Russia is winning. Glad I could clear that up for you.
They are taking more territory and losing less troops (5:1 to 10:1 kill rate in their favour).
They sat back for 8 months letting Ukraine exhaust their troops and equipment and are now advancing on all fronts.
At some point Russia will open the northern front and encircle Kharkiv and or Sumy. Ukraine has been sending troops from the northern inactive front to the south because they are running out of troops down south. Once sufficiently weakened the north will be attacked.
As always the people pay the price on both sides for the idiocy of their "leaders". The arrogance and hubris of the Ukrainian Nazis thinking they could bomb Donetsk for 8 years thinking that "Russia will never attack because we have the USA & NATO on our side". How's that working out for you?
Yes it should happen, because Kiev must capitulate. Wouldn't Russia act in this way Kiev must capitulate before or there is a power fight inside of Russia itself.
Most certainly, the most important takeaway. The loss of life has been horrendous. Just 106 years after Europe shuddered "never again".
Martyanov (see Rurik's blog) two years ago predicted something like 1.5 / 10K (Rus/Ukr) KIA (perhaps just casualties) and a 4 week conflict. The true number may never be known but it right now is at least 100x that on both sides.
Yet there factions to whom that outcome is merely an opportunity. You want to see a population replacement project on steroids? Just hang around for another 5-10 years. Ukr will be unrecognizable and any chance that Russians had of pulling themselves out of a demographic death spiral will not survive the loss of 2 or 300 K males in their prime fertility years.
Ritter's no different from a commentator at a ball game. Russky/Chinky "multipolarity" is about choreographing businesslike operations with the USEUNATO terrorists, "wars" and plandemics alike.
I agree there is a game-like quality to what Ritter is engaged in. But do understand that if you are actually fighting a war -tactical, operational, strategic, makes no difference, most of your predictions and calculations will be incorrect as well as those of your adversary; that's part of the battlespace. And prevailing and staying alive involves learning and re-calculating and not just hoping your readers (or superiors) forget that you made those predictions that turned out wrong.
Is now good time to trot out my favorite bit of Clausewtiz wisdom?: In war everything is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.
Martyanov wasn't wrong. The war would have ended in April 2022, but the US & UK had other plans and sent Boris's Johnson to Kiev to nix a sensible peace deal.
Would this "oligarchic superstructure" à la Slavsquat already exits, there would be ONLY one solution, with a fifty-fifty chance solving such problem: We need the total and radical ultra totalitarian war, world wide and by all means; nuclear, chemical, biological....
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But I think it doesn't exits at all such "lizard reptiloid oligarchy", beside the eternal iron law of oligarchy exits always, anyway which order, with exception of some world fascist currents which have the tools to handle it; at least theoretical.
So you are going to accept a Bourgeois capitalist society. Aim must be national sovereign based and not globalist.
Inside of the Putin administration there are quite diferent currents, from neoliberal, globalistic technocrats, moderate patriots,multipolarists, conservative etatists, classical liberals, national technocrats, opportunists,...
A lot of people aren't black or white, they are grew or even shizo or are connected with different alliances and third way positions.
I had never heard of Scott Ritter before the start of the SMO, then he was pushed very hard in the alternative media space. He had previously been arrested for child sex crimes twice. Given his awful and ongoing predictive abilities and his clear unwillingness to address them or update his worldview, I think his pro-Russia hopium grift is likely part of an ongoing operation (CIA?) to control both sides of the conversation around the war.
Did Scott know they were cops posing as teenagers, or did he think he was whipping his dick out to 14 year old girls? It really doesn't matter that he was stung, he should have kept it in his pants. He is of very low character and a pedophile. He's wrong about a lot of things.
Ritter was the subject of two law enforcement sting operations in 2001.[39] He was charged in June 2001 with trying to set up a meeting with an undercover police officer posing as a 16-year-old girl.[40][41] He was charged with a misdemeanor crime of "attempted endangerment of the welfare of a child". The charge was dismissed and the record was sealed after he completed six months of pre-trial probation.[41][8]
Ritter was arrested again in November 2009[42] over communications with a police decoy he met on an Internet chat site. Police said that he exposed himself, via a web camera, after the officer repeatedly identified himself as a 15-year-old girl.[5]''
And for the record while I don't agree with everything that Mr Ritter has claimed - the entrapment by police posing as teenagers has crossed my red line.
It think the reason is most people in the west don't give a shit about Ukraine, in the first year it was quite scary and all but now people are just tired of it. So...what do you do? You have to keep the hype and sensetional stories going.
SCOTT RITTER: They are hiding their retained capabilities in biological, chemical, nuclear weapons and ballistic missile delivery systems.
Lisa McRee: Can you be more specific about what you believe they have?
Scott Ritter: I think one of the things that has been in the news recently is the VX nerve agent, one of the most deadly substances known to mankind. Iraq clearly produced this agent in large quantities and put it on ballistic missile warheads. They have lied about that, they have said that they have not done this, despite the fact that we have the proof in our hands.
Lisa McRee: What's our appropriate response, then?
Scott Ritter: It's time to call the game for what it is. This is Saddam Hussein's attempt to keep weapons of mass destruction and get sanctions lifted. Saddam is linked with these weapons, there is no way of dealing with the weapons without dealing with Saddam.
Lisa McRee: But do what? Should we have a military strike against Iraq? Should it be unilateral or should we do it only with allies? What do you suggest?
Scott Ritter: These are issues that have to be addressed by the national security policy team in Washington, DC, that's what they get paid the big bucks for.
Lisa McRee: What do you think will work, though? You've been there.
Scott Ritter: I know what won't work, continuing to provide concessions to Iraq only feeds their strength. Iraq is in charge of this game right now. They are the ones calling the shots. It's time for the United Nations, the [national] security council of the United States to seize the initiative to start taking more proactive measures to counter Saddam Hussein. And whatever measures the
Scott Ritter regularly sounds like he's got a hard on for war which clouds his judgement.
I guess you could say that he lives in the fog of war, probably because he was himself indoctrinated into the bullshit.
He's also a fan boy of the great leader and believes in 5d chess bullshit.
A while back he was predicting the war would be over in April 23?, months ahead... Like he could see the future, but it was based on nothing but his own "ideas".
He lives in a child like fantasy world of "good war".
Scott Ritter has a near-perfect batting average when it comes to making wrong predictions about Ukraine. His baggage is out there as others have pointed out which makes him further dubious. Another one who seems to get it more wrong than right is Col. Douglas MacGregor. Unlike Ritter, I don't question Col. MacGregor's integrity. He just seems to reach a lot of Ritter-esque conclusions. It makes me wonder what their actual roles are when it comes to disseminating "information".
Here is Ritter-the-Hawk, after he resigned as ‘weapons inspector’ reading a statement to the US House Committee on National Security on 16 September 1998: [8]
[Excerpt from Statement starts here]
The reality is that Iraq is winning its bid to retain its prohibited weapons. …
Iraq is not disarmed. Iraq still poses a real and meaningful threat to its neighbors, and nothing the Security Council or the United States is doing currently will change this fact.
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Here is Ritter the Dove after 9/11
“The truth of the matter is that Iraq has not been shown to possess weapons of mass destruction,' he said in an address to the Iraqi National Assembly -- the first by an American and widely seen as a propaganda coup for Hussein. 'Iraq today is not a threat to its neighbors.'"
He knows war the way that the USA waged it in Iraq because that is what he was in. This isn't like that at all. Ukraine has NATO/USA which is slowing the Russians down but won't work in the long run.
Mexico can not defeat the USA and Ukraine can not defeat Russia.
You have provided the much-needed contrast on the subject which is difficult to find anywhere else in the alternative media. I confess that I have been much too inclined to back Russia and even Putin in these matters, primarily because I've found rather too convincing the narrative of the Nuland-contrived, C.I.A.-backed overthrow of Yanukovych in 2014 precipitating the secession of Luhansk and Donetsk regions in the Donbas, and then all-out conflict between the Ukrainian military and Russian-backed separatist forces, the refusal by the Zelensky regime to honour the Minsk Accords aimed at ending the conflict, and the sharp increase in Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk and Luhansk using weapons that were prohibited under the Minsk agreements. Besides, I've loathed Zelensky and the insufferable obsequiousness displayed by NATO-member governments, their nations' mass media, and also all the nauseating virtue signalling promoted and contrived by celebrities, influencers, public figures, and cognoscenti.
Regardless of the accuracy or otherwise of this narrative, let alone the professed motives of either side, and those of their controllers and handlers, what has seemed to me to be the more convincing battlefield and tactical commentary has favoured the Russian execution of this war and deemed it considerably superior. And yet, conspicuous by its absence has been an appraisal of the results achieved by Russia with respect to the stated objectives - until the analysis you provide in your article. This is a level-headed, insightful, and extremely valuable countercheck for what might actually be insufficient scepticism with this particular subject displayed by the alternative media. Thank you.
