Col. Doug MacGregor appears with Judge Andrew Napolitano to explain the complexity of the tanks Biden has pledged to Ukraine. Additionally, MacGregor gives a different perspective than western media about the status of the war in Ukraine, the position and motive of the Russians and the overall status of the EU and NATO coalition.
MacGregor emphasizes that what the western public are told about the war is not consistent with the reality what is taking place on the ground in Ukraine. The term ‘hybrid warfare,’ which includes the U.S. State Dept. pushing a very specific propaganda message to the media, eventually runs into the reality of actual war fighting on the ground that is far more conventional.
The U.S. led NATO alliance may be winning the narrative, as outlined by media; however, the Russians are winning the actual fighting on the ground in Ukraine. In addition to noting the Russian cultural aspects of the conflict, Col MacGregor gives some somber analysis about how dangerous this is becoming as the U.S. political voices are not willing to concede or admit anything that runs counter to their promoted narrative. WATCH (prompted):
In 2016, Leo Zagami in Confessions vol 2 focused the book on — 2020.
He said at the highest levels of the Secret Societies all the chatter was about the great takeover of civilization + forced evolution of humanity that would be launched that year. What we now know they call – The Great Reset.
He was talking about the known +/or unacknowledged Secret Societies —– like Newt Gingrich told us – in an off-the-cuff reply to a question —- in 2016 — that the Davos Crew belongs to —- as he was explaining why —- the whole of the Establishment went crazy to prevent Trump from winning the GOP Nomination. He said it was — because they had no idea how to deal with Trump because he was uncontrollable because he was not part of the Secret Society System…
Zagami claimed — we must look out for — the release of Deadly Viruses + a major War leading up to WW3.
I keep pointing to that book — because it is the easiest/clearest reference point —– that has yet to prove itself —- ridiculous.
In fact, it keeps getting confirmation….
But he was far from being alone. We have had the Elites at Davos themselves telling us the kinds of things they used to hide + have the MSM lie about in the Bilderberg Meetings that we were told by MSM Outlets who had key members attending them —– were Conspiracy Theory Nuttiness that only a loser would believe existed….
The hierarchy is being externalized. What was carried out in the shadows before is now being openly promoted in the MSM + beyond.
A key leader of the New Age Movement — who taught the Spiritual side of a coming New World Order — Alice Bailey — wrote in 1957 that —- the forces that have the destiny of humanity in their hands would —- externalize in all probability in the year — 2025.
We are currently being traumatized as a global civilization over Fake Vaccines that partnered with a Man-Made Virus in a biological warfare attack on the 90% of the population the Elites have told us for decades —— are a MORTAL THREAT to all life on Earth because they are ——- unneeded Useless Eaters…. No, that’s wrong. They have defined 90% of the humans as —- a Deadly Cancer that is destroying Mother Earth…
— This is not just non-Conspiracy Theory Craziness now…. It isn’t even exaggerated.
I wish it were not so. I won’t hide my mind from it…
As in the video I put together late last night — after a unique Coronavirus, localized outbreak took place in China in 2012 — the US + Chinese Governments joined together to —- collect all the variants it could from that mine where the bats lived + collect other pathogens around China + beyond.
They combined the new discoveries with Gain of Function work they had already been working on in the US. When such work became too controversial within science circles in the US — the moved it to Wuhan. Same players involved. The CCP + DC —- who are not enemies but are employees of the Davos + other Global Elites.
Another Big Pharma Former Executive told us — she had researched contracts + traced the current “Vaccines” + Covid Preparations —- back to 2012 + 2013 — that showed them spending the bulk of the paperwork — working out how to —- keep is quiet/secret + deniable….
The Lockdowns were unnecessary. Insiders like Dr. Michael Yeadon told us in 2020 that — the Elites had —– thrown out their prior Expert Driven Protocols — thrown them out all together —- and all the nations he had studied (over 20) —- introduced the same, coordinated Protocols —- that made no Scientific Health sense….
Lockdowns that had virtually nothing to do with Health — but were perfect for — destabilizing the Global Economy + nations around the world + set a foundation for — “evolving” our societies into a New World Order….. A foundation for a Great Reset….
There was no need for the rise of Health Tyranny.
There was no need for a New, Unproven mRNA Method to combat an enhanced virus that only killed or maimed less than 0.0x% of the people infected.
There was no need to prepare to move NATO into Ukraine. We should never have witnessed the start of this build up to WW3.
—- This is not Conspiracy Theory stuff anymore.
The vast majority of these are now — undeniable Facts.
We are doing nothing about it.
The type of Elites who are driving this — the Davos Crew — have been preparing for it for a very long time. — They have spent tens of millions of $$$$ to build Luxury Bunkers — bunkers in which they can not only survive a Global Deadly Pandemic or Nuclear War or EMP —- but have spent the amount of $$$ needed to —- make a long-term, multiple year stay —- luxurious…. They did not spare expense to make a “just in case” bunker….
…..They built bunkers with such luxury —- it makes the Average Person’s home look like a piece of crap…….
They are ready.
We don’t even express enough care in action to be noticeable….
https://rumble.com/v2766f6-truth-control-kills-2-24-fight-1984-with-1776.html
https://rumble.com/v25fni9-the-great-culling.html
https://rumble.com/v24jalo-the-luciferian-agenda-for-a-great-reset.html
https://www.bitchute.com/video/AsTA62hxbiEd/
For the Elites – pray that these are not the Last Years of our current age…. because your Luxury Bunkers will not save you once we reach the time in which God has planned to step in:
Lucifer + his crew of Entities beyond our knowledge/senses were created at some unknown point far in the past.
They have been in their rebellion for eons.
They understand more about the timing of the future in God’s plan than we do —- but they do not know it all. Jesus Himself said nobody knows what day the End of this current Age will happen…
The Human Elites have no clue in comparison…
As I have shown in the compilations with clips from the chapters of Marx & Satan — the driving force – ultimately – of that supernatural Crew + the dedicated Satanist – like Marx – is —– destruction.
They are all in to the rebellion. They know they will not win in the end. So, at their core – they want to destroy as much as they can as many ways as they can…
….They will not build luxury bunkers, because they know they will do no good in the end…. They are content to smile as the Deluted Elites head to their luxury bunkers — because they have succeeded in seeding False Hope into their depravity….
The video is an audio version of Revelation 6 timed to near the end of the chapter that describes the point in the future God shakes the heavens + the Earth + all creation —- when He will remove all Evil from existence + create the New Heavens + New Earth.
iggy, I truly like to read your postings but one small correction: Alice Bailey died in 1949.
Thanks. A clip I used had the Publication Date for Externalization of the Hierarchy as 1957 with renewal in 1985.
I guess the book was either published earlier or posthumously.
[Quick google suggests it was published posthumously along with several other books of hers that came out after her death.]
https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/841031
We – for now – can’t stop them from using Weapons like Covid or the “Vaccines” — for example, some Experts have said – the “Vaccinated” can pass the spike protein + other harmful byproducts of the injections onto the Unvaccinated like they would passing a virus….
We can’t stop them — for now — from doing great Economic Damage like a Wall Street Meltdown. The Banking Industry + Blackrock + Vanguaard + such are currently too strong.
—– We CAN stop —– WW3…..
They can use Missiles + other weapons that don’t require large amounts of Troops —
—– a full on war requires ——— participation by the masses….
It seems clear — the Elites wanted a Big War in Syria + Iraq —- but some brave Marines + Air Force + Navy members took to Social Media with pictures that showed hid their identities but said — they would not be the Air Force of Isis….
That shook things up….
It seems highly likely — we are moving to a point —- the people in the Military + the people working in Defense Industries + in the Factories that are resupplying the Missiles + other Weapons + Parts to fuel the war in Ukraine ——- will have to make a decision —- Do they want to continue to be key components in what the current Evil wants to do to Civilization by taking part in a growing WW3 or not…?
WW3 will require the participation of our soldiers + workers who make the tools of war down to the nuts + bolts needed to replace those tanks we are shipping over to escalate into WW3…..
Periodic, recurrent Walk Out Strikes or Sit Down Strikes in key Military-Industrial Complex businesses would have an immediate + significant impact. —- It would from the very start —- alert the Elites to how serious we are taking things.
—- To date — only the Canadian Trucker Convoy has demonstrated that level of seriousness — and it turned out to be a 1-off exercise — which rendered it – I’m sorry to say – virtually — useless….
Inotherwords —— if WW3 kicks off —- we collectively will not be able to say —– “There was nothing we could do to avoid it…”
Off topic.
You see no connection between the growing war in Ukraine + the Great Reset + Coerced Vaccinations?
But it annoys you to the point you have to take the time to complain about reading about it?
Enjoy the future….
…..Denial will not protect you from it…..
…………..You are a vital component in why we are here
iggyb;
who is the true believer in your avatar?
No connection to anything beyond the personal:
It is a photo of a Korean my step-grandfather took during the war.
I found it one time back home between contracts when I gathered all the family photos I could find to scan so we’d have them forever.
It was special to me because I had been living in Korea for a couple of years at the time.
It is related. Go onto Rumble and do a search on ‘Ukraine biolab tour.’
