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:
Even if we could “afford” to “put more forces forward”, how would that benefit the US? Or NATO? Other than the usual profits to the usual conflict vultures, expanding the severity of this conflict benefits nobody, least of all the citizens of Ukraine. Life under Soviet control is preferable to sleeping underground.
This. “Soviet”. People still think it is the USSR. It isn’t. That said, I agree with your post. We have nothing to gain but the DC war machine gets rich.
How much money did Soro’s make crashing the ruble?
Wall Street seems to think there’s going to be a hot war. Most of the military ind complex stocks went up over the last few days.
But remember, Wall Street thought sub prime mortgages were a good investment too.
he made over a billion $ shorting the GBP in the early 90’s
https://historyofyesterday.com/the-day-george-soros-broke-the-bank-of-england-to-make-1-1b-4834df0605d1
Mass Murdering satanic liberal Soviet Union, loved by the Liberal/Globalists. Orthodox Christian Russia, hated by the liberal/globalists
Pravoslavophobia is a facet of America’s Ruling Class.
OUR news purveyors of today are Pravda!
An FYI
According to Pew Research —
85% of U.S. Conservatives — Christian
52% of U.S. Liberals — Christian
Those polls are pretty much useless. There is a big difference in calling your self a Christian and actually walking in the footsteps of Christ and practicing the tenets of Christianity as recorded in the word of God (The Bible). Especially for commies (aka dems.).
Plenty of bomb-dropping “conservatives” who identify as Christians. This isn’t America… this is Babylon!
And think what “holy” book comes from there?
While it is still prudent to carry a long spoon if you’re going to dine with Putin, I see more of a Nationalist mentality than a murderous, empire building one. This aligns more with Trump/MAGA, with its return to a bit of PaleoConservatism, which is another reason why the Globalist Uniparty pushes the lie of “Russian Collusion”, where the grain of truth in it is that there is a closer alignment in vision between Trump and Putin just in a Nationalist sense (i.e., “America First”, “Russia First”, “Every Country First” in domestic and foreign policy) which is completely at odds with the NWO Globalist One World Kingdom aspirations of the Fascist Left and NeoCon Right wings of the Uniparty. The Uniparty cannot afford to let the common-sense, live and let live citizens get a more positive-albeit-still-cautious view of Russia. No, to control the minds of the citizenry, they must incessantly push fear in a boogeyman, a Baba Yaga, in a USSR that no longer exists.
those who don’t know history – even recent history – are dooming everyone else to go through it again!
Indeed. That’s what it’s all about for D.C. ; a new gushing war contracts spigot.
We are not in a conventual war there. So the companies have no contracts making huge profits.
They have no shame and that includes GWB!
George and Laura Bush – you don’t have any emotional connection for all those children the relieved people of Afghanistan named after you? I mean, it doesn’t matter to you I think because you were fine with the way that all went downhill right up to the bitter, tragic and horrible end where we don’t even know what became of all those little Georges and Lauras as well Americans who were left behind.
Now you have the nerve to tell us we need to jump into this?
Since we know the Cold War was all fake (see Antony Sutton’s research & documentation) NATO should never have existed. But barring that, it should have been disbanded when the Warsaw pact was dissolved. The Serbs were correct when they said that NATO were “Nazis” during their illegal bombing of Christian Belgrade to assist Muslim criminal/terrorist Kosovo Liberation Army who are a ghastly group of criminal vermin
Who in the Lord’s name gave the US the right? A question for Mr. Biden
https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2022/02/23/pers-f23.html
Jimmy Dore claimed that collectively the group of the post Warsaw Pact countries that became members of NATO have spent over 1 trillion dollars to purchase US military equipment since joining NATO.
NATO keeps the military industrial complex in cash.
A great catch. To those interested for further research. Antony Sutton “The Best Enemy Money Can Buy” & “National Suicide: Military Aid to the Soviet Union”. Keep in mind the Soviet Union holocausted 40-60 million people during its existence which the US assisted
The Bolshevik Revolution – Darkness Descends
https://www.bitchute.com/video/XabVBNdZkINy/
The untold story of the Bolsheviks, the Romanovs, the Kulaks, and Holodomor, and the greatest massacre of innocent lives in human history.
If you total up all the lives sacrificed as a result of US foreign policy, since the end of WW2, I suspect that it exceeds the totals of Hitler, Stalin ans Mao, perhaps equalling or exceeding all three combined.
You got the totals from Viet Nam, and the resulting killing fields of Cambodia, all the deaths from the “war on terror”,..
Facing up to the truth means facing up to the reality the “gaslighting”, media manipulation, etc. is nothing NEW, its just that now we are beginning to RECOGNISE it.
Blaming the US for all deaths that occurred in every post WWII conflict they were involved in is, IMV, very myopic. ( wrong)
That being said we have, in my estimation, gotten progressively worse and wrong headed. Syria perhaps take the cake. Destroying a foreign government that was, after “friendly persuasion” cooperating, and removing it and executing the leader with ZERO follow up or help in stabilizing the nation broken. And that deadly tragedy continues to this day.
That’s right. Solzhenitsyn said it plainly that THEY murdered tens of millions out of their hatred for Christians. And (((they))) were heavily embedded in the Bolshevik ranks just as they are within the US government.
Yes, I think Eustace Mullins talked about that as being fake/contrived to enrich the central bankers ($5 Trillion)
Soviet Control?
Russia is Parliamentary Democracy.
Russia just had their Legislative elections September 2021.
Next Russian presidential election is 2024.
After the results of the corrupt 2020 presidential election here in the United States I am not going to be pointing a finger at any other Nation till we straighten out our own mess.
But I will point out something that as far as democracies go I believe Russia is several points higher than Ukraine on that scale. Meaning Russia is freer and less corrupt than Ukraine.
Also what I think that gets lost in the fog of propaganda BS is what are the terms that Russia wishes? The terms from the outset seem to be pretty simple. They have been the same terms that Russia advocated for the last 15 years, that is neither Georgia nor Ukraine will become members of NATO or the EU for fear they could be used as a launch pad to invade Russia.
Anyone who has studied Russian history knows the Russian people have an absolute paranoia to invasion as they were obliterated twice in the last 200 years by foreign Invaders. First Napoleon then Hitler. This notion is further bolstered by papers written by currency CIA Director Burns and other military analysts.
…And the Ukrainians who are also part of Russian history know this.
Russia’s terms are simple. Ukraine cannot be a member of NATO nor the EU. They could become a neutral state which would allow them to focus on economics and prosperity for their nation. Instead the ukrainians wish the West to impose a no-fly zone over their nation which would bring us in direct conflict with the Russian military and start World War III. Make no mistake China is backing Russia.
So rather than accept neutrality and a promise they will not join NATO or the EU the Ukrainians wish us to commit global suicide. Nice.
My guess is the average citizen of Ukraine has no idea of any or very little, of what you just said. They love their country and want to defend it from the Russian aggressors.
Putin has been very clear over many years what his thoughts are on Ukraine and it’s eastern provinces which are mostly made up of Russian people who also want to be part of Russia again and who the Ukrainians have been less than friendly towards.
The whole thing needs to end there and not spillover into any other country and America needs to stay out of it and shut up, aka Biden shut up. The globalists seem to have other ideas though and continue to poke the bear and encourage Joe to do the same. This will not end well for any of the people in that region if it doesn’t stop soon.
I suspect”the average Ukranian” whatever that is, has a better understanding of their history, than “the average American” who couldn’t find Ukraine on a map.
Asserting what “the average Ukranian” may think or want, is as impossible as knowing what “the Average American” knows or wants,…except their ARE certain “universal truths”; all want peace, not war.
All aspire to freedom.
Soros runs the Ukraine in great part thru his puppet(s)
Even what you suggest, Ukraine and Georgia as nuetral, is a “fall back” position.
Initially, Putin proposed Russia JOIN NATO, with NATO having a new mission of assuring EUROPEAN security.
There were Russia “experts” in and out of US government, suggesting the same.
