Tucker, Macgregor, Putin
What I want to do here is simply juxtapose two videos. The first video is brief—only three minutes. It features Tucker Carlson getting Col. Douglas Macgregor’s take on the current state of affairs in Ukraine—basically, Is there a possibility for peace or a cease fire. Macgregor opines that there may be some movement in the direction of a cease fire, but it will mean meeting Russia’s conditions. Russia’s conditions amount to something pretty close to what their stated war goals were from the outset. In other words, a cease fire will amount to something like surrender. However, along the way, during those brief three minutes, Macgregor makes a variety of points. The main one, which he raises after the first minute is:
If there is a peace, will the United States be willing to live with the Russian people and their government, or will we continue to pursue regime change in Russia, dressed up as a Ukrainian war? … We really need to live with these people—as opposed to kill them.
And from there it’s off to the races.
There’s a problem I see with this relatively optimistic scenario, and Clint Ehrlich nails it:
Compare and contrast—I got this link to an Oliver Stone interview of Putin in 2016 (during the campaign, before the election) from Tom Luongo today. I want to first quote this section, because it mirrors in a way some of the things I was saying about Bluto Barr this morning:
This push for regime change in Russia, however, begs a very important question: “Why have they gone this far? Why do they think they can get regime change when Putin has 70+% support?”
Is it because they really are scared of the emerging facts on the ground, that Russia is grinding out, inevitably and inexorably, a victory in Ukraine on Russian terms that isn’t a reflection of bad military strategy and/or poor intelligence and logistics?
Or is it something deeper.
Something Darker
Alistair Crooke and I talked about this in our latest podcast. Russia’s collective psyche is a reflection of Putin’s. You’ll see that their anger and frustration is now real and complete. The West hates Russia and Russians with a burning passion that is irrational.
The fear of loss of potency has made war-mongers out of way too many folks because they refuse to blame themselves for this mess:
That they allowed Biden to take the White House
That they believed all the crude propaganda about Trump and Putin
That they still wear their masks, now with Ukrainian Flags on them, to show their wisdom over those who are now clearly traitors.
That their paychecks are getting smaller by the day.
When you see a push poll by Pew that states more than one-third of Americans are willing to risk nuclear war to stop Putin in Ukraine, you know something has gone way off the rails, and it ain’t the Russians.
It’s not fear that makes the Russian people and Putin angry, it’s disappointment at having their hand of friendship consistently slapped away so thoroughly in the post-Soviet era.
Now here’s Luongo’s intro to the Putin interview segment, cued halfway through:
If you want to know your enemy, you should study him. Demonizing him may win you friends at the water cooler, but it will cost you your soul. About 20 minutes in, during their first conversation, Stone brings up the multiple assassination attempts on Putin.
If you watch nothing else, watch this segment (click here) to get a better understanding of Russia and Putin.
What you’ll see is a man who is intelligent and articulate, with a broad vision of world affairs. If you watch closely you’ll also see, in one video segment, McCain in the first row laughing at Putin while Putin speaks of American cultural imperialism—yes, he’s referring to our Gender War on the World. But there’s a lot, lot more in this fascinating interview:
Closing with some tweets:
The banner over the singer’s head reads Za Mir bez Natsizma—for a world without Nazism:
The interview with President Putin was enlightening. Thank you. Everything I have ever been taught about Russia and President Putin was not what i saw in that video. Finding this Substack and all the subsequent links and information I have been able to read have been fascinating and mind broadening. I found this substack via Dr Malone or Eugypis when I started doing my own research to understand what was happening in Eastern Europe. I appreciate the civil and learned discourse that takes place here.
Oh, to have a President of the caliber of Vladimir Putin in these United States, a real man. Instead we have a fraud, an empty suit in the White House, Josef Stolen.