Here’s one video that is related to the chemical and serum testing on western Ukrainians, many of whom died.
https://rumble.com/v26hc66-evidence-of-a-pfizer-testing-bio-lab-farm-bio-test-captured-by-russian-troo.html
The USA owns this atrocity.
USA Owns this…?
Yes + no. We are dealing with Elites who are not tied to an ethnic group or nation. They are Globalists in every since of the word:
The ungodly wealthy in the Gulf Nations are a big part of it. The CCP. My $$$ is on Putin + Ultra Wealthy Russians are fully in on it too….
….just as the Eugenicists of the 1st half of the 20th century were not all White or all European. The Elites in Japan were fully on board as were those of other ethnicities….
It would be much easier if we had only 1 nation or ethnicity to blame….
They may have spent the money for their bunkers regardless God is not gonna let them escape. Where they’re going they’ll be hell to pay for them.
Correct.
That was part of why I felt pangs of guilt this morning as I finished up a compilation video.
I can’t lose —- because God is Supreme + already paid the price for my salvation Himself….
I am also in my 50s + have a simple life-style I am happy with that is actually pretty hard to disrupt/ruin…..
….and even if things collapsed to the point it was ruined —- I survived years of childhood sexual abuse. —– The best period of time for Evil to break me is now decades in the past….
I don’t need to hide my eyes from probabilities or possibilities…
…..But my cousins + my sister have far more at stake + are/will suffer more — and my sister + 1 cousin won’t let themselves recognize — what they champion is actually —– Evil…
It’s sad + I feel for them….
Me too and I can’t help worrying for my two grandkids. Satan is planning all this out cause he knows how it ends 4 him…*God is in control
Photos of their so called bunkers? I will wait…
Am I reading your comment correctly — You seriously doubt what I said…? How is that even possible today….?
In at least the past decade, I’ve routinely come across items a few times a year about Luxury Bunkers for the Elites…
https://www.re-thinkingthefuture.com/designing-for-typologies/a3311-11-luxury-doomsday-bunkers-around-the-world/
I must have read your comment wrong. You can’t actually mean that you think this part about Luxury Bunkers is crazy, nonsense talk when a google would turn up pages + pages of links…..
https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/luxury/article/3194343/inside-luxury-doomsday-bunkers-worlds-richest-billionaires
I’m sure there must be a % of people who do think such things are fiction — even now….
There is a % of people who think the Earth is flat….
….And I can see why some people here conclude I must be miserable or depressed because I focus on such issues routinely….primarily caused by Projection of how they would feel if they allowed themselves to consider some horrible things are true….
……….But I can assure whatever % of readers that is —– I’d MUCH PREFER not being so deluded that I had no clue that there is a clear trend of Mega Wealthy People building Luxury Bunkers that make the Average Income Home look like a ramshackle adobe hut in comparison….
Tuning out that far is just too far……………..in my book….
My 1st 20 years of life was spent in a time in which doomsday bunkers were common thought because the Cold War was still real + my generation took it for granted humanity would stumble into a Nuclear Holocaust one day… We were tickled pink in the early 1990s when that went away….
…..But after 2 more decades of life — and noticing the Mega Wealthy are still building bunkers + have even FAR EXCEEDED they amount of $$$ they have put into them ——— raises some troubling possibilities….
Zelensky sanctions top clerics
https://www.rt.com/russia/570455-zelensky-sanctions-orthodox-priests/
I have been searching out Col. Macgreagors analysis since before the initiation of the S.M.O. In Ukraine .
He is a wealth of credible sober information and recommend him to all Treepers.
The fact that his name is prominent on a Ukraine government sponsored hit list should give us cause for great concern.
Does everyone get get what i just wrote.
A Ukraine /Zelinsky sponsored hit list has a Genuine United States Military war hero on it with the intention of fomenting his assassination and we are giving billions to them.
All because his opinions , that most of us Treepers would agree with differs from the deep state narrative.
FJB and Miss Linsey too.
PS. The Nazi Ukraine government also has a 13 year old girl on that list too.
Thank you Col. MacGregor for this information, Hammer&Scorecard information and more !!!
May St Michael and his Angels surround you and protect you. Amen.
And Gonzalo Lira also?
The young girl on the hit list is Faina Savenkova, born October 31 2008.
From Wikitia: She is a talented young author from Lugansk, writing theatre plays, short stories and science fiction novels in Russian.
“For the Children’s Day in 2021, Faina addressed the UN via a video[4] transmitted to the institution through the Russian Permanent Representation to the United Nations. In the video, Faina reminds the UN that the Donbass children also have the right to a real childhood[5] ”
She is an eloquent voice for peace and self-determination.
G-d bless her.
On the other hand is our U.S. ally, former Ukraine president Petro Poroshenko who infamously said in remarks made in a speech at Odessa’s Opera House (where protesters were burned alive), and captured on video, “we [in Ukraine] will have work they – [in the Donbas] won’t. We will have pensions – they won’t. We will care for our children and pensioners – they won’t. Our children will go to school, to kindergartens – their children will sit in cellars. They don’t know how to organize or do anything. This, ultimately, is how we will win this war.”
And a child will lead them………….
A Ukraine /Zelinsky sponsored hit list
Do you have a verified link to this?
Could it simply be propaganda from Ukraine?
It is dangerous repeating what others say without confirmation.
Perhaps it is true but without the original source readers cannot check.
You’ll have to look it up. He has a big hit list of people recommended for assassination from all over the world. The name of the list has the word Peace in it. The Duran talks about this constantly and I have seen the list myself.
Anyone who speaks badly about Elensky is on it. McGregor has acknowledged on numerous videos he is officially on the list.
It is not right for you to chastise Jim because you cannot keep up with all the news going around and demand he prove to you otherwise you deem him not credible.
Myrotvorets.
When Col. macgreagor, Scott Ritter and Gonzalo Lira , who are all on the list mention the list many times it Is enough for me.
Now if you want to do a google search , find that is doesn’t appear on the first page and then want to kid yourself that it does not exist then you can can proclaim your self un informed honesty all you want.
Yes.
Dugin who was killed by the car bomb was on their list.
And when she was killed-they celebrated.
Myrotvorets
It is based in Ukraine.
Has been around for quite some time.
Unless trash like Ms Linda Graham and John Bolton are going to that sheet hole Ukraine to personally drive and maintain the tanks, the US has less than zero reason to spend one single dollar there.
not just that: the citizens of this former republic have zero moral or patriotic obligation to join them, and it should be openly and actively refused.
They don’t see it that way.
Don’t forget Nancy went to Afghanistan too. Before theBiden exit.
#1 contributor to Little Lindsay, Lockheed Martin
#3 contributor, GE
#6 contributor, Boeing. Any questions?
Lindsay, the hero of Vietnam, Blumenthal and that intellectual powerhouse, Whitehouse, visited Ukraine.
My suggestion is to put these on the front lines waving a pink flag.
From Washington, Jefferson, Hamilton, Adams, Franklin, Thomas Paine…..to these three.
How far we have fallen.
OpenSecrets.org
https://www.opensecrets.org/members-of-congress/lindsey-graham/contributors?cid=N00009975&cycle=2022&type=C
I have a lot of respect for the col. but he left out some details of what FDR did to provoke Japan to ultimately have no choice but to attack. FDR through sanctions made it impossible to obtain fuel among other things but they were cut off from heating their home, running their machinery, growing food, etc…Kinda like the sanctions you see today. His other points regarding the directives toward defense leaders is spot on but FDR was the aggressor. Look at any newspaper at your local library or University library and see the american people for years didn’t want to enter WWII. This is Why “a pearl harbor event” is quoted in the project for a new American Century white papers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_the_New_American_Century
Ask yourself who today who, with all the previous CTH articles in the recent past, has sanctions that “made it impossible to obtain fuel among other things but they were cut off from heating their home, running their machinery, growing food”
I mean really ask yourself who is being sanctioned here in the same way Japan, because it isn’t Russia. They are doing fine.
The sanctiones are being applied to western nations by their own puppet installed traitors and still people can’t accept what is happening to them FFS.
The media repeats a giant lie in your face over and over and again as they did with the covid BS 95% of people discount the reality around them.
America is a big bully on the world stage.
I watched that the other day when someone posted it – he was very good and interesting , only wish he had stayed away from line of FDR goading Japanese to attack and his alleged responsibility for Pearl Harbor theory, that was an analogy too far … -unnecessary and hurts credibility there (WMD/Iraq would be a clearer example of DC mindset going off the rails ) –
But at end he had good observations about DC “bootlickers” who always please their bosses to go up the food chain regardless -And it was overall quite discouraging about the total war lust/fever of everyone in the DC establishment …no wish to seek a solution and save lives … Ukraine Good / Russia Bad -keep it up and keep it simple , no matter where it leads …
“FDR goading Japanese to attack and his alleged responsibility for Pearl Harbor theory, that was an analogy too far ”
How so?
Read Operation Snow.
We truly did provoke Japan IMO and picked a side. We didn’t do much when they went into China. We provided arms and some pilots to China, but we quickly escalated and cut off Japan’s oil and steel when they took over European colonies in Southeast Asia early in the war.