I must confess I listened to Scott Ritter during early days of the conflict, he does posses more military knowledge than average Iosif = that is Joe in Russian :)
For this sin I will wear cilice belt and won't touch chocolate for 3 days I promise.
It didn't take long to observe that according to Ritter everything Russia does is divine brilliance, while Ukraine and NATO are constantly in panic. It fills me with despair that these alternative channels (Ritter, Duran, Haiphong etc.) are still getting 100K+ views daily while they keep saying the same thing every single day for the last 2 years - Russian victory is 2weeks away...And yet none of the consumers ever stop for the second to think about validity of that simple statement.
It is the same as in my hometown where our mayor proudly installed about 10 public defibrillators recently, and nobody seems to ask the basic question - why now? Will it take a child like in "Emperor's New Clothes" to publicly ask the logical question before people finally start speaking up?
Scott Ritter comes across as a turbocharged military theoretician who comes up with many clever ways how Russia could and should win, but Shoigu keeps letting him down, so poor Scott has to keep adjusting his angles and theories.
But Shoigu likely steals more military stuff than Ukrainians - credit where credit is due..
Yep. Most Westerners who support Russia in this conflict have taken on the aspect of an eschatological cult. Both Jesus and Putin will return to Kiev in 2 weeks, believers!
“Edward Slavsquat” and his buddy “Rurik” over at the Slavlands stack have pushed “Slav Nationalism” since day one of the SMO. Both hide in anonymity and have fantastic, evidence free theories of elite conspiracies.. that the war is fake, a struggle between greedy oligarchs, that Putin is a wimp, etc.
It’s easy to attack Ritter’s (or anyone’s) predictions and offer nothing yourself. War is complex. War has many confusing antecedents and participants have many, diverse motives. We have all picked sides and want desperately to understand what the FUCK is going on?
This piece and the asshole who wrote it give us no new insights. This piece is a cheap takedown of Ritter who is at least trying to offer us clarity from real knowledge of military affairs and an antiwar POV rooted in a pro Russia morality.
The only thing “Edward” says that has any weight is that the mass murder of Slav brothers on both sides is an atrocity that only lizards cheer. Scott Ritter would agree 100%.
This war is not fake, it's real and people are dying! Fake are the goals that Kremlin/Putin is spouting constantly. Fake is Putin's patriotism - he does not even consider Crimea to be a part of Russia, and is hiding that from Russians! That is why he and the MoD are sabotaging Russian troops! He is indeed one spineless wimp and a traitor - recruited, trained, and deployed by Kissinger/Schwab to run Russia as NWO colony.
Here's your "anti"-NWO "hero" in padded shoes due to his Napoleon Complex [1].
Putin is a complex leader. Reducing a tsar to a dwarf w a Napoleon complex is dumb fuck territory. In future biography he will be Putin the Great, on par w Peter and Catherine. He has already rebuilt Russia as a great word power from the post Soviet ashes. And he has slowly, belatedly, haltingly recognized the satanic nature of the West.
If Putin wins the SMO and succeeds in building a multipolar world order, generations of Russians will benefit. And generations of Americans also.
To additionally address point-2-point some of your blabbering for the benefits of readers here:
Re Slav Nationalism: Is that bad? If so, why, and what's good then in your opinion?
Re oligarchs: How did they get all that wealth back in the day?
Re Ritter's "predictions": Those are not predictions but rather just indirect propaganda about Putin's "greatness" masked/phrased as predictions. We see that every time he ends up being wrong, which is pretty much all the time, he simply just moves the goal post or gaslights or plays ignorance.
Re wanting to understand what's going on: We do understand what's going on - we have a wimp and a traitor in Kremlin and this war is still going on because Putin does not mind this cheap way to kill Russians [4].
Re Ritter's "clarity": The only clarity Ritter is offering is clarity about Putin's propaganda bots like our little Scotty, Martyanov, Saker, et. al. and their M.O.
Re Scott Ritter would agree 100%: He would not agree, as for Putin's propaganda purposes, he considers Ukrainians not very good people, and he says it publicly, as Riley reported.
P.S. I know that you are not going to address any of this, but again, this is for the benefit of readers here that may not be familiar with this NWO recruit/apparatchik called Putin [1][2][3].
[1] Klaus Schwab in 2019 speaks of Putin (1952), Tony Blair (1953), and Angela Merkel (1954) as his Young Global Leaders back in the 90s - fast forward to 1:14
Excerpt #1: Eventually, Primakov introduced Kissinger to Putin, and they became close. That both Primakov and Kissinger took time to coach Putin on geopolitics and geosecurity was a clear demonstration that they saw in him the characteristics of a powerful leader.
Excerpt #2: In 1999, Vladimir Putin suddenly sprang from bureaucratic obscurity to the office of Prime Minister. When, a few months later, Yeltsin unexpectedly resigned and Putin was voted in as President, governments around the world were taken by surprise yet again. How could this unknown figure have amassed national voter support with so little media attention?
[4] Lindsey Graham Appears to Say Russians Dying 'Best Money We've Ever Spent'
To be clear, Rurik says it is a struggle between SPOOKS (aka glowies), not necessarily oligarchs. And that the "struggle" is just haggling over slices of the profits (monetary and influence).
All nations at all times have had spooks. Generally speaking, spooks are below and subservient to the actual elite rulers. Sometimes spooks rebel, coup and replace the rulers.
But Rurik’s “grand thesis” that this is a “spook war” is a sophomoric over simplification, a reductio ad absurdum. Reality is far more complex. Think harder. Consider more evidence and angles. One cause theories are for children.
Rurik is a big brain bc he got one thing right? Hardly. Rurik is a nasty jerk w a large chip on his shoulder. I follow him and f*** w him in the comments because he has interesting takes that challenge my own.
Rurik is a peddler w a cart full of rags. He’s always complaining no one is buying his junk, that they’re over at the “Zanon” stalls bc they’re stupid peasants. Behind his puffery is a nasty little mind. But an unusual mind, and an antidote to the Zanon cheerleaders.
I agree with ur first part, we think everything is a 5d chess game instead of stupid regimes doing stupid things. disagree with any defence of Ritter. A man consistently making predictions of Ukrainian collapse should be laughed at. Just like cheerleading that a drive to Crimea by UKR was a forgone conclusion this summer.
This Scott Ritter is simply and demonstrably an "asshole", stupid and devoid of genuine empathy.
"“[T]here is nothing nice about the people in Ukraine … They are either staunch supporters of the odious ideology of Stepan Bandera, and as such deserving of whatever fate befalls them, or pathologically indifferent cowards who have facilitated the horrific crimes of the Banderists.”
There are very nice things about "the" people in Ukraine, it is so obvious... How stupid it is, what piece of literature. Only an asshole can write such bullshit and pretend to be an international geopolitic expert. Expert in bullshit...
"or pathologically indifferent cowards who have facilitated the horrific crimes of the Banderists"
He just pushes whatever his handlers want him to push.
All through the 90s he was building the case for a military confrontation with Iraq as a weapons inspector. Nobobody remembers that Ritter
He was successful in buidling the case for war until it he was accused of being an Israeli spy
PBS interview in late 1998
"The Pentagon released information talking about an F.B.I. espionage investigation into my relationship with Israel. I didn't bring up the Israeli issue. They did. And by putting it out there, they were calling me a spy. "
Once Bush got into office he suddenly and completely changed his expert opinion
"…Stop misquoting me. First of all, I stand by everything I've said. I haven't retracted anything -- let me make that very clear. I stand by everything I've said. There's no two Scott Ritters. There's one Scott Ritter, and he's been thoroughly consistent."
That was Ritter answering an opponent on the CNN Television program, Crosstalk, on September 15, 2002.
Anyway, I searched his name chronologically as it appeared in the news.
He resigned from his UN post in August 1998 then went on a bomb-iraq tour , speaking engagements, etc... Until early 1999.,. Then there was some press on a book that never published in december of 98
New York - Former United Nations arms inspector Scott Ritter has signed a contract to write a book in which he spells out his suggestions for dealing with Iraq: Bomb the country and overthrow its leader, Saddam Hussein.
"Nothing less will work, and nothing less is justified," Ritter is quoted as saying in Simon & Schuster's announcement Tuesday of his book, "The Iraq Solution," due out in April.
Ritter's book will discuss Hussein's use of chemical weapons against Kurds and Iranians, and "why he must be stopped" before he uses mass-killing weapons again, the publisher said.
Ritter, an ex-Marine, created a stir Aug. 26 when he quit the United Nations Special Commission that monitors Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. He said then that the panel's efforts were being undermined by vacillating American and U.N. policy-makers."
It was brought up by a reporter at the White House press briefing that day. The following exchange took place:
Excerpt from White House briefing 9 December 1998:
Question: Joe, one more on Iraq. Does the White House have any comment on Scott Ritter's comments, that the only way to settle this is to bomb Iraq?
MR. [Joe] LOCKHART: No.
[Excerpt from White House briefing 9 December 1998 ends here]
I didn't even really start paying attention to politics until Bush came into office.
