Colonel Douglas Macgregor appeared on Tucker Carlson to give a brutally honest assessment of the conflict in Ukraine. Regarding the transfer of heavy weapons and artillery, Macgregor notes something many have discussed.
The logistics of sending in those weapons from western Ukraine (Poland border) to the eastern Ukraine battle encompasses a thousand-mile trek. Russia can easily hit those convoys en route, negating the supply line. Additionally, the U.S. has sent $4.7 billion in military equipment and financial aid so far (see graphic below), and we have no idea who is in control of those weapons. WATCH:
To give scale for the proxy war the U.S. government is waging in Ukraine, check out the extreme ratio of who in NATO is sending support, and how much.
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Proxy wars are always good for money laundering services.
Gonzalo Lira was arrested by the Ukrainian Gestapo at the behest of the Daily Beast, a CIA news organ. No doubt the agency tracked Mr. Lira and gave his location to their puppet government. Lira was held for a week, interrogated, his computer and phone are seized as were his websites. Now released, he is forbidden to leave Kharkov.
His crime was committing Journalism, something the CIA stenographers at the Daily Informer would know nothing about.
Meanwhile, our own Occupation Government is sending another $800 million to Ukraine, some of which will pay the salaries of the Nazional Police who seized Mr. Lira for the Beasts, both Daily and Federal.
Is our deeply corrupt Deep State even sending the war materiel to Ukraine…or are they $elling or even gifting it to rogue regimes around the world?
Elon Musk’s bid for Twitter is exposing the Deep State’s ownership of Social Media.
Hence, our Shadow-Presidente-for-Life was sent out by his owners to explain why you should be censored, shadow-banned and tracked by the CIA/Social Media-Blob–and why you should like it!
It’s for your own good, you see, and you’re just too stupid to realize it. One day, you will thank Big Brother, says Obama, the man who repealed the law against CIA propaganda being used on Americans. “Operation: Mockingbird” was thusly named because news outlets like CBS, the Washington Post and now Rolling Stone and The Daily Beast would all “mock” the Official Line.
Everywhere we turn, we see the malignant result of the Intelligence Community, the dominating Fourth Branch of Government.
They build bio-weapon viruses and unleash them.
They force experimental injections on their victims–for billions.
They overthrow elections and voters.
They censor political opponents with their Social Media platforms.
They manufacture news–and wars.
Orwell nailed it.
This is Big Brother.
Rest in the Vine: Cancelled: The Daily Beast Has a Real Journalist Arrested for the CIA
Superb!
What power those words of Orwell carry. They are thunderous!
One of my favorite quotes from that book.
That book was prescient.
Here’s the full quote:
“Now I will tell you the answer to my question. It is this. The Party seeks power entirely for its own sake. We are not interested in the good of others; we are interested solely in power, pure power. What pure power means you will understand presently. We are different from the oligarchies of the past in that we know what we are doing. All the others, even those who resembled ourselves, were cowards and hypocrites. The German Nazis and the Russian Communists came very close to us in their methods, but they never had the courage to recognize their own motives. They pretended, perhaps they even believed, that they had seized power unwillingly and for a limited time, and that just around the corner there lay a paradise where human beings would be free and equal. We are not like that. We know that no one ever seizes power with the intention of relinquishing it. Power is not a means; it is an end. One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes the revolution in order to establish the dictatorship. The object of persecution is persecution. The object of torture is torture. The object of power is power. Now you begin to understand me.”
Excellent.
btw, these Dick Russell posts are essential reading:
Part 1: CIA’s Extraordinary Role Influencing Liberal Media Outlets Daily Kos,
The Daily Beast, Rolling Stone • Children’s Health Defense (childrenshealthdefense.org)
Part 2: The Belly of The Daily Beast and Its Perceptible Ties to the CIA
• Children’s Health Defense (childrenshealthdefense.org)
“I may be the only person on the left who wasn’t disappointed with Obama.”–Bill Ayers
And now we see why.
