We need to create proper perspective for the Ukrainian and Russian war, and not ignore the past. Under the Obama Administration, there was a reset button between Russia and the USA. The reset was about creating friendly relationships as allies. Russia then invades and takes over Crimea, with Obama not acting or nipping this in the bud. I wonder what the deal was?
Trump wins the election. The Democrats run the Russian Collusion Coup scam, supposedly between Russia and Trump. Although this was perfect timing for Putin, if the collusion was true, Putin does not invade anything under Trump. This was very strange to me. It appears Trump may have been leading Putin, based on the final history. It was not as the Left had claimed. The Trump leading Putin data better satisfied history.
Biden takes office and now the winds of war are in the air. Biden does not take any early preemptive measures including diplomacy, but allows the invasion of Russia into Ukraine. Biden was part of the reset and Putin waits until Trump is long gone and his reset buddy; Biden is in charge. Putin knows the Left will take bribes.
Speculating over possible intrigue and corruption may be compelling to some degree, although I don't know if it gives much insight as to the root causes of this conflict. The 'reset button' should have been pressed in 1991, and our leaders truly missed the boat during the 1990s.
If we had friendlier relations with Russia, coupled with warming relations with China, then the major powers of the world could have formed a united front to keep the so-called "rogue nations" in line. We probably wouldn't have to worry about entities like North Korea, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan, Al Qaeda, ISIS, or Syria (to name a few) today if we had forged a better relationship with the major powers. The only reason they're a thorn in our side is because of the rivalry between the major powers. That's where US policymakers seemingly put the cart before the horse.
This was all in place before Obama became President, although it seemed at that point, both parties were ostensibly following suit when it came to U.S. foreign policy, since no one ever really wants to rock that boat. Not even Trump could do that. The whole Russia collusion angle was intriguing, and the idea that a bunch of people from a foreign country could flood the internet and social media with trolls and political shills was also disconcerting, but not too surprising, given the culture of the internet and the state of affairs in U.S. politics as it's been for a very long time.
The glaring weaknesses in our political culture include myopia, a short attention span, and a short historical memory.
Now we have invested so much, like the failed banks due to the Democrat created mortgage crisis; loan to people who will default, that we now have to keep bailing out Ukraine, since this war is now too big to fail. Ukraine is now a money pit for Democrat skim. Biden was sending money without book keeping, so it was easy to skim.
Colonel Douglas MacGreger, who had been a fighting Colonel sums up the situation. Biden has installed DEI in the military which is not based on the merit and discipline needed, to have a solid fighting force. Biden has made the US military less of a deterrent to end the war with Russia, so the war can continue.
Russia now has seasoned armies, while the USA is scaring away new recruits with DEI officers over their heads, making leadership a function of shoe size, without battle experience a factor. Biden and Russian Collusion needs to be investigated since Biden took bribes from Russia, as well as Ukraine. Both have potential black mail leverage over Biden and other the Democrats. Ending the war may cause the cat to leave the bag. The warmonger and opportunists Democrats need to perpetuate this war, until at least through the next election cycle, which they are tampering with, and then use propaganda to make it go away; ideal scenario.
There may need to start an impeachment inquiry of Biden, so we can call all types of witnesses, that now can stay under the radar. An impeachment inquiry is not an impeachment, but an investigation to see if an impeachment is warranted. This type of investigation has teeth and will make it harder to slow walk damming evidence under risk of jail time. The swamp cannot keep doing the laptop two step since an impeachment inquiry has teeth and will bite crooks.
The Republicans have a majority in the House, and a few have already proposed impeachment. It would be a pointless waste of time though.
I never heard of Colonel Douglas MacGregor before this thread was posted, but I did some reading up on him. Ultimately, what we're dealing with here, regarding the OP and the rebuttal video by McBeth, are two American citizens with different takes on the issue at hand - much as we're seeing here in this thread.
I see this issue in a couple of different ways. One is to look at the war itself, between Ukraine and Russia, and the underlying reasons of the enmity they seem to have for each other. That doesn't necessarily involve "us," as Americans or Westerners; it's really just between them.
Another way to look at it is in terms of what
does involve "us," and how it's generally approached and discussed in Western circles. We can see from this and other threads that there are many people from Western countries who have very strong, passionate opinions about this conflict - and about how we in the West should respond to it, even to the point of showing visible irritation and hostility towards other Westerners who don't hold the same level of zeal as they do.
The key question is, what should we, as Western and NATO countries, do about this? What are we prepared to do? That seemed to be the general crux of the interview with MacGregor, and that's also what the rebuttal video focused upon. McBeth's video pointed out that there's no indication of any major US troop movements which would suggest that there's not any active plan for the U.S. to send troops into Ukraine and fight Russian troops. At this point, I would trust that information as accurate, although I also realize that situations can change very quickly depending on the circumstances and the level of urgency.
But that's really what the discussion is all about, the West's response to this. We all know that Putin is evil and that the invasion is wrong - a violation of treaties and international law - and perhaps someday the perpetrators of the reported atrocities can be held to answer for their crimes. But there are other matters to consider regarding our own position.