I happened upon an early 2000s blog talking about his unexplained metamorphosis
By in large the press did not call him on his 'flip flop' that I could find. You'd think the pro war media would have been all over it. Nope . The pro war media did not want to alert the pubic of his pro war stance, which is interesting
I did find this one piece
"…Stop misquoting me. First of all, I stand by everything I've said. I haven't retracted anything -- let me make that very clear. I stand by everything I've said. There's no two Scott Ritters. There's one Scott Ritter, and he's been thoroughly consistent."
That was Ritter answering an opponent on the CNN Television program, Crosstalk, on September 15, 2002.
Scott Ritter has made many wrong predictions regarding the war. However, the majority of Ukrainians ARE either supporters of Bandera or for the war or are indifferent to the war.
What does it say about a people that they allow their country to be completely taken over by Zionists? What does it say about a people that they allow their sons to be used as cannon fodder as their country is destroyed?
And what, exactly, do you expect the average Ukrainian to do? You can't vote for someone else because elections are permanently suspended. You protest, you get arrested and/or beaten up and/or killed. You can't leave without paying an enormous bribe and then you got to go be a refugee in a land where you don't speak the language. And there's no feasible way of crossing over to Russian-held territory.
Unless you're willing to abandon your house, your land, you car, your animals, your family, and every single thing you care about and worked for and swim across an icy river (and even that might not work), there ARE no options left to oppose the Kiev government.
There is one option: a GENERAL STRIKE. If millions of Ukrainians walked off their jobs and went into the streets, they would not get arrested or killed. They might even persuade the police and army to join them.
The reason there will not be a GENERAL STRIKE is that the majority of Ukrainians in Central and Western Ukraine are NOT against the war.
Ukrainians striking?! Pfft! THE ENTIRE WORLD NEEDS TO STRIKE!
I've personally been engaged in a GENERAL STRIKE over COVID-19, and specifically against the government who have managed the local roll-out of the COVID-19 programme, for four-years now and still with no end in sight! I don't work, I earn nothing, pay no taxes, own nothing (but neither does anyone else), not a car nor even a phone, and I'm still waiting for someone - EVEN ONE! - of my country folk to join me on this strike, but so far to no avail.
People reflexively deny the reality of their own, or that of their rights' and freedom's mortal imperilment while almost everyone's behaviour reinforces the (anti-)wisdom of their state of denial, and while the establishment, institutions, and the media stamp their imprimatur on the denial as the authorised reaction to that reality.
What was acutely obvious to me from the beginning of 2020 - that the governments of the world's nations were conclusively and irrevocably moving against the people, to eliminate many and to finally and completely enslave the rest - and the significance of this to our lives and lifestyles seems to have completely flown over the heads of everyone and hit no one's head but mine, because I'M STILL THE ONLY ONE ON THIS GENERAL STRIKE!
So, while I do agree with you that a general strike, a boycott of everything, and a walk-out with no return until the government - ALL GOVERNMENT - has been eliminated is the only power the people actually possess to effect change, no one else seems to appreciate the mortal danger their countries' governments pose for them, let alone the subtleties of the influence and supremacy of the general strike and, in particular, no one else is prepared to put on their boots and walk out!
I'm hopeful that what Christopher Cook brilliantly said ( https://substack.com/@christophercook/note/c-50075167 ) will be true this time as well, but I still see too little if any evidence that critical mass will ever be achieved:
"We won’t wake the masses. We will never wake the masses.
We just need a critical mass of an active minority. “The Remnant,” as Nock called them. That is all that has ever been needed to make change.
As far as asymmetric resistance, all we can do is what we can do. We will learn from old conflicts, and adapt to new environments, and pray that new circumstances will be on our side.
And we will pray also for peace, and deliverance from tyranny, so that we never get to any such place where force becomes the only remaining avenue."
This is the guy who, despite having been seriously menaced (some building of his farm have been burned by the thugs servicing the yellow EU dictatorship ass licking trade union)is the real leader of independant farmers. As he has claimed: "I am not scared of death!". Sébastien Béraud, is a real hero and an example for us all!
Quote from the article (worth translating):
"Alors que la France s’apprête à octroyer 3 milliards à l’Ukraine pour son conflit, nos agriculteurs, eux, se voient accordés une fraction de cette somme pour survivre. Une injustice criante qui révèle une politique à deux vitesses, où les intérêts économiques priment sur la souveraineté alimentaire et le bien-être des citoyens."
My fellow USA citizens are indeed cowardly. In fact, after seeing the response by the vast majority of the world to the Covid hoax, I now think that the majority of the citizens of every country are cowards.
Having said that, one can not deny that certain countries have and have had a high percentage of citizens that are attracted to Nazism. Like Croatia, the Baltic countries and Ukraine.
I think that a lot of Ukraine's citizens are simply indiffernt to the war. As exemplified by the many videos I have seen during the past 2 years of Ukrainian youth dancing at discos.
By the way , I totally agree that French unions are ass licking, as are most unions around the world.
The covid op was essentially psychological. Most people have been manipulated bio-chemically by fear porn and a sinister propaganda. Some are trying to figure out why some bought it and some other not. I don't see cowardice when one is spellbound by social engineers. Some just accepted being poisoned out of fear to lose their jobs.
Why do you think the people you mentioned are attracted by what you called "nazism"? Croatia's regime during ww2 was not National Socialist at all. As to the other countries you mentioned, they rejected Bolshevism.
The youth you saw on videos are from the upper class, have succeeded in being considered as students... Mostly privileged and spoiled. I don't think they typified the Ukrainian youth at large.
Because most trade unions are corrupted (and French ones are really highly so) people don't know how to organize. this is why movements like the noble Gilets Jaunes, the Canadian Truckers have arisen and been severely "punished. But as you could see on the links I provided, micron had to be exfiltrated and could not enter the salon de l'Agriculture... A lot of people are mad as hell. The Power that shouldn't be is fearing insurrection and is trying to figure out how to distract that anger toward Russia to go on war... I don't think it will work.
And for you to get some positive vibes Anton
Gilets Jaunes sing, "Get up stand up", "debout lève toi" :
"By the way , I totally agree that French unions are ass lacking, as are most unions around the world."
I cannot independently verify, but knowing as well as I now do how this world works and how all institutions exist merely to present mirages of integrity and equity to the people in order to lull them into passive acquiescence, I suspect that ALL trade unions around the world are ass-lickers to the corporations (and therefore to the corporate owning old-and-new-money aristocracy), who have doubtlessly long ago either created them out of whole cloth, or have since infiltrated them expressly to defuse, deflect, or derail any meaningful progress in the workers' plight for fairness in treatment, working conditions, and remuneration.
France has been taken over, as well as the US and Russia... The Ukrainian who are against war have been suppressed violently. Those who rejected the 2014 coup d'état had been violently repressed by the integral nationalists (whatever the brand)....
Many Ukrainians fled the country to avoid war, either in Russia or in US occupied Western countries. Many Ukrainian are in hiding to avoid being dismembered after having being violently obliged to go under the meat grinder.
If I follow your point of view, US citizens are cowards as well as French, Brits, Germans etc... They are absolutely not subjected to intense propaganda, the hardship of daily life etc... As a US citizen, how do you express your courage?
our police have battle weapons from the last 20 years of war. our localities as well as the feds gave them special money to buy these toys.
they have no problem shooting the eyes out of teenagers who protested during the 2008 financial collapse with rubber bullets, and also throwing the Jan6ers in prison for a protest which turned into a riot (probably a false flag led by spooks) about a dodgy election.
if you go against the government, you had better have an army here. they have multiple armies stationed all over (cops), each state's national guard, and they have called the latter out long before now to "quell unrest". they will also go after your money, bank accounts, property and anything else and they can seize these things pretty much without any judge's ruling, robbing you the ability to fight their bogus charges.
USA is a kind of penal colony where you get special privileges if you have more money, but unless you have enough money to have dual citizenship or passports elsewhere, you are a peasant and they can take it all away. including your life and livelihood.
so, if you want a bunch of peasants with pitchforks, most of whom are probably crazy and being mislead into a false flag against the government so that they have a reason to "crack down", lead on my friend. but most rational people won't be following.
the "leftists" were hoping that the minorities would do it for them (nothing to lose), so they've been sitting on their asses dithering for 40 years.
I'm old enough to remember the 2003 war in Iraq - and EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO WAS DEAD WRONG about every aspect of the war (why it started, who was going to do what, etc) got promotions, book deals, TV appearances and otherwise prospered greatly.
Every single person who got it right faded into obscurity and poverty. It's some kind of iron law about wars, apparently, going back to at least the Spanish-American War (they even named a journalism prize after the guy who made a $ fortune for always being wrong about wars because he literally bought off the most prestigious journalism school (Columbia) to create said prize).
One person who got it wrong and paid some professional price was NY Times reporter Judith Miller. She got fired as designated scapegoat for the Times, if not the entire media.