Children’s Health Defense as in Robert Kennedy’s organization?😳
tonyE, Thanks for the Orwell quote. Please tell me where it is in the book. Thanks
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They kept his phone and laptop so he can’t post anything, restricted his movement, and basically gave him a gag order not to say anything more other then he’s alive. Yeah so all the attention he got when the Ukrainian Gestapo snatched him a week ago probably is why he’s still alive today, at least for the time being. No guarantees he won’t be suicided or have some accident, or say become deathly ill from some bioweapon from some Ukrainian biolab.
“Anabel V. – Anabel_Villeroy – BREAKING – April 22 – Gonzalo tells Alex Christoforou, “Physically, I’m okay. I don’t have anything I can say publicly, other than I’m okay. And thank you for the concern… I appreciate so much the kind wishes.” – “I’m still in Kharkov, and for the time being I cannot leave.” – 5:15 AM · Apr 22, 2022″ – Read more here:
Prayers have been said on your behalf. Thank supporters for prayers as well as “ wishes.”
I didn’t scroll down far enough, I linked it too. I am happy he is alive. Wonder why they let him go? Too much pressure and exposure that they had to release him? Even Greenwald was asking where he was.
Thank God he is still alive. It looked like he got roughed up pretty bad. One person suggested people started contacting the Chilean embassy, which probably saved him from being beheaded or crucified by the Nazis.
Thank you for the information and source link about Mr. Lira. I am glad he is alive, but sorely worried he is a prisoner in Kharkov. Who can rescue him?
MIC are itching to have a proxy war with Russia. mujahadeen were created to fight russia. Ukrainians are being used as useful idiots.
And ow much of those billions is being laundered into the pockets of the Biden family?
And the rest in Congress
BINGO! Follow where all this US Taxpayer aid lands in Ukraine, then laundered back to Xiden and politicians.
At least, 10%….
Ukraine, the money pit of the world.
Funded by Hunted on behalf of Zero.
100%
at least 10%
Acts of sabotage inside Russia…use of training and drones provided to Ukr. saboteurs by the 4th branch regime:
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2022/04/22/was-fire-at-russias-military-research-institute-instigated-by-ukraine/
The stupidity of Biden and his idiots smirking their asinine way through this is breathtaking. Apparently his handlers are as mentally deficient as their puppet. It is clear that they have never, never contemplated that their pointless actions will be countered, and easily at that, by the Russians. Y’know, howitzers are really big and heavy, not to mention their ammunition, which incidentally is also ignitable. These items will not make it more than one mile into the interior before being captured or destroyed. Stupid is as stupid does, and boy does this prove.
Like stupid children they talk tough about imaginary corn pops. Meanwhile, in the real world, the Russians can take action in their own backyard.
The U.N. has disputed biteme and zelinskis lie about genocide taking place in Ukraine.
https://www.rt.com/news/554344-un-ukraine-genocide-bucha/
…again, and the US is diminished.
If the idea is to break Russia, the deep state will likely fail here. Most of the world is NOT supporting them. If the idea is to weaken and perhaps destroy the US, well most everything Biden has done, has succeeded in doing just that; diminishing the US as a global power, via ALL policy.
The independently confirmed Russian armor and aircraft losses don’t even come close to the so many THOUSANDS of VERY expensive anti-armor and anti-aircraft weapons sent there to date.
I saw a video of some Ukrainian shooting one of the expensive anti-tank weapons donated by the UK from an upper floor window onto the top of a Russian armored personnel carrier. It failed to detonate because the idiot was firing it inside its MINIMUM range which is done to prevent the shooter from being harmed by the missile warhead’s detonation.
I suspect most of that aid is being misused by the untrained, abandoned, lost, or captured by the Russians. In other words, wasted. But so was the 58 BILLION dollars worth of US military stuff left in Afghanistan.
Enormous disconnect between the reality of the brutal, tyrannical aggression taking place in the real world and the supposed idealistic new world order that is fantasized.
It all starts in the cesspool of academia. The tenured professors pontificating smugly and preaching to early age adults about some socialist world where the elite will benignly oversee and control everything. Also implying that those enlightened students will be part of the elite.
The WEF is just an extension of this sort of thing. Except the most ambitious and cunning of those former students have grown up and actually have that power.
What pious hypocrites. Babbling about a new phase of human society while behaving like every other ruthless regime in history.
I must have missed it on the news.
When did Congress VOTE to approve military aid to Ukraine?
