{"id":131047,"date":"2022-12-31T17:23:09","date_gmt":"2023-01-01T00:23:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=131047"},"modified":"2022-12-31T17:23:09","modified_gmt":"2023-01-01T00:23:09","slug":"mercouris-something-big-is-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2022\/12\/31\/mercouris-something-big-is-on-the-way\/","title":{"rendered":"Mercouris: &#8220;Something Big Is On the Way&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a style=\"color: #0000ff;\" title=\"Articles, Columns, and Major Blog Posts by Mike Whitney\" href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/author\/mike-whitney\/\" rel=\"author\">MIKE WHITNEY<\/a> Courtesy The Unz Review<\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The Russians have decided there is no way to negotiate an end to this. No one will negotiate in good faith; therefore we must crush the enemy. And that\u2019s what\u2019s coming.\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=jH3iGOPNCiM&amp;t=570s\">Colonel Douglas MacGregor<\/a>&nbsp;(9:35 minute)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Strictly speaking, we haven\u2019t started anything yet.\u201d Vladimir Putin<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p id=\"p_1_3\">The war in Ukraine is not going to end in a negotiated settlement. The Russians have already made it clear that they don\u2019t trust the United States, so they\u2019re not going to waste their time in a pointless gabfest. What the Russians are going to do is pursue the only option that is available to them: They are going to obliterate the Ukrainian Army, reduce a large part of the country to rubble, and force the political leadership to comply with their security demands. It\u2019s a bloody and wasteful course of action, but there\u2019s really no other option. Putin is not going to allow NATO to place its hostile army and missile sites on Russia\u2019s border. He\u2019s going to defend his country as best as he can by proactively eliminating emerging threats in Ukraine. This is why Putin has called up an additional 300,000 reservists to serve in Ukraine; because the Russians are committed to defeating the Ukrainian army and bringing the war to a swift end. Here\u2019s a brief recap from Colonel Douglas MacGregor:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.unz.com\/mwhitney\/mercouris-something-big-is-on-the-way\/\">Mercouris: &#8220;Something Big Is On The Way&#8221;, by Mike Whitney &#8211; The Unz Review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MIKE WHITNEY Courtesy The Unz Review The Russians have decided there is no way to negotiate an end to this. No one will negotiate in good faith; therefore we must crush the enemy. And that\u2019s what\u2019s coming.\u201d&nbsp;Colonel Douglas MacGregor&nbsp;(9:35 minute) Strictly speaking, we haven\u2019t started anything yet.\u201d Vladimir Putin The war in Ukraine is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131047","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131047","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131047"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131047\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131047"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131047"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131047"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}