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Ukraine Russia War Status update - Col Doug Macgregor The whole thing is on the verge of collapse
Judging Freedom ^ | November 28, 2022 | Colonel Douglas MacGregor

Posted on 12/03/2022 5:54:45 AM PST by Cathi

MacGregor: Up until this time at night we have had freezing but during the day it has gone back up to 40 even 50 degrees. It has to drop below freezing and stay that way for at least two weeks. So if it is now below freezing and stays that way you can do the math. Your looking for something happening no earlier than the 10th; probably no later than the 19th of December. And you're talking about concentrations of Russian troops all the way around the country. We've accounted now formally, these are people who sit in front of your monitors that control satellites, and the intelligence community says it has accounted for 540,000 Russian troops.

And of that 540,000 we are talking about 5,000 armored fighting vehicles of which at least 1,500 are tanks, probably another thousand self propelled artillery, the rest infantry fighting vehicles. A thousand rockets, missiles, tactical ballistic missiles, your so called drones (unmanned attack systems.) That doesn't even begin to address the hundreds of fixed wing aircraft, hundreds of helicopters,. The helicopters will move troops obviously. There will be some ground support. Hundreds of fixed wings operating as ground support, but also bombers now. We've begun to see the use of bombers now which is something we've done for years. They're now beginning to do it and they all have precision munitions.

Judge: What you have just described must be understood and known by President Zelensky, by Ukrainian intelligence, by American intelligence, by the State Department, by the Pentagon and by the White House. What are they going to do about it?

MacGregor: Yes, well what they're trying to do is ship more equipment to the Ukrainians. The problem is the Ukrainian casualties have been horrendous; particularly over the last few months. There was an article today in the Euro News and I'm told there was another one in the New York Times describing the very, very heavy casualties. Of course the Big Lie that is always accompanied the bad new is well the Russians have taken heavy casualties, too. Nonsense, the Russians have not. That's the difference; when you are killing your enemy at a 10 to 1 ratio; which is about where it is right now in Southern Ukraine, you're not hurting at all. And the Russians aren't running out of anything. The Ukrainians are running out of everything...ammunition, spare parts, fuel, you name it. The soldiers, most of the best troops are dead or wounded and the people they are shoving forward in the defensive positions are untrained reservists. They say, well we sent 10,000 more troops to England for three weeks, you can't train a man to do much of anything in three weeks or even five weeks. You need time and time is something the Ukrainians no longer have. So the whole thing is on the verge of collapse.


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To: Widget Jr

That is my favorite 2 minute video of Macgregor.

Macgregor made that appearance on Tucker and hours later the Ukrainians started their extraordinarily effective counter-offensive.

Has Macgregor been on Tucker since that day?


121 posted on 12/03/2022 11:06:05 AM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Cathi

Clinging to an outdated road map of imperial superiority.

This is how bizarre they are....
“Crippling Unhinged Russian Belligerence and Chinese Involvement in Putin’s Schemes Act”

I feel like I am back in grade school reading the title.

https://www.silkroadbriefing.com/news/2022/03/20/us-threatens-chinese-banks-with-swift-disconnection/

I said recently that watching Xi and Putin deal with Biden reminds me of the scene in Grizzly Man where the bush pilot suggests the grizzlies don’t eat Timothy Treadwell because they know there is something wrong with him.


122 posted on 12/03/2022 11:17:52 AM PST by MarMema (No bugs for consumption)
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To: Cathi

Then look at this, from 2021.

https://www.russia-briefing.com/news/spfs-russia-s-alternative-to-swift.html/

And from telegram -

🔹Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission 🇪🇺, sends shockwaves across Africa, Latin America & Asia. She revealed a task force to confiscate (steal) frozen Russian 🇷🇺 assets during a press conference on Ukraine 🇺🇦.

🔹This sets a precedence that no country’s assets are safe in western jurisdictions & economic bullying will be used by the west.