It frankly, “makes sense”; just look at a map of EUROPE, and its pretty obvious RUSSIA IS a part of Europe.
Historically, RUSSIA is a part of EUROPE.
As such, RUSSIA shares with the rest of Europe, security concerns.
The knowledgeable, sensible voices within U.S. Government calling for such an approach, were over-ruled and drowned out by the same bunch of over-educated idiots that got us into Viet Nam, and that thought invading Iraq was a great idea.
How long has Putin been leader in Russia either de jure or defacto?
Bidan crime family is compromised by gold, sleaze and god knows what other high crimes and misdeamenours, and Russia, China and Ukraine have the goods. i.e. Hunter’s missing laptops and hard drives, 1, 2, 3.
Bidan is just the man to create an alliance between China and Russia, and use Ukraine as a bargaining chip.
This is going to be an embarrassing defeat for the USA and its GAE allies.
Soon we can look back at Afghanistan, Ukraine and Taiwan as countries lost because foreign powers and a corrupted domestic elite facilitated the treasonous, traitorous, seditious capture of our country (and the world) by a Manchurian candidate “Joe Bidan” and his team of geopolitical criminals.
Russia and China will win this Ukraine play, USA corruptracts win. USA nation and main street lose.
“Lost”? I think its valuable to clarify that by asking and answering “Lost to WHOM, exactly?”
Viet Nam was justified by “the Domino theory”, and they said “If WE ALLOW Viet Nam to “fall” to the Conmunists, Cambodia, Thailand, and Laos will be next, then Japan etc.
Afghanistan, so far has been “Lost” to the Taliban.
Ukraine MAY be “Lost” to Russia, although the outcome is uncertain.
Taiwan, if “Lost” will be “lost” to CCP run China.
I guess what “we” are saying, in this context is those in Control of the U.S., the Golbalists who are destroying our country in their headlong rush to impose “Globalism” on the World, will “lose” influence over these countries.
In the case of Afganistan, the “Islamists” (another group with aspirations of global domination) have asserted CONTROL over Afganistan.
In Taiwan, IF it happens, CCP/CHINA (another group who aspire to World domination) will similarly sieze CONTROL, taking it away from the Globalists.
In Ukraine, it seems to me Russia is pushing back against Globalist efforts to (ultimately) oust Putin, so they can (as they have done in most “western countries”) install their WEF Globalist puppets, in order to further their goal of great reset/one world government.
A goal they can NOT achieve, with a Russia that has nukes and a significant military, and is Nationalist, and therefore resisting “Globalism”.
So, if I have to choose between CCP and its “middle kingdom” aspirations of World domination, Islamist Jihad aspirationd of Worl Dominance, WEF nutjobs aspirations of World Dominance, or Putin and Russia, standing as a point of resistance against the WEF’ers, and (I believe) only aligning with CCP China because the WER’ers gave him no choice,…I choose to root for Putin.
That is, I think the WEF’ers have had their sights on Putin for some time, as an impediment they had to remove, and all of what we are seeing with Ukraine, is an attempt to complete that interim goal, as a necesary step in their goal of globalism.
AMEN, and again I say AMEN!!!
Dutchman, you must be that little orange man that takes over my keyboard. You have a knack for saying exactly what I am thinking…
It is such a mental reflex for many, Russia bad – bomb shelters were built all over suburban America in the early 60s.
America good, saved the world, promoted freedom.
Neither was 100 percent accurate then, and as far as current US leadership, yes, the polarity has reversed, the tyrants are having a day.
I’d settle for cover for arms sent into the war zone right now….I believe they are not completely encircled at Kiev yet…..and Russian army ‘will’ to fight is in question now……
vast majority of russian forces are conscripted…
It is “covert arms” being supplied to those if very questionable loyalties, motives etc which has been at the heart if much of the catastrophic disasters we have seen over many decades of U.S. policy.
If you (or any reading your post and agreeing) are not rolcons, might I direct you to two “entertainment” movies, readily available and which are far more poingnant and relevant with the passage of time, than when they were released.
“Charlie Wilsons War” details how an abscure congressmen from texas conducted a covert war against the Soviets in afganistan, supplying the very people who “WE” later ended up fighting in afganistan.
“AirAmerica” accurately depicts how the CIA established the largest airline in the World, which as a byproduct of its mission to interdict the Ho Chi Minn trail, fostered the heroin trade in the ‘golden triangle’, facillitating the addiction of our GI’s, and the growth of heroin Worldwide.
Arms (and CASH) falling into the ‘wrong hands’ is a must, I agree wholeheartedly…..billions worth now in the hands of the Taliban…..old senile Joe just walked away from that equipment 7 months ago in Afghanistan…..or did he just walk away ????
I’m thinking payola…
Obama did it first
“Life under Soviet control is preferable to sleeping underground”?
Sorry, are you talking about for the Ukranians, or us?
From the context, I will assume you mean for the Ukranians, and so proceed to my primary issue with your statement.
EXACTLY who or what are these “Soviets” of which you speak?
The Soviet Union does not exist, and hasn’t for many years.
There are no “Soviets” ergo none to attempt to exert “Soviet control”.
A review of Putins words and actions makes it clear he is NOT a “Soviet” or Marxist, he is a NATIONALIST. He is NOT interested in, or pursueing the Marxist or Soviet goal of Conmunist hegemony, that is ‘exporting’ and spreading Conmunism around the World, as the Soviet Union did.
I agree it benefits no one to engage with RUSSIA militarily in Ukraine, but your mistatement equating Putin and Russia with “Soviets” I could not let go unquestioned.
You may have to give him a break. The yabbers on television do not know the difference between “Soviets” and “Russians” either
The modern-day Russia is nothing like the old open air gulag aka Soviet Union. I would compare them with Australia, Canada, UK, Austria or Germany… They are all totalitarian “light” where you can be fined or jailed for liking or sharing a post on FB (their governments don’t like).
Then again, how many political prisoners are being held by Pelosi in DC Gitmo? And what about the convoy organizers in Canada?
Also, it’s ridiculous how desperate the pundits were trying to paint Russians as brutal barbarians and Ukrainians as civilized westerners…
But you are spot on, 47Yinzer! Not our circus. Not our monkeys. It doesn’t benefit the U.S. and destabilizes the markets.
P.S.: Putin is still a moron who clearly overplayed his hand; but that’s a different story.
We need to KEEP OUR azzes out of Ukraine. The Ukrainian government started this crap, it is their schitt bowl to deal with.
Read the Saker.is and wake up to the reality of Eastern Europe. Do NOT believe a word from MSM.
I do not give a crap about the corrupt Billionaires/Oligarchs on Either side. Frankly, the stench of corruption coming out of DC makes it hard for me to recognize the stench from other sources.
I do support the people of Ukraine and their soldiers who are fighting against INVADERS. I do support ARMING the people resisting Russian aggression. I don’t care who that Pisses Off.
I have gone nose blind to the stench of corruption, there is just too much.
“The world is a vampire.”
Smashing Pumkins.
Great song!
They should have been fighting against their corrupt government before it lead to this. Too late now, their government will simply change hands now. They should not fight it.
Then you are supporting and arming a literal Neo Nazi regime that has murdered numerous Russian speaking eastern Ukrainians by stacking them in tires, hosing them down with gasoline and setting them on fire for the crime of being Russian speaking Ukrainians.
You need to look up the Azov Battalion and the presence of Neo Nazism in in the Ukrainian government and military. Who cares if Zelensky is Jewish. Nazism is all over the place in Ukraine and they’ve been murdering Russian speaking eastern Ukrainian civilians ever since the Obama administration launched a coup there and installed them.
If you’re not rooting for Putin and Russia on this one, then you a have no idea the horrible things that have been going on in Ukraine for the past eight years.
The US/NATO assisted Croatian Ustase in the ethnic cleansing of Krajina (look up pictures of the real refugee Serbs fleeing from the Ustase) “future” Al-Cia-Duh terrorists in Bosnia whose leader was a convicted “nazi” from WWII, and horrific al-cia-duh linked narco-organ-human trafficking terrorist KLA which included illegal bombing by US/NATO of belgrade and illegal annexation
I AM “rooting for” Putin and Russia, but not for the reasons you list.
