"The American people think we should stay out of it. The Europeans think we should stay out of it, and we should stop shipping weapons and encouraging Ukrainians to die in what is a hopeless endeavor," he says.
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The U.S. and NATO are knowingly pushing Ukraine to fight a war against Russia that they can’t win, according to retired U.S. Army Colonel Douglas MacGregor.
“Vladimir Putin is carrying through what he’s been warning us about at least for the last 15 years, which is that he will not tolerate U.S. forces or their missiles on his borders,” MacGregor said Sunday on Fox News.
“Much as we would not tolerate Russian troops and missiles in Cuba,” he noted. “And we ignored him and he finally acted. He was not going to allow Ukraine under any circumstances to join NATO.”
MacGregor then explained that the Ukrainian resistance in the east have been “cut off” and the Russians will likely “annihilate” them if they don’t surrender soon.
“What’s happened now is that the battle in eastern Ukraine is really almost over. All the Ukrainian troops there have been largely surrounded and cut off,” MacGregor said.
“You have a concentration down in the southeast of 30 to 40,000 of them and if they don’t surrender within the next 24 hours, I suspect that the Russians will ultimately annihilate them.”
“That’s why [Ukrainian President Volodymyr] Zelensky is meeting with Putin’s representatives right now and the game is over,” he said, adding that Putin’s likely goal is to annex eastern Ukraine – which has historically been Russian – and agree with the West to make western Ukraine a neutral state.
MacGregor also reminded viewers that Ukraine is not a democracy at all, despite the talking points from U.S. and EU politicians claiming the contrary, and so the U.S. should “stay out of” the conflict.
“We need to remember that Ukraine is fourth from the bottom of 158 countries in the world as corrupt. Russia is perhaps three or four places above them,” MacGregor stressed. “This is not the liberal democracy, the shining example that everyone says it is. Far from it. Mr. Zelensky has jailed journalists and his political opposition.”
“I think we need to stay out of it. The American people think we should stay out of it. The Europeans think we should stay out of it, and we should stop shipping weapons and encouraging Ukrainians to die in what is a hopeless endeavor.”
“One the one hand we won’t send our forces to fight. But we are urging Ukrainians to die pointlessly in a fight they can’t win. We’re going to create a far worse humanitarian disaster than anything you’ve seen thus far if it doesn’t stop,” he concluded.
Peace negotiations between Ukrainian and Russian officials commenced on early Monday on the Ukraine-Belarus border “without preconditions.”
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