FDR needed a way to get us into the war in Europe and Pearl Harbor gave it to him. One of the dumbest things that Hitler did was to declare war on us when we declared war on Japan. Stalin maintained neutrality against Japan, until after Hitler was defeated, and may have survived the war as a result.
Why have the decoded Japanese “Purple” signals intel that were furnished to FDR prior to Pearl Harbor still classified some 80 years later?
Under a cover of low, thick clouds, a carrier strike force in the North Pacific launched an air strike consisting of bombers, torpedo planes, and fighters. The destination was Pearl Harbor; the objective, units of the US Pacific Fleet. The approach to Oahu was completely undetected, and the result of the air strike was the theoretical destruction of the whole Pacific Fleet. The destruction was theoretical because the air strike was part of a US naval war game conducted (ironically) Sunday, February 7, 1932. (Here’s one article from the Honolulu newspaper https://www.newspapers.com/image/258652959/ ) The exercise was a simulation, a model, of a genuine attack that could occur in the future (and did, as we all know, on Sunday, December 7, 1941).
As General Billy Mitchell said after the exercise (he was an observer of the exercise as were the many Japanese spies on Oahu), “The Japanese will not politely declare war. Hawaii, for instance, is vulnerable from the sky. It is wide open to Japan. … As I have said before, that’s when the blow will be struck — on a fine, quiet Sunday morning.” [The Wild Blue Yonder, Emile Gauvreau, pp 169-171.] President Roosevelt may have sluffed off the results of the exercise and analyses like Mitchell’s, but Japan’s Admiral Yamamoto did not. In fact, using inlets/bays such as Misawa’s (Northern Honshu), Yamamoto conducted training simulations to prepare his pilots for the real event. Eighty years after the fact and there is still a lot to be learned about the real story of Pearl Harbor.
THEY keep running into the same problem, THEY “keep doing the same thing, over and over and expecting different results”;
They spin the False narrative, and eventually reality catches up, and kicks its *ss.
They are buttiing their heads up against “Abes theorem”, about FOOLING people.
But theb Abe was a REPUBLICAN, and a hick, so of coarse they dismiss anything he had to say.
MacGregor was out in front on all this — he predicted Russia would conquer the Ukraine in a week’s time, AT THE OUTSET! Russia’s combat power is/was overwhelming!
Didn’t happen, but he keeps singing the same song.
How does Russia win, Colonel? Lay it out for us. Predict the steps, where and when they land.
You can’t do that.
There’s a reason why officers retire as Colonel — they didn’t make the grade (general officer). McGregor has a sonorous voice and SOUNDS real smart, but he’s not.
The reason a Colonel doesn’t make General is usually because he is unwilling to sell his soul.
Or his “rabbi” is out of favor.
Iron Eagle; frozen in grade for pissing someone off.
AND, a top analyst is more valuable as an analyst and not as an administrative desk jockey. I knew a Brit based out of Hong Kong who was THE Chinese Air Force expert. He was so good that the Brits just kept him in HK because no one else in the world could do what he did. They couldn’t promote him because that would have meant he would have to be reassigned so they did just about every administrative sleight-of-hand to keep him at his post. Truly, he was the very best and all of FIVE EYES benefited from his work. I don’t know MacGregor, but I can believe that to some at the top of the org chart quality analysis is too valuable to promote out … and perhaps MacGregor was happier doing analysis — it is a rush.
Where is Ray Epps when you need him?
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I just love it when certain folks like ( Norman Rogers ) come here to discredit truthful people and we all realize who they are…
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And when they come here, they are not swaying folks other places more vulnerable.
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So bring these lame voices on we love discourse here in the Treehouse.
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As iron sharpens iron,
So a man sharpens the countenance of his friend. Prov. 27:17
Maybe Norman Rogers is Ray Epps on-line name.
David Hackworth comes to mind. He was a real warrior and retired as a Colonel.
Col. Douglas MacGregor Interviews
Interesting that you ask this.
Cynthia Chung from Canada is a heavy hitting historian that gets into the historical weeds that makes one’s eyes bleed. The fact is Ukraine home grew their own form of Naziism BEFORE the Nazis came to power in Germany. Ukraine is home to the Nazi’s Nazi.
Read on:
https://thesaker.is/ukrainian-nationalism-as-a-cold-war-weapon/
Totally disagree 👎👎..
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I agree with your disagreement!! 👍
It was not long after this all started that Ukraine was at the negotiations table in Istanbul.
Boris Johnson arrived and negotiations ceased.
Since then Russia has been battling NATO, the US and EU.
Ukraine is being propped up by The West. That is the Only reason the madness continues.
IF an ENTITY Does NOT Want to Completely DESTROY the Natural Resources; Oil Fields, Mineral Mines, Churches and HISTORICAL RELIANCE on ” Mother Russia ”
You PRAGMATICALLY ” PLAY WHACK a MOLE ”
Russia Can NOT Monetarily ” BRIBE ” Ukraine to Their Side – the WEST / WTO / IMF / WEF /… has successfully BOUGHT the Ukrainian govt
Putin decided not to wholesale murder hundreds of thousands or millions of Ukranian civilians. The US kills hundreds of thousands of children at a time in bankers’ wars, and says they are the good guys.
AND Putin put his country at risk going to war in Ukraine to protect the ethnic Russians that have been under siege for 9 years after all negotiations for a peaceful resolution came to naught. A moral leader.
Didn’t happen? According to whom? The US narrative?
MacGregor must have spoken the truth or why else does Ukraine keep asking the US and its allies for money and munitions to continue the war? Sending tanks is act of war….if Russia were sending tanks to Mexico I’m sure this is how we would see the situation.
You can’t have it both ways, either the narrative is true(Russia losing) to support continued US funding of the war, or what MacGregor says is closer to the truth backed up by the continued need of US and allied war funding. Sending tanks just sent this to whole new level that seems to confirm MacGregor’s views.
My hunch is the truth is somewhat closer to MacGregor.
Agree, I tend to think this is a step beyond giving Stingers to the mujahedeen or the Vietcong/NVA getting support from Russia and China. For the reason you pointed out, Ukraine is their front door.
Yes, we were prepared to go to war when Russia sent nuclear missiles to Cuba in 1962.
Russia is not the global power today that the Soviet Union was in 1962, but when you have the number of nuclear weapons Russia has today….well you don’t have to be.
We need to tread very carefully here and Not escalate our involvement in this war. This is in Russia’s backyard and NATO expansionism up to their border is the problem.
You realize that the Cuban missiles were a response to the US putting Jupiter Ballistic missiles in Turkey and Italy that could hit Moscow in 1961?
They were used to force the US to remove these as part of the agreement.
Much different world then. The Soviet Union had expanded throughout Eastern Europe threatening Western Europe and NATO. Including Turkey and Italy..
I am pointing out that the brinkmanship was in reality about keeping US missiles in Turkey and Italy, even though its called the Cuban missile crisis.
That was the key for the soviets. They did not just decide to put them in Cuba for no reason as its mostly portrayed.
Well its called the Cuban missile crisis because US intelligence discovered missile batteries in Cuba and this was the US Media’s narrative of the situation at the time.
I’m not disputing the brinkmanship was more than just the missiles in Cuba. The US certainly held the advantage at the time in its nuclear arsenal. And there was more involved than just missiles in Italy and Turkey; there was the Bay of Pigs debacle, assassination attempts on Castro, and myriad other issues that played a role other than the proximity of the Russian missiles.
And strategically when you had nuclear submarines that posed the greatest risk, the missiles in Cuba didn’t really change the dynamics from a nuclear threat position. But even so, the US was prepared to go to war using a blockade(an act of war) against Cuba pushing the US and the Soviet Union to the brink of nuclear war.
There are lessons to be learned in all of this.NATO has again been pushing Russia to the brink with its ridiculous expansion all the way to the Russian border. This needs to stop. What NATO is doing is a mistake and it could result in WWIII if there is not a strategic change regarding its expansionism.
Thé US has nukes TODAY in Italy, Turkey, Poland, Romania and God knows where else. It is not a stretch to think they were planning to install them in Ukraine. Perhaps Russia may have had intel on this. We don’t know all that Russia knows.
France and the UK also have nukes. Russia has more nukes than any other nation, but they don’t posture with them like the west does. The west is like an immature, reckless child and keeps taunting Russia. This irresponsible behavior by the west needs to stop.
Hey I agree, but it’s not really about the nukes. Most countries have enough nukes to destroy the planet 10 times over. Even if they just used a handful of nukes then the world is over as we know of it. Here in lies the danger in the brinkmanship between NATO, the West and Russia.
NATO has been pushing this brinkmanship for many years with their expansionism, now all the way to the Russian border. George Kennan argued this would be a colossal mistake and a complete failure pushing Russia to the brink and he was right. Now factor in the idiot green movement in the West and the economic impact on Russia’s economy and the brinkmanship becomes even more extreme.
