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:
Note to Genral Macgregor: “Thou shalt not talk common sense.”
Colonel.
These days calling someone a General is an insult.
O dear. My apologies.
Thats ok. When a Colonel talks using more logic and facts than do the generals, it is an easy mistake to make.
Col Macgregor speaks very deliberately and sounds like he has studied this much longer than a few weeks, and understands Vladimir Putin and the geopolitics of the other side of the world far better than the screaming ninnies throughout DC, Europe, and all of their collective marionette media.
Yet I refuse to believe he’s the only one who knows what he described to Tucker.
If that knowledge he shared is absent or has been rebuffed among our DOD, IC, and White House (whoever is running that since it’s certainly not Joe Biden) , we really do have a rogue and far more dangerous cabal steering the USA at the moment than many may have surmised.
I think all this posturing and lying and chest beating we see is Kabuki. They KNOW. Brandon the Great Foreign Policy Expert simply CANNOT be allowed to come out and openly say the truth because there would be too many questions. They will keep gaslighting the American public, and don’t be surprised to find out that it was all “Trump’s fault.” I have already seen some leftists blaming Trump.
I am genuinely sorry for the innocent people in Ukraine but I have zero sympathy for Zelensky and his “government.”
Brandon doesn’t KNOW the truth.
Yup.
Tonight FJB announces they will go after the oligarchs.
The DOJ was going to “seriously” go after Rusian/Eurasian organized crime when the Smushkevich brothers stole $1 billion from Medicare; when Evsai Agron was terrorizing the east coast of the US; when John Gotti’s guys on wiretap indicated how evil the Russians were; when Tarzan bought a submarine to smuggle drugs; when Rita Pekler was executed; when Arkady Rozenberg and Lloyd Ingber were running insurance scams; when they were working on the west coast with MS-13 causing car accidents; when they were stealing and exporting vehicles. “It is too complicated” and overlapped too many squads was the constant refrain. If you commit 3 types of crime, you seem to become untouchable because (like with intel) they cannot merge silos. Same damn thing I heard for nearly 3 decades. They don’t know because they think it is too complicated to learn.
I think all you need to know is Democrats are in control in DC & Republicans are mostly silent (acquiescing in ANYTHING Democrats do). Except for Pres. Trump & a handful of Republicans in either House, nothing has changed since 2008. (And that’s if you think the Bush family were really conservatives).
OTOH, I have never been sorrier for future kids & grandkids, of which I have neither, than I do today.
I don’t know if McGregor is telling the truth, but I suspect he is. The news people & especially FAUX News are bending over backwards with “there’s still hope”.
Meanwhile Soros wants us Americans to save Ukraine. There’s enough reason right there to say “whoa!”
So to George Soros–spend your billions on the people of Ukraine yourself. You go fight Putin. You’ve already destroyed America.
Keep an eye on Taiwan. I suspect the real reason this is going on is to make it easy for China to take over Taiwan and then have control of the microchip market. They then cut off our supply and they all win. Democrats destroy America, China gets Taiwan back and Russia gets Ukraine. Afterwards it’s just a matter of time before we are teaching Chinese in schools.
“OTOH, I have never been sorrier for future kids & grandkids, of which I have neither, than I do today.”
Interesting that you should include that in your comment. I said nearly the exact same thing to both our son and our daughter within the past month.
I told them that their mother and I apologize for not seeing this develop (the entire Great Reset crap starting with covid and continuing through this completely-manufactured Ukrainian crisis) sooner than we did, such that we might have been able to help them prepare their families for what I believe will be a tough decade all the way through the 2020’s.
They have both lost their jobs by refusing the quackcine, but both are healthy and doing well, thanks to not living beyond their means and God’s Grace. And both said they weren’t holding us responsible for our late realization of the country’s perilous condition, because no one that they know saw it coming either.
They are both reading the Treehouse and other accurately written articles that I forward to them. We share a lot of useful information – especially re. vegetable garden and home maintenance – back and forth, so I am grateful they are both “awake” and working to stay as self-sufficient as possible.
Remember, when in need of a shot of optimism, that the American voter awakened and soundly thumped the left in 2016 and 2020. That the result was stolen in 2020 does not negate the fact that a majority of the country was not asleep and is even more aware today of what they have to lose.
For years, up to 2016, I thought the American spirit had been miseducated and bullied from the citizens.
There is always hope as long as there is a yearning for freedom and that yearning is provably here.
Better leadership can come to the fore and with it, better organization, resistance and reform.
I appreciate your optimistic assessment of American voters.
Apparently, not nearly enough voters have actively made their State and Congressional representatives and senators aware of the voters’ extreme dissatisfaction and/or anger at their (questionably) elected representatives’ complete absence of acknowledgment of the massive voter registration, ballot, and tabulation fraud that was committed in November of 2020 in multiple states.
Also apparently not enough voters have expressed dissatisfaction directly to their Reps about the Reps’ complete lack of willingness to authorize and demand focused intense and transparent investigations into the thousands of claims of fraud or questionable / illegal actions across multiple states.
So I am not sure what good all the “awareness” does, when people do not convert their awareness of criminality and corruption into active public complaint to the elected officials.
Hillary is A Soros drinking buddy.
When you advance officers based on them telling you what you want to hear, you get a bunch of idiots at the top, and only savvy people lower down, or out.
