Tucker Carlson sits down for a sobering discussion with Col Douglas Macgregor about the war in Ukraine and the current status of the conflict. {Direct Rumble Link}
As Carlson outlines the looming possibility that NATO is going to have to enter the war because the Ukraine military is slowing being degraded, Macgregor outlines the technical and strategic issues the U.S/NATO forces would have with a war in eastern Europe.
After outlining the strategic flaws and problems the U.S. would face in a direct confrontation with Russia, the discussion then shifts to ask the obvious question: What comes now? What are the goals and objectives for Russia, now? WATCH:
Every illegal getting over the border gets $2200 a month vs retirees getting on average $1400 per month.
Mind you that the $1400 is gross before the government starts pulling monies from it before you even see it.
Unlike other programs where people do not work and may never have worked, but average $87,000* per year with housing, food stamps (SNAP), medicare/aid, electricity, WIC, and allowed working hours that still enable full welfare.
And people wonder why they do not work.
My numbers are old and may be a bit out of date, but the government fraud never lessens.
No matter who makes such extraordinary claims, I always check them. That claim is false:
https://www.factcheck.org/2019/07/comparing-benefits-for-refugees-and-senior-citizens/
Also, his claim about the Javelin in Mexican cartel hands is also false:
https://apnews.com/article/fact-check-mexico-cartel-weapons-ukraine-us-668968778777
That said, I agree with his assessment of the war, his historical assessment of what led up to it and the actual reason for it as described at length in his other interviews, and about how it probably lead to the end of NATO if not in name then in reality.
And fact-check.org or Apnews is a reliable source for the truth ?
No.
Gee, I bet Snopes and Wiccapedia would also be reliable sources! 🙄
Respectively, you are referencing a 2019 article on refugees and senior citizens from a “fact check” article that works with Facebook. Find something a bit more credible and I might trust the source.
Hearsay.
Fact check dot org…..you mean the Russian hoax pushers? The covid hoax pushers? Masks work? The vaccine is effective? Joe didn’t do business with his son. That’s not Hunger’s laptop- it’s Russian disinfo….those are the people at fact check…I will now read it….is it truly a fact check or an opinion check on someone’s opinion?
Dreamers get a green card if they go to Kievnam.
“Immigrants w/ no ties to the US or the ability vote or have their families vote, makes it much easier to for the DC war machine to deploy our military to pointless, endless wars.”
1. Maybe refugees are not illegal, but many illegal aliens are getting across the borders. That fact check is so out of touch. They are not including health care and education. The money they receive is way more than claimed.
From the factcheck article: ” An internal report from the Department of Health and Human Services in 2017 estimated that the annual per refugee cost was $7,134 for federal, state and local governments combined between 2005 and 2014. Programs funded by the federal government were 74 percent of that total, so, on average, the federal government spent $440 per refugee, per month, during the study’s time period.” Just last week I saw a report on Newsmax about the Stratford Arms removing students and preparing the building for 400 illegals. Rent was $600/night per room. That doesn’t compare to the refugee cost of $7,134. Their numbers must be old.
What do they mean by “cost”? Are they calculating the cost of the agencies to manage the refugees? Meaning when an agency representative interacts with a refugee (such as processing their paperwork)? So they calculate the number of hours employees spend on that kind of work multiplied by the average salary then divide by the number of refugees to estimate cost per refugee?
If that is what they mean by cost then that statistic doesn’t have anything to do with how many benefit dollars are transferred to refugeex.
Every illegal is getting signed up as a ballot vessel, regardless if they vote. My opinion only.
The CBP One app is designed to help illegal migrants find sanctuary cities
https://rumble.com/v33pofj-chad-wolf-the-cbp-one-app-is-designed-to-help-illegal-migrants-find-sanctua.html
Is that in addition to their room, food, health care, laundry service?
So then … we have imported a whole new generation of UBI recipients? I’m so happy. Because that subsistence payment coupled with FREE Obamakkare … will allow these wonderful new citizens-in-waiting to practice there … “Art”. I expect a whole new generation of “Rap Artists” to arise.
I’ve been following Col MacGregor since before the war started, and he’s been pretty much right all along. Our leaders need to stop pretending and start facing reality if we’re going to avoid a wider conflict. Of course, that won’t happen as long as there are trillions at stake for everyone inside the beltway and in capitols across Europe, but they are playing a dangerous game.
I’m not a fan of Putin, but I agree with the colonel that we have misjudged and misinterpreted him for at least the last decade.
Did you watch the Oliver Stone Putin interviews? If not I recommend them.
Truth tellers are a threat to the matrix and regime.
Exactly! People like Tucker, Col MacGregor PDT are the biggest threat to the DC trash. Since the coup of 2020, can’t imagine the single event that will bring down this evil bs who are intent on destroying the US. Liars lie. There won’t be an audience for the garbage the swamp will attempt to spew when it all comes crashing down. Even the blind sheep will wake up at some point.
Perhaps we are getting close to the breaking point, or, simply a Book of Revelations type experience?
For a long time, Biblical scholars couldn’t point to a reason why the US didn’t appear to play a prominent role in end times prophecy. Sadly, the way things are going we may be experiencing the reason why.
Yet all the noise about Russia and China huh!
I’m not a threat to the matrix or regime.
Victoria Nuland Admits Washington Has Spent $5 Billion to “Subvert Ukraine” (2014)
Amen.
They were originally on Showtime I believe…after watching Mearsheimer a few times and Ukraine On Fire….I bought the series of 4 ….everyone should see them….
You should look up Mearsheimer’s article, published in The Atlantic back in ‘91 (I think) titled “Why We’ll Soon Miss the Cold War”. Pre-internet I think I hauled that article around for 20 years. Spot on. He was a guy to pay attention to when at UofC in the 80s—I was studying history at the little private Big 10 school on the north side—lot of his material made its way into lectures even then.
Here is a YT clip from last year –
https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxAs0HcDAkgwEiqdlHkncEUjRuj0H23J06
Along with the MacGregor interview makes for interesting and worrying listening?
Stone sounded like a self-absorbed knucklehead. Putin was giggling at his weak agitations.
Oliver Stone regrets voting for Burisma Bribem
“I made a mistake.”
breitbart.com/entertainment/2023/07/28/filmmaker-oliver-stone-regrets-voting-for-joe-biden-i-made-a-mistake/
I like Putin better than any American politician but Trump.
