Col Douglas Macgregor: “The Russians Are Now Advancing Massively”

November 24, 2023 | 11 Comments »

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  1. HI, Sebastian. Of course, Putin is allied with Israel’s main enemies. Anyone who can’t see that is blind. Here’s a good discussion about all things Putin:

    https://youtu.be/mNvPQBJSVTk

    BTW “A majority of U.S. adult citizens say they sympathize more with Ukraine (64%) than with Russia, compared to 3% who sympathize more with Russia, according to the latest Economist/YouGov poll. In the broader Israeli-Palestinian conflict, 40% of Americans say their sympathies are more with Israel, while 12% back the Palestinians.”

    https://today.yougov.com/politics/articles/47824-how-americans-view-the-israel-hamas-and-russia-ukraine-wars

  2. Sebastien this is a separate issue and by diverting seem to be taking the pro Fascist Ukraine side on this blog. Have you changed on that?

  3. Russian Anti-Tank And Anti-Ship Missiles Sent To Syrian Government Reach Hizbullah’s Arsenal

    November 21, 2023

    https://www.memri.org/reports/russian-anti-tank-and-anti-ship-missiles-sent-syrian-government-reach-hizbullahs-arsenal

    “So, the Yakhont systems that are in the service of the Syrian military may have ended up in the hands of Hizbullah, though Presidential Administration Press Secretary Dmitry Peskov firmly denied claims of a direct transfer of arms to the Shi’ite militant group,[13] with media supporting the “general party-line.” The Izvestia daily, quoting a source “close to Hizbullah’s political leadership” wrote on November 10, 2023: “This kind of publication can be percieved as intimidation on the part of the United States and as an attempt to demonize the Lebanese paramilitary party. The Americans used exactly the same strategy in Iraq as an excuse to justify their invasion in 2003.”[14]”

    “an attempt to demonize the Lebanese paramilitary party.”

    i.e., Hizbollah.

  4. Peloni well stated I will only add that Russia has been there before, seen that done that. In 1918 to 1922 Pogroms of Jews and in Holocaust years.

    Meaning Jews have only one choice in this sad war which Putin did work very hard to avoid

  5. Sima Yi has one pithy aphorism attributed to him which is better than anything in the Art of War. Sima Yi put the essence of warmaking the following way:

    “In military affairs there are five essential points. If able to attack, you must attack. If not able to attack, you must defend. If not able to defend, you must flee. The remaining two points entail only surrender or death.”

    Ukraine is working its way down the list. The events of the summer demonstrated that it cannot successfully attack strongly held Russian positions. Events in Avdivvka and elsewhere now test whether they can defend their position in the Donbas against rising Russian force generation. If they fail this test, it will be time to flee, surrender, or die. Such is the way of things when the time for reckoning comes.

    Russo-Ukrainian War: The Reckoning

    As with the Spring Offensive which morphed into the Summer Offensive which was seen to devolve into an “abject failure and a military defeat of historical significance”, time will tell the true fate of Advivka.

    Big Serge provides a excellent analysis of the war in Ukraine at the above link, with a very granular description of the plight in which Ukraine stands today. For those not upto the task of reading his comments in full, here is his conclusion:

    There is no wonder weapon, no cool trick, no operational contrivance coming to save Ukraine. There is no exhaust port on the Death Star. There’s only the cold calculus of massed fires over time and space. Even Ukraine’s isolated successes only serve to emphasize the enormous disparity in capabilities. For example, when the AFU uses western missiles to attack Russian ships in drydock, this is only possible because Russia has a navy. The Russians, in contrast, have a wide arsenal of anti-ship missiles that they are not using, because Ukraine does not have a navy. While the spectacle of a successful hit on a Russian vessel makes for nice PR, it only reveals the asymmetry in assets and does nothing to ameliorate Ukraine’s fundamental problem, which is the steady attrition and destruction of its ground forces in the Donbas.

