Whatever happened to the Russian Army? For that matter, whatever happened to the Russian Air Force or the Russian Navy whose flagship is now at the bottom of the Black Sea? The answer is nothing. Nothing has happened to the Russian military for 50 years, and President Vladimir Putin should have thought twice before heaving his armed forces into war.
Their disastrous performance puts me in mind of an appearance I made on CNN’s “Capital Gang” on Dec. 2, 1989. That was 33 years ago. The show featured Bob Novak, Pat Buchanan, Al Hunt, and Mark Shields, and all were in general agreement. They thought the Cold War was going to continue, apparently unto eternity. The lone dissenter was me. President George H.W. Bush had just met with Russia’s President Mikhail Gorbachev in Valletta, Malta, and their meeting went swimmingly, or swimmingly enough. To the consternation of my fellow guests, I said the Cold War was over. On Dec. 4, two days later, Gorbachev agreed with me. He told The New York Times that “many things that were characteristic of the Cold War should be abandoned.” Incidentally, I was never invited back to “Capital Gang.”
I do not know who the gangsters on “Capital Gang” used for sources, but I always checked my sources thoroughly before appearing on television. This time all my sources agreed. The Cold War was finished. The problem was that the Red Army’s generals were convinced that continuing the Cold War would bankrupt the Soviet Union just as Ronald Reagan had predicted when he launched the arms race a decade earlier. The problem was the Communists could not machine parts to compete with the free market’s output. The Cold War was over. The news from Ukraine suggests that Russia never caught up with the West.
It tried to catch up, but it failed. So, it relied on stealing weaponry from the West, mainly from the USA. Apparently, that was not good enough. Russian spies were not as productive as Western technology. Time and again throughout the Cold War the West would move ahead in technology and the Russians would steal the West’s secrets to catch up. It worked occasionally, but in one area, their stealing was utterly futile the microchip. When Moore’s law came into play in the 1980s, the West’s advantage became increasingly apparent — apparent and invincible. Moore’s law predicted that the processing power of chips would grow exponentially, leaving the Soviets’ capacity to replicate Western chips and other advances far behind. Today Western advances are dwarfing Russian developments.
The development of the HIMARS as a battlefield weapon is illustrative. HIMARS stands for High Mobility Artillery Rocket System. It is a truck-mounted weapon capable of launching highly accurate rockets and sending them far behind Russian lines. We have made them available to the Ukrainians who have struck more than 400 targets with deadly devices. Gen. Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has confirmed the sale and averred that they have had a “devastating effect.” From a Russian journalist at the scene of a recent HIMARS attack on a Russian ammunition dump came a more emotional assessment: “The situation is horrible,” he said.
For 50 years, with the help of Moore’s law and the technological know-how to use it, the Western powers have been developing superior weapons while the Russians have been copying filched weapons that, by the time they were brought back to Russia, were probably already dated. The Russian military understood that it could not keep up with the West in such endeavors as machining parts in 1989, and apparently, it understands today that the situation still has not changed. The simple fact is that the free-market system, working in a free society, is more innovative and productive than the statism of Russia. My spies again tell me that it is the military that understands once again Moscow’s predicament.
Back in the 1980s, a Russian general understood that the computer chip and sensor and communications technologies were revolutionizing war. Gen. Nikolai Ogarkov, chief of the Soviet General Staff, predicted that “long-range, highly accurate, terminally guided combat systems, unmanned flying machines, and qualitatively new electronic control systems” were on the horizon. Yes, Ogarkov, but how could Moscow adapt its vision to Putin’s economic model?
Glory to Ukraine!
R. Emmett Tyrrell Jr. is the founder and editor-in-chief of The American Spectator. He is a Senior Fellow at the London Center for Policy Research and the author most recently of “The Death of Liberalism,” published by Thomas Nelson, Inc.
Thanks very much, good article.