As posted earlier, for reasons frankly I and probably a majority of humans Worldwide have difficulty truly understanding (as in relating to) there seem to be various groups bent on “Controlling the World” all corrupt all grasping for ultimate CONTROL (IMHO, mistaking Control with Power).
Islamists, CCP/China, and WEF’ers.
I believe RUSSIA, with Putin in charge, is an impediment to any attempt at World domination.
I believe Ukraine is a lame attempt by the WEF’ers to “color revolution” Putin, so they can install a WEF’er government, with the inevitable result of driving Putin to align with CCP/China.
From a spiritual perspective, its easy to ‘see’ all three as being aligned with Satan, his fingerprints are obvioud to those who look.
From a Worldly perspective, I believe all three have inherent flaws, which guarantee none can succeed in achieving their goal.
Perhaps the Anti-Christ will unite all three, in the coming final battle?
In the meantime, I am rooting for Putin, and discounting any/all attempts to trigger my emotions with a strong, emotional feeling of fear, sympathy/empathy, etc. in order to mute critical thinking, and get me to root for War.
First, since Putin was elected he has been fighting the oligarchs.
Managed to kick quite a few out.
During the Cold War when Russia put missiles in Cuba–how did we react?
Why would you put weapons in the hands of untrained civilians?
Ever been to a public shooting range? Some people without proper training are dangerous to themselves and others.
Look up all the brutal and bloody revolutions Ukraine people have had. Then the Civil wars. East Ukraine against West Ukraine. Overthrowing their government.
Seems every 5-10 years.
This time…with encouragement from others..Zelensky decides ..let’s pick a fight and goad Russia !
Yeah… I feel sorry for the people…both sides have casualties. And both sides will have family mourning.
It seems we now have corrupt oligarchs in America – big tech for one. How many industries here are actually cartels?
I agree that the USA should under no circumstances intervene in any way, however I dispute that Ukraine started this crap … all evidence suggests the culprit is closer to home. The USA instigated this conflict. This should come as no surprise.
Just ask cookie monster- vicky nuland- what she done in Kyiv on FEB.2014…
Yup, Neocon Nuland is married to Robert Kagan (one of the PNAC founders behind the Iraq War)
Those are some evil bastages the PNAC. War criminals all. They hated Pat Buchanan because he outed them.
Agreed. The last month Biden just couldn’t stop talking about Putin, Ukraine and that there was going to be an invasion, yada yada. He made the end game so obvious and he was goading Putin in the public media all over the world to get him to act. We all wondered what his insistent meanderings about Russia and invasion were all about and really didn’t think there would be an invasion. Something changed, imo, that made Putin act.
I still wonder, after all the unbelievable things we have witnessed since Obama but especially since PTrump got elected, if there was not some agreement with Putin and Joe to let this war play out. Putin gets his wishes and Joey gets cover.
Or maybe it’s the globalist insistence on Putin being taken out finally so one more roadblock is removed from their goal of one world order. He does come across as a strict nationalist and wants Russian sovereignty. Either way, we have a very dangerous mess on our hands.
What America is being led into is unknown at this point. Remember always, the one world order folks want America out of the way too but they also want America’s wealth to continue for their benefit so they put the perfect puppet in charge to make their cause easier to try and implement. Imo.
The financial strangulation being placed onto Russia can get out of hand very quickly. The button pushers behind the our Amerikan puppet are gleefully working to cut off Russia up to it’s gut sack.
I think they miscalculate the extent of what Putin is willing to do. Or perhaps they don’t care…thinking they can handle any contingency. Fools.
The look on Peppermint Patti’s face when a tactical nuke blows….
The changing of diapers every hour while the puppet seeks to calm things down….
The hope of millions that such lunacy can be contained…
These are things I pray we do not see.
“Something CHANGED, IMO, that made Putin act.”
If you look at Putins words, from day one he has made it very clear that NATO annexing Ukraine (and ‘annexing’ IS the appropriate term!) is a RED LINE for Russia.
Not JUST Putin, but for any Russian leader concerned with Russias sovereignity and security.
And Nuland and the WEF’ers deliberately have goaded Putin by moving NATO right up to Russias doorstep, rebuffing Putins numerous, reasonable attempts to negotiate security agreements, etc.
As I see it, this is NOT about Ukraine, its about RUSSIA, and the goal is to remove Putin, and install a WEF aligned gov in Russia.
“Once you see the strings,…” its impossible not to see how amatuer, childish and lame these overeducated idiot, mediocrities are, and to wonder how it is that we didn’t SEE them for what they are, years ago.
I must agree. Nothing changed for Putin. The “one world” Blackbeards knew they were goading Russia into an unacceptable position, and at the same time, they were telling the world, “the mad Russian will attack.”
Perhaps, yet perhaps the one world GOVERNMENT folk knew they were forcing Russia to act…. As such, they “predicted” it, over and over, purely for the labeling of the “Russian mad man”.
And for Putin it was clear, “ Russia would react regardless, for the one world tyrants, “the story” is there expert area to manipulate. For Russia, the realties imposed demanded a response, despite a little bad publicity.
I still don’t know if there is noble good here?
So better dead than red?
I prefer better to die on my feel than die on my knees.
However all I know about this conflict is we have not gotten the truth from either side.
Question off topic – did Putin force school children into masks for the last two years? Did he forcibly shut down all but the largest of businesses? Did he force medical procedures upon his people which could likely harm them?
Does Putin use mRNA against his people?
Of course not and neither did China.
They laugh at the west.
Isn’t that enough for people to get it? China developed sinopharm and Russia developed Sputnik. They aren’t murder king their own men , women and children like we are.
No, he is trying to prevent others from doing it to his country.
“Red”? not sure we are being faced with the binary choice of “red or dead”,..
However you DO bring up a valid question which has also occurred to me;
WHAT, exactly has Russia done, with regard to public health policy regarding Covid?
More broadly, if we look at Public Health policy re:Covid, seems to me we can get some idea of which governments are WEF Globalist controlled, and which aren’t.
Easier to list those that aren’t; Sweden for sure, Denmark, Netherlands less so. Japan, India, some countries in South America.
Not sure about African countries, and ME.
While msm made it clear that all countries were infected with Covid, it gaslighted by trying to convince us ALL Governments were responding the same, when they weren’t.
Highlighted and ridiculed Sweden early on, tried to say their responce was a disaster, and then mute on later “data” affirming the approach was correct.
Japan health minister, months ago recomended Ivermectine.
Experiment in province in India suppressed, even Dr Malone had to have a friend go to the province and find one of the packets distributed, in order to confirm it was Ivermectine.
Anyway, point is one way to access the penetration of WEF’ers in governments around the World, is by looking at their responce to Covid.
I tried a week or two ago, to search “Russias responce to Covid” and could find little info.
Perhaps someone here can search further?
I have to de batter of keeping track of where I read things, but in any case, I do recall reading that Russia did not impose lockdowns/economic ruin on its citizens. I think they took the “two weeks to flatten the curve” and that was it.
As far as I am aware Russia has not participated in the “WEFers” covid “policies”. Another reason for them to hate Putin. Another important point, the Russian government encourages its citizens to have babies as opposed to murdering them in and out of the womb.
I’ve never believed the MSM….but it’s still an attack regardless…..
The money quotes in that video start at the 6:21 point. Progressives and warhawks once again strengthen the alliances of freedom’s enemies.
Are you trying to imply that the conscripted Russians sent to Ukraine are fighting for Freedom? The Russian people are not even free to protest. They are NOT on Freedom’s side!
From my vantage point the only people fighting for Freedom, are those trying to stop the Invading Tanks/Rockets/Artillery that are coming uninvited into their towns and villages.
You need to figure out why so many extremely corrupt and even evil people are backing Ukraine so much, that should tell you something I would hope.
I know that it gives me great pause that Soros/Pelosi/Biden/Romney etc etc are on the side of Ukraine….but that does NOT mean that we should be on the side of Russia. The leadership of the USA/Russia/Ukraine are ALL corrupt thieves and murderers.
