Posted on 03/16/2022 8:06:01 AM PDT by Rennes Templar
Watch the video (at link), the host gets more disturbed with each comment coming from colonel.
MacGregor reminds me of officers I served under while in the USMC. They are mission-driven and could care less about opinions outside the theater of war.
Long before this Russia/Ukraine conflict started he predicted the onset of it. His prediction came at the beginning of this year.
He argues that the United States teaming up with NATO to push Putin into a corner and that’s one of the major things that has started this conflict.
Back in January of 2022, The Gray Zone reported that Col. Doug MacGregor, an ex-Pentagon advisor, on how the US war lobby fuels conflict from Ukraine to Syria. Washington, DC, he says, is “occupied territory. It’s occupied by corporations, by lobbies.”
“The Military Industrial Congressional Complex,” Macgregor says, “seems to be more powerful than anyone who occupies the office of the presidency.”
Here is what he predicted would take place:
First of all, the problems in Ukraine are not new. We’ve been dealing with them for the last, I would argue, 10 to 15 years. These problems were evident in the 1990s when the former Soviet Union fragmented into various states. The current borders of Ukraine never made a great deal of sense because Ukraine is essentially a multi-national state.
You have in the east, that is beyond the Dnieper River, to the south down to Odessa on the coast, what is really a Russian population. The rest of Ukraine is actually historic Ukraine. It goes back to the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and that part of Ukraine is inhabited by true Ukrainians in terms of ethnicity as well as culture and language. Putting this together has always been problematic, particularly because Ukrainians have wanted to turn the Russians into Ukrainians.
The Russians aren’t terribly excited about that prospect and have complained bitterly about it. And Putin, from the very beginning of his presidency, tried to make it clear to anyone who would listen that there were certain things that he would not tolerate as the Russian head of state, and one of those was that Ukraine become a member of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.
He also had concerns about the EU because that was seen as another mechanism with which to integrate Ukraine into the West.
Then finally he became very concerned about the plight of the Russians. Crimea has historically never [been] part of Ukraine and has been part of Russia since 1776, and so he was anxious to relieve that burden on the Russians in Crimea by driving the Ukrainians out, and he did that in 2014. But he also wanted to ensure that we understood that we were never going to be able to use Crimea—the Crimean Peninsula—and the ports on the Crimean Peninsula for NATO naval forces or any other forces.
We didn’t pay any attention. We attacked him viciously. We essentially ignored any of his expression of concern or interest in Ukraine from the standpoint of Moscow’s national security. And we have always refused to acknowledge the Russian concern that NATO is threatening to Russia. We’ve insisted, ‘Absolutely not.’ But we don’t have far to look over the last 20 years at the various regime change operations that Washington has staged to appreciate Putin’s concerns. But instead of addressing those concerns in a substantive way, considering what Russia’s interests are, we’ve essentially said that they’re illegitimate, and the only interests that are legitimate are our own and those of our quote-unquote NATO allies.
So, here we sit. We’re looking at a force of 130, 150, 180 thousand, I don’t know what it will be when the day approaches, but a force that is substantial enough to seize the Russian-speaking areas that are east of the Dnieper River and, frankly, all the way out to Odessa if he decides to do it. There’s not a great deal we can do about it.
Kamala was blabbering about Ukraine joining NATO a lot way before all this happened.
MacGregor is one of the smartest people on the planet when it comes to military strategy, I’d listen carefully to anything he says.
The reason he didn’t get higher than Col was because he refused to tell the generals what they wanted to hear.
Whatever happened to the constant media fawning over Code Pink?
Our Congressmen should not be viewing any world leader through a prism of good guys, bad guys and heroes. That’s childish and damned foolish.
Speaking truth to power is, unfortunately, not a career advancement asset.
bmp
I am still concerned about Soros involvement with Ukraine, and the fact that Zelenskyy is his hand picked “leader”, just like Obama was. The media will push whatever narrative Soros tells them to, so let the buyers beware.
I am still concerned about Soros involvement with Ukraine, and the fact that Zelenskyy is his hand picked “leader”, just like Obama was. The media will push whatever narrative Soros tells them to, so let the buyers beware.
First thing Biden did was call him a Killer. He was prepping us. He hasn’t called any other killers a killa.
He did say it would be over in 10 days, and that was March 5. I have no idea what condition the Uke forces are in at this point, but there have been reports they are devastated.
The Soviets and Russians have always used "fear of attack" as an excuse for expanding their empire. Russia has been attacked twice from the West in the past 225 years, while it has attacked its neighbors in eastern Europe and the Black Sea at least 25 times in the same period, which is why almost all European neighbors of Russia have clamored to get into NATO.
about a month ago Trudeau was a hero ...
Glad to hear someone tell the truth.
Won’t hear much from this Colonel anymore...................................Maybe, but there are thousands more colonels out there who think as he does. Once you make LTC, you become political and start thinking outside the box. You had 20 yrs of political BS to deal with and know how the game is played. Yours is not to reason why BS suddenly becomes clear as to why you have to reason.
Zelensky has aligned himself with both Soros and Zuckerberg even before the invasion, which tells me all I need to know about him.
The Gray Zone supports Russia, China, Syria, and Hamas.
Bkmk
In the coming months we will be hearing more talk like what this Colonel is saying.
The days of cowardly military commanders are gone. Goodbye globalism, goodbye deep state.
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