One person who got it very slightly right and prospered was Barack Obama, who voiced some extremely tepid criticism in the run-up to the war. He didn’t come close to impugning the U.S. imperial project, or even a marginally different war on Iraq, but it was enough to set him apart from his Democratic rivals in 2008 (such as John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden, who were in the U.S. Senate and voted for it). And Obama went on to make a fortune.
SCOTT RITTER: They are hiding their retained capabilities in biological, chemical, nuclear weapons and ballistic missile delivery systems.
Lisa McRee: Can you be more specific about what you believe they have?
Scott Ritter: I think one of the things that has been in the news recently is the VX nerve agent, one of the most deadly substances known to mankind. Iraq clearly produced this agent in large quantities and put it on ballistic missile warheads. They have lied about that, they have said that they have not done this, despite the fact that we have the proof in our hands.
Lisa McRee: What's our appropriate response, then?
Scott Ritter: It's time to call the game for what it is. This is Saddam Hussein's attempt to keep weapons of mass destruction and get sanctions lifted. Saddam is linked with these weapons, there is no way of dealing with the weapons without dealing with Saddam.
Lisa McRee: But do what? Should we have a military strike against Iraq? Should it be unilateral or should we do it only with allies? What do you suggest?
Scott Ritter: These are issues that have to be addressed by the national security policy team in Washington, DC, that's what they get paid the big bucks for.
Lisa McRee: What do you think will work, though? You've been there.
Scott Ritter: I know what won't work, continuing to provide concessions to Iraq only feeds their strength. Iraq is in charge of this game right now. They are the ones calling the shots. It's time for the United Nations, the [national] security council of the United States to seize the initiative to start taking more proactive measures to counter Saddam Hussein. And whatever measures the
It seemed to me from the very beginning that this war was like professional wrestling, choreographed. Lots of white people killing each other for reasons no one understands, but they just keep on doing it, month after month, year after year.
There once was a childrens' magazine in doctor and dentist offices called Highlights. At the back of each issue was an illustration passtime with hidden images in jungle scenes and what not. As a kid I realized the hidden images were thematic. Discover the theme and it became much easier to find the other hidden images, instead of seeking them one by one, randomly. That magazine shaped the way I analyzed events as an adult. Spot the theme and discover the relationships. They reveal the identity and motives.
So is there a theme in this war that you can see? I see one. These are the relationships I see when I look into the jungle...
Biden's cabinet and senior leadership
US oligarchs
Zelenski and his senior leadership
Ukranian oligarchs
Russian oligarchs and maybe Putin too
Pharma, Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street
Corporate state media, legacy media ownership
US military contractors and Wagner
Russian, Ukaranian and US embassedors
CIA, SBU, the mafia
Every male who Zelensky exclusively allowed to leave before closing the border.
Every male who Putin exclusively allowed to leave before closing the border.
Many more such observations too numerous
I see a theme among these. Do you? Maybe you are conditioned to not see the theme, but I see the statistical probability of an assignable cause here. Some people get close to seeing it. They might say globalists, oligarchs, elites, bankers, internationalists, space lizards, but I know another word that describes the common theme. Its a simple word. Only one syllable, three letters. Starts with the letter J. Maybe you know this word too. People have been thinking about it for thousands of years but seem to be afraid to say it. Maybe it is dangerous to say it. I dont know. But it sure does explain a lot.
You can see anything you want to see, but this is a real stretch. In any event, it tells us nothing of any actual use. True or false, it does not improve real understanding of events or help make useful or accurate predictions. It is useless pseudo "knowledge."
Thanks for this timeline. I stood too long with this clown's predictions.
One with paranoia (like me) might think all of this is just some kind of entertainment program satisfying all sides of the conflict (like a circus). Meant to occupy the attention of the plebs, keeping it away from more important things like our freedoms been taking away.
Yesterday the German parliament (after 22.00, that is 10pm, rather late working hours) agreed to the WHO's taking over plan.
Also we will soon have a first test of programmable money in Germany. It's an electronic card for refugees hindering them to buy alcohol and cigarettes (alcohol from our hard earned tax payer money! Imagine that!).
Thank you for disagreeing with Scott Ritter in a very civil manner...I used to listen to him every day during the opening days of the SMO but soon I could see this was a slow motion war designed to maximize the kill rate and leave Ukraine totally devastated and at the mercy of the globalists in both the NATO countries AND Russia, et al....I'm not sure what he is trying to accomplish now....his rhetoric
has turned into pure pro-Russia propaganda...Col. McGregor's as well
Sadly the worst losers are the citizens of Ukraine a once beautiful country with rich farmland and beautiful productive people (can't have that in the NWO!!) who are suffering and dying on a daily basis....also anyone from the West that goes there and dares to give an accurate account of what is really happening (think Gonzalvo Lira)
He is controlled opposition with a track record of failure. His pedophilic tendency make him a prime candidate for being a puppet.
It's part of the spectacle and overall narrative formation. Just look at the comments here and elsewhere. Chaos and conflict is the policy,while what is important is not being discussed anywhere. This war is hugely profitable, useful in passifying Europe and brining it under control of US corporate and financial interests and is being used to justify massive increases in military spending and increased control at home. Follow the 💰💰🤑 💰🤑💰🤑🤑🤑
Edward has gone easy on Ritter by not looking back just a few weeks further and pointing out how certain Ritter (along with almost the entire alterno-sphere commentariat) was that all the talk of an impending Russian invasion was just the usual U.S. deep-state/media blob slander and fear-mongering about Putin, only to suddenly discover the SMO was both eminently justified and on the verge of total victory once it started.
The sad part is that Ukraine had it all. Land, water, energy. Topsoil measured in meters instead of inches or feet like the rest of the planet. Fresh water everywhere you turn. Hydro, coal and the second largest gas field in Europe (only Norway's is larger). Until you can figure out how to get the gas out (tight formation) they had a 30% discount on Russian gas.
Breaks my heart to see such a great opportunity pissed away. Of all the places that got out from under the Soviet yoke I was hoping for Ukraine to have a great time because of what was done to them in the 30's. Sadly they only got 2 decades of corruption and then threw it all away in 2014 siding with the west and becoming the USSA's cannon fodder.
Since most of those dying are Russian speakers, Washington is winning. Obama's goal and the imperial west's goal has been to reduce the slavic population so that resources can be more easily exploited, the imperialists are winning.
There are 258 milllion Russian speakers in the world. Gonna be a long long long war before that gets significantly reduced.
To put it even more simply - there were 2 million Palestinians in Gaza before Oct 7. And even with non-stop bombing and starvation etc, Israel hasn't managed to kill even 5% of them. Genocide is a lot harder than it looks.
I agree completely that no one is “winning” here except the lizards.
My heart bleeds for the country of my forebears…
Russia is winning. Glad I could clear that up for you.
They are taking more territory and losing less troops (5:1 to 10:1 kill rate in their favour).
They sat back for 8 months letting Ukraine exhaust their troops and equipment and are now advancing on all fronts.
At some point Russia will open the northern front and encircle Kharkiv and or Sumy. Ukraine has been sending troops from the northern inactive front to the south because they are running out of troops down south. Once sufficiently weakened the north will be attacked.
As always the people pay the price on both sides for the idiocy of their "leaders". The arrogance and hubris of the Ukrainian Nazis thinking they could bomb Donetsk for 8 years thinking that "Russia will never attack because we have the USA & NATO on our side". How's that working out for you?
Hearing that troop movement argument since act one of the drama. It never hit home.
Where do you have your stats from? Russian MoD. Yeah. Whatever.
Yes it should happen, because Kiev must capitulate. Wouldn't Russia act in this way Kiev must capitulate before or there is a power fight inside of Russia itself.
Most certainly, the most important takeaway. The loss of life has been horrendous. Just 106 years after Europe shuddered "never again".
Martyanov (see Rurik's blog) two years ago predicted something like 1.5 / 10K (Rus/Ukr) KIA (perhaps just casualties) and a 4 week conflict. The true number may never be known but it right now is at least 100x that on both sides.
Yet there factions to whom that outcome is merely an opportunity. You want to see a population replacement project on steroids? Just hang around for another 5-10 years. Ukr will be unrecognizable and any chance that Russians had of pulling themselves out of a demographic death spiral will not survive the loss of 2 or 300 K males in their prime fertility years.
Ritter's no different from a commentator at a ball game. Russky/Chinky "multipolarity" is about choreographing businesslike operations with the USEUNATO terrorists, "wars" and plandemics alike.
I agree there is a game-like quality to what Ritter is engaged in. But do understand that if you are actually fighting a war -tactical, operational, strategic, makes no difference, most of your predictions and calculations will be incorrect as well as those of your adversary; that's part of the battlespace. And prevailing and staying alive involves learning and re-calculating and not just hoping your readers (or superiors) forget that you made those predictions that turned out wrong.
Is now good time to trot out my favorite bit of Clausewtiz wisdom?: In war everything is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult.
Martyanov wasn't wrong. The war would have ended in April 2022, but the US & UK had other plans and sent Boris's Johnson to Kiev to nix a sensible peace deal.