The fact that our corrupt politicians support Ukraine’s corrupt leadership does NOT mean that we should abandon the people fighting Russian invaders….
I agree with you, Colorado……I think it means that we shouldn’t be ON EITHER SIDE.
I’m not on a side. I am on the side of every man, woman and child from every country in the world trying to survive all of these corrupt bastards. There is going to be a re-set and it’s not going to be pretty.
Putin is the evil one. The Ukraine President was voted in by a landslide to clean up the Ukraine. They don’t want their corruption with RUSSIA exposed We stand with Ukraine, not Russia. People are too easily fooled. This is an illegal war. Ukraine is an independent sovereign country being invaded to bring back the Soviet Union.
Yes, and according to our MSM, Biden was elected by an overwhelming majority too.
Putin won his 2018 presidential election election with more than 76% of the vote.
81 million votes – don’t you forget. 10.4 million more black votes than barack hussien odumbo too…
There is nothing independent about the Ukraine. It is a Soros globalist colonial administration that is a planetary center for sex slave trafficking, drug trafficking, and money laundering. The homeland of the Ukrainian people has been turned into a self-actualization playground for homegrown degenerates and foreign predators.
We should stay out of it and clean up our institutions of the evil people like Victoria Nuland who got us involved in the first place. We are only a part of this sordid tale because OUR HOMELAND has become a self-actualization playground for homegrown degenerates and foreign predators. The suffering of the Ukrainian may be about to start diminishing. Ours is only beginning.
Ukraine is a very corrupt country and the citizens are suffering (same thing here in the USA). Russia is protecting themselves as they do not want Ukraine to join NATO. I’ve also read that there are a number of biolabs in Ukraine. I don’t think any country would allow this. Remember…we have a mockingbird media. I’m trying to use discernment and not let emotions of war get the best of me.
Russia did a great job stopping Obama/Hillary/Biden/Saudi Arabia & Co from destroying secular Syria and handing it over to the Islamic fundamentalist terrorist mercs did’nt they
LMAO
Exactemundo. Too many believe the Russian bots.
I disagree. The evidence says just the opposite. You sound brainwashed by the MSM.
ned – check The Vineyard of the Saker- ….not CNN
“great pause”, I think it should give you a bit more than that. They baited.. they got what they wanted. People need to wake up, and soon. We are nothing more than a means to and end for these people.
You are correct. Let us not forget that the Ukranian people selected their new President to help them get rid of the corrupt and he has made progress in that regard.
You mean the elected one that the US government got rid of in 2014?
And against secular Syria, Soros/Pelosi/Biden/Romney/Obama/Hillary were on the side of the ISIS and terrorist group that we were told did 9/11 “Al-Qaeda” terrorists maiming & murdering innocent Syrians including its large Christian community. Russia thwarted their war criminal plans in Syria.
Hat tip to Russia
OWL from colorado…did you bitch when UKR. forces killed 13000+ russian speaking citizens in the eastern UKRAINE…include 150 kids ????? ukr. never wanted enter negotiations….so here we are….
The enemy of my enemy is my friend.
“The Best Enemy Money Can Buy”=the mass murdering Soviet Union. Great for the military-industrial complex
Alot of very good people are supporting Ukraine also, what does that tell you? No one likes a bully, especially one wrapped in the stars and stripes…aka biden, obama, pelosi and the rest of the hitler youth
Very good people???
It’s not always good verses evil, sometimes evil will fight evil, jackals biting at each other trying to establish a pecking order.
This is not my fight.
I do not trust anyone outside of my family and friends.
All information is suspect.
There’s much to do here at home.
Right, it is much better to let Russia retake one country at a time.
🙂 ….. LOL! … tell that to their victims…..
Yes . Russian people can protest in Russia.
They just did no more than two weeks at the Kremlin. Highly publicized …
Russian speaking and pro Russian Ukrainians were not allowed to submit to Ukrainian government they wanted to leave Ukraine. Ukraine government blocked it…
Many of the ones who protested are LOCKED UP…..don’t kid yourself….Putin will hang them from a light post if he has too to ensure his point is driven home….
Nazi germany late 30’s…..Russia is no different than them…..it will be our fight eventually unless we take him out in some way…..they are the invaders regardless of the mistakes Ukraine has made….as far as war zones, been there done that…..it’s part of the risk of being in the military, it goes with the job…..and there were MANY undeclared actions by bad foreign actors during my 30 yrs in the USN…..happened alot over a 15 year period, again, goes with the job. Don’t want to be at risk, don’t join the military, cause it will happen at some point…there are much worse things than being in a war zone that our military has had to endure….
My priorities are just fine.
Yes the billionaires/oligarchs of Ukraine are corrupt, but so are the billionaires/oligarchs of the invading Russians. Those in Mordor on the Potomac are even more corrupt/deceptive/lying scum. Since we in the USA have not overthrown our corrupt leadership, why do you condemn the people of Ukraine for living with their corrupt leadership?
Russia may not want Ukraine in NATO, but they do NOT have the right to dictate terms to other countries. It is up to the people of Ukraine to decide who they align themselves with or against.
You are right, This is NOT our fight. But that does Not mean that we cannot arm the people and allow them the chance to defend themselves….
As to Russian nukes, you are implying that any country with nukes gets a pass for their bad or outrageous behavior. Might makes Right. I disagree
You don’t know anything about the current events, the fact that you are calling out billionaires without any knowledge of them tells me that.
NATO got a win when the USSR collapsed from the Cold War……
NATO should have taken the win and disbanded…..but there’s too much money in perpetual wars……
Money……follow the money.
Agreed. NATO is a big money pit, lots of people getting filthy rich. Another money laundering op for certain.
My recollection of the Bush invasion into Iraq was that six days into it, every commentator was screaming ‘Why are we bogged down? Why haven’t we won this thing already?”
The fact that the Russians haven’t won this in six days is just not anything to remark upon.
A good read about the 2003 invasion of Iraq is “Generation Kill” about a reporter’s first person experience with recon marines in Humvees.
I have that book. The unit in Generation Kill had a Lieutenant that was basically highlighted . Lieutenant Nathaniel Fick went on to write his own book called “One Bullet Away”.
The longer the war goes on, the wealthier Putin gets. He’s in no rush for his victory. He is already and extremely wealthy man but here he get more money as the price of oil and gas that he exports rises. Notice how these stupid sanctions by the west don’t touch that. Putin is laughing all the way to the bank. It’s a good thing President Trump at least allowed them to have Javelins for a defense, recently delivered by Bidet.
All the LEFT does is lie. Under George Bush, Russia took Georgia. Under Obama Russia took Crimea and under Trump Russia behaved themselves and under Biden they will eventually take ALL of the Ukraine. President Trump stands with the Ukraine and so do we. We tune out the misleading noise. Ukraine is fighting for its existence.
Bingo!
Funny thing was Iraq was secular and had nothing to do with 9/11.
And if “Al-Qaeda” did 9/11 why did we help them in Syria? In fact Al-Qaeda was created by the CIA out of arming the Muhajadeen program ion Afghanistan. They were than transferred to Bosnia & Kosovo to maim & murder Christian Serbs & secular Muslims as US/NATO allies in the looting, breakup, and mass murder and deaths of Yugoslavia. Many Clinton Admin war criminals made loads of money from it like war criminal Madeline Albright a female version of george Soros
We left the Afghanis to themselves. Pakistan dominated what happened after we left. They wanted terrorist training camps that could produce warriors against India while claiming that they couldn’t control what those terrorists did.
A stinkin’ rich Saudi came along and together with an exiled Egyptian Muslem Brotherhood guy created Al Qaeda. Mostly because he was offended that we dared protect Saudi Arabia from other muslems and based on Saudi lands at Saudi request. And nobody wanted us to leave.
Pakistan’s intentional loose control over Afghanistan proved to be too much of an opportunity for those killers.
