Colonel Doug MacGregor did a long-form interview with the people from the Grey Zone’s Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate last week.
It’s an hour long (the video is 2 hours, but MacGregor is only on the first hour), so I would understand people not watching it, but it’s also a lot more useful in understanding his positions than a 4-minute segment on Tucker Carlson, which some of you might be interested in.
Ret. Army Col. Douglas Macgregor: "The war is really over for the Ukrainians… Are we going to stop trying to use Ukraine or anyone else as a battering ram against Moscow?" pic.twitter.com/MMSiYDuYSB
— Aaron Maté (@aaronjmate) March 18, 2022
But, for anyone not interested in a 2-hour podcast, this is probably the best 4 minutes of it, where he breaks down the common sense basics of this situation.
Among all Western experts & pundits Colonel Douglas Macgregor provides the most accurate picture of #Russia’s military operation without any propaganda or hysteria. Just how it is. I could argue with something but all in all he is the closest to the truthhttps://t.co/BYFSpwdHeY pic.twitter.com/bvhRKI2R3X
— Springprincess #IStandWithRussia🇷🇺 (@TamrikoT) March 17, 2022
It’s probably worth watching the whole video though just to see the part where MacGregor starts laughing about redditors dying. I don’t have a time stamp. But Blumenthal brings up redditors going over and dying, and MacGregor starts laughing.
As you know, I try to post things from people who are not me and yet back up what I am saying. Particularly, I try to use authoritative sources who agree with me. You can go read MacGregor’s Wikipedia to see what kind of authority he is, and why he’s able to speak on these topics. He was, among other things, the lead strategist for Wesley Clark, who basically led NATO.
I would argue that he has more authority than any of the former officials that the TV is now bringing on. He did support the Iraq war when it happened, and then recanted that position. None of the people on TV have recanted their support for the Iraq war, and most of them had a much larger role in carrying out the war than MacGregor ever had.
MacGregor used to have regular spots on Fox News, but they’ve pretty much pulled that. Tucker still has him on.
I’m surprised there hasn’t been a campaign against him after the “rootless cosmopolitans” clip was dropped last week.
NEW: Tucker Carlson favorite Douglas Macgregor in 2021 speech: The people that "the Russians used to call… 'rootless cosmopolitans'" are "largely responsible, in my judgment, for the condition that we are in today.” https://t.co/R5PNeXrc4y pic.twitter.com/ntJBGz9R5i
— Matthew Gertz (@MattGertz) March 16, 2022
I guess the Jews don’t want to make a big deal of “this highly decorated and respected military man says that the Jews are behind a war in the only country outside of Israel that has a Jewish president and prime minister – how evil is that???”
Since he’s not allowed on TV anymore, I suspect MacGregor will be doing more of this internet type stuff.
It’s useful to get a legitimate military man’s perspective on a military conflict. It’s much more useful than the views of Sean Hannity or Max Boot, or journalists on Twitter who claim you can destroy a tank with a water balloon.
The entire media is rallying around the claim that the Ukraine is winning the war, and it is just so exhausting. Someone injecting common sense is a relief.