Sad. They lost 40,000 in gory fighting last month alone, according to estimates which Col Macgregor believes are accurate. They are forced to crawl out under fire to attack the first of 3 lines of Russian defenses as the Russians build a 4th line behind the others. Remnants of platoons are surrendering because they can’t fight as it would mean abandoning the injured - there are too many injured to continue the fight. They are forced to die in the effort to make it look like ‘progress’ is being made so the war will continue to be funded.
So they have a raid and quickly put up a flag to make it look like they are still viable, knowing it’s a hit and run. The dying continues.
MacGregor believes anything that excuses him from admitting an error. Hence after being vastly wrong, from a couple of weeks in, he pretty much had to go all in with Russian propaganda.
He could have said “well, that parts not going well”. But no, he had to go with “they meant to do that”. And he was trapped.
All for the sake of his amour propre.
That’s the trouble with guys like that.