Uh…let’s not talk about that…
Damn – did I lose my mind again?
H&HC…: On page 1,887 of the Affordable Care Act, it says that shipping arms to Ukraine must be covered by your health insurance provider, because war in Ukraine is a pre-existing condition.
Bloody John Roberts approves.
I have been trying to figure that out myself. When Trump wanted to move money allocated to the Defense budget to building the WALL, it was a major feces fit by the swamp.
Now, Sleepy Joe is getting billions from somewhere, I don’t recall the Congress writing him a blank check.
Sending materiel to Ukraine does not benefit the US .
If a tiny fraction of this materiel were sent to the US border the benefit to the US would be enormous.
Um, such military weapons are NOT now needed at the border.
Trump really did an amazing job at the border despite all the democratic and RINO and court resistance. He actually got Mexico to stop or greatly reduce the SA flux, (as he said he would) and cut illegal immigration dramatically, while at the SAME time getting Mexico to see the benefit in not being a stooge for China, and to work with the US on bilateral and multinational trade.
The other day. My Critter didn’t vote for it, I was surprised because he voted to aid Ukraine the first time around, which disgusted me.
If our gov’t was operating legally, following the Constitution, all of the money and Intel would not be flowing into the corrupt Ukraine pit.
Notice there are zero efforts made by our government to facilitate a peace between evil Ukraine gov’t and Russia.
Is this all truly out of the hands of USA citizens?
What can we do?–to watch all of this is horrible.
If our gov’t was operating legally,…
Wow, what an if…
We would not have developed Covid with China and agreed to destroy the records.
We would not allow millions of illeagls access to our nations and our tax dollars.
We would not have massive election fraud and Trump would have gotten a second term, The deep state would be dying while economic reality of international bi-national and multinational trade deals would have increased real wealth for many nations, and China would be greatly diminished internationally, India’s economy soaring.
Hundreds of million would not have been forced to get a deadly jab.
The global supply chain would be healthy.
Clinton and hundreds of the US deep state would be in jail.
CAGW policy would be dead.
etc…
Shortly after we started funding the new government of Afghanistan. The Taliban.
If I were Putin I would make it very clear that East to West travel without any weapons is permissible for civilians………. anything else is a target……. no ifs buts or maybe’s………..
I would have planes flying round the clock destroying anything that did not look like a bicycle.
These rationalizations to explain Russia’s failure increasingly remind me of the old Thomas Wictor Twitter feed.
Wherein he explained that Gulf Coordination Council SuperCommandos, armed with advanced weapons developed by the Israelis with a trillion dollar grant from the Saudis, had already won all the ongoing wars. Secretly, which is why the fighting continued even though the war was over. Because reasons.
Sure, Russia would interdict the supply lines. But they aren’t. Is it because they can’t? Nope! “Reasons.”
Gotta love it.
They have interdicted supply lines. They have destroyed supply depots, even Zelensky has admitted as much. He is increasingly shrill about a no fly zone precisely because he is losing control. If the Russians were pushovers then our awesome pushover “allies” in Europe would be eager to kick down the door to Russia. Why aren’t they? Your post is very high on itself but very low on details. How has Russia failed? Are they not in control of a large portion of a country with 2x the landmass of Texas while being outnumbered? How are we dislodging them? What have the sanctions done besides hurt Western Europe/USA and drive the Russian population into the arms of Putin and the war? Tell me a success beyond a CNN headline of “Ukraine Winning don’t look at the fiery but successful Ukraine behind us”. If Putin and his inner circle have explained all this to you, much like “sources familiar with their thinking etc…” I would expect your insight to be broadcast all over the NYT, WAPO, CNN+, and MSNBC since you’re such an expert like all the rest who have been wrong most of my life. Please enlighten me oh noble one.
$4.77 BILLION ? That’s more than President Trump started out asking for to complete the border wall.
Spit.
Money laundering through the Ukraine is more profitable and more difficult to trace.
The clamoring for sending and wasting billions in equipment, money, and lives is cheered on by the same set of degenerate politicians who sneered and criticized as wasteful and ineffective the 7 billion dollar border wall of President Trump in consultation with Border Patrol and others. How many times from both the professional Right and Left did I hear that it was wasteful and ineffective to control our border. Now with over half of that 7 billion spent in barely a month in Ukraine, with nothing to show, I hear no signs of slowing and “fiscal responsibility”. I genuinely hate these charlatans, crooks, scumbags in our government.
