| zeldaring said: Douglas Abbott Macgregor is a retired U.S. Army colonel and government official, and an author, consultant, and television commentator. He was a leader in an early tank battle in the Gulf War and was a top planner in the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. also Blames america for the war and he says US doomed Ukraine for it's own benefit. at 8:00 he asks what the united states could have done to not have this war. |
That's a lot of rambling and disinformation. Did your mother never tell you never to trust anyone wearing a suit ;)
Anyway @Ryuu96 already repeatedly debunked many of his points and I don't know how old that interview is but the current situation is nothing like he describes. https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-60506682 Russia is the one sending conscripts to be killed en masse, 10x as many losses as Ukrainian defenders. Currently the war is about liberating Crimea and driving the Russians out of Eastern Ukraine:
Does that look like Ukraine has already lost?
But indeed, Republicans are stalling further budget for Ukraine, and are reluctant to send the goods to shorten the war. Why, because they rather want to control immigration at the Southern border.
EU has provided most of the financial support though and the Ukrainian economy has been showing great recovery already
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/how-much-aid-the-u-s-has-sent-to-ukraine-in-6-charts
https://www.imf.org/en/News/Articles/2023/11/10/pr23389-imf-and-ukraine-reach-staff-level-agreement-eff
The Ukrainian economy continues to show remarkable resilience, and recent economic developments point to a stronger-than-expected economic recovery in 2023, with continued, albeit softer growth in 2024. However, the outlook remains extremely uncertain as exceptionally high war-related uncertainty persists.
Russia is not controlling Ukraine's economy nor has it collapsed.
Putin has brought on the collapse of Russia's economy though
https://www.wilsoncenter.org/publication/putins-created-economic-crisis-and-left-moscow-no-easy-way-out
Yes war is expensive (but also very profitable, all that military assistance creates more jobs in the US, keeps the military-industrial complex going) But what is the alternative? Let Russia take whatever they want showing China and others they can do the same without consequences?
The mistake that was made was not stepping in when Russia annexed Crimea. And exactly because that went so easy for Russia, they thought they could do the same to the rest of Ukraine. See what inaction leads to?