At least he looks out for his own people and backs up what he says.
Me too!!
Putin strikes me as being cool-headed, rational, patient, fearless, and protective. Yes, it is obvious he cares deeply about his country, its heritage, and its people. He is committed to defending and protecting them.
I watched The Duran’s Alex Christoforou’s news & commentary videos from Moscow and St. Petersburg recently. The cities are beautiful, so clean, spacious-feeling. And the subway stations are structures of art! The parks are laid out invitingly, with places for numerous activities, statues and monuments grace the walkways and sitting areas. No trash laying or blowing around.
My take on this was that here is a government that cares for its citizens. And in turn, the citizens respect homeland and their government.
And then there are all of the glorious churches, the Bolshoi theater, the Hermitage…oh golly what striking cities.
Pick a video 4-3 weeks ago, then move up to see more from walks in Russia:
https://www.youtube.com/@AlexChristoforou/videos
You can also view Alex’s videos at theduran.com.
There is a weekly flea market north of Boston in Rowley, Todd’s Farm.
A contractor cleaned out a house from a retired librarian from a prominent university.
The librarian was apparently a Russophile and I have subsequently discovered a wide ranging collection of 19th and 20th century Russian Art Book Collection.
God draws in crooked lines sometimes.
He was a guy I started paying attention to back when he became a Pentagon gadfly. While still in Army he became persona non-grata when he proposed taking the lessons from GW I and re-ordering the combat brigade structure and combined arms warfighting system. That broke too many defense contractor rice bowls and got him struck off the one star promotion list. Highly recommend his book “Battle of 73 Easting” where he was the planning officer and still is the largest armor battle fought since WWII. His analysis has been spot on since the start of this C-F.
That was one helluva armor battle that hardly no one knows of. Masterpiece in planning and execution.
Speaking of that war, I still feel Swarzkopf was our last great field commander.
Good book on the war and that battle called Crusade, by Atkinson.
Also been following MacGregor. I also recommend “The Duran” on Rumble or Paterion.
Duran! 🤙🤙
The civil war began with the Revolution of Dignity.
“The protesters in the (Kiev) Maidan found themselves in a war zone, enduring a brutal three-month siege in the dead of winter. They refused to back down, even in the face of death, and transformed the square where the protest began into an armed camp.”
–Joe Biden, Promise Me, Dad (2017)
“An anti-maidan movement formed in the city of Odessa in early January 2014”
https://rumble.com/vwyth2-the-odessa-fire-massacre-in-ukraine.html
I’m not a fan of any government official other than Trump. I believe that Vlad may be looked upon as the greatest statesman of the era. Not possible to know the truth of any of the mainstream views on him. As time goes by I believe them less. But look at Russia today, 30 years after it was at the brink, headed for dissolution. Russia went from beggar to the most consequential geopolitical power today. He may break NATO, without trying to.
There are more personal issues with donors motivating them to fund GOPe who are pro-war.
Tucker’s shocked expression is wearing thin. I’d love to see Tucker’s oft used shocked expression juxtaposed with Harold Ramis’s character’s startled expression in Stripes when listening to John Candy/OX explain his reasons for joining the Army.
I hope you took away more from the interview than Tucker’s expression, particularly since he spoke very little and let McGregor inform.
I watched the interview. MacGregor has a mastery of the English language. Extremely impressive for a former colonel in the US Army. I agree with 90% of MacGregors’s observations/opinions. I wish Dems and Never Trumpers would listen to his speech but unfortunately they refuse and instead shoot/blame the messenger which is Tucker. And don’t get me wrong, I admire Tucker. But Tucker’s shocked expression is often times annoying to me.
My recommendation then is: Get Over It.
You are using a logical fallacy: A shiny object that has nothing to do with the subject matter.
Close your eyes and listen because the conversation was really, REALLY GOOD.
It was spot on.
Shiny objects… like people I know that said “I don’t like Trump”… so when I poked them they’d answer along the lines of “I don’t like how he talks”.
BFD
So, I’d reply… “But, are you doing better today than before? Do you like what he DOES?”…
See.? Anyone can do the talk, few can do the walk.
Focus on what’s important…. keep your eyes on the ball. Do Not Get Distracted!
What’s important is getting more brainwashed Americans to listen to MacGregor. I’ve followed MacGregor on Fox/Tucker since before the Ukraine war started. Unfortunately, my liberal friends, family and acquaintances are simply repeaters of MSM lies and refuse to even watch anyone associated with Tucker because that’s what they’re told by the MSM. MacGregor’s wise counsel needs to be repeatedly heard and acknowledged outside our conservative echo chamber.
BTW, similar scenario with Victor Davis Hansen. The most logical on the left loved his grasp of the classics and ancient history until he endorsed Trump. Now those same leftists despise VDH and refuse to say his name.
That is not a Tucker problem. That is their problem.
Ukraine crisis: Leaked Nuland-Pyatt call (2014)
Nuland: So on that piece Geoff, when I wrote the note Sullivan’s come back to me VFR, saying you need Biden and I said probably tomorrow for an atta-boy and to get the deets to stick. So Biden’s willing.
I didn’t see the Tucker “shocked” expression. Tucker truly looked enthralled with what McGregor was saying, as I was also.
It annoys me too, because he already knows.
exactly.
Tucker is not Sundance. I am not sure what Tucker already knows. He spent years behind the curtain not seeing the truth. Tucker was reading the propaganda.
I found it annoying as well because he is at least generally aware of what he is hearing.
But what annoys me the most about Tucker is what I call his frat-boy laugh.
To hear it, watch Sundance’s post of the pre-interview Tucker did with the Serbian President (a couple of days ago).
All the other men were professional and respectful, but Tucker, wearing his “casual clothing” style, let out a hyena-sounding laugh more than once (and for what didn’t seem like good reasons).
I caught the laugh too, with serb pres.
My, My, such unimportant, shallow observations on viewing such important points.
Bless your little pea-picking heart.
The main problem is not everyone can meet the standards of the genius you imagine yourself to be. This is going to lead to life-long frustration.
The other problem is you feel such an urge to show how smart you are.
To save yoursef time and frustration, you might find the scroll key very useful when you deem a post to be beneathe your perusal.
Aren’t you just a delight? 😬
Yes.