There’s nothing wrong with the Russian army. They aren’t fighting Ukrainians, they are fighting American state-of-the-art weaponry. This war was started way back in 2014 when President Yanukovich, a Russian Ukrainian, was overthrown in a coup that had Soros stink all over it. Read up on the Maiden Revolution.
Ukraine consists of Ukrainian speaking (west) and Russian speaking (east) people and they are divided by language. What started this war was Zelensky,
who is a globalist, fooling around with the EU and wanting to join that and NATO. That was one country too many for Russia. Look at a map of NATO nations 30 years ago and the one today. If anything, Putin should have made his move when Poland joined the EU and NATO. Russia is now completely surrounded by NATO nations on its western borders. NATO is a military alliance. Nobody can tell me the EU wouldn’t love to overthrow Russia and grab their oil and gas assets. Russia’s sin? Ah, they don’t want forced Muslim immigration in their country dictated by the EU and they sure as hell don’t want ho m os exu ality and transgenderism legalized by EU edict. What’s wrong with that? ( I write to educate FBI employees.)
“Nobody can tell me the EU wouldn’t love to overthrow Russia and grab their oil and gas assets.” Well, I am.
For one thing, “EU” is just an entity – a group of countries having little in common except their geographical location, whose peoples resent being ruled by non-elected politicians. The #1 preoccupation of several ones of them is to exit the EU, overthrowing Russia is the least of their concerns!
As to America, we don’t need Russia’s oil and assets, we have our own resources.
Of course, the Russians don’t want to be invaded by Muslims and weakened by amorality: they are the ones who have engineered these plagues in the hope to overcome Western Europe! You evidently never heard of Yuri Bezmenov or Yuri Andropov’s interviews/memoirs on this subject and you don’t seem to know either that the palestinian myth was engineered by the KGB in the early 60s.
As for NATO, ask youself, why on earth would any country near Russia want to be part of a defensive alliance with the US. Now, go look at pictures of Mariupol. You have your answer. Russia has nothing to fear by being surrounded by NATO countries, as long as it doesn’t invade any of them. NATO is an entirely defensive alliance.
The EU can’t agree on anything, they certainly can’t agree on some kind of invasion of Russia.
Now, back to Russia’s army: they are inept, poorly disciplines, ineffective and poorly trained. They just aren’t good at war. And this is partly a function of autocratic organized nations. When you are an autocracy you prioritize following orders over demostrating initiative, for example. Their conscript system is for one year, which basically means their conscripts know very little, and they have no NCO depth. Their vehicles are two generations behind modern western equipment, their guided weapons have a high failure rate, and are all poorly maintained. Russia’s campaign in Ukraine has culminated. They are not going to be moving forward anymore. Only backwards.
I did my infantry days in the early to mid 80’s. We knew the USSR’s equipment and leadership back then was crap! They just had a lot of it. It appears things haven’t changed much.
Mr. Tyrell and his sources know this – why doesn’t our CIA, or Gen. Keanne.
This is so much nonsense I will have to reply in parts.
So Part 1
“There’s nothing wrong with the Russian army.”
Anybody who claims this has never studied the Russian Army. Firstly because EVERY military or organization has something wrong with it. Secondly because the Russian military has been shown to have a lot more wrong with it than even most pessimists expected, what with the wholesale hawking of critical equipment like plate carriers, failure to mobilize, corruption, and poor coordination.
And what’s damning is that NOT EVEN PUTIN’S REGIME is willing to claim that there is “nothing wrong with the Russian Army.” Which is why actions speak louder than words and Putin has launched a purge of much of the military and intelligence leadership he deems responsible for the disappointing Russian performance this far in the war. So you’re actively claiming something even Putin does not believe in.
Part 2
“They aren’t fighting Ukrainians, they are fighting American state-of-the-art weaponry.”
