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SS:Welcome to Savvy Sav's podcast. I'm your host, Sabrina Salvati. My special guest today is Scott Ritter. You've seen him here before. He is a former UN weapons inspector. Welcome back, Scott.
SR:Thank you very much for having me.
SS:I know these are crazy times. Um, but there is a lot happening right now in the Middle East. For those who are not aware, uh Donald Trump did just release a statement uh against uh Iran. I want to go ahead and bring in that clip here.
[President Trump issued a warning to Iran on social media Sunday, posting, "The clock is ticking and they better get moving fast or there won't be anything left of them. Time is of the essence." It came the same day the president reportedly discussed Iran in a phone call with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The ceasefire between the two countries is being thwarted again after a drone strike sparked a blaze at a nuclear power plant in the United Arab Emirates as Pakistan pushes to restart peace talks. The country's interior minister traveled to Thran over the weekend to meet with Iran's president and parliamentary speaker. This after President Trump rejected the Iranian's latest peace proposal last week. I looked at it and if I don't like the first sentence, I just throw it away. Days.]
SS:Okay, let's let's pause there and and chime in. So, um, Donald Trump is telling Iran that the clock is ticking. I I want to get your perspective on this, Scott.
SR:Well, I mean, first of all, the construct of that sentence is very is fascinating. Donald Trump is telling Iran. Um, you know, that implies that Donald Trump is in the superior position that uh Donald Trump's words mean anything and that Iran is in a listening mode. Um, let's do it this way. Iran is ignoring everything Donald Trump says because Donald Trump is irrelevant. There, now I've corrected the sentence. This is the reality. We could have the West spin it any way they want to. But there's other things that just happened. Iran just formally opened up a an entity uh to manage the straight horses. Game check match. Checkmate over. Goodbye Donnie. Nothing Donald Trump says matters because Iran has already taken the decision that it owns the straight of Hormoes and nothing will change that and there's nothing the United States can do to alter that reality. Donald Trump what he wants Iran to send its nuclear material to the United States and he's already told the pound sand isn't going to happen ever. So no one in Iran cares at all about anything Donald Trump says including the we're going to what bomb you more than the 15,000 bomb uh you know independent targeted places we hit for 37 days. What more can we do to Iran? Nothing. We're actually weaker today than we were when we started the conflict. So Donald Trump's threats are empty. The best the United States can hope for right now. And this is what they're planning uh together with Israel is a short duration strike than to pull back and declare victory because we lost. The war is over. We lost. We didn't achieve anything. No regime change, no missiles uh stunted, done away with. and straight or moves will always belong to Iran. Everything Donald Trump's doing is self-defeating. So this is just stupidity in the extreme. There's, you know, why is he doing this? I don't know. There's people who say that he's playing the market. That he'll say one extreme thing one day, one extreme thing the next day, and he's playing the market. And I have to say that I can't discount that anymore because this is one of the singularly most corrupt individuals on the planet. the Trump enterprise is, you know, the poster child for grift, for corruption, for scams. Um, that's all it is. And so, we have to stop pretending his words have any meaning other than to manipulate the market. The Iranians don't care. The other thing that he probably should have said is, "We will, you know, we warn the people he's worrying about being gone away forever is the United Arab Emirates. They will disappear. it. You know, you saw in there a drone attack against their nuclear. If Iran is attacked, Iran has already said they will eliminate the totality of the United Arab Emirates energy production capacity. They will probably target desalinization plants and power generation capabilities. Have you ever been to the Middle East, Abby? You know how hot it is right now in the Middle East? It's 50° and getting hotter every day. You can't live without air conditioning. These modern cities of Abu Dhabi and Dubai u they they they require lots of water, fresh water, which the United Airs doesn't have unless they have desalization plants. You blow up the desalization plants, no fresh water. You blow up power generation, no air conditioning. That combination is fatal for these two major urban areas. Um and then you take out oil production and that's the end of the United Ara Emirates forever. That's what's about to happen. Every expert in the world says Donald Trump can't do this attack that he's promising because to do so will destroy energy production in the Middle East for our lifetime. And that means we're taking 20% of the world's energy off the market. Um, again, not an expert, but when you start taking a look at the energy infrastructure that's out there and you reduce that energy level, refineries go out of business. Uh, it it's going to have a cascading effect. Refineries go out of business. Shipping companies go out of business. In Europe right now, the entire air air industry is about to go out of business. In the United States, you think you like to fly Delta Airlines, you won't be much longer because it won't be able to fly. American Airlines grounded. Southwest bankrupt. Um, this is the reality that we're getting into. This [ __ ] in chief is putting the safety of America and the security of the world at risk because he can't admit he started a war that he lost. We lost this war. That's it.
