HEADLINE: President Biden got his COVID booster at the White House today. -- :-P
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.
Remember when the left didn’t like Zelensky during impeachment 2.0, he reaffirmed what Pres. Trump said, no quid pro quo.
Ukraine has much more to fear from Russia than Russia has to fear from Ukraine.
There is a good reason Ukraine is putting up such a fierce defense, which was completely unexpected by the Russians.
Zelensky begging to “borrow” fighter jets is a pretty good sign the war is not going well for Ukraine.
I'm surprised Zelensky even bothered giving his address to Congress via a web link instead of showing up in person. I'm convinced the guy has been in Miami for months.
“He did say it would be over in 10 days, and that was March 5. I have no idea what condition the Uke forces are in at this point, but there have been reports they are devastated.”
For what it’s worth, the gold market thinks the war is basically over (gold has given back 80% of the price gains since the shooting started).
I suppose the leaders of Poland, the Czech Republic, and Slovenia all went to meet with him in Miami for the recent video?
So tired of enforced groupthink.
But it wouldn’t be so bad if the opinions we’re all expected to have weren’t so damn retarded.
i agree with him
the progressive left is pushing him to cover their ass
“...Col. Doug MacGregor, an ex-Pentagon advisor...”
Desk jockey.
IIRC, they petitioned to join in 2008 (Obama years) and have been at the whims and fancies of NATO (i.e., the US) ever since. NATO has known all along the Ukraine, adjacent to Russia, joining it would be a problem. NATO should have just nipped that crap in the bud and said no at the outset. BUT! There was a lot of money from graft, greed, bribes and etc. to be made (see Hunter Biden et al).
HEADLINE: President Biden got his COVID booster at the White House today. -- :-P
Correct. Soros owns the media lock, stock and barrelhead. And the media owns the sheep in the same manner. The sheep will parrot the media line like a broken record. The media says wear the mask. The sheep say wear the mask. The media say get the jab. The sheep parrot get the jab. The media say Orange /man bad. The sheep echo Orange Man bad.
Correct!
Amen. He’s like COL Billy Mitchell, COL John Boyd (OODA Loop etc), or COL Hackworth.
There is a reason they wind up Colonels. Prophets in their own lands, etc. They a very disturbing to the status quo General and SES Class.
Wiki: Mitchell antagonized many administrative leaders of the Army with his arguments and criticism and, in 1925, was returned from appointment as a brigadier general to his permanent rank of colonel due to his insubordination. Later that year, he was court-martialed for insubordination after accusing Army and Navy leaders of an “almost treasonable administration of the national defense”[3] for investing in battleships instead of aircraft carriers. He resigned from the service shortly afterwards.
Where are the FR neocons to call this Colonel a Putinista?
“They are mission-driven and could care less about opinions outside the theater of war. “
This is a man (e.g., not a liberal) that I would gladly serve under.
He’s a disgraced low ranking officer whose claim to military fame rests on his heroic performance at the the Battle of 73 Easting and his later service as chief planner for Weaselly Clark, the Butcher of Belgrade. He was forced out of the Army later.
“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. “
Haha. If you’re paranoid and driven to reunify the USSR, yes.
“If he wins”
Zero likelihood.
I’m convinced the guy has been in Miami for months.
Ha! I wonder who’s putting him up/protecting him, if so.
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