This is utterly stupid on its face. Wars are fought BY AND AGAINST MEN AND WOMEN, using weaponry as TOOLS. So obviously the Ukrainian resistance has been far more important than even our massive equipment support. This should be PARTICULARLY evident if you studied what happened in the war from 2014-2015 and events like the Siege of Donetsk Airport, where Ukrainian defenders- hideously outnumbered, almost always outgunned and taken by surprise, and often with little (or in the case of the Cyborgs of Donetsk NOTHING) in the way of “American state-of-the-art weaponry” fought hard, taking and inflicting heavy losses in battle with the Russian Federation’s professional military and separatist paramilitaries.
And that was back in 2014 and 2015, at a time when Ukraine was still an even more corrupt and unreformed country than it was, where living military experience was clustered in the few thousand Ukrainians that fought alongside us in the Middle East and where the Russian government had the advantage of surprise and an enemy that didn’t have “state of the art American weaponry.” All of that has changed to greater or lesser degrees in the eight years since.
Part 3
“This war was started way back in 2014 ”
Very true.
“…when President Yanukovich, a Russian Ukrainian, was overthrown in a coup that had Soros stink all over it. Read up on the Maiden Revolution.”
Very UNTRUE.
Have YOU ever read up on the Maiden Revolution? And I mean ACTUALLY read up on it, not read transparently bullshit Kremlin propaganda (or indeed people who are even more deludedly pro-Kremlin than the Kremlin itself, claiming things like the Russian Army has nothing wrong with it)?
The only thing that’s true in this case is that there was Soros Stink involved. Sad but also unfortunately unexpected given how omnipresent he is, and also not enough to influence it.
But there was no “coup” and Yanukovych’s status as a Russian Ukrainian had nothing to do with why he was removed from office. Zelenskyy is a Russian Ukrainian and so was Oleksandr Yefremov, who was one of Yanukovych’s chief lieutenants in the Party of Regions and the general “Blue Camp” until the Ukrainian Army leaked about Yanukovych’s attempts to order them to commit illegal massacres, at which point Yefremov launched an in-party rebellion that ousted Yanukovych and helped spearhead Yanukovych’s removal from office in the Rada, condemning him in harsh terms for tyranny and corruption.
Part 4
https://www.kyivpost.com/article/content/ukraine-politics/where-is-viktor-yanukovych-337418.html
“Yefremov accuses Yanukovych of ‘criminal orders’ to kill people, steal from nation
Party of Regions head Oleksandr Yefremov, once a staunch Yanukovych ally, came out against the former president on Feb. 22, saying that “The Party of Regions faction and members of our party, strongly condemn the criminal orders that led to human victims, an empty state treasury, huge debts, shame before the eyes of the Ukrainian people and the entire world.””
Which brings us to the other part of the story that Putin simps tend to pointedly ignore. That Yanukovych was ousted not by a “Maiden Revolution” per se or by a “Coup” but by a legal vote of the democratically-elected Ukrainian Legislature (indeed, the Rada he was allected alongside AND WHICH WAS DOMINATED BY HIS COALITION) on grounds of grotesque violations of the Ukrainian Constitution and crimes against the Ukrainian people, such as the signing of the “Dictatorship Laws” fundamentally abridging constitutional expression, the deployment of Berkut as death squads, illegal detention, and finally an attempt to order the Ukrainian military to massacre protestors.
Part 5
Yanukovych was ORDERED to appear before the Legislature- As they have every constitutional right to do- to answer for this. Yanukovych did not, instead stealing thing from the Presidential Office and some other residences before fleeing the country. At which point the Rada unsurprisingly voted him incapable of carrying out the offices of President of Ukraine.
Of course, all of this tends to get ignored. Because it utterly destroys the narrative that Euromaidan was a “coup” or primarily due to Soros (who had been involved in Ukraine for years and consistently failed to dictate events on his own right). It also destroys the idea that this was a matter of Orange v Blue sectarianism or Russian v Ukrainian ethnic conflict, since again Yanukovych’s own coalition- which had endured for decades in the sort of Cold Civil War in Ukraine since independence- crumbled and broke ranks when the full depths of his criminality were exposed.
We should wish we were so lucky here, and as it stands the Rada’s actions in 2014 are an inspiration we should look to when dealing with Brandon and his puppeteers.
