Douglas Abbott Macgregor

Douglas Abbott Macgregor (born January 4, 1947) is a retired U.S. Army Colonel and government official, and an author, consultant, and television commentator.

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 * Well, at this point, I think, we have to conclude that there is a universal opposition to any peace arrangement that involves a recognition of any Russian success. In fact, if anything, it looks more and more as though Ukrainians are almost incidental to the operation, in the sense that they are there to impale themselves on the Russian army and die in great numbers.  Because the real goal of this entire thing is the destruction of the Russian state and Vladimir Putin.  And no one is prepared to stop anything as long as there is the slightest hope that something terrible will happen to Russia and to Putin.  Of course, I don't see much evidence that that's going to be the case, but it doesn’t really matter here.  Everyone has universally signed on for the Russian hate campaign, or hatred for Russia campaign, and that seems to go on regardless of what is reported.  And frankly, the absence of much truth and reporting and a lot of wishful thinking in its place is hard to overestimate or exaggerate.  It’s terrible.
 * Former top Pentagon advisor Col. Doug Macgregor on Russia-Ukraine war, interview by Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate, The Grayzone (March 18, 2022)


 * The issue for the Russians from the very beginning has been, "How do we proceed without killing large numbers of civilians and inflicting a lot of property damage?" And Putin gave very strict orders from the outset that they were to avoid these things.  The problem with avoiding it is that it has slowed the progress of the operation to the point where it has given false hope both to the Ukrainians, but I think has been seized on by people in the West to try and convince the world that a defeat is in progress when, in fact, the opposite is the case.  So, the war itself at this stage of the game could be decided very, very rapidly—permanently if Putin were to give the order and allow the forces to disregard the concern for civilians and property damage.  But he hasn't done that.  He has continued to negotiate even though he recognizes that the people sitting across from him really are not in a position to deliver very much.  They’re being told what to do, and it's very obvious that Washington wants this to continue as long as possible in the hopes that Russia will be desperately harmed.  I just don’t see that happening.
 * Former top Pentagon advisor Col. Doug Macgregor on Russia-Ukraine war, interview by Max Blumenthal and Aaron Maté, The Grayzone (March 18, 2022).


 * I really think the president and his supporting advisers believe that somehow or another, they're going to arrive at a negotiating table in the future where they will be able to dictate terms to Moscow. And that's not going to happen.
 * Col. Macgregor: Biden wrongly conveying state of Ukraine, warns how western half could become 'firing range', By Charles Creitz, Fox News (April 21, 2022).