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.
“He argues that the United States teaming up with NATO to push Putin into a corner”
He merely argues Putin’s line, that’s all. The real question is why does he argue such a butcher’s line, as if Putin as any legitimate excuse for the carnage being inflicted on Ukraine. He does not.
You see no connection at all between the sanctions against the Canadian truckers three weeks ago and the sanctions against the Russian people now?
NATO and the USA have also been reducing their military strength.
So where does this non-existent military threat to Russia come from?
It is an illusion created by the Russian leaders to help keep control of Russia.
That question was addressed to you, pierrem15.
The question in post #122 was addressed to pierrem15. :)
Yes. The irony is Putin's invasion of Ukraine has done more to unify and strengthen NATO than anything else in the last 31 years.
Cmon now, Zelenski won a free and fair election that vast segments of Ukraine’s population were not allowed to vote in.I’m convinced the guy has been in Miami for months.
I wonder who many here know he has a $42 million villa in Miami and $1.5 billion stashed away in off-shore bank accounts? Can’t really blame him though for taking his part in the tradition of post-Soviet kleptocratic leadership.
The TechnoDicktaters who cancelled every last living Russian they could get their hands on, I suspect.
They cancelled non-political opera types who condemned the Russian incursion into Ukraine - and cancelled Tchaikovsky, a long-dead composer.
I would consider threats to my military supply lines by unelected sociopathic technoLords a military threat.
Ask the Canadian truckers how sociopathic these tech Mittheels are.
Are you talking about Zelinsky? The guy who heads the government that George Soros claims to have more influence than any other in the world. Yeah right! Whether he was or was not elected fairly, under his puppet master's control he had been pushing hard for NATO and EU membership up until about last week.
He’s not a hero….
His incompetence helped lead his country to an avoidable war…
No one involved in the events that lead to this is a hero, period.
I have been aware of that for a long time. Lindsay (lets assassinate Putin) Graham has a huge amount of influence here obviously. They probably all go to the same bath houses.
Zelinski has been playing us all for years. To me it looks like he has bought off every uniparty “leader” in congress.
I see vicious thugs who need the high jump. Start with Castro’s son. Then work up.
Sanctions never seriously inconvenience the rulers. They might lose a few million but still live in their palaces. Unless the people finally wise up and do a “Ceausescu Solution”.
“But, there are reports that Russia is very close to having its supplies ammunition and everything run out. It is still very much up in the air. The Russian are swimming against the tide of history and that does account for something.”
There are also reports the Russians have enlisted the support of bullet-proof, 3-headed Martians.
Oh, and Ghengis Khan “swam against the tide of history”.
The outcome was decided when Russia decided to cross the border en masse.
The lefties have been gaining ground for a long time, at varying paces.
So the globalist plan for lockdowns were supposed to continue until 2025?
I don't know when anyone intended any specific date. It seems to be a moving target.
Everyone was supposed to be vaccinated?
Everyone where? US, The West, or the whole 'globe?'
The cabal headquarters in Ukraine, their source of money laundering and trafficking, wasn’t supposed to be destroyed?
No idea. If it was merely a building, I suppose another one can be used.
How do you think the globalists feel now about the bioweapons labs in Ukraine?
I don't know. Do you? For sure, that is.
What does "The Plan" say?
“Zelenskyis a hero.”
He is a leftist moron trying to get us into WWIII
That said, I'm sure the Democrats would love to use Jan 6 as an excuse to go after their political enemies just like Trudeau did.
They've already been trying via coordination of denial of service with the tech companies and banks. We still have a Constitution on life-support that still limits those attempts to some extent. For example, if you can prove a tech company silenced you at the behest of a government official, you can sue them for a First Amendment violation.
The real problem is that the corporate leadership just agrees with the Dems, so then it's a "private" decision. The Canadian and British parliaments can do whatever they want: there is no legal limit, only what is customary.
Agree. Not getting pulled into that mess will be a miracle with the vegetable in charge. Harris just yesterday proclaimed we were ‘defending NATO’ by standing with Ukraine.
It’s the biggest reason Putin has for invading, and Harris took a highlighter to it.
Why shouldn’t he have pushed for NATO membership? It’s benefits are even more obvious now.
Yes, he is.
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