Retired Army Col. Douglas Macgregor told Sky News Australia during a July 5 interview that the only sensible way out of the Ukraine imbroglio is by a ceasefire. “If you understand that the longer this lasts, the more people that are going to be needlessly slaughtered, the more damage will be done to Ukraine—it’s already effectively a failed state, it could be erased completely from the map—that I would argue that we need a ceasefire and Australia should press for that, because no one in Washington is going to do it,” he said. “But I’m hearing from people in Berlin and Paris, and those in London who would like to have a no-confidence vote to remove Boris Johnson, that there’s growing support for just that, to argue for a ceasefire and come to some sort of other arrangement, because we cannot afford to fight this until there are no Ukrainians left.”
“Vladimir Putin was never interested in all of Ukraine,” Macgregor said after the interviewer claimed that he was intent on it. “The territory that he currently controls is really the traditional Russian-speaking area. It was part of Russia, and that is the area where the majority of Ukrainian forces were concentrated.” Putin’s great concern, Macgregor continued “was that those forces would attack Russia and that we would inevitably deploy theater ballistic missiles there to hold his nuclear capability at risk.”
