Army career, relegating him to staff jobs as a colonel for the remainder of his service.”
As an advocate of surprise, bold, risky attacks, he assumed command of a unit of 19 tanks in the First Gulf War that met with success. Later, his book written while on active duty, Breaking the Phalanx, proposed “the Army restructure itself into modularly organized, highly mobile, self-contained, combined arms teams that look extraordinarily like the Marine Corps’ Air Ground Task Forces”. To say that probably didn’t set well with some Army superiors would be an understatement.
Nonetheless Macgregor was the top planner for General Wesley Clark, the military commander of NATO, for the attack on Yugoslavia the Clinton’s famous wag the dog scenario. Among other things, multiple bridges across the Danube were pointlessly destroyed like one to the refugee city of Novi-sad in the extreme North of Serbia, where 13 languages are spoken and Christian, Jew, and Muslim live in peace. They are still sore about that. Quite a feather in his cap /s
Sometimes what is NOT mentioned is just as important as what is. His bio on his military career does not mention attendance at the Army’s CGSC, an essential check-off for any officer destined for higher “field grade” promotion. But more than a check-off, they actually teach stuff there.
The United States Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, is a graduate school for United States Army officers headed for command responsibilities and promotion to higher levels. This is where officers receive intense training in logistics, tactics, military history, ethics, rules of warfare, command and maneuver, military planning and decision making, etc.
This doesn’t prove Macgregor isn’t brilliant, but it suggests he may not have judgement and knowledge resources to rely on him as the only source of military advice.
I may be wrong, but I question his assumption that Vladimir Putin would use weapons of mass destruction in Ukraine, which might just take the bloom off the rose. To what end? Killing Nazis? To prevent NATO from attacking Russia across the Dnieper and Crimean swampland? To prevent Ukraine from hosting Patriot Missile batteries to shoot down Russian ICBM’s in their uplift stage as they are deployed in Poland?
source for Macgregors’s bio: Wikipedia
Wikipedia.
You need to back this up with something besides Wikipedia. Not saying it’s not all accurate, but make sure their sourcing is correct.
Hmmm. I’m not sure which facts you are questioning BDNB.
The Crimea would be one of the World’s Worst way to attack Russia. Resupply would have to be through the Dardanelle Straights. The disastrous meeting at the Yalta swamp, where FDR gave away Eastern Europe to Stalin was such a hell-hole of mosquitos, they were almost eaten alive by mosquitos if you read the diaries of the translators. The only reason it was held there was because Stalin refused to leave Russia during WWII.
Everything posted to wiki can be overwritten by anybody else. The one person they won’t accept as a source is the person being described. Wiki does ask that sources be given to back up what is written, but good luck getting the truth out when politics are involved.
Agree Jim, I just use Wikipedia to grab some basic stats like birthdays, places, dates so people can easily check it themselves. I’m not a fan of Wikipedia, but it’s not bad for geography, dates, timelines and a few other things.
At the same time, what we consider reliable sources are just as political and misleading. How about this article from britanica.com on WWI in France. Don’t you think the Americans deserve at least an honorable mention for the role we played in the fighting?
https://www.britannica.com/place/France/Society-and-culture-under-the-Third-Republic
Make sure you make use of the ‘early life’ section of Wikipedia — especially when it concerns the media and politicians.
The goyim know.
So you seem to argue those who don’t get picked up for “stars” are probably not worth listening to, or alternatively generals are obviously brilliant?
Not at all. where do you get that from? I’m only pointing out the obvious that Macgregor wasn’t regarded as the best and brightest by his superiors. Take it for what that’s worth. If nothing, fine.
On the other hand, some of our best campaign generals benefited greatly from a deeper military experience and education, Patton, MacArthur, Puller, Kenny, and dozens more. Instead of ad hominem mud slinging that contributes nothing, how about you put together a factual rosy bio of Macgregor, and I guess you shouldn’t use Wikipedia.
