Washington’s refusal to acknowledge Russia’s legitimate security interests in Ukraine and negotiate an end to this war is the path to protracted conflict and human suffering.
Douglas Macgregor – The American Conservative Dec 20, 2022
During a speech given on November 29, Polish Vice-Minister of National Defense (MON) Marcin Ociepa said: “The probability of a war in which we will be involved is very high. Too high for us to treat this scenario only hypothetically.” The Polish MON is allegedly planning to call up 200,000 reservists in 2023 for a few weeks’ training, but observers in Warsaw suspect this action could easily lead to a national mobilization.
Meanwhile, inside the Biden administration, there is growing concern that the Ukrainian war effort will collapse under the weight of a Russian offensive. And as the ground in Southern Ukraine finally freezes, the administration’s fears are justified. In an interview published in the Economist, head of Ukraine’s armed forces General Valery Zaluzhny admitted that Russian mobilization and tactics are working. He even hinted that Ukrainian forces might be unable to withstand the coming Russian onslaught.
Yet, Zaluzhny rejected any notion of a negotiated settlement and instead pleaded for more equipment and support. He went on to insist that with 300 new tanks, 600 to 700 new infantry fighting vehicles, and 500 new Howitzers, he could still win the war with Russia. Truthfully, General Zaluzhny is not asking for assistance, he’s asking for a new army. Therein lies the greatest danger for Washington and its NATO allies.
When things go badly for Washington’s foreign policy, the true believers in the great cause always draw deeply from the well of ideological self-delusion to steel themselves for the final battle. Blinken, Klain, Austin, and the rest of the war party continue to pledge eternal support for Kiev regardless of the cost. Like the “best and the brightest” of the 1960s they are eager to sacrifice realism to wishful thinking, to wallow in the splash of publicity and self-promotion in one public visit to Ukraine after another.
This spectacle is frighteningly reminiscent of events more than 50 years ago, when Washington’s proxy war in Vietnam was failing. Doubters within the Johnson administration about the wisdom of intervening on the ground to rescue Saigon from certain destruction went into hiding. In 1963, Washington already had 16,000 military advisors in Vietnam. The idea that Washington was supporting a government in South Vietnam that might not win against North Vietnam was dismissed out of hand. Secretary of State Dean Rusk said, “We will not pull out until the war is won.”
By the spring of 1965, American military advisors were already dying. General Westmoreland, then commander of Military Assistance Command Vietnam, reported to LBJ: “It is increasingly apparent that the existing levels of United States aid cannot prevent the collapse of South Vietnam… North Vietnam is moving in for the kill… Acting on the request of the South Vietnamese government, the decision must be made to commit as soon as possible 125,000 United States troops to prevent the Communist takeover.”
The Biden administration’s unconditional support for the Zelensky regime in Kiev is reaching a strategic inflection point not unlike the one LBJ reached in 1965. Just as LBJ suddenly determined in 1964 that peace and security in Southeast Asia was a vital U.S. strategic interest, the Biden administration is making a similar argument now for Ukraine. Like South Vietnam in the 1960s, Ukraine is losing its war with Russia.
Ukraine’s hospitals and morgues are filled to capacity with wounded and dying Ukrainian soldiers. Washington’s proxy in Kiev has squandered its human capital and considerable Western aid in a series of self-defeating counter-offensives. Ukrainian soldiers manning the defensive lines facing Russian soldiers in Southern Ukraine are brave men, but they are not fools. The Spartans at Thermopylae were brave, and they still died.
The real danger now is that Biden will soon appear on television to repeat LBJ’s performance in 1965, substituting the word “Ukraine” for “South Vietnam”:
Tonight, my fellow Americans I want to speak to you about freedom, democracy, and the struggle of the Ukrainian people for victory. No other question so preoccupies our people. No other dream so absorbs the millions who live in Ukraine and Eastern Europe… However, I am not talking about a NATO attack on Russia. Rather, I propose to send a U.S. led coalition of the willing, consisting of American, Polish, and Romanian armed forces into Ukraine, to establish the ground equivalent of a “no-fly zone.” The mission I propose is a peaceful one, to create a safe zone in the Western most portion of Ukraine for Ukrainian Forces and refugees struggling to survive Russia’s devastating attacks…
Disaster wrapped in rhetoric is not the way to save the people of Ukraine. The war in Ukraine is not a Call of Duty fantasy. It is an enlargement of the human tragedy that NATO’s eastward expansion created. The victims do not live in North America. They live in a region that most Americans can’t find on a map. Washington urged the Ukrainians to fight. Now Washington must urge them to stop.
NATO’s governments are divided in their thinking about the war in Ukraine. Except for Poland and, possibly, Romania, none of NATO’s members are in a rush to mobilize their forces for a long, grueling war of attrition with Russia in Ukraine. No one in London, Paris, or, Berlin wants to run the risk of a nuclear war with Moscow. Americans do not support going to war with Russia, and those few who do are ideologues, shallow political opportunists, or greedy defense contractors.
When U.S. forces finally withdrew from Southeast Asia, Americans thought that Washington would exercise greater restraint, recognize the limits of American power, and pursue a less militant, and more realistic foreign policy. Americans were mistaken then, but Americans and Europeans know now that Washington’s refusal to acknowledge Russia’s legitimate security interests in Ukraine and negotiate an end to this war is the path to protracted conflict and more human suffering.
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Douglas Macgregor, Col. (ret.) is a senior fellow with The American Conservative, the former advisor to the Secretary of Defense in the Trump administration, a decorated combat veteran, and the author of five books.
