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What Ex-Colonel Douglas Macgregor Has Said About Ukraine War
Newsweek ^ | 20th March 2022 | Natalie Colorossi

Posted on 03/22/2023 12:22:09 PM PDT by Cronos

...In multiple interviews, Macgregor has confidently predicted that the conflict will end with Russia "annihilating" Ukrainian forces and winning the war. One such interview, with Carlson, was aired on Russia's state-controlled TV.

..."The battle in eastern Ukraine is really almost over, all of the Ukrainian troops there have been largely surrounded and cut off. You have a concentration down in the Southeast of 30 or 40,000 of them, and if they don't surrender in the next 24 hours, I suspect Russia will ultimately annihilate them."

Macgregor added that he believed Zelensky needed to "negotiate the best deal he can get," even if that means surrendering parts of eastern Ukraine to Russian forces and declaring neutrality in Western Ukraine. Later in the interview, Macgregor claimed that Western media is working to "demonize" Putin and Russia, and added that the U.S. should stay out of the conflict—and avoid sending any aid to Ukrainian forces.

Days later, Macgregor appeared in an interview with Fox Business' Stuart Varney and claimed that Russian forces had been too gentle in their initial attacks.

"The first five days Russian forces I think frankly were too gentle," he said. "They've now corrected that. So, I would say another 10 days this should be completely over."

On Thursday, Macgregor told Carlson that he believes Ukrainians have already been defeated and that both nations "are very close right now to a ceasefire."

"The war is really over for the Ukrainians," Macgregor said

(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Russia
KEYWORDS: ass; kosovo; kosovogreg; kosovomacgreggor; kosovomemoryhole; macgregor; magreggorkosovo; nataliecolorossi; newsweak; newsweek; prisinaairport; pristinagreg; q; qanon; qtardsource; tuckercarlson; ukraine; wentfullqtard; wesleyclark; wesleyclarksboy; wesleyclarksstooge
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To: Cronos

I’ve put my money on Putin since Biden took office. Not disappointed yet.


41 posted on 03/22/2023 3:08:52 PM PDT by tupac (the crux of the biscuit is the apostrophe)
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To: Krosan

Thank you. The Russian agitators on here love to trot out this trope out at least once a week.

It’s still void of any substance or effect.


42 posted on 03/22/2023 3:13:08 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: MeganC

My position on the matter is at least documented; yours is pulled from a dark place.


43 posted on 03/22/2023 3:24:22 PM PDT by Chauncey Gardiner (Vivamus stultus ignarus mori )
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To: Chauncey Gardiner

No, you have NOTHING for documentation!

NOTHING!!!

NO TREATY
NO LETTER
NO AGREEMENT
NO MEMORANDUM
NO FAX
NO TELEGRAM
NO CANDYGRAM
NO SMOKE SIGNALS
NO TELETYPE
NO DECLARATION
NO VIDEO
NO AUDIO
NO 8-TRACK
NO CASSETTE
NO LASERDISC
NO CD
NO DVD
NO BLURAY

Nothing.


44 posted on 03/22/2023 3:30:03 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: bert

“Macgregor lacked the stuff to be made a General”
You mean he lacked the political subservience.
you don’t know jackSchiff


45 posted on 03/22/2023 3:30:29 PM PDT by A strike ("The worse, the better."- Lenin (& Schwab & Soros)
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To: Chauncey Gardiner; MeganC

MeganC is best reason yet to repeal XIX.


46 posted on 03/22/2023 3:36:39 PM PDT by A strike ("The worse, the better."- Lenin (& Schwab & Soros)
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To: A strike

I’ve long supported the repeal of suffrage and have said so numerous times on FR.


47 posted on 03/22/2023 3:40:12 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: Cronos

So who’s winning now?

When this is over and Russia achieves most or all of its goals you guys will say they lost because it took too long despite casualties disparity

MacGregor like many was wrong including me to a degree

We figured Ukraine was dealing since they said they were

USA nixed that and the limited war by Putin failed no question because he fell for their talks feint

He should have razed Kiev when he was parked there attracting sappers

Now it’s a grind down war that looks abysmal for Ukraine even by some uniparty accounts via western media

But mark my words you guys will never admit defeat we know that

Btw like we said as kids

YOU AND OTHERS LIKE YOU HERE COULDNT CARRY COLONEL MACGREGORS JOCK STRAP

you have nothing to add but western propaganda to Cronos
But cling to anyone who uttered any wrong prediction in this war

I mean it is war being wrong is pretty normal

Russia is big bad commie and Pootie is Stalin junior with less hair and belly

Anyhow hugs !