After the Obunghole purge of patriot generals and flag officers 2013-2015, I heard many lower rank officers say that nobody above Colonel was worth a damn. They are in the field and understand the men.
Yes, Col. Macgregor is full of common sense and seems to have a firm grasp on reality. No wonder many don’t want to hear what he has to say!
Next SecDef.
There’s also Jeff Nyquist, who has studied the Russians & Soviets WAY back, and personally interviewed people like Golitsyn and other defectors.
I always find him very interesting.
https://jrnyquist.blog
Most of our current generals, and admirals, are generally insults to what our military should be.
That’s why there have been plenty of third world “Colonel’s Revolutions” and few general’s revolutions.
I still listen to retired General Jerry Boykin who founded Delta. He does Not support the Russian aggression….The leadership of the USA, Russia, Ukraine and the EU are ALL corrupt murderers and thieves. I wouldn’t piss on any any of them if they were on fire….
It is better to Stand and Fight and Die than to Live on your KNEES.
Too bad the only person in America who knows how this whole thing could have been prevented is relegated to merely a talking head on a tv show. Just goes to show that we really don’t have anyone in a govt. position or elected position who knows diddly squat about anything. Especially ass kissing Military Generals.
Ah! But the pundit class and the gubmint class went to haarvaard you know….
We could do with fewer Haaaavaard alumni in government, education, media,business and law.
They tend to make things worse for us.
Wanna f up a business ………………. put a Haaaaavaaaard MBA on it.
None would be best.
Ideally.
Imagine how important the left would find him if he were merely a LTC listening in to a phone call with Ukraine?
Biden wants Putin to destroy the evidence of the corrupt deep state colony known as Ukraine
It also keeps the war pigs in business now that the covid 19 spell has been broken
Yep, never get in the way of Democrat politicians (and the Uniparty Rinos) as they cover up their crimes and attempt to hold onto power. Not a pretty sight!
Why would Putin do that for him?
He can talk about it. Does not mean politicians, et al, have to practice it.
Its beneath them.
I’m actually shocked that The Conservative Treehouse (Sundance) has taken such an ideological stance on what is happening to 43,000,000 human beings; this issue isn’t ideological to them, it is a matter of survival
Most Ukrainians love their President for standing against this Russian genocide: Putin didn’t expect the resistance he’s encountered, therefore he has turned his wrath on the old, women and children.
God help us if we lose our humanity in the name of fighting the future evil of resisting the “Great Reset”.
There is no “genocide” committed by Russians Against Ukrainians.
You clearly have no idea what the word means.
Get a dictionary.
Did you listen carefully to the Colonel’s history and explanation? Your comment does not show that you did.
What genocide has been perpetrated by Russia?
Please post links for information, including what you have learned about the old, women and children who have been targeted by Putin.
The only genocide I’m familiar with was the one the Bolshevics commited against the millions of Ukrainians and Russians when they were crushing them under their heel according to Nobel Prize winning author
Alexander Slozhenitsen.
He has not turned his wrath on the old, women and children.
As usual, the defenders hide amongst civilians.
And do not disregard rockets being intercepted, they crash.
Nor false flags.
Is Polina real?
The colonel stated that Putin does not want to kill Ukrainians needlessly. He needs the population in tact as a stabilizing force against NATO. Putin does not want to create a hostile population by slaughtering them. That is why he is being methodical and surgical with his advancement. He could have flattened every major city in Ukraine within days if he wanted to.
Don’t believe the propaganda of our corrupt media.
“The colonel stated that Putin does not want to kill Ukrainians needlessly.”
I’m pretty sure the colonel also stated that approach is now over. But perhaps I need to listen again.
“Putin does not want to create a hostile population”
And that’s why that approach is likely to be over. Putin’s smart enough to know that ship has already sailed and he will have a hostile population no matter what.
Not sure. Ukrainians know what a corrupt mess their government is. I dont blame them for running away . When its over they will come back and their life might even be better.
When I hear “genocide”, I know you don’t know what you’re talking about. You are simply parroting what the lying media has told you. Another sycophant!
CUT THE CORD! Take a break from tv propaganda. Your brain is infected I’m thinking.
I am shocked you haven’t educated yourself on this topic and watched John Mierscheimer’s lecture on video posted further up. Your ignorance is showing calling this a genocide. After that, no one can take you seriously.
If you want to take an intelligent position against Putin invading Ukraine, go ahead, but drivel isn’t considered a viable argument.
Too shallow an explanation from the Colonel. Does he really believe Putin, a WEF alumnus, can’t buy the necessary votes to keep Ukraine out of NATO? That THE ONLY solution is war? It just smells wrong. It takes a year or more planning for a military operation like this. Is Putin incapable of brokering a deal in that time?
What’s going on behind Kremlin walls is where the story is — who is Putin fighting? Is there some internal struggle underway? With whom? Traditionally, the Party, the Military, and the Security Services were the controlling troika — the Party would align with one of the other two to keep the third in check. I’ve never seen a situation where the Military and the Security Services aligned against the Party. (Yes, the CPSU is dead, but United Russia is its offspring) Has that happened? Does Putin believe he is being attacked from the outside? Have his WEF mates turned against him? Did he see how easy it was for them to take down Trump and think that they have put a bullseye on him? If so, is Ukraine some sort of delaying action to rally his strength? OR, is Putin part of an elaborate Kabuki Dance? If so, with whom? Zelensky? Biden? WEF? For me, the answers are in Moscow, but our media long ago abandoned that post so we don’t have the kind of intimate, back-channel contacts we had during the Cold War.