Hunter is not hiding from the public, he’s busy with the bankers laundering the money his dad is bringing to The Family.
This is likely the reason why the Clinton Foundation is back up and running, they need to get into that gravy train.
And Obola needs a new mansion up in Vale.
Where is that plant Jack Maxey w/all his deleted files?
The military aid to Ukraine left off Haiti, which sent an overripe plantain and a manatee with a frickin’ laser beam on its head.
Jeffrey Coley: Hey, laser-guided manatees performed exceptionally well in war game simulations, but only in the Caribbean, with water temps over 75 degrees.
Macgregor is the only one telling the truth about Ukraine!
From the Dnieper to the Russian border will be occupied by Russians for a very long time. The one thing Russia knows is borders. Kiev may be divided like Berlin. The difference, if you want to leave, leave and don’t come back. The Russians will destroy the Ukrainian fighter on their side of the Dnieper and it will be interesting to see how Russia solidifies its position on their side of the river.
Nato and the US will be views in a different light when Biden is gone in 2024. Viewed as weak, it is already happening, stupid move Obama, to use demented Joe to do what you never had the guts to do when you where Prez.!
Obama would have used Hillary to do this had she won. She might be just a bit happy right now that she wasn’t the pawn.
There are others, you just have to dig to find them, but the Col is the best at cutting through the BS
And MacGregor is one of the only ones making it onto TV, radio, podcasts.
There are more truth-telling town criers, but sadly their reach isn’t beyond their websites and videos.
Buraq put Joe Blow in charge of Ukraine. Money Money Money Money!
…and, not to be discounted, GOF bio-labs.
and also, very likely, Ukraine was key to attempting to corral Russia to the One World Government games.
The takeaway warning is that the deep state is screwed, China only played their game until they had success, and Trump showed them how fragile that success was. Now they are showing their FORMER partners in crime, who really rules.
Huge Money Laundering scheme as is so much of Dem “Legislation”
I am seeing in other sites that part of the money is being paid to Ukraine government workers in wages and pensions
up to half of the funds are used to fund Govt employees…….
But, but I’m descendant Ukrainian …and retired..social security too, ……oops, wrong country.
Ukraine should not be our vassal sate. We need no more non-productive dependents.
Enough!!!!
State
Its only fair.
We are China’s vassal state.
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An American journalist goes missing in Ukraine. The silence is deafening — RT Russia & Former Soviet Union
https://www.rt.com/russia/554289-gonzalo-lira-disappearance-ukraine/
Don’t send your sons and daughters to fight for Birdshit Biden’s payola schemes. Pray for the ones that are stuck in the service of our former republic.
Different day, different $billions$ into the pockets of (fill in your guess). Like Afghanistan, the brains at the DoD are nowhere to be found. Surely no one at the top! These clowns just can’t give away our treasure fast enough to whom they haven’t got a clue!
Biden made a strange statement, that “every vehicle in the US military is going to be climate friendly; this is going to cost billions of dollars”….LOL! Where are they going to set up charging stations on a battlefield with enough power to charge tanks in 15-20 minutes?
This man has no ability to think and the people around him are telling him things that are not feasible.
The money he’s spending is unbelievable…..and it will only be blown up, along with the US dollars spent.
Mariopul is RUBBLE, absolute rubble. Besides it snows and stays overcast there. I am so sick of their climate energy crap. I did see solar panels on one house on a street, everyone else lives in commie high-rises or shanty concrete type dwellings, at least what I have seen. I have not seen a Star Bucks or Wal-Nut, thankfully. It would be nice at least a few countries in the world can remain free of that garbage to keep their character and culture.
Next, Biden will decide that all Air Force fighter jets are to be converted to battery power!
With solar panels on wings for inflight recharging.
No problem. All military vehicles will be equiped with a Mr. Fusion, quickly converting any carbon based material in the field to useable energy!
It’s a win-win except for citizens of Ukraine.
Zelensky gets his own Ukrainian Oligarchs loyal to him and US punishes Russia and Putin for getting away from US Dollar Reserve.