🔹The EU 🇪🇺 just undermined ‘Lex Mercatoria’ (Latin – ‘Merchant Law’). The autonomous legal order of international economic relations for trade & rules for settling disputes. The west has now destroyed, how money & currencies function in relationship to trade & private property rights.

Last reported on this channel:

💠 SCO countries 🇷🇺🇨🇳🇮🇷🇮🇳🇵🇰🇰🇬🇰🇿🇹🇯🇺🇿 begin to shift trade transactions outside western currencies/payment systems

💠 BRICS 🇧🇷🇷🇺🇮🇳🇨🇳🇿🇦 nations open to bypassing SWIFT using Russia’s SPFS.

💠 China 🇨🇳& Russia 🇷🇺 reduces USD & Euro use for trade.

And this -

US desperately trying to lure India away from Russia .

Despite US pressure, India has been reluctant to join the Western sanctions on Russia, placing domestic energy security above geopolitical tensions. Instead, the world’s third biggest energy consumer has been stepping up purchases of discounted Russian oil since the spring. Earlier this month, India’s Petroleum Minister Hardeep Singh Puri told CNBC that the country will continue to purchase Russian oil in the face of growing pressure from the West.

Trade between Moscow and New Delhi has more than doubled so far this year. The two nations are currently working on bilateral measures to expand the use of national currencies, the ruble and the rupee, in mutual settlements.

Talks are also underway about mutual acceptance of Russia’s Mir and India’s RuPay payment cards, as well as options to implement each other’s interbank transfer services: India’s Unified Payments Interface (UPI) and SPFS, the Russian alternative to SWIFT.

https://t.me/EurasianNew


123 posted on 12/03/2022 11:25:23 AM PST by MarMema (No bugs for consumption)
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To: Salohcin

Back in June just before twin NATO summit and EU summit occurred a very credible source got a leak about casualty reports which were presented to the NATO and EU leaders prior to those meetings.

https://t.me/s/russica2/46664

NEZYGAR
The level of real irretrievable losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine has crossed all critical levels so much that the office of President Zelensky is forced to spend about €3.5 million daily to disavow these shocks among the population and the European audience.

€2 million goes to Euronews and smaller European media from Germany, France, Italy and Poland, €1 million goes to LOM and TG channels from the Baltics, the near-political establishment of Ukraine and the CIS countries, the rest is distributed to premiums and bonuses for functionaries of the 95th quarter.

According to MI6 data, which were handed over to the European Commissioners and European deputies, the losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine amount to 176,000 killed and 41,000 seriously wounded on June 1, 22, without the possibility of returning to the theater, about 38,000 are considered missing.

According to the BND and the Polish intelligence services, which were shown at a closed briefing before the NATO summit, Ukraine’s losses in killed on the battlefield, plus the accompanying losses of civilians, exceeded 210 thousand people by 06/10/22.

According to NATO experts, as well as on the analysis of the NSA, which monitor social networks and special groups of mothers-wives-native Ukrainian soldiers, the losses range from 110 thousand to 197 thousand people, where the proportion of dead and missing is 45% to 55%.

The loss of military equipment and ammunition, as well as new types of weapons and unmanned aircraft, is 73%, and the shortage of fuel and lubricants has grown to 58% among BTGs on the front line of the line of contact.

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According to Nezygar about the losses of Ukraine, everything is 100% correct, even the dates, and the most interesting thing is that Ursula von der Leyen knew about this when she came to Kiev. Zelensky told her that he would consider the figure of 400-450 thousand people to be critical, and this will happen at the current level of losses no earlier than March 2023.

The BND and the NATO Ground Forces Command believe that by August 1, the level of losses of the Armed Forces of Ukraine will be more than 268,000, and the front line will pass through the Nikolaev and Kharkov regions, and this is without taking into account a possible strike by Belarusian forces from the north. If Lukashenka’s army is connected, the supply of theater of operations on the right side of the Dnieper will drop by 90-95%, moreover, the delivery of fuel and lubricants will become impossible for the civilian population and the harvesting campaign.

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124 posted on 12/03/2022 11:53:57 AM PST by Cathi
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To: ansel12
Ukraine's Kharkiv offense started on 9/6, a week before Macgregor blew his stack on Carlson.