I don’t really get your point about the posturing of nuclear weapons that you speak of but it doesn’t really matter. The danger is causing a nuclear attack by either side because of this brinkmanship. I’ve always believed a nuclear war would start by either accident or stupidity. With the leaders we have today stupidity will likely be the cause. When it happens the game is over just like in the movie War Games.
Because JFK was incompetent and terrified of Khrushchev.
History doesn’t show that with the blockade we set up.
And JFK initiated a secret dialogue with Khruschev to end the standoff. Doesn’t sound incompetent to me. It sounds sensible but our government is very far from sensible.
MacGregor has explained why he believes Putin used a much smaller force and expected a different outcome and agreement with Ukraine early on. MacGregor’s critics have not considered the context of his remarks and subsequent modifications. His knowlege both of history and military matters should put many of his critics to shame.
Common Sense……
Colonel MacGregor was correct.
Ukraine was at the negotiations table in Istanbul shortly after the SMO began.
Then Boris Johnson showed up and negotiations ended.
After that Russia was/is fighting NATO,EU and US. (The west).
If it wasn’t for the West supplying and propping up Ukraine and pumping in Military equipment….
Ukraine lost at the beginning.
Colonel MacGregor was correct.
He’s been spot on.
He retired as a Colonel because of the Obama Plan. Gut the officer corp of mid-level leadership that would not accept or agree with the perverted direction he was taking the military. This was written about in 2010. The pink slips for captains, majors, lt. colonels were handed out like candy. My friend who was a lt. colonel in the AF saw the writing on the wall and retired as the Obama Way was being implemented.
I suggest that casting aspersions against Col. McGregor isn’t the best way to make your argument. The war is dynamic and subject to adjustments. But, his overall diagnosis of the strategy and the players involved is sound.
I commend you for this succinct and careful response. As an old man I wish we had politicians and leaders with the kind of wisdom and compassion that MacGregor displays. He said after a recent assessment:
This is a very grim assessment . . . . One would hope someone cared enough about Ukraine to find a way to bring this to an end but the outrageous demands and unrealistic goals from the very beginning designed to both humiliate and destroy Russia are simply unattainable but no one will admit this least of all Washington.
Source: Youtube Douglas Macgregor – What are the Damages for the Russian Side?
25 Jan 2023
The destruction of the military started with Clinton … don’t ask, don’t tell … passing over/rifting academy grads and strong officers for females, minorities & incompetents like Clark … bush43 purged the ranks with Iraq&Afghanistan, gutted Congress & DC of quality Republicans and gave it all to Obama, Nancy and Reid … Obama doubled military death and destruction – and promoted woke tinkerbells like Vidman
RATS. ONLY. DESTROY. !!!
President Trump wanted him on staff.
McConnell slow balled MacGregor getting the position.
It was in an interview he did and the subject came up.
smh. do tell Sir, what are your qualifications? A tad too cavalier IMO.
Cause … Milley had a bunch more colorful participation ribbons, is woke and hates Trump.
I’m sure that’s just your opinion. I for one believe every word out of his mouth. Today Donald Trump came out and said, “First the tanks, then the Nukes.”
Colonel MacGregor was pretty much right.
Russia won the battle with Ukraine.
The peace talks started pretty soon after it all started. Ukraine went to the negotiations table.
Then Boris Johnson and NATO stepped in and ended the negotiations.
Since then Russia has been battling NATO,EU and US.
Phase one- all the weapons that NATO stockpiled and trained Ukrainian troops on were —destroyed.
Phase two- Ukraine pulled out the Soviet stockpile they had—-destroyed.
Phase three–NATO, EU and US sent small arms and munitions. Almost all destroyed. Constant re supplying by the West
Ukraine is only existing right now due to the support of The West.
He’s smarter than you, that’s for sure.
Is the Ukraine winning according to you?
I have listened to every interview from the beginning and he has been spot on. The war was won in the very beginning. Peace talks that Putin called for would have ended the war at that time but the jackasses in our government told their puppet Zelensky to never negotiate with Putin. Col MacGregor has explained every change in strategy and the reason why, which you would know if you listened to all of his many interviews. The man is a true war hero and an expert on Russia/Ukraine and the rest of Europe. If you don’t believe him, then I assume you choose to believe the lies and propaganda coming from the western media.
Dan Hoffman, former CIA Russian bureau chief disagrees diametrically with McGregor. Russia was the agressor, it seems, although nothing is as it seems in this war. Hoffman thinks that Russia is not winning and Ukraine is destroying much of the Russian non-nuclear armament. NON-NUCLEAR is a key desriptor. He also thinks that this war is causing Putin a whole lot of grief domestically, which Hoffman posits that Putin may not survive. I know nothing and have trouble believing without question, anything.
If he worked for the CIA, he is a stone cold liar and has no morals. If he’s right, than get ready for nuclear war because Putin isn’t going down like Mubarak, Qaddafi, Hussein, etc.
Add to that, this is life or death for Russia and all people worldwide who wish to be free of the NWO globo-homo tyranny they plan for all of us.
You had me till “CIA,” which means he is human filth. End. Stop.
CIA? Not worth the listen….
CIA? Seriously? He is a liar!
Of course he would disagree – he is CIA. He has a different agenda.
Nothing short of full invasion by NATO and US will remove Putin from Ukraine. And that might not even work. In the meantime, Ukraine will be destroyed by NATO and US while our tanks, with untrained crews, will simply be obliterated and the technology given to the Russians and sold by Ukraine to the highest bidders.
Pathetic and sad and thoroughly dangerous.
Agree totally. and Ill go a step further. Russia will not be removed from Ukraine until they finish what was started. The forces against Russia are godless. They are demonic. Russia is a Christian country and will proceed as such. I pray daily for my Christian brothers in Russia. And I pray for the Christians in Ukraine that the Zellenskys seek to abolish.
Amen Amin. Gospodi Pomiluj!
The US doesn’t have enough petroleum to remove squat ! Lol
3 days of wars worth at best!
Psst
It was sold off to China 🇨🇳
The U.S. tanks with fully trained crew will be obliterated – Russia is dominant at the EW. The Ukie’s will need 100’s of tanks to stand up to this shooting gallery.
I read The Daily Mail … and they’ve informed me (daily) that …
You think I’m exaggerating? WRONG. This is the actual level of propaganda being spawn out of Western News Outlets that HATE Putin for not surrendering to the LGBTQqAI2s+/-
No you are not exaggerting, all the media are playing the same song , but the Brits are definitely have the most intense pro-Ukraine propaganda.
It seems the UK has fully adopted the WEF / Globalist agenda that anyone or any country who defies the new WEF/Globalist new world order (domination) must be crushed. That may be the reason the UK seems bent on crushing Russia , or perhaps they are still living in a dreamworld where they will once again rule the oceans and the world. Ditto for the Poles remembering history when they ruled Russia.
These people (WEF / Globalists ) are both evil and incredibly stupid to think country in the West will survive a nuclear exchange.
The UK is already dead. Demography is destiny. They stopped having children and imported muslims who breed like rodents.
Beyond that, something like 80% of white UK residents took the death jab – how many will be alive in 10 years or able to reproduce?
All intentional.
:large
Was demography destiny when the Pilgrims arrived?
You and I will not survive, the globalists think that they will survive a nuclear exchange.
Heck..the DM even thinks America has actually won a war…….. well excepting the American civil war and they could not really lose that could they!
U.S. news propaganda spouts this BS, too. Nonstop. I have friends who only listen to Fox and read the WSJ.
I informed them when Soledar fell to the Russians. They didn’t believe me until the WSJ finally was forced to report it, but even at that, the WSJ stated “Russia CLAIMS…..”.
WSJ is always weeks, months, sometimes years behind the curveball in reporting. If we aren’t seeking out numerous alt news outlets, we can also fall behind in the real news.
From 2013:
Douglas Macgregor (retired Army colonel and author of “Breaking the Phalanx): “Petraeus is a remarkable piece of fiction created and promoted by neocons in government, the media and academia, How does an officer with no personal experience of direct fire combat in Panama or Desert Storm become a division CDR in 2003, a man who for 35 years shamelessly reinforced whatever dumb idea his superiors advanced regardless of its impact on soldiers, let alone the nation, a man who served repeatedly as a sycophantic aide-de-camp, military assistant and executive officer to four stars get so far?
How does the same man who balked at closing with and destroying the enemy in 2003 in front of Baghdad agree to sacrifice more than a thousand American lives and destroy thousands of others installing Iranian national power in Baghdad with a surge that many in and out of uniform warned against? Then, how does this same man repeat the self-defeating tactics one more time in Afghanistan? The answer is simple: Petraeus was always a useful fool in the Leninist sense for his political superiors and that is precisely how history will judge him.”
He married the daughter of a Four Star General, William Allen Knowlton. Thats how he got so far.
Interesting, did not know that.
He also had a public affair with a woman posing as a journalist who was CIA or MOSSAD. Patraeus also never won a war. He’s full of pompous BS.
Petraeus stunt with the woman did it for me.
I write him off as a man who thinks with his little head – and not his big head that has a brain.
He is owned by his sponsors in the media.
Incrementalism. Why send only one battalions worth of Abrams. Last year the USMC transferred 450 Abrams to the Army. We probably have 500 in storage in Germany.