When 45 becomes 47, Macgreagor should be Secretary of Defense and Diana West should be Secretary of State.
Meanwhile, Hannity didn’t waste much time on the SOTU and is back to Ukraine/Russia was fever.
(I do not have cable, but can get FOX on the internet)
And Mark Levin called all of us nationalists “Neo- CONs” because we don’t want to go to nuke war with Russia. He is a neoconservative. It’s all about Israel.
Levin is a clown circus performer.
Levin thinks by yelling you will buy his bulls-t.
Yes, I noticed that over the last couple weeks. “Populism” he called it. But buy his book!
His radio show is nothing but a scream fest, and his books are unreadable. Plus, we must remember he was a Ted Cruz guy and was vicious against Trump, then pretended to support him, and now is back to form.
He loves war.
He’s miserable and negative and not funny.
Is it an adrenaline surge?
I have noticed that Madeleine Albright seems to get very wired when she is saying things like “massing along the border” especially concerning Russians.
Remember Levin has a lucrative deal with Fox News for his one hour show. Furthermore, Levin’s best buddy is Vannity. I personally can’t listen to either one of these self proclaimed “conservatives” who beat the war drum for the actual neo cons. However “Levinites” , be sure to buy or pre-order my latest book.🙄
Not to mention those obnoxious New Yok accents. Sorry New Yorkers, I love you, just not the accent…
A man confident in himself and his skills doesn’t need to be called “The Great One”. Ugh…
^^^^THIS!!!!^^^^^^
I’ll never forget Levin living in a multi-million dollar house in the wealthiest county in America discussed his belief that the retail workers at Tyson’s Corner Mall – one of the wealthiest neighborhoods in the country (diplomats, senators, CEOs, live in McLean, VA) should be grateful to work for minimum wage and never mind that an apartment costs 2500 dollars a month or more in the area. He was complaining about the lack of workers available to serve him.
He is so entitled and out of touch.
Many people have said we may be on the precipice of WWIII. So I was thinking, why would all them melonheads get together in the same room for the State of the Union? The risk assessment is off the charts. Why would they do that? There is more going on than we know.
Somewhere along the way somebody in a command position should have said that this State of the Union should be canceled. It went on anyways. Ask why. Don’t chalk it up to incompetence. I certainly don’t think it was incompetence.
If there is a threat you don’t do something dangerous. So, is there a threat?
Speaking of fantasies, someone on another thread had a great trucker fantasy, and you have stated one I have had for a long time.
Simple: The UniParty melon heads are far more valuable to Putin and Xi in Congress than the risk of replacing them with Patriots.
You said it.
Good point.
We are not going to war. Our military can’t handle it, let alone our precious generals with manicured nails.
We only pick on 3rd world nations with peasants and goat herders. We’d never be able to stand up to Russia. Simply don’t have the stomach for it.
You want some good accurate Russian info……
check out saker……
it even goes back to Russian town capture doctrine…..like WWII.
https://thesaker.is/latest-articles/
Why is it that a man with a far lower rank than all the pompous Generals both active and retired on TV … makes way more sense of the Russian invasion than his superiors?
the top brass are nothing more than woke propagandists. God help us if our Generals are needed to actually conduct a war
Maybe because his family have no financial “interest” in Ukraine…. Maybe because he actually knows that of which he speaks. Maybe because he is not a pompous a&&.
Top brass commanding a bunch of woke freaks and trannies during a war, I shudder at the thought.
You need to be a ass kissing bootlicker yes man politician to be a general!
Anyways Biden’s virtual propaganda war will soon hit a real, not green, brick wall!
Russia has already won.
When you are winning, you can let all the trains run as usual, leave water, sewage, electricity, phone services on!
And by the way Putin is so slow he won in just 5 days! It took Germany 35 days to conqueror one half of Popand!
Nope. Being a Col. means he didn’t make the cut. And Col’s don’t command an Army.
Forward Russians are mostly conscripts, not professionals. Reports are relaying Conscripts don’t want to be in Ukraine and sabotaging their own vehicles. Explains why minimum dead bodies around Russian vehicles.
Ukraine is a big country, Ukrainians are like Texans and will not tolerate Russians in their country so don’t count them out.
Finally if guys dressed in bed sheets living in mud huts can chase of the most power military in the world out of their country, don’t count out Ukrainians. They know how to make IED’s shoot down helo’s and make Russians pay for every meter.
Your assumption the Russian ROE’s, are similar to the ones we had in Afghanistan. Is probably 180 out, from reality.
https://www.warbirdforum.com/chech1.htm
https://defense-training.com/russian-army-lessons-learned-from-the-battle-of-grozny/
List going easy on the civilians.
As long as an awaken NATO supplies Ukraine with weapons I don’t think the Russians will succeed.
The Ukrainian army is no match to the Russian army.
I believe it is a half n half.
East Ukraine vs West Ukraine. Some are pro Russian on one side.
First, Mike,…
See “Charlie Wilsons War” a movie with Tom Hanks, showing how a minor Congressmen from Texas 14th district (IIRC) conducted a covert war against USSR, by supplying those guys wearing bed sheets and living in mud huts, with Stinger missiles and anti-tank weopons, etc. and the training to use them.
