“Contrary to early hopes and expectations, Russia did not collapse internally or give in to the West’s collective demands for regime change in Moscow,” he wrote in The American Conservative.
According to McGregor, the US is failing in the confrontation with Russia.
He opined that Washington underestimated the cohesion of Russian society, Moscow's hidden military potential and Russia's immunity to Western economic sanctions.
Earlier, Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the OSCE Maxim Buyakevich said that the United States and NATO had approached a dangerous line on the way to a full-scale military conflict in Europe.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said that almost a real war is being waged between Russia and the West.