Former Colonel Douglas MacGregor has been predicting Ukraine's defeat for months now. Is his forecast accurate? Have we been supporting a lost cause?

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Siegfried SassoonPolitical CommentatorAuthor has 7.8K answers and 51M answer viewsMar 21

MacGregor is an anti-American fabulist who has sold anti-semitism and racism to anyone who is willing to pay. Instead of accepting his service when he was forced out as a colonel, unable to advance in rank, he grew angry at the US Army and anyone of General rank. Many Republican congress people hate him, nothing that he is “Putin’s man in the GOP.”

He is most famous for repeating Russian anti-semitic comments.

MacGregor is scum and not to be believed. He repeatedly has said since July of 2022 that Russia is only weeks away from capturing Kviv, and has either approved of the genocide in Ukraine,

Why is retired Col Douglas MacGregor repeatedly giving interviews about Ukraine being defeated? He predicted in July Russia would take Odessa and on Sept 9th the Ukrainian Army was on the verge of defeat. What is wrong with this "expert".

on Diplomacy & Warfare · FollowAnswered by Tony Quirke Mar 8

Worse, he predicted on 27 Feb 2022 that “Now the battle in Eastern Ukraine is almost over, the Ukrainian troops are largely surrounded and cut off, now they have a concentration down in the southeast in 30 to 40 thousand , and if they don't vend, surrender the next 24 hours, the Russians will ultimately annihilate them”, and he said in September 2022 that Ukraine was losing in Kharkiv.

How’d that work out?

Regardless of his actual military career back when he was in the military, he’s found a new schtick telling Tucker Carlson fans and the sort of Republicans who want Russia to win what they wan

… (more)Tomaž Vargazon · Follow Practicing atheistFeb 2

Douglas MacGregor was appointed by one DJ Trump to be the senior advisos to the secretary of defence. The retired colonel is full of praise of DJ Trump.

Douglas MacGregor (left) and DJ Trump (right) during the foreplay

Does that seem like someone with a good grasp of reality to you? Morals, integrity? He made a living by kissing Trump’s ass and probably other body parts too … possibly not just kissing them either … of course he loves Putin too.

If you’re wondering whether or not he’s wrong, because he is a former colonel and one would expect him to have a firm grasp on military matters, or at lea

… (more)Ken Blakely · Follow Colonel, US Army (Ret)7mo

Doug was apparently quite competent while he was on active duty. I crossed paths with him a few times; he always seemed like he knew what he was doing. He graduated from West Point, was a solid military professional and holds a PhD from the University of Virginia. He clearly is - or was at one point - quite smart.

…. but he appears to have allowed his own hubris to turn him into an incompetent boob.

Remember that old military saw: “amateurs talk tactics; professionals talk logisitcs”? Well, it’s 100% true, and any real military professional could have told you by week 4 of this war that Russia w

… (more)Related questionsUS Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor says the goal of Russia in the Ukraine has been accomplished and that the Ukrainian military has been neutralized. Why does the mainstream news want to characterize Russia as losing or lost?Colonel Douglas MacGregor says that Russians have only used 20% of their forces and are actually annihilating Ukraine. How could so many media outlets proport the exact opposite, that Ukraine is pushing them back?Retired U.S. Army Colonel McGregor's confident statement that the "annihilating" of the Ukrainian military would mark the end of the Ukraine war was merely a pro-Russian statement? If not, is that the reality?on Diplomacy & Warfare · FollowAnswered by Eric Greek Mar 8

I’ll let you in on a little secret, many senior officers have no idea what to do when they retire. While many are quite competent, many are not - or at least not nearly as much as they believe they are. They believe they have a better grasp of geo-political everything because … rank! It’s, and this is not a joke, a hold over from aristocracy.

I’ll give a choice of which side to fight for. A: small arms and hand made explosives that you have to bury in the ground. B: unlimited budget, more troops, every small arms you can imagine, mortars, artillery, attack helicopters, drones, massive armored v

… (more)R. W. Carmichael · Follow Former Intelligence Analyst at U.S. Air Force (1962–1970)Upvoted by Roman Bulkiewicz, lives in Ukraine (1968-present)8moRelatedIs there a battle of Odessa in Ukraine?

There was indeed to be a Battle of Odesa (please use the Ukrainian spelling, not the Russian.) But the Ukrainians won!

1. The original plan was for there to be a huge amphibious landing just east of Odesa. It would have been the largest amphibious landing since D-Day in WWII, almost a hundred years ago. The landing force would conquer Odesa, then split into two groups. One would pivot east and join up with the forces in the Kherson axis while the other would pivot west and join up with Russian forces in Transnistria and conquer the rest of Moldova. Then things started going wrong!
2. The invasion plan

… (more)Mats Andersson · Follow Did military service not 200 miles from the Soviet UnionUpvoted by Jose Luis Mendes, Masters International Relations, University of Lisbon (1999) and Christian Desaix, M.A. International Relations, Yale UniversityApr 21RelatedColonel Douglas MacGregor says that Russians have only used 20% of their forces and are actually annihilating Ukraine. How could so many media outlets proport the exact opposite, that Ukraine is pushing them back?

If almost everyone who are gathering information about one specific issue says something, and then one person says the total opposite, you should consider the possibility that the one person is wrong and all the others are right.

If that one person also has a history of telling outright lies, and comes with a strong suspicion of being paid, either in money or in favourable treatment, from one side of the issue, um, well, if you trust that person to tell the truth, you richly deserves all the laughter you’ll be getting from people who are better informed.

Jonathan Trueman · Follow Professional screen-and-copywriter, voice artist, Brit, knowledge addict.Upvoted by Huib Minderhoud, lives in Odessa, Ukraine (2001-present)6moRelatedConsidering that Ukraine has no navy to speak of, why does Russia not take control of Odessa harbor?

Oh, please do put all the assets of the Russian Black Sea Fleet in one harbour easily within range of Ukrainian artillery assets. Go on. Please.

on Diplomacy & Warfare · FollowAnswered by Mike RichardsMar 13

During the WW2 there was “Lord Haw Haw” it was was a nickname applied to William Joyce, who broadcast Nazi propaganda to the UK from Germany. The broadcasts opened with "Germany calling, Germany calling", spoken in an affected upper-class English accent.

Oddly enough he was American-born and raised in Ireland. While a teenager he was an informant to the British about the IRA members during the Irish War of Independence. Joyce was captured by British forces in northern Germany, just as the war ended, tried, and hanged for treason on 3 January 1946.

Perhaps Colonel McCatastrophe would like to take

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