Second, educate yourself on “insurgencies”; insugents will inevitably out last and out die any occupying force.
Ghengis Khan knew this. Its why, when he conquered Persia, he slaughtered EVERY man, women and child living in Persia.
Putin knows it too, which is why he is NOT trying to conquer Ukraine; he is defending his country against the steady encroachment, since the end of the Cold war, by NATO who refused to recognise their mission was over, and they needed a cooperative agreement WITH Russia, to provide security to EUROPE, which Russia is very much a part of.
Biggest blunder of ,…ever the way the West blew the peace, after winning the Cold war.
It’s maddening not to know what the real deal between Putin, Biden, and XI was.
It seems inconceivable that Putin would have made such a move without assurances from the US that WWIII would be averted. We can also see that if Biden had, in fact, made a deal to concede Ukraine to Putin, the current charade would serve to cover tracks and shield Biden from any blame, contrary to what occurred in Afghanistan.
I also don’t believe Biden could have known of Putin’s military plan with such certainty if he had not, himself, agreed to such an event beforehand.
Just think! Would a president of the United States, under ordinary circumstances, declare so definitively that an event of such proportions was going to occur unless there was already a secret handshake over such a deal?? Of course not!! Nobody could have that level of certainty.
We then must return to the question, if Biden knew the military invasion was going to occur, why did he repeat it ad nauseum if he knew nothing could be done to stop it. Why not undertake serious diplomacy? Why not impose the most serious sanctions immediately?? Why were other nations not involved in diplomacy?
Do you see what I mean?
This was a done deal!
EVERYBODY ABOVE COLONEL IS POLITICAL.. heard that from a friend.
ANYONE at command rank is political….that is O-6 and above and INCLUDES Colonels
You have to kiss a lot of azz to make General.
Oboma carefully screened out ALL AMERICAN PATRIOT officers from every branch of the military…and fast tracked all commie officers with political science degrees from Harvard…
It appears China issues a list of officers they wish to see promoted…and Mitch is eager to comply with Senate approval…
I worked at an office within Headquarters Marine Corps and can confirm your post. The generals now are almost all moral cowards that follow any suicidal policy. Social engineering? Yes sir! Wokeism? Yes sir! It is sick to watch. I had to finally leave. After spending 30 years active duty and another 10 years as a civilian, I just couldn’t watch my Marine Corps be destroyed. The generals are all yes-men (not really men) and live in a bubble too. There are no ideas outside the mainstream. They all just repeat the same bullshit. It’s an echo chamber of stupidity.
NATO is impotent. DM nails it in the end.
I’m ready for a new contract with America. Hard positions candidates sign on to. No wishy washy RINO crap. Call bullshit.
Seize the mic ala Andrew. WE have to tell them directly and clearly what we want done and they need to sign on to all of it.
Beginning with limiting their term and residency within 500 miles of DC.
What a freak show tonight.
So Biden stirs the pot, NATO point at Russia, USA put bio labs near his borders, USA purchases 700,000 barrels of oil with no intention of paying(sanctions), and then tells Ukraine that the USA won’t defend them.
Seems to me that when Obama gifted Russia with Uranium. It was gift to a friend.
When Zelenskyy told Trump the truth of Biden corruption, Biden’s payback is “America won’t fight for Ukraine”
So pleasant to watch Col Macgregor w/out the rabid Jennifer Griffin foaming at the mouth following up to correct what clearly the Col understands and knows.
It is worth re-reading the Rolling Stone article by Michael Hastings (RIP), The Runaway General, the article that brought down Stanley McChrystal. Col MacGregor is quoted in that June 22, 2010 article, and to say his prediction was 100% accurate is an understatement.
“The entire COIN strategy is a fraud perpetuated on the American people,” says Douglas Macgregor, a retired colonel and leading critic of counterinsurgency who attended West Point with McChrystal. “The idea that we are going to spend a trillion dollars to reshape the culture of the Islamic world is utter nonsense.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/the-runaway-general-the-profile-that-brought-down-mcchrystal-192609/
Hastings was murdered as he was about to release some revealing info on CIA malfeasance.
McCrystal is doing a lot of dirty work for Obama to screw the American population. He`s another retired general to not be trusted.
Seems MacGregor is the only “Mc/Martha can be trusted…Look at McMaster, McChrystal, McCaffrey, McRaven, etc.
Of course, it’s also Irish vs. Scottish.
The one guy worth listening to. No propaganda, just an honest assessment.
No one ever mentions the gas/oil that drives all this: Perhaps Russia won’t need Nordstream pipeline as much once this operation is complete. Heard that Ukrainians charging a big percentage for the Russian oil that was coming through their country thus Nordstrom was built to circumvent Ukraine. Ukrainians also diverted the water that had been naturally flowing to Crimea – to the point that the citizens there were really suffering. So this operation should address that and Crimea will likely begin to access the natural oil-gas reserves in that coastal area.
Of course they won’t need Nord Stream 2.
That was only built as an alternative to existing pipelines traversing Ukraine.
This doesn’t look too good for Joe B. and the Democrats. The Left is not strong on energy, defense, or inflation. I don’t have a good feeling with Joe and crew in charge!