Ukraine has fought like hell gotta admire that

Especially where I come from

They should have ignored the west but they didn’t cause too much cash flowing from us to them and them back to to uniparty deep state

You remember them right?


48 posted on 03/22/2023 3:50:42 PM PDT by wardaddy (Truth is treason in the Empire of lies)
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To: A strike

Regardless of the cause, it’s clear that MacGregor is struggling to accept that his dreams haven’t come true. As a result, he is now someone who spews insane propaganda to serve a hostile foreign power.

His previous intelligence and insight seem to have disappeared, as demonstrated by his statement from a year ago that Russia had already destroyed the Ukrainian military and it would only take a couple of days to mop things up.


49 posted on 03/22/2023 3:53:57 PM PDT by Krosan
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To: Chauncey Gardiner

You’re right, of course - 30 plus documented facts prove beyond any doubt that you are correct. However...there are buttloads of people at FR that won’t read them.


50 posted on 03/22/2023 3:55:52 PM PDT by katie didit
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To: ransomnote; silverleaf; Travis McGee; Pelham

Many of the agit prop brigade here don’t surprise me
I and Matt bracken went through this over Bush and open borders pathway crap which I opposed here against the majority and TOTB

Zotted for it both of us

Similar mindset

The 2023 Dane and howlin and sinkspur types of freepers

Personal attacks and calls for Viking kitties

But since them I know to be good posters and I can’t explain except to think they are still living the Cold War under the desk or in the hall way head tucked

The old black and yellow signs era


51 posted on 03/22/2023 3:56:01 PM PDT by wardaddy (Truth is treason in the Empire of lies)
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To: your other brother
Equipment is pouring into Ukraine now and once this new stuff hits the front lines and the ground hardens the war enters a totally new phase.

The new phase is called "Total Global Thermonuclear War" intended to kill 7.5 Billion souls as the WEF has demanded.

52 posted on 03/22/2023 4:01:49 PM PDT by higgmeister (In the Shadow of The Big Chicken!)
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To: PGR88

Macgregor claims extraordinary military expertise.
He led a US armored battalion in an extraordinary feat of arms in 1991. He claims to have inside information unavailable to the public, and given his background that is (or was) a credible assertion.

He is presumably a more credible person than clueless tabloid journalists recycling rumors, memes, and emotional Ukrainian propaganda.

But it turns out he isn’t more credible, he is less. Unlike the tabloid people he regularly makes cataclysmic predictions and characterizations of the situation that have proven to be entirely wrong.

There is something seriously off about Macgregor.


53 posted on 03/22/2023 4:04:27 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: MeganC

You have well surprised me.
As harsh as it was it should not have been so directed at you, my serious bad !!
FReeps


54 posted on 03/22/2023 4:04:56 PM PDT by A strike ("The worse, the better."- Lenin (& Schwab & Soros)
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To: katie didit

It was a link to nonsense written by a “Death to America” Russian academic Svetlana Savranskaya. None of her idiocy is true and I doubt any of those praising her even read it.


55 posted on 03/22/2023 4:09:56 PM PDT by Krosan
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To: Leaning Right

Welcome to war. You must extract truth from the fog of lies and confusion, and also bewildering masses of random facts. You aren’t going to be spoon-fed reality by some motherly authority that you implicitly trust.

Grow up and do the work.


56 posted on 03/22/2023 4:10:21 PM PDT by buwaya (Strategic imperatives )
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To: McGruff; bert

Colonel is arguably the highest rank not subordinated to politics. Brigadier general maybe. Stating that “Macgregor lacked the stuff to be made a General” will sound impressive to civilians.


57 posted on 03/22/2023 4:12:38 PM PDT by Pelham
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To: bert

Most colonels don’t make General.

I think the guy is a dope, but getting to Col. is better than most do.


58 posted on 03/22/2023 4:14:16 PM PDT by Vermont Lt
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To: buwaya
> Grow up and do the work. <

Oh, but I have done the work. And I’ve reached the same conclusion about ALL governments as George Carlin did many years ago. Perhaps you have reached a different conclusion. If so, more power to you.


59 posted on 03/22/2023 4:24:21 PM PDT by Leaning Right (The steal is real.)
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To: A strike

Kind regards to you as well.


60 posted on 03/22/2023 4:26:54 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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