Posted on 07/03/2023 2:30:41 PM PDT by AndyJackson
Didn’t this guy say all Ukrainian troops were dead yesterday?
I might listen to McGregor, if he had not been so repeatedly wrong about Ukraine.
He avoids hyperbole here and it is a pretty through and complete analysis of our strategic position in the world.
MacGregor is half right.
He ignores or understates US military, tech and economic strengths. As in, for instance, the enormous US advantage in combat aircraft production, which has been increasing. More so, he ignores the capabilities of US allies.
He ignores, also, the interests of US allies.
He vastly overstates Russian economic capabilities. He also underplays the fact that the US and its allies have a near-complete chokehold on Russian exports. Russia ships oil, by far its principal export, at all, only on sufferance. This stuff almost all goes by sea.
And etc.
He has a definite agenda and does not engage analytically, which requires laying out all relevant facts.
He is correct about US government and leadership corruption. He also ignores US social conflicts, which are at the root of US problems.
One huge hole in his argument is about maritime powers. Maritime powers have won wars against continental powers. That is the summary of British history.
He needs to re-read Mahan.
And, moreover, the US is also a continental power, and is able to project that globally at need.
It is very far from complete.
It is, in effect, a case for the prosecution, not a fair analysis.
I’m amazed anyone gives this clown any credibility.
And we have lost in virtually all of those places. Funny that the hero of the Pacific MacArthur was adamant about not getting involved in a ground war in Asia.
“Didn’t this guy say all Ukrainian troops were dead yesterday?”
Numerous times over.
I know. He should drawn and quartered and his remains sown under with salt so we don’t need to listen to him anymore and can just go on with our winning ways in Afghanistan and Iraq and Syria and Ukraine where we absolutely have Putin on the ropes this time.
Wrong goals. The US has been perfectly capable of crushing any organised state it has invaded. The US problem has been, sometimes, trying to create or reform societies. Its succeeded in that too, often.
I suggest looking at the big picture and not doing a Howard Zinn. That is, they not only miss the forest for the trees, but assume that the forest is their map of bear droppings.
Exaggeration as usual.
US shipyard capacity is now a joke, just like every other part of USA industrial capacity.
NeoCon free trade outsourcing has its consequences.
If anyone listens to MacGregor America is finished.
There is a very destructive sub message. America is weak and should give up defending allies. We cannot afford to be stronger.
It’s enemy sponsored defeatism.
I like McGregor much. He would be a DAMN sight better than the woke clowns we have running the military now.
Most of his attackers seem to have a coincidental relish for war in the Ukraine. As well as only being able to point out his weakness in forecasting the duration of the conflict. Most I said…
MacGregor has said Ukraine has no chance since the war began. Ever since Kharkiv and Kherson, he has been saying Ukraine [is/was/about to be] + [annihilated/devastated/obliterated] weekly. It's like he took Ukraine winning personally.
The guy is lousy at predicting. But those 19 points, every one rings true.
In reply to no.2 we are actually doing the opposite of NOT INVESTING IN ENERGY. We are investing in wind and solar. Which is stupid as hell because they are intermittent and for the purpose of the utility company should be treated as they are not even there as you’ll need a conventional power plant for backup when the sun doesn’t shine and the wind stops blowing. In that sense wind and solar are a complete waste of money. And all of our utility bills are going to skyrocket in the next 10-20 years as one utility company after another go green.
We aren’t fighting in Ukraine, it is the Russian Army that is bogged down there, not us.
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