Anybody thinking this is about Ukraine really needs to ask why this didn’t happen in Obama’s Crimea defense or Trumps Presidency.
It’s not about Ukraine.
Zelensky is done, time will show this. “Punished” Russia had most of the global population NOT fighting him, many supporting him, and the US is greatly diminished, Biden and the deep state is losing their corrupt puppet nation, losing their private money laundering nation, lost their GOF bio-labs, and, while the deep state is gaining a weakened US and dollar, they are losing control of the alternative.
The East is making their move, the west is diminished, power hungry sense addicted minds can never have global anything except pain and suffering, and I pray that after much suffering we (East and West) can learn real humility and spirituality.
Update from Ukraine, Gonazlo is ALIVE. Thank God he did not end up brutally shot up like the blogger. The Las Vegas tranny hardest hit.
Dear Fox News. The question is not how much ended up in Russian hands. The question is how much ended up in the hands of Biden, Clinton, Obama, et al.
10% of our money going to the big guy. 😡
Ukraine 🇺🇦 change the colour of your flag to
WHITE
FOR THE LOVE OF YOUR REMAINING POPULATION
You really have the Golden State Warriors humming.
respectfully, his analysis on the night of the invasion was completely wrong. completely wrong. he can’t jump around like that. if he’s so thoughtful, he would have known that a 200,000 person military invasion of a foreign land which has minimum 600,000 soldiers doesn’t work within a few days – as he suggested.
How droll yet another comment section filled with paranoid delusional “conservatives” uttering platitudes and wishful thinking. They are the 1%, they believe the 1% of what they say that is true allows for the other 99% of useless inane BS.
Lots of comments, lots of disparate views expressed.
Your comment is vague and meaningless.
Sundance, you missed a step in your graphic. Need to include the conduit for the money to travel–the military industrial complex, and the continual rotation of government “leaders” into defense contractor leadership positions. Never ending wars keep the home fire burning and the kettle hot for these types.
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist, or even a Colonel, to tell you that Ukraine is one of the most corrupt countries in the world; that the Bidens have been laundering money through that country for years; that other US politicians have been involved in the money laundering; that we are essentially supporting Nazis who have been engaged in ethnic cleansing; and that every moron who has a yellow and blue flag on Twitter or sends the hashtags ‘stand with Ukraine’ doesn’t have an effin clue on what is actually going on there.
100%
But, but they are “winning” the war. I am surprised that the MSM still has the Col. on the air. The weapons are sold off in the black market, and guess who pocketed it with 10% to the big guy? Nothing new. This grift has been going on for ages. And, the Americans are still buying the same “democracy and freedom” BS.
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Nothing like telegraphing your punches. Unless you were doing so intentionally.
Do these people understand how much they are despised?
They’re terrified that Putin will close down the laundromat and hang all their dirty high crimes and misdemeanors out to dry.
These MIC are bunch of lunatics.
Gateway Pundit has an RT interview with former CIA official Larry Johnson. He is a bit of a lone wolf and isn’t afraid to call out the establishment. It is well worth the 13 minutes if you have time to listen to it. I have no expertise in this area but I tend to believe him more than I do those who are cheering on the Ukrainians with tales of Russia being decimated and calls for more support. One thing he talks about is how some of the weapons given to Ukraine have been found in France and the danger of them being in terrorists hands.
Doesn’t everyone wish they could launder money like Washington DC does.
How much of that $4.7 billion could’ve been used to secure the southern border?
Asking for a friend.
Can’t help but wonder if the military supplies sent into such a scenario are even functional. Send in obsolete or damaged stuff, it gets destroyed, pocket the cash, pay off the “big guy” and friends. No one it’s the wiser.
makes a lot of sense, but no sense is to be found these days. The sense I have is Putin is a reincarnated version of Erwin Rommel. What better way to get back at the Nazi who betrayed him in so many ways. You might say Putin is the Artic Fox? The same way Rommel was disposed of, or should I say how the NWO wants to be done with him.
Well, Ukraine was a US Congressional and intelligence agency money-laundering site.
This is BIDEN’S WAR! Started years ago when he first went to Ukraine. Has escalated ever since.