Agree. If it annoys you don’t watch Tucker. It’s his show. His face. His laugh. His interview (which was excellent). Get your information from someone else if you don’t like his face or when he laughs.
Bunch of mean girls.
I am more alarmed that every time I see John Kirby speak, I can’t help but be reminded of William H. Macy from the movie Fargo. (lol)
🤣🤣🤣
Brilliant observation. 🤗
I love that laugh… it’s genuine. How about lightening up a bit?
Tucker’s laugh annoys me.
How about if you lighten up a bit? I just gave an opinion. It’s okay if everyone doesn’t agree with you.
Or are you a dem who feels that only you get to say who should think what?
Everything is about you? I, me, mine.
Yes, I was giving an opinion. My purpose was not to give an opinion for you or anyone else. So yes, it was “my” opinion.
If you like Tucker’s laugh, that’s fine with me. I don’t care what you think about his laugh, but I also get to have an opinion.
If you don’t want to read anything that you think is “bad” about Tucker, don’t read it.
But if you think your job in life is to tell other people what their opinion is, you are behaving like a dem.
Weak effort.
Try harder.
Respectfully, listen to the audio and shut off the video. You seem more concerned about facial expressions than content.
Time will tell
Why does Tucker refer to “the previous administration” instead of The Trump administration?? Maybe he’s deliberately trying to persuade more anti trumpers & Dems to open their minds to MacGregors wisdom??
We should know more tomorrow after the release of his interview with Trump.
🙄
I agree. I appreciated Tucker giving McGregor the floor and not interrupting him while speaking. I felt Tucker was processing what McGregor was saying. It is refreshing to watch an interview where the person speaking is allowed to talk without interruptions. I can’t watch Ingram or Hannity anymore.
He’s putting his life on the line to bring the truthtellers to international attention.
The truth is shocking.
“If no action is to be deemed virtuous for which malice can imagine a sinister motive, then there never was a virtuous action.”
–Thomas Jefferson to Martin Van Buren, 1824
I was shocked by what I heard and learned. I barely noticed Tucker. Probably because he is a good interviewer.
Tucker pre-intetviewed Col Douglas Macgregor before going on Twitter last night and he has interviewed Col Macgregor several times before on Fox. I think he knew everything that was going to be said and certainly wasn’t “shocked” at all!
“Lean mean fighting machine!”
I had the very same expression on my face (altho more feminine)… It was *disbelief*. You misinterpret for sure – it was DEEP CONCERN as to what he (and I) was hearing ( and more than likely believing)!!
Every follow up question asked by Tucker was urgently relevant and produced another trove of McGregor information. I could care less that the video Producer kept replaying Tuckers shocked eyes … it’s all about his INTERVIEWING skills.
People constantly trashing those bringing truth into light are also wearing thin. Very thin!
Hmm…. can we put the colonel in the White House somewhere of real importance?
perhaps Sec. of Defense in a 2nd Trump administration?
And what MIC controlled Senate would approve that?
Maybe a full roster of temporaries and if need arises move said between various agencies, departments etc. IF President Trump can get back in the Oval Office hopefully all niceties get SCd
ODNI, with Flynn Director of CIA.
No pretending in this interview and lots of calling out those that do.
He rightly perceives that the American people see through the charade of the Ukraine situation but we have no mechanism to effect the change in course needed. The change that would bring this about is Donald Trump.
Getting DJT back in office and demolishing the DS would begin to restore the power to the American people.
Dear Lord, please help us save our nation.
X1000
SOME of the people see through this charade, but many, if not most, still by into this BS, and can’t even admit that this is a proxy war.
I’ve heard many MacGregor interviews, but this one in particular highlighted, for me, the degree to which our politicians lie. It is absolutely disgusting. They lie about EVERYTHING.
Propaganda only works if people see it.
“We’re in the boredom killing business… we lie like hell…”
In addition, he accurately mentioned “a Republic”.
Sundance; Thanks for this interview. In-your-face Truth from a guy who has ‘been to War’, not some guy who has been overloaded with medals for ‘toeing-the-line’. Sobering and frustrating. Sincere thanks to you, Tucker, and Colonel MacGregor.
🇺🇸TRUMP/ MCGREGOR 2024🇺🇸
They would call him a Putin-loving coward for not wanting to fund the war.
Don’t care.
He articulated the view of this war that the vast majority of Americans have.
A winning message.
“President Trump is a peacemaker and there’s absolutely no money in peace. That’s why they are trying to take him down.
“We The People won’t let them succeed.”
https://truthsocial.com/@KariLake/posts/110934463926099398
So what. Their jig is up.
Why? Why do people keep doing that?
I am intrigued with Col. MacGregor’s claim that illegal immigrants crossing our southern border are receiving $2,200/month. Does anyone here have any concrete information that can back that claim? I would like to have something concrete to send to my representatives in Congress and to share with others. Among all the outrageous things that are going on in this country, if true, this would be near the top of the list.
I tried searching on line. The Social Security Adminstration estimates the average SS monthly payment to retirees is $1,701 in June 2023. The estimate changes monthly according to them.
Refugees, get upwards of $2,200. The government claims this is short term assistance (less than 5 years) to get them acclimated.
The federal government claims illegal immigrants are not eligible for federal welfare, food, or medical assistance but…
States may decide to provide assistance.
There may be one time payments or emergency assistance.
Illegal immigrants may be determined to be refugees.
The goverment makes it difficult to get a bottom line yes or no answer.
“We’ve overreached and are running on fumes.”
And this is why people would kill the prophets.
The left want to destroy Russia in part because it’s the last bastion on national identity.
He stopped a little short.
The reason why the West doesn’t want national identities… a global state, so to speak, is because the Western Oligarchs and Bankers (multinationals) want to control the entire World.
And the western fools are counting on the CCP to ‘ manage ‘ the chaos after they collapse everything. Useful idiots never understand their ‘ use ‘ and ‘ expiration date ‘ until their hanging from lamp posts, and all their possessions are confiscated. No honor amongst thieves.
And Christianity.
And despises the Neo Marxist Woke Agenda. ,”World War Reddit.”
And Putin seems to be the one man, more than even Trump, who can derail their plans.
Ukraine: “Fraud, deceit and criminality.”
“America last on every level.”
The Cassandra Paradox:
In Greek mythology Cassandra was a Trojan priestess dedicated to the god Apollo,
and fated by him to utter true prophecies but never to be believed.