The positive out of this clusterf*ck re: USA is that perhaps it will expose them ala ” Emperor Has No Clothes “.
Their classic “We’re Number One” bluster and bravado is increasingly ringing hollow. They can’t/don’t/won’t open their eyes and realize they have been invaded for decades by subversives, Cultural Marxists who are now in the home stretch to destroy their ” God Bless America” via ratcheted up BS brainwashing.
As I have posted several times….and as Freemason were becoming bolder in the late 1700’s with French Revolution to establish one of history’s biggest con jobs..”Democracy” aka Mob Rule……the USA was also concurrently being established in the late 1700’s as THE TOP Freemason Frankenstein to conquer and destroy sovereign nations and cultures elsewhere, again employing the bogus “democracy “model.
Americans minds are focussed on Ukraine… “We are gonna kick Putins ass…woohoo”…while their own nation is primed for civil war and implosion. The USA Frankenstein was remote controlled by Jews, effectively to destroy Europe after two World Wars.
After WW2, USA was focussed on small nations Korea..and Vietnam…etc. to prevent Communism??? when China and Russia..two huge nations..were already full blown Communist.
WTF?
Recall Nixon made big overtures to Communist China over 50 years ago years before exiting Vietnam
Pretty clear Vietnam war was necessary to keep The Military Industrial Complex profits rolling in …with the side bar of smuggling drugs into the USA in the bodies of stupid US soldiers who fought this bogus war so that Americans could acquire and maintain drug addictions…..Opium War 2.0
Of course this war also allowed Israel to infiltrate and control USA Middle East policy behind the scenes under warmonger Zionist President LBJ.
Douglas Macgregor, appears to be engaged in pattern recognition, and he makes good points.
So if Ukraine is like Vietnam, then the Kennedy assasination (JFK) which installed the Jewarman LBJ is like the Trump removal in the 2020 election and the installation by fraud the pedo Jewarman Biden. So yes the war could be escalated by the war party. But this time it will be Poland that gets sacrificed in another Zionist war.
The stupidest thing Poland could do is get involved in this, yet there are thousands of Polish troops in the Ukraine, so maybe all those Polish jokes are true.
My God people, who in the hell gives a shit about Ukraine? I sure as hell don’t.
But on the homefront in Jewmerika the Goyim are dropping dead like flies, so they need a big distraction in 2023, more war. And if you complain about vaxx injury they might send you to the front line. Demonizing Russia is a good way not to admit that you on purpose screwed the people with the vaxx.
Poles have historically been the “useful idiots” for TPTB.
If not for their arrogance and concurrent stupidity, WW2 may not have happened.
They were played for suckers by Allies who promised them support..after they had murdererd innocent Germans in Danzig created as a fuse after WW1 to ignite WW2.
Hitler had worked peace with the then Polish Leader , who died..and Smigly and his hubris lead Poland into the Jaws of perpetual defeat by trusting the (((ALLIES))). Allies support never came and Germany invaded Poland and from there on were lead into Communism
The Pole probably had far too much Jewish influence, given they had one of THE largest Jewish populations in Europe.
In 2022, I can see the Poles repeating past mistakes and being used as False Flag pawns again suckered into another major war via being baited to retake Ukrainian lands once deemed as theirs. If and when they enter…all bets are off.
Poland was the main cause Hitler attacked. Poland was gifted with some German territory after WWI. The Poles were abusing, stealing ethnic German land and many Germans died.
Germany tried to negotiate bu just like today, Britain stepped in and gave Poland assurance that Britain would protect Poland from attack even though they could not but the result was Poland would not negotiate. The politics of this had the Germans demand Hitler “do something”. He invaded Poland. Russia did the same on the eastern end. Hitler was accused of causing the war,,, Russia was not.
Today Poland wants some territory they think is theirs in Ukraine. With the US supposedly backing them they may try to regain that territory, thus likely triggering another world war.
Like the British retreat in WWII where Hitler allowed their army to go back to Britain the USA may be pushed to the launch mode if the Russians are successful which is extremely possible.
LBJ’s performance was in late summer of 1964 using the country of “South Vietnam”.
I know, I watched it on television serving the federal government as a brand new lieutenant in the UNSNR attached to the United State Marine Corps at Camp Pendleton, California.
Be prepared, all who watch the TV news, you too will hear the same old “bullshit.”
Someone once wrote: “there is nothing new under the sun.”
Wake Up! Those in power of any government lie.
You know if the Demoncraps had not stolen the election, would any of this happened? I think not. It is a scam on top of the Jan. 6th scam on top of the stolen election scam. A triple demoncrap threat.
And like others are pointing out, if they had not stolen the election then all those Ukrainians would still be alive. There are thousands of young Ukrainian boys freezing and suffering horribly in ice water mud trenches while that little gay demon Zelensky counts his shekels.
So this blue and yellow flag worship is theater and horseshit, these Leftist and Jewish Ukraine lovers are the murderers of and destroyers of Ukraine. And, there is no doubt that when this is over, Ukraine shall be no more, carved up vassal state of the surrounding powers.
“Poland and Hungary to occupy western parts of the former Ukraine.” – 2023 prediction of Dmitry Medvedev
And will Washington be able to expand the war and destroy all of Europe? I think not, I think some nations may revolt and NATO alliance shall implode.
This whole Neoconess Nulander adventure is just another Jewish shitshow doomed for failure.
In todays missile war fronts serve
only as meat grider for soldiers
and manly will be a missile war
on civilians !