HOW DO YOU HAVE A GOOD FEELING FOR EVIL? for arrogance in the face of failure.
i have a different feeling about this. using the example of american military progress in iraq and in afghanistan, also having read the book ‘DOSTUM, the last warlord, the russian military is a failure. an utter failure. i believe the Ukrainians are putting a hurt on the russians. and i also think that putins people are going to put him out of his misery. i like the colonel. tucker is great. he raises every point. but beyond this,which will end in russian defeat, the WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM will be the enemy within. glad the idiot trudeau brought it to our attention.
I think you have been watching too much propaganda.
i guess we’ll know in a fortnight.
I do think the real goal of this was WEF wanting to get rid of Putin.
He is a MAJOR impediment to their plan for OWG.
He is a NATIONALIST, and would not want Russia to be subservient to a World gov.
And, Russia has nukes, so it is a major player and WEF would HAVE to gain control over Russian gov. the way it has “Western governments” in order to pursue its agenda.
Seeing China aligning with Russia, to my mind eliminates CCP as being behind Klause Schwab, so maybe $0r0$? Schwab had to have SOME power behind him, he just don’t have it on his own.
It seems Schwab and Soros both wanted the U.S. to stop Russia. So, they are on the same page, and they both have a lot of Dems and Rinos in their pockets. I’m sick of them using our young men and women in their evil power schemes. However, did I read that Putin also is a “graduate” of the young WEF leaders program? Or, did he go through that brainwashing in order to understand what the hell was going on around him?
And Schwab says Putin is a WEF young Global Leaders Graduate. Maybe the WEF feels betrayed by Putin?
Putin is KGB trained…a spy by trade. He did his homework.
Putin is the gambler at the table ……..
China , is the bankroller , behind the player.
The Sting
putin as gambler has lost. he can kill every mothers son in ukraine, and russia is a pariah for ever. the are a dead nation. dead dead dead.
China’s okay though, right?
why would you put that to me like that? i said nothing in defense of the perps of the wuhan virus.
Because your comment to SparrowHawk ignored his main point about ChYna?
You seem to know a lot about Russia.
And is posting a lot for a not seen before poster.
No difference from now.
We have been hearing Russia
Russia
Russia
For years
China like the US is in debt well over its eyeballs. Not a single super power/major power is solvent. We are all living on borrowed time.
Who will blink first and cancel their own debt telling the rest of the world to F off with hot WW3 coming next.
Russia has very little debt.
The top of this piece was also Tucker telling journalists directly(Jen G) to stop carrying water for the Pentagon with the ‘he’s not rational’ talk and explaining that Macg sounds like someone telling the truth and it’s the business of the reporter to show both sides not just be an Auten mouthpiece.
“You said Common Sense!?
There s no common sense in politics!”
/s
Someone who knows what he’s talking about and makes sense. Is that allowed?
how many sub 35 year olds do you know that can afford $150 pickup/suv fill ups a couple times a week?
this is like the meteor that’s about make the dem party go extinct.
the voters most impacted voted for FJB.
buckle up.
the rinos are licking their chops… lets meteor them too.
Joe Biden is going to bankrupt the whole country. You know what comes after that? Very long extended mental health and morale problems. When people start losing their cars and apartments, etc. They won’t recover for probably 10 years and that’s if they have a good economy to work in.
Everyone of the college-educated major metro area residents i.e., Biden’s base. The ones that have cars will not be affected by that price as they have a lot of disposable income and don’t drive that far. They can always work from home several days a week if they want as well.
I think they’ll only care/notice when they get priced out of their frequent travel. Fewer long weekends at expensive destinations.
Looks like there’s a very simple strategic end game for Putin:
Follow the arrow north along the river from Crimea to Dnipro then Kyiv then Chernobyl and Belarus.
That’s the new boundary between a Russia-Controlled Eastern Ukraine (enabling Russia to envelop the Sea of Asov east of Crimea and export through Crimea Ports in the Black Sea) and a Militarily-Neutral Western Ukraine (Enabling Western Ukraine to export through the Black Sea Ports to the west of Crimea).
Putin might first take the Black Sea Ports to the west of Crimea and then offer them as bargaining chips for Ukraine to de-Nazify/demilitarize.
A Ukraine refusal leaves Russia with complete control of ALL formerly Ukrainian ports and in position to recover his invasion costs through surcharges on any future Ukrainian exports, which the world will pay (instead of Ukraine bearing the costs).
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/020d33e3-9b57-4799-a645-122658473e38
Bonus: The value of future economic output from Eastern Ukraine might well become a multiple of what this invasion will cost Russia (the “why” behind minimizing civilian and economic damage).
https://www.understandingwar.org/ has daily updates and analysis of troop movements, their analysis of March 1 matches what Col. Macgregor has to say. Russian troops from Crimea are moving northeast along the sea of Azov as well as towards Odesa to the west, a major port, which confirms your ideas.
To further support your position, Russia attacked AFTER Germany officially said the NS2 pipeline would not be allowed to come online.
A Russian Katyusha Rocket barrage from World War 2 now extrapolate that to 2020 technology and explosives. How do Tweets, YT Videos and bravado speeches stop a Katyusha Rocket attack on Kviv or another Ukrainian City? Would any Democrat or US Senator want to live under that attack for hours?
