Colonel Douglas McGregor

Former Trump adviser, US Army Colonel Douglas McGregor.

I think Bakhmut for Zelensky has in many ways become like Stalingrad for Hitler. Stalingrad had no strategic value when the Germans arrived there. But Hitler was obsessed with it and believed that this was a kind of rematch with Stalin and communism.

Last fall, Surovikin said - okay, let's set up a trap there, invite all Ukrainians who want it. So there was always an escape route so that it could be used for reinforcements. And it worked, thousands of Ukrainian soldiers died