9/11 was the result of not caring, and Biden’s rout is also the result of not caring, but in between Bush cared too much, putting our troops where they should never have been. And trying to ‘fix’ what we hadn’t broken. Fix in ways nobody wanted. Our fix only made things worse.
For some things, there is little we can do that does not come back to bite us, even doing nothing.
Charlie Wilson’s War movie is a Hollywood version of it. Pakistan Intell runs the Taliban and was very helpful in the CIA Muhajadeen program. They’ve used their Muslim fundamentalist terrorists in Bosnia.Kosovo,Libya,Syria, and soon right in the US.
Yes, soon right here in the US. All those military aged, unvetted men from Afghanistan allowed to enter our nation via air travel or sneak across our southern border courtesy of the Obama Shadow Presidency.
There will be no ending of the damage done by those who are trying to Fundamentally Transform us.
They especially want to Build Back Worse.
Suggest reading the articles posted by Sundance last couple of days…
There are two video clips by Col MacGregor. Please watch.
I believe he is a sane voice in the whirlwind.
RussianS do not bomb Ukr. to -Stone age – as bush jr. did in the IRAQ ..2003…
On the assumption that someone in the Russian higher-up actually monitors this site, here is a suggestion:
Putin should immediately send formal written requests for Russia to join the EU and NATO. Uh ….. what?
heh heh heh
He did in 2000.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/nov/04/ex-nato-head-says-putin-wanted-to-join-alliance-early-on-in-his-rule
And he was promptly denied. It would have been a strategically brilliant move to have a powerful counterweight to China.
Back in 2000, Clinton was pushing the U.S.-China trade agreement and China’s accession to the WTO, saying that more trade with China would advance America’s economic interests.
In reality it’s done the exact opposite, and a refusal then to treat Russia as a partner has helped bring us to where we are today.
Bill Clinton did a lot of damage to the USA by inviting China into the Country. I was appalled at the time but the news media didn’t even mention what was REALLY happening in DC. The MEDIA has been lying since the Bay of Pigs fiasco. They have been promoting Communism for a long time.
The Clinton Administration gave away our country. China helped them steal the 96 elections and the primaries. Seems China was very concerned with a republican candidate who was very Trump-ish MAGA named Pat Buchanan who promised to stop allot of the Globalist giveaways to China and the immigration invasion. He had to be stopped and he was
In his speech a week ago, Putin said “I am going to say something now that I have never said publicly before, I am going to say it for the first time. In 2000, when outgoing U.S. President Bill Clinton visited Moscow, I asked him, “What would America think about admitting Russia into NATO?”
It’s interesting that this has been ignored by the MSM.
Interesting but not surprising as Russia has born the brunt of MSM and DC gaslighting while China is taking over Mexico, Canada, and the USA.
Stopping in for a Cookie! Happy Wednesday!
Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸@JackPosobiec
Ihor Kolomoisky is the Ukrainian oligarch who reportedly finances the Azov Battalion, a group that’s accused of civilian executions and torture in Donbass
Kolomoisky also bankrolls numerous politicians to increase his influence11:49 PM · Mar 1, 2022·
Kolomoisky also founded the European Jewish Union with Vadim Rabinovich (Bill Clinton associate, former Nordex employee [Nordex founder Marc Rich ], member of Ukrainian parliament). Kolomoisky’s Privatbank “facilitated” the transfers of funds from Burisma to Hunter Biden.
So, Kolominski (BillHilly’s buddy) bankrolls the neonazis in Ukraine just like Prescott Bush bakrolled the German Nazis in the 1940s.
Now, Big K facilitating Brandon & Son.
Makes ya go, “Hmmmm…”
Methinks there’s things going to be stolen in Ukraine–but, not by Vlad from Russia.
If they -RUSSIANS – capture him he will have NURNBERG (1946) trial in the Moscow and all who killed 10,000+ civilians in the Donbas 2014-2022…!!!!!!!!!!!!!
John Mierscheimer discusses the Ukraine and Russia. Well worth your time and most interesting.
Ukraine is not a vital strategic interest to the US. But it is a vital strategic interest to Russia because it touches its border.
Putin was dormant until we talked about admitting Ukraine into NATO despite it not being a strategic interest to the US.
Mierscheimer then questions, if Ukraine joins NATO, are we going to invoke article 5 of the NATO agreement if Russia invades the Ukraine, when Ukraine is NOT a strategic interest of the US?
Mierscheimer says keep Ukraine a buffer state between Europe and Russia, no NATO and everybody is happy.
We did not tolerate Russian missiles in our hemisphere, but Russia is supposed to tolerate our missiles on its boarders?
Sounds legit…../s 😒
An excellent point. NATO disbandment. Its a huge grifter organization that PDJT was correct in pointing out how the US taxpaying debt slave furnishes much of its grifting
Yup, Trump was the only voice of reason on this–he was 100% correct!!!
Great interview by Tucker and great clarity and explanation by his guest, Col Macgregor.
I noticed a couple of things:
1) NATO-US antagonism against Russia’s Putin by ever expanding NATO to even surround Russia. If I were Putin, I’d be very concerned and extremely on high alert about it.
2) Putin may have tried (I am guessing) to persuade NATO-US to not expand and thus far without success.
To be sure, the aftermath of the fall of the former Soviet Union has had and perhaps will continue to have serious consequences with, in and among the republics/nations the Soviet Union annexed without pity decades ago.
I don’t know, but I don’t think that tyrants really understand that people don’t tend to forget the atrocities they endured just because the Soviet Union fell apart.
So, I think that Russia and its current and future leaders will have to navigate that very carefully. That’s perhaps the main reason I have never been convinced that Putin’s objective is/was to revive the fallen Soviet Union by invasion of current former provinces/nations.
However, having said that, I think that the geopolitical scenario that currently exists is by far the most sought after excuse for Western leaders to perpetually have a reason for war. These people in this cabal appear to salivate at the opportunity to paint Putin as the devil incarnate and for that reason Putin has to be neutralized, contained, constrained, demeaned and ridiculed.
Ukraine is the most propitious excuse to execute a campaign of demonizing Putin, when in large part the powers-that-be in Ukraine are more than happy selling their country to the bidders out there in the West.
Who would not be concerned about such level of disregard for regular Ukrainians that the Ukrainian leaders demonstrate, when in essence their dereliction/abuse of power/utter greed put not only their people at a terrible disadvantage but cause Putin to pay close attention, lest the West finds its way deeper and aims at Russia???!!!!
I can only imagine the closet-full of Western skeletons that the powers-that-be in the West are attempting to keep secret. Who knows how deep their war artifacts/implements/calculations they may have already pre-drawn in their effort for globalization and greed.
I don’t know that I want to applaud Putin a priory, but I know that I don’t applaud the DoS/White House/NATO at all. They have done everything to poke Putin.
I disagree entirely with what you and Col. Macgregor are saying. He has totally misread Putin’s motivations. Ukraine being a NATO member is a secondary concern for him. He already has NATO countries on his borders, the Baltic states which block his access to the Baltic sea and North Atlantic and Poland. NATO is strictly a defensive organization primarily there to bring the US, Canada, Britain and France into any potential conflict. It was created to stop Soviet expansion into the rest of Europe during the the forties and fifties. It effectively deterred Soviet expansion well into the 1980’s. After the Soviet Union fell NATO sild into secondary importance, its main role being coordinating anti-terrorism activities. NATO posed no threat to Russia, neither did the Ukraine. NATO did not extend membership to the Ukraine when they first asked for it nor were they planning to right before the invasion. Putin would have been far better off if he had not invaded the Ukraine because Europe would have not felt threatened and continued its slow military force reduction. Putin already had access to the Black sea thru the Crimean ports. All Putin had to do is get a formal treaty recognizing their control of Crimea which would have been fairly easy if the Russian were not threatening the rest of the Ukraine. The Black Sea is of limited Strategic value to the Russian Navy because NATO can easily seal of the Straits of Bosporus keeping them trapped in the Black Sea. Its main Naval value to Russia is to protect them from Naval attack from the Black Sea. This is like have Naval Control of the Farm pond, limited strategic value.