MLRS, which both Russia and the US have many battalions of, can devastate an entire battlefield in seconds…it is the same as saturation artillery barrage but in a smaller, more mobile package acting almost instantly
Fascism is back in Germany:
AND the U.S.
….” Valery Gergiev was supposed to conduct the Vienna Philharmonic in New York for three days starting Friday, but a Carnegie Hall spokesperson said the change was made due to recent events.
A Russian pianist who has also made pro-Putin statements will not perform either.
A protest against both men is scheduled at Carnegie Hall on Friday.”………
A PROTEST at Carnegie Hall! These people are NUTS.
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/valery-gergiev-carnegie-hall/
The woman who normally chairs the Vienna Philharmonic is married to a former chair of JP Morgan Chase.
And yet they always scream about being against just Putin and his “oligarch pals”, not the Russian people! But who do they turn on 1st? The everyday people making music and working in factories or the farms.
I once bumped into him at a venue in Lincoln Center, he was always in the NYC area for performances.
Yes the leftist are fascist…. canceling talented Russian performers.
I was amazed they hadn’t canceled him and his Russian friends earlier.
Their talents musically are not found in the USA typically, I suppose that is probably why.
What else is new…. the leftist Fascist Marxist Commies cancel us too… LOL
I hear Ruth Bader G. was a big fan of his.
That idiot RINO Greg Abbott asked TX businesses to pull Russian products from their shelves. The anti-Russian bigotry and demonizing never ends.
Breath of fresh air.👍🏻
I have always admired Col. Macgregor and I was shocked last night when Fox Reporter Jennifer Griffen said that she knew better and Col. Macgregor
Was completely wrong. Col Macgregor was on broadcast TV Jennifer was nowhere to be seen tonight.
This what a compromised President, Speaker of the House, Senate Minority Leader, etc. beget.
Its interesting that Dan Bongino went full propagandist for those that bank roll him this morning with the complete opposite assessment. That guy is fully in the pocket of Mitch McConnell and the COC.
A very cheap take-out executed by Paul Ryan?
I didn’t hear it because I never listen to the phony tough guy Bongino, but Owen on infowars mentioned yesterday that on his radio show Bongino sounded freaked out about the MRNA vaccines altering DNA that came out in that journal.
Apparently Dan took the jab and is now like what did I take? Well if he didn’t have the discernment to question and experimental technology with no real trials he’s not that bright.
Disappointed in DG since the whole Parler debacle.
Get your iodine tablets ready. That is if you live in a rural area. If you live in an urban area, forget even that.
Just take me out fast. And take me out first.
Always been my saying.
Why nuke? Destroy which you would be better off capturing and then having to rebuild?
What good would a nuclear wasteland be to Russia?
God bless you Tucker for giving this man a bigger voice on your network. This guy has the clearest and most pragmatic perspective on this whole issue other than John Mearsheimer. These Ukrainians are getting creamed and they know it. Sadly, they will lose more than they’ve had before this started. The government of Ukraine has robbed the people dry.
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I watched Tucker Carlson tonight, the only commentator that I will watch who is not exaggerating the war, over-doing his sympathy, or inflaming what the US ought to do to Putin. The segment with Colonel McGregor was low-key, logistically oriented, and makes military sense….it was rather re-assuring. There is so much inflamed rhetoric and false information from almost every other news source that I can’t bear to watch.
There were several interesting points in this. The fact that NATO does not intend to go to war to help Zelenskyy – the stopping of Polish aircraft. The fact that no amount of money and arms to Ukraine is going to solve this. The hollowness of the calls for the Ukrainians to keep fighting because nobody is willing to risk war with Russia. The solidifying of the connection between Russia and China that is most dangerous to the US.
I don’t think the Globalist Apparatus cares how many Ukrainians die honestly, they just want Putin replaced. They are gonna try really hard to have an uprising or Revolution within Russia, just like they have attempted before. Not sure if they will be successful.
Why don’t/didn’t they wait for Russian 2024 Presidential election?
They just had their Legislative election Sept. 2021.
The time frame is making me wonder.
There is a lot of fishy stuff going on with Democrats behind the scenes.
I’ve heard that Hillary was working some magic to make Biden look really bad.
So she could either run in 2024, or install a loyal puppet to run.
I think Biden is trying to pull an ace out of his shirt with no sleeves on it.
Cause Putin rigs his elections (preemptive defensive move?) and he stands in the way of the great reset?
The comments about how Joe Biden ( The USA) seems to have very little say in what is going on over there or very little impact on the situation.
MacGregor seems to be trying to tell us that not only is NATO not as influential in the world as it once was but neither is the Untied States.
He makes the comment that “Joe Biden has written checks he can not cash” and how China and Russia are together on this.
We have leaders here in our country that are so bad that our once strong and powerful country is now laughed at around the world and no one listens to us any more.
Senile Joe Biden struts his stuff like he is President of the most powerful country in the world, but sadly we are not that any more.
This is something I think this Col was trying to tell us.
We, America, is no longer what it use to be.
We have fallen far under these uniparty creeps.
The RINOs are worse than the Dems lying to us like they do, tweeting snarky comments about crazy Joe Bidens mental decline but refusing to do anything legally about it.
None of them will actually try to force Biden up to take a cognitive test or to start the legal process of proving Biden unfit.
They just like to tweet or facebook remarks that make them look good.
