Colonel Douglas McGregor doesn't mince words: Russia won the war in Ukraine, and US President Donald Trump's late peace efforts are largely irrelevant. Trump's shuttle diplomacy, he claims, is mere window dressing - a search for domestic victory while the hard truth sinks in: Moscow has defeated NATO's combined forces, and US and European illusions of defeating Russia are brutally shattered. Russia now presents the most powerful army in Europe; NATO countries have spent themselves into oblivion. McGregor doubts NATO will survive the disaster it created. Europe, meanwhile, is quietly waking up. Putin's talks with Finnish and Norwegian leaders hint at the first steps towards détente. Germany, he says, could be the key: to normalize relations with Russia, renew energy trade, respect Moscow's security conditions. Colonel Douglas McGregor is a US Army veteran, author and internationally respected commentator on foreign affairs. Highly critical of Washington's endless wars and the Trump administration's aggression against Iran, he briefly served as a senior policy adviser to the Pentagon during the first Trump administration. The full interview on YouTube: stay tuned.

Colonel Douglas McGregor doesn't mince words: Russia won the war in Ukraine, and US President Donald Trump's late peace efforts are largely irrelevant. Trump's shuttle diplomacy, he claims, is mere window dressing - a search for domestic victory while the hard truth sinks in: Moscow has defeated NATO's combined forces, and US and European illusions of defeating Russia are brutally shattered. Russia now presents the most powerful army in Europe; NATO countries have spent themselves into oblivion. McGregor doubts NATO will survive the disaster it created. Europe, meanwhile, is quietly waking up. Putin's talks with Finnish and Norwegian leaders hint at the first steps towards détente. Germany, he says, could be the key: to normalize relations with Russia, renew energy trade, respect Moscow's security conditions. Colonel Douglas McGregor is a US Army veteran, author and internationally respected commentator on foreign affairs. Highly critical of Washington's endless wars and the Trump administration's aggression against Iran, he briefly served as a senior policy adviser to the Pentagon during the first Trump administration. The full interview on YouTube: stay tuned.