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Colonel Douglas Macgregor Interview - DEBUNKING Taiwan, Ukraine LIES
The Dive with Jackson Hinkle ^ | August 4, 2022 | Douglas

Posted on 08/05/2022 11:01:45 AM PDT by Cathi

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To: Cathi

Saw him on Varney a month or 2 ago....sounded like he was on Putin’s payroll


21 posted on 08/05/2022 12:06:46 PM PDT by nuconvert ( Warning: Accused of being a radical militarist. Approach with caution.)
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To: MercyFlush

Macgregor did appear on Russia Today (RT, Rossiya Segodnya) and did call for Russia to annex Donbas. The U.S. Army refused to put him in command of a combat brigade three times and obviously didn’t trust him.


22 posted on 08/05/2022 12:10:57 PM PDT by familyop ("For they that sleep with dogs, shall rise with fleas" (John Webster, "The White Devil" 1612).)
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To: MercyFlush

Wow
You shills pop up everywhere doncha!


23 posted on 08/05/2022 12:12:52 PM PDT by Guenevere (“If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do?”)
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To: Cathi

Col Douglas Macgregor at 73 Easting, “the last great tank battle of the 20th century.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4b7yl99wlo


24 posted on 08/05/2022 12:13:06 PM PDT by Pelham (World War III is entering on cat's feet. )
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To: Cathi
According to MacGregor, a Russian invasion of Ukraine was supposed to be over in a matter of days, and lead to the disintegration of NATO. He also sang the praises of the Russian military as woefully outclassing western militaries, and said they'd blow right though us too if we dared send our own troops to help.

Last prediction I remember from him was from March 4, when he was interviewed and said that now that Russia has taken off the gloves, the war would be over in ten days.

His predictions are about as worthwhile as Paul Krugman's.

25 posted on 08/05/2022 12:16:32 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: Cathi

“Macgregor was the top planner for General Wesley Clark, the military commander of NATO, for the attack on Yugoslavia.[3]”

Not a ringing endorsement for this Putin apologist.


26 posted on 08/05/2022 12:18:36 PM PDT by Wuli
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To: Obadiah
He made reference to Gen. Mark Clark during the Korean War of bringing a plan to Eisenhower to invade China with 800,000+ troops. Eisenhower, correctly, thought that was nuts. The point he was making was that going to war with China would be on the order of magnitude never seen in modern times.


I am so very glad Eisenhower was in charge then, and not George W. Bush.
27 posted on 08/05/2022 12:21:57 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie ( )
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To: Obadiah

Nobody is suggesting invading mainland China. It’s a complete red herring, crap argument by MacGregor.


28 posted on 08/05/2022 12:23:21 PM PDT by Bruce Campbells Chin
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To: familyop

The US Army apparently was quite wise in not trusting Mr. Mcgregor.


29 posted on 08/05/2022 12:23:25 PM PDT by MercyFlush (☭☭☭ Soviet Russia must be destroyed. ☭☭☭)
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To: Guenevere

Ya boi works for Russia. Like it or not.


30 posted on 08/05/2022 12:39:32 PM PDT by MercyFlush (☭☭☭ Soviet Russia must be destroyed. ☭☭☭)
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To: Obadiah

Nothing new then. Thanks.


31 posted on 08/05/2022 12:51:34 PM PDT by TexasGator (ice )
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To: Travis McGee

Yes, Travis, I posted that Ukrainian leak yesterday. I agree, there isn’t a single thing on the list that is suspect based on countless earlier posts that I have read from various sources.

I am posting something from a Ukrainian soldier here and right under it I am going to repost something from a Russian that covers the same time period and location. They seem to be seeing things the same way so it gives a clear picture of what it actually going on.

https://censor.net/ua/resonance/3358083/pisky_myasorubka

Author: Serhiy Gnezdilov

What is there to lose, what else can be taken from me on the sixth day of my personal hell, in Pisky, a kilometer from the first street of Donetsk, Ukraine? The bodies of those who were dearer to me than my family are lying under the heat in the trenches, broken by the 152 caliber. As I wrote earlier, 6,500 shells per damn village in less than a day.

Sands. Meat grinder 01

It’s been six such days already, and I can’t imagine how even a small number of our infantry survived in this barrage of enemy fire.

No, I’m not whining.

Two mortars 82 and 120 are working on our side.

Sometimes he wakes up and “sneezes” two artillery barrels in the direction of Donetsk.

We hardly respond. There is no counter-battery fire, from the word go, the enemy puts artillery shells in our trenches without any problems, dismantles very strong, concrete positions in tens of minutes, pushing our defense line without pause or minimal rest.