SS:So, it's interesting because the UAE um that attack, that drone attack that happened next to a nuclear plant in the UAE, they didn't say who they believe did that. You know, they're still not blaming anyone for it, but I did notice like corporate media, they were already getting the message out and they said it was probably Iran. You know, it it just again that's reckless language. Um, and that can lead to catastrophic events uh as well. But you're saying that the UAE would essentially be done.
SR:100%. And they've made matters worse. I don't know if people have been watching what's happening with the UAE. Um, you know, there's been uh over the course of the past decade or so, a serious um competition with Saudi Arabia. Um they're not allies. they don't like each other and they compete and they're in active conflict with one another through proxy throughout Africa, the Horn of Africa. Uh Sudan, the United Arabes, you know, lined itself with the, you know, practic practitioners of genocide. Um and you know, the the the UAE is trying to, you know, posture itself as sort of the the Middle East, Sparta. Um and they have failed across the board. Failed. So they took a big gamble in this war. You know, a lot of people don't, you know, Benjamin Daniel sort of let let the cat out of the bag where he said, "I visit the United Arab Emirates." Now, think about that. The prime minister of Israel visits the United Arab Emirates. Uh why? Well, the other thing that was let out of the bag is Israeli troops were operating on the soil of the United Arab Emirates. Uh missile defense systems were there. Um and that Israel has been working with the UAE to launch attacks against uh Iran. So this concept that the UAE is a victim is absurd in the extreme. The UAE is an active participant in this conflict. And now what's happened is we look at the security architecture that the United States once had superimposed over the region crumbling because of Iran's victory. Um Israel and the United Arab Emirates are are making sort of a radical departure. The UAE withdrew from OPEC plus. They're not part of that anymore. And the the purpose is so they can maximize oil production. Benjamin Netanyahu gave a speech the other day where he said in 10 years I don't want to be taking any American money. I want to divorce myself because he recognizes I mean Israel's at 60% of Americans don't support American policy with Israel anymore. It's a sinking ship. Um it's you know it's over for Israel here in the United States. It's just a matter of time before we ourselves close the doors. So Netanyahu was looking for an outlet. He picked the United Arab Emirates. The UAE and Israel are creating a joint partnership. And um you know, which is all fine and dandy except the little fine print. The United Arab Emirates will cease to exist if Donald Trump and Israel resumes the bombing of Iran. Now, this isn't a game that's being played. This is existential issues, matters. The Israeli UAE partnership isn't a partnership of peace. It's a partnership of war designed to do one thing, destroy Iran. And so, do you think the Iranians, now that Israel and the UAE have have acted on what they've only been whispering about in back rooms, acted on this, um, are going to say, "That's okay. We'll just let them thrive." No, the Iranians have already said this is not an unknown. They've said it. If we're attacked again, all this goes away. All of this goes away. So, there we are. And again, if for the average American, you need to understand, guys, it's not just going to be higher prices at the pump. We're talking about the collapse of the American economy. Total collapse of the American economy. We're going to have to redefine everything we do. Which is why I honestly believe that Donald Trump isn't going to attack Iran. Because even as criminally stupid as this man is, he has to know because there can't be somebody out there whispering other facts into his ear. You know, this man has always been about bluster, bluster, bluster. So, we we take that with a grain of salt. But the military has to tell him, "We can't accomplish what you want us to accomplish." I mean, we can do a seven-week campaign. We can blow a lot of things up, and they will blow up bridges and all that stuff. We'll have zero impact on Iran. zero impact on their genuine capabilities and their ballistic missile force which has been reconstituted and expanded. You know, Iraq said the other week, you know, Trump was saying we got them down to 13%. You know, the CIA came out and went, "No, really, it's like 70 75%." Then they updated it and said, "Well, it's really about 90%." And I actually the foreign minister said, "No, it's about 120%." You see, we've not only reconstituted everything that was expended during the war, we have secret underground missile production facilities that are cranking out even more advanced missiles. We're frontloaded. We're ready to rock and roll. And um all we need is u is an excuse. Don't give us the excuse because we will start not in the past is a little bit here, a little bit there. They're going to go straight 0 to 60 in 3.4 seconds.
