Posted on 12/21/2022 12:42:03 PM PST by ransomnote
ransomnote: The 6 minutes of the transcript shown below are key remarks by Colonel MacGregor. More of the transcript linked at the bottom. Full 25 minute video is here:
Douglas Macgregor - The Bottom Line
My summary of this excerpt: Chairman of the U.S joints Chiefs of Staff,
General Mark Milley says the chances of the Ukraine winning 'are not high'.
Colonel MacGregor says Zelensky has been lying all along
and the MSM has reported what he says as truth.
MacGregor says the Ukraine is doomed: depleted of soldiers,
weapons, electricity, food, water etc. He says the Russians are
well-equipped and prepared for major offensives in
December and January. American and British contractors.He says everything the Ukrainians have accused the Russians of
doing (war crimes) the Russians have not done, but instead the
Ukrainians themselves are committing these war crimes.
The US and other NATO nations have run out of military equipement/ammo to give them, and the US is now underprepared for conflict elsewhere.TRANSCRIPT BEGINS
Colonel MacGregor (1:14 in the video): "Uh over the
last several months, in fact I would
argue virtually from the 24th of
February when the Russians first
intervened, the tendency in the media has been to
repeat ad nauseam whatever the Ukrainian
government says and treat it as the
truth, and let's be frank, from the outset
uh they've been telling everyone well
the Ukrainians are winning, the Russians
are losing, the Russians are losing tens
of thousands of soldiers, they're losing
hundreds of tanks and critical equipment
and the Russians can't do anything right,
and the Russians are losing,Well that
has never really been true. Virtually from
the beginning the
Russians went in with a fraction of the
force that they had available because
they assumed that we ultimately would
negotiate and be interested in arranging
a ceasefire and come into some sort of
agreement, because their principal
interest as you know, was always to have
a neutral Ukraine.This didn't happen
and finally in the summer, uh I think the
uh the leadership in Moscow decided,
'We've we've got to change our approach.
We have no choice. We have to treat
Ukraine as a theater of war,"
and that's what they've done.
they've absolutely turned Ukraine into a
theater of war and they have changed
their approach 180 degrees from what it
was.
Ukrainians have been losing hundreds of
thousands of men as casualties we
estimate they've had 400 000 casualties
of which over 100 000 are dead. Now, very
recently, Ursula Vandelion, who is the
president of the European Union
actually admitted that the Ukrainians
had lost at least a hundred thousand
dead. The truth is that over the last several
months, the losses have been so heavy
that we think it's probably closer now
to about 120 to 125 000.
And the second part of this, of course, is
that the Europeans, and we, to a large
extent, have run out of ammunition and
equipment to send to them.
We're now talking about building new
equipment that could be sent over and
stripping out whatever we can find from
many of our own units to the point where,
frankly, if we had to fight a war in
Central Europe we'd be in trouble. We're
down to days, maybe a couple of weeks of
ammunition.
The Russians have always been accused of
running out of rockets, running out of
missiles, running out of ammunition, and
nothing could be further from the truth.They've been 'running out of tanks' and again,
nothing could be further from the
truth. The Russians now have set up a
very effective defense
while they build up for massive
offensive operations in December and
January and those are those buildups are almost
complete.We can account now, as I
pointed out in the op-ed, for about 540
000 troops, 1500 tanks, uh another three
thousand plus uh armored fighting vehicles,
hundreds of guns, a thousand rocket and
drone uh strike systems, uh hundreds of
fixed-wing aircraft and
hundreds of helicopters.The bottom line
is that the Russians are now going to
war and ukrainians are frankly on the ropes.All of their sophisticated equipment,
their rocket artillery systems, what few
they have left, are operated now by
Americans and British contractors.
They don't have the trained personnel to
do anything.
So Ukraine is really in a lot of trouble
and that's why Zelensky is working very
very hard to convince everybody that we
should give our last full measure for
Ukraine, but it's not going to work and
Ukraine is going to be destroyed and as
we've seen from the new missile strikes
the energy grid is almost completely
gone, electricity is almost totally
absent, water, food all the amenities that
make life bearable are missing, and
billions of uUkrainians are now leaving
Ukraine because they cannot live where
they are.
We should really be interested in easing
the burden on the Ukrainians and that
burden will not be eased by supplying more
arms that the Russians will simply
destroy or capture. It will be eased by
negotiations in which
the West has to concede territory to
Russia and agree to a non-NATO status, in
other words, a neutral status
for Ukraine.Nobody wants to do that, so
under the circumstances Ukraine is
doomed.Well it's really depressing
that all of the things Ukrainians have
accused the Russians of doing, are things
the Ukrainians themselves have done.