So why does Putin want the Ukraine? There are several reasons: 1) he want to reconstitute the old Soviet Union and the Ukraine is a large and valuable chunk of it. 2) the Ukraine is the bread basket of Russia (more about this later). 3) he sees a window of opportunity during the Biden administration to make major expansions and knows that window will close after 2024.
Putin and the Russians do not believe the Global Warming myth. Of course they believe in Climate Change but they know it has nothing to do with CO2 levels in the atmosphere. They believe it occurs in natural cycles caused by forces far out side of Human control. Just as there are 4 seasons in the temperate zone caused by the tilt of the earth axis, on a longer term basis there are ice ages and interglacial periods. For the last million years or so these follow a rough cycle of 120,000 years of ice age and 12,00 years of warmth. The Russians believe these are caused by cyclic variations of the earth’s orbit and tilt of its axis along with variations in the solar output. If one looks objectively at the geologic record there are times in which we can drop into an ice age in as little as one or two human life times, that does mean there will be glaciers in Ohio that soon but the weather patterns can change from mostly warm to mostly cold in one or two Human life times. The current warm period we are in is getting long in the tooth and the longer it goes the more likely it is the shift will be sudden and dramatic. Now if you are Putin and subscribe to this view of Climate and see that for the last twenty years global warming has been on hold you are concerned that in a few years there is a strong possibility that your growing season for food stuffs in Russia will be dramatically reduced it becomes vital to get control of the Ukraine for food. Your arctic seaports could become unusable most of the year so you need the Baltic sea access and more ports and land to the South. That is Putin’s motivation not possible NATO membership.
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I don’t want either the globalists or Putin to win
. I don’t think Putin can take his time. The spring thaw is about to set in. He can’t get stuck in the mud. The long range weather forecast, so far seems, to be holding up for Putin
Putin will win and the LEFT will be happy. Hunter will keep his 3 million from the mayor of Moscow and all their corruption will be be kept secret. Putin is not about to expose the corruption in the Ukraine. He will continue to BENEFIT from it.
WRONG Ned -he will expose corruption /child & drug trafficking ….
You have to pick a team. I pick Russia.
Team one chased you with a needle, made you play Simon Sez and burnt you with lit cigarettes from a pack of lies for the last two years.
Team two did not do those things.
Well put Bert. I like your style
I like what I call “Book Reporting” stuff. Make your point in the simplest terms with colorful descriptions to drive the point home.
Just using the term “Simon Sez” to cover stupid mandates covers a whole slew of stuff including that they were treating us disrespectfully like little children.
My mistake sometimes is to much wording. I have to work on that and follow your example. Good day sir
44 million Ukranians were involved? Nonsense. You are confusing two distinct issues.
Putin has all the time in the world and will win.
Mud is directing the convoys onto the asphalt now.
You can simply look at a map of where NATO is now, and where it has most-recently expanded, to see how it has become a direct threat to Russian interests. Otherwise very-improbable small countries have been added to this alliance, and the thing which stands out most clearly with regards to their selection is their location: “right next to Russia.”
The membership of NATO is now just as crazy, illogical and mixed-up as that of the EU. Clearly, their objectives are not merely “mutual defense.” We are watching a slow Chess match being played out here, with probable maneuvering for another European world war where NATO is the aggressor.
How would we feel if Russia had a military base in Cuba, with troops massed along our borders with Canada and Mexico? We would easily understand that those forces were not there “just to keep the peace.” Somebody out there has designs against Russia, and Russia knows it. Any fool with two eyes would also know it, and – unlike other world “leaders” whose names I need not mention – Putin is not a fool.
People are also presuming that Putin will (at minimum) evict Zelenskyy from power … but I suspect that he will not. Zelenskyy was elected overwhelmingly on a “drain the swamp” ticket and he’s been doing that. He could continue to be useful for ridding Ukraine of the corruption which largely originates in the Washington, DC swamp. But first he must decisively stop attempts to join NATO, and to eliminate the Nazis … an evil which Russia knows all too well.
I agree with your assessment/analysis. However the old saying of ‘Nature Abhors a Vacuum’ I think applies. What were the western European nations thinking may happen to these ex-Soviet border states. Just as you indicated that Russia doesn’t want NATO armament right at its doorstep. So too could be the same for the western European nations. What if these border countries decided to align with Russia and base Russian military assets in these countries. The roles now reversed. Even if one of these sovereign nations stated its neutrality and also became a wealthy ‘state’ would they have been allowed by Russia and/or Western Europe to develop into military power houses? I don’t know if the military question about Soviet era satellite countries was/is an easy decision or solution. Personally I believe in the end this was inevitable. I don’t know if these countries had the wherewithal (corruption -lack thereof) akin to the Israeli’s when they built their nation from scratch and made sure they could defend themselves.
Then there are the pro Russian Ukrainians on the border.
It is my understanding they have wanted to rejoin Russia for years. And Ukraine government will not let them.
The people had no say after WWII what country they wanted.
Putin already has assassins there to kill Zelenskyy. Zelemskyy is the good guy – not Putin.
Lol Ned.
Can you prove this? You know he was a comedian, it shows too.
If Zelensky was a good guy, he would jump off a cliff and the war would be over.
One man could save thousands, but he seems unwilling to make the right move.
All in all, Zelinsky seems pretty selfish to me.
I think Ned is a bot
If you believe the media…they also said the border guards on Snake Island were all killed…they all surrendered and survived. Mainstream media also said Putin had bounties on US soldiers in the Middle East. It was later debunked. The media also said Trump had a secret Russian server in Trump Tower. The truth turned out to be it was Hillary trying to frame him. I could go on and on….
And the US has probably been doing the same.
Although Hillary and Company prefer to rouse a countries population and get them to do the dirty work.
And they make more money
Ukranian forces whacked a hit squad sometime last night…..near kiev…
You seem to fail to see two important similarities Putin and Trump. Trump is MAGA and Putin is MRGA.
BS..Ned….why he would kill this president/clown/comedian…. he VVP let him enjoy his $ 34 million house in the Florida…
If you ever read Antony Sutton’s research, NATO never should have been brought into existence. At the very least once the fake Cold War ended and the Warsaw Pact dismantlement, NATO should have been taken down.
The Serbs were correct when they called NATO “Nazis” look at its “Nazi” roots. Many never forgave them for their crimes assisting Muslim terrorists & Ustase national socialists.
many former Nazi generals made their way into NATO leadership positions
Voltaire.net had a great expose of that. TY for assisting
There are no good players over there, and over here.
“Riley Waggaman, aka “Edward Slavsquat,” joins us today to dissect the propaganda myths that continue to swirl about Putin and Russia in the so-called alternative media and the sobering reality that Russia is neither singularly evil nor singularly good and that Putin is not a freedom fighter valiantly battling the globalists.” Corbett Report https://www.corbettreport.com/waggaman-ukraine/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=email
Globalists bring words and music, Putin has boots on the ground maybe try stop signs, I am sure they will stop moving, you kicked the bear once too many times, hope he collapses the glow Nazi administration in DC.
I keep waiting for a professional like Macgregor to do a comparison and contrast of this Russian offensive with its Soviet predecessor against the Germans, which ran from 01 October, 1943 to 22 December, 1943. The fighting was intense and costly for both sides, and the Soviets had to commit reserves, but by early January of ’44 they had pushed the Germans back to the prewar Polish frontier.
Surely, the Russians have studied this campaign carefully, and are now drawing upon the lessons learned. Certainly, the ongoing encirclement of Ukrainian forces in the east is reminiscent of the attempt in ’43 to isolate and encircle the Germans’ Grand Army South.
I got introduced to Col MacGregor about 3 years or so ago when he was on Laura Ingram’s show and pointed out that our military should not be defending other nations borders, but our own. He has a PHD also and a great name.
http://www.douglasmacgregor.com/
He would make a great Secretary of Defense.
Perhaps the best choice.
I totally agree that our military should be Defending Our Border before defending any other border. That should be their first priority!
One things for sure the Ukraine invasion killed Covid. I am just confused on whether to thank Putin or Biden.
