Different perspectives are good.
A mostly one-sided set of talking points or narratives perspective is just bad and problematic on so many levels.
Tis but a scratch.
....”We’ll see whose [who’s] right.”....could not agree more....although many on the so-called conservative right vilify him, including unfortunately a number of my fellow FReepeers, retired LTC Douglas Macgregor tells it like it is... he has said almost from the beginning that Ukraine is gonna get crushed by a numerically superior Russian military; all of the billions and billions of U.S. taxpayors’ dollars have been mis-spent, from the get-go.....
With the headline, and comparison, I first thought they were comparing Russian aggression to Hitler's aggression.
Mariupol could just as easily have been compared to Stalingrad, where Hitler insisted on attacking the city, at great cost.
Macgregor has been pro-Russia for years. He is extremely bitter that he was passed over three times for a general’s star. The reason? He was considered a hot head, and unreliable.
Hell hath no fury like a colonel scorned.
Ukraine is willing to absorb heavy casualties to defend their homeland. Russia is attempting to conquer their neighbor. So their tolerance for casualties is less than Ukraine.
Hide the dead Ukrainians until there's only a handful left - and when the pitiful remnant realizes that they and their brave, dead comrades have been used as cannon fodder for Western adventurism, there will be too few to take revenge for the betrayal.
Yrah. I really loved this. Thanks for posting it.
I think everybody — Ukies, Russians and Americans — assumed that the Russian armored forces would have been more successful at break-thru and encirclement than events later proved. Everybody was wrong about how the war has turned out thus far.
the recent failure of Ukrainian counterattacks in the Kherson region,
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That’s not so - more Russian propaganda - the Russian troops are slowly being pushed back and are running out of supplies. The only failure is that the best Russian troops are either dead or like the 7th AD and 98th AD in danger of starvation and encirclement.
Macgregor is a low ranking media hound who’s only claim to fame is helping the Butcher of Belgrade, Weaselly Clark, plan the butchery during the Kosovo War.
Ukraine is now like the farmer who returns from vacation to find a cow got loose and died in his front yard some days ago and he now has the weighty task of cleaning up the rotting carcass.
> Rather different from the triumphalist happy-talk of the propaganda media. We’ll see whose right.
Yeah, the Russians ran out of men, ammunition, tanks, and everything else in May from what has been in the MSM.
Anger flares as Russia mobilization hits minority regions and protesters - Washington Post
He’s right, in that taking ground for reason other than for taking ground accomplishes little.
But does that correctly characterize the current Ukrainian offensive?
It look to me as if the ground that is being taken severely restricts the Russians’ ability to resupply. At the very least it means much longer supply lines.
Douglas MacGregor said on March 5th that in 10 days Russia will have defeated Ukraine. Then he corrected himself on March 7th and said Russia has already won and the Ukrainian military is entirely destroyed.