I hated Trump so much that I had no interest in anyone he appointed. I clicked on this interview with H.R. McMaster, 26th United States National Security Advisor from 2017 to 2018, and listened. This is where we are.
Quotes (These are quick quotes that I selected from the auto-transcription). All these points are being discussed in various diaries and comments already. I have not yet seen this estimate from credible insider: “some estimates are that a million people will will be murdered [in Ukraine]”.
- “he's dragging the Russian people down too and so you would hope that the Russian people and you've seen the protests but of course they haven't been able to coalesce because they've been put down brutally inside of Russia”
- ” we can only hope that there would be a change of leadership and maybe even leadership who recognized that the future of the Russian people lies with Europe right lies with peace and the prosperity that that the Russian people could experience you know if they if they put down the sword you know and instead and instead focused on their own future”
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Do you think general that NATO may eventually be drawn into this war? I think it's a very strong possibility Mark you know I mean I think that the chance for a broader war in Europe is significant.
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we have to be prepared you know for for an expansion of this war we ought to try to do everything we can to avoid it. We have to do everything also to ensure that Russia fails in Ukraine because if he succeeds there it's not the end.
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there's a tremendous risk of action we always focus on that and quite rightly but there there's a cost of inaction too and I think we're seeing that now are we going to watch what some estimates are that a million people will will be murdered by Russian forces as continues to bombard these cities.