KKR's Petraeus 'Divorced From Reality' Vis-à-Vis Ukraine: MacGregor

Petraeus has been defeated in both the Afghan and Iraq wars.

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Col. (ret.) Douglas MacGregor was critical of David Petraeus’s assessment of the Ukraine War and said it seems that the former top general is “divorced from reality.”

MacGregor appeared on Jude Andrew Napolitano’s “Judging Freedom,” and was shown a recent Petraeus interview on Fox News. Once again, Petraeus tried to describe a losing effort by the Russians.

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Petraeus said Putin miscalculated and has been reactionary to Ukrainian forces.

“He’s [Putin] tried everything that he can that would be domestically palatable — mobilized additional forces — it’s not going well…they aren’t training or equipping them adequately at all,” Petraeus said.

MacGregor said the kindest thing he could say is that Petraeus is divorced from reality.

“Once again, David Petraeus has embraced this fictional narrative,” he said. “And that’s part of what he’s going to do because he is the product of the very people that are trying to push us into war with Russia now. They pushed us into Iraq and Syria and Afghanistan.”

He continued, “He’s just sort of punching his ticket as a member of the in-club with the status quo. And that’s the status quo that’s ruling us in Washington. They are largely divorced from reality. Russian forces are not poorly trained…they’re very well trained.”

Petraeus is one of the big mouths making the news on where the Ukraine War is going who held some of the top jobs in the military during his 37-year career.

He was commander of the Multi-National Force who oversaw all coalition forces in the illegal, murderous, losing Iraq War and was the Army commander of U.S. forces in the murderous, illegal, losing Afghan War. 

Being promoted for his failures, he was also the director of the CIA and rumored to be in line for a Cabinet position in the Trump White House, but his career was undone after an affair with Paula Broadwell, his biographer. 

He was also guilty of mishandling classified information while CIA director, and now works at the private equity firm KKR, where he is a partner and head of the KKR Global Institute.  

In October, Petraeus appeared on ABC’s “This Week” and said it is clear that Russian President Vladimir Putin is losing and the Ukrainian army has been “mobilized vastly better than Russia.”

It is no secret that NATO has been providing the Ukrainians intelligence and billions in weapons with the hope to set Russia’s military back decades. The latest moves indicate that Washington believes the war in Ukraine will last for years.

“Ukraine has recruited, trained, equipped, organized and employed force incomparably better than Russia has,” Petraeus said at the time, of course, without citing evidence or admitting that Ukraine refuses to acknowledge any issues on the battlefield. (Good luck finding any information about Ukrainian military deaths on Google, it is simply not there.) 

TRENDPOST: Washington is famous for being a city where you fail up, which explains why the U.S. would be eager to emulate its failed effort in Afghanistan and Iraq. We’ve noted earlier that mainstream news outlets have used these “military analysts” to spew propaganda. Petraeus has made frequent appearances. 

Robert J. O’Neill, the former U.S. Navy SEAL who fired the shot that killed Osama bin Laden, tweeted earlier this year, “David Petraeus was just giving combat advice on TV. Bernie Madoff is up next on finance.” (See “U.S. LOST EVERY WAR SINCE WWII, BUT IS TELLING UKRAINE HOW TO BEAT RUSSIA,” 8 Mar 2022.)

“I keep seeing 4 star generals on TV giving commentary on how to win this war,” he posted. “They’ve never won a war. They lost. Want examples?”

Russia invaded Ukraine because it saw NATO’s expansion as an existential threat. Step back for a moment, and consider an anti-American revolution taking place in Mexico City and a new government inviting the Russian military to train and arm its military. 

Washington would never let that happen. But there’s a double standard that Putin keeps speaking about when it comes to U.S. hegemony. 

When Russia raised security concerns before the war, they were brushed off by Secretary of State Antony Blinken. Now the war is simply too good to resist by Washington, and the fall of Putin seems within their grasp, who cares how many Ukrainians will die in the effort?

Despite all the support for Ukraine, the U.S. insists that it wants to avoid war with Russia.