Sundance, thanks for posting this interview. It’s very clear where we are militarily.
Great summary. I’ve watched a bunch of Col. MacGregor’s interviews. This one is worth watching.
I enjoyed how Tucker just let him speak. You barely noticed Tucker the entire time.
I’ve told people many of these same things about our military readiness. I’ve punctuated that if there is a world war, it will come DIRECTLY to the USA because the USA is the one STARTING and FUNDING it. And we’re not capable of defending.
“Shut up and don’t talk about politics….”
The very real threat to the life of every man, woman and child in this country is “politics” to these people. I don’t want to be right. But if I am, I’m going to have one of those “I told you so” smirks when I die.
What you said about the US starting and funding the war reminds me of the ending in the movie “Falling Down” with Michael Douglas. He goes through the whole movie as a “crusader” to right wrongs as he navigates across Los Angeles on his way home, but at the end Robert Duvall gets him to come to the realization and admit that “I’m the bad guy”. That’s what I have started to feel about our position in the world over the last decade or more.
One of my favorite movies
Mine as well, and I have to confess that for some of his encounters during the journey, I was rooting for him.
No force is going to cross an ocean and invade us. Not gonna happen. D-Day was a mission impossible itself, north american continent would be a 100 times harder.
After the soften us up with multiple nuclear strikes, and destroy all our satellites, and our entire electric grid utterly wiped out, it gets easier.
May not need multiple nuclear strikes. Thomas Sowell wrote an interesting essay during Obama’s admin. He postulated that if North Korea (or China) actually nuked a city on the west coast, Obama would quickly capitulate. The same applies to Biden.
Which is why, no doubt, that I’ve read that the Chinese, if they were going to make a move, would have to come before there is even a chance that President Trump wins – therefore it must be while creepy joe is resident.
They don’t need to invade the United States. They will conquer us without firing a shot
Have they not already?
They are invading us from within and are already here.
What is Catholic Charities assisting with?
Just about everything.
Missile technology has changed a lot since D-Day. We can’t shoot down a hypersonic missile. The power grid and major cities would be hit first and in the chaos that ensued the invaders could waltz in. War can definitely come to our shores.
Russia already has submarines stationed in the Atlantic and Pacific. A Chinese balloon buffaloed the Air Force as it crossed the continent. The war if it comes to that will be for destruction not invasion.
I’m not entirely sure they would need much of a force if they united and militarized the military age illegals.
Heck, the Dems want to use illegals as cops.
The force is coming in from Canada and coming from Mexico. The Chinese are crossing both borders every day.
“Our swollen budgets constantly have been misrepresented to the public.
“Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear – kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor – with the cry of grave national emergency.
“Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it by furnishing the exorbitant funds demanded.
“Yet, in retrospect, these disasters seem never to have happened, seem never to have been quite real.”
— Douglas MacArthur, July 30, 1957
Tucker let his guest speak unlike his former colleague Hannity
His long form interviews have always been very informative and great.
Wonder if Colonel Macgregor would be interested in a VP slot? His grasp of the various situations in which our country has screwed itself is very impressive and I think he could be a good, calm sounding board for Donald Trump…we had enough sycophants and backstabbers in the last Administration and it would be nice to know there was someone in there offering serious advice with no ulterior motives!
I’d vote for him.
Secretary of Defense. VP is not much in our gov’t.
Pays very well, though.
Biden can attest to that fact.
Apologies for getting hung up in moderation. I think I solved the problem…
I hope President Trump picks the strongest America First person for ‘28 also. Don’t need another weasel in the waiting
He’d be under utilized as VP.
DHS would be interesting. I think that position comes with a badge and subpoena power. When Kris Kobach was being stonewalled with his voter registration program, he turned it over to DHS Kirstjen Nielsen; as I recall, that was becuase she had subpoena power backed by DHS agents. Nielsen put the files in her circular file cabinet.
I like him, he tells truths. His message may or may not benefit from more focused communication and political insights if politics are his endeavor.
“It’s a very mean life.” – 45
July 24, 2016 – Bill Kristol at The Weekly Standard published “Putin’s Party” article, asserting Trump was pro-Putin, anti-Ukraine, anti-NATO, and including in salacious allegations Paul Manafort, Michael Flynn, and Carter Page. Kristol included “These indications provide sufficient grounds for Trump’s links to Putin to be further investigated.”
Manafort: Biden warned the former Ukrainian President against prosecuting his opponents
https://rumble.com/v361w5l-paul-manafort-biden-warned-the-former-ukrainian-president-against-prosecuti.html
This is an excellent interview. Tucker’s departure from Fox was a good thing.
Col. Douglas MacGregor needs to be in President Trump’s next administration.
Win win
Amazing/ disturbing interview ( have heard him before in shorter segments with former Fox guy Judge Nap). – I’m just stunned by the Ukrainian casualty numbers he cited (those are WW1, in the trenches ,type numbers ) ..
BTW interesting his notion that Putin is essentially a Russian MAGA type ( didn’t use those words ) -with the goal to “Make Russia Great Again” ..
Actually I sort of came to that same conclusion when visited the restored St Petersburg ( that was his hometown , renamed Leningrad after Revolution ) a few years ago, with beautifully restored pre Revolution Churches and palaces etc ( churches that had been turned into derelict potato warehouses etc during the hard core communist days) There had been a major restorative effort undertaken there ( with goal of attracting tourist $$ via cruise ships destination which succeeded)
I also think of Putin as an effective nationalist. He got rich and powerful, but he has also helped the Russian people
Putin restores churches, the Biden gang et al burns them down.
And Zelinsky attacks the church also.
/Putin is essentially a Russian MAGA type/
Vladimir Putin interviewed by the Financial Times | FT
“You really are on the same page as Donald Trump.” (@time = 1h24m34s)
Once you understand that, you can see what the Globalists/Soros are up to. There is/was a concerted effort to get rid of Trump, Putin and Xi. Sovereign nations have to be eliminated for globalism to work.
Putin is a nationalist. There are several videos of him calling out the WEF.
That’s a big reason they need him gone. Russia could fill the power vacuum should the WEF achieve their goals in the US.