Thank Xi. He allowed Biden and Putin to bury covid on the back pages. They are both in desperate need for a victory, no matter how false.
Not to worry.
Covid is not dead. It is just in remission until needed again. The app on your phone will notify you when your booster is due.
I expect some Bride of Frankenstein sequels. I also think they will start publishing data suggesting the vaccines weren’t as safe as previously thought. There will be recriminations for the renamed “Trump’s Vaccines” and the shortcuts and corruption that will suddenly be recognized.
So far he has not sent troops west of that river.
In the north, Russian troops are WEST of that river
thank you for posting this!
Good Lord, I subscribe to the post and all of a sudden my Email box fills up!
A smart guy once said
” The Balkans aren’t worth the bones of one Pomeranian Grenader”
I watched that interview with Macgregor and his analysis made more senses to me than anything else that had been said in the media up to last night. I am disgusted because ALL of the TV Media have been in lock step about the great fight Ukraine is putting up while a 40 mile long bogged down and sitting duck convoy has been on the road to Kyiv for several days. If the Ukrainians were putting up any resistance they would have destroyed enough of those trucks and even tanks to completely stop that convoy. That hasn’t happened and Putin is getting away with exactly what he had planned from what I can surmise from the total lack of serious reporting that I have seen. Even the reporting of war events is rife politically controlled propaganda, these days.
I am no longer paying any attention to this disaster until I see any actual footage of Ukrainians fighting back. So yes, Macgregor’s analysis strikes me as the most plausible discussion of what is really happening. Even so, I have to say that his explanation could also be deliberately inaccurate.
Pokey, agree completely.
This man, in Kiev describes the same tactical and strategic scenario as Macgregor. They both describe events which jive with what Putin said he would do in his speech of 2/21/’22.
Sundance, the Left always uses language more persuasively than the right. The last time conservatives came up with a successful use of language that turned the tables on the Dems’ use of it was labeling taxes on the assets of those who had died, the “death tax” rather than the favored Dem phrase, the “inheritance tax.”
I think we all know the negative connotations of the word oligarch.
It’s time we started using it to refer to American oligarchs rather than calling them the Elite. My social justice warrior acquaintances do not find elite to be suggestive of the negatives that we do, and I think it’s because they secretly admire what it suggests and wish themselves to be elite in social stature, in class, in education, business, etc. (I think they believe a guy like Gates actually DOES know more about how the world should be ordered than other folks.)
However, the word oligarch connotes 1) a more foreign and evil type of rich person than Bezos or the others like Gate and Zuck ; 2) a person who is not only beyond rich but also apathetic about the concerns of ordinary people and 3) a person who controls the government that supposedly rules them; and a society that has a government that rules them is not the same as a government that governs.
So I pay an annual tax on my yearly income……I live on and invest what’s left…..
Later…..I pull money out of my investments (that I’ve already paid taxes on) and I have to pay a Capital Gains Tax…..
Whats fair about that….????
Yes! So emphatically do I agree with your post where you put it so well!
Is it the Ukrainian President is no different then all the corrupt ?
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/03/02/blockbuster-drag-queen-zelensky-found-a-billion-dollars-and-a-villa-in-miami/
I see that, although Biden and the EU left a few Russian banks exempted from SWIFT so the EU and US could continue buying Russian oil and gas, oil traders and othes part of that supply chain are backing away from buying. So, when the current supply still in the pipeline (no pun intended) dries up, there will be large shortages worldwide in those commodities and a huge spike in prices. Gasoline and other forms of energy will jump big time and stagflation will come roaring. It’s complicated folks and I doubt those who pushed sanctions have any idea of the unintended consequences heading our way.
So we hurt the people but spare the despots?
Through this whole Russia Ukraine mess. Black Sabbath “War Pigs” is playing through head.
Biden is dirty and all democrats that support him are traitors.
McConnell supports him too, and hates Trump.
McConnell believes himself to be a pragmatic politician, I think. Give it time and he may start to see the hand writing on the wall and retire from the Senate.
From your fingers to God’s hand, I 🙏
Yes. America should NOT, in any manner whatsoever, do ANYTHING to project strength, or a leadership role in the world! We SHOULD, simply cede the world to Putin, Xi, Kim, Khameinei, et al.
Biden spoke at the SOTU. He said countries around the world are going to release 60 million barrels from strategic reserves.
Oil is now up $5 in less than 24 hours. This benefits Russia.
Biden is a Putin puppet.
He needs to cut off all oil imports from Russia, then encourage all other nations to do the same. Next, use our emergency reserves as a temporary measure to prevent shortages while he removes ALL IMPEDIMENTS to domestic production.
IF any decision is made to assist Ukraine, it MUST consist of military and humanitarian supplies ONLY, but NO US TROOPS.
LET NATO EXPEND THEIR BLOOD FOR A CHANGE.
“Projected leadership and strength” sounds about right…
/sarc
Roger that! Hammer meet Nail!
We’ve been doing a lot of projecting over the past few decades and the list includes:
-Iraq
-Afghanistan
-Syria
-Libya
That projecting has cost $Trillions of dollars. That’s multiple 1000 $Billion dollars. Even now with our inflated dollars, that is something we can’t afford.
The results have been spectacular. Just look at all those flourishing democracies.
And all the hundreds of thousands of “refugees” settled into the US as each conflict winds up in disaster.
I put George Washington above any other leader. And he said it best: no foreign entanglements.
The WEF is the only “mad” actor here bent on world domination and they have made it clear that “democracy” has no value to them if it gets in their way. Ukraine may have my sympathy but I do not have any moral obligation to support yet more blood and treasure being expended on another foreign conflict instigated by people who are making war on me in my own country.
Those calling for US support have no moral authority to do so. If you feel that strongly, go yourself. Call yourself the Lincoln Project Brigade.
Europe’s auto production crashes as flow of wire harnesses dries up
Why BMW, VW, Porsche and others are shutting down production lines after supplies of key part from Ukraine are interrupted. Next will be the shut down of those businesses in that supply chain. Obviously, not all is going well in Ukraine. Mackgregor has insight. Who will cry uncle first?
Putin did a freedom convoy with tanks?
NATO mandates must come to an end.
Stringy theory: Oh, the inhumanity of no wire harnesses for German luxury vehicles (except the VW; they could just use zip ties).
That’s just the tip of the iceberg. Lots of strategic minerals and other things the west needs are drying up.
Like Uranium?
All this talk about NATO! What if, and it is possible though unlikely, what if Ukraine does a decent job of holding back the Russians and creating a stalemate. I don’t think Putin will destroy more than what he needs to in order to split the country in two along the Dnieper river, or eventually keep the southeast part of the country. Why would Putin keep Chernobyl?
What I’m asking is why does anybody need NATO if the Ukrainians do better than expected against Russia? Isn’t defending Europe from Russia the reason NATO exists? Well, if a little country stands up against the big bear, NATO is insignificant. So, if one were a cynic, one would say NATO wants Russia to destroy Ukraine, simply to justify it’s existence. And if NATO sits on their thumbs they risk being marginalized. War is not good either.
NATO is doing some soul searching I suspect.
Biden Ukraine grifter evidence gone for good
“what if Ukraine does a decent job of holding back the Russians and creating a stalemate.”
It is unpatriotic to use the word stalemate with Biden as President.
And we ALL KNOW that the Russian media has an unblemished record of truthful reporting!
What do you mean? There are more injured and dead than they are letting us know?
You are coming off as a tool saying the Russian media lies as being somehow different than Western media. You are not coming across as reasonable or credible.
But go ahead and use that cap button to make your point.
If that’s a real count it tells me that the Ukie artillery and air forces are doing almost nothing. They had ready targets obviously, but little fire on target.
Macgregor looks exactly like Gore Vidal, circa 1992.
https://charlierose.com/videos/28765
I don’t mean to minimize in any way his interpretation of events in the Ukraine; but, 8 days ago, Putin, in strategic detail, told Mr. Macgregor what he was about to do, and will continue to do.
