Welcome to Pushback. I'm Aaron Mate.

Joining me is Doug McGregor.

He is a retired Army colonel and a former senior Pentagon advisor.

Doug, thanks for joining me once again.

Sure, absolutely.

Let me ask you your response to the news we got late last week.

Out of nowhere, the top military officer in the U.S., General Mark Millie, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, comes out in favor of diplomacy with Russia.

And this comes just a few weeks after congressional progressives were bullied into retracting their call for the same thing for talking to Russia to end this war.

And now we have the top military officer in the country, General Millie, reportedly clashing with other Biden administration officials and calling for talks with Russia.

So what to you is the significance of this?

And why is Millie, of all people coming out in favor of talks with russia

well first of all general milly has a reputation for not not doing something unless he's

calculated the outcome and thinks it will benefit him he leaked things from discussions with trump

which were designed to benefit him we had no idea whether or not they were true uh he's now done the same thing with the new york times

he essentially said i think the ukreans had done all they can reasonably do and it would

be a good time to negotiate effectively thatively, that's what he said.

And supposedly, that's what he told President Biden. Of course, President Biden and Sullivan and

Blinken and the rest of them all rejected it out of hand. So there are a couple of things that

are very interesting. So the second point is this is Millie talking out of school. He's a senior

military advisor to the president. Frankly speaking, anything he says is confidential and should

be kept quiet. He's entitled to think whatever he likes, hold whatever opinion he wants to,

but once he expresses that to the president,

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