Posted on 07/16/2023 2:53:20 AM PDT by RandFan
@ChuckCallesto
Retired Colonel Douglas Macgregor takes a blow torch too Lindsay Graham — He does what his billionaire donors tell him to — Likens Mark Zuckerberg and Bill Gates to western oligarchs.
(Video @ Link).
He also says THIS:
@DougAMacgregor
The rest of the world looks upon us as the aggressor in Ukraine.
If Russia were the aggressor that place would look like a parking lot and the Russians would be well on their way to the Polish border.
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Colonel MacGregor’s problem is that not a lot of people care what he thinks.
Colonel MacGregor’s problem is that not a lot of people care what he thinks.
This guy has the best understanding of how and why the Russians were drawn into this. This thread is another example of his keen understanding of the individuals in DC who are running this crap show. Some of his predictions regarding the Russians don’t follow his time line because he has had a tendency to discount the restraint the Russians continue to show.
That is a cogent analysis thank you.
I wish more people could see it
Restraint? Read incapacity.
What assets has Russia got left?
Enough to run NATO out of ammunition and to stop their much ballyhooed counteroffensive dead in its tracks. Since they are NOT wanting to take over Ukraine, they’ve done pretty much what they’ve wanted? How much more destructive force should they employ and why? That was Prigozhin main beef. Prigozhin said to forget the restraint, end this now.
Simple. If the Russians had the ability they would have broken through and cut the Ukrainian army off from the Dneiper crossings. They tried several variations of that. Had they succeeded the war would have been over in a week, and stopped the bleeding. Continuing this is costing Russia enormously.
If they could, they would. But they can’t. They haven’t got a mass of maneuver, nor reserves, nor secret weapons.
Right now they are depending on mines and artillery to resist a Ukrainian attack.
Their major objective was to “demilitarize” Ukraine - render it incapable of opposing Russia - and reduce its status to the equivalent of Belorussia. They claimed nothing about territory at the time of invasion.
NATO is low on SOME ammunition that the peculiar situation in Ukraine particularly stresses. Notably 155mm artillery. This is hardly the sum total of NATO capacity. NATO is low because stocks and mfg capacity assumed a different sort of war for THIS weapon system.
The US/NATO doctrine stresses other weapons, which have barely been touched, or not at all.
Macgregor is correct. Macgregor is still a nutjob.
BTTT
Their manufacturing base, all their nukes, most jets, artillery, humans…
Per your last sentence, you expect the other party in a war to state clearly and accurately what their plans and goals are?
Per your complaint, you expect the other party in a war to claim that their inadequate gains were what they were really after all along?
Er, what?
Listen to the interview with Robert Kennedy on Ukraine to learn exactly why the mess has happened and continues.
He is 100 percent correct no matter what you think of him,me included,he has been 100 percent correct on the Covid fiasco and here on Ukraine.
If you think I’m a left winger,have never voted democrat in my lif,voted for Trump and will do it again next year,but on these two issues Kennedy is 100 percent spot on
I, and you, have no idea what the true goals are/were…both initially and currently.
I don’t care about either country. I want us to mind our business and not escalate this into something far worse.
Side note- I hope your countryman loses today. Though he seems very nice…
You’re not alone many, many on here agree with you. I can’t speak for everyone but im rooting for RFK despite him having zero chance it’s great to get the debate on THOSE TWO ISSUES
Spain has a horde of tennis players.
It’s because of Francisco Franco. He built massive amounts of public housing, and he had tennis courts put in all of them. He intended tennis to be the sport of the proletariat. The people resisted for a while, insisting on playing football, but in the end the dictator has been getting his way, with him being 50 years in the grave.
So one Djokovich will be overwhelmed, eventually, and Spain will own it all.
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