RITTER: Up Next for Ukraine is Unconditional Surrender

Ukraine will escalate before the U.S. election in hopes to get Russia to respond in a way to pull the West into the fight

Scott Ritter, the former UN weapons inspector, said in an interview published Sunday that despite Kyiv’s bluster and push for more weapons, the war’s outcome is inevitable.

“The only thing waiting for Ukraine is unconditional surrender,” he told the “Dialogue Works” podcast. “The West cannot accept that.”

He said the West could have as many emergency conferences as it wants, but not a single one will change the circumstances on the battlefield.

“Every day the situation gets worse for Ukraine; every day the situation gets worse for Europe. And, at some point in time, this reality will hit home so that even the European Union, the NATO propagandists — when they come together in a forum — they can't even lie themselves anymore. “

Ritter likened that moment to a scene in the 2005 movie “Downfall,” when Adolf Hitler, played by Bruno Ganz, was repositioning imaginary units and was told these troops no longer exist.

Ukraine on Tuesday carried out a drone attack on Moscow, killing one in what CNN called its biggest attack yet on the capital. The Trends Journal has said for weeks that Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky will try to escalate the war before the U.S. presidential election. He hopes that Moscow responds in a way that would draw the West into the conflict.

At least one person was killed in the attack.

Zelensky has been appealing to the U.S. to provide long-range missiles to strike targets deep inside Russia. U.S. officials told Reuters on Tuesday that Washington is close to signing an agreement for such a shipment, but it first needs to iron out some of the technical issues.

Three sources told the outlet that sending JASSMs to Ukraine “could significantly alter the strategic landscape of the conflict by putting more of Russia in range of powerful, precision-guided munitions, an important concern of the Biden administration.”