Top Army Colonel: ‘This is The Beginning of The End Of Ukrainian Resistance’

InfoWars ^ | March 2nd 2022, 11:35 am | Jamie White

[conservative98]

Retired Army Colonel Douglas MacGregor joined Tucker Carlson on Fox News Tuesday to discuss the latest developments of the Ukraine-Russia conflict, noting that the first phase of Russia’s incursion is over, marking the “beginning of the end of the Ukrainian resistance.”

“The first five days, we witnessed a very slow, methodical movement of Russian forces into eastern Ukraine,” MacGregor said on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” Tuesday.

“That is Ukraine — the third of Ukraine, which is on the eastern side of this river, called the Dnieper. They move slowly, cautiously. They try to reduce casualties among the civilian population, tried to give as many Ukrainian troops and forces as possible the opportunity to give up, to surrender.”

 

 “That is over, and the phase in which we find ourselves now, Russian forces have now maneuver to encircle and surround the remaining Ukraine forces and destroy them, through a series of massive rocket artillery strikes, airstrikes with Russian armor then slowly, but surely closing the distance and annihilating what’s left.”

“So this is a — this is the beginning, frankly of the end of Ukrainian resistance,” he added.

Carlson then asked MacGregor what Putin’s endgame is in this conflict, to which MacGregor replied that it’s to take a portion of Ukraine and establish a buffer zone separating NATO with Russia.

“I think Vladimir Putin set out to honor his word of 2007,” MacGregor said simply.

“In 2007 at the Munich Security Conference, he said: We will not tolerate the expansion of NATO to a point where your NATO, your border, is touching Russia, specifically Ukraine and Georgia. We see these as essentially Trojan horses for NATO’s military power and U.S. influence, subversion and so forth.“

 “He then turned to several opportunities to reinforce that over and over and over again, most recently with President Biden in the hopes that he could avoid taking action to effectively clean out eastern Ukraine of any opposition forces whatsoever, and to put his forces in a position vis-a-vis NATO to deter us from any further attempts to influence or change Ukraine into effectively a platform for the projection of U.S. and Western power into Russia.“

“Now, his goal, as we see it, at the moment, is to seize this entire area of eastern Ukraine. That’s pretty clear. He is going to roll up to that river, up near Kyiv, he has actually moved over the river and is preparing to go in and capture that city entirely.“

“At that point, he has to decide what else he wants to do. I don’t think he wants to go any further west. I think he’d be very satisfied to hold that point. But he would like whatever emerges from this that we call Ukraine, whether it’s just the western side or it encompasses some of the east and the west of Ukraine to be neutral, non-aligned, and preferably friendly to Moscow, that he will accept. Anything short of that, his war has been a waste of time.“

MacGregor claimed the Biden administration should then respond by telling Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to accept Putin’s terms because “there really is no choice.”

“I think President Biden and Sullivan, his National Security Adviser have already given some indication of their readiness to accept something like that,” he said. “They’re not going to have any choice. Either they accept it or then they put him in the position of having to do more than he would like to do, which would probably not go down well with NATO.”

“No one really wants Russian forces on their border, least of all Poland. So I think Sullivan and Biden will essentially tell Zelensky, if he is still the President at that point and if he is still running any semblance of the Ukrainian government, which is largely collapsing now. If he is still there, he is going to be told accept the deal, go neutral, because there really is no choice.”

Biden and the West can’t afford to send forces into Ukraine to push back Russian forces, so their bluster and rhetoric that they’ll take on Putin will fall apart in real time over the coming days, he said.

[rrrod]

Infowars?

[Who is John Galt?]

"I think President Biden and Sullivan, his National Security Adviser have already given some indication of their readiness to accept something like that,” he said. “They’re not going to have any choice"...

Sounds like Biden's crawdad diplomacy...

[conservative98]

FOX NEWS

[RetiredArmy]

So, now NATO has no teeth. At least this tiger once known as America, currently led by a dilapidated ole fool named Bi-den is toothless. Just shows you what happens to the country when dimocrats are in charge. Klinton, GW Bush, Obammy and now this old fool. Just one mess after another.

[Obadiah]

I concur. Vlad has made his declarations over and over again. Recall how many early on correctly stated that this was all so unnecessary because Ukraine was never actually going to be a part of NATO so why not publicly, and clearly, state that?

Additionally, I'm sure most will recall Biden's speech where he talked about a minor Russian into Ukraine and then said something like, “We'll have to see what happens after that.”

[1Old Pro]

I thought this guy was right on.

[ScottinVA]

And maybe you might give yourself a break from the pro-Russian propaganda.

[icclearly]

LISTEN. THE TRUTH IS SPOKWN.

[cgbg]

I read very widely—all sides of this topic.

There is plenty of propaganda on both sides—but imho the “pro Russian” version is stronger on facts than the “pro West” version.

That is not my fault—that is just the way it is.

[corlorde]

Bookmark

[MotorCityBuck]

Resistance to who?

[laplata]

The last Japanese soldier to surrender was on Guam in 1974.

[Zhang Fei]

Tucker Carlson is in Charles Lindbergh territory. After the war, Lindbergh was about as welcome as a lump of dog-doo. Any pol or public figure who supports Putin needs to reconsider. Not for idealistic reasons. To keep their careers.

[jimwatx]

I don’t know much about him. I don’t watch Fox and only catch Tucker occasionally when a piece of his shows up on my YouTube feed.

[Meet the New Boss]

East of the Dnieper is not a third of Ukraine as Col MacGregor suggests, it is about half

And the Russians are not limiting their occupation effort to east of the Dnieper, they are trying to take the entire Baltic coastline and central Ukraine west of the Dniepr

If we suppose that the four military districts into which Russia has divided Ukraine were designed for not just military but political significance, which seems likely, the buffer state Putin imagines between Poland and Russia's new Ukrainian provinces is quite small

Russia has larger territorial designs than Col MacGregor is supposing

[PIF]

Colonel Douglas MacGregor = Surrender Monkey.

[Meet the New Boss]

oops, I meant not Baltic coastline, but Black Sea

[dfwgator]

"Smolensk. 200 miles west of Minsk. 200 north of Kursk. 1500 miles west of Omsk."

[Bulwyf]

You can’t be this naive. I refuse to believe it.

[Bruce Campbells Chin]

Neither the U.S. nor the rest of the non-China world has to acquiesce to anything. Refuse to recognize the legality of that action, and keep debilitating sanctions on Russia for however many years/decades Russia stays there. Boot them from every international organization, deny them travel and visa rights to our countries, etc..

Why not?

Because otherwise, China is going to look on this and figure it can grab what it wants as well under the same reasoning.