Didn’t this guy say all Ukrainian troops were dead yesterday?
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.
Iām amazed anyone gives this clown any credibility.
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.
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.
Thank you for the excellent detailed summary! Everyone who posts a video should be required to do this.
If Macgregor said alcohol stocks were good I’d short them.
Have you ever asked yourself, what is that motivation of somebody like MacGregor to make the statements he does?
democrate
liberte
fraternite
equalite
diversite
world liberal communism
is what this war is all about
atheism - marxism
antichrist crusade war on Jews - Christians
planting their rainbow flag
gay lighting the Kremlin - red square - temple mount
“Our government is suicidal, taking on enemies we don’t need while not protecting our own interests. “
Amen.
They also fail to accept the real threat of this conflict becoming a much larger conflict that could result in another world war.
It was always more romantic to buy into the propaganda of huge successes & rumors of Russa's defeat, as well as, the imminent demise of Putin either by military means or health issues, than it was to accept the facts.
However, Macgregor is wrong abut China not being a communist nation. Xi may be a softer gentler Stalin, but he is a strong ruthless leader who vacillates between good & evil personas as he sees fit. It's also the sole political party of China. The party regulates what the people of China see, hear, and even say. They can & do make people disappear.
MacGregor knows Eastern Europe, because that was his geographical point of focus. He should stay away from China other than to say that trying to start a war with China is not advisable. He is right about decoupling in many ways with China, and it is long overdue for us to do so.
Isn’t he the one who said Trump would be back in office after the steal, and how people were going to go down?
“The American people have too soft a life to do anything about that, but that is changing”
I see it everywhere - every day.
I run circles around folks 20 years younger than me because they are either massively depressed, have hardly any motivation to do anything, have no desire to learn, and are physically lazier than any generation before them.
I don’t think Gen Z has it in them to do anything else but be slaves.
Russia doesn’t have the manpower for a breakout offensive. It needs more manpower to protect the flanks of a rapidly advancing force.
Russia is probably focusing now on trying to improve its military leadership skills to cut down on unnecessary loses, which have been massive, probably over 100,000 unnecessary deaths.
Maybe next year Russia will be in a better position for a major offensive.
What’s a “collasus”?
Agree 100%!
This Ukraine policy is insane.
Until you follow the money, which is somehow forbidden. Rubio, for example, voted against a new IG to oversee and account for all $ to Ukraine.
And he won’t answer my emailed question—”Why did you vote against the new IG..?”
Our entire federal government is corrupt.
https://steemit.com/politics/@gungasnake/douglas-macgregor-on-nato-neocon-stupidity