Id bet the Ukrainians would rather have 300 used tanks this quarter than 31 brand spanking new ones next year.
But the war mongers need to $ up for the “new” ones. MO MO money.
sounds like if you add up from the various sources Germany has OK’d 4-5 battalions or almost 2 Regiments worth of Leopard IIs for which the US has promised to replace them with Abrams A2s I believe
Why send any?
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/us-disarms-itself-to-aid-ukraine
FDA/CDC is to admitting error on Covid and vax as US State Dept is to admitting error on Ukraine. The main difference between the 2 is FDA/CDC reactive weaponry is very non kinetic while State Dept save face weaponry is a bit more nasty than a sentence hidden on page 5.
Given the deaths piling up I would say the CDC are probably out in front and in the next 10 years will finish way ahead in the death count.
They will top Mao and Stalin in the body count.
I have great respect for and confidence in the opinions of Col. McGregor!!
Col. MacGregor in the interview gave us a marker to watch. He said he expects a large Russian advance to begin between 27 January and 7 February … then hedged a bit, saying ‘I don’t know, it could be as late as March.’
This is a specific forecast. If it occurs as described, then we will have evidence that his sources and analysis are sound.
I already trust him from listening to every one of his many interviews from the very beginning. He has been spot on! Any changes have been explained in detail.
Talk about “flipping the script”!
THEY thought they would bankrupt Russia, and force regime change.
THEY thought with high tech weopons, and this newfangled way of fighting wars thru P.R., that they would get regime change, and shut down Russian oil production.
They were WRONG, and all of that is coming right back at THEM, and they are too stubbornly clinging to their illusions, to face reality.
They thought that they could do a color revolution in Russia. However, in the process they have destroyed the petro-dollar spelling doom for the US economy for future generations. They have persuaded half of the world to oppose the US. They are diminishing the US and impoverishing its citizens.
Norman Eisen is a snivelling little git.
he mentions that there are election in Poland and other european states, and that no public polls show desire to go to war.
i wonder if he understands that those “elections” are likely to be every bit as real as our own? if the Davosians want war, they will do as they please with the people’s voice, because they know we will consent, either way.
Russian Army Surrounding Vuhledar.
Alex Mercouris at The Duran
Thanks for posting this.
A statement by President Putin, delivered on Russian television during an address when this whole monstrous game of Risk was initiated by this country…The Empire of Hate and Lies.
He turned and spoke directly into the cameras…
“I want ordinary citizens of Western States to hear me, too.
They are now trying to convince you that all your difficulties are the result of some hostile actions of Russia. That from your wallet you need to pay for the fight against the mythical Russian threat. Its all a lie!
And the truth is that the problems faced by millions of people in the West are the result of of years of actions by the ruling elites in the West. Their mistakes, myopia, and ambitions. These elites are not thinking about how to improve the lives of their citizens; they are obsessed with their selfish interests and super profits.”
And from The Sirius Report, dated September 30, 2020…
“You may choose to hate Putin and Russia with every bone in your body, but if you seriously think the US is a force for good in the world, then you are living in complete denial of decades of history which proves this to not be the case.”
And now we see all too clearly.
Colonel MacGregor has summarized everything I’ve read over the last months…and come to believe. He sounds almost desperate to get what he knows into the wider public. He, above anyone else commenting or writing today about this egotistical, maniacal, unhinged War (III), I believe absolutely.
Mr Putin stated early on that every decision made by him with his generals was made at the beginning. Every single contingency gamed out and the actions that will be taken if/when these contingencies occur.
The lunatic war mongers in this country and in NATO and in Europe have ignored or censored everything Mr Putin has openly said.
There’s is absolutely no currency for Mr Putin to destroy Ukraine’s infrastructure. NONE…if his intention is to gain contol of the corrupt country for money laundering, bioweapon, manufacturing, sex and human organ trafficking, and every other evil under the sun….and put an end to it all while leaving everything intact.
If this monstrous push continues from those deranged people in charge of this country, I suspect then that Mr Putin has planned for that as well.
And Almighty God help us if it comes to that.
The deranged people in charge of this country will come to their end. Perhaps Almighty God will help us and use Putin in His plans.
He chooses His warriors, Paul. This we know. And sometimes it is someone we would not consider a likely soldier.
He did not say , “But not a Russian.”
He will use us all to carry out His plans, His will…in a manner of His choosing, in a time of His choosing.
Perhaps indeed, my friend.
I don’t hate Putin and now realize all the lies we’ve been fed my entire life about the Soviet Union, Russia and Putin are all orchestrated US propaganda.
Russia is a very wealthy country, filled with extraordinary culture, a religious and hard-working people who promote strength of family and virtue.
The US and the west want to exploit Russia with its immense natural resources and pull that country into the NWO which is impossible to do as long as Putin is in power. That is why they hate him and want his butt.
Nor do I, William. And now that the truths are spilling out about the US (not America… I do make that distinction) I can understand why this country is hated the world over.
I agree with your assessment. Extraordinary beauty in architecture, music, writing, art, their churches, and my gosh! The cleanliness of their cities!
Also Putin…
“The dictatorship of the Western elites targets all societies, including the citizens of Western countries themselves.
This complete renunciation of what it means to be human, the overthrow of faith and traditional values, and the suppression of freedom are coming to resemble a ” religion in reverse” – pure Satanism.”
~September 30, 2022
Is he wrong? No, he is not.
I have been listening to Putin’s speeches and he understands exactly what is going on in the West. He fights against it and that is why they hate him so much!
Those who paint Russia as the eternal earthly evil forget, if they ever knew, that Napoleon and the Nazis were repelled. The costs for doing so were horrific…but Russia paid the price and remained “bloody but unbowed”. I know Russians teach their proud history to their children. We, on the other hand, have relegated such (inadequate) teaching of ours to a shameful dismissal. Fierce patriotism is a powerful motivator. Against the immoral ideologies which have the upper hand here?
Nothing more needs be said..
I was fortunate to have a teacher in High School who was a favorite of mine who taught Soviet Studies. I loved the class!
He was retired military. The Cold War was still going on. Wish I would have asked him about his military background 🙄.
He had actually traveled to Russia (USSR) and only had positive things to say about the people. About how pleasant they were. His opinion about the USSR govt….nothing good.
Same with a coworker who was part of the Olympic Committe during the Cold War. He even knew Andre the famous Olympian weight lifter. Such sweet stories he told about the people.
I cheered when the USSR became the Russian Federation!
It is country with an interesting past, the pictures of the architecture and churches are breathtakingly beautiful.
It is also a very culturally diverse population which loves their homeland.
Each time I see pictures and watch videos of the devastation of their homes, cities and towns….my heart breaks.
gypsy, with that one example you’ve just laid bare the reality vs the propaganda. And yes their government vs the people, their culture, their heritage, their faith.
Similar to the US vs America. With one difference.
Somewhere along the line , our moral centre has collapsed. Spiritual disease has infiltrated every institution, aided and abetted by an ignorant, partisan, Marxist judiciary which strengthens and supports the abominations we see everywhere we turn.
Who’s evil now? And, in truth, has been for decades.
My mother visited Russia . She was overwhelmed with the beauty of it and her people. How fortunate you were to have taken that class. I would have jumped at the chance to do so myself.
I feel the same when seeing the devastation…
gypsy, I don’t know if you’ve ever seen this tour of their War Museum. This isn’t the one I wanted but it is an impressive tour with commentary.
Betsy- Thank you! Well said.
I try to encourage people to read transcripts or watch videos of what is actually being said.
I believe that they would understand better what is happening.
I am constantly praying….
P.S. I recently watched a video of Assad talking to a group of people.
He was telling them that in the West people believe that children can choose what gender they are…..
He had quite a list of subjects like that which he shared.
It was all true…but I cringed when listening to him.
Thinking of Robert Burns, who’s birthday just passed this week.
Paraphrasing…
O what a gift He gives us to see ourselves as others see us.
Powerful and true, and for us who were clearly living under a delusion of moral righteousness, ugly…
Blessings to you, gypsy.
If I remember correctly, you visit the Saker, as I do. That is where I’ve read the transcripts or seen the subtitled videos. I can’t remember who first alerted me to that site but I am so grateful he did.
Anyone thats served in the Armored Calvary knows that track laying vehicles are extremely high maintenance systems. A grueling 24 hour PMCS schedule ,miserable living conditions, little sleep and constantly hunted by air assets, hunter killer ground anti armor teams and the risk of day to injuries being around 28-50 ton vehicles always present. An armored troopie from induction to basic and AIT is a minimum of 3 months, best case and then hes only ready as a section member. He will OJT and be brought up to speed by his section chief and mates. Its completely foolish to think we can turn these systems over to Ukes without U.S. personnel involvement in training and outright combat deployment.
I’m no expert but I have been wondering about the vulnerabilities of tanks given the evolution of drone warfare. Seems like they’d be sitting ducks.
Ret. General Mark Hertling had a great Twitter thread recently explaining why Abrams should NOT be sent.
It basically confirmed what The New Atlas-Brian Berletic has been saying.