Part 6
“Ukraine consists of Ukrainian speaking (west) and Russian speaking (east) people and they are divided by language. ”
This is somewhat true (though hugely overstated; the language gap is much more evenly spread and only in the Far Southeast does Russian have majority status), and in any case mostly irrelevant. The divide in Ukraine was not fundamentally about ethnicity or culture but about politics, which is TINTED by ethnicity and culture but not dominated by it. As shown by how many Ethnic Russians and Russophone Ukrainians wound up fighting the Russian invasions in 2014 and this year, including many of them in infamous Ukrainian nationalist, Neo-Fascist organizations like Azov Brigade.
Putin estimated he would be able to crack Ukraine like an egg by pulling on sectarian differences (like he had in Georgia and Moldova). He mostly guessed wrong, and HUGELY overestimated the amount of even his “target audience” that would support Russian occupation and forced separatism.
Which is why initial projections of Russia creating a “Novorossiya” from Crimea to the Donbas in 2014 utterly failed as the Ukrainian loyalists rallied and counterattacked, with the Novorossiya plan being humiliatingly buried by the Kremlin until now, with the open deployment of Russian forces. And even now it is crumbling again.
Part 7
“What started this war was Zelensky, who is a globalist,”
Tell me how you’ve never fucking studied Ukrainian history without telling me you’ve never fucking studied Ukrainian History.
As you CORRECTLY point out, the war started in 2014.
Now, please tell me what government or political position Zelenskyy held in 2014.
Go on. I’ll wait.
**THE ANSWER IS NONE.** He was still an actor mostly uninvolved in politics in 2014, and so obviously could not have started the war even if he wanted to.
It was Petro Porshenko who replaced Yanukovych as President of Ukraine following Euromaidan. And of course even he didn’t – COULDN’T- have started the war because Russian troops invaded Crimea and the Donbas days before e took office.
One doesn’t have to be a globalist or trust Zelenskyy or the new Ukrainian government to be able to respect the fact that Chronology Is Still a Thing.
Part 8
” fooling around with the EU and wanting to join that”
Here’s the thing:
Yanukovych ALSO wanted to fool around with the EU and sign an association agreement. Indeed, it was one of his promises during the 2010 election. And he did it in large part because Ukraine was in a tariff war with Russia for Decades, pretty much since it got independence. It and a host of other nations like that bastion of anti-Russian radicalism that is… .Lukashenko’s Belarus.
It turns out that when you’re a corrupt party boss whose Tammany Hall in New York City is the Russophone Rust Belt of the Donbas – who were literally on the front lines of the tariff war even before they were on the front lines of the actual war and who had seen their real wages suffer even more than the rest of the country from it- you kind of have to appeal to that.
Only Putin (rather hamhandedly) over-reacted, demanded Yanukovych drop the Association Agreement negotiations in exchange for what even most of Yanu’s supporters viewed as humiliatingly meager terms, and when protests inevitably erupted (because this was pre-2014 Ukraine and protests happened endlessly) he encouraged Yanukovych to respond brutally.
Which resulted in them overplaying their hands and losing everything in the backlash..
Part 9
GEE, WHY MIGHT THAT BE?!?!?!?
ESPECIALLY SINCE ZELENSKYY ONLY CAME INTO POWER IN 2019, AFTER AN UNDECLARED WAR WITH RUSSIA HAD BEEN GOING ON FOR HALF A DECADE!!
IT’S ALMOST AS IF PEOPLE START PUTTING TWO AND TWO TOGETHER AND REALIZE THAT NEUTRALITY IN RUSSIA’S “NEAR ABROAD” IS KIND OF A SUCKY STATUS TO HAVE. Just ask Finland during the Cold War. Or Moldova Today. Or Georgia. Or shall I go on?
“That was one country too many for Russia.”
This would be more convincing if the Russian political elite hadn’t carved the ethnographic borders of these regions out with bayonet and bullet during Stalin’s time and hadn’t used them to perennially tear the region apart since the end of the Cold War, as Transnistria can attest.
