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To: Cronos

He’s not a clown and he’s not alone in that early opinion because people were looking at the Ukrainian army and comparing it with the Russian army and knew the Ukraine would lose.
What they didn’t know was that this was NATO’s war. Everyone at the command level was NATO and the Ukrainians were just proxies. So the time estimates and hardware estimates had to add the combined resources of NATO, including command and control and hardware, to the actual estimate.

Since then, MacGregor and others have been very reliable - once people knew this was NATO vs Russia the estimates got better. For example, NATO can only field about 1/8 the ammunition Russia can. Numbers - they favor Russia overwhelmingly.

MacGregor points out that the Ukraine and others all tout the donations of tanks, but that the Ukraine doesn’t have sufficient air cover and the tanks will be destroyed. MacGregor and others know that the Ukraine lost the capacity to win some time ago. Even the Ukrainian head of military forces said months ago in an article in the Economist that he knew what he needed to win, and that NATO didn’t have it to give to him. This is what MacGregor and others have been saying.

So you can keep going back to last year when the public wasn’t aware this was a NATO war using Ukrainians as cannon fodder, but the Ukraine is still losing this war, and most of the men in the Ukraine.


5 posted on 03/22/2023 12:30:51 PM PDT by ransomnote (IN GOD WE TRUST)
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To: ransomnote

The Ukrainians have been very quick studies, plus they are VERY motivated. It’s pretty clear that they were underestimated by everyone.


9 posted on 03/22/2023 12:39:02 PM PDT by BlackAdderess (Evidently the fringe left has seen "something nasty in the woodshed" Ala Stella Gibbons)
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To: ransomnote

He is a clown who has failed in his putinist propaganda time and time again. Mirroring Russian failures in the field.


13 posted on 03/22/2023 12:49:11 PM PDT by Cronos
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To: ransomnote

So you can keep going back to last year when the public wasn’t aware this was a NATO war using Ukrainians as cannon fodder, but the Ukraine is still losing this war, and most of the men in the Ukraine.
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Demographics show the pre war population of Ukraine was 40 million, today, 22-26 million. Their 18-60 male population has been decimated, millions have fled, died, etc…

If the US population of 330 million was reduced to Ukrainian numbers, the US would have 200 million some citizens left- think about the situation Ukraine is in…..and yet the collective West MSM will have you believe they are winning…


18 posted on 03/22/2023 12:50:06 PM PDT by delta7
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To: ransomnote

Macgregor never improved, he just kept saying the same thing over and over, always that it is over, Ukraine is done now.

Every month the same prediction.


22 posted on 03/22/2023 1:05:32 PM PDT by ansel12 (NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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To: ransomnote

Oh, so Russia started a war and it was UNFAIR that NATO stood up to help Ukraine beat back literal and convicted Russian rapists and murderers (Wagner)?

Waaaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!!!!


27 posted on 03/22/2023 1:56:30 PM PDT by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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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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