There is no tank that is invincible.
I have seen videos of tanks being hit with drones. If it is not completely destroyed it is immobilized.
Agreed. But I suspect lots of contractors are lining up to provide support. Of course, that means they will be on the battlefield where they will take casualties. Is that the war cry we will hear, like when the bodies of three American contractors were hung from a bridge in Iraq? Is that the impetus that will lead to calls for war? In 1914 a Serb shot an Austrian royal. That didn’t end until November 11, 1917. But then, there were no nukes to worry about.
Our everyday lives seem normal. People go to work, raise their kids, and try to keep their head above water. I’m sure every European on the eve of WW I went to bed the night before thinking that the next morning was another day. For us in the modern world, the consequences of the deadly game being played can and will be more immediate than awaiting the ring of the alarm clock.
Fate played a macabre part in the assassination of the Austrian Archduke and his wife by Gavrilo Princip, whose earlier attempt failed.
As a result, the putative assassin then retreated to another street, when the Archduke’s carriage was rerouted to that same street, giving the young Serbian nationalist another chance to complete his mission.
But for that…who knows.
A terrible war which altered the faces of many countries, and propelled the world into a more devastating WWII.
One misstep or twist of fate could indeed catapult our normal lives into another hell. As you say, this time with nukes. Nukes in the hands of madmen.
And the finger of a dementia ridden cretin ostensibly ready to push that button if told to do so.
I never see any daylight between McGregor’s analysis and that of the Russian MOD. Not impressed, not convinced.
I respect MacGregor because he doesn’t appear to me to be trying to convince anyone, nor impress anyone. He simply seems to give his honest opinion of the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. If the MOD is telling the truth, and MacGregor is, as well, would you want to see daylight? The MOD and MacGregor have, in my view, been far closer to the truth, looking back at events on the battlefield, than anyone in the MSM, thus far. Not even close. In fact, the MSM lies about events. This will all come out in the end. The old saying goes “time will tell”.
Haven’t seen the Russian MOD lie about any advance or withdrawal they made or any Ukrainian town that they defeated the enemy. Can’t say that about the Ukraine or the US!
The daylight between two continents and an ocean binds these truths together.
Did it ever occur to you they are both telling the truth? I completely trust Col MacGregor’s analysis. I’ve listened to every one of his interviews from day one and I’m impressed by his accuracy.
Do not have underestimate the role that the MSM have in the shaping popular opinion.
Things like ‘radio free Europe’ are glorified because they countered enemy state propaganda. But that too was a government operation with a different scripted narrative.
Today a portion of alternative media do the same thing. But without the funding and government sanctioned legitimacy. But not all sources are equally trustworthy or credible. And of course, the MSM single out the most dubious as examples of ‘conspiracy theory’. And by association, brand every alternative outlet the same way.
And of course, so much of what is dismissed and attacked eventually is proven true beyond a doubt. But still is reshaped and revised to align with the original narrative.
But propaganda was legalized in the US in 2012.
It’ll be interesting to see who–and when–in the US government, the Enemedia or in the Republican Party starts telling us the truth about Russia / Ukraine war. So far, its all lies and propaganda. But if Mr. MacGregor is correct in his analysis, then later this Spring or Summer the lies will become much harder to sustain.
Props for “Enemedia.”
The root word of the first two syllables could be either ‘enema’ or ‘enemy.’
But in fact, both apply. 🙂
Here’s an Abrams that’s good to go
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Here’s the reserve force. These tanks are ready for duty.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/nol/shared/spl/hi/quiz/13/02/19/091053/media/woman.203.jpg
Once you see it…
You can’t unsee it 🙂
At least Joe 12-pack was kind enough not to post a beach photo of Hillary in a bikini … which could cause nightmares, intimacy problems, and permanent psychological damage.
A photo of Hillary in a bikini? Oh no. That would be just…….brutal.
The Ukrainian soldiers will run for their lives when they see these babes coming at ’em.
Or die laughing.
That last photo is proof positive that off shore wind farms are the main cause of beached whales.
They all drive a Prius with their mask on and stickers on the back that say, Hillary, Biden, and I love cats.
They can actually fit in a Prius? Is that mathematically possible?
American State Department war. Bureaucrat ideology.
With a stolen 2020 election and an installed puppet regime committed to global governance and Soros’s Open Society, and knowing its time-to-success is running short, these Neocon/Trotskyite demons must effect regime change in Russia, via the failed state of Ukraine, dragging bringing us all to the brink of nuclear destruction.
None of us want this insanity but DC’s ears are closed to us.
Pray for peace.
The M1 was designed and built to sweep across the Eastern European steps in a few hours and operate for about three days. The Apache and Blackhawk helicopters are similarly ill suited to sustained conventional war. The M113 is a death trap.
Artillery is everything and ours isn’t very good.
Apparently the support crew and spare parts to keep an Abrams operational is quite the effort only the blank check U.S. military and it’s contractors could come up with.
Designed to sweep across Eastern Europe in a few hours AFTER the bombers and fighter jets have firmly established the much needed air superiority. Gotta control the skies first, otherwise all these high dollar tanks and artillery are going nowhere fast, and amount to nothing more than an overpriced, and overly complicated cavalry.
This reader has felt that Ukraine was total BS from day one. This Administration has sent so much of our money in the form of blank checks, with approval of Dems and Republican war Hawks like Lindsey Grahm. The Col is spot on his assessment of the situation, we all know you can’t trust the 4th branch of government mainstream media. I don’t think I would be going out on a limb, by saying the Ukraine war was started to stop any possible inquiry in to Burisma.
The Military Industrial Complex (MIC) needed a new war…after 20 years in Afghanistan a lot of people got fat, happy and very addicted to being ‘fat and happy’.
There is no real intention to actually help Ukraine defeat Russia…it is much more lucrative Politically and financially to have Putin as the next Boogeyman, the MIC with their political enablers will drag this *cough* war *cough* out until the next Boogeyman is created.
However, what the American and European MIC’s are not considering is: “this is a first-class opponent, not a two-bit desert country!” Of course you want Putin to “be your bogeyman” in “a war that never ends,” but Russia(!) has other plans!”
Russia initiated this military mission, and they will – one way or the other – now accomplish that mission. They will not wait for your military contracts, which are unachievable anyway in the short run – due to your stupidity.
But they are also fully aware of NATO’s more-nefarious intentions, and they possess the military industrial capability that, for all the trillions that USA/EU/NATO have now
spentwasted on it, that USA/EU/NATO simply does not have! “Modern war” is not simply a matter of “Tom Swift® weaponry.” It is very much a contest of manufacturing. But the industrial might that you used to have is now a rust belt.“Pride goeth before the fall.” Do not let arrogance and stupidity lead you off a cliff. You will “go splat!”
“Make friends quickly with your opponent at law while you are with him on the way, so that your opponent may not hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.” (Matthew 5:25)
‘needed a new war…after 20 years in Afghanistan’ – Hedsmun
This is the MIC’s failed analogy.
Afghan tribesmen were prepared to fight from the fringes for as long as necessary – generations even.
Whereas Russia has every reason to press for bringing this conflict to a relatively prompt, decisive conclusion.
And has the means to do so …
I understand your point Jim, however Russia has not brought this conflict to a ‘prompt conclusion‘, I agree with you they ‘have the means to do so’…I thought this conflict would have been over in 6 months or less, yet we are coming up on the 1 year anniversary.
Why do you think Putin has not been more aggressive and ended it? (honest question, I really thought it would have been over by now)
Either way, the MIC is still in business and the U.S.
Governmenttaxpayers are funding another war.We need to force ourselves to think about this war differently. I know I did. This is not the type of shock and awe demolition warfare we are used to seeing by the US.
Firstly, Putin set out several objectives. Demilitarization and denazification of the Ukraine. By going slow, he accomplishes many things:
Fewer Russian military and civilian casualties. By doing less forward advances and letting the Ukrainian military come to the Russian army, the Russians are able to more efficiently de-militarize and de-natzify the Ukrainian army with powerful artillery and missiles. It’s kind of like “come to daddy”. This is a war of attrition, it is deliberate slow grind and it achieves all the objectives.
By going slow, he’s forcing the US, the EU, UK and NATO to dump more billions of currency into Ukraine thereby cleaning out the coffers of these countries.
Now he has forced the former Warsaw Pact countries to deplete themselves of former Soviet weapons (by sending them to Ukraine) and now NATO is in the process of sending their weapons to backfill these depleted Soviet weaponry. In time, NATO weaponry will start to run low. That is also part of the goal. Putin wants NATO to be less powerful. He sure is working in it. Many NATO countries are not in agreement on the war. Hungary, Croatia, and others are not sending weapons and not agreeing to the oil and gas sanctions. Macron is dragging his feet on LeClerc tanks. Thé longer this war drags on, the more disagreement in the NATO ranks, the more disagreements in sanctions that hurt European countries, and the more protests by the people of Europe. We are seeing these massive protests in Europe now.
Putin’s original intention was to negotiate peace after Donbas was freed in the first few weeks. The lunatics running the US/UK govts refused to allow peace negotiations. Our interference is the reason for it dragging on and on. Russia will soon put an end to that.