” Look at a map of NATO nations 30 years ago and the one today. ”
Huh. It seems like a lot of nations previously oppressed by the Kremlin’s imperialism- whether in its original Muscovite Tsarist Flavor or the new, “revolutionary” Bolshevik Communist one- Wanted the Fuck Out And Away from the Kremlin.
I can’t imagine WHHYYY. It’s almost as if the Russian government has fought wars against half the self-avowedly neutral, non-NATO members on its border but none with NATO members.
Part 10
“If anything, Putin should have made his move when Poland joined the EU and NATO. ”
On what grounds?!?!
Putin had absolutely zero right to “make his move when Poland joined the EU and NATO.”
Indeed, he and his diplomatic stooges acknowledged this tacitly with the Astana Accords in 2010, which publicly declared that each country has a right to sovereignty, territorial integrity, and the right to choose any foreign alliance or none at all.
(Of course they were lying at the time for a feelgood agreement, but the fact is they still paid lip service to it).
“Russia is now completely surrounded by NATO nations on its western borders.”
A: Untrue. Just ask the Caucasus and Moldova.
And B: Why might that be?
It turns out that when you brutally exploit, divide, invade, and war against nations in your “near abroad” they tend not to LIKE you that much.
This is my shocked face.
Part 11
“NATO is a military alliance.”
As it should be, especially in light of this.
The irony is that without Russian military misadventures in the immediate aftermath of the fall of the USSR- things like the Transnistrian and Georgian Wars- plus the threat to central Europe during the Yugoslav Wars, NATO would probably have disbanded under its own weight or been greatly scaled down. Particularly if the Kremlin had somehow managed to mend bridges with the former Warsaw Pact member states who immediately rushed to enter NATO at the exact time that the “Old NATO” Core members were considering winding it down.
Of course the Kremlin and its simps don’t like talking about that because it is unquestionably one of the greatest self-inflicted wounds they have given themselves this side of the demographic rot and the support of Kadyrov’s unofficial emirate in Chechnya, but it is still very much a fact.
Part 12
“Nobody can tell me the EU wouldn’t love to overthrow Russia and grab their oil and gas assets. ”
That’s certainly more the case now, since Putin’s brutality and repeated inability to quit while he was ahead due to appeasement like the Obama/Hidabeast “Reset” has discredited his allies in the EU like Schroeder and Tsipras (who I might add were quintessential globalists and swamp beasts in their own right, which should discredit the idea that Putin is inherently some kind of anti-globalist, nationalist hero).
“Russia’s sin? Ah, they don’t want forced Muslim immigration in their country dictated by the EU ”
This is so aggressively dishonest and inverted in relation to reality it’s disgusting.
Putin’s actually gone of his way to appease Muslims politically and strategically, hence his support for Kadyrov’s Islamists in Checnya and the unprecedented amount of Mosque building in Russia. To the extent Putin has any objections to the EU’s “forced Muslim immigration” it is because it would be outside of HIS control and not for HIS benefit.
Which is why I direct you to this series of videos, which talks about how Putin is ultimately a progressive globalist at heart, albeit one on the fringes and who wishes the system rewarded him and his cronies more.
In particular the first video (linked above) talks about his appeasement of Islam.
Part 13
“and they sure as hell don’t want ho m os exu ality and transgenderism legalized by EU edict. What’s wrong with that? ”
Leaving aside the issues with persecuting people- especially homosexuals- this is a strawman.
I’ll note that none of the countries has waged war on in his “near Abroad” in the past two decades- Georgia and Ukraine- were subject to EU Diktats about homosexuality, transgenderism, or Muslim “refugees.” It is utterly insincere. Putin’s real sin was breaking his diplomatic word and trying to violently divide the countries in his near abroad to try and install puppets. All with the support of Jihadist mercenaries who scream “Allahu Ackbar” in prayer sessions before going to fight under the Russian tricolor.
“( I write to educate FBI employees.)”
