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Douglas Macgregor - The Bottom Line
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General Millie's job is the senior
advisor to the president of the United
States he has already to reach out to
anybody that's one of the problems that
General milley has he seems to think
he's got Authority that he doesn't
what he did is that he leaked to the New
York Times comments that he made to
President Biden
incidentally he leaked information that
he had shared with President Bush or
excuse me president Trump when he was in
office he seems to do that in the hopes
that this will somehow another Elevate
his position
it's the wrong thing to do but in the
course of leaking to the New York Times
apparently he leaked this information
because just as president Trump had
rejected his advice on one or two
occasions you have the same thing
happening now with President Biden and
when he suggested that the ukrainians
had done all that they could reasonably
expected to do and this was probably the
right time to negotiate he was told
forget it out of the question
we're not negotiating with the Russians
uh and he didn't like it and so he
decided to leak it well within 24 hours
he was obviously reprimanded and he went
public and recanted everything that he
had said and talked again about fighting
until the last Ukrainian is dead and we
have shipped the last round of
ammunition
so unfortunately I think that's where we
are and when Biden or anybody else says
well if the Russians want to end the war
we'll talk to them what they're really
saying is that if you capitulate if you
surrender to us on our terms which is
why I use the carthaginian piece then uh
we'll talk to you well that's absurd
you know Russia is not going to
surrender to the West that's nonsense
uh on the contrary if we push this the
war will simply escalate and it will
find its way into Europe and to the
United States and that's the last thing
we want
we need to understand that uh what's
happened is that the uh
the United States and British
intelligence agencies have created a
false narrative
and the media in both of those countries
as well as the media in Western Europe
have been given instructions
to repeat this narrative Ad nauseam and
all of you have heard it the Russians
are losing the Russians can't win uh the
Russians are incompetent uh NATO will be
victorious ukrainians will win and on
and on and on this is a big lie this is
being alive from day one
and Ursula plunder lion quite I guess
unconsciously spoke the truth
uh she didn't say a hundred thousand
officers she said a hundred thousand
Ukrainian troops and she said 20 000
civilians well that may well be true but
now it's over a hundred thousand
Ukrainian soldiers it's closer to 120
000 Ukrainian soldiers plus probably 20
000 civilians
and we're going to see more civilian
deaths because it's a war zone and that
war zone is is not going to improve it's
going to become much more lethal instead
of telling people the truth which would
obviously embarrass President Biden and
all of his supporters on the hill as
well as the current and previous British
prime ministers and British Parliament
who all are
posturing as moralizing globalists
trying to tell us all how bad and evil
we are
uh as a result they're not going to
release the truth so she's been told to
shut up back off and do what she's told
just as general milley was but the truth
is what Millie said was accurate and the
truth is that what Wonderland said was
accurate Russians aren't losing they've
lost comparatively few troops compared
to the ukrainians their exchange rate
right now is about one Russian for every
eight Ukrainian dead
that's not a good exchange rate if
you're if you're going to argue that
you're winning the war that's an
exchange rate for someone who is
definitely losing Russia has not been
harmed by sanctions the people that have
been harmed of us by sanctions are our
allies in Europe and ourselves
I mean stop and consider the plight of
farmers in Europe and the United States
and around the world who don't have
access to fertilizer
the overwhelming majority of the
fertilizer is supplied to the World by
Russia and Beatle Russia and to a lesser
extent Ukraine the same thing is true
for wheat and a whole range of other
products the the bottom line is that
Russia has actually thrived it's only
the top 10 or 15 percent of the Russian
population
that is not getting some of the
Exquisite Products that come out of
Italy France and the United States I'm
talking about things like uh perfume or
leather bags or some other thing you
know the things that are uh
discretionary items not things that you
need to survive but the Russian
population as a whole its standard of
living is as good as it was when this
began
and the Russians have adjusted and they
have found other markets for their fuel
for their energy for their timber for
their minerals for everything
so this whole thing from the beginning
was a dumb idea because the underlying
assumption was that we could somehow or
another isolate Russia for the rest of
the world that's absurd it was never
possible and the Russians clearly were
not prepared for a major war but now
they are and as a result they're going
to build forces in the future that are
even more capable and more powerful than
what we saw 30 or 40 years ago and
that's the the cruelest aspect of this
whole thing
the very thing that we said we were
