As always, the comments provided by Douglas Macgregor (a
retired Colonel of the US Army who was in charge of US nuclear war
strategy) on the war in Ukraine are worth listening to – as in the
case of his most recent conversation with Judge Andrew Napolitano,
held yesterday (29th September 2022). In the first three main segments
of this interview, Douglas Macgregor provides a military analysis of
the war and explains what he thinks the Russian forces are trying to
achieve, the extent to which they have been constrained by the Russian
leadership and why the situation has changed in this regard. The
interview then touches upon the recent referenda in the Donbass and
the reason why according to Douglas Macgregor Russia needs to support
this region. The next important topic discussed is the recent sabotage
of the Nordstream pipelines and who Douglas Macgregor sees as the
likely culprit(s). Below is a transcript I have made of the final
segment (19m05s until the end), in which the former US Army colonel
gives the audience of Judge Andrew Napolitano his views on what is
likely to happen in Ukraine by Christmas from a military standpoint:
Judge Andrew Napolitano
Give us your likely scenario of what we can expect on the ground in Ukraine between now and Christmas time.
Colonel (retired) Douglas Macgregor
Well, I think that most of October will be taken up with uh assembling and positioning forces, though it’s not impossible that some forces could … could take the offensive – Russian forces – before the end of October. There are some people who are telling me that the Russian forces that are assembling in Belorussia, White Russia, north of Kiev, are already prepared to enter the fight. That could be. But I think that the Ukrainians who are being bled white by these counter attacks are just about out of manpower. And when that manpower runs out, I would expect two things to happen. I think first the Russians will then take the … take the opportunity to attack. And I think they’ll try to do it without ending up stuck in the mud. That means probably after the ground freezes, the ground is likely to freeze towards the end of October, beginning of November. So I would see this coming to some sort of closure militarily at that time. Now, I don’t know what that means for the Ukrainians. We know, for instance, that the Ukrainian chief of staff and the Russian chief of staff had a phone call within the last few days to discuss how to end the war. Now, we don’t know what came out of it. I mean: perhaps someone at the National Security Agency knows. I don’t. But I take that as an indicator that the Ukrainians are nearing the end of their rope. Now Zelenski, meanwhile, has been dropping tidbits of information to media, to be reproduced in the Ukrainian media. One item was that he’s having uh a group of scientists and engineers assembled in Kiev to put together a potentially a dirty bomb – nuclear bomb – consisting of spent uranium fuel from one of their uh uranium power plants.
Judge Andrew Napolitano
Well, yeah, if that’s true, they can’t do it overnight.
Colonel (retired) Douglas Macgregor
Well, one would think not, but, I mean, these are the kinds of things you’re coming out of … anybody that, objectively, looks at this stuff has got to conclude that Ukrainians are quite desperate. I mean: I don’t know how many times I have sat in front of film footage sent to me showing convoys of hundreds of ambulances carrying wounded from southern Ukraine back to Kiev and further West because all the hospitals, all the facilities to handle wounded near the front are completely full – they’re overflowing. The Russians have actually allowed ceasefires along their fronts to let the Ukrainians come forward and pick up their dead and wounded and evacuate them. Of course, no one in the West will report that, but that’s happened; I was frankly shocked. But that’s what’s been going on. I … this thing is not some sort of grand March to victory by Ukraine – quite the opposite. The real question is: how much longer will Zelenski survive this? I don’t know.
Judge Andrew Napolitano
We we’ll end with that Colonel McGregor, always a pleasure. The … the … the comments that we get: our … our viewers love you; they could listen to you all afternoon. All the best to you; thank you for joining us, Sir.
Colonel (retired) Douglas Macgregor
Thank you, judge.
Judge Andrew Napolitano
Judge Napolitano for Judging Freedom.
Judge Andrew Napolitano
Give us your likely scenario of what we can expect on the ground in Ukraine between now and Christmas time.
Colonel (retired) Douglas Macgregor
Well, I think that most of October will be taken up with uh assembling and positioning forces, though it’s not impossible that some forces could … could take the offensive – Russian forces – before the end of October. There are some people who are telling me that the Russian forces that are assembling in Belorussia, White Russia, north of Kiev, are already prepared to enter the fight. That could be. But I think that the Ukrainians who are being bled white by these counter attacks are just about out of manpower. And when that manpower runs out, I would expect two things to happen. I think first the Russians will then take the … take the opportunity to attack. And I think they’ll try to do it without ending up stuck in the mud. That means probably after the ground freezes, the ground is likely to freeze towards the end of October, beginning of November. So I would see this coming to some sort of closure militarily at that time. Now, I don’t know what that means for the Ukrainians. We know, for instance, that the Ukrainian chief of staff and the Russian chief of staff had a phone call within the last few days to discuss how to end the war. Now, we don’t know what came out of it. I mean: perhaps someone at the National Security Agency knows. I don’t. But I take that as an indicator that the Ukrainians are nearing the end of their rope. Now Zelenski, meanwhile, has been dropping tidbits of information to media, to be reproduced in the Ukrainian media. One item was that he’s having uh a group of scientists and engineers assembled in Kiev to put together a potentially a dirty bomb – nuclear bomb – consisting of spent uranium fuel from one of their uh uranium power plants.
Judge Andrew Napolitano
Well, yeah, if that’s true, they can’t do it overnight.
Colonel (retired) Douglas Macgregor
Well, one would think not, but, I mean, these are the kinds of things you’re coming out of … anybody that, objectively, looks at this stuff has got to conclude that Ukrainians are quite desperate. I mean: I don’t know how many times I have sat in front of film footage sent to me showing convoys of hundreds of ambulances carrying wounded from southern Ukraine back to Kiev and further West because all the hospitals, all the facilities to handle wounded near the front are completely full – they’re overflowing. The Russians have actually allowed ceasefires along their fronts to let the Ukrainians come forward and pick up their dead and wounded and evacuate them. Of course, no one in the West will report that, but that’s happened; I was frankly shocked. But that’s what’s been going on. I … this thing is not some sort of grand March to victory by Ukraine – quite the opposite. The real question is: how much longer will Zelenski survive this? I don’t know.
Judge Andrew Napolitano
We we’ll end with that Colonel McGregor, always a pleasure. The … the … the comments that we get: our … our viewers love you; they could listen to you all afternoon. All the best to you; thank you for joining us, Sir.
Colonel (retired) Douglas Macgregor
Thank you, judge.
Judge Andrew Napolitano
Judge Napolitano for Judging Freedom.
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Links to other interviews of the same colonel posted on this blog:
https://paulzanotelli.ch/blog/geopolitics/ukraine/dissenters/colonel-douglas-macgregor/the-notion-of-using-nuclear-weapons-is-nonsense.html
https://paulzanotelli.ch/blog/geopolitics/ukraine/dissenters/colonel-douglas-macgregor/zelensky_no-hero-a-puppet-putting-huge-numbers-of-his-own-own-population-at-unnecessary-risk.html
https://paulzanotelli.ch/blog/geopolitics/ukraine/dissenters/colonel-douglas-macgregor/we-should-be-de-escalating-not-escalating.html
https://paulzanotelli.ch/blog/geopolitics/ukraine/dissenters/colonel-douglas-macgregor/putin-has-priced-in-the-cost-he-s-not-a-fool.html
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published on the thirtieth day of the
ninth month of the year two thousand and
twenty-two.