If you want to educate anybody, start by educating yourself. Because this was a sad demonstration indeed.
Dear God, the new commenting system is inconvenient. But I feel I need to go into this kind of depth because nonsense like this needs to be called out just as much as Fauxi and co.
Communist dictators only surround themselves with weaker people who tell them what they want to hear- as a result everything they know is wrong. Putin actually believed his military advisers that Russia was strong and could easily win this war
I’ve asked this question several times in the last year: Did we overestimate the Russian, and Soviet, Armies throughout the 20th Century?
1905 they suffer a surprising lioss to the Japanese over Port Arthur
WW I: While they fought valiantly, no one is accusing the Russian Army of battlefield brilliance in that war. They were constantly wasting thousands of lives i through inept leadership and tactics
WW II: They struggled to overtake Finland, They lost more men than all the other allies combined while fighting a 1 front war against the Nazi’s
Their next was was Afghanistan (if I’m not mistaken) where they left defeated, bruised, broken and soon to be a collapsed communists regime
Maybe, just maybe, we have been giving the Russian army more credit than they deserve
The Great Gamble, a book about the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, describes huge mistakes that make the US mistakes in Vietnam look puny by comparison. One major mistake that comes out is that the Soviets really had no equivalent to the Western Non-Commissioned Officer corp that really runs the day-to-day military. Soviet non-coms are given the job based on seniority with no additional training, unless they are special forces. US non-coms are generally promoted on merit and take great advantage of training opportunities (of course there are exceptions, there always are). In Soviet occupied Afghanistan the smart motivated non-coms were the exception.
The stories from Ukraine, especially those of high officers dying while doing non-com jobs, tell us nothing has changed.
The author asks and answers very important questions. Russians have been using western technology since Lenin. The normal list is Standard Oil NJ, Ford,International Harvester and many more. Their society is not geared to innovation or independent thought. The consequences are obvious. Now look at China. They have the same problem and just purchase tech from corrupt politicians or their own spies. They will fall quickly as well.
The same is true of China. Let the CCP invade Taiwan and the world will see the empty bluff of the CCP.
We have seriously depleted our shoulder fired missile inventories (when we hear of billions for Ukraine, a lot is the value of those inventories). They need to be replenished. So, let’s set up some factories in Taiwan, and we can kill two birds with one stone.
Maybe outdated conventional Russian weapons do not work well against Western state-of-the-art conventional weapons. But how well do Russian nuclear weapons work? There’s only one way to find out.
My god, what an uninformed idiot Emmett Tyrell is
My god, what a complete inability to make a point or articulate it.
I think you are delusional.
I think people who give out one sentence ad hominems without evidence or argumentation are delusional.
There is plenty wrong with Russia’s army, much like there’s plenty wrong with this post.
Yes, the Ukrainian government was overthrown in 2014 (sort of), and yes, some Soros affiliated organizations supported the student protestors. And yes, there are Ukrainians who are more Russophilic and others which are more oriented towards Europe. But… what is missing is that the Yanukovych government had pledged to sign a free trade agreement with the EU and then dramatically changed course to preclude it in favour of an exclusive arrangement with Russia. This caused a peaceful protest which then degraded into a violent fight against the government after government SBU opened fire on peaceful protestors.
Yes, Ukrainians in the east speak Russian, but that’s a function of historical borders of empires, not anything else. When given an opportunity in 1991 to decide on whether to be independent of Russia or not, 92% voted for independence, and while the numbers were lower in predominantly Russian speaking areas (for example 84% in Donetsk and Luhansk), a majority in every part of the country voted for independence.
Zelensky was elected with 72% of the vote nationwide, including all of the oblasts in the east and south. He proposed an agreement to resolve the donbass war, which actually hurt him in the western parts of the country which did not want any concessions to Russia. He was actually less oriented towards the EU than the next two leading candidates.
Well said indeed. It is distressing to me how many people do not know Ukrainian history or politics even to the level I do, and who uncritically buy either the narratives from the MSM or from the Kremlin’s mouthpieces.