You do realize in today’s military, Patton, Puller, your fighting Generals of WW2, would probably not make it past Lt. Colonel themselves, due to political considerations, amongst other things. Heck, Patton hitting a soldier would end his career today, justified or not.
His book rubbed his superiors the wrong way, the same superiors who hold in their hands their evaluations of him, and who’s decision about him will affect his career. And in today’s military, if you are a “boatrocker” you aren’t going anywhere.
I live near Leavenworth, I game with civilians and soldiers who teach at CGSC and other schools, and their opinions are the same. Want to see something above O-6. Kiss the right ass, and don’t say the right thing to the wrong person.
Don’t believe me? That’s OK.
Look up John Boyd. He was influential in helping create the Aerial Attack Study, the E-M Theory, and his work formed the basis of MCDP-1, Warfighting, the manual that lays out how the USMC is going to fight.
His OODA loop theory, has helped revolutionize more than just warfighting, being used in business and other areas as well. He was instrumental in developing the F-16 and F-18. He’s one of the most influential military strategists of the last 100 years, in addition to being one of the best fighter pilots to ever sit in an aircraft. He had a challenge, when he was a pilot for the Aggressor Squadron at Nellis, and he had standing offer that he would pay to any pilot that could defeat him in aerial combat in less than 40 seconds $40 (This was in the late 60’s early 70’s). Boyd woul start at a disadvantaged position, IE enemy behind him, and in less than 40 seconds, defeat any opposing pilot. He never lost.
He retired as a Colonel. And then was brought back out of retirement to help with the planning for Desert Storm.
So because he wasn’t a General (because TBH he pissed off a ton of general’s over the course of his career, the same generals who could help get him promoted or see his career stagnate) his contributions are somehow…less?
Unfortunately, in today’s military, rank doesn’t always equate to military competence, but rather political competence.
Discounting MacGregor’s views because of his rank is one thing, discounting them without offering a differing point of view is another .
Do better next time.
You’re right about Boyd, I have his book. Never read Macgregor, so not competent to judge. My point is NOT he’s inferior because of rank, but it’s not a good idea to get all your advice from a single source, it usually doesn’t end well.
It could be my bifocals, but could you quote where in your original post you said “My point is NOT he’s inferior because of rank, but it’s not a good idea to get all your advice from a single source, it usually doesn’t end well.’
Thanks.
The guy’s name is Douglas, not Joseph.
His Wikipedia bio shows no data re the bridge event that you fantasized in the Balkans.
I realize you’re out to hit the guy, but don’t be so sloppy about it.
That’s not from Wikipedia, that’s from me. I’ve visited Novi-sad personally and seen the downed bridge. The story comes from the native Novi-sad tour guide. Check it out before throwing mud.
So you’re the source of the fantasy? Got it.
That was a fairly easy takedown, lad. Do better next time.
I don’t much care either way about the guy, but you do apparently.
Sorry about the Joseph, that was from a rough draft. I corrected it but it didn’t make the cut when I posted it.
You better find another login, lad. I think you’ve been fully exposed now.
Good grief! Is this the new mode for Treehouse?
Liberty Bridge (Serbian: Мост слободе, romanized: Most slobode) is a cable-stayed bridge on the Danube river in Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia. The bridge was built in 1981 and destroyed during NATO bombardment on 3 April 1999. It was rebuilt from 2003 to 2005 and reopened on 7 October 2005. The bridge was designed by Nikola Hajdin. – Wikipedia
Me: (Not Wikipedia) It’s called Liberty Bridge because historically Novisad was the haven for refugees fleeing North to cross the Danube into Hungary. Hungary didn’t want them but sold them a small amount of land where they could live. Einstein and Tesla were from there.
Here’s a photo of the bridge with the Varidin fortress in the background for reference.
I wish you would stop exposing yourself here on Treehouse railer.
I posted earlier with 2 pics that is held up, but wanted to get back to you. The incredible Varidin fortress is in the background so you can look up where that is.