SS;I want to show you what Lindsey Graham uh just said recently. Uh he was on uh Meet the Press. Let me go back a little bit here.
[All Sunday, GOP Senator Lindsey Graham, a staunch Trump ally, pushed for more US military strikes. Hurt them more. Maybe they'll make a deal if you hurt them enough. While Democrat]
I I just had to hear you. I had to let you hear that because uh Lindsey Graham seems to believe that the answer to this is to hurt Iran more. Interesting. But I don't see him signing up to go fight anybody. But go ahead, Scott.
SR:Don't get me started because I'm I'm trying. My my my wife has told me now that I'm a grandfather, I have to um make sure that when I appear and speak that um when my granddaughter grows up and she sees me speak on the videos um that what I say is um sound rational and not angry. And Lindsey Graham is somebody who makes me very very angry. And I am very capable of saying things that are very unkind to this man. And I wouldn't be wrong saying them, but I have to remember this will live forever in the internet. So, uh, Lindsey Graham is, um, we we know he's a wararmonger. He's been a wararmonger from from day one. He is a lawyer, which means he should know about the law of war, but he's the worst kind of lawyer because he's the kind of lawyer that perverts the cause of law uh, rather than embraces the cause of law. He doesn't um you know he he he doesn't build a foundation of a of a law-abiding citizen. He's somebody who finds the loopholes in law to allow criminals to exploit the system. And the criminal of course is the United States itself which you know functions as a nation that operates outside of the framework of international law. Um you know Lindsey Graham doesn't know violence. um you know there are some people out there who do know violence who speak irresponsibly but um most people who have experienced violence face to face um don't articulate violence the way he does. The other thing is his resume doesn't lend himself to understand what it what air power really does. Even though he was in the air force he doesn't know anything about the application of air power. had he actually learned the art of war instead of the art of how to manipulate the law. Um he would know that historically speaking for instance um Desert Storm which sort of set the uh the the the standard for uh air power I mean the air power survey after the the Gulf War air power survey uh which was put forward by the US Air Force was meant to say the United States can accomplish everything by air power alone. We don't need the ground forces anymore. Um, just a little aside, I was thrown out of um the theater in March of uh in 1991 after the war. Um, I made a lot of friends saying that we didn't destroy any Scud missiles. And I'm being facicious. I made no friends saying that, but it was the truth. And I started my own ground power survey because I was a battle damage assessment officer uh to grid out Kuwait and go in and um determine what exactly killed all the Iraqi equipment to do a piece by piece survey of the equipment how it was killed forensically and then line it up with a date date of munition delivery. And my initial results showed that the vast majority of the equipment was destroyed by ground forces, which is why the US Air Force had me arrested and thrown out of uh theater because that was not the the story they put forth. I studied um the the the air war. I was in on it from the very beginning. Um, I watched us as we bombed the hell out of Iraq and um, you know, I was one of the people that looked at photographs and I looked at a lot of photographs of a lot of buildings looking for entry points because that was the whole thing. You know, you got a photograph of what the building looks like before the bombs are dropped and you want to destroy it. And so you say, "Okay, the building this construction, this, that, and the other thing. We're going to drop this munition with this explosive effect. If we have a point of entry here, a point of entry here, blast effect here, blast effect here, we can assess the building is destroyed. Mission accomplished, throw it away. And I spent a lot of time going holes, holes, blast effect, destroyed. Holes, holes, blast. Boom. I thought we were the greatest thing in the world. Then I became a weapons inspector