Neocons Panic As Trump-Putin Meeting Could Mark Close Of Syrian Proxy War
https://www.newswars.com/neocons-panic-as-trump-putin-meeting-could-mark-close-of-syrian-proxy-war/
I am glad to see sundance recognizing Colonel Macgregor, he is a breath of fresh air in a smelly climate. This interview does seem dark but perhaps it is the truth. I urge all of you to watch Judging Freedom with Judge Napalitano, he has amazing guests on that counter the leftist media drivel and propaganda.
I have never heard the Colonels’ statement about illegals getting $2400 a month before but if true it should have every American calling their representative and demanding that money be sent to retirees who have worked their whole lives, are getting killed by Bidens inflation and are getting less than a border crosser!
That is not going to happen.
https://www.theepochtimes.com/epochtv/major-warning-given-on-social-security-checks-facts-matter-5476156
I like Colonel Mac. He’s pretty much spot on everything accept I think he underestimates China’s threat. But totally on the money regarding Russia/Ukraine.
It was not China that shipped my job and factory to Shenzhen, but the US State Dept, US Chamber of Commerce and NAFTA loving Uni-Party. China just said “we will be happy to take what you don’t want”. Now the US State Dept tells me I will have to go fight China to get my job back? In what world? The CCP has always been hostile to the West, but we gave them the tools to make that threat real. If Blinken, Sullivan and Nuland were in charge in the 1930s, they probably would have offered Hitler the bomb, with 10% for the Big Guy. (sigh)
That is what DJT constantly points out… BTW … stupid and self defeating US policies.
Problem is, Macgregor hasn’t been right about anything thus far….
He certainly has been right! Russia has conquered 25% of Ukraine and inflicted massive casualties on the Ukrainian Army plus one third of the Ukrainian population has left the country never to return. Putin never wanted “own” Ukraine he only wants it de-militarized which is what he’s doing.
I was basically going to say the same thing. His predictions about what Russia would do next have been consistently wrong.
“His predictions about what Russia would do next have been consistently wrong” according to the msm which I watch”. There, fixed it for you.
What the heck are you babbling about? I don’t even watch television.
I think hes wrong on these accounts because hes probably looking at it from an American commanders point of view. No one but those in the highest offices of the Kremlin knows what their goals are.
This is true. I always mark when people make predictions and his have not come to pass.
Troll alert!
They used to get paid by the word. Now, I read, they get paid by the number of responses to their posts. And the more outrageous the post, the more responses might be elicited. That’s why I’m replying to you, and not to Bth:)
He has been ok, but he hasn’t quite been totally reality checked about the ineptitude of the US MIC.
Larry Johnson,
Andrie Martyanov
Simplicius
Big Serge
a number of others who have sources and outlooks closer to the conflict are better
I agree that they all provide better analysis and make better predictions. Unfortunately, pointing this out caused someone to call me a troll.
Listening to these two it would seem that being right is not a pre requisite for the US Army these days …..
https://www.c-span.org/video/?514537-1/senate-armed-services-committee-hearing-afghanistan-withdrawal
Problem is, Took a trip to Ukraine, now I’m high on this plane…
Zelensky Tells Ukrainians: No Parties, Grab a Gun and Head to the Front
https://rumble.com/v37zh9o-zelensky-tells-ukrainians-no-parties-grab-a-gun-and-head-to-the-front.htm
General Petraeus? Is that you?
Considering we have a military which focuses on preferred pronouns nonsense, will not deploy transgenders, creates division with critical race theory and it cannot meet its recruitment goals, the chances of or winning a war against a formidable enemy do not appear great. The arrogance of the woketards running the Pentagon who appear to want a war is utterly amazing
China has no pregnancies on their Navy ships.
“Tryna Stay Woke, So I Stay On That Dope…”
God help us!
Col. McGregor should be on every news/opinion broadcasts 24/7! WAR is bad!!!
Essentially: Our ship has hit an iceberg.
Some people chose to be in denial.
More money can be made in one day of war than in a year of peace. General Smedley Butler wrote a book in the 1930s war is a racket . His basic premises was most wars have nothing to do with protecting national security but protecting corporate interests.
Prior to WW 2 the US didn’t have a permanent armaments industry which is why auto makers were recruited to make military jeeps and planes. Have a dedicated armaments industry was a post war development.
ymmv
Wall Street and the Bolshevik Revolution
The objective of going to war is to declare a national emergency and suspend the elections indefinitely.
The goal is to insure that Trump never ever gets to be President again.
Lots of side benefits too – openly censor the media, nationalize the steel and weapons production industries, disarm the citizenry, outlaw opposition parties and all the other Commie wet dreams.
The only thing Orwell got wrong was the year.
“openly censor the media”…. Kindly point out examples of this. (other than the Internet media)
The news media gets “talking point” memos every day. They know what they are allowed to say and what they aren’t!
Before Orwell there was WE.
More money is made in one day of war than in a year of peace.
Qui Bono.
See Mike Rivero’s All Wars Are Bankers Wars–they have used war to enslave nations with debt.
This is a very good interview and Tucker is much better on his own that limited by FNC.
The colonel is running on all cylinders here, he hit all the bases, for sure! This is definitely a link to share with people.
Hopefully they’ll sit down and listen to it.
In my lifetime, since WWII, America has “decided” to be governed with politics instead of intellect. Politics and intellect is diametrically opposite when it comes to maintaining a safe, secure and prosperous country for this generation and many more to come. Instead, we’ve suffered thru almost constant warfare, enormous cost of “defense” spending, sky-rocketing welfare costs and a crumbling social order of the citizens; all because the politicians took the easy way out and gave the whiners everything they could dream up. That game is coming to an end.
WITHOUT SERIOUS COURSE CORRECTION, AMERICA WILL BURN AWAY IN THE HELL-FIRES OF RADIATION AND NUCLEAR HOLOCAUST!
For Gods sake, we need intellect to govern America!.
The lost ‘science’ of Critical Thinking.
I miss people like Col McGregor being in charge. The real adults.
We were winning not long ago. I miss winning.
Me, too. I am absolutely certain that Trump could have supercharged our economy and a plan for the debt could have been made. I personally would like to see Americans produce 100% of our consumables domestically.
Frankly – Trump simply doesn’t have enough TIME to fix all of this. Four years wouldn’t be enough to IDENTIFY all the departments, procedures, plans, and programs they have broken.
Scorched earth and then rebuild from scratch. I guess that’s the plan all along, right?
I’m in mourning.
