From The Grayzone:
Pushback with Aaron Maté
Douglas Macgregor, a retired US Army Colonel and former Pentagon senior advisor, analyzes the US-Russia standoff in Ukraine; the aftermath of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan; Trump’s failure to act on 2016 campaign anti-interventionist rhetoric, only to surround himself with neocons; and the ongoing, overlooked US military occupation of Syria after the decade-long CIA dirty war.
“The Military Industrial Congressional Complex,” Macgregor says, “seems to be more powerful than anyone who occupies the office of the presidency.”
Read this article if you want to see how duplicitous Blinken – and by extension, the US – is going to be in next week’s negotiations between the US and Russia.
Blinken says Russia faces ‘two paths’ ahead of key meetings with US next week
https://www.cnn.com/2022/01/05/politics/blinken-russia-two-paths/index.html
If they go this route with Russia, the talks will collapse almost instantly.
Here’s another example:
Into the grey zone: how the US could change the game with China and Russia
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/diplomacy/article/3162275/grey-zone-how-us-could-change-game-china-and-russia?
Note the line: “The Pentagon has already taken steps into the grey zone…”
Just watched the interview. The only point of disagreement is Macgregor’s assumption that Russia *will* invade Ukraine. I still see it as unlikely *unless* Ukraine attacks Donbass. However, I also see it as inevitable that Ukraine will do exactly that. So I suppose as Spock said, “A difference that makes no difference is no difference.”
I realize that Trump couldn’t get anyone that wasn’t part of the Military-Industrial-Congressional Complex through the confirmation process, but what he should have done was have men like MacGregor in his “kitchen cabinet” advising him while ignoring the regular cabinet members that were acceptable lackeys to Congress and the MIC.