Here’s a source that you may feel more comfortable with laddie
https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/inatl/longterm/balkans/stories/novisad042099.htm
Gotta say, not much of a bridge.
The beach piers out here in SoCal are much bigger, and possibly even longer.
Haha. True. I picked that photo because it shows the iconic Petrovardin Fortress with its amazing maze of tunnels, never taken by the Ottomans despite multiple sieges, often called the Gibraltar on the Danube as a recognizable landmark. That appears to be a pedestrian bridge, one of several rail and road bridges destroyed in the 1999 bombings.
There’s a running joke there about the Americans for some reason, bombing every bridge they construct, going back to WWII. The people of Novisad have a wonderful sense of humor. Their broad avenues are even decorated with colorful statues of cows. There you go railer, your big chance to call me a liar again…
Not sure if CTH can handle cyrilic photo names. This is the main bridge dropped at Nivisad 1999
Um, you haven’t provided a source supporting your fantasized story about Macgregor and some bridge and… er, what was it you fantasized about him, lad?
Really, it’s time to switch logins now.
How about spending 30 seconds to search “Novisad bridge bombing” before sliming people
Bridges get bombed regularly, lad. Your assertion was that Macgregor’s conduct was suspect, which you’ve failed to provide a scrap of data to prove, your mass of photos notwithstanding. .
You seem expert at google image searches though, so kudos.
Do recommend you switch logins, now. Feeble shilling, once exposed as this, is unrecoverable.
Maybe someone could verify the accuracy of the Wikipedia statement that Macgregor was the top planner for General Wesley Clark, the military commander of NATO, in the Cosovo conflict, I don’t have the time. If so, I’d like to know what he was thinking
A nationwide bombing campaign was carried out against Serbia infrastructure by us.
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Um, verifying your bald assertions about Macgregor would fall to you, lad. Absent verification, suggest you find another login.
it is right to be skeptical of military talking heads. Frankly, And he might be schilling for some cause, corporation, foreign government.
I would not hold his lack of promotion against him – “Mad Dog” Mattis went as high as you could go. Its pretty well known that if you need to go into a ware of survival, half your officers need to be sidelined as political hacks. Ask Abe Lincoln about that.
But at the very least MacGregor is making predictions. We’ll be able to judge how informed, connected, clever he is. I’m watching to see if he keeps changing his story…..which he might. This would mean that he is a hack or was genuinely misinformed about key information. Either way its the scrap heap for him.
I like that, in the clip from the Laura Ingraham clip that was shared (Goerka unhinged) he readily mentioned manipulated intelligence….. and we ALL know that is truth and not often uttered.
OK, so he pissed off a lot of his superiors.
But the guy has a doctorate in history. Just because he didn’t attend the Army’s Flag Officer training school doesn’t mean he doesn’t understand history and politics. He just didn’t get the training for an Army Flag Office.
Which, in this case, would not only be irrelevant, but likely he’d be stuck thinking within the box. Ergo General Millie Vanilly.
Torn, your first mistake was using Wikipedia as a source for ANYTHING (unless you’re a leftie, which I suspect you are). Retiring as a Lt. Col. doesn’t mean you aren’t a brilliant military mind, many times it means you have rubbed a superior the wrong way. With the top military idiots in charge today, I would consider the non-conformists as heroes.
His cool, calm observations blend in perfectly with the unfortunate historical policies of Slick Willie/W/obozo.
I wasn’t impressed with his analysis.
Tornarosa: you are employing the fallacy of “shoot the messenger”. Your statement is totally irrelevant to MacGregor’s analysis of the Ukraine situation. Is his analysis true or false? It makes no difference if he is a private or a five-star general – all that matters is whether or not his analysis is valid. You are also employing the “distraction (squirrel!)” fallacy and a bunch of other fallacies. Please argue McGregor’s analysis, if you can, and not his credentials. It is quite common that the guy “in the trenches ” will often have a better analysis of a situation than all the “elites” as so many of us have observed on this site time and again. Treepers: Tornarosa in this case is using fallacious arguments that are a distraction from MacGregor’s analysis. Do not get distracted.