Great points to consider and certainly could be the reason Putin is going slowly.
Col Doug MacGregor’s numerous interviews will answer any questions. Putin only wanted the Donbas region filled with Russians who were being slaughtered by Ukrainian troops. He accomplished this mission early on and expected Zelensky to negotiate peace. Except the US/UK refused to allow him to negotiate ever! Our interference is the reason it has dragged on. Russia has been forced to change strategy and will crush the rest of the Ukrainian soldiers because they now have no choice.
Ya don’t need anti Tank Weapons to stop a Abrams Battion just some anti Fuel Truck Weapons
What is the carbon footprint by western nations on the war in Ukraine? How come no one is protesting this? The media, the greenies, Kerry, WEF, our government leaders, the advocates?
I thought The Jersey judge was persona non grata.
Seems he’s reconciled with The Donald!
Lockheed ready with F-16s as Kyiv allies revive debate over fighter jets
https://archive.is/qA9xS#selection-1407.0-1407.72
[Already] Several of Lockheed’s weapons systems have been playing key roles on the Ukrainian battlefield, including the high-mobility artillery rocket system (Himars), guided multiple launch rocket system (Gmlrs), Javelin missiles and the more recently provided Patriot missile defence system, including its accompanying PAC-3 missiles. The company has invested in their production ahead of contracts to replenish stockpiles from the US government that it is confident will come.
The American military industrial complex is far(!) too confident in its “Tom Swifty® toys.” Which actually have never been tested in “serious battle against a first-class opponent.” Hell, they haven’t even been that impressive against “desert bedouins!”
Funny thing about real war: “it never goes according to plan.”
I actually had someone tell me…oh no problem …US is doing good.
We spend a lot more in GDP!!
GDP is worthless for the comparison of arms and munitions.
Russia can build 2-3 tanks for the same amount of money we spend to build 1 tank.
They don’t have to pay enough to the manufacturer to make a profit ….and for them to give all the kickbacks to politicians!
Stock in a weapons manufacturer right now is blood money.
I would rather privately invest in bandages and band aids. 😁
Not sure why they honed in on F16’s because the F15 is a way better war fighting machine.
The F-16 is a better ground attack platform.
This is the end of your broadcast day in the CCCP.
WOW!!!!!! That made even ME feel patriotic!
From tanks, f-16s, mercenaries, ammo, etc. to this. Don’t rule it out.
Thanks, Boris!
You did a lot to us.
Surely Rishi with his immense personal wealth can sort this all out. 🙂
Did you see “Threads” by any chance? That has to be one of the most terrifying movies I’ve ever seen. It’s an old flick, but shows what can happen things escalate in a proxy war.
If Britain disappeared would the world notice?
“It’s just a matter of time and I bet NY will be first………”
FINALLY, some good news.
I hope they add Baltimore, Chicago, LA and Wash. DC to the list.
THAT would change the results of future elections.
In the beginning Col McGregor was certain this war would only last two weeks. He said that the Ukrainian army was not in same league as RUS army and it would be a bloodbath. His analysis was obviously very flawed.
I believe his credibility has been squandered. I don’t listen to him anymore.
Perhaps you would prefer to listen to streiff over at red state.
Saddam had Baghdad Bob. Zelensky has streiff.
Naah, streiff thinks Zelensky’s a POS too. Just that he trained his entire early life & career to fight the Soviets/Russia and he hates them/Putin worse. Virtually everything Streiff writes can be factually checked out. There are no good guys in this one…including the U.S. component.
He basically has the Russian and Ukraine troop KIA reversed.
He also doesn’t seem to understand there is a very good reason artillery is called the King of Battle and infantry is not.
Well, to be fair, that was what the Russians probably hoped for, as well. They “feinted” directly in the direction of Kiev, perhaps in hope that someone on the other side actually had some common sense. Unfortunately, they quickly realized that the people who actually were trying to negotiate had no real power to do so. (Any more that the so-called “negotiators” in Minsk had any actual determination nor power nor good-faith to keep their word.) That there were other players in the game who did not (and still, do not …) care in the slightest about any of the civilians on the ground.
But the Russians, who still describe this as “a civil war,” still apparently do care about Ukranians. They have not unleashed their full fury, in which “everybody dies, civilian and soldier alike.”
But they still can.
Why are we sending tanks(act of war) to Ukraine if Col. McGregor was wrong? Ukraine must be in some kind of pickle to need tanks from Germany and the USA, correct?
Russia has conquered 20% of Ukraine a country with the largest army in Europe and you think it’s faltered!
Uke KIA + MIA 155,000
Russia KIA 30,000
Putin expected Zelensky to negotiate peace. It would have been over in 2 weeks. It was our interference that stopped the peace talks. It is our interference that has dragged this on and on. It HAS been a bloodbath. 150,000 dead Ukrainians soldiers. I’ve listened to every one of Col MacGregor’s interviews and he has been spot on. I suppose you prefer to listen to the lies and propaganda of the Western media.
Etouffe.
Colonel MacGregor was not wrong.
Zelensky was at the negotiations table soon after it started.
Boris Johnson came in and stopped the negotiations.
Since then Russia has been battling NATO, UN and US.
Without the West propping up this madness….Ukraine would be at the negotiations table drawing up Terms of Surrender within a week.
And that just absolutely validated Sundance’s theory of ” World War Reddit”
Why is this man not our secretary of defense?
I have nothing against the Russians. I have everything against those in Washington, DC who ask others to bleed and die for their wishes, not Mr. Average, Reasonable American. My hunch is that Mr. Average and Mrs. Average American would want to be friends with Russians.
I believe those controlling Biden the puppet (read Obama/Clinton et al.) are evil and selfish, greedy to the max! I believe the recent elections have demonstrated to those who seek total control over we deplorables that they have corrupted the election process to such a point they can easily rigged most future elections.
I believe Mr. and Mrs. Average American needs a good bitch slap in order to wake up and even then it may take two or three such severe slaps .
I believe trouble times are here and they will get worse unless new leaders are elected who do represent the wishes of their constituents…a return to representative government.
When he was President, Trump had a meeting with Putin and came back and asked why we are not friends with him. These are 2 reasonable men who understood each other.
Col. MacGregor is always a great listen. He’s a very well informed war historian that tells it like it really is. He knows who the Communists are!
Europeans being against the war might be all that’s saving us. A lot of otherwise conservative people (a couple very vocal at my church) are flat braindead brainwashed about the plight of the poooor Ukrainians and the eeeeevil Rooskies.
I wonder if the Europeans are beginning to realize that “this thing called NATO” is simply screwing them? Putting them under the spectre of – yes – “World War 3” – caused by a nation half-a-planet away who once again will (probably) not pay the price?
Unless [conventional, we hope] missiles start bursting out of the ocean and landing on nearby American cities.
Judge asks, what is the western answer. Here it is:
If you start looking at scholarly websites, such as thepostil dot com (an online imprint of St. Augustine Press), you will uncover the fact that the blood-soaked history of this region – “brother against brother” – literally goes back thousands of years. Before the Tsars. To a grandson of Genghis Kahn. The things that Lavrov are saying … are “ghastly true.” Albeit completely alien to “western sensibilities.” He’s not making this stuff up . . .
I politely encourage this community to spend some serious time at this site. Go back into the fairly-recent archives … take your time … it’s all going to be entirely new to you, and you will be aghast at what you will read.
Treepers might also like a historical novel to orient themselves to the actors, who haven’t changed, it seems, over the past 80 years.
Germans know exactly what they are evoking in sending Leopard tanks to Ukraine, because they have sent tank armies there before.
Last Citadel: A Novel of the Battle of Kursk
August 26, 2003
by David L. Robbins
“Tigers and T-34s lock horns in this dramatization of the 1943 battle for Kursk, in southwestern Russia, the greatest tank battle in the history of armored warfare. In his fifth novel, Robbins (War of the Rats; The End of War) explores the maelstrom from the perspective of a rich ensemble cast. The Berkos are a family divided by politics: Dimitri Berko, the patriarch, is an old-school Cossack driving a T-34 under the command of his estranged son, Valentin, a fervent Communist; daughter Katya is a Night Witch bomber pilot. The Berkos square off against Luis de Vega, a Spanish captain fresh from Franco’s Blue Division, now in an SS tank brigade commanding the dreaded new Mark VI Tiger, a behemoth so heavily armored it is considered impervious to Russian guns. Caught in the middle of this is Abram Breit, a Nazi intelligence officer secretly funneling information to the Soviets. Separate plane crashes land Katya and Breit in the hands of the same Russian partisan band; meanwhile, Dimitri and Valentin are locked in suicidal combat with de Vega’s SS tanks and troops. Robbins’s writing might be tighter, but he livens his tale with striking incongruities: the final battle for Kursk takes place in a field of sunflowers. Serious WWII buffs may quibble with some of Robbins’s portrayals of battles, hardware and key figures. But the real story here is the duel between de Vega and Berko, both of whom are torn from their natural environments (de Vega from his bullfighting, Berko from his horses) by the war and made to serve ideologies that will destroy the ways of life they left behind.”