and I went on the ground in Iraq visiting those places in person. And what I found out is we did drop bombs on buildings and we put nice little holes in them. There was blast effect and we said we destroyed it. There was nothing in those buildings. The Iraqis had evacuated everything. And you know what happened after the war after a while? All of those buildings were rebuilt. Fresh concrete poured. Then all of the equipment that was supposed to be in those buildings when we bought them but were hidden was brought back and the Iraqi capabilities were reconstituted. Um the general um uh was it Rashid uh Amar Rashid Alubadi um he was the minister of oil but he was also the deputy minister of defense industry. Uh he did a an Iraqi survey afterwards. Um the US government has it today. They classified it. They won't release it. Um but I've seen it because he called me in because he was sort of like Scott you're always asking us this that and the other thing. Let's look at this. And he did what I was supposed to do, but he did it throughout all of Iraq. And uh bomb by bomb, building by building. We didn't destroy anything in empty buildings. But in terms of destroying things, nothing. I'm here to tell you right now, we have destroyed nothing in Iran. Nothing. Let me tell you why. We didn't achieve We achieved a surprise attack in terms of assassinating their leadership because they thought we were in the middle of a negotiation. We lied. But remember, we bombed in June. We bombed in June. And uh between June and February, the Iranians went, "This ain't over." They moved everything underground. The Parchin ballistic missile production facility, one of the largest solid rocket missile production facilities in the world outside of Thrron, was moved underground. And yet, what did we bomb? the parchion facility. You have Admiral Bradley Cooper up there for the Senate going, "We blew up this, that, we blew up this, that, and the other." Bradley, you didn't blow anything up but empty buildings. All of the production equipment was removed and put underground where the Iranians today continue to produce missiles. You killed nothing. Zero squat. This is the reality. So, what does Trump think he's going to accomplish now that the Iranians have gone even deeper underground in the inter intervening time? It's not as though the Iranians went, "Oh, the war is over. Bring everything up, boys. Put it all back into place and let's let the Americans come in and really destroy everything." They've gone even deeper. They've gone even harder. We have no chance at all to accomplish anything meaningful by attacking Iran. The war is over from the standpoint of accomplishing military objectives, geopolitically sound objectives. We can't. We've lost and it's only going to get worse if we continue to go because the ramifications of and the consequences of I guess that's the same word so I'm repeating myself ramic consequences. But the point is, if we attack Iran, there will be consequences. And it's not just energy. You know, everybody's sort of whispering about, but nobody wants to talk about what it means. What if the Iranians rip up the internet cables? They run underneath the the the the Persian Gulf and knock out all of the data transfer capacity of all of the Middle East financial institutions. You know, the Middle East where a lot of oil is and all that. You you do know what that'll do to us, right? It's the Iranians hold all the cards. We hold nothing. And our military is apparently too stupid to understand reality or the generals are so corrupt. And I I'd like to go with the corrupt thing because I was in the military and I understand the intellectual capacity of the officers, especially at the junior level. The most intelligent 11 秒conversations I've ever had were in officers club on Friday night in 29 Palms, California with my fellow lieutenants, all of whom were reading PhD level, you know, books on the art of war and on history and all this. And we're having these conversations because this was our job. This was our mission. This is our duty, our responsibility. We were pure warriors. Pure warriors. But something happens as you go up the chain of command. You stop being a pure warrior and you become a politician. And you instead of being somebody who is an expert in the art of war, you