Both the Ukraine and Russian governments are corrupt and vicious. I am no fan of either government. We all know of Putin’s viciousness, but how many have heard of Zelensky’s viciousness against the Separatists? Zelensky is no John Wayne defending the Alamo. He’s as vicious as Putin.
The lack of scorched earth destruction by the Russians supports MacGregor’s analysis, which boils down to Putin wanting to replace Zelensky and keep Ukraine out of Nato. My take away from MacGregor’s analysis is that the Russkies are planning a siege. If the Russians employ a siege, it won’t be long before Kyiv citizens start dying of hunger and Zelensky will be forced to concede. In today’s societies, there are no store rooms of food supplies big enough to last more than a couple weeks in the big cities – as there were in the medieval times. The flip side of the siege tactic is who gets the blame for innocents’ deaths? The globalists will blame Putin, but the reality is that Zelensky should share the blame.
There is something else playing out in this conflict. All the globalists are supporting Ukraine which leaves me wondering what is going on.
Where does Burisma fit into all of this?
This is not my Grandfather’s military but some current trends started long ago. Grandfather Wulf was a full bird Colonel in the Army Air Corps and a West Point graduate.
He was on track for his first star and a place in the new Air Force hierarchy when he made the fatal mistake of enforcing Army Regulations regarding the use of a military landing strip by a civilian on a closed military base.
That civilian was best buddies with an influential congress critter so Grandfather Wulf was passed over for consideration when his promotion went to the bureaucracy for approval.
In short, officer promotions above Captain have now become politicized.
I’m ULTRA skeptical about the whole thing. Bare minimum it’s one thug dictator fighting another thug dictator with western dictators (pretending to be elected representatives) prodding it along. All at the same time big news from Durham, election fraud and the essential admission of the Moderna CEO on Maria Bartiromo’s show that sequences of DNA that were patented by Moderna 3 years before the plandemic began were found in the COVID virus.
The Democrats and RINOS are for US and Western intervention. George Soros is for Western intervention. Hillary Clinton is for Western intervention.
The same people in charge now were in charge during Afghanistan withdrawal and lied to us all about COVID origin, Trump Russia collusion, weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Gulf of Tonkin etc.
I know it’s “conspiracy” but Bill Gates and Klaus Schwab have been recently and continuously talking about another pandemic is coming. I think the Deep State monsters we’re planning to cook it up in one of the 13 bioweapons labs that the US taxpayers fund in Ukraine and Putin is taking them out.
When Soros and Clinton are both yelling about the West having to militarily intervene as soon as possible you know they’re scared.
Ukraine is the center of operations for the Deep State in terms of corruption, money laundering, trafficking and a whole host of other unmentionables.
Schwab and Gates have both mentioned a cyber pandemic and Gates even mentioned in camera about how Omicron was as a better “vaccine” than the ones developed by Big Pharma and he sounded disappointed that Covid was disappearing. On the other hand he did mention another pandemic was most likely to happen again and soon.
We all know that the 13 US funded Bioweapons labs in Ukraine was not researching better cold remedies and the fingerprints of the NIH, Fauci and the Eco-Health Alliance are all over these facilities.
If you carefully watch the comms of the usual suspects they’re all panicking over the loss of Ukraine.
Putin many not be a good guy but Zelenski definitely isn’t one and the DS house of cards is about to lose one of it’s foundation walls holding the whole rotten edifice up.
Yes, Gates comment about another pandemic happening soon should have us all very alarmed…and very angry that bioweapons research intended for who knows what nefarious purposes is even taking place anywhere in the world, let alone funded by our own Govt (NIH). I mean, at least with Nukes you have the logical deterrent of MAD. But with bioweapons, a cure might be developed along with the bioweapon prior to the country unleashing it on others who would not have the cure. For example, I still wonder if our Olympians might be bringing something back from China that has an incubation period before it blooms. Hopefully just paranoia on my part but it is hard not to be on alert constantly nowadays.
