‘Let us rewind to Sept. 9, when Fox News host and Putin admirer Tucker Carlson aired an interview that gave a flavor of how he and other champions of Russia’s “special military operation” expected things to pan out.
Speaking to the most popular U.S. talk show host, alleged Russia-Ukraine war expert Douglas Macgregor said that by the time Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy gave a keynote speech to a defense industry trade group later that week, “this entire war may be over.”
“Right now things are going very, very badly, which is why the Ukrainians are so desperate,” he added.
“The last offensive down south failed miserably. … And this desperation is really dangerous right now because they’re losing once again just south of Kharkiv. … I think the Biden administration is now trying to retreat … from the dumb position they’ve taken up to this point. I don’t think they can do that very easily, do you?”
The events of the days following the interview showed Macgregor’s comments, unchallenged by Carlson, were in fact a direct inversion of the reality that played out. Ukraine liberated almost 3,500 square miles; the Russian front in Kharkiv collapsed and military personnel fled; and Putin is now trying to spin his way out of what some Western commentators are calling, slightly prematurely, the end of the Russian Federation.’
