There are those of us out here in the vast wide Americanness of America with a type of Patriotic Oppositional Defiance Disorder. The very moment we are told we may not question the narrative, we MUST question the narrative. The rest of the crowd just says, “Eh, OK.”. Tucker Carlson both typifies this disorder and whets it in the rest of us. That’s why I was so interested in his Tucker on X (Twitter) interview with Colonel Douglas MacGregor regarding the war in Ukraine.

The Progressive Left has had Tucker in the Tin Foil Hat Camp for years and begging Fox to cancel him. January 6 and UFO’s and the Ukraine War, Oh My. Fox News Channel finally gave him the ax and we have been getting wonderful, long form interviews since June on X (Twitter). He is a greater interviewer. He lets subjects get away with enough that they will tell him anything. Except for Andrew Tate, that was not good.

Episode 18 “Into the Abyss” is the interview regarding the Ukraine War with Col. MacGregor. MacGregor has voiced opinions at odd with the Pentagon and the current zeitgeist which makes him A-OK in my book. This is a long interview, so grab the beverage of your choice and dive in.

Ep. 18 Into the abyss: Colonel Douglas Macgregor tells us why the Ukraine war must end now. pic.twitter.com/a3bGLvJC4s

— Tucker Carlson (@TuckerCarlson) August 21, 2023

To give you a flavor of the interview in case you couldn’t watch it, Leah Barkoukis of Townhall has transcribed Tucker’s opening monolog:

“The Russian army is incompetent,’ they claim. ‘Ukraine is a democracy.’ ‘Vladimir Putin is Hitler, and he’s trying to take over the world.’ Thankfully, the Ukrainians are winning. None of that is true.
Every claim is false. The last one, especially. The Ukrainian Army is not winning. In fact, it’s losing badly. Ukraine is being destroyed. Its population is being slaughtered in lopsided battles with a technologically superior enemy or scattered by the millions to the rest of the globe as refugees. Ukraine is running out of soldiers.
As that happens, the question will inevitably arise who’s going to replace them? If the Ukrainians can’t beat Putin, who will? The answer, of course, will be us. American troops will fight the Russian army in Eastern Europe. That’s most likely. And the assumption is we’ll win. But will we win?

I am not and never have been a warfighter. However, I have watched us go to war three times. I do have three loved ones that are active duty, including one in Syria FFS. I am an American. These all give me the right to have an opinion on the Ukraine War. It stinks, bigly. We don’t dare question the Media Democrat Industrial Complex or else we are on the side of Vladimir Putin and we want Russia to win.

Probably not, says former Army Colonel Douglas Macgregor, a decorated combat veteran who advised the Secretary of Defense in the last administration. The US, says Macgregor, is on the brink of a catastrophic war that could very easily destroy us. Few Americans seem to understand that, but they should. Douglas Macgregor is now the CEO of Our Country, Our Choice, and we sat down with him recently.
This conversation is worth hearing.
(Transcript via Vigilant News)”

Here is more from BizPacReview:

As had been the case when they’d spoken together on Fox News, the colonel’s position bucked Washington, D.C.’s ongoing and costly support of the Ukrainian military by contending that, even with our aid, they have been dying in droves.
“I think all of the lies that have been told for more than a year-and-a-half about the Ukrainians are winning; the Ukrainian cause is just; the Russians are evil; the Russians are incompetent; all of that is collapsing, and it’s collapsing because what’s happening on the battlefield is horrific,” said Macgregor.
The colonel reported that at least 40,000 Ukrainian men had been killed in just the last month bringing the total estimate to around 400,000 since Russia had invaded in Feb. 2022. “We don’t even know how many people have been wounded, but we know probably upwards of 40- to 50,000 soldiers are amputees.”
“We know the hospitals are full,” he added before noting that many “Ukrainian units at the platoon and company level,” measuring from 50 to 200 men at a time, have been surrendering to the Russians for the sake of the wounded “because they can’t fight anymore.”
“All of this happens in a way that is just not reported in the West. And in the meantime, rather than admit that this is a terrible tragedy that should be ended, on humanitarian grounds if no other, that the killing should stop — as President Trump said ‘Stop the killing,’ we’re gonna continue,” lamented Macgregor. “And this puts the Russians in the unhappy position of marching further west.”
It was later suggested that the Russians had not been initially prepared for the conflict, but had since amassed around 750,000 troops in and around their neighboring nation and could grow to a force as large as 1.2 million over the next year.
Meanwhile, Macgregor slammed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy “and the radicals around him” who’ve “basically committed to fighting this war to the last Ukrainian. And of course, I’m sure that Mr. Zelenskyy and friends are anxious at some point to retire to their estates in Florida, or Venice or Cyprus to collect on the billions that they’ve managed to steal or siphon from all the aid that we’ve provided. Remember, Ukraine is probably one of the most corrupt places in the world.”

Don’t you dare question the War in Ukraine or else you are a puppet of Putin. And, on cue, here comes Ben Domenech:

Macgregor's first answer to Tucker Carlson includes an incredible falsehood, that “Ukraine now we think have lost 400,000 men killed in battle.”

The actual estimate is 70,000.https://t.co/OSqlOHDioI

— Ben Domenech (@bdomenech) August 22, 2023

I have no idea what the truth is. A lot of what MacGregor told Tucker makes sense. We have seen what has happened to discipline in the military. Training like you fight has taken a backseat to pronoun training. Remember this gem from the Navy:

I would love to believe that MacGregor is wrong and that Domenech is correct. The last two and half years have made my Patriotic Oppositional Defiance Disorder spike. I would love to hear your thoughts.

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