The day before yesterday, it broke, and a river of two or three hundred was poured. I will not publish any statistics, it is forbidden in our country, but you have no idea the number and percentage of losses.

This is a hell of a meat grinder, where the battalion simply holds back the onslaught with their bodies.

For almost a week, we have been waiting for at least some kind of help that would hit the enemy’s artillery, we, I repeat, are being fired with impunity with everything that the Russian military system is rich in, the aviation was working today.

I am proud of the leadership of the battalion that remained here with us. The combatant is with us, all of us are with us, contused, light three hundred, bandaged and returned after a couple of hours to the position, if you can call these bottomless ravines that way.

There is a war going on.

But without a counter-battery fight, it turns into a senseless meat grinder, where an insane amount of our infantry is ground up in a day.

Did you really want the truth? Here it is, the naked truth.

The reserve goes to the position, closes the breakthrough, and after five minutes only one of the 15 people remains intact.

The bodies lie. If it’s a light 300, maybe you’ll be lucky, you’ll faint, and you’ll get out on foot, you’ll reach the medics.

They just took the three hundredth. He shouted all the way: - Where is the support? Where is the artillery? Why were we abandoned? Why didn’t anyone cover us?

I don’t know, my friend, why no one covered us... He screams, and I’m ashamed that I’m still safe and sound, only a couple of good deafening.

I threw up, I’m sorry, and I’m back in action.

All reserves are destroyed, military equipment is on fire, the enemy approaches and without any problems occupies our positions after another barrage of artillery.

Right now we are losing the Sands, all our human and material resources are almost exhausted.

Denys, a resident of Mariupol, who told me “well, I believe the arrestee, we will return everything very soon” is dead. He was wounded twice, they tied him up right in the trench, they told him, Denchyk, go to the evacuation, but he answered “guys, I won’t abandon you.”

Both wounded for the first time, and after the second wounding, he continued to shoot back.

We still haven’t taken his body. On the ruins of the Sands, he lies with his arms outstretched and his gaze frozen. He asks for revenge. How can I refuse his latest request? How can we all leave Dan?

I believe that Dimka survived after all. Because he could not die, having recently returned from the hospital, having just proposed to his girlfriend. They say that after one of the parishes he simply disappeared. It fell asleep with earth. But, I believe that this is a mistake, and he is alive. Foolish hope and expectation.

I know, my country does not like to think aloud. But, I was left with no choice between victory and arrest. The truth should be heard, not whispers in the kitchen. Of course, he will fly separately for this post, because how? Yes, does the state lie to its own citizens?

I won’t be surprised if someone says today: “Kremlin agent Sirozh talked about the brilliant plan of the victors on the Donetsk front, let’s hang him on the Peacemaker.”

I amused to say that everything is under control. Now in Pisky, everything is not under anyone’s control, but for some reason the situation is being hushed up.

Ring broken bells while we cover the Sands with bodies.

We need artillery.

Give us something here to hold on to.

Sergey Hnezdilov


Джерело: https://censor.net/ua/r3358083 https://twitter.com/DeuNachrichten Every day it is getting more and more obvious that the brunt of the fighting today is going along the Solidar, Bahkmut, Adveyevka, Donetsk, Maryinka line. Near Bahkmut Russian troops have been stubbornly advancing throughout the day. According to the General Staff of Ukraine, its last evening report, Russian troops were able to take positions in Semigorye, took, according to their data a part of the settlement.

Usually when the Ukrainian side says about losing part of a settlement it often turns out that they have lost the whole. So far I have no data that the entire Semigorye have been taken. Nevertheless according to the same Summary of the General Staff there are attacks in the area of Zaitsevo and Kodema we see that they attempt to access Bahkmut from the south in order to then start the battle inside the city already.

Ukrainian sources say that Zaluzhny reported to Zelensky the other day that the battles for Bahkmut inside the city itself, according to his calculations may begin next week. This is already becoming inevitable, given that the main reserves are now going into the Southern direction. Some of the artillery systems have been removed from here. There is nothing the Ukrainian armed forces can do here to counter the might of the Russian offenses.

Reserves are running out and the tactics that I spoke about a couple days ago, how Russian troops are attacking today near ADveyevka and Donetsk directions (by the way they took several strong points in the area of Peski and Kras nogorokva took some positions in the area north of Adveyevka - all this puts an extra pressure on the Ukrainian army and it brings results.