become the expert in the acquisition of war material, which is okay as long as you're trying to get the best weapons to the people who need it. But then you get caught up in defense industry and all becomes about the dollars. And then you get caught up in Congress and all becomes about the influence and suddenly the corruption is rampant. And every single one of those guys with four stars on their shoulder have sold out a long time ago. They wouldn't have become a lieutenant colonel unless they sold out. And they wouldn't have got promoted to colonel unless they sold out. And you don't get that star unless you're really sold out. And then each star that comes on is basically a sign, it signifies even greater sellout. By the time you have four of them, you are 100% corrupted by the system. So Bradley Cooper, shame on you. Shame on you. You're disgusting because you are lying to Congress. Therefore, I mean, I'm not, it's not that Congress is gonna do anything. We already know they've punted on war powers and everything, but you know, any hope we have of, you know, putting pressure on the White House comes from, you know, a separate but equal branch of government called the Congress of the United States. And Congress, once empowered with knowledge and information, may get politically motivated to take action and tell the president, "No, you're not going to do this, that, and the other thing." Bradley Cooper lied to Congress. Of course, Congress is too stupid or politically corrupt to a, you know, ask follow on questions. But I hope the American public understand that Bradley Cooper lied to them. Lied to our representatives, therefore lied to us. And they all are lying. You won't get the honest people up there. I mean, this happened before. I'm not bragging my own horn, but I was fired for telling the truth during the Gulf War. Fired by General Schwarzkov himself. fired. But fortunately, that got bounced up to Coen Pal, who is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who recognized that I was telling the truth, and they were able to push back down and get me my job back. Uh because the truth shall set you free, so to speak. Today, that doesn't happen. Today, if you tell the truth, you're fired right off the bat. You're disgraced. Donald Trump will come in and call you weak, that the other thing. Um, if anybody tries to, you know, look at Tony Aguilar and what's happened to him, the lieutenant colonel that spoke out and look at what's happened to him. He should be an American hero, but that's just not the narrative the mainstream media is going to put out there, and it's very difficult to get the truth out there. But, you know, there are honorable men and women in the military today. Almost all of them are, you know, at the lower levels, the people who are closest to the people on the ground doing the actual fighting. Um, and they deserve our full support. But the best way to support them is not to get them involved in a war that can't be won. In a war that doesn't further the national security interest of the United States at all.
SS:Well, it's interesting, too, cuz Trump did fire some of those generals. You know, it's just like anybody that goes against him, they just he just fires them. He gets rid of them. But then also, I feel like they're not telling everything that's happening either. Like, for example, a lot of people don't know this just happened. Um, so shout out to Dropside News for this one. Iranian and regional media outlets, including Iran's FARS news agency, are reporting the downing of a US MQ9 Reaper drone over Yemen's uh Marib Province, the key oil and gas region located in north central Yemen today. So, I want to show people the footage. Now, at the time that uh the claim and the footage wasn't confirmed, but it has now been confirmed. So, I'll show you uh that confirmation, but this is the footage uh they're referring to. So, you can see the wreckage uh right there. And now it it has been confirmed. And again, like I said, Trump's administration, they're hiding a lot of this information. Um according to Open Source Intelligence Monitor, wreckage visible in circulating uh photos and videos was clearly that of an MQ9. So Ansar law they did shoot down. This is a US um plane from from what I understand and nobody's talking about it Scott.
