Discarding Illusions, Ending Wars, by Colonel (ret.) Douglas Macgregor

From the beginning of the Ukraine-Russia war, Douglas Macgregor has been right about 90 percent of the time. From Macgregor at thekennedybeacon.substack.com:

From the moment the war in Ukraine started, Western reporting on the war was a radical repudiation of the truth. Washington and its NATO allies always knew that NATO expansion to Russia’s borders would precipitate an armed conflict with Moscow, but NATO’s ruling globalist class did not care. For them, Russia in 2022 was unchanged from the weak and incapable Russia of the late 1990s. The risk of failure seemed low. Ergo, Russia could be bullied into submission.

Americans and most Europeans did not bother to question or analyze. Widespread strategic ignorance about Russia and Eastern Europe ensured that most Americans and even West Europeans would react quickly and viscerally to the Western media’s distorted images and lies about Russia. At the same time, tolerance for criticism of Washington’s role in fashioning the corrupt and deceitful conduct of the Volodymyr Zelenskyy Regime and its war was disallowed in the press.

Washington’s ruling class was cheered when it dismissed Russian proposals for talks on any grounds that did not recognize NATO’s right to transform Ukraine into a base for U.S. and Allied Military Power aimed at Russia. Ukrainian flags sprouted from the lush grounds of America’s wealthier neighborhoods like flowers in an arboretum and wonders in the form of limitless military assistance, miracle weapons, and cash were promised to President Zelenskyy––promises that strategic reality did not justify.

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One response to “Discarding Illusions, Ending Wars, by Colonel (ret.) Douglas Macgregor

  1. Sun von Rommel's avatar Sun von Rommel

    These things happen when one side prepares for WAR since 2014 and the other side plays bearded lady pronouns in the safe space.
    Watched the Prigo tuning his orchestra at dawn video and they have all their sh1t in one sock, not so much for the rainbow bathhouse.

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