Would this "oligarchic superstructure" à la Slavsquat already exits, there would be ONLY one solution, with a fifty-fifty chance solving such problem: We need the total and radical ultra totalitarian war, world wide and by all means; nuclear, chemical, biological....
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But I think it doesn't exits at all such "lizard reptiloid oligarchy", beside the eternal iron law of oligarchy exits always, anyway which order, with exception of some world fascist currents which have the tools to handle it; at least theoretical.
So you are going to accept a Bourgeois capitalist society. Aim must be national sovereign based and not globalist.
Inside of the Putin administration there are quite diferent currents, from neoliberal, globalistic technocrats, moderate patriots,multipolarists, conservative etatists, classical liberals, national technocrats, opportunists,...
A lot of people aren't black or white, they are grew or even shizo or are connected with different alliances and third way positions.
Oh good, my 68th birthday will be some days later....
Happy birthday, Jacquelyn!
Hope he won't be late. At some point no one's left to be saved...
Why that specific date?
Because he wants to join the 100% of others who set a date and got it wrong.
I had never heard of Scott Ritter before the start of the SMO, then he was pushed very hard in the alternative media space. He had previously been arrested for child sex crimes twice. Given his awful and ongoing predictive abilities and his clear unwillingness to address them or update his worldview, I think his pro-Russia hopium grift is likely part of an ongoing operation (CIA?) to control both sides of the conversation around the war.
Yepp... you need to support team 5D Russian Oligarchy also to keep the theatre going.
He is famous for his failures in the middle east.
Convicted and 2 years in prison on the second one.
Scott Ritter was set up twice during sting operations by Police posing as teenagers.
Did Scott know they were cops posing as teenagers, or did he think he was whipping his dick out to 14 year old girls? It really doesn't matter that he was stung, he should have kept it in his pants. He is of very low character and a pedophile. He's wrong about a lot of things.
Where can I find this?
Explore the links on Wiki - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Ritter
''Arrests and conviction for sex offenses
Ritter was the subject of two law enforcement sting operations in 2001.[39] He was charged in June 2001 with trying to set up a meeting with an undercover police officer posing as a 16-year-old girl.[40][41] He was charged with a misdemeanor crime of "attempted endangerment of the welfare of a child". The charge was dismissed and the record was sealed after he completed six months of pre-trial probation.[41][8]
Ritter was arrested again in November 2009[42] over communications with a police decoy he met on an Internet chat site. Police said that he exposed himself, via a web camera, after the officer repeatedly identified himself as a 15-year-old girl.[5]''
And for the record while I don't agree with everything that Mr Ritter has claimed - the entrapment by police posing as teenagers has crossed my red line.
Not mine. He's a nonce.
Wiki Wonka is hardly a reliable source. https://swprs.org/wikipedia-and-propaganda/
Agreed, and why I've suggested to explore the links.
In the end police deliberately posing as teenagers in order to entrap someone is pure hypocrisy.
It was 21 years ago and just like the first time round, someone is continuing the smear campaign against an outspoken critic of empire.
''Ritter cries foul at sex arrest 'smear' https://www.theguardian.com/world/2003/jan/24/usa.davidteather
It think the reason is most people in the west don't give a shit about Ukraine, in the first year it was quite scary and all but now people are just tired of it. So...what do you do? You have to keep the hype and sensetional stories going.
This blog is the CIA narrative, Ritter is a dissident
Lisa McRee: What are they hiding?
SCOTT RITTER: They are hiding their retained capabilities in biological, chemical, nuclear weapons and ballistic missile delivery systems.
Lisa McRee: Can you be more specific about what you believe they have?
Scott Ritter: I think one of the things that has been in the news recently is the VX nerve agent, one of the most deadly substances known to mankind. Iraq clearly produced this agent in large quantities and put it on ballistic missile warheads. They have lied about that, they have said that they have not done this, despite the fact that we have the proof in our hands.
Lisa McRee: What's our appropriate response, then?
Scott Ritter: It's time to call the game for what it is. This is Saddam Hussein's attempt to keep weapons of mass destruction and get sanctions lifted. Saddam is linked with these weapons, there is no way of dealing with the weapons without dealing with Saddam.
Lisa McRee: But do what? Should we have a military strike against Iraq? Should it be unilateral or should we do it only with allies? What do you suggest?
Scott Ritter: These are issues that have to be addressed by the national security policy team in Washington, DC, that's what they get paid the big bucks for.
Lisa McRee: What do you think will work, though? You've been there.
Scott Ritter: I know what won't work, continuing to provide concessions to Iraq only feeds their strength. Iraq is in charge of this game right now. They are the ones calling the shots. It's time for the United Nations, the [national] security council of the United States to seize the initiative to start taking more proactive measures to counter Saddam Hussein. And whatever measures the
I agreee. Ritter is making all this up with no intel.
Scott Ritter regularly sounds like he's got a hard on for war which clouds his judgement.
I guess you could say that he lives in the fog of war, probably because he was himself indoctrinated into the bullshit.
He's also a fan boy of the great leader and believes in 5d chess bullshit.
A while back he was predicting the war would be over in April 23?, months ahead... Like he could see the future, but it was based on nothing but his own "ideas".
He lives in a child like fantasy world of "good war".
Scott Ritter has a near-perfect batting average when it comes to making wrong predictions about Ukraine. His baggage is out there as others have pointed out which makes him further dubious. Another one who seems to get it more wrong than right is Col. Douglas MacGregor. Unlike Ritter, I don't question Col. MacGregor's integrity. He just seems to reach a lot of Ritter-esque conclusions. It makes me wonder what their actual roles are when it comes to disseminating "information".
Will the real Scott Ritter please stand up…….
Here is Ritter-the-Hawk, after he resigned as ‘weapons inspector’ reading a statement to the US House Committee on National Security on 16 September 1998: [8]
[Excerpt from Statement starts here]
The reality is that Iraq is winning its bid to retain its prohibited weapons. …
Iraq is not disarmed. Iraq still poses a real and meaningful threat to its neighbors, and nothing the Security Council or the United States is doing currently will change this fact.
-/——————
Here is Ritter the Dove after 9/11
“The truth of the matter is that Iraq has not been shown to possess weapons of mass destruction,' he said in an address to the Iraqi National Assembly -- the first by an American and widely seen as a propaganda coup for Hussein. 'Iraq today is not a threat to its neighbors.'"
-- Washington Post, 21 October 2002
Ritter just does what his handlers tell him to do
I like MacGregor better and he gets the overall picture correct most times but is poor on details.
He knows war the way that the USA waged it in Iraq because that is what he was in. This isn't like that at all. Ukraine has NATO/USA which is slowing the Russians down but won't work in the long run.
Mexico can not defeat the USA and Ukraine can not defeat Russia.
You have provided the much-needed contrast on the subject which is difficult to find anywhere else in the alternative media. I confess that I have been much too inclined to back Russia and even Putin in these matters, primarily because I've found rather too convincing the narrative of the Nuland-contrived, C.I.A.-backed overthrow of Yanukovych in 2014 precipitating the secession of Luhansk and Donetsk regions in the Donbas, and then all-out conflict between the Ukrainian military and Russian-backed separatist forces, the refusal by the Zelensky regime to honour the Minsk Accords aimed at ending the conflict, and the sharp increase in Ukrainian shelling of Donetsk and Luhansk using weapons that were prohibited under the Minsk agreements. Besides, I've loathed Zelensky and the insufferable obsequiousness displayed by NATO-member governments, their nations' mass media, and also all the nauseating virtue signalling promoted and contrived by celebrities, influencers, public figures, and cognoscenti.
Regardless of the accuracy or otherwise of this narrative, let alone the professed motives of either side, and those of their controllers and handlers, what has seemed to me to be the more convincing battlefield and tactical commentary has favoured the Russian execution of this war and deemed it considerably superior. And yet, conspicuous by its absence has been an appraisal of the results achieved by Russia with respect to the stated objectives - until the analysis you provide in your article. This is a level-headed, insightful, and extremely valuable countercheck for what might actually be insufficient scepticism with this particular subject displayed by the alternative media. Thank you.
Thanks for reading and for your thoughtful comment.
best,
Riley
I am not interested in what Scott Ritter thinks.
I must confess I listened to Scott Ritter during early days of the conflict, he does posses more military knowledge than average Iosif = that is Joe in Russian :)
For this sin I will wear cilice belt and won't touch chocolate for 3 days I promise.
It didn't take long to observe that according to Ritter everything Russia does is divine brilliance, while Ukraine and NATO are constantly in panic. It fills me with despair that these alternative channels (Ritter, Duran, Haiphong etc.) are still getting 100K+ views daily while they keep saying the same thing every single day for the last 2 years - Russian victory is 2weeks away...And yet none of the consumers ever stop for the second to think about validity of that simple statement.
It is the same as in my hometown where our mayor proudly installed about 10 public defibrillators recently, and nobody seems to ask the basic question - why now? Will it take a child like in "Emperor's New Clothes" to publicly ask the logical question before people finally start speaking up?
