Russia is Winning in Ukraine, but War Should Have Been Avoided: Scott Ritter
Scott Ritter sits down with Gerald Celente to discuss Russian invasion
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WHO: Scott Ritter, the former U.S. Marine intelligence officer and ex-U.N. weapons inspector sat down with Gerald Celente, publisher of The Trends Journal, for a candid interview about the Ukraine War.
Ritter has been called by the New York Times “the loudest and most credible skeptic of the Bush administration’s contention that Saddam Hussein’s government was hiding weapons of mass destruction.”
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HISTORY OF TENSION: (RITTER) “Russia has been speaking out about this [NATO EXPANSION]. In 2007, Vladimir Putin gave what I considered to be one of the greatest political speeches in modern history. And that was his address before the Munich Security Council, where he was supposed to be brought in as an act of surrender. The West expected him to bow down before his Western masters, to kiss the ring of his overlords and start playing the game of becoming assimilated into the West. Instead, Putin stood there in front of an audience of Western power brokers and he chastised them.”
WHO’S WINNING? (RITTER) “It’s a complex operation, the Ukrainian military is very professional, they’re well-trained, led…they’re putting up a heck of a fight…this is not easy; this is difficult…but the Russians are winning. And they’re on the verge of winning a decisive victory that I think will achieve all of their political objectives in the not-too-distant future.”
WAR IS STUPID: After serving in Iraq, Ritter said he returned to the country as an inspector.
“And I get off the airplane, and there’s the enemy. Except, damn it, they’re nice people. They have senses of humor, they care about their families, they love their families…they love their country. They laugh, they cry, they weep…the whole thing. And you just realize at that point in time just how stupid war is. How utterly wasteful and stupid war is…because the people that you’re trying to kill one day are literally – if you look in the mirror – they’re you. They just happen to live in another part of the world.”
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