INTERVIEW: Give peace a chance Donald

'It's not enough to want peace, you have to make it happen.' Col Douglas Macgregor on how 'peace candidate' Trump has failed and should have ended arms to Ukraine on day one

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Odessa and Kharkiv under Russian control and authority?

Col. Douglas Macgregoris a retired U.S. Army colonel and government official, and an author, consultant, and television commentator. He played a significant role on the battlefield in the Gulf War and the 1999 NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. His 1997 book Breaking the Phalanx established him as an influential if unconventional theorist of military strategy. His thinking contributed to the US strategy in its 2003 invasion of Iraq.
May 18th, 2023

China & Zelenskyy Talking - Col Doug Macgregor

Limited resources and the collapse of Ukraine

Col. Douglas MacGregor

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John Joseph Mearsheimer is an American political scientist and international relations scholar, who belongs to the realist school of thought. He is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor at the University of Chicago. He has been described as the most influential realist of his generation.

Mearsheimer was born in December 1947 in Brooklyn, New York City. When he was eight, he moved with his family to Croton-on-Hudson, a suburb in Westchester County. When he was 17, Mearsheimer enlisted in the US Army. After one year as an enlisted member, he obtained an appointment to the US Military Academy at West Point, which he attended from 1966 to 1970. After graduation, he served for five years as an officer in the US Air Force.

In 1974, while he was in the Air Force, Mearsheimer earned a master's degree in international relations from the University of Southern California. He entered Cornell University and in 1980 earned a Ph.D. in government, specifically in international relations. From 1978 to 1979, he was a research fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC. From 1980 to 1982, he was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University's Center for International Affairs. During the 1998–1999 academic year, he was the Whitney H. Shepardson Fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York.

Since 1982, Mearsheimer has been a member of the faculty of the Department of Political Science Faculty at the University of Chicago. He became an associate professor in 1984 and a full professor in 1987 and was appointed the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor in 1996. From 1989 to 1992, he served as chairman of the department. He also holds a position as a faculty member in the Committee on International Relations graduate program, and he is a co-director of the Program on International Security Policy.

Mearsheimer's books include Conventional Deterrence (1983), which won the Edgar S. Furniss Jr. Book Award; Nuclear Deterrence: Ethics and Strategy (co-editor, 1985); Liddell Hart and the Weight of History (1988); The Tragedy of Great Power Politics (2001), which won the Lepgold Book Prize; The Israel Lobby and U.S. Foreign Policy (2007); and Why Leaders Lie: The Truth About Lying in International Politics (2011). His articles have appeared in academic journals like International Security and popular magazines like the London Review of Books. He has written op-ed pieces for The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Chicago Tribune.

Mearsheimer has won several teaching awards. He received the Clark Award for Distinguished Teaching when he was a graduate student at Cornell in 1977, and he won the Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching at the University of Chicago in 1985. In addition, he was selected as a Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar for the 1993–1994 academic year. In that capacity, he gave a series of talks at eight colleges and universities. In 2003, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He is the recipient of the American Political Science Association's 2020 James Madison Award, which is presented every three years to an American political scientist who has made distinguished scholarly contributions. The Award Committee noted that Mearsheimer is "one of the most cited International Relations scholars in the discipline, but his works are read well beyond the academy as well."

Mearsheimer's works are widely read and debated[according to whom?] by 21st-century students of international relations. A 2017 survey of US international relations faculty ranks him third among "scholars whose work has had the greatest influence on the field of IR in the past 20 years."

CONSEQUENCES of the UKRAINE WAR

Progressive Democrats sent a letter to the White House asking for peace negotiations in Ukraine

And then got dogpiled for even thinking of word peace. They have since retracted the letter and said that they are all in on war. Bomb on then. As you were.

Russia has ramped up strikes inside of Ukraine as Ukraine has turned to ISIS and Al-Qaeda fighters to beef up its forces.
Meanwhile, three European countries are separately investigating the Nord Stream Pipeline attacks but no one will say what they've found.
Russia says that they are being kept out of the loop purposely in order to shift blame.

The White House Economic advisor says that there is less than 25 days worth of diesel fuel in the U.S.
And then what? Shipping comes to a hault presumably!
When asked what the White House is going to do about the energy crisis, they keep telling us that they are keeping prices down.
Prices of what? Dunno.

Russia Ukraine Negotiations

RUSSIAN MILITARY OFFENSIVE IN UKRAINE | DAY 34

RUSSIA RECEIVES DRAFT DEAL PROPOSING NEUTRAL NON-ALIGNED UKRAINE
The Russian delegation has received a proposal from Ukraine that would see both parties making some concessions, and Russia has agreed in principle to de-escalate its military operation near Kiev.
Political commentator Anthony Webber joins RT to discuss the prospects of the proposed deal ending the conflict.

Drone footage of Mariupol, captured on Saturday, has shown its airport to be completely deserted. The facility appears to be devoid of aircraft and looks to have been abandoned.
Signs of battle, such as trenches and craters, serve as reminders of the fierce fighting that the city has seen in recent weeks. The air traffic control tower also appears to be seriously damaged.
The airport was declared to be under the control of the Donetsk People’s Republic forces on March 18.  The airport has been closed since 19 June 2014.

Istanbul

In the first days after Russia launched its invasion, Azov Nazis from the Ukrainian National Guard set up checkpoints around Mariupol to stop residents from escaping. The Nazis killed some of the civilians. Thousands of others were trapped in the city & used as human shields. pic.twitter.com/s0us3jAuMW

— Jake Morphonios 🔴 Blackstone Intelligence (@morphonios) March 30, 2022