On 16 Mar 2022, at 4:45, Stefan Heidenreich wrote:
> add this: Former senior advisor the Secretary of Defense Col. Doug Macgregor
> on the situation in Ukraine and Washington:
It seems strange to see this on nettime.
Macgregor is a Putin apologist who's called Zelensky a "puppet," accused him of
using the Ukrainian people as "human shields," described the wanton destruction
as "surprisingly little damage," and argued that the Russian military should
have been *more* violent in the opening days of the war. He's a fixture on Fox
News because he makes hosts like Tucker Carlson sound moderate.
The Secretary of Defense that Macgregor advised (for a few months) was Chris
Miller, who Trump installed just days after losing the election as part of a
larger purge of mil/intel leadership. There's good reason to think that
Macgregor actively involved in Trump’s attempted coup.
From Wikipedia on Macgregor’s failed nomination (by Trump) to be ambassador to
Germany:
> He has asserted that Muslim immigrants (referred to as "Muslim invaders")
> come to Europe "with the goal of eventually turning Europe into an Islamic
> state". Macgregor has argued that the German concept of
> Vergangenheitsbewältigung, used to cope with Germany's Nazi past and its
> atrocities during World War II, is a "sick mentality." Macgregor has also
> stated that martial law should be instituted on the U.S.-Mexico border and
> argued for the extrajudicial execution of those who cross the border at
> unofficial ports of entry. Macgregor has also made statements in support of
> Israel having defensible borders, the annexation of the Golan Heights, and
> the decision to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. In a column in The
> Washington Post he was described as "a racist crackpot who is pro-Russia,
> anti-Merkel, anti-Muslim and anti-Mexican."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douglas_Macgregor?wprov=sfti1
Admittedly, Wikipedia is a problematic source — in this case because it
understates Macgregor's extremism. His view that Ukraine should serve as a
"neutral" buffer between NATO/EU and RU is consistent with his advocacy for
summary executions of undocumented migrants at the US/Mex border: he doesn't
like change, and he's happy to exchange others' lives en masse to prevent it.
Your suggestion that the INC should add some random rightist-noise YT video to
their list of practical Ukraine resources seems a bit...tone-deaf?
Ted
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