Comments by "jacq danieles" (@jacqdanieles) on "Mark Hertling - How Fragile would Russia’s Autocratic System be After a Major Battlefield Defeat" video.

If you're going to cite MacGregor, you've already lost all credibility.
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@oddvardmyrnes9040 some of the colonel's greatest hits: Feb 25, 2022 "If they don't surrender in the next 24 hours, I suspect Russia will ultimately annihilate them." "The battle in eastern Ukraine is really almost over, all of the Ukrainian troops there have been largely surrounded and cut off. You have a concentration down in the Southeast of 30 or 40,000 of them, and if they don't surrender in the next 24 hours, I suspect Russia will ultimately annihilate them."
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@oddvardmyrnes9040 Feb 28, 2022 "The first five days Russian forces I think frankly were too gentle," he said. "They've now corrected that. So, I would say another 10 days this should be completely over."
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@oddvardmyrnes9040 March 3, 2022 On Thursday, Macgregor told Carlson that he believes Ukrainians have already been defeated and that both nations "are very close right now to a ceasefire." "The war is really over for the Ukrainians," Macgregor said. "They have been grounded to bits. There's no question about that despite what we report on our mainstream media. So the real question for us at this stage is, if there is an agreement, Tucker, are we going to live with the Russian people and their government? Or are we going to continue to pursue this sort of regime change dressed up as Ukrainian war?"
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@oddvardmyrnes9040 Sep 9 2022 Speaking to the most popular U.S. talk show host, alleged Russia-Ukraine war expert Douglas Macgregor said that by the time Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave a keynote speech to a defense industry trade group later that week, “this entire war may be over.” The events of the days following the interview showed Macgregor’s comments, unchallenged by Carlson, were in fact a direct inversion of the reality that played out. Ukraine liberated almost 3,500 square miles; the Russian front in Kharkiv collapsed and military personnel fled
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@oddvardmyrnes9040 March 6, 2022 "... the eastern part of Ukraine is firmly in Russian hands, but again, the Russians are not seizing the territory. They are destroying Ukrainian forces. That’s their focus”. Later in the year, ruzzia announced the annexations ...
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@oddvardmyrnes9040 March 25, 2022, RIA Novosti quoted Macgregor as falsely claiming in an interview with the “Judge Napolitano - Judging Freedom” show, that a majority of the residents of eastern Ukraine were Russians. Calling the Russia-occupied regions of eastern Ukraine “these republics,” in language used by the Kremlin’s disinformation campaign, Macgregor said: “These republics are fundamentally pro-Russian. And, in general, mostly Russians live in eastern Ukraine. … They should not be forced to speak Ukrainian, write Ukrainian, they are not Ukrainians.” But the 2001 census, the last before Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea, showed that most of eastern Ukraine residents are ethnic Ukrainians, with ethnic Russians the region’s largest minority.
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@oddvardmyrnes9040 "a stopped clock is right twice a day" ...
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@oddvardmyrnes9040 the people who fled Donbas are still part of that area. Just because they have fled doesn't mean they no longer exist. And even if the population is majority pro ruzzian, it doesn't mean Ukraine should give up the territory to rebels. Ruzzia fought 2 bloody wars over Chechnya.
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