So the bottom line is before the last Ukrainian soldier is killed by the Russians Biden with the support of Congress will begin feeding our soldiers to the Russian meat grinder for the sake of Democracy???!!! Billions wasted on corruption and for the losing Ukraine war effort and Thursday President Trump get arrested by a radical leftist county DA for what? Watch for Col Macgregor to become a target of Lawfare and the corrupt leftist msm! Unbelievable!!!
Arrested for threatening to expose and interrupt the uni-party’s power and cash flow.
the American “trans” guy is shocking to me. (approx 47:00 in video). col. macgregor stays clear of this (maybe for good reason). can anyone tell me why Ukraine would want to use a “trans” spokesperson from America to bad-mouth Russia. what benefit is there in using a “trans”?
They are showing the woke class in the United States and Europe that Ukraine is on board!
Rather, in charge.
Douglas Macgregor has a deep and sonorous voice and is highly intelligent and knowledgeable — he talks a great game but I’m long past believing him. There’s a reason people retire from the military as a colonel — they weren’t deemed fit to make general officer. The man is flawed.
From the outset of the invasion (it’ll be two years in February) Macgregor has been exclaiming the invincibility of the Russian army. Even now he tells us the Russians are on the verge of a breakthrough and will run rampant all over the caucuses.
But it’s the Ukrainians who have the initiative. The Russians are trying to hold on — they’re certainly not winning.
Who will prevail? Whichever side perseveres. The Ukrainians are motivated and most of their soldiers are as well. The Russian soldier’s morale is in the pits.
It took 3 years for the tsar’s army to revolt in 1917 — Putin can’t keep this up forever.
The real question for this group is: what’s in the interest of the west (US et al)? The answer is as much treasure as necessary to end Russia’s aspiration to empire — BUT NOT BLOOD. So long as it’s the Ukrainians doing the fighting (and our boys and girls are not), let it continue as long as Ukraine has the will to fight. We’re doing this on the cheap (but Europe needs to up her game — and open their wallets).
Making General is a political game that he likely was unwilling to play. As for how the war is truly going I doubt hardly anyone knows. Too much PSYOP in this whole conflict and too many folks believing their own PSYOP for there to be any real truth known.
“The Ukrainians have the initiative”
You’re watching way too much CNN! The Ukrainians are being slaughtered by the tens of thousands! Do you remember the “leaked” CIA and DOD Documents from six months ago by the 20 year old Massachusetts National Guardsman? The CIA admitted that the Russians were killing Ukrainians at an 8 to 1 ratio. It’d been even worse since then probably 10 to 1 now.
It’s always amazed me how stupid the Leftist news media thinks we are!
The reason he didn’t make General is because he doesn’t kiss ass. This is plain to see with how open and honest he is about the entire Ukraine situation in particular and the state of the West in general.
The top jobs in the military are all political. There are very few, if any, top brass who got where they are by being competent. If you’re career military or career civil service you know for a fact that being too competent is a liability not an asset. This is why McMaster, his protege, got promoted above him, because he was better at kissing ass.
My wife’s parents had a close friend who served in the “JAG” corps – the Army’s lawyers – and who earned several very high military citations for his legal work. He attained the rank of full Colonel and served well more than “twenty years.” He truly loved the military, as did his son, who retired as a Major.
They say that he was offered the rank of General and politely declined it. He wanted to continue doing what he did best until retirement, which he then proceeded to do before then becoming a Federal [Administrative Law] Judge. He had “found his element,” and he was happy and successful. (He also received accolades from his peers for his time as a Judge.)
“Stars” didn’t matter to him. Had he accepted the promotion, his responsibilities would have considerably broadened and become less focused, and he simply didn’t want that. His choice. (Sigh … I do miss that gentleman. One of a kind …)
How many years did you serve in the military?
My observation is that the arze kissers made General. Those who remained at the rank of Colonel may have stalled because they held fast with integrity.
Ukraine’s army is running out of men to recruit, and time to win. Victory may be in sight for Vladimir Putin
How the gung-ho, war-drum beating Daily Telegraph is gently breaking the unbelievable news today to its cognitively dissonant readership.
Source: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/22/ukraines-army-is-running-out-of-men-to-recruit/
Very simply, “victory” for the Ukranian Army is impossible. The very-improbable ruling junta was placed into power in 2014 and presented with “an offer that they couldn’t refuse” but should have. The NATO/USA/EU powers that put them there confidently thought that they had built “the mother of all proxy armies.” But the subsequent events merely demonstrated that “they didn’t have an actual clue.”
They will very simply be forced to surrender on Russia’s terms. (Which actually will not result in Russia “conquering ‘Ukraine’ as we now know it.” Those boundaries are completely artificial.) Every one of Russia’s stated objectives will be accomplished, and that will be that.
& you get your info where?
Considering Milly and Levine types, my guess is the Colonel would thank you for the compliment
So which military industrial complex sub-contractor do you work for?
Norman- Douglas MacGregor should be addressed as Col. Douglas MacGregor, he’s earned it. “Stars” on one shoulder does not make a man more knowledgeable. Many in our armed services have declined a higher rank when offered for their own reasons. I don’t know where you’re getting your information from (although I’ve got a pretty good guess), but we do have Americans fighting along with the Ukrainians not wearing our uniform. Blood is being spilled on both sides. This war needs to end now.
So, is Tucker interviewing Trump or not?
Tomorrow.
Russia, and China for that matter, are outside the control of the world banking cartel, therefore they must be destroyed.
The world banking cartel, energized by Satan, will not stop their evil ways until The End.
I’ve watched many of Colonel Douglas MacGregor’s interviews, and they have all been very informative & filled with common sense. He pulls no punches, and just tells it ‘like it is’.
So, kudos to Tucker for this interview, as this will certainly give Col. MacGregor a much wider audience — which is desperately needed.
I’ll add an additional video to this thread, and that is an expose’ of Victoria Nuland by Glenn Greenwald. (The video is 1 hr. 20 minutes in length.)
“Unmasking the Destructive Career of Neo-Monster Victoria Nuland. Now, Second-in-Command of Biden’s State Department”
https://rumble.com/v37gwwo-system-update-130.html
The title of the video is quite apt, as ‘Neo-Monster’ she is. And I hope that more spotlight is shone on this monster who is Victoria Nuland.
