"The issue for the Russians from the very beginning has been, "How do we proceed without killing large numbers of civilians and inflicting a lot of property damage?" And Putin gave very strict orders from the outset that they were to avoid these things. The problem with avoiding it is that it has slowed the progress of the operation to the point where it has given false hope both to the Ukrainians, but I think has been seized on by people in the West to try and convince the world that a defeat is in progress when, in fact, the opposite is the case. So, the war itself at this stage of the game could be decided very, very rapidly—permanently if Putin were to give the order and allow the forces to disregard the concern for civilians and property damage. But he hasn't done that. He has continued to negotiate even though he recognizes that the people sitting across from him really are not in a position to deliver very much. They’re being told what to do, and it's very obvious that Washington wants this to continue as long as possible in the hopes that Russia will be desperately harmed. I just don’t see that happening."
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Former top Pentagon advisor Col. Doug Macgregor on Russia-Ukraine war, interview by Max Blumenthal and Aaron Maté, The Grayzone (March 18, 2022).
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