SR:Yeah. I mean it's it's an advanced version of the uh of the Reaper. Um it it carries an interesting fact on there is it carries a special unique assassination version of the Hellfire missile. Uh the Hellfire missile is a airto ground missile. Um it it reached prominence because of its anti-armour capabilities. You know, it can blow up a tank, but that means it has a warhead that goes boom. Um so you if you're going to be assassinating people with the hellfire and it goes boom, you kill a lot of innocents. And so what we've done is we've created what we call the flying ginsu knife. So basically it's a hellfire that has razor sharp project and they it fires in and they they come out they unveil they spin and if you're in the car you literally get sliced and diced. That's how we killed Kasimsulumi. There's a reason why his hand was severed from the arm on the ground with his ring on it because the flying genu came in and sliced and diced him and the other people in the car. Um we have lost those missiles. There's five of them fully intact on the ground. Now, from an intelligence perspective, not only do the Hoodi have it, but now you can know that the Iranians have it, the Iranians have it, the Russians have it, the Russians have, the Chinese have it, and they're all going to be reverse engineering this and figuring out how to do things to protect themselves from it, jam it, do whatever it wants. I mean, so this is a huge thing. But the other question is, why are we flying a Reaper with Ginsus over Yemen? uh Manab region is a contested area. Um it's it's they're there the it's the big oil production and the Saudi backed people have to go back in time 2014 um Saudi Arabia intervened on behalf of uh what they call the legal government of Yemen, the government that was overthrown by Ansalla. Um and they they came in militarily to back this government in exile and there's been a civil war being fought ever since with Saudi Arabia on the side of the one side United Arab came in but then they supported al-Qaeda. Yes, they supported al-Qaeda because that's what they do. Um and remember they're the allies of Israel supported al-Qaeda. Israel. Do you guys see connectivity here? H take it where you want. But the point is the uh the the you know they they've been fighting ever since. So now we're in there for what? These are weapons of assassination. So we were in there targeting people. Targeting people. Now I have I could speculate as as long as I want. My guess is we were targeting I Iranian revolutionary guard command um advisers who are in coordinating with um anal about what's going to happen next. And this is what should scare everybody because again you know who's going to what did Ansala do last time they shut down the Babel Nand Debb Strait. How are we getting any oil out of the Middle East right now? What we can get out of the Middle East is being shipped to the port of Yamu uh Saudi Arabian uh port on western Saudi and then shipped from Yamboo through the Red Sea through the straight the Babel Menddev Strait and on out. That's it. That's how the oil gets out. That's the only oil that gets out. We're about to lose that. And and so, you know, there's little clues in everything that happens. That's the beauty of being an intelligence officer. You get to gather information and put a and put a dot on the board and then try and connect the dots to make it make sense. Um, but you know, that's just one interpretation of why we would have an advanced MQ9 flying over Yemen with flying genus loaded on board. We're there to kill people. And you know who why do we want to stir up trouble with uh Ansella today before we attack? We're trying to kill the people that are coordinating with Ansalla. Um and we lost that drone. We lost the the missiles. It's a it's a huge intelligence failure and it's a it's a big hit for the American taxpayer. You know, we've lost a lot of MQ9s. Um the the total number of loss between the Iran war and in and Yemen is is I don't know it's over it's like 24 or something like might might even be bigger than that. But these are very expensive pieces of gear and uh we just keep they they drop like flies.
SS:I got to tell you I didn't know what some of these uh planes were until this war with the Ron started because I I you know I don't know the lingo. Um, but I I've been paying attention now cuz I know this is the second time I've seen like Reaper and and and all that stuff, but I think that the fact that Ansar Law was able to shoot it down again just goes to show you they have not they have not let down their guard regardless of what Trump says about negotiations or whatever. Like they know the US is probably going to try to, you know, screw over Iran in some way, shape or form. So it just and and they're powerful for those who are not aware like Ansarah is no joke.
