RE: As former US Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor contended in a recent television interview: “I see no reason why we should fight with the Russians over something that they have been talking about for years, [and] we simply chose to ignore… We will not send our forces to fight, but we are urging Ukrainians to die pointlessly in a fight they can’t win. We’re going to create a far greater humanitarian crisis than anything you’ve ever seen if it doesn’t stop.”
I’m not getting what Col. Macgregor is trying to tell us in terms of what policy we should take — it seems he is telling the USA to just do nothing, follow China and abstain from voting against the invasion ( as 135 countries in the world did), and not even lead the world in any sanctions or tell NATO not to supply any arms.
Col. Macgregor, it seems is telling us to just let Russia take Ukraine and get it over with.
“To guarantee the continuation of its globalist misadventurism, the establishment had to control and limit the political discourse at home. It has done so largely in two ways. The first was to claim monopoly over ‘truth’, and to discredit anyone who might not go along with the endorsed narrative by doubting their patriotism and brandishing them as appeasers, apologists, and/or outright traitors.”
The author Norman Spinrad had a term for this: Official Reality. Anything outside Official Reality was suppressed.
“This is the fake, performative, and internationalist nationalism of the American elite class: they use emotional triggers to rally the people behind the flag of the state in the name of lofty humanitarian causes which mask their own self-importance and narcissistic greatness.”
I thought of Mitt Romney and Lindsey Graham. They do it because it works a lot of the time.