Ukraine requested everyone not talk about Kherson and Kharkiv. Pro-Ukraine social media and news went quiet about it. Aside from voluntarily self censorship, I think it took the US and European news by surprise that it was really happening.

Russian Shill Inc. was in complete overdrive then complete meltdown over what happened. Now RS Inc changes theirs verses to suit the latest headlines while keeping the same group of refrains.

As far as I know, and I have looked, Macgregor has not returned to Tucker Carlson.

125 posted on 12/03/2022 11:59:22 AM PST by Widget Jr (🇺🇦 Sláva Ukrayíni 🇺🇦 - Just say no to CCCP 2.0)
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To: MarMema

“For the US to instigate a divided world spells the end for globalisation”

________________

I am counting on it. I think a Russian victory over NATO’s attempt to weaken and incite regime change is the one hope for the defeat of the current ruling U.S. deep state and the ability for a return to a government of the people, by the people and for the people.


126 posted on 12/03/2022 12:00:41 PM PST by Cathi
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To: MarMema

I have absolutely no problem with the confiscation of Russian assets to compensate Ukraine for destruction of Ukrainian infrastructure and economic disruption. I mean, the Rissians indisputably are the party who destroyed that property, so why should they pay?


127 posted on 12/03/2022 12:02:13 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: All

Macgregor: DefSec Austin Making Last Ditch Effort To Fight “Ukraine Fatigue” While Milley Wants A Negotiation

Posted By Ian Schwartz
On Date November 14, 2022

Ret. Lt. Col. Douglas Macgregor assesses the Russia-Ukraine conflict with Tulsi Gabbard as host of ‘Tucker Carlson Tonight’ on Monday: “I think [Defense] Secretary Austin is making a last-ditch effort to fight back against Ukraine fatigue. The truth is, Europeans are tired of pouring money into this, they’re tired of sending equipment into a black hole. He is going to have a tough time making any inroads. And one of the big reasons is that General Milley, our Chairman of the Joints Chiefs decided to leak his personal advice to the president in “The New York Times.” And he said the Ukrainians have probably accomplished all that they reasonably can and now is the time that they really need to start negotiating.”

“What Milley was really saying in so many words is Ukraine is in a lot of trouble,” Macgregor said. “They have no power, no electricity, no energy of any kind. No fuel. Increasingly not enough food and not enough water. And they’ve taken horrendous casualties, over 100,000 dead and hundreds of thousands of wounded. They’re in very bad shape. And the second part of the message is you better start negotiating because the Russians are preparing for a winter offensive. Which is going to be devastating and be designed to finish the Ukrainian armed forced and the regime. So, on the one hand, you’ve got the administration say[ing] let’s send more money to this losing proposition. And people are tired of it. Then on the other hand, you have the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs say[ing] the game is almost up, so let’s negotiate.”


128 posted on 12/03/2022 12:06:15 PM PST by Cathi
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To: Widget Jr

I was thinking the offensive started on the 9th of September, maybe that was when we started getting reports or discussing it here, but Macgregor’s interview was on Friday the 9th I believe, with video posted on twitter the 12th, a Monday.

Starting on the sixth makes it worse for Macgregor.


129 posted on 12/03/2022 12:28:58 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Worldtraveler once upon a time; Vermont Lt

“”An amazing tactic from a supposedly military man.””

I don’t think Vermont Lt is a veteran, I think that is a civilian job title.


130 posted on 12/03/2022 12:41:19 PM PST by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

We kept about 8 billion in gold from Afghanistan. 132 billion of Russian gold.

Russia absolutely does not expect to ever see it again.

Poland has chosen the 3 regions in Ukraine it hopes to annex.
Russia has already rebuilt much in the east where they have annexed.
Crimea has water and power now, thanks to Russia.

Maybe Hungary will annex their strip of ethnic Hungarians.
Odessa will go to Russia.

Soon Ukraine will be history.
I have absolutely no problem with any of it.