    As 2024 brings a steady erosion of the Ukrainian position in the Donbas – isolation and liquidation of peripheral fortresses like Adviivka, a double pronged advance on Konstyantinivka, an ever more severe salient around Ugledar as the Russians advance on Kurakhove – Ukraine will find itself in an ever more untenable place, with western partners questioning the logic of funneling limited weapons stocks into a shattered state.

  6. Comment

    Re Bear inability to get a Scottish name and confusion of that with an Irish name again garbled coz he meant Maguire (he wrote the non existent McGuire)

    Just very sad and demeaning to the great Jewish people

    Why do this???

    On the substance

    Since February 2014 Ukraine has been TAKEN OVER and run by Fascists which are descended in a straight line from Nazis and forerunners of Nazis who Trotsky wiped out in the 1918 to 1922 Pogroms

    Michael like Bear and Adam

    You take truth and directly invert that to produce lies

    That is what these liars [Palestinians called that since post the 1967 war which they started and lost] also do all the time.

    “On the Russians’ side is Western propaganda (like MacGreggor’s), fueling war-weariness and choking needed ammunition, etc. off from the freedom fighters.”

    See how he inverts everything

    WESTERN PROPAGANDA…reality we have had for many years unending Putin hatred

    WAR WEARINESS…Tucker Carlson last night described a video as the soldiers are now all over 50

    The Ukraine Fascist leaders have run out of men

    Why is that? ALL DEAD.

  7. Re Bear inability to get a Scottish name and confusion of that with an Irish name again garbled coz he meant Maguire (he wrote the non existent McGuire)

    Just very sad and demeaning to the great Jewish people

    Why do this???

    On the substance

    Since February 2014 Ukraine has been TAKEN OVER and run by Fascists which are descended in a straight line from Nazis and forerunners of Nazis who Trotsky wiped out in the 1918 to 1922 Pogroms

  8. HI, Bear

    I don’t know of any McGuire. I assume you meant MacGreggor. All I’m certain of, about that guy, is that he or his publicists exaggerate in ridiculous extremes. As for re-posting his stuff, There are more damaging voices out there than MacGreggor’s. He just needs to be called when he’s spouting nonesense.

    Concerning Russia,

    1. Putin has been demanding that his generals pursue a massive, concerted suicide assault on the Ukrainians, especially at Avdiivka. The Ruzzians pour in human waves over mined fields in range of every sort of Ukrainian artillery, and their losses have been horrific — both in men and in materiel. Their tactics bring to mind the Chinese “volunteer” assaults against the American, South Korean and UN forces in the early 1950s.

    2. On the Russians’ side is Western propaganda (like MacGreggor’s), fueling war-weariness and choking needed ammunition, etc. off from the freedom fighters. Working against them is the inexorably approaching Ukrainian winter, which will likely take a greater toll on the Russians waste-deep in freezing cold water in their trenches, than on the hardened Ukrainians.

    3. MacGreggor probably flat-out lied about Israel: A major reason for the initial Hamas success was the electronic warfare they used to jam Israeli defenses. I doubt that anyone other than the Russians could have provided this. Of course, Traitor Joe Biden didn’t hurt the terrorists much with his multi-billion dollar gift to Russia’s ally Iran.

  9. 100% BS, as usual — not even worth commenting on. Come back in two weeks, and see if the Russians have gained any ground at all — if, indeed, they have any suicide warriors and moving equipment left. They are getting mowed down like lemmings.

    https://i.redd.it/ukraines-defence-forces-eliminated-1-100-russian-soldiers-v0-k2vrus323a2c1.jpg?s=81c634bc10a115bcc9ad6347debfa212988214a5

    https://www.reddit.com/r/UkraineWarRoom/comments/182u4ea/the_14th_separate_mechanized_brigade_named_after/

    https://www.businessinsider.com/russian-attacks-on-avdiivka-like-zombie-movie-ukrainian-soldier-2023-11