Scott Ritter comes across as a turbocharged military theoretician who comes up with many clever ways how Russia could and should win, but Shoigu keeps letting him down, so poor Scott has to keep adjusting his angles and theories.
But Shoigu likely steals more military stuff than Ukrainians - credit where credit is due..
Yep. Most Westerners who support Russia in this conflict have taken on the aspect of an eschatological cult. Both Jesus and Putin will return to Kiev in 2 weeks, believers!
“Edward Slavsquat” and his buddy “Rurik” over at the Slavlands stack have pushed “Slav Nationalism” since day one of the SMO. Both hide in anonymity and have fantastic, evidence free theories of elite conspiracies.. that the war is fake, a struggle between greedy oligarchs, that Putin is a wimp, etc.
It’s easy to attack Ritter’s (or anyone’s) predictions and offer nothing yourself. War is complex. War has many confusing antecedents and participants have many, diverse motives. We have all picked sides and want desperately to understand what the FUCK is going on?
This piece and the asshole who wrote it give us no new insights. This piece is a cheap takedown of Ritter who is at least trying to offer us clarity from real knowledge of military affairs and an antiwar POV rooted in a pro Russia morality.
The only thing “Edward” says that has any weight is that the mass murder of Slav brothers on both sides is an atrocity that only lizards cheer. Scott Ritter would agree 100%.
Sweetheart, you have no manners. You are abusing a very nice guy (Edward), who happens to know what he's talking about...
This war is not fake, it's real and people are dying! Fake are the goals that Kremlin/Putin is spouting constantly. Fake is Putin's patriotism - he does not even consider Crimea to be a part of Russia, and is hiding that from Russians! That is why he and the MoD are sabotaging Russian troops! He is indeed one spineless wimp and a traitor - recruited, trained, and deployed by Kissinger/Schwab to run Russia as NWO colony.
Here's your "anti"-NWO "hero" in padded shoes due to his Napoleon Complex [1].
[1] Putin wears high heels. Putin’s Napoleon complex ... (<4 min short video, fast forward to the 30-second mark) | YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY6lHjZjYXE&t=30s
You’re a patriot of which fatherland?
Putin is a complex leader. Reducing a tsar to a dwarf w a Napoleon complex is dumb fuck territory. In future biography he will be Putin the Great, on par w Peter and Catherine. He has already rebuilt Russia as a great word power from the post Soviet ashes. And he has slowly, belatedly, haltingly recognized the satanic nature of the West.
If Putin wins the SMO and succeeds in building a multipolar world order, generations of Russians will benefit. And generations of Americans also.
Go ahead. Argue these points...
To additionally address point-2-point some of your blabbering for the benefits of readers here:
Re Slav Nationalism: Is that bad? If so, why, and what's good then in your opinion?
Re oligarchs: How did they get all that wealth back in the day?
Re Ritter's "predictions": Those are not predictions but rather just indirect propaganda about Putin's "greatness" masked/phrased as predictions. We see that every time he ends up being wrong, which is pretty much all the time, he simply just moves the goal post or gaslights or plays ignorance.
Re wanting to understand what's going on: We do understand what's going on - we have a wimp and a traitor in Kremlin and this war is still going on because Putin does not mind this cheap way to kill Russians [4].
Re Ritter's "clarity": The only clarity Ritter is offering is clarity about Putin's propaganda bots like our little Scotty, Martyanov, Saker, et. al. and their M.O.
Re Scott Ritter would agree 100%: He would not agree, as for Putin's propaganda purposes, he considers Ukrainians not very good people, and he says it publicly, as Riley reported.
P.S. I know that you are not going to address any of this, but again, this is for the benefit of readers here that may not be familiar with this NWO recruit/apparatchik called Putin [1][2][3].
[1] Klaus Schwab in 2019 speaks of Putin (1952), Tony Blair (1953), and Angela Merkel (1954) as his Young Global Leaders back in the 90s - fast forward to 1:14
https://www.bitchute.com/video/7LQEL3GWI1P1
[2] “So we penetrate the cabinets”, Klaus Schwab in 2017 ... | Twitter
https://twitter.com/JamesMelville/status/1488472558425063430
[3] What the West gets wrong about Putin
https://unherd.com/2022/01/what-the-west-gets-wrong-about-putin/
Excerpt #1: Eventually, Primakov introduced Kissinger to Putin, and they became close. That both Primakov and Kissinger took time to coach Putin on geopolitics and geosecurity was a clear demonstration that they saw in him the characteristics of a powerful leader.
Excerpt #2: In 1999, Vladimir Putin suddenly sprang from bureaucratic obscurity to the office of Prime Minister. When, a few months later, Yeltsin unexpectedly resigned and Putin was voted in as President, governments around the world were taken by surprise yet again. How could this unknown figure have amassed national voter support with so little media attention?
[4] Lindsey Graham Appears to Say Russians Dying 'Best Money We've Ever Spent'
https://www.newsweek.com/lindsey-graham-appears-say-russians-dying-best-money-weve-ever-spent-1803073
To be clear, Rurik says it is a struggle between SPOOKS (aka glowies), not necessarily oligarchs. And that the "struggle" is just haggling over slices of the profits (monetary and influence).
All nations at all times have had spooks. Generally speaking, spooks are below and subservient to the actual elite rulers. Sometimes spooks rebel, coup and replace the rulers.
But Rurik’s “grand thesis” that this is a “spook war” is a sophomoric over simplification, a reductio ad absurdum. Reality is far more complex. Think harder. Consider more evidence and angles. One cause theories are for children.
rurik predicted prigozhins march on moscow like a month before prigozhin even knew he was going to do it
rurik is big brain you are small brain
Rurik is a big brain bc he got one thing right? Hardly. Rurik is a nasty jerk w a large chip on his shoulder. I follow him and f*** w him in the comments because he has interesting takes that challenge my own.
Rurik is a peddler w a cart full of rags. He’s always complaining no one is buying his junk, that they’re over at the “Zanon” stalls bc they’re stupid peasants. Behind his puffery is a nasty little mind. But an unusual mind, and an antidote to the Zanon cheerleaders.
Rurik says that there is a greater chance that Ukraine will launch a counteroffense than there is that Russia will launch an offensive.
Here's my prediction: Ukraine will NEVER launch another counteroffensive.
маскировка (maskirovka) Pure and simple.
They play Chess, we play with ourselves.
Peace.
I agree with ur first part, we think everything is a 5d chess game instead of stupid regimes doing stupid things. disagree with any defence of Ritter. A man consistently making predictions of Ukrainian collapse should be laughed at. Just like cheerleading that a drive to Crimea by UKR was a forgone conclusion this summer.
This Scott Ritter is simply and demonstrably an "asshole", stupid and devoid of genuine empathy.
"“[T]here is nothing nice about the people in Ukraine … They are either staunch supporters of the odious ideology of Stepan Bandera, and as such deserving of whatever fate befalls them, or pathologically indifferent cowards who have facilitated the horrific crimes of the Banderists.”
There are very nice things about "the" people in Ukraine, it is so obvious... How stupid it is, what piece of literature. Only an asshole can write such bullshit and pretend to be an international geopolitic expert. Expert in bullshit...
"or pathologically indifferent cowards who have facilitated the horrific crimes of the Banderists"
Whaat an idiotic asshole that guy is...
Well, he keeps us occupied, right? Maybe that's all he is good for.
He just pushes whatever his handlers want him to push.
All through the 90s he was building the case for a military confrontation with Iraq as a weapons inspector. Nobobody remembers that Ritter
He was successful in buidling the case for war until it he was accused of being an Israeli spy
PBS interview in late 1998
"The Pentagon released information talking about an F.B.I. espionage investigation into my relationship with Israel. I didn't bring up the Israeli issue. They did. And by putting it out there, they were calling me a spy. "
Once Bush got into office he suddenly and completely changed his expert opinion
"…Stop misquoting me. First of all, I stand by everything I've said. I haven't retracted anything -- let me make that very clear. I stand by everything I've said. There's no two Scott Ritters. There's one Scott Ritter, and he's been thoroughly consistent."
That was Ritter answering an opponent on the CNN Television program, Crosstalk, on September 15, 2002.
Because of my age and not being a US citizen, I only knew the Scott Ritter of 2002...
Yeah that is how I remembered him
Anyway, I searched his name chronologically as it appeared in the news.
He resigned from his UN post in August 1998 then went on a bomb-iraq tour , speaking engagements, etc... Until early 1999.,. Then there was some press on a book that never published in december of 98
New York - Former United Nations arms inspector Scott Ritter has signed a contract to write a book in which he spells out his suggestions for dealing with Iraq: Bomb the country and overthrow its leader, Saddam Hussein.
"Nothing less will work, and nothing less is justified," Ritter is quoted as saying in Simon & Schuster's announcement Tuesday of his book, "The Iraq Solution," due out in April.
Ritter's book will discuss Hussein's use of chemical weapons against Kurds and Iranians, and "why he must be stopped" before he uses mass-killing weapons again, the publisher said.