131 posted on 12/03/2022 12:48:57 PM PST by MarMema (No bugs for consumption)
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To: Cathi

I not going to read thru this thread. It will be another replay of the same people jawing back & forth.

However, if deep cold will be a significant factor, the truth of this will be known in a few weeks.


132 posted on 12/03/2022 1:16:53 PM PST by citizen (Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people - John Adams 1798)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

Why didn’t they just roll in May-September, when the ground was hard and dry? Why didn’t they gain ground during the prime summer campaign months instead of lose it?

They will never answer that., truth be told over the summer they said it was about to go down with all those ukies surronded in the imaginery cauldrons. Instead by fall the russians were losing ground as u say. They will never own up to the bs they spew, they just move on to the next iteration of it. In this case its now the “wait till the ground freezes” bleetings


133 posted on 12/03/2022 1:27:29 PM PST by FreshPrince
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

I understand. You really can’t trust the propaganda from the MSM anyway.


134 posted on 12/03/2022 1:43:44 PM PST by WKUHilltopper
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To: MarMema
Russia has already rebuilt much in the east where they have annexed. Crimea has water and power now, thanks to Russia.

That's absolutely ridiculous. Crimea had both power and water before this invasion. Do you think literally millions of people went without water or power since 2014??

135 posted on 12/03/2022 3:36:46 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Cathi

Instead of sitting here swearing and calling each other names, why don’t just shut up, post the news we think is important, and agree to get together here next Spring and discuss what occurred or didn’t over the Winter.


136 posted on 12/03/2022 5:15:23 PM PST by Hiddigeigei ("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
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To: Bruce Campbells Chin

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-troops-destroy-ukrainian-dam-that-blocked-water-crimea-ria-2022-02-26/

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/russian-troops-destroy-ukrainian-dam-that-blocked-water-crimea-ria-2022-02-26/

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-03-19/russia-vs-ukraine-crimea-s-water-crisis-is-an-impossible-problem-for-putin

Does it *never* occur to people to Google and see what I am talking about before you blunder into making statements about ridiculous? 😂😂😂

This is the third time I have posted links about this. Ukraine was absolutely taking away utilities and street repair, etc to the ethnic Russian parts of their country, deliberately. The ones they spoke about needing genocide on television. They removed their pensions, made speaking Russian, books, tv against the law. There are still Ukrainian teachers in prison for having taught in Russian.
Do you think they were raising their children to chant about killing Russians only after Maiden?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YR5TZnFZ4tg

https://thesaker.is/they-tell-you-that-we-are-nazis/

There is a reason Hungary doesn’t support Ukraine much. An ethnic strip of Hungarians just inside the Ukrainian border
has also been persecuted.


137 posted on 12/03/2022 6:25:06 PM PST by MarMema (No bugs for consumption)
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To: Cathi

Like Putin’s birthday messages.

“a man changing the world”

https://drjessesantiano.com/miami-new-york-rome-and-madrid-congratulated-putin-on-his-birthday/


138 posted on 12/03/2022 6:27:43 PM PST by MarMema (No bugs for consumption)
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To: MarMema
This is the third time I have posted links about this. Ukraine was absolutely taking away utilities and street repair, etc to the ethnic Russian parts of their country, deliberately.

Maybe you need to keep posting it because you clearly don't understand it.

The cutoff of water to Crimea began on April 26, 2014. That was AFTER the February 24 illegal invasion of Ukraine by Russia, and AFTER the bogus March 14 referendum that resulted in Russia annexing Crimea and declaring it part of Russia. In other words, the water was cut off only AFTER Russia was occupying Crimea militarily and stating it was no longer part of Ukraine.

Why the hell would Ukraine continue to provide water and electricity to lands claimed and occupied by Russia??

139 posted on 12/03/2022 7:30:52 PM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Cathi

Moscow and Tehran Doug has been saying that since March


140 posted on 12/04/2022 12:52:08 AM PST by rmlew ("Mosques are our barracks, minarets our bayonets, domes our helmets, the believers our soldiers." )
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