I listened to a very interesting (and very long, unfortunately; drifting in an out of sleep in the middle of the night, I kept going back to it, trying to find where I had left off) interview with Scott Ritter. Remember him? He’s the UN weapons inspector who went against the prevailing (false flag) propaganda back in 2003 when the US claimed (even at the UN with patsy Colin Powell) that Saddam Hussein possessed “weapons of mass destruction.”

However, you should know that, despite my deep appreciation for Ritter’s seasoned views of the complexity in and around Ukraine now and in the past, he completely blew my mind about two thirds of the way through the interview, when he veered off track and spoke of the 2020 U.S. elections.  And here I paraphrase. Something like this. “Biden won. Get over it. BIDEN WON. And you know I have no love for Biden. But U.S. elections are always “somewhat inaccurate.” He might have used a different phrase here, can’t remember, but the connotation was that we should realize that our elections are never quite what they pretend to be. Well, I think everybody would agree to that! Election tampering has been going on for a long long time. What made the 2020 elections so astounding was the sheer, outrageous scale and complexity of the tampering! Is there anyone who really truly thinks Biden got 81% of the vote? Huh? And how to ignore the ginormous distinction between the 10s of thousands that both before and after the election, crowd into each Trump rally, versus the tiny “crowds” mustered up for any Biden appearance! To say “Biden won. Get over it.” simply doesn’t compute.

Aside from Ritter’s surprising (to me) skepticism there, however, I did find this interview extremely interesting and well worth my usual insomniac obsession.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSkpIq3T-Zc&ab_channel=TheGrayzone

Also, for those who can’t possibly find the time to watch the above, I just discovered another video with him, just about as long, but someone has taken the time to let people know what Ritter was talking about as he went along.

 

Pinned by Constantin Dziamentsiy
Net Neutrality

0:00 What Russia’s aim is (it’s not occupation)

4:05 Russia’s battle strategy (and Scott’s case for why it will succeed)

9:00 The short-term and long-term consequences of sending weapons to Ukraine

12:05 How Articles 4 and 5 of NATO have been used (Libya, Iraq, etc)

16:15 How the West was using Ukraine to destabilize Russia (and Zelensky’s alliance with neo-Nazis)

19:34 Russia wants to redefine the European security framework (the 1997 lines)

21:58 Context for Putin’s rise and what the West gets wrong (sanctions, American interference, Putin doesn’t want a new Soviet Union, decoupling from the West)

30:06 The beginning of the end of dollar hegemony and its consequences (continuation from the question about sanctions)

35:02 Americans don’t understand Putin, or how short-sighted it is to demonizing Russia, or why getting rid of nuclear weapons is good for humanity, or the world they live in, or their world history…or anything

43:00 What is a “war crime”, and where is the evidence of them? (and Scott’s involvement in bombings in Iraq)

51:35 Information warfare from Ukraine, the CIA, MI6

54:29 What the media doesn’t understand about Kyiv or Zelensky (and how he’s creating the conditions of his surrender)

1:02:44 Scott questions the legitimacy of the “weekend warriors” from other countries (and how it will end disastrously for them)

1:11:22 Russia went in soft, the West did not (and how much longer the war will last)

1:19:43 What “victory” looks like for Russia, and what it looks like for Zelensky

1:22:41 Biden has no cards to play (and Russia is not using energy as a weapon)

1:26:19 Scott’s perspective on biolabs (and hypocrisy of rules-based order)

1:35:59 Americans can’t engage in fact-based discussions or listen

1:42:20 The labs are scary, we’re dangerously close to nuclear conflict (and context from Cold War history)

1:52:30 Our “experts” don’t have expertise on Russia anymore (and Putin does not define Russia)

1:58:21 The “best possible outcome” (and Russia is not playing all its cards)

2:07:54 Is Taiwan the next Ukraine? (and this mess started before Biden)

Thanks.

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One thing I DO remember very well, from that first video: Zelensky, who sooner or later, will have to come to an agreement that satisfies Russia in order for the war to stop, knows that when he does, he will be killed by the Nazi forces within Ukraine. Which means that Russia will have to protect Zelensky at that point, and deliver him to NATO.

That’s just one little tidbit. Please pay attention to at least one of these videos.