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2022-10-28 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Douglas Macgregor, Col. (ret.): Playing War in Ukraine

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Posted by Besoeker 2022-10-28 03:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top

#1 Possibly not your favorite author, but even the broken clock has two daily points of accuracy.

Posted by Besoeker 2022-10-28 03:10|| 2022-10-28 03:10|| Front Page Top

#2 The excerpt above missed the most important part of Col. Doug Macgregor’s shrewd analysis: that Petraeus is reduced to mouthing such a stupid proposal is proof positive that the war is lost.

The Ukrainians are getting their asses kicked, and the Russians are about to — are starting to — bring the hammer down.

This is the key part of Col. Macgregor’s astute analysis:

Petraeus’s suggestion confirms two critical insights.

First, the perilous state of the Ukrainian Armed Forces. Absent the foreign fighters and Polish soldiers fighting in Ukrainian uniform, Ukraine has little left to withstand the Russian winter offensives. The series of Ukrainian counterattacks over the last 60 to 90 days have cost Ukraine tens of thousands of lives, human capital in uniform that Kiev cannot replace.

Second, it is the 11th hour. The Russian sledgehammer scheduled to fall on the Zelensky regime in the November or December timeframe, or whenever the ground freezes, will crush whatever remains of Ukrainian forces.

In other words, Petraeus’s real message is that the only way to prolong the life of the Zelensky regime is for Washington and its coalition of the willing to intervene directly before it's too late.

Posted by Billy B 2022-10-28 08:40|| 2022-10-28 08:40|| Front Page Top

#3 More wisdom from Col. Doug Macgregor — fortunately, someone in DC still remembers what was said by our wisest student of Russia, the brilliant and resolutely anti-NATO expansion US diplomat and scholar George Kennan:

“The usual war hawks in the White House, the Pentagon, the CIA, and on the Hill probably assume that a quiescent American electorate will buy the argument that the commitment of U.S. forces in Ukraine without a declaration of war could facilitate a face-saving deal with Moscow.

It's dangerous and stupid to think so, and Americans should reject this notion, but it’s not unreasonable to assume this deluded thinking is prevalent inside the beltway. George F. Kennan, American diplomat and historian, insisted 30 years ago that, “We [Americans] tend to overemphasize military factors at the expense of political ones, and in consequence, overmilitarize our responses.”

The result, Kennan argued, is Washington’s chronic failure to relate the development and use of American military power to attainable ends of national strategy… .”

Posted by Billy B 2022-10-28 08:45|| 2022-10-28 08:45|| Front Page Top

#4 Yeah, go ahead. Tell me the globalists are not lusting for Russia's energy and mineral wealth. Not to mention the forces they could then array against China. It's all about wealth and power, nothing whatsoever about democracy.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2022-10-28 12:54|| 2022-10-28 12:54|| Front Page Top

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