After our 20 years of weakness in the “war on terror,” and our cowardly and weak pull out from Afghanistan, we are only taken seriously (when we are) because of the petrodollar and nukes. We won’t be the reserve currency much longer then we are no different than the Russia after the USSR fell – negative birth rates, massive debt, debauched currency, some rich criminal oligarchs and nukes.
What about Trump sending Javelins to Ukraine?
I honestly can’t support the wisdom of that decision.
Try reading some Jeff Nyquist.
https://jrnyquist.blog
quite frankly, i am some-what surprised that Tucker Carlson/Fox News is, still, permitted on YouTube…..
i’m even more surprised that the so-called ‘social media’ is, still, in existence…
( although, IIRC, FaceBook, for 1, has, recently, suffered severe financial losses in the stock-market) ;
Allowed a minor incursion.
The minor incursion Biden allowed took out $6 Billion USD in assets from one of Manafort’s Ukrainian friends.
See Biden wasn’t lying when he said it would be okay. The Democrats called it Masterful Plan.
Its always the money – Mr. Z
Where were these passionate speeches and outrages for the Uighers?
It’s Bidens personal life extension organ bank.
I am glad that Vladimir Putin is no longer willing to take crap from the west and all of the nefarious self-serving deep state schemes– interfering in lands they have no business interjecting themselves into. I believe the colonel exposes these truths in a very straightforward unapologetic manner. A real leader in the whole mess.
Errr….what does he mean “Putin won’t tolerate a NATO state on his border”?
He has two right now, Latvia +Estonia.
He talked about that in an earlier vid – also on Fox.
Memory is foggy right now but maybe the Ukrainian border is longer? Or it’s just one too many?
The interview was in the last couple days, and SD may have even made a post of it. You could search for that.
Ok, he “misspoke”. He meant “Russia won’t tolerate more than two NATO states on its border”….fixed.
…and Poland if you consider Belarus as a part of Russia or take into account the Kalingrad Enclave
And with regard to Kaliningrad Oblast, Poland since 1999 and Lithuania since 2004. Latvia and Estonia also joined NATO in 2004.
It’s all about logistics. Latvia and Estonia do not have warm water ports.
Thank you Col! NATO has not spent 1 dime on defense! Their goal is America to do the fight and NATO to do the cheerleading!
The woke freaks who have infiltrated top levels of media, academia, government, and commerce are fine with this conflict dragging on. They are those who worship at the altar of Diversity; and they are happy to watch a bunch of poor hard working white people kill each other on the battlefield. Hopefully this conflict can be resolved without too much bloodshed. Praying for peace. Let Russia befriend the Eastern half of Ukraine and let Poland, Hungary, and Romania fight it out for the rest if they want. Even today there is a large swath in the west where people only speak Hungarian and the street signs are in their language.
I would have preferred a good relationship of USA with Russians myself. I think it would have made the world safer, far safer than China Russia bonding.
The HRC, OBAMA, Biden faction are loyal to the queen though. They couldn’t allow that because it would knock the Monarchy & Rothschilds off of their pedestal “of ruling the world”.
That is exactly why Biden and Obama started this war in 2014.
actually, the war’s genesis stretches through ALL administrations back to BJ Clinton who promised Russia in 1993 there would be no NATO expansion eastward and no meddling in the political structure of previous Warsaw Block satellite countries…..a promise they started to break almost immediately
Exactly
We have broken all the promises we made to Russia, we maligned them when they were just trying to adapt to self-governance, the Western “free market” brought the oligarchs and criminals, Biden and others used Ukraine as their personal money laundering depot, and Putin is going to stand by and do nothing??
Putin is right, it would be easier to negotiate and come to an agreement than to have people die…. which is why I told my Ukrainian friends whom have young kids to leave for a safe country. There is no coming back from death. My Ancestors learned that when the German Empire tried their prior Genocide on their own people, Ancestors fled the country, their friends who stayed to fight had later died.
That might explain why China wants to step in and moderate the cease fire/peace deal between Russia and Ukraine….
So he can facilitate the outcome Putin wanted to begin with (and the reason he went into Ukraine to begin with).
China needs the Crops…. they are also interested in some of the minerals and whatnot in the ground.
I actually think the Democrats are back channeling with China to steal the Ukrainian farmland.
And from what I understand, which I gladly admit is damn little, most private businesses and farm land in Ukraine is owned by a small number Ukrainian oligarchs–very little is owned by “the people themselves”.
Bingo. It was always the breadbasket of the Soviets.
Putin must have had a great chuckle when “Brandon” cheated his way to the presidency thinking he’d “won”. He hasn’t “won” anything since.
ASB News / MILITARY〽️@ASBMilitaryBREAKING:
Polish President Andrzej Duda says to NATO sec gen @jensstoltenberg: “Poland will not be sending any jets to Ukrainian airspace.”
Stoltenberg says and reiterated “NATO will NOT enter the conflict”5:44 AM · Mar 1, 2022·
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Clint Ehrlich
@ClintEhrlich
SITREP Day 5: The war in Ukraine is on the verge of becoming a NATO-Russia conflict.
Read full thread on Reader App…
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1498609730540826625.html
China ready to ‘play a role’ in Ukraine ceasefire
https://www.ft.com/content/e32aaff8-af24-46e1-8c7c-2a7d09387e45
NATO isn’t going in to fight the Russians. Brass balls Stoltenberg said so.
