Posted on 03/05/2022 9:25:03 AM PST by xzins
TREY GOWDY: Why do you think Putin is doing this? What is his end game?
COL. DOUG MACGREGOR: Well, Vladimir Putin is carrying through on something that he has been warning us about at least for the last 15 years, which is he will not tolerate U.S. forces or missiles on his borders. Much as we would not tolerate Russian missiles or troops in Cuba.
And we ignored him and he finally acted. He was not going to allow Ukraine, under any circumstances, to join NATO.
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Fox reporter Jen Griifin got royally PO’d at MacGregor.
Sounds like he has Putin Puff syndrome...
The Ukrainians want to die for their country. America benefits from the diminution of Russian military capability.
MacGregor sees no problem in surrendering to tyranny. Thank God he was not around in 1776.
So do I. I don’t like the guy. He makes SOME valid points but what does he think the Ukes should do? His argument is basically the same as if when our forefathers were fighting the British we should have not angered the King so that people wouldn’t die. Screw that.
You beat me by a hair. GMTA.
To be fair, I’m all for sending as many Redittors as possible.
In case he forgets, Russia has shared a border with at least one NATO ally for the past 70 years, and the USSR shared a border with even more. Yet...no invasion then. And the argument about missiles is simply ridiculous given that missiles don't have to be fired from a neighboring country anyway to make it to Russia. Russia can have a ballistic missile sub right off our coast that would be closer to Washington D.C. than any Ukrainian-based missiles would be to Russia.
The guy just wants to reconstitute the Russian Empire/USSR for his own ego-driven reasons. All the crap about Russia truly feeling "threatened" is propaganda.
Sounds like military reality to me.
If it were the Super Bowl, I’d say
Russia 42 Ukraine 14
All these retired generals are jagoffs sitting in the comfy chairs, I turn them off immediately.
All fighting last centuries wars.
I’m sure there were French military leaders (perhaps veterans of the Seven Years War) who saw no value in sending French men to die for colonials in the New World, and I believe if such men did exist they had a valid point. They also might have said that simply sending the colonials some muskets and cannons (and maybe a vessel or two) would just draw the conflict out and get more people killed; another valid point if it were made.
He’s a retired Colonel..but ok
Time will tell.
With corrupt, senile Joe Biden as acting Cdr in Chief, would he lead US troops to victory or would he lead them to slaughter?
Hunter’s up to his elbows in Ukrainian corruption, so I’d expect Joe to sell us out in another Afghanistan debacle.
I wouldn’t trust him to lead a kindergarten class to lunch.
Ukraine is already a tar baby just waiting for someone to walk up and touch it.
No fly = we shoot down their planes.
Can’t imagine that turning out good.
The members of Congress need to go to the Ukraine and start fighting.
We can promise them an impressive funeral in DC after their caskets are returned!
“If it were the Super Bowl, I’d say
Russia 42 Ukraine 14”
The mass media version is Ukraine 52 Russia 0
and a lot of Freepers are falling for it.
Had the Ukrainians got the fighter jets they were told,they were gonna get, this woil,d be a whole different war likely, but the nation that was gonna send them backed out. That convoy of Russian tanks and vehicles might not have made it through had the ukranians had jets to help stop it perhaps. But at any rate, the jets woil,dhave been a huge boon to them
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