Retired US Army General Talks Turkey On Ukraine, And It’s Not The MSM

ER Editor: The article begins with an 11-minute video by Tucker Carlson, worth listening to as ever. Who wisely warns us to be careful of the intelligence-service-driven news and information we’re getting on Ukraine. A very wise warning it is considering that the MSM is as hopelessly biased in this conflict as it was/is about Covid being a ‘deadly virus’ and the ‘vaccines’ our savior. His guest is retired army colonel Doug MacGregor, who frames Putin’s actions realistically within the NATO-betrayal scenario, of having promised not to expand eastward where Russia was told it wouldn’t have NATO member countries armed and up against its very borders.

Interestingly, he emphasizes Putin’s prior consultation with, and approval from, Xi Jinping. We wonder if Putin has also had permission from other key background groups.

See also useful additional reporting from FreeWest Media (US Colonel: ‘We are urging Ukrainians to die needlessly’) and The Duran (Col. Macgregor keeps it real on Fox News. China ready to mediate settlement).

MacGregor is a breath of fresh air.

Carlson concludes with some wise bemusement over the fact that the naysayers on Twitter, etc. are curiously not trashing China for supporting Russia.

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

JAMIE WHITE for INFOWARS

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.” (ER: This accords with information we have been reading and publishing.)

That is over, and the phase in which we find ourselves now, Russian forces have now maneuvered 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.” (ER: Ditto.)

“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 (ER: see map below).

“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 (ER: the Dnieper River), up near Kyiv, he has actually moved over the river and is preparing to go in and capture that city entirely.“

ER map insertion:

“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.

“So I think Mr. Biden’s problem tonight is not just his narrative, it is going to break down very rapidly over the next few days, as it becomes obvious that this whole Ukraine business was a fantasy on his part. He is going to end up trying to write checks that he can’t cash because we can’t afford a massive military buildup. We can’t afford to put more forces forward.”

“And if we tried to do it, it will be self-defeating. So I think we’re in a real crisis now that no one has really, really figured out yet, and that is NATO itself in our position on the European continent, all of this is now at risk.”

MacGregor also claimed that Putin would not have launched his invasion of Ukraine without the support of his regional neighbor China, effectively bringing their alliance closer together as result of NATO’s aggression.

“Two things: I think that Mr. Putin has priced in the cost. In other words, he is not a fool. He sat down with Xi in Beijing and made it very clear what he was going to do, what his goals were in eastern Ukraine and only eastern Ukraine initially.”

“And I think he got the conditions he wanted from Xi, of support and assistance through this process because he knew what we would try to do to him. We would try to destroy Russia financially, economically, in whatever way we can.”

A real strategic partnership. There’s no question about it, because China needs Russia in order to secure Central Asia and all the routes to Europe. China wants to do business with Europe.

That’s why the Chinese would like Mr. Putin to end this quickly. But Putin insisted on those first five days slowing things down, because he wanted to minimize damage to property and he wanted to minimize the loss of life particularly upon in the population that he was trying to bring into effectively a new Ukraine that is Russian. He has essentially discarded that now.”

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