SR:No, the Saudis are are are scared to death of of them. Again, the studying the history, a lot of southern Saudi Arabia on the border of Yemen used to be part of Yemen and was stolen from Yemen by Saudi Arabia. And the Yemen government, the Ensurala is like that really belongs to us and we may actually go and take it back. That might be something. I remember during the Gulf War, during Desert Storm, um you know, when when you know, Iraq came into Kuwait and uh and we started sending American troops up north to you know, at first we were just the speed bumps because we didn't have too much. So you Seventh Marine Amphibious Brigade, what are we going to do Marines? We're going to die on the road. Speed bumps. try and slow them down because we didn't have then we reinforced and and were able to stabilize it. But during the speed bump period, we're we keep looking to the Saudis going, "Hey, uh why don't you take some of the units you have down there on the Yemen border and like bring them up here and help us be prepared in case the Iraqis decide to make a move?" And they're like, "No, because Yemen was aligned with Iraq." Um and they, you know, they were they were on the safe side. I as a weapons inspector, you know, we found evidence that Gimmit had provided, for instance, an SS21 launcher uh to the Iraqis together with a missile that the Iraqis were seeking to reverse engineer. It's the shows the relationship between the two. Um and the Saudis were like, uh-uh. Because the moment we move up there, Yemen, which is a very populous nation, by the way, people need to look at that. They'll in the Yemen, they're not afraid of anything. They don't they they don't back down and they could come surging forward and they could occupy Riad before you blink an eye. The Saudis are scared to death of of of the Yemenes. So, um you know, it's a very complicated history about what what's going on right there. Uh people sometimes think it's only about Iran with their Yee proxies and all that. It's far more complicated than that. It's got a lot of, you know, intricacies, uh etc. But um uh the Saudi Arabia is scared to death of Yemen. And if this thing becomes a regional conflict, for instance, if if if if Iran is able to do significant harm to Saudi Arabia so that you get societal disruption, which is a big possibility in the eastern provinces, uh the majority of the population is Shia. Uh and the in the and Saudi is extraordinarily worried about the Shia rising up. So let's say you get the Shia rising up. Saudi Arabia now has to move in to secure their oil fields and they divert resources away from the Yemen border and the Yemenes decide to make a march. They can take the southern provinces no problem. But what happens if they decide to go all the way to Riad and there's nothing to stop them. I the the this this region is not as well defined as people think. I don't know how many, you know, what percentage of your audience knew about the Israeli United Arab Emirates alliance and how that has radically transformed the region, but we also have to keep in mind Yemen. It's sort of the sleeping ghost in there in the story of very powerful. They can not only shut down the Baba Mendde, but they can um they can threaten Saudi Arabia existentially.
SS:Yeah. Um and and people just can't sleep on them. Like that's I agree with you. Like that's my whole point there. I want to get your take on this, Scott. Um, so I I don't know if you've been keeping up with this, uh, but Thomas Massie has a big, uh, campaign, uh, race that is, uh, the election is Tuesday, and I I don't know if you saw this, but Pete Hegseth has been sent to Kentucky to basically campaign with Ed uh, Gower, and we call him Ed the Fed over here, uh, to go against Thomas Massie. I was under the impression that under the Hatch Act, a a federal government official cannot go and campaign uh for someone. And I I I don't know, correct me if I'm wrong, but I feel like a lot of people aren't calling this out. Like, why is he even allowed to be there? And I want to get your take on this, like this type of energy and all this money that's been put in this race uh to try to get Thomas Massie to lose.
SR:Well, what's interesting is Thomas Massie is a um is a representative from a very small district in Kentucky. Um you know, there's not too much power and influence that comes out of this part of Kentucky. Um I don't think there's any major defense contractors located there. I don't think they um have a major distillery there. Uh I think it's just a a nice little district full of good Kentucky civilians, which is why it makes it dangerous. You see, it's an uncorrupted piece of Americana. It's a place where American citizens uh actually allow um the the values that are instilled in all of us. You know, I'm often critical of of my government and I know you are too. But I love the American people. I mean, I I'm critical of the American people, too. I'm critical of myself. I'm critical of my friends. When you need to improve, you need to improve. Um, and American people have to do a better job about this thing we call democracy and the role we play. But I will say it this um there's very few places in America that um if I if my car broke down, I would say nobody's going to stop to help me. In fact, when you get outside of the big cities, um it's almost 100% certainty that people are going to stop and help you. They will take the shirt off their back. They will change the tire. They will drive you. They will help you get they will take money out of their wallet and give it to you if you know to help you out because the American people are fundamentally good people. We're we we are we make mistakes and we empower people to make bigger mistakes in in our name. But the the average American's a good person and I don't care what color you are, what your religion is. If you're imbued with American values, the American values are we we do we help people. This is what we're supposed to do. And so Thomas Massie comes from a district of Americans who say we believe in doing the right thing. And therefore he is empowered by his constituents to defend doing the right thing. Um and he only has to worry about getting reelected from his constituents. He doesn't have to worry about big business and all this kind of stuff, which is why he got elected and it's why he does what he does and it's why he's so dangerous to somebody like Donald Trump and the rest of Congress, especially the Republican establishment, the Democrats as well, who have sold out, totally sold out to special interests and power politics and and all this kind of stuff. Thomas Massie has become the voice of the American conscience. And so when Thomas Massie speaks, people who are up there with the corrupt 1% are going, "Well, we can't have people listening to this." Because if enough Americans listen to what Thomas Massiey's saying, they're going to go, "Wait a minute. He's sort of right and these guys are wrong." Thomas Massie is one of the most dangerous people in America today. If you're a traditional status quo American politician, especially a Republican, especially a Republican aligned with Donald Trump, who again, as we said at the beginning, is one of the most corrupt grifters ever to walk the face of the earth, let alone occupy the White House. And so now they need to they need to get rid of him. Um, you know, I haven't met a perfect person in in the world yet. Have you, Savvy? I don't know. I mean, no. Have we met a perfect person?
