It looks like retired Colonel Douglas Macgregor was right a week ago when he told a disbelieving Stuart Varney that Russia would take Ukraine.
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Macgregor said, "The first five days, Russian forces I think, frankly, were too gentle. They’ve now corrected that. So I would say another 10 days, this should be completely over. But the question is, what is it that Zelensky is going to do? The Russians have made it very clear what they want is a neutral Ukraine. This could’ve ended days ago if he accepted that. And then they can adjust the borders, but the eastern part of Ukraine is firmly in Russian hands, but again, the Russians are not seizing territory. They’re destroying Ukrainian forces. That’s their focus."
His argument was that Zelensky should cut a deal, agree to keep Ukraine neutral in the NATO-Russia standoff and give up some of the Russian-dominated eastern Ukraine. Macgregor did not see Zelensky as a hero.
Macgregor said, "A neutral Ukraine would be good for us as well as for Russia. It would create the buffer that, frankly, both sides want. But he’s, I think, being told to hang on and try to drag this out, which is tragic for the people that have to live through this."
Liz Cheney showed she was the daughter of a man the left called a chickenhawk by denouncing the colonel.
She tweeted, "Douglas Macgregor, nominated by Trump as ambassador to Germany; appointed by Trump as senior advisor to the Secretary of Defense, says Russian forces have been 'too gentle' and 'I don’t see anything heroic' about Zelensky.
"This is the Putin wing of the GOP."
I guess I was in the Gaddafi wing when I opposed Hillary bombing Libya so she could prove her manhood. She valiantly said on TV 5,000 miles away, "We came. We saw. He's dead."
A few days later, so was her ambassador and three good soldiers because of her refusal to send troops to protect them from those seeking vengeance on the USA.
Libya posed no threat to us. Gaddafi gave up his nuclear ambitions. Heck, he was Hugh Hefner living on Viagra, cocaine and young women.
Putin's push into Ukraine was just as wrong. But please, don't put me in the Zelensky wing because his demand to be added to NATO was stupid and put his country at risk.
It is all a mess as wars usually are. No one is a hero.
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