Ritter, an ex-Marine, created a stir Aug. 26 when he quit the United Nations Special Commission that monitors Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. He said then that the panel's efforts were being undermined by vacillating American and U.N. policy-makers."
It was brought up by a reporter at the White House press briefing that day. The following exchange took place:
Excerpt from White House briefing 9 December 1998:
Question: Joe, one more on Iraq. Does the White House have any comment on Scott Ritter's comments, that the only way to settle this is to bomb Iraq?
MR. [Joe] LOCKHART: No.
[Excerpt from White House briefing 9 December 1998 ends here]
http://usembassy-australia.state.gov/.../WF981209/epf301.htm
Seven days later the US launched a 3-day missile attack on Iraq
Thanks, merci, for the information.
Thanks for these important reminders. We can all change our minds, that's sanity. That is not what he did.
Take care Arraya
That is definitely not what he did .
I didn't even really start paying attention to politics until Bush came into office.
I happened upon an early 2000s blog talking about his unexplained metamorphosis
By in large the press did not call him on his 'flip flop' that I could find. You'd think the pro war media would have been all over it. Nope . The pro war media did not want to alert the pubic of his pro war stance, which is interesting
I did find this one piece
"…Stop misquoting me. First of all, I stand by everything I've said. I haven't retracted anything -- let me make that very clear. I stand by everything I've said. There's no two Scott Ritters. There's one Scott Ritter, and he's been thoroughly consistent."
That was Ritter answering an opponent on the CNN Television program, Crosstalk, on September 15, 2002.
Scott Ritter has made many wrong predictions regarding the war. However, the majority of Ukrainians ARE either supporters of Bandera or for the war or are indifferent to the war.
What does it say about a people that they allow their country to be completely taken over by Zionists? What does it say about a people that they allow their sons to be used as cannon fodder as their country is destroyed?
You can't just blame the leaders.
And what, exactly, do you expect the average Ukrainian to do? You can't vote for someone else because elections are permanently suspended. You protest, you get arrested and/or beaten up and/or killed. You can't leave without paying an enormous bribe and then you got to go be a refugee in a land where you don't speak the language. And there's no feasible way of crossing over to Russian-held territory.
Unless you're willing to abandon your house, your land, you car, your animals, your family, and every single thing you care about and worked for and swim across an icy river (and even that might not work), there ARE no options left to oppose the Kiev government.
There is one option: a GENERAL STRIKE. If millions of Ukrainians walked off their jobs and went into the streets, they would not get arrested or killed. They might even persuade the police and army to join them.
The reason there will not be a GENERAL STRIKE is that the majority of Ukrainians in Central and Western Ukraine are NOT against the war.
Ukrainians striking?! Pfft! THE ENTIRE WORLD NEEDS TO STRIKE!
I've personally been engaged in a GENERAL STRIKE over COVID-19, and specifically against the government who have managed the local roll-out of the COVID-19 programme, for four-years now and still with no end in sight! I don't work, I earn nothing, pay no taxes, own nothing (but neither does anyone else), not a car nor even a phone, and I'm still waiting for someone - EVEN ONE! - of my country folk to join me on this strike, but so far to no avail.
People reflexively deny the reality of their own, or that of their rights' and freedom's mortal imperilment while almost everyone's behaviour reinforces the (anti-)wisdom of their state of denial, and while the establishment, institutions, and the media stamp their imprimatur on the denial as the authorised reaction to that reality.
What was acutely obvious to me from the beginning of 2020 - that the governments of the world's nations were conclusively and irrevocably moving against the people, to eliminate many and to finally and completely enslave the rest - and the significance of this to our lives and lifestyles seems to have completely flown over the heads of everyone and hit no one's head but mine, because I'M STILL THE ONLY ONE ON THIS GENERAL STRIKE!
So, while I do agree with you that a general strike, a boycott of everything, and a walk-out with no return until the government - ALL GOVERNMENT - has been eliminated is the only power the people actually possess to effect change, no one else seems to appreciate the mortal danger their countries' governments pose for them, let alone the subtleties of the influence and supremacy of the general strike and, in particular, no one else is prepared to put on their boots and walk out!
I'm hopeful that what Christopher Cook brilliantly said ( https://substack.com/@christophercook/note/c-50075167 ) will be true this time as well, but I still see too little if any evidence that critical mass will ever be achieved:
"We won’t wake the masses. We will never wake the masses.
We just need a critical mass of an active minority. “The Remnant,” as Nock called them. That is all that has ever been needed to make change.
As far as asymmetric resistance, all we can do is what we can do. We will learn from old conflicts, and adapt to new environments, and pray that new circumstances will be on our side.
And we will pray also for peace, and deliverance from tyranny, so that we never get to any such place where force becomes the only remaining avenue."
Anton,
You might also appreciate that link about the French salon de l'agriculture and the determination of our farmers who react when they are to be killed:
https://lemediaen442.fr/alerte-bagarre-au-salon-de-lagriculture-des-agriculteurs-en-colere-ont-envahi-le-salon-et-recherche-emmanuel-macron/
Anton,
This is the guy who, despite having been seriously menaced (some building of his farm have been burned by the thugs servicing the yellow EU dictatorship ass licking trade union)is the real leader of independant farmers. As he has claimed: "I am not scared of death!". Sébastien Béraud, is a real hero and an example for us all!
Quote from the article (worth translating):
"Alors que la France s’apprête à octroyer 3 milliards à l’Ukraine pour son conflit, nos agriculteurs, eux, se voient accordés une fraction de cette somme pour survivre. Une injustice criante qui révèle une politique à deux vitesses, où les intérêts économiques priment sur la souveraineté alimentaire et le bien-être des citoyens."
https://lemediaen442.fr/lagriculteur-sebastien-beraud-ceux-qui-iront-au-debat-de-macron-sont-des-collabos/
Why don't your fellow US citizen go on general strike Anton? Maybe the average US citizen is for war...
That one is for you Anton, hoping you can translate it:
https://www.egaliteetreconciliation.fr/Ouverture-du-Salon-de-l-agriculture-en-colere-Macron-a-eu-chaud-au-cul-75045.html
Bugey, Thanks for the links.
My fellow USA citizens are indeed cowardly. In fact, after seeing the response by the vast majority of the world to the Covid hoax, I now think that the majority of the citizens of every country are cowards.
Having said that, one can not deny that certain countries have and have had a high percentage of citizens that are attracted to Nazism. Like Croatia, the Baltic countries and Ukraine.
I think that a lot of Ukraine's citizens are simply indiffernt to the war. As exemplified by the many videos I have seen during the past 2 years of Ukrainian youth dancing at discos.
By the way , I totally agree that French unions are ass licking, as are most unions around the world.
Salut Anton!
The covid op was essentially psychological. Most people have been manipulated bio-chemically by fear porn and a sinister propaganda. Some are trying to figure out why some bought it and some other not. I don't see cowardice when one is spellbound by social engineers. Some just accepted being poisoned out of fear to lose their jobs.
Why do you think the people you mentioned are attracted by what you called "nazism"? Croatia's regime during ww2 was not National Socialist at all. As to the other countries you mentioned, they rejected Bolshevism.
The youth you saw on videos are from the upper class, have succeeded in being considered as students... Mostly privileged and spoiled. I don't think they typified the Ukrainian youth at large.
Because most trade unions are corrupted (and French ones are really highly so) people don't know how to organize. this is why movements like the noble Gilets Jaunes, the Canadian Truckers have arisen and been severely "punished. But as you could see on the links I provided, micron had to be exfiltrated and could not enter the salon de l'Agriculture... A lot of people are mad as hell. The Power that shouldn't be is fearing insurrection and is trying to figure out how to distract that anger toward Russia to go on war... I don't think it will work.
And for you to get some positive vibes Anton
Gilets Jaunes sing, "Get up stand up", "debout lève toi" :
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDjQdsJnnh8
"By the way , I totally agree that French unions are ass lacking, as are most unions around the world."
I cannot independently verify, but knowing as well as I now do how this world works and how all institutions exist merely to present mirages of integrity and equity to the people in order to lull them into passive acquiescence, I suspect that ALL trade unions around the world are ass-lickers to the corporations (and therefore to the corporate owning old-and-new-money aristocracy), who have doubtlessly long ago either created them out of whole cloth, or have since infiltrated them expressly to defuse, deflect, or derail any meaningful progress in the workers' plight for fairness in treatment, working conditions, and remuneration.
France has been taken over, as well as the US and Russia... The Ukrainian who are against war have been suppressed violently. Those who rejected the 2014 coup d'état had been violently repressed by the integral nationalists (whatever the brand)....
Many Ukrainians fled the country to avoid war, either in Russia or in US occupied Western countries. Many Ukrainian are in hiding to avoid being dismembered after having being violently obliged to go under the meat grinder.