New Irene was incredibly incompetent and dishonest- often getting fundamental things like chronology wrong, as I explained.
Part 1
“I agree with you 100%. Others who would agree are brilliant military experts like DOUGLAS MACGREGOR ( who is highly esteemed by Trump ).
and SCOTT RITTER and LARRY C JOHNSON ( blogger and former analyst at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency).”
Anybody arguing that MacGregor and Ritter in particular are “brilliant” or “military experts” needs a reality check. Arry Johnson I haven’t even researched. But in any case, MacGregor and Ritter have been incredibly wrong so many times (And usually hesitant to actually admit so) so many times it is not even funny.
As detailed here.
Being wrong is one thing- everybody is from time to time- but MacGregor and Ritter seem to make lives out of it and arguing in bad faith. Anybody seriously believe that we are “in the final stages of the war” anymore, as MacGregor claimed in April?
“There are many,many videos on youtube where those three are interviewed.”
Yeah, and? It’s not surprising that authoritarian mouthpieces with their stated credentials get interviewed. Doesn’t mean they are right. Just ask Fauci.
Part 1
“I agree with you 100%. Others who would agree are brilliant military experts like DOUGLAS MACGREGOR ( who is highly esteemed by Trump ).
and SCOTT RITTER and LARRY C JOHNSON ( blogger and former analyst at the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency).”
Anybody arguing that MacGregor and Ritter in particular are “brilliant” or “military experts” needs a reality check. Arry Johnson I haven’t even researched. But in any case, MacGregor and Ritter have been incredibly wrong so many times (And usually hesitant to actually admit so) so many times it is not even funny.
As detailed here.
ine-being-wrong-over-and-over-doesnt-seem-to-stop-colonel-macgregor/
Being wrong is one thing- everybody is from time to time- but MacGregor and Ritter seem to make lives out of it and arguing in bad faith. Anybody seriously believe that we are “in the final stages of the war” anymore, as MacGregor claimed in April?
“There are many,many videos on youtube where those three are interviewed.”
Yeah, and? It’s not surprising that authoritarian mouthpieces with their stated credentials get interviewed. Doesn’t mean they are right. Just ask Fauci.
Part 2
Part 2
“TRUMP APPROVES OF PUTIN”
Really? Grudging toleration and a willingness to work when and if he thinks there might be a deal to be made DOES NOT equate to approval. It’s at this point that I note Trump actually began the trend of supplying the Ukrainian Loyalists with lethal weapons (largely so they could kill Russian troops occupying Ukrainian soil and their collaborationist paramilitaries).
“That is my conclusion based on what I know.A few days ago,the GLOBALIST press,and this, as far as I know, has NOT been
denied by Trump,in MIAMI ,”
Are you actually using the Left’s “logic”? “Has not been denied by Trump?!?” Trump claims he THREATENED TO NUKE PUTIN if Putin escalated the war in Ukraine, and he certainly supplied arms to Ukraine and did things like cratering Syrian airfields used by the Russian and Baathist Syrian Air Forces. This is not the action of someone who approves of Putin, very much the opposite. It is the action of a shrewd operator who wishes to curtail Putin’s power without seriously threatening a Third World War.
Part 3
” at the Trump Tower there ( and it is on VIDEO also),
appeared the words:
“This WEST has NO moral right to even stutter
about the freedom of democracy.
Happy birthday, Mr. President,”
“It was on Putin’s BIRTHDAY,a few days ago,October 7th. Google it. And the first part is in CYRILLIC letters and seems to be in Russian.””
Can you link the video?
“I have noticed that the Conservative,MAGA websites have NOT talked about this,nothing. Not even the most famous ones which are “American Thinker” and “The American Conservative”, or even Frontpagemag.”
Probably because the going story from Trump is that it was a nakedly unauthorized projection by someone who hates him. Which you know only fits with literally all the evidence we’ve seen for years with the Russia Collusion, where Trump does not actually like Putin but is being framed as a puppet of his.