On February 21 of this year, Putin, told his citizens and the world what his aims were, why those aims were established, and how he was going to accomplish his objectives.
Except for some important tactical moves, Mr. Macgregor is repeating what Putin said in that speech.
It’s pretty clear, now, where Putin and his war is headed; however , if you want to follow this game in more depth, you need a game program. Here it is.
https://www.riotimesonline.com/brazil-news/modern-day-censorship/president-putins-full-text-of-february-21-2022-speech-to-the-nation/
“From 1992 to 1995, the Pentagon flew thousands of al-Qaeda mujahideen, often accompanied by US Special Forces, from Central Asia to Europe to reinforce Bosnian Muslims as they fought Serbs to gain their independence from the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. The Clinton administration armed and trained these fighters in flagrant violation of United Nations accords; weapons purchased by Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Iran were secretly shipped to the jihadists via Croatia, which netted a hefty profit from each transaction.”
Killing for Credibility: A Look Back at the 1999 NATO Air War on Serbia
https://original.antiwar.com/brett_wilkins/2019/03/22/killing-for-credibility-a-look-back-at-the-1999-nato-air-war-on-serbia/
Sad to see CTH so inundated with comments and commenters better suited to paranoid fantasy sites like SHTF Plan.
Very much respect Macgregor and value his analysis of the conflict , but with Russian solders defecting and Putin’s strategy questionable, could he be wrong on this one?
He is wrong…..not sure why he’s yapping away at this point.
Apparently russia has their own ‘swamp’ to contend with…..ukraine was tipped off by a group within the russian government, regarding the assassination attempt, that do not support the war / attack on Ukraine…..very interesting….
Careful: story by WaPo. Do we really believe it?
WaPo Bezo’s Fake News. especially gaslighting Trump & MAGA.
WAPO=America hating fake news
I will certainly investigate….’tanks’ for the heads up>>>>>>>> 🙂
A Soviet defector from the 1980’s said there is a Russian military axiom: “It isn’t the best army that wins, it’s the least incompetent.”
No matter how poorly the Russian armed forces perform in Ukraine, they’re definitely more competent (less incompetent) than the Ukrainians they’re facing. Also, Russians have an attitude towards deaths and losses that is more akin to the Asian than Western idea. This is why in WW II the Soviets were willing to suffer enormous losses.
Over 1 million Soviet soldiers are still missing from World War II. There is a YouTube channel featuring Russian teams digging up skeletal remains of German and Russian soldiers who still lie where they fell, with all their weapons, ammo, equipment, and explosive ordnance. Pretty interesting stuff, their English language channel is called World War II Metal Detecting. Often their videos feature a macabre thumbnail such as a skull wearing a helmet.
” Quantity , has a quality all its own ” – as they say.
Thanks. That puts things in better perspective for me. The Russians have an extreme version of Grant’s doctrine of overwhelming superiority in the 1864 Wilderness Campain. Lots of incompetence there. E.g Cold Harbor, excessive union soldiers taken prisoner south of Richmond. Lee could not benefit from any of his battlefield victories,etc.
The longer this bizarre ‘ war ‘ goes on the greater the need to ask : What does Putin know ?
A Meme from Doctor Punchy – @_Knock_You_out_
” The Georgia Guidestones say we need to rid Earth of 90+% of the population.
The World Health Organization recommends vaccinating 90+% of the world population ”
( Now , what about those DOD funded Bio-Weapon labs in Ukraine ? )
Ged, I always love to speculate on PDJT’s one on-one (with just 2 interpreters in a secured room) conversation with Putin
Live updates: Ukraine, Russia to hold talks on Thursday
https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-war-live-updates-9c70fb215d15e0b054b5b2d40169f940
Darren J. Beattie 🌐@DarrenJBeattie
Puppet government of us intelligence winning information war on platforms controlled by us intelligence
Cont…
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1498800789430624259.html
When the “Steele Dossier” news came out I thought it was so ridiculous, how could anyone possibly take that seriously?
Donald J. Trump, a notorious germaphobe – having prostitutes in Moscow pee-peeing on him?
Good Grief!
Our own “military intelligence complex” Eisenhower warned Kennedy about – still going strong!
Re-read here on the Treehouse a post by a Treeper (I am sorry, I do not remember your screen name) re Harry Truman regretting the formation of the CIA –
so, we hear about what an “evil” man Vladimir Putin is –
what has he done that he merits the constant vilification?
Couldn’t it be possible that our own CIA has had a hand in the poisoning of anti-Putin Russians?
The CIA or perhaps another “intelligence agency” could be also doing this in a long-running effort to take down Putin –
so the Globalists can do to Russia and the Russian people what they have been doing in Ukraine – and elsewhere –
the more the effort builds to demonize Putin the less I believe them!
And if George Soros is at the forefront of urging efforts against Russia, well then that really puts a bad odor on the entire effort!
Radio host Ken Matthews . com posted the Soros letter in support of Ukraine on his gab page.
gab.com/kenmatthews
Imagine if the Republicans did it. Let’s call it “the Podesta Dossier” and in it Paul Manafort performed a massive Golden Shower of all members of the Democrat Podesta Group that was also in Ukraine with Manafort. And that Hunter Biden was involved in a human trafficking network of abducting and stealing young Ukrainian girls for prostitution? Perhaps thats not fiction but fact? The Steele “Dossier” was so outrageous but remember Ukraine actually meddled in our elections against candidate Trump with democrat collusion
Soros must be shorting the ‘ruble’……
CannCon
@CannConActual
The senseless rhetoric of the Ukraine war is doing *NOTHING* to help them. The ONLY thing that will help is either agree to Russia’s neutrality terms or US/NATO involvement. The latter should be *out of the question*.
Who gains to profit from prolonging this conflict??
1:36 PM · Mar 2, 2022
Scott Adams
@ScottAdamsSays
Russian narrative: Putin is de-Nazifying Ukraine.
American narrative: Putin is an unstable “Hitler” and needs to conquer neighboring countries for some psychological reason.
Independent narrative: The West tried to turn Ukraine into a security threat for Russia, and Putin was forced to respond, but he misjudged the Ukrainian and international reaction.
Scott’s Narrative: The CIA employs too many Russia experts, making war provocation inevitable.
1:40 PM · Mar 2, 2022·
Col. Macgregor is 100% accurate and correct here. The American public has show a huge perpensity to absorb any and all propaganda and whatever bullshit the media and Washington DC throws at them. Unfortunately, self absorbed and non critical thinking Americans, have painted themselves into a corner creating a house of cards that is starting to lean a little sideways at the moment. Today’s one dimensional thinking citizen gets his information and literal ‘training’ from the controlled media and assorted lying politicians from both parties. This has created critical and dangerous issues for all of us. A sovereign debt crisis combined with the perfect storm of a corrupt Biden and Democrat administration riddled with malfeasance is just the start. Putin is showing the world that NATO and the western powers are pretty much without options. Anyone who thinks the Nov. 2022 elections are going to change anything is in for a surprise from another bunch of USELESS politicians from the uni-party. These weaknesses and more are going shake the current status quo world wide challenging America’s dominant position.
And for those of you (the majority) who think this is bullshit don’t forget to do as your told and get those booster injections. That will make everything better and give you the false security you so desperately crave.
Colonel MacGregor=MAGA. Most patriots only make it to Colonel.
Watch this video. They’re lying to you about everything.
Watch this video too:
https://www.google.com/search?q=debunking+the+lies+about+ukraine&client=safari&hl=en-us&prmd=nvsi&sxsrf=APq-WBsZsKQNpGg9gRSBIoug0Fm3A_BofA:1646247142248&source=lnms&tbm=vid&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjiyIDBjKj2AhWtl2oFHVZkAwEQ_AUoAnoECAIQAg&biw=360&bih=622&dpr=2#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:8a508b8d,vid:Xt3Zv-e4n1M,st:0
Would be interesting to hear the General’s take on how Putin plans to hold all the ground he takes. I suppose it will be a long, drawn out affair with military control.
Looks like a reconciliation moment with reality is coming soon…
General Keane gets it…