Bakhmut is over. If anyone thinks Russia will return the Dunbass after this blood and soil fight, they're smoking a large Zelenskyy.
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Bakhmut is over. If anyone thinks Russia will return the Dunbass after this blood and soil fight, they're smoking a large Zelenskyy.
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I truly don’t know what’s with Douglas McGregor, but he has been certain that Ukraine was about to collapse tomorrow every day since the war started.
My father was an AAC radio mechanic on Guam after it was retaken from the Japanese. For most of my life I believed that the US had routed the Japanese from the island by superior military force. It was only more recently that I learned that the Japanese soldiers ran off the island because they were afraid that the weight of the American soldiers and their materiel could have caused Guam to tip over, throwing them all into the ocean.
In WW II, the majority of infantry casualties were caused by artillery. Today modern artillery can fire a devastating shell over 20 miles with pinpoint accuracy. Combine that capability with drones armed with incredibly sophisticated surveillance capability, deployed troop formations don’t stand a chance. Even in trenches soldiers are killed by the vibrations alone. Like the Spanish Civil War before it, the Ukrainian war is changing the nature of warfare. War colleges everywhere are noting the new realities. The new technologies are making land armored vehicles, naval surface combatants, helicopters and fixed wing aircraft in battle zones obsolete. One could hope that the new technologies are making war so terrible and costly that future wars will not be an option for leaders. History demonstrates that the world will never come to that point.
Macgregor seems to have friends on the inside somewhere who give him accurate info on the capabilities and general disposition of Russian arms and Ukraine forces.
He then seems to extrapolate that to assume certain events, typically immediate “collapse” of Ukraine armed forces, which clearly has not occurred.
Regardless, I appreciate him because he is one of the few alternative voices to the USA state-run media. The western propaganda from controlled media is so overwhelming, its impossible to know any but the most obvious details of this war.
This is weeks old, reposted by someone trying to get views on the youtubes. Macgregor really needs to get his own official You Tube channel, or at least his own site or blog listing his interviews by date with links to the originals.
That said, I agree with Macgregor about some things, disagree about others. He’s been right about certain things, wrong about others. Like everything else in this war, one needs to eat a lot of salt when trying to digest “information”.
My take: I’ve always thought the smartest thing the Russians could do is hold the line and just sit there and let the Ukrainians keep feeding troops into the Bakhmut cauldron until they are sufficiently attritted.
Nuland & Friends reportedly want the Ukrainians to attack Crimea. There is some evidence to support this, especially the newer stuff NATO is sending them and discussing sending (longer range missiles, jets, etc.). But who knows? Fog of war and all that. I have my doubts about how much difference the tanks provided by NATO will make, but I’m just a civvie, so what do I really know.
Anyway, I don’t see how the Ukrainians can pull off the win the US demands (return to 2013 borders) without NATO military personnel getting involved more than they already are. If that happens, what does Russia do?
The Red Army destroyed the greatest military force on earth in 1943-45 using massed artillery to drive the Wehrmacht all the way back to Germany. History repeats.
Artillery has never won a war or been especially effective. Ask the Pacific Marines from WW2.
Interesting views.
One of the only voices that tells the other sides story.
IMHO- Once you hit the mute button and ignore someone else and their position, conflict will arise or get worse. When the West ignored Russia regards NATO East expansion, ignored Russia regards the ballistic missile treaty and leaving it, building a massive missile defense system and then even putting it along the Russians border... We set the stage for this war.
I know this is not a popular opinion because after all we like to see ourselves as the good guys. But regards this war in Ukraine, if you’re going to assign blame, it’s first and foremost this US administration. Relations with Russia started to decay as we pushed for NATO East expansion past and present. Frankly, if we were in their shoes we would see and do the same thing.
Regards the media-
McGreggor mentions the MSM and how they are in the pockets of a globalist agenda. I cannot agree more.
Our MSM today is defined by a few big media conglomerates, 6 of them to be precise. 90% of what we hear, see and read comes from a few original content and merely six presenters and that is why you end up with funny stuff like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWLjYJ4BzvI
There are times where all the forces controlling the media come together.
The EU wanted Ukraine in the EU and NATO.
The US wanted Ukraine in the EU and NATO.
It’s big corporate interests and financial institutions that were pushing it in the first place.
Government is on board with it as well, may it be in the EU or US.
You have a Democrat President, and much of the MSM is very favorable to the Democrats both at a journalist level and their top executives. Of the 6 major conglomerates, only one is aligned with the Republicans, the other 5 Democrat. That is why you maybe get one news show with a Tucker Carlson that may say something which isn’t lockstep with this administration regards Ukraine.
This isn’t like Iraq where the Democrats decided to go anti-war in 2004 under Dean (opposition politics) during the election run ups and the media immediately jumped on board with them.
This isn’t like the Iraq war where you had a few Euro nations apposed to the war, i.e. France and Germany and where much of the anti-war press coverage was non-stop, spilled over into the US...
In this case, Ukraine, EVERYONE is on board, so you get only one side.
The only voices you’ll hear that are not simply regurgitating the script, “Russia bad, Ukraine good” are those independents like a McGreggor or if you reach out and somehow try to read and see what the other side says. Trying to hear the other side is hard though, since we at a governmental level have decided to outright censor them. Where you might get news that shows other arguments than the official party line is from India etc. Countries where we do not outright censor but are not entirely aligned with us and have a media that isn’t entirely owned by us.
So yes, while it sounds conspiratorial, it really is true, you’re only getting one side of the story here regards Ukraine and it requires an active effort by the reader/viewer to see anything else.
FUZ!
Col. M is equal in value to the Z fanatics’ citing Daily Mail etc. What do you and they hope to accomplish by posting these on FR?
But... but ... but ... what happened to Ukraine willing send $$$?
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American gung ho volunteers
I trust the thoughts of Conor McGregor more than this Douglas guy. I still think this thing ends with some territory concessions but Putin will not win in a rout.
From Balaclava to Berlin and now Bakhmut, the one thing the Russians/soviets know and employ is massed artillery. History repeats...