So many arrows pointing in one direction, it is no longer a matter of if but when, generational time clock points the end is a worldwide crisis.
I see Judge Napolitano, never-Trumper is rearing his ugly head again after being charged with molesting young men promising them careers. FOX dropped him shortly after. I love MacGregor but will not watch one minute of this hypocritical pervert judge. He’s just like the Lincoln Project, never-Trumpers with Weaver proven to molesting boys over decades and had to resign. He is NOT for our values, he is sick and a pervert and you should not be giving him any air time. They sneak in and really want their actions to become normal, that is why it is in grade schools now. Cya.
Anyone can be blackmailed, Hanna. Without weighing in on any actual allegations, “just ask Epstein how far you can go with that.” I’ll listen to what the man has to say. If he committed any crimes against young men, I fully expect them to one day catch up with him. Until then, I will reserve judgment.
Congress needs to start screaming about this before this fugazi,Biden gets us all nuked!!
Congress declares wars not the President. Congress holds the purse not one more dime!!!
These bastards are sending our young Americans to their deaths knowingly!!!
Scott Ritter has some good remarks on YouTube as well.
I’ve previously referred to the conflict in Ukraine as “Tony Blinken’s War”. I will stand by that, and add his cohort, Victoria Nuland, in the State Department.
The United States is really the ‘boogie-man’ in this conflict, as they use NATO to fight their battle for them.
The American people do not want a war with Russia, and their ‘bleeding hearts’ have been just about bled dry as Zelenski keeps coming back for more.
Ms. Nuland’s fight is personal. She is fighting some obscure ‘wrong’ done to her family by the former Soviet Union. Her retaliation, unfortunately, affects all of us — although we had nothing to do with it.
Remind me again — why are we fighting Russia?
You might need to look a bit wider than that.
Her husband is Robert Kagan. The Kagan familly run the Institute for War, one of the major NGOs around the money and Ukraine support in the US.
Weirdly enough Kagan is the hisitoric heredity title of the ruler of Kiev under the Kharzars when it was the kaganate state prior to the conquest by the Rus in the 11th century.
http://www.encyclopediaofukraine.com/display.asp?linkpath=pages%5CK%5CH%5CKhazars.htm
Seems a lot further back than the Soviets.
Even more tragic.
Persons who have either a personal agenda, and/or an historical agenda — should not ever be in a position of power.
Unfortunately, we have those who have thus.
Dual citizens.
US coups in eastern Europe > ROSE in Georgia, 2003 > ORANGE in Ukraine, 2004 > TULIP in Kyrgyzstan, 2005 > JEANS in Belarus, 2006 > GRAPE in Moldova, 2009 > MELON in Kyrgyzstan, 2010 > SNOW in Russia, 2011 > MAIDAN in Ukraine, 2014 > SLIPPER in Belarus, 2020 > NGO in Kyrgyzstan, 2022 > ZIO in Belarus, 2022
Thanks for that. Now start with the assassination the US has been responsible for…..
The tanks aren’t even built?
Ukraine must wait months to receive the 31 M1 Abrams tanks promised by the US because the Pentagon does not have enough of the critical vehicles in its own stockpile to send now, spokeswoman Sabrina Singh confirmed Thursday.
“We just don’t have these tanks available in excess in our US stocks, which is why it is going to take months to transfer these M1A2 Abrams to Ukraine,” Singh said, referencing the specific newer version of the tank the US will send.
White House officials warned Wednesday it could take up to a year before Kyiv receives the tanks that President Biden publicly pledged because they would be purchased new with Congressionally approved funds as part of the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative.
https://nypost.com/2023/01/26/ukraine-will-wait-to-get-american-tanks-amid-russia-war/
I think the US is just obfuscating on the number of tanks. They want to make delivery on the QT.
The M1 Abrams still has lots of Secret and restricted systems. The Ukrainians will get a tank with different armor and different fire control systems.
https://foreigndesknews.com/trending/m1-abrams-tanks-in-u-s-inventory-have-armor-too-secret-to-send-to-ukraine/
Is there anyone else beside myself that — like the stinger missiles we gave to the Mujahideen to fight against the Russians — these Abrams tanks we are sending to a not-entirely-democratic state might end up biting us in the end?
Heck,
When you add the Air Force that Biden gifted to the Afghanis to this battalion of tanks, we might find ourselves in a bit of hurt from our own weapons.
Biden tricked Scholz into sending Leopard-2s.
Schokz said he wouldn’t send his Leopards until the US sent Abrams. Scholz got punked.
Amateur.
Germany and most of Europe is run by Climate Change Idiots who have no clue what they are doing!
Those running the issue know exactly what they are doing . The idiots are those who swallow the garbage and vote them in to do their evil.
He is eierlos and needed bs he could sell his press so he could con the German people.
Actually it is the reverse. Scholz endured withering criticism for several days because he was pushing Biden to promise to announce a US tank delivery. As usual, Biden caved.
Joe took Corn Pop out….did Scholz think he was better that Corn Pop ???
Interesting, I just posted a thing about DT’s post. He seems to be very concerned about this. “First come the tanks, then come the nukes.” Maybe he’s talking about the ones from Europe. Gotta say 31 tanks don’t seem like a helluva lot. Seems like a drop in the proverbial bucket anyway.
However at some point I fear the Ukraine is going to do something to Russia with our assistance. This time Putin/Russia will not be able to let it slide. And things will escalate faster than greased lightning.
Zelensky yesterday started the demands for F -16s.
NATO countries are already starting the same game as with the tanks.
Stay tuned…
After seeing how FBI agents have padded their income by becoming representatives of foreign countries (and how they then still try to go after Trump administration officials), I wouldn’t be surprised if they replaced the depleted uranium armor with blocks of cash that could be removed and returned to the Biden family.
When the Russian’s see f-16s in the sky over ukraine – what is the next logic step for the Russians? Strike the airbase and logistics that support the f-16 strikes, of course. Whether that be in ukraine, poland or germany. The air component would be a major escalation.
I suspect that the actual purpose is to deplete US and allies stockpiles of weapons to where our forces are vulnerable. And to deplete them on a useless, fabricated premise of “Russian Aggression” on a border that is meaningless. That’s their play.
When China goes after Taiwan it means we cannot help — because we gave our arms away in Afghanistan and blew our arms up in Ukraine. Ukraine is just a continuation of the Afghanistan debacle and for the same purpose. But with improved money laundering and kickbacks to democrats in the swamp.
When it comes down to it, we don’t have the industrial base to make war material any more, most things are made in China or elsewhere. Essentially we’re a paper tiger, once the fancy shmancy stuff gets used up.
MacGregor: American can not win in defending Taiwan. Every war gamed scenario ever run has the US losing.
Well, in the modern age, what war has the U S ‘won’?
we have the most advanced, sophisticated weapons on earth, and we lose wars.
What’s the point? Our sons and daughters are killed and maimed, for what?
please someone out there, tell me what I’m missing here. I used to love my country. Before dark forces took it over.
I’ll try reply Ellie. At least I will take a shot at it. I think the original purpose was to protect our freedom.
but I now believe the some of the lesser known richest peoples on this planet do it to get richer. There is a cynical part of me that thinks every so often it thins out the herd as well. I think of WWI and WWII and remember the population of Germany each time was almost the same as it is now. Right before a big recession then depression world war breaks out.
Killed and maimed “FOR MONEY”
We go to war with politicians running the war. They have no idea what they are doing. W have not gone in with a mind set of “kill them all and let God sort them out”. You never fight without KNOWING you are gonna win. That is why we have screwed up in every war since and including Viet Nam. Others know much more that I do about this .
“a border that is meaningless.”
Unfortunately, it is a border that is meaningless to us, but it is of great consequence to the Russians…
Agreed. The Ukraine border is meaningless to us, though our southern border has been erased by the same group of malicious ghouls. The conflict in Ukraine has meaning for us because we are spending huge amounts of money there, but for nearly zero benefit for the US.
It was the threat of having another NATO country on its border that forced Russia’s hand, and it was the deliberate intent of the same malicious ghouls to kick off this war. I think Trump is again correct when he sees further escalation leading to global conflict. First tanks, then come the nukes.
There are plenty of GOPe-ers wetting their beaks in the graft watering hole, they are led by Miss Lindsey.
The Biden administration knew this but, because Germany said they would not send their leopard 2 tanks until the USA said they would send the Abram tanks the Germans are now on the wrong side of history, again and have been outsmarted by the Biden Administration. Germans should have said we will deliver our tanks after the USA delivers their tanks. Russia will now never, in the foreseeable future, supply Germany with Russian oil or gas. Exactly what the Biden Administration wanted. Biden administration always wanted the revenue from America supplying Europe with oil and LNG to keep our economy afloat. That was the goal all along!! Dumb Germans and also Polish people. Poland had better back off their hate for Russia or they will be run over in this war and again be under the boot of Russia.
Which is one reason for the sudden realization that gas stoves are a scourge on the land. We may not have much NG if we have to supply most of it to Europe.
So basically we are calling the Russians bluff and they aren’t bluffing.
Thanks, Joe!