Ukrainian soldiers have actively posted
a video of Russian prisoners of War
being executed. The Russians have not executed any
prisoners of war. quite the contrary they they've actually
behaved remarkably well, and Putin has
been absolutely insistent that they not
kill civilians.
The problem is that they they were so
careful in the past
and so anxious to avoid damaged
infrastructure that people thought they
were weak. Well that's now over. They
are willing to accept collateral damage
if they could destroy ammunition and
storage points fuel systems uh
and electricity they they will do that.And that's what's happening right now,
and soon I think they'll move on to
transportation infrastructure, bridges,
roads these kinds of things to ensure
that the Ukrainians cannot resupply
themselves, and and right now they're
they're virtually at a standstill anyway.
They have no diesel. They have no fuel.
What fuel they have is going into
generators to heat buildings and homes.
So you know everybody's pledging more
and more and more but the truth is, David,
not much is arriving.
There just isn't much to send anymore,
so the the real point is, if anybody
cares about the Ukrainian people, if
people want to see Ukraine as a nation
state survive.
We we need to talk with the Russians and
no one seems to be willing to do that.
THIS PORTION OF TRANSCRIPT ENDS AT 7:37 in the 20 minute videoransomnote: I didn't continue making corrections to punctuation and phonetics in the remaining portion of the transcript which I posted to FR
HERE: https://freerepublic.com/focus/chat/4098027/posts?page=2108#2108
Zero for Two.
Brandon is quite the Commander-in-Chief.
Brandon is gonna be humiliated. That warms my heart.
If they have NO fuel, then WHAT is going into generators to heat buildings?
Either they have fuel or they don't.
Which IS IT any why do you LIE for these goobers?
On one hand, you have the MSM, the US Deep-state, their paid trolls (including here on FR) giving us childish narrative and propaganda that Russia will collapse at any moment.
Then you have some (although far fewer than the MSM/Deep-state propagandists) telling us a 180 degree opposite story - Russia will easily roll over Ukraine, which will happen any day now.
who is the average American supposed to believe????
How much armament will we we leave in a defeated Ukraine for Victor Bout to sell?
OMG this reads like total propaganda.
Russia is winning even when it retreated and even when Russia itself admitted to reverses.
But loveable Russia didn’t really try because all they wanted was to negotiate.
But now they REALLY mean it this time.
He actually says Ukraine has always been losing and is all lies.
So tell me comrade MacGregor.
How the F after 10 months is Russia not sitting in Kiev and why weren’t they there 9 months ago?
I believe MacGregor
And now Biden has brought Zelenskyy here to rub our noses in this mess!
last year, russia was supposed to gush through ukraine like bug excrement through a goose.
Russia is not, has not and will not be winning this war of theirs.
and no, I do NOT support Ukraine either. This is the uniparty war of the WEF and George Soros... and a waste of our time, money, blood and armament.
china and usa want russia and eastern europe defanged... so that they can dominate europe (usa and china)
What Doug predicted about this war this summer:
“The future of the Kherson and Zaporozhye regions along with the Donbas is decided. Moscow is also likely to secure Kharkov and Odessa”
“the training and tactical leadership required to conduct complex offensive operations does not exist inside Ukraine’s army”
“Once Ukrainian forces immobilized themselves in static defensive positions inside urban areas and the central Donbas, the Ukrainian position was hopeless. “
Do you still believe he knows what he is talking about?
Ukraine so bad!
GIMMEE $$$!!!
Is Colonel MacGregor by any chance a black lesbian who works as White House press secretary? Seems to have about the same track record for accuracy.
“who is the average American supposed to believe”
Colonel MacGregor has given us data that needs evaluation before reaching conclusions but if true then the Biden administration has seriously deceived and hurt us.
Between this, the border crisis, Musk’s revelations, and other things, looks like our government, including more than just the Biden administration, is harming us.
That’s the conclusion I’m coming to. Hard to believe. Wonder how many of our fellow citizens are reaching a similar conclusion.
Keep up the daily copium infusions from Fox and the rest of the MSM. You’re doing fine. Zelensky will win. Russia will be cut into parts, administered by President Harris and her cabal of Republicrats. Yeah, it will definitely happen. Russia is out of missiles. In fact, Putin has AIDS and will die soon, so don’t worry.
I believe MacGregor
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You should not. He hasn’t known the truth since he planned Gen. Weaselly Clark’s slaughter Belgrade civilians in the Kosovo war
Ukraine has been the Money-Laundry Capital of the World for decades !!
10% to the Big Guy
along with the
Kerrys
Clintons
Pelosis
Romneys
and others
they’re re-starting coal plants and not shutting down those that were scheduled to be shut down.
They have fuel in storage that they thought would be enough...but...not enough.
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