Another physical pandemic might be coming but I wouldn’t bet too heavily on it despite what Gates says.
A series of questions which frequently gets overlooked is:
Where did Omicron come from and why is it so contagious? yet it’s also quite mild.
How did it spread so fast in so many places at once? many times faster than the original virus.
How was is able to overcome the so called vaccine immunity and yet provide superior natural immunity?
Also note this fact back in November 2021, the WEF called off their Open Forum conference and have also deferred their annual gloatfest in Davos. They claimed unspecified “threats” at the time and now Omicron.
But they called off their meeting as if they were expecting something “new” to happen that would worsen the covid crisis.
Instead they were caught completely off guard when that something new was Omicron and it wasn’t nearly as deadly as they had expected.
I think Schwab and Gates were expecting a new virus to be released but it wasn’t the one they were briefed on, Omicron killed off the Delta variant and innoculated much of the population, in fact it’s basically killed off the lethal form of Covid. So I think their pandemic plans aren’t really working out for them at all.
As for the Olympians, I’m not sure China would use them as vectors for a bio attack, the thing about bioweapons is that they don’t stay contained to your target population and they mutate in unpredictable ways so as to make defending against them extremely difficult.
Wuhan learned the hard way about this and so did China.
China would also be crippling not only the economies of the West but their own as well as their allies.
I sincerely believe another player is in this game, one who basically countered the pandemic with something completely unexpected and who has made some strategic moves to block the plans of genocidal fruit loops like Schwab and Gates.
GRY, great reply. Thank you. And your last paragraph is oh so juicy to think about!
Your speculation is rational and logical. I have read other posts in other places referencing someone joking about engineering Omicron to combat the other COVID-19 variants.
Others may discount this but I believe that a great deal of information can be gleaned from surfing through various comment sections of news sites. It becomes easier to spot astroturf narratives when one finds different posters with the same exacting phrasing on topics while things closer to the truth come out when different posters on different sites are having conversations about similar information but with wildly varying phrasing.
My exact suspicions.
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Here is an alternative explanation of what Putin does s doing.
For those counting years of service and advanced training, you might as well not bother. But a lot (not all) of what this guy says makes more sense to me than what MacGregor said.
They are both a very long way from the propaganda spewing out of our governments.
Putin is NOT crazy and the Russian invasion is NOT failing, writes military analyst BILL ROGGIO | Daily Mail Online
Putin seems to be ” Rooting-Out ” the entrenched interests of the global Deep State.
Including the swamp.
When he said he was going to ” de-nazify ” Ukraine, my first thought was that the Nazi doctors did not die.
They were brought into allied nations under – Operation Paperclip.
Look at all the projects they may have been involved in for the Military Industrial Complex. Includung Chemical and germ warfare. Then remember there are some 11 USA – DOD funded labs in Ukraine.
Things start to add up.
2 sites have the archived info of labs and pathogens being studied , including : Hantavirus , Avian Flu , African Swine Fever ( anybody remember reports about 3-4 weeks ago about a possible Eastern Europe case of infected pigs that needed to be culled ? Hmmmmm??? )
Lioness Of Judah.substack.com Feb 27 , 2022
NewsPunch.com – Feb 26 , 2022 ( with archive links )
Very interesting!
Encourage everyone to DIG , and PRINT ON PAPER a lot of this stuff before the net is taken down.
Agreed, I’ve been watching the Deep State bobble heads like Clinton and Soros and their cohort in the WEF, they’re all panicking over this and desperately pushing for direct NATO military intervention. Even pushing maximum fear porn of a nuke strike from Putin through the media to get direct action.
But it’s too late, as has been mentioned elsewhere, Putin knows what he’s doing, this has been planned for a long time and he knows what to hit and what to leave alone.
Zelensky on the other hand looks like he’s been completely outmaneuvered and desperately trying to pull the rest of the EU into this mess.
