Colonel Macgregor: "Putin has warned the NATO for 15 years"
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My interview with Colonel Douglas Macgregor, PhD per InsideOver Italia
Former President of the United States, Donald Trump, has always appreciated and held in great consideration the views outside the choir of Colonel Douglas Macgregor, so much as he was very close to pointing him out as a national security advisor White House nale after John Bolton's farewell in 2019. Gulf war veteran, Macgregor is the author of Breaking the Phalanx, a text that proposed reforming the American army and that was of interest in the fall of 2001, the now Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. After leaving the army in 2004, Macgregor was often invited to comment on TV – on Fox News, in particular – American foreign policy, often from a position but conventional, criticizing immigrants with very harsh words Illegal action and liberal dugger, George Soros.
On July 27, 2020, the White House announced Donald Trump’s intention to appoint Macgregor as US ambassador to Germany but the liberal American media launched a harsh offensive against the US military veteran just for away from his positions, which brought his nomination to the commission for foreign relations of the Senate. This is how the possibility of moving to Berlin went down, on November 11, 2020, Christopher Miller was appointed senior consultant of the Secretary of the Defense for Interim, was appointed. Colonel Macgregor makes the news again today, once again because of his definitely “controversial” stance on the Russian invasion of Ukraine expressed on Fox News. We reached out to ask him some questions about it.
Macgregor: “Putin has warned the West for years”
According to the American army veteran, the Russian invasion of Ukraine was planned for months. Vladimir Putin’s goal, explains, “is to ensure that the US and its allies cannot station missiles and combat forces at the border” with the Russian Federation. In his speech on February 24, the Russian president stressed that “what is happening is a necessary measure. No chance was left for us to do otherwise.” A correct read, according to Colonel Macgregor. "Yes. Putin has repeatedly tried, for at least 15 years, to point out Russia’s opposition to the progress of the NATO towards the borders of Russia.”
The Colonel explains what the Kremlin’s goals in Ukraine are: “Moscow wants a neutral, not aligned Ukraine, that is not hostile to Russia. The model is Austria and its State Treaty of 1955. Not planning to cross the Dnepr and head west. He has already surrounded and cut off the Ukrainian forces east of the Dnepr river. He would need a resolution as described. If this fails, it will crush the Ukrainian forces, advance beyond the DNepr and anatize or declare eastern Ukraine an independent Russian Republic. This guy would give him the ‘cushion’ he wants,” Macgregor explains. “Given the conformation of Western Ukraine, it can keep away from the Dnepr any western force that tries to cross it, that would encounter a certain destruction by conventional means”. How long can the Ukrainian army resist the Russian advancements? The expert has no doubt: “Maximum 30 days”. And the economic sanctions won’t stop Moscow: “Did the sanctions force Moscow to leave Crimea? Sanctions have forced Iran to submit to the demands of the United States and Israel. No. Sanctions don’t change governments.”
“Biden has provoked Russia”
Former Pentagon senior adviser during the Trump administration explains the mistakes of current White House tenant Joe Biden. What he would have tried to do before establishing a diplomatic dialogue with the Russian Federation: “Biden started his term by condemning Putin and his government. He has relentlessly threatened Putin and pushed European governments to join him." What is even more serious, Macgregor observes, “US forces conducted military drills and operations within 50 nautical miles from St. Petersburg”. On the contrary, former President Donald Trump “listened to President Putin, trying to have better relations with Russia.” However, he observed, “Putin understood that President Trump was overthrown by his own government and concluded that he should prepare for a new hostile American administration.” Again in this case, the result is the ongoing action in Eastern Ukraine”.
Another fundamental topic regarding the world order that will arise after the conflict ends. Isolation from the West and harsh economic sanctions will push Russia more and more towards China, but beware: this is not, at the moment, a real “alliance”. “Moscow and Beijing are not allies” explains Colonel Macgregor. “I am a strategic partner with a mutually beneficial economic relationship. Both are threatened by the U.S. and, of course, they work together for security reasons.”
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