If I follow your point of view, US citizens are cowards as well as French, Brits, Germans etc... They are absolutely not subjected to intense propaganda, the hardship of daily life etc... As a US citizen, how do you express your courage?
our police have battle weapons from the last 20 years of war. our localities as well as the feds gave them special money to buy these toys.
they have no problem shooting the eyes out of teenagers who protested during the 2008 financial collapse with rubber bullets, and also throwing the Jan6ers in prison for a protest which turned into a riot (probably a false flag led by spooks) about a dodgy election.
if you go against the government, you had better have an army here. they have multiple armies stationed all over (cops), each state's national guard, and they have called the latter out long before now to "quell unrest". they will also go after your money, bank accounts, property and anything else and they can seize these things pretty much without any judge's ruling, robbing you the ability to fight their bogus charges.
USA is a kind of penal colony where you get special privileges if you have more money, but unless you have enough money to have dual citizenship or passports elsewhere, you are a peasant and they can take it all away. including your life and livelihood.
so, if you want a bunch of peasants with pitchforks, most of whom are probably crazy and being mislead into a false flag against the government so that they have a reason to "crack down", lead on my friend. but most rational people won't be following.
the "leftists" were hoping that the minorities would do it for them (nothing to lose), so they've been sitting on their asses dithering for 40 years.
I'm old enough to remember the 2003 war in Iraq - and EVERY SINGLE PERSON WHO WAS DEAD WRONG about every aspect of the war (why it started, who was going to do what, etc) got promotions, book deals, TV appearances and otherwise prospered greatly.
Every single person who got it right faded into obscurity and poverty. It's some kind of iron law about wars, apparently, going back to at least the Spanish-American War (they even named a journalism prize after the guy who made a $ fortune for always being wrong about wars because he literally bought off the most prestigious journalism school (Columbia) to create said prize).
One person who got it wrong and paid some professional price was NY Times reporter Judith Miller. She got fired as designated scapegoat for the Times, if not the entire media.
One person who got it very slightly right and prospered was Barack Obama, who voiced some extremely tepid criticism in the run-up to the war. He didn’t come close to impugning the U.S. imperial project, or even a marginally different war on Iraq, but it was enough to set him apart from his Democratic rivals in 2008 (such as John Kerry, Hillary Clinton, and Joe Biden, who were in the U.S. Senate and voted for it). And Obama went on to make a fortune.
But you’re basically right.
Obama is CIA, from a CIA family. grandma was a banker. he was always going to "be ok".
Lisa McRee: What are they hiding?
SCOTT RITTER: They are hiding their retained capabilities in biological, chemical, nuclear weapons and ballistic missile delivery systems.
Lisa McRee: Can you be more specific about what you believe they have?
Scott Ritter: I think one of the things that has been in the news recently is the VX nerve agent, one of the most deadly substances known to mankind. Iraq clearly produced this agent in large quantities and put it on ballistic missile warheads. They have lied about that, they have said that they have not done this, despite the fact that we have the proof in our hands.
Lisa McRee: What's our appropriate response, then?
Scott Ritter: It's time to call the game for what it is. This is Saddam Hussein's attempt to keep weapons of mass destruction and get sanctions lifted. Saddam is linked with these weapons, there is no way of dealing with the weapons without dealing with Saddam.
Lisa McRee: But do what? Should we have a military strike against Iraq? Should it be unilateral or should we do it only with allies? What do you suggest?
Scott Ritter: These are issues that have to be addressed by the national security policy team in Washington, DC, that's what they get paid the big bucks for.
Lisa McRee: What do you think will work, though? You've been there.
Scott Ritter: I know what won't work, continuing to provide concessions to Iraq only feeds their strength. Iraq is in charge of this game right now. They are the ones calling the shots. It's time for the United Nations, the [national] security council of the United States to seize the initiative to start taking more proactive measures to counter Saddam Hussein. And whatever measures the
It seemed to me from the very beginning that this war was like professional wrestling, choreographed. Lots of white people killing each other for reasons no one understands, but they just keep on doing it, month after month, year after year.
There once was a childrens' magazine in doctor and dentist offices called Highlights. At the back of each issue was an illustration passtime with hidden images in jungle scenes and what not. As a kid I realized the hidden images were thematic. Discover the theme and it became much easier to find the other hidden images, instead of seeking them one by one, randomly. That magazine shaped the way I analyzed events as an adult. Spot the theme and discover the relationships. They reveal the identity and motives.
So is there a theme in this war that you can see? I see one. These are the relationships I see when I look into the jungle...
Biden's cabinet and senior leadership
US oligarchs
Zelenski and his senior leadership
Ukranian oligarchs
Russian oligarchs and maybe Putin too
Pharma, Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street
Corporate state media, legacy media ownership
US military contractors and Wagner
Russian, Ukaranian and US embassedors
CIA, SBU, the mafia
Every male who Zelensky exclusively allowed to leave before closing the border.
Every male who Putin exclusively allowed to leave before closing the border.
Many more such observations too numerous
I see a theme among these. Do you? Maybe you are conditioned to not see the theme, but I see the statistical probability of an assignable cause here. Some people get close to seeing it. They might say globalists, oligarchs, elites, bankers, internationalists, space lizards, but I know another word that describes the common theme. Its a simple word. Only one syllable, three letters. Starts with the letter J. Maybe you know this word too. People have been thinking about it for thousands of years but seem to be afraid to say it. Maybe it is dangerous to say it. I dont know. But it sure does explain a lot.
You can see anything you want to see, but this is a real stretch. In any event, it tells us nothing of any actual use. True or false, it does not improve real understanding of events or help make useful or accurate predictions. It is useless pseudo "knowledge."
Thanks for this timeline. I stood too long with this clown's predictions.
One with paranoia (like me) might think all of this is just some kind of entertainment program satisfying all sides of the conflict (like a circus). Meant to occupy the attention of the plebs, keeping it away from more important things like our freedoms been taking away.
Yesterday the German parliament (after 22.00, that is 10pm, rather late working hours) agreed to the WHO's taking over plan.
Also we will soon have a first test of programmable money in Germany. It's an electronic card for refugees hindering them to buy alcohol and cigarettes (alcohol from our hard earned tax payer money! Imagine that!).
Thank you for disagreeing with Scott Ritter in a very civil manner...I used to listen to him every day during the opening days of the SMO but soon I could see this was a slow motion war designed to maximize the kill rate and leave Ukraine totally devastated and at the mercy of the globalists in both the NATO countries AND Russia, et al....I'm not sure what he is trying to accomplish now....his rhetoric
has turned into pure pro-Russia propaganda...Col. McGregor's as well
Sadly the worst losers are the citizens of Ukraine a once beautiful country with rich farmland and beautiful productive people (can't have that in the NWO!!) who are suffering and dying on a daily basis....also anyone from the West that goes there and dares to give an accurate account of what is really happening (think Gonzalvo Lira)
He is controlled opposition with a track record of failure. His pedophilic tendency make him a prime candidate for being a puppet.
It's part of the spectacle and overall narrative formation. Just look at the comments here and elsewhere. Chaos and conflict is the policy,while what is important is not being discussed anywhere. This war is hugely profitable, useful in passifying Europe and brining it under control of US corporate and financial interests and is being used to justify massive increases in military spending and increased control at home. Follow the 💰💰🤑 💰🤑💰🤑🤑🤑
Edward has gone easy on Ritter by not looking back just a few weeks further and pointing out how certain Ritter (along with almost the entire alterno-sphere commentariat) was that all the talk of an impending Russian invasion was just the usual U.S. deep-state/media blob slander and fear-mongering about Putin, only to suddenly discover the SMO was both eminently justified and on the verge of total victory once it started.
more head turning than a tennis match.
The sad part is that Ukraine had it all. Land, water, energy. Topsoil measured in meters instead of inches or feet like the rest of the planet. Fresh water everywhere you turn. Hydro, coal and the second largest gas field in Europe (only Norway's is larger). Until you can figure out how to get the gas out (tight formation) they had a 30% discount on Russian gas.
Breaks my heart to see such a great opportunity pissed away. Of all the places that got out from under the Soviet yoke I was hoping for Ukraine to have a great time because of what was done to them in the 30's. Sadly they only got 2 decades of corruption and then threw it all away in 2014 siding with the west and becoming the USSA's cannon fodder.
My favourite explanation of what is going on:
https://i.postimg.cc/YCHk7Xnk/Dogs-Ukraine-Chew-Toy.png
https://i.postimg.cc/LXDN4WR1/Ukraine-Condoms.png
it is because of all of those things you list, and them being so close to Russia, that this is happening.
although USA likes to fight over bare sand and rocks, droning goat herders for 20 years, this ain't that.
Since most of those dying are Russian speakers, Washington is winning. Obama's goal and the imperial west's goal has been to reduce the slavic population so that resources can be more easily exploited, the imperialists are winning.
There are 258 milllion Russian speakers in the world. Gonna be a long long long war before that gets significantly reduced.
To put it even more simply - there were 2 million Palestinians in Gaza before Oct 7. And even with non-stop bombing and starvation etc, Israel hasn't managed to kill even 5% of them. Genocide is a lot harder than it looks.