Luckily it looks like neither NATO or the EU want to get involved and are actively trying to stay out of it.
I think this attack is a mortal blow for the Deep State/Cabal that they won’t recover from, Ukraine was the center of a lot of their financial dealings and operations in both Europe and the Middle East being centrally located.
Watch Biden, Pelosi, Kerry and Romney squirm as their “investments” in Ukraine through their sons melts before their eyes.
The thing which scares the DS creeps the most is what Putin will uncover once he wins and really starts digging into what the Ukrainian goverment has been up to, there are many, many skeletons buried in Ukraine that the DS doesn’t want found.
IF they can , they will pull a false flag BLACKOUT ( cyber-polygon exercise ) and blame Putin.
They have already primed the pump with that narrative.
Russia has a more immediate thought when thinking about NAZIs in Ukraine.
Actual pro NAZI groups took part in Obama’s revolution in 2014. And statues of NAZI supporters from WWII are hailed as freedom fighters.
Ukrainians, fresh from Stalin’s murders did join with NAZIs to fight for freedom. Even were Frontline troops killing Soviets. And some participated in killing Jews. Kind of stupid really because they were also slated to be murdered by Hitler. Some might have been spared if they were ‘Aryan’ enough, whatever that means. But all slavs were to be exterminated for ‘living room’ for Germans.
Anyway, to Stalin, if you hadn’t died resisting the Germans, you were a traitor, and he resumed his killing of Ukrainian people. You didn’t actually have to fight the Russians to be considered a traitor. Just surviving was all the proof Stalin wanted.
So, significant amount of bad blood exists. Ukraine honors their NAZI ‘freedom fighters’ and Russia wants to exterminate the hated NAZIs from Ukraine. Rather pointless. If they didn’t succeed in 45 years after WWII, they won’t succeed now.
And every now and then, a Ukrainian who was a holocaust camp guard gets discovered and tried for his crimes. That probably is nearly over now. Aren’t many survivors living. And I haven’t heard of trials of those who helped the einsatz troops with their mass murders lately either.
Putin is doing exactly what he stated he would do if NATO made overtures towards Ukraine.
Some more background on Col Macgregor. The more I hear, the more I respect. He is a non inteventionist (American interest only) who does not support endless wars and questions everything, and is outspoken about it. A non establishment reformer type. He is also a brilliant strategist.
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The revenge of Col. Douglas Macgregor
NOVEMBER 12, 2020
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Macgregor, a West Point graduate, is an acquired taste: outspoken and controversial. He has flagged reporters with his statements about immigrants (we need martial law at the U.S.-Mexico border), Iranians (we need to look for areas where we can cooperate), Afghanistan (we have no business being there) Iraq (we should have left, long ago), and Syria (we should get out immediately). Those views aren’t to everyone’s liking, but they’re especially controversial in the military, whose staid stance on foreign interventions does not countenance the kind of dissent in the upper ranks that Macgregor represents. Macgregor, it is said, has refused to “stay in his lane,” has been too outspoken, too vocal, and not really a team player.
Yet, senior military officers quietly admit that in terms of sheer intellect, no one quite matches Macgregor. Several years ago, I asked a senior U.S. Marine Corps officer to name each of the services’s most creative thinkers. His answers were entirely predictable to anyone with even a passing knowledge of those in uniform, except when it came to the Army. He didn’t hesitate: “It’s Doug Macgregor,” he said. “He’s the best thinker they have, living or dead.”
https://responsiblestatecraft.org/2020/11/12/the-revenge-of-col-douglas-macgregor/
Not surprising since he advocated re-organizing the Army along the lines of the Marine Corps. Just sayin
While others are debating the value of Co. McGregor, I went for another search regarding Russias responce to Covid.
Interesting, unlike 2-3 weeks ago, I found LOTS of material, all critical of Putin and his responce to Covid.
Very intetesting, some of the criticisms. Criticised for counting deaths FROM Covid, rather than WITH Covid.
