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Excerpt from Tucker's interview with Colonel Douglas Macgregor.

"I think all of the lies that have been told for more than a year and half about the 'Ukrainians are winning'; 'the Ukrainian cause is just'; 'the Russians are evil'; 'the Russians are incompetent'.....all of that is collapsing. And it's collapsing because what's happening on the battlefield is horrific.

Ukrainians now, we think, have lost now 400,000 men killed in battle. We were talking about 300,000 - 350,000 a few months ago. Within the last month of this supposed counter-offensive which was to sweep the battlefield, they lost at least 40,000 killed. We don't even know how many people have been wounded but we know that probably upwards of 40-50 thousand soldiers are amputees.

We know the hospitals are full, and we know that Ukrainian units at the platoon and company level, that's worth anywhere from 50, to 150 to 200 men,are in piecemeal fashion, surrendering to the Russians. Not because they don't want to fight, it's because they can't fight anymore. They have so many wounded, they can't evacuate them, and commanders are saying, "Well if I can't evacuate my wounded, I'm going to surrender because otherwise the wounded will die."

And so they call the Russians, they all speak Russian, and tell them on the radio, "Look, I've got 50- 60 wounded here. I'm going to surrender because I don't want them to be killed, and the Russians, from the very beginning, have always treated the Ukrainians very fairly, and very gently. So they know they're not going to be abused or mistreated. They know they can actually be exchanged for Russian prisoners in the future, so they're surrendering. And I think we're going to see this army, that we've been spending on so heavily, increasingly melt away."

Thanks for posting that. I heard the grim assessment.

He also talks a lot about Vietnam in great detail for those interested.

Unfortunately I had to do stuff so needed to pause. Argh.

That’s the only problem with these long-form interviews we need to give it our full attention and I always intend to give the Colonel that so I will come back to it.