Posted on 03/03/2022 6:59:44 AM PST by CondoleezzaProtege
Col Macgregor's comments from 13FEB22 on Sky News. Interesting to compare Col Macgregor's predictions with the results on the ground two days into the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
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This guy has decided that saying outrageous things is the best way to gain notoriety. And it apparently has worked.
I never liked this goofball.
The US and UK seem to be the only real strength in NATO. But NATO will not fall even with Biden.
Working the McInerney plan.
I don’t think this is an outrageous observation, it’s way too early to know what all is down the road. Real life takes more time to unfold than people have gotten used to dealing with, though.
The Russian military is a Joke , it’s their Nukes that are dangerous hit their target or not
“NATO will not fall even with Biden.”
I view that as a 50-50 proposition at this point.
NATO has become a huge hollowed out bureaucracy that specializes in virtue signaling, finger pointing and propaganda.
Their top priorities appear to be making the world safe for perverts and fighting “climate change”.
30 years too late.
“The Russian military is a Joke”
Your post reminds me of the German invasion of Russia.
In the first year many Russian units were riding horseback and were routed....
Completely wrong. Number of new countries will join, like Norway and Sweden.
The only reason nato exists is because of our troops and our treasure.
Let the snooty snobs of europe fight this out.
https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-corps-douglas-macgregor-proposal/
As a former Marine officer, I disagree with him, but that's not really the point. The point is his deliberate use of controversial, insulting, and unprofessional language rather than relying on just facts and logic. He's a publicity seeker/attention whore.
To that I would add that our prolonged and costly adventure in Afghanistan was a terrible distraction and resource drain that has left us vulnerable to serious challenges. We have expended tremendous resources that have not prepared us for regional conflicts. Moreover, our misplaced sense of priorities on things like climate change and wokeism are not serving us well.
As a result we have lost credibility, readiness and effectiveness.
It is amazing how many are calling for open war with Russia when we are led by a brain-dead, zombie meat-puppet. We are stuck with the incompetent, anti-Midas touch regime for the next two years which is an eternity during war.
Many Freepers were fooled by every one of Obama’s red lines and look at how that worked out.
You’re right. The conscripts are cowards and armor is junk. Either the resupply convoys aren’t getting through or they are suffering massive mechanical breakdowns.
So you're giving a vote of confidence for Biden because he won't totally fornicate it up?
To some of you what constitutes outrageous is anything that goes against the propaganda you’ve been fed.
Norway has been in NATO since 1949 hasn't it?
The problem with NATO as I see it that it’s creation during a particular time and the circumstances associated with it had to go through a transition after the Eastern Block and USSR it was designed to oppose fell apart.
Instead of transitioning to a smaller reserve role to possibly eventually reform on other rational strategic grounds (clearly stated grounds) as it ought to have done, thanks to things like attitudes like that one German high mucky muck who said the “peace dividend” shouldn’t include German base closures because that would hurt their local economies (NATO as international welfare on the American dime), NATO would eventually enter the current growth phase as, and I’ll be blunt, more countries saddled on up to the bar.
But this meant that it would be basically transformed into a country club for nations affair where everyone could join but this one specific guy … which would be assured to create tensions with that nation. This is because as a strategic organization they need a bad guy to “strategerize” against or else they don’t even serve a rhetorical purpose.
This isn’t exactly the pre-WW1 system of treaties that proved to be complete bullocks because it failed to take into account that there were persons who wanted nothing more than to see the world burn for their fetid Revolution … no, not that, but it seems related.
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