Critisised for allowing/delegating public health policy to LOCAL leaders, rather than adopting a centralised, top down approach.
So, right their two major points the authors point to as criticisms, that I see as positives.
They critisise Russia developing their OWN Vaccines “Sputnic V” rather than using vaccines produced by big pharma.
So, thats #3.
Low vaccination rate, estimated at 30 percent of the population, that are sceptical of vaccines.
They HAVE implemented SOME mandates, with little consistency or positive effect.
Not surprising, since mandates and lockdowns don’t work.
Beyond that, Russia inherited a broken health care system, due to many years of Soviet mis-management.
And its quite possible the infiltration of WEF into WHO, NIH, CDC and similar organisations in western governments, has also made inroads in Russia.
Anyway, carry on with deep analyses of Col Macgregor, his history and bio, which conveniently distracts from analysing whether or not WHAT HE IS SAYING, is VALID.
More likely, Putin figured out COV2 was a hoax and laughed at the rest of the world tying itself into knots over nothing.
Lukashenko of Belarus figured it out and refused to go along with it- he said the global elite were going to use it to remake the world. So, of course, he got a Soros color revolution. And I think in one of our huge $spending bills there’s lots of $$$ to promote “democracy” in Belarus.
News from Russia in mid-2020 was that there were going to be new variants, at the time, I heard someone call it covid-20. But, turns out, the Russian predictions were spot on. As was their national treatment response.
I am only skepticism reagrding all things Ukraine, at this point.
I might begin to believe what is happening now in ten years, considering what I know about where my news comes from.
America First, right folks?
Oh well would you look at that, a huge portion of the right goes bounding predictably after the cookie cutter Foreign Good vs Foreign Bad narrative like an overenthusiastic golden retriever, a narrative put out by the people who literally want them and their children dead along with the same array of cringe emotional appeals and ribbon bullshit that they trot out every single time. I’m so tired of this rerun.
Just goes to show the last six years taught them nothing. Not a darn thing. The speed at which they have fallen for this is truly mind boggling.
How many in the West would be demanding aid for Russia if Poland or Finland was invading. (Put the military capability aside, that is not the point of the question).
Great take on the war… and great insight on the machinations of the American Polity.
You got to wonder, are the American Progressives so stupid? Or, are they quite aware of their machinations? After all, the war with Putin creates yet another escalation on the cost of energy, which plays right into their Make America Green agenda: make gas so expensive that solar and wind are on the same “cost” level. Ie: exhorbitant.
They knew they could take cover from Putin with the corporate media and at the same time ignore the machinations in Canada and the Trucker Convoy… (well, I think those two were freebies to them).
But, how will they handle Germany’s sudden turn around on nuklear energy? Or is that all just Hot Air talking from the Germans now that their population is suddenly looking at not enough natural gas in the middle of winter. Make no bones about this… it gets VERY COLD in Germany and France and Belgium…
I would love to hear the Colonel’s take on the China question: “Why don’t we hear about China?”
Oh, another thing… they didn’t talk about the destruction of the bio-labs in Ukraine, in the first wave of Russkie attacks.
Were they destroyed?
French media allows discussion about the divisions within the Ukrainian people (pro West vs pro Russia):
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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1498738347518353410.html
Always appreciate the Col., and I’m always disappointed that we don’t have many more like him… It’s not that he’s so smart its just so many of the rest, aren’t. The grift and graft of our corrupt politicians and elite is showing its wear. No accountability and no justice of a dying empire.
Reserve currency status end in sight.
India
Did anyone know that just today 03/02/22, that the Donbass area civilians are still being shelled? At least five civilians were killed. You would think that the Ukraine military would have more to worry about than shelling civilian areas but hey what do I know.
