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.
180 thousand, same as the border invasion here...
The days of cowardly military commanders are gone. Goodbye globalism, goodbye deep state.
Is that part of "The Plan?"
And Joe Biden makes a mockery of Ukraine when he walzes in with a Billion dollar check and has a prosecutor fired so his son’s tracks are covered.
What a crock. The crooked Ukraine leadership needs to flee and let the people run their own country.
Stop the deep state nonsense. You need to empty your bank account and grab the next flight to Kiev. They need you desperately.....
Sorry to have woken you from your years long slumber. Where the hell were you during the countless Covid threads? No where to be found!!! So no, you are obviously not one of the ones that I was referring to. Congratulations, your only interest is starting WWIII to save a paid off Ukrainian dictator. The sons of Pelosi, Romny, Biden, and et.al... thank you for your efforts to keep the gravy train going
“MacGregor is one of the smartest people on the planet when it comes to military strategy, I’d listen carefully to anything he says.”
Yes, he is! He nailed this Ukraine thing to a tee.
I’m big on searching out blogs and, in particular, YouTube and Rumbler and a few other sources for what I call accurate information. That’s where I first saw McGregor. The link below is from a YouTube group that posts almost every day and they always seem to have realistic assessments, from my point of view. I have followed them for a while.
If you are looking for a 3 second sound bite, forget it. This is information on a broad range of topics and topics that can not be covered in 3 seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK17XTWq9sc&t=1626s
I have found that subscribing to a channel keeps me up to date on what I am most interested in hearing — especially when all sensible information is drowned out by the massive propaganda machine and the drive-by media.
Anyone not prejudiced by leftist political concerns saw this coming when Trump was dealing with it, effectively. Biden ha fanned the flames of confusion, danger, and conflict. This is 100% Biden’s war. He started it but he will not be the one to finish it, unless, of course, he determines that the only effective resolution is to bomb Moscow back to the stone age. In that eventuality NY and DC will go as well.
What you or I think about the massive corruption in DC is, unfortunately, almost irrelevant due to rigged elections and the propaganda organs of our "free" press.
I seriously doubt this will ever get fixed short of the real threat of Civil War II.
It's clear the media and Dems are trying to use Ukraine to conceal the massive corruption, lawbreaking and incompetence of this regime. But I think most Americans realize that if Trump were still in office, this war would never have taken place. So it's actually contributing to the number of Americans who view the election as illegitimate: even those who voted for "Biden" don't want to take the blame for the multiple dumpster fires currently burning, and will prefer to claim they were misled or that fraud took place rather than take responsibility.
Should probably be noted that MacGregor advocated eliminating the Marine Corps entirely.
You have been a prolific poster, but I had to go back to the beginning of August, over eight months ago to find any posts from you regarding Covid. Since you appear to have been ignoring Covid threads you do not appear to be qualified to make judgments on the content that they contained.
As far as your willingness to start WWIII to save a corrupt regime that has been paying off the children of politicians in the USA since it was installed (mostly through the efforts of foreign instigators)... This is foolish beyond belief! Although you and I share the same opinions on nearly every other subject... your vulnerability to be swayed by propaganda causes me to wonder about your judgment and historical perspective.
Yes there are covid jabtards on FR just as there are “we must start war with russia” morons.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3962504/posts
Here’s one such thread.
Enjoy.
Some still think it’s the Cold War too
I am not advocating we send troops.
I am just reacting to your statement, paraphasing - history doesn’t matter.
I am not advocating we send troops.
I am just reacting to your statement, paraphasing - history doesn’t matter.
I am not advocating we send troops.
I am just reacting to your statement, paraphasing - history doesn’t matter.
I am not advocating we send troops.
I am just reacting to your statement, paraphasing - history doesn’t matter.
I am not advocating we send troops.
I am just reacting to your statement, paraphasing - history doesn’t matter.
I am not advocating we send troops.
I am just reacting to your statement, paraphasing - history doesn’t matter.
I am not advocating we send troops.
I am just reacting to your statement, paraphasing - history doesn’t matter.
I am not advocating we send troops.
I am just reacting to your statement, paraphasing - history doesn’t matter.
I am not advocating we send troops.
I am just reacting to your statement, paraphasing - history doesn’t matter.
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