This should have been obvious from the beginning, but the media is reporting every piece of propaganda put out by Ukraine as “news.” Putin’s goal is and always has been keeping NATO out of Ukraine and Georgia.
For Gods sake, just let those two eastern Ukrainian areas vote on who they want to belong to, those who want to move should be assisted by the Russians to relocate, and have PEACE.
Ukraine is HUGE, like Kazakhstan. There’s more than enough. Let it be.
Nato is a toothless pussy cat whose tin pot dictator members have become the tip of the Great Reset Spear.
The only forces they’re interested in controlling is their own populations and Putin knows it.
wouldn’t it be epic if Putin issued a statement saying ‘hey watch this interview; this guy understands. I drew a line damnit.’ ‘Maybe I should negotiate an end with him?’
right now I’d vote for Carlson in a nanosecond.
Ned Ryun unleashes blow torch interview, also from tonight.
Nolan Peterson
@nolanwpeterson
From a Ukrainian soldier on the front lines in the Donbas:
‘We’re doing comparatively good on the ground. But unless we get direct air support immediately, we’re f…ed.
The Russians are too many…
Especially in Air force and cruise missiles.’
3:37 PM · Mar 1, 2022
I hope the colonel reminded everybody this was all started by the criminal CIA 8 years ago and rubber stamped by the puppet Obama.
This is the direct cause of the mess the word is in now, no surprise at all for those who have read the brief summary of CIA “activities” since 1947 all around the world.
The death toll from their crimes against humanity runs into the millions.
Among others . . . these crooks and puppets?
the adoring flock.
Was nice to see a segment of truth among all the non-stop propaganda.
The only regime they have a snowball’s chance in Hell of changing is Brandon’s. He’s the albatross around their necks tied to the anchor that is the economy that will drown the entire Democratic Party come midterms. Pass the popcorn!
This was an AWESOME segment and a not to veiled “eff you” to Fox’s Jennifer Griffin who made very disparaging remarks about Macgregor after the Colonels appearance on Trey Gowdy’s Sunday show. Tucker made pointed reference to “the “journalists” who are nothing but flacks for General Austin”. It will be interesting to see the fallout from this segment! I bet Griffin will not keep her arrogant mouth shut and we will probably see the deep-staters at Fox, e.g. Bret Baier , Martha McCallum etc. come to her defense.
It’s sad that Macgregor was never appointed defense secretary under Trump. There had actually been talk about it but Trump didn’t follow through. Macgregor only came on board in the final weeks of the Trump administration.
Long time lurker, rare poster (under different names – I never remember what the last one was 🙂 )
A few, if random, thoughts.
One can take a realpolitik view of the situation while being upset about the moral implications. The two views aren’t incompatible, and there are IMHO some conservative pundits who believe that wholeheartedly but are doing a horrific job
of articulating it. Ukraine is entitled, as a (nominally) sovereign country (when the deep state isn’t using it as it’s institutional money laundromat), to self determination. At the same time, failing to recognize it’s immutable geography as a buffer state dooms any sort of punditry to a bunch of globalist psycobabble mush from the start.
While I tend to agree with the Colonel that Russia has a plan and is executing it, where I diverge is logistics. As the old adage goes: amateurs study tactics, professionals study logistics. Maybe you could turn a phrase: amateurs invest in shiny weapons systems, professionals in trucks. If there’s one thing that Russia has failed to learn from observing America at war for the last two plus decades, it’s how to move men and material efficiently over long distances – without it, your army is going nowhere fast. For all of our military’s failings, we excel at moving people and stuff like nobody’s business. Whereas Russia has struggled to maintain their footprint in Syria, and that’s friendly territory mind you. Plug ‘Russia syria logistics’ into your favorite search engine for various sources. For example, Russia’s purchase of several cargo ships that were destined for the scrap heap to fill critical logistics gaps.
I think Lee Smith summed it up best in a recent TabletMag piece: and I paraphrase, “being a client state of a feckless and corrupt US foreign policy establishment in a most dangerous game can, and will, have the most tragic consequences”.
My inflation devalued .02
– B0fH
“the moral implications. ”
Yes, but what are they? I don’t have a dog in this fight. The moral implications are none of the above. My advice to the Ukrainian people is sit it out. What ordinary people need, is stability. The Ukraine is a major wheat power. You need stability to do agriculture. Study Roman North Africa and the conflicts with the Goths, it didn’t matter so much WHO was in power, what was important was that SOMEONE was. Things haven’t changed .
The moral implications I’m referring to are simply the loss of life and destruction of critical infrastructure that Ukranians need to live. Those exist regardless of whether one has skin in the game or not and are worthy of contemplation and consternation.
I certainly agree that the people need stability. However, that Ukraine is an economic basket case falls squarely on the shoulders of the US foreign policy establishment (DoS, IC, myriads of Uniparty politicians among assorted other villians) – and maybe that’s by design. One of the reasons why the western (and demographically younger) half of Ukraine has a significant European orientation is that they simply want visa free travel through the EU for job opportunities.
That said, it’s far too late for Ukraine to sit this out. Ukrainian leadership, both installed and elected over the years, have thrown in with US FP establishment in this dangerous game, and Russia has flipped the odds and is collecting the pot.