colonel douglas macgregor | Ukraine has lost everything and the US is not ready for World War 3

Ukraine has lost a lot in this war with Russia, Putin is seen as the vilian, but right now it is clear that if we continue with this Russian invasion of Ukraine which has been on for close to 3 years now, we are likely heading to World War three. If we had followed due counsel from President Donald Trump, we should have ended the war. But it is still not late to end the war in question and pull back from Ukraine. The big question remains if we continue with this war, we should be finding out how is the readiness of the current US Armed Forces compared to that of 1975, at the end of Vietnam war?. Will the US survive the war at this time? Or is it time to give it a rethink?

In terms of morale and discipline, we are close to where we were in the late '70s. We have a lot of people that are confused about what needs to be done. We've lost a sense of what's right. In other words, you don't have people that have served long enough in formations to know what right looks like, so that you can see a battle group, whether it's a battalion size or brigade or larger, and you know what makes things work, you know what it takes to fight in battle. We don't have very many people like that because since 2001, most of the fighting has been on a very small scale against a fleeting enemy, running around in sandals with an AK-47, relying heavily on explosives, mines to kill Americans. About 87% of our losses were really a result of explosives that came from mines. This is not an army that is accustomed to fighting anybody who can fight back.

If we compare it to an army, a better comparison would probably be the French army before the Franco-Prussian War. Because the French had fought Mexican bandits, Mexican rebels, they'd fought Arab bandits, Arab insurgents, they'd had a little experience fighting disgruntled, demoralized European troops, Austrians in Northern Italy. But they hadn't faced a truly modern enemy. But people were convinced that the French army was the greatest army in the world because they'd fought in North Africa and Indochina, Mexico, all over the world.

That war was a catastrophe for France, and that army was decimated in months by a Prussian army that was a modern force, highly disciplined, very confidently led, trained, and equipped.

So, the US is not there. We have equipment that is decades old. For example the tanks that were used for war in 1990, were virtually brand new, state-of-the-art, but in today’s modern war dynamics, you cannot imagine that those tanks are still out there. They've been rebuilt, but they're not new anymore. They're no longer as capable as they once were. We also have a turbine engine in the M1A1 series tanks, and that turbine engine burns up as much fuel sitting still as it does moving because it's a turbine engine that was designed to be used on an aircraft. We put them in the tanks, so that means you've got an eight-hour tank. Every eight hours, if you're operating, you've got to refuel this thing. This thing also burns fuel at a very high temperature, over 1,000 degrees, and there are 40-plus connections around the engine that are very brittle that can easily cause fires if accidentally they touch these little tubes that carry various types of fluid. If they actually touch this engine that's burning so hot, so the engine is so hot that you can track the movement of US Army Ground Forces with tanks from low Earth orbiting satellites. So, if you think you're going to hide or conceal yourself or outpace somebody, you're just a glowing target from space.

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