US war lobby fuels conflict in Russia, Ukraine, and Syria: ex-Pentagon advisor

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🗓️ 5 January 2022

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Support Pushback at Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/aaronmate 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." Guest: Douglas Macgregor, retired US Army Colonel and former Pentagon senior advisor.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pushback. I'm Aaron Mate.
0:07.0	Joining me is Douglas McGregor. He is a retired Army Colonel who served as the former senior
0:13.0	advisor to the Secretary of Defense. Doug McGregor, thank you for joining me.
0:18.0	Good, thank you.
0:19.0	I want to start with the current flashpoint of Ukraine.
0:23.6	The U.S. and Russia have been in the midst of a showdown over essentially the status of
0:29.6	Ukraine, whether it will join NATO or not, and the status of U.S. forces there and U.S. military aid.
0:39.3	Adam Schiff, the chair of the House Intelligence Committee, he recently said that he believes
0:44.5	that a Russia invasion of Ukraine is very likely.
0:50.0	What specifically would stop Vladimir Putin from his aggression? Do you need to cut that country off from the
0:56.8	global financial system to sanction him personally? Well, I think that it would require
1:05.2	enormous sanctions on Russia to deter what appears to be a very likely Russian invasion of Ukraine again.
1:13.2	That's a prevailing view in Washington, D.C. right now, I'm wondering your assessment of that
1:18.9	prospect. Do you agree that a Russian invasion of Ukraine is very likely?
1:24.0	Well, this is one of the few occasions where I can agree with something that Adam Schiff has said.
1:29.1	Yes, I think it's very likely to happen towards the end of January, beginning of February, in all likelihood.
1:39.9	On what grounds do you believe that?
1:46.0	Well, there are several.
1:47.0	First of all, the problems in Ukraine are not new.
1:50.0	We've been dealing with them for the last, I would argue, 10 to 15 years.
1:55.0	These problems were evident in the 1990s when the former Soviet Union fragmented into various states, the current borders of Ukraine
2:04.9	never made a great deal of sense because Ukraine is essentially a multinational state.
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