going to try to do which was to weaken
Russia by forcing it to fight in Ukraine
at the expense of Ukraine has failed and
what instead we are going to see is a
much stronger and more capable Russia
than existed at the beginning of this
process the Russians are going to
complete the task of annihilating
Ukrainian armed forces and I suspect
they will destroy this government I'd be
very surprised if the Ukrainian
leadership survives the next two or
three months
uh and the outcome is going to be defeat
defeat for Ukraine and we and our
partners in in Europe are going to look
ridiculous now there is one possibility
and that is that the Europeans
particularly the Germans wake up to
reality
to figure out that they've been lied to
about everything
and they suddenly say that's it we've
had it we're out
and when that happens or if that happens
the whole thing collapses in the West
but right now we're just on the path to
search and defeat
and no one wants to admit that and so
the argument is well we won't be
defeated we'll just keep sending in more
equipment sending in more cash
try to find more mercenaries that'll go
over there and man equipment and fight
for the ukrainians I don't see that as a
winning proposition I think time is on
Russia's side not on Eris and the
Russians live there we don't the real
real issue here is that Americans have
got to start paying attention to reality
we have no business in evolving
ourselves in Wars five or six thousand
miles from our country
certainly not unless there is something
at stake for us and in this case there's
nothing at stake for us the only real
interest we ever had was in peace and
what we're having is what we're dealing
with right now is war that we didn't
want and didn't need
this harming everyone once the Soviet uh
Union and and the supporting Warsaw tax
system
all collapsed in fell apart that was the
beginning of the end of the post-world
war order
now what's happened is that since we
clung tenaciously to the past and
refused to let anything go we've been
trying for the last 30 years to
effectively freeze
uh the International System in a way
that we see as beneficial to us
well it may be beneficial to us in some
ways but it's not beneficial to the rest
of the world
the Russians are simply the first ones
to stand up and say that's enough no
more we're not prepared to be exploited
by you financially we're not prepared to
turn our country over to you to be
dismembered and destroyed
and we've watched what you've done in
other countries we're not going to let
you do that to us and by the way the
Chinese the Indians and dozens of other
countries on on the planet have reached
the same conclusion which is why when
you look at this war the only people
that have been interested in supporting
us at all are really our lives in
Western Europe and some in Eastern
Europe but not everybody
and you begin to see that the vast
majority of countries are either
disinterested or actively support Russia
zelenski has made a terrible mistake by
trying to pin the missile strikes on
Russia everyone knows that the Russians
had nothing to do with it and what he's
done is sacrificed what little
credibility he has left
increasingly he's viewed especially in
Europe where more and more truth is
getting through to the populations he's
seen as the mayor of the capital of
disinformation and fiction
the truth is that the situation Ukraine
finds it in itself in right now is
really quite desperate uh the Russians
have systematically dismantled most of
the energy system
people are lacking in terms of Heat and
the lack of heat is not the only problem
when you destroy the energy grid it also
it has implications for the availability
of water and transportation and food and
so forth
bottom line is Ukraine is being prepared
for a massive offensive launched by the
Russians sometime over the next week or
two weeks or three weeks once the ground
is Thoroughly Frozen
and that build up right now has reached
about 540 000 Russian troops over 300
000 in the South a little over two
hundred thousand in the North
uh with a thousand rocket artillery
systems five thousand armored fighting
Vehicles including at least 1500 tanks
uh huge quantities of artillery tactical
ballistic missiles all of these things
have been readied for a massive assault
that is designed ultimately to end the
war
and tragically we keep insisting that
the ukrainians not negotiate that they'd
talk about it but do nothing and this
really consigns Ukraine and its
population to more suffering and certain
defeat
I think General Billy is aware of what I
just described he knows about the
Russian military buildup he knows the
true state of the Ukrainian Armed Forces
which is miserable
and he did something that he's done
before he has a bad habit of leaking his
private advice to the president to the
Press he did that to Trump
and he's done it out of Biden and what
he leaked was true uh although that
doesn't say much for him because he
hasn't been very truthful to this point
but I think he's afraid I think he's
afraid that we might consider
intervening somehow another in Ukraine
as Ukraine is finally and completely
defeated
so I think he said the following he said
look uh ukrainians have done about all
they can reasonably do
we shouldn't expect them to do more than
they have and secondly this is a good
time to negotiate actually speaking it's
not there are no more good times to
negotiate because the Russians hold all
of the cards and the ukrainians hold