These neocons can rant about Russia all day. Ukraine was the one who has constantly violated the Minsk agreements. Ukraine is the one who has shelled and killed thousands of civilians, maybe tens of thousands. Those two things alone justify what what Russia is doing and there is a long list of other actions that Ukraine has taken to provoke the Bear. Don’t attempt to justify Israel’s constant military actions against their neighbors in the name of self defense and at the same time accuse Russia and Putin of being Hitler.
If the neocons want someone to blame then why not Obama. His CIA insured that this outcome would eventually come to pass. I am sorry for and I pray for the common Ukrainian people who are caught up in this conflict. I am not however sorry for the government of Ukraine.
This French-Ukrainian woman, just back from Kyiv, tells it how it is to French TV commentators: ‘Why would Ukrainians sacrifice their lives for a corrupt dictatorial puppet regime?’
https://rumble.com/vw8uwb-march-2-2022.html
Meet Ihor Kolomoisky, the oligarch who made Volodymyr Zelensky president, firstly in a TV series and then for real:
https://www.grunge.com/779421/the-scandal-surrounding-volodymyr-zelensky/
Robert Barnes retweeted this:
It All Comes Back to NATO By Ron Paul
https://original.antiwar.com/paul/2022/02/28/it-all-comes-back-to-nato/
When the Bush Administration announced in 2008 that Ukraine and Georgia would be eligible for NATO membership, I knew it was a terrible idea. Nearly two decades after the end of both the Warsaw Pact and the Cold War, expanding NATO made no sense. NATO itself made no sense.
Explaining my “no” vote on a bill to endorse the expansion, I said at the time:
NATO is an organization whose purpose ended with the end of its Warsaw Pact adversary… This current round of NATO expansion is a political reward to governments in Georgia and Ukraine that came to power as a result of US-supported revolutions, the so-called Orange Revolution and Rose Revolution.
Providing US military guarantees to Ukraine and Georgia can only further strain our military. This NATO expansion may well involve the US military in conflicts unrelated to our national interest…
Unfortunately, as we have seen this past week, my fears have come true. One does not need to approve of Russia’s military actions to analyze its stated motivation: NATO membership for Ukraine was a red line it was not willing to see crossed. As we find ourselves at risk of a terrible escalation, we should remind ourselves that it didn’t have to happen this way. There was no advantage to the United States to expand and threaten to expand NATO to Russia’s doorstep. There is no way to argue that we are any safer for it.
NATO itself was a huge mistake.
Good thread here (retweeted by Robert Barnes) that goes over all the top foreign policy strategists who warned about the consequences of NATO expansion and Russia’s reaction (so basically, our foreign policy establishment did this deliberately because they want war):
Classic wag the dog… What is happening in Ukraine is the result of bad Obama foreign policy (2014 US lead coup) that lead to the Crimea annexation. Eastern Russia-oriented Ukraine has been shelled daily for 8 years. Biden just upped the ante and reinstituted the O admin plan in 2021 probably along with to hide the treason, money laundering, human trafficking, bribery and corruption of his own family, colleagues in Congress/government, and the man “reportedly” wanting to control the Ukraine oil industry, Mr Soros.
This war should never have happened as Ukraine was never going to become part of NATO. Brandon pushed this to happen. Germany had already made the deal with Nordstream 2 pipeline. Europe already got oil from Russian and Ukraine. Global politics of energy, money and corruption and likely more about a ME oil pipeline more so than Russian oil.
I place this at the feet of Brandon, who has never gotten any foreign policy correct in his 50 year career in government to paraphase Bob Gates. Just consider the 2016-2020 never ending Russia Collusion and the Ukraine stories. Same old s#!t all over again.
I’m guessing that Ukraine becomes a neutral, buffer country between NATO and Russia. One that is friendly to both sides to conclude this fighting. That is unless someone controlling Brandon et al wants a full on war so they can steal Russia’s wealth “again,” and Brandon is too far gone mentally to know better.
https://www.gettr.com/post/pxvp8u2796
Can somebody please direct me…I am trying to find the photo of Zelensky awarding a neo Nazi in Ukraine parliament…saw it..but now cannot find it. Thanks