SS:No.
SR:There's not a single one of us who can say, "I've never made a mistake. I've never done something wrong. I've never, you know," and we're all full of things we're like, "That's pretty embarrassing. Wouldn't want to talk about that." Um, which is okay. That's why we have, you know, freedom. You know, we're allowed to privacy. We have we have privacy. I don't know about Thomas Massiey's personal life. And to be honest, I don't care about Thomas Massiey's personal life. Uh, it's none of my business. Um, but I also know this because I've lived through it firsthand. You make a mistake and they will jump on that and they will exaggerate that. They will do it. They will make it. You stub your toe and it and suddenly it is that you kicked 15 babies and 26 old ladies. No, I just stubbed my toe. No, no, no. You're now a baby kicker. Oh, no. You know, and I don't know about Thomas Massie. There's there's different sides of the story. I'd like to believe, you know, the good stuff, but whatever it is, he's committed no crimes. You know, nobody's accused him of committing a crime. What people are saying is he maybe had bad judgment. Well, again, get in line. But I'm not saying it's true. I'm just saying who cares. He is an elected representative who is the conscience of his constituency and the things he talks about when it comes to policy resonate with the with the good American people and they're trying to silence him. And the moment you have somebody not talking about the policy statements of Thomas Massie, but the fact that he may have, you know, taken a photograph with this person while this person, who knows and who cares? I don't. And the fact that the people attacking Thomas Massie are supporters of Donald Trump, one of the biggest philanderers the world's ever seen and a man who was accused of raping 13-year-old girls. Credible accusations. Credible accusations. Um, really guys, this is crazy. So now you have Pete Haggedith, an alcoholic philandering woman. Why the hell would they send Pete Hedges to Kentucky to go after Thomas Massie? It's not as though he's going to stand there and say, "I am a gleaming statue of virtuosity. I am Mr. Virtue." No, you're a drunk philandering piece of crap, Pete. That's all you are. And so, you know, this is crazy. I hope that the constituents of, you know, Pete of of of Thomas Massie understand what's happening here. This is an attack on the soul of America. Thomas Massie is pure from the standpoint of corrupt politics. Thomas Massie tries to do the right thing. Um, and the people of Kentucky from his district elected him to do the right thing. and now he's being held accountable for doing the right thing. I certainly hope that the amount of money that's been poured in there and the amount of attention. Um, you know, unfortunately, money corrupts everything. I mean, that's it's it's the root of all evil. I mean, sometimes the Bible does give us some uh some good guidance and uh you know, money is the root of all evil. Uh avoid money. I'm not saying I'm perfect, but I will tell you this. I think I'm probably the only person that turned down a $6 million bribe from Paul Wolawitz uh to sell out Saddam Hussein um you know back in 1998. All I had to do is saddam say Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction. There's a $6 million but dollar bribe on the table. Paul Wolfwoods backed up by everybody else. And if I had taken that, who knows where I'd be today? Lots of money. Uh I' I'd be on the big TV shows. I be all this stuff. