Given the original article, it is quite implicit that you were tying Macgregor's alleged bitterness over not getting promoted to why he comes across as habitually pro-Russian. Because why *else* would you ascribe character attributes about Macgregor (beyond sheer pettiness) unless you believed them to be relevant to the subject matter?
(For example: if someone were to hear about a guy involved with a controversial topic, and then immediately opine "yeah, the guy's got a temper", practically anyone listening in would logically conclude that they were trying to tie the guy's temper to the controversy in question. Because why bring it up otherwise?)
This is when I asked the following: He retired from the Army in 2004. That’s an awful long time to hold onto a grudge about a promotion. (But seriously, what evidence do you have that Macgregor’s views on Russia-Ukraine are tied to not getting promoted to Brigadier General?)
To which only then do you respond regarding Macgregor being pro-Russia, a contributor to RT, an irrelevant aside about Scott Ritter, him allegedly holding a grudge against his country, and him being wrong about everything regarding Russia/Ukraine.
The reason I assumed your retorts were tying Macgregor's pro-Russia stance to him being bitter about being passed up for promotion was because that's what your answer was to my question as-is.
If you didn't think, much less know, that Macgregor's pro-Russian stance is tied to him being bitter about the lack of promotion from Colonel...then why would you bother responding with all of that to my original question? You could have simply said "I don't think that, actually. I just wanted to say that I think Macgregor is a bitter and vindictive man for no particular reason."
I suppose it is what it is though. You can continue to opine about proper argumentation while condescendingly calling me 'kid' (as though that does anything to actually support your argument...which I'm sure you'd know, being such a learned practitioner) in the comfort of your own home.
Have a blessed evening.
“This was literally from your first post on this thread: ‘He has his fan boys here on FR. He is bitter towards his own country because he thinks he got short shrift because he was not promoted to Brigadier General. He is a spiteful, vindictive little man.’”
He IS bitter about that. His subordinate received the promotion Macgregor coveted, and that Macgregor thought he deserved.
You, however, are trying to say that I established a direct nexus between that bitterness and his pro-Russia, anti-West positions: I claimed no such nexus. However, as I mentioned, an argument could certainly be made that there is circumstantial and indirect evidence to support such a nexus (though whether or not it is convincing evidence is up to whomever considers it).
BTW: I refer to you as “kid” because you argue as one.
Time for that one to cry himself to sleep after a warm Ensure pudding.