nothing
the best ukrainians can hope for at this
point is a ceasefire and then they'll
have to agree to seed large quantities
of territory and end this war because if
they don't they're going to be utterly
and completely destroyed and I think
Billy knows that so he leaked that to
the New York Times because it was made
clear to him by the president the
president's advisors the Secretary of
State virtually every everyone on the
civilian side of the equation said
absolutely not we will not negotiate
and I I think the reason for that is
very obvious they do not want to admit
that they were wrong that they should
have stopped this war months ago before
it got started they don't want to admit
that they have been lying to the
American people repeatedly about the
true State of Affairs on the ground in
Ukraine
but Billy is afraid that he might be
asked to do something that the forces we
have on the ground in Poland might be
asked to do something he doesn't want to
do it and for good reason we're in no
position to go to war with Russia and
anything that we might do on the ground
would would fail miserably and we'd be
embarrassed
but obviously no one is listening uh and
now when I say no one I mean no one in
Washington you have some Republicans
some conservatives who've raised issues
about the the money but even there
there's no there's no real understanding
of just how desperate the situation is
in Western Ukraine so what we can look
forward to in addition to this massive
offensive is the migration of several
million more ukrainians to the West
because they have nowhere else to go the
military uh headquarters and most of the
uh remaining power that exists is all
being channeled to the Far Western part
of Ukraine towards live off which sits
uh just about 20 miles from the Polish
border the ukrainians know what's coming
there's not much they can do about it at
this point but instead of throwing them
a Lifeline we've essentially told them
to sync with the ship that they're on
because remember we ship over equipment
but most of the dollars don't go to
Ukraine they they are just simply
laundered through the process and end up
in the pockets of donors and the donors
when they're happy end up subsidizing
the members of the senate in the house
who support the bad policies they
advocate so this is a sort of
self-licking ice cream cone at the same
time we have no idea what happens to
much of the equipment some of it is used
some of it is resold we are of course
subsidizing what remains of the
Ukrainian State and the Ukrainian
government they're effectively now a a
dependent of the United States and
American largest
all of these people will benefit Ukraine
will be destroyed ultimately what will
emerge from all of this is uh probably a
rump Ukraine with everything South to
the Black Sea and to the east of the
upper river under permanent Russian
control and that rump Ukraine will be
left to die on the vine as some sort of
neutral territory and no one will
mention it again once it happens what do
we do whenever we go somewhere and we
fail miserably and we leave we stop
talking about it we stop talking about
Vietnam after we left we've stopped
talking about Iraq and Afghanistan we've
stopped we've never really talked about
Libya so wherever we go and we fail we
just stop talking and people move on to
the next Cash Cow well the armchair
generals and warmongers lose interest
once there's no more money in it and
they all want to cover up the failure
the danger of course with Ukraine is
very different
I mean right now we could use all of
those troops on the southern border uh
we could be saving hundreds of thousands
of lives across the country by stopping
the movement of the Fentanyl and other
illicit drugs by stopping the human
trafficking you know we're seeing
billions of young men uh migrate into
the United States from Latin America and
other places we know nothing about them
we don't know where they're going to end
up but these are hardly refugees in the
sense that we normally think of it
so the the attempt in Washington seems
to be on the one hand to destroy
everything
uh in the United States and to try and
save this uh you know Ukrainian
construct which frankly is about to go
out of existence I'm beginning to think
that
bite and his friends have the sort of
reverse Midas Touch everything they
touch turns to garbage
well I think this Administration has
very little room uh to maneuver it
either supports this or it doesn't if it
doesn't
then we'll witness uh a new glitter arms
race that nobody really wants and all of
us can't afford it so my hope is that
something positive will come out of
these talks but in the meantime
I don't know how much worse it can get
economically you have many countries
overseas that are dumping U.S treasuries
our position here at home continues to
weaken and having brought in billions
more of illegals one wonders how in the
event did we continue into this deep
recession or Worse how we can afford to
maintain all of these people inside our
borders who are not citizens
it's a bad situation but no one seems to
be concerned about it until it gets to
the point where everything imposed so I
I think we're coming to that point I
hope it's not as bad as Sri Lanka but I
think we're on a very dangerous road and
this Administration has no good answers
except to double down on existing
policies all of which are failures
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