Posted on 03/02/2022 10:47:27 AM PST by conservative98
Retired Army Colonel Douglas MacGregor joined Tucker Carlson on Fox News Tuesday to discuss the latest developments of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, noting that the first phase of Russia’s incursion is over, marking the “beginning of the end of the Ukrainian resistance.”
“The first five days, we witnessed a very slow, methodical movement of Russian forces into eastern Ukraine,” MacGregor said on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Tuesday.
“So this is a — this is the beginning, frankly of the end of Ukrainian resistance,” he added.
Carlson then asked MacGregor what Putin’s endgame is in this conflict, to which MacGregor replied that it’s to take a portion of Ukraine and establish a buffer zone separating NATO with Russia.
“I think Vladimir Putin set out to honor his word of 2007,” MacGregor said simply.
“In 2007 at the Munich Security Conference, he said: We will not tolerate the expansion of NATO to a point where your NATO, your border, is touching Russia, specifically Ukraine and Georgia. We see these as essentially Trojan horses for NATO’s military power and U.S. influence, subversion and so forth.“
“He then turned to several opportunities to reinforce that over and over and over again, most recently with President Biden in the hopes that he could avoid taking action to effectively clean out eastern Ukraine of any opposition forces whatsoever, and to put his forces in a position vis-a-vis NATO to deter us from any further attempts to influence or change Ukraine into effectively a platform for the projection of U.S. and Western power into Russia.““Now, his goal, as we see it, at the moment, is to seize this entire area of eastern Ukraine. That’s pretty clear. He is going to roll up to that river, up near Kyiv, he has actually moved over the river and is preparing to go in and capture that city entirely.“
“At that point, he has to decide what else he wants to do. I don’t think he wants to go any further west. I think he’d be very satisfied to hold that point. But he would like whatever emerges from this that we call Ukraine, whether it’s just the western side or it encompasses some of the east and the west of Ukraine to be neutral, non-aligned, and preferably friendly to Moscow, that he will accept. Anything short of that, his war has been a waste of time.“
MacGregor claimed the Biden administration should then respond by telling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to accept Putin’s terms because “there really is no choice.”
“I think President Biden and Sullivan, his National Security Adviser have already given some indication of their readiness to accept something like that,” he said. “They’re not going to have any choice. Either they accept it or then they put him in the position of having to do more than he would like to do, which would probably not go down well with NATO.”
“No one really wants Russian forces on their border, least of all Poland. So I think Sullivan and Biden will essentially tell Zelensky, if he is still the President at that point and if he is still running any semblance of the Ukrainian government, which is largely collapsing now. If he is still there, he is going to be told accept the deal, go neutral, because there really is no choice.”
Biden and the West can’t afford to send forces into Ukraine to push back Russian forces, so their bluster and rhetoric that they’ll take on Putin will fall apart in real time over the coming days, he said.
If he steps beyond Ukraine, I’m sure it’ll be global war.
You’re woefully ill-informed.
“Fox let this A$$hat back on after his last Putin butt-kissing performance?”
There was no Putin butt-kissing in that interview.
It was assessment based in realism.
Realpolitik.
But it’s apparent you agree with Jennifer Griffin on the matter.
MacGregor is a clown. Another O-6 poser who maybe commanded a brigad and went to the Army War College, thinks he has some grand understanding of what is going on when he’s as clueless as everyone else.
NATO has been on Russia's border for more than 70 years already. But okay, what happens if Russia annexes Ukraine, and finds itself up against NATO member Poland. Putin "won't accept that", so does that mean war with Poland? Or does he finally right that 70 year wrong and take out Norway?
Unfortunately, too many people think that anyone who disputes the widespread "fake news" and other propaganda is somehow magically 'supporting Putin.'
Guess all of the imaginary "Putin supporters" will get to join the imaginary "racists" who disagreed with Obama's policies, and the imaginary "sexists" who disagreed with Hillary's policies...
Good analysis. Thanks
He lied last time he was on. I’ll take whatever he says with a grain of salt
“You’re woefully ill-informed.”
…said the believer of Russian propaganda.
Who?
Jake Sullivan and Lloyd Austin.
Yep.
His name was Hiroo Onoda and it was an island in the Philippines. His book, “My Thirty Year War” details his experience.
Because he doesn't buy febrile delusions?
If the Russians March into Kiev, does that mean the war is over?
If not, then why would they March into Kiev?
Saw that. He said Russia would not have invaded without the okay and financial support from China. True.
bkmk
“The last Japanese soldier to surrender was on Guam in 1974.”
And the locals were getting really tired of that sucker stealing their eggs and laundry, killing their chickens,
At some point officials were concerned that he was going to get shot or fall into a boar trap (illegal of course).
Chamorro’s were on the lookout.
Russia wants to be Russia again, and has signaled the desire to use nukes to do it.
That means all territories formerly Russian or Soviet are in their sphere of influence, plus at least one layer of countries in the neutral zone.
That means much of the east coast of North America, to Holland and all of Scandinavia.
We can do little to help the Ukraine, but need to figure out what cities and countries we are going to risk nuclear war for. As in “How many US cities is stopping Russia worth?”
As a retired colonel myself, there ain’t no “top” retired colonels.
Colonel, USAF TJAGCR (Ret)
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