When did this clusterfudge of a country become so important to American interests? And the Uniparty just goes along with this? This is insane. Many of the weapons that have been seized are already ending up on the black market. Or being utilized by DPR/LPR forces. Who will stop the madness?
There is a tremendous amount of materiel moving somewhere, perhaps Ukraine, perhaps not.
Kickbacks to our corrupt pols & bureaucrats are a given.
But… it takes a lot of time and money to build all that stuff. No doubt the military – industrial complex is salivating at the prospect of contracts to replace all the stuff that’s being given away/wasted, but what in the meantime?
Are the corruptocrats profiting from the drawdown of our stockpiles while wittingly or not leaving us defenseless against aggressors overseas or at home?
Sounds like something Chyyynah would order O’Biden to do prior to them invading Taiwan.
NSA knows the travel path of every dollar.
Are we actually watching a WEF scripted and choreographed event playing out in the Ukraine ‘conflict’? Similar to the ‘entertainment’ provided by a WWE ‘professional wrestling’ match?
Everyone is clearly aware that Ukraine/Zelensky are puppets put in place and supported by the globalists in the US ‘government’ and the WEF. This ‘conflict’ is not just to continue the never ending money laundering scheme that is the essence of Ukraine’s existence. Nor is it to support ‘democracy’ by enabling the continued existence of Ukraine as a nation.
Putin has had ties to the WEF over the years and has been implementing globalist policy and programs in Russia for years. Is he now playing the ‘bad guy’ in a production ‘attacking’ Ukraine all with the intent of further the globalist agenda? The ‘conflict’ in Ukraine including the involvement of the US and the rest of the west is certainly resulting in advancing the goals of the WEF, Klaus Schwab, George Soros, the WEF-YGL, et al.
All that remains for people to see that the Ukraine ‘conflict’ may in fact be a ‘play’ being put on to benefit the Trans-Human Global Utopian Communist State is the acceptance that the ‘elites’ leading that movement are in fact evil enough to put on a performance that kills thousands, destroys economic systems, and ends self-determination around the world in order to achieve their goals.
These are in fact narcissistic psychopaths that really really believe in their own superiority and unstoppable destiny to rule the entire world. Psychopaths believe that they are fully justified in doing anything and everything they can as long as it advances their goals. These ‘things’ will never give up, back down, or surrender of their own free will in the effort to get what they allow to remain of humanity to submit to their ‘enlightened’ direction. Psychopaths can not be redeemed. They must be purged from civilization before they can implement ‘their civilization’.
The only thing wrong in Ukraine now, with it’s rich history is the clown thats running it by default, put in there by the west. Lithuania once owned Ukraine. Lithuania lost Ukraine through weak leaders. Because of leaders you will perish or florish. Putin is doing the right thing for the Russian nation. They will florish or die trying but try you must especially if history is on your side.
It ought to be crystal clear by now that the track record of Russian forces in Ukraine does not warrant the anxiety displayed by Tucker Carlson and his guest, COL (ret) MacGregor as to whether or not U.S. weapons shipments are getting into the hands of front-line Ukrainian fighters. Clearly, the U.S. military and the CIA have people in position to verify the arrival of key weapons and equipment. The fact that there seems to be little information on the actual supply operations is standard opsec procedure. The less said about weapons being transported, the better.
It’s very clear that both Carlson and MacGregor would very much prefer to see Ukraine and the Biden Administration fail and the Russian military succeed in this fight. MacGregor has been forecasting the “annihilation” of the Ukrainian defenders in Donbass for well over a month now. It hasn’t come close to happening and there is no indication that such a development is imminent. Furthermore, nothing that the Colonel has predicted about this contest of arms has come to fruition. The Russian air force is not the big factor that the experts feared it would be in this conflict. On the ground, Russian units continue to take a beating in daily tactical engagements with their opponent. They seem to do the same stupid things over and over again with the same unvarying result. Thus, Russian tactical units are unable to gain and maintain tactical control in order to fulfill the higher commander’s plan. To assuage this discontent, the Russian high command has given the OK for its troops to slaughter Ukrainian civilians. Putin does not have endless reserves of trained fighters to send into the fight. So, the Russians are the ones being attrited – far more so than the Ukrainians.