Because the losses that the enemy is suffering on this entire contact line (and our units are not really in a hurry to go forward, they are just grinding reserves here and taking new positions only when the enemy stops offering any resistance at all) that is the ratio of losses is now to the level of 1.15; 1.20 and it is clear that the Ukrainians cannot bear such losses for a long time. If the Russian command is able to maintain such an intensity of fire on this entire line for at least a week or two, it is obvious that at first the front will float and the enemy will roll back to the northwest quite quickly, surrendering Bahkmut and Solidar and in August we already see the battle for Savyansk and Kramatorsk already.


32 posted on 08/05/2022 1:06:06 PM PDT by Cathi
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To: Widget Jr

The Nazis are at fault. 8 years of stupidity and they paid for it......


33 posted on 08/05/2022 1:28:25 PM PDT by blackberry1
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To: MercyFlush

Time will tell if Macgregor is right or wrong. If Russia breaks though and seizes Ukraine all the way to the big river or if the Ukraine counter attack pushes the Russians back to the Crimea. Or if it devolves into a sort of WW I war of attrition. In a war of attrition the USA can keep sending Billions of Bucks until the end of time and Russia can’t—Its a Ukraine/Soros Victory. But such a war might take until 2026 -28, well into Biden’s Second Term.


34 posted on 08/05/2022 3:56:51 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade ( Ride to the sound of the Guns!)
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To: Forward the Light Brigade

“Time will tell if Macgregor is right or wrong.”

In this much I will agree. That said, Macgregor is still an employee/contractor of a Russian state-owned news agency.


35 posted on 08/05/2022 4:12:56 PM PDT by MercyFlush (☭☭☭ Soviet Russia must be destroyed. ☭☭☭)
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To: Cathi
I thought the interview and Macgregor's perspective was interesting. I thought the same of Trump's thinking on exiting Afghanistan; One of the reasons I voted for him! Thing is he never got around to it but Biden did, not the way Trump probably would have done it but there it is.

Trump thought enough of Macgregor that he was one of five finalists under consideration for National Security Advisor, and also nominated U.S. Ambassador to Germany though not approved for either.

In a day and age when no information from the MSM in our country seems truthful, helpful, or the slightest bit patriotic, including Mrs. Smith's cat was rescued from a tree, I think there's a problem with the Daily Mail's constant refrain of how Ukraine is kicking Russia's behind everyday.

I think it's obvious Putin has taken a light touch on Ukraine to a degree but not so much as we have been led to believe.

The first casualty of war is the truth. Everyone has an agenda, I know NOTHING!

36 posted on 08/05/2022 4:33:49 PM PDT by WhoisAlanGreenspan? (It's a failed virus but a hugely successful propaganda campaign.)
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To: WhoisAlanGreenspan?

“Thing is he (Trump) never got around to it but Biden did”


There were a lot of things Trump wanted to do; but wasn’t allowed to by the Deep State + the military + Republicans. And, yes, getting out of Afghanistan was one of them. He did finally get a time line established, but even that was like pulling teeth.

He also wanted to get out of NATO. He felt that after the Soviet withdrawal and the end of the Warsaw Pact that there was no need for NATO and he did not think that Russia was a threat. He likes Putin and felt we could work with them; but the Deep State + Dems + media demonized both Trump and Putin and made that impossible.

BTW, if he had “won” in 2020 he intended to attempt again to get out of NATO.

But, until someone is able to drain the swamp even having a great president like Trump will not be enough to allow the change that is so necessary.


37 posted on 08/05/2022 5:08:01 PM PDT by Cathi
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To: Cathi

I agree with you completely on that.


38 posted on 08/05/2022 5:18:03 PM PDT by WhoisAlanGreenspan? (It's a failed virus but a hugely successful propaganda campaign.)
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Excellent CNN file on Colonel MacGregor

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/04/politics/kfile-douglas-macgregor-german-ambassador-pick/index.html

German ambassador pick disparaged immigrants and refugees, called for martial law at US-Mexico border

Em Steck Andrew Kaczynski
By Em Steck and Andrew Kaczynski, CNN
Published 3:35 PM EDT, Tue August 4, 2020


39 posted on 08/05/2022 5:46:25 PM PDT by Cathi
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To: bigbob

I find it fascinating that the same creeps who shill for Russia are right there jumping the shark for the chicoms.

Taiwan is a free country and China doesn’t “own’ $hit there anymore than England owns us.

Your views are vile and you’re back in my ignore. Just answered to point out you’re also a slime for Red China.

And actually there’s a lot we can do about it. Just like you’re learning in Ukraine.

Bye


40 posted on 08/05/2022 6:10:01 PM PDT by Williams (Stop Tolerating The Intolerant)
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