I’ll also add another video, time-cued to 15:32
I didn’t pay enough attention during the Kosovo bombings under Clinton so I’m happy to find sources that help me catch up
Col Douglas has the perspective that the Clinton Administration lackeys had a clear anti-Serb and pro-muslim bias and were intent on forcing the parties to “live together in some multi-cultural wonderland that was to be the new order of things” … rather than partition into autonomous mini-states where each would feel unthreatened and had no resentment over being governed by people who were not like them
multi-cultural social engineering that has only blossomed more since then
f*ckin’ Democrats
Thank you.
“live together in some multi-cultural wonderland that was to be the new order of things”
One thing I can personally add, a relative of mine was in Iraq as a contractor — installing fiber networks.
His opinion is that there would never be ‘peace’, as the U.S. is trying ‘to herd’ different tribes to live together.
His comments reminded me of what the U.S. did to the American Indians, and now we’re watching the Globalists do the exact same thing on a world-wide scale.
She has been wrong every single time yet still gets promoted!
I have serious doubts about an America that cannot define the difference between a man and a woman winning a war against a Russia that DOES know the difference between the two.
Advantage: Russia
I can picture Putin and his senior staff, shaking their heads and saying, in Russian, “You can’t fix stupid in America.”
Not just that, but they go into PTSD-esque episodes when you use the ‘wrong’ (read: right) pronouns. How are they ever going to defeat a Russian army that doesn’t care about respecting their pronouns, they want to f***ing kill them
I have been watching Tucker Carlson for over 30 years and I have never seen him completely stunned by the words of his guest. Tucker’s expression is beyond just concern and worry, I believe it is one of fear. Colonel MacGregor has been a patriot his entire life and I listen when this man speaks. We are doomed and there will be warfare on our soil if this Quixote quest in Ukraine continues. I fear for the future of my grandchildren.
The nicest thing about Tucker, as opposed to way-too-many “talk show hosts,” is that he poses a question and then seriously listens. He “shuts up.” He never “talks over” his guests – never interrupts them to make another one of his points. The next question that he asks will reflect what he just attentively heard. I think that this is one reason why Tucker continues to be so very successful and influential. He is professional and a gentleman.
Blackrock is one of, if not the major player in all of this. Larry Fink is one evil bastard. Blackrock was caught on tape talking about how “war is good for business”. So how many times do they get to run the same play being run for centuries, until it’s called out??!! I’d love to put Fink on the front line and see how good war is from that perspective. Nothing new under the sun.
The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought sooner or later is the people versus the banks.
— Lord Acton
Yes, exactly. That’s it!!!
We have what is known as the Federal Reserve Bank System. That system is not owned by the Government. Many people think that it is because it says “Federal Reserve.” It belongs to private banks, private corporations. So we have farmed out to the Federal Reserve Banking System that which is owned exclusively, wholly, one hundred percent to the private banks—we have farmed out to them the privilege of issuing the Government’s money!” — Wright Patman[John William Wright Patman](1893-1976) US Congressman (TX-D) (Source: Congressional Record (29 Sep. 1941)
Also liked the insight from this Nobel prize winner:
“The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today. Starting with nothing whatever of their own, they have got the whole world into their debt irredeemably, by a trick. This money comes into existence every time the banks ‘lend’ and disappears every time the debt is repaid to them. So that if industry tries to repay, the money of the nation disappears. This is what makes prosperity so ‘dangerous’ as it destroys money just when it is most needed and precipitates a slump. There is nothing left now for us but to get ever deeper and deeper into debt to the banking system in order to provide the increasing amounts of money the nation requires for its expansion and growth. An honest money system is the only alternative.”
— Frederick Soddy(1877-1956) British author, professor, Nobel Prize for Chemistry, 1921
Sir Josiah Stamp, Director of the Bank of England in the 1920s – Bankers own the earth. Take it away from them, but leave them the power to create money and control credit, and with the slick of a pen they will create enough money to buy it back again. Take this great power away from the bankers and all great fortunes like mine will disappear, for this would be a better and happier world to live in. But if you want to continue as the slaves of bankers and pay the cost of slavery, let them continue to create money and to control credit.
https://www.winterwatch.net/2020/11/william-jennings-bryans-motto-do-not-compromise-with-plutocracy/
“The Money Power preys upon the Nation in times of peace and conspires against it in the hour of its calamity. It is more despotic than Monarchy, more insolent than Aristocracy, more selfish than Bureaucracy. It accumulates by conscious fraud more money than it can use. It denounces as public enemies all who question its methods or throw a light upon its crimes. It can only be overthrown by the awakened conscience of the Nation.” – William Jennings Bryan, New York Reception, 1906
Yes, thanks for calling him out–he works for the banking oligarchy!
People don’t understand the monetary system (didn’t Henry Ford say, if the American people understood the monetary system, there would be a Revolution the next day?), so I think that’s how they get away with it. And most don’t know real history–most of what we are taught is propaganda and agreed upon lies. If they told the truth about the wars and who really benefits, then nobody would sign up to fight and die for their wars!
This is essentially “it” in a nutshell ( except for how the 2020 election was stolen and our nation overtaken by a criminal organization). Macgregor is a straight shooter who tells it like it is. It’s a travesty that a man of his caliber is not our secretary of defense or our director of national intelligence. He also opined in an earlier and different interview that we may not get to a 2024 election. I would agree with that likelihood. I encourage everyone to follow him whenever and wherever he speaks.
What I didn’t hear addressed when discussing the weakness of our military is what has been done to our serving troops by injecting them with a DoD biopoison which is, from all accounts, devastating the health of men and women in uniform.
Has Russia poisoned their troops?
No.
Fighting fit? No more.
The Empire of Hate and Lies…and Death…and Ineptness…and rank Stupidity.
The day the Military Industrial Complex and its partner, the US Government (yes, I know…a redundancy) start sending our young men and women into the swirling cauldron of corruption and (per Colonel MacGregor’s question about missing children) debauchery, is, I hope, the day of massive protests by Americans who remember Vietnam and every other failed military busy body deadly intervention since.
I’ve been listening to the good and knowledgeable Colonel for a long time. As succinct a summing up of where we are being led by incompetent ideologues with massive egos and their deep pocket corporate pay masters as I’ve ever heard.
We are being led into destruction by evil men and women who will never have to pay for it in terms of the blood of their families, but who will get richer from the profiteering off the back of every single drop spilled.
Thank you, Colonel, for your assessment.
Thank you, Tucker, for giving him the platform and the time…and for letting him speak, instead of interrupting.
And thank you, Sundance, for posting this interview so that, please God, Americans who walk in ignorance of what is going on might listen, learn, and understand that the era of the US as a moral force for any good whatsoever is over…and has been for a long time.
Lord have mercy.
The main question is whether Macgregor is deluded, or being paid by Russia. The guy was an innovative thinker with a strong military record – I read Breaking the Phalanx and thought it had several good ideas – but around 2013 he began to go off the deep end, and by 2014 he was appearing on Russian tv shilling for the regime. Five years later he had gone full gonzo.
MacGregor has been predicting the Ukrainian Army’s total collapse since February 25th 2022
Since then they liberated over half of Russian-occupied lands, killed 150-200K Russians, and even bombed targets inside Russia
The slow but steady counter-offensive (without proper airpower) has so far liberated 18 towns and villages and has made Russian life in Crimea untenable.
Why Tucker is wasting his time with this clown is a mystery.
Probably because he tells him what he wants to hear.
“Truth is the first casualty of War.”
One hundred percent of what you hear – from either side including your own – must be automatically regarded as propaganda of one form or another. This is expected and necessary: every war has both a “battle” front and a “home” front. It has always been this way and it always will be. “Think accordingly,” and bring your salt-shaker with you at all times.
“Factual information about battlefield conditions” is a high-grade military secret, although a very temporal one, that is never disclosed lightly.
& you know this how?
Wrong
In 1941/42 Hitler was at the gates of Moscow, Leningrad, Stalingrad, the Suez Canal, and planted a flag on Mount Elbrus in the Caucuses. Japan, likewise was the master of South East Asia and most of the Pacific. However, the only thing that mattered was casualty/loss rates, industrial production and the overall correlation of forces. What Macgregor is looking at is the latter.
That slow counter offensive liberated 18 towns/ villages with no strategic significance. Theyre still in the security zone/ gray zone/ no mans land. They havent hit the first line of defence yet after two months while incuring tens of thousands of caualties and the loss of thousnads of tanks, APCs, IFVs, looted civilian vehicles, and artillery pieces.
Did you forget:
The “leaked” CIA and DOD Documents from six months ago by the 20 year old Massachusetts National Guardsman? The CIA admitted that the Russians were killing Ukrainians at an 8 to 1 ratio. It’d been even worse since then probably 10 to 1 now.
It’s amazing what people forget!
They dont forget. They pretend not to know in an effort to push a narrative.
My husband and I come from families that have defended this United States of America for over 200 years in the Army, Navy and Air Force. On foreign land, air and the sea and at home in the Civil War. Listening to Col Douglas MacGregor describe where we are today, I hear my dad’s voice echoing in my ears God rest his soul. He always warned about the blood lust that occurs when politicians get involved and the fight moves from defending our people to making money at the expense of those we say we are liberating from their oppressors. Long ago we became the oppressor in the name of democracy.
Sadly I think the only thing that will “wake us up” is when we can no longer defend ourselves. Sadly it sounds like we are at that
tipping point.
What made President Trump one of our best Presidents – he believes in strength through peace, strong economics and a secure border. I am glad MacGregor called out the Neocons, the graft and cronyism of the political military of today.
We thank you and your family members for their service to us all. 🇺🇸
Semper Paratus!
Semper Fi!
We are always ready to defend and protect. 🇺🇸
Everything Operation Biden has done has made us weaker. Started with draining the oil reserve, the open border, his surrendering $85 billion worth of weapons to the enemy, his incredibly stupid war, his degradation of the armed forces to his disgraceful abuse of his office. The ultimate victim of his war in Ukraine is going to be the United States and it’s intentional. Something has got to give and soon.
Liked the interview, but…..(and I’ll gladly accept sound advice), I’m word weary. After awhile it all just sounds like an old Norelco shaver to me. Let’s just fast forward to the inevitable physical fight.
General McGregor’s assessment of the current state of our military is going to keep me awake until all hours.
I watched an interview with him yesterday by Patrick Bet-David on Valuetainment. The general believes that a financial collapse is coming and that this is the real “reset” we need even if we don’t want it. It’s depressing but I’m afraid he’s right. They (Congress and it’s enablers) won’t always be able to kick the can down the road to keep up this facade. The well is going dry.
He said we’re going to go off into he abyss, and to my mind the great question is who gets to determine what happens then. The people who brought us to the abyss are planning on continuing to control us. I hope they hang instead and this country has the consolation of knowing that our sufferings will bring a better day.
Col. MacGregor is a force for clarity.
Our government has lost its legitimacy. That’s what happens from decades of legalized bribery. Good example using Christie out there whoring for war for absolutely no benefit to our country. They have no shame, but they do have lots of blood on their hands. I can’t believe Nuland is still in business after all she has done.
If you want a more in depth look at that, I suggest this interview, between Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer and Col. Douglas Macgregor. What makes this interview different is that Macgregor does not have to dumb down anything for the interviewer, it is just two high ranking US officers talking shop, so they really get into the problems.
Is the Outcome of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict Preordained? – with Col. Douglas MacGregor
Then, if you are still interested, check out Andrei Martyanov’s book: “Losing Military Supremacy: The Myopia of American Strategic Planning”
And the end of the interview sums it all up. When the “transgender” American-Ukrainian “Military Official”(?) speaks of Putin’s blood dripping fangs … in imagery creepily similar to the blood dripping fangs painting of John McCain during the 2008 Presidential election. Yes, this is a proxy War against Nationalism, against Christianity, against Biology, against … reality. Hence the “truth” of the war has to be posted on Reddit. No reporters allowed on the ground. There is no Free Press in the landmark “Democracy” of Ukraine. No … this is the FIRST LGBTQqAI2s+/- WAR against Christian heteronormativity… it’s a WAR for gay and deviant sex. A WAR for child sex.
How far has this nation FALLEN?
All I can figure is that the tranny spokesperson and the rest of our war monger Neocon Govt must believe that the US DOD has a new secret weapon/death Ray of some sort to overcome MacGregor’s long list of plausible, US military weaknesses.
Our people are looking for a fight, they need a war that, at least looks like someone else started, Russia is playing Rope a Dope defense and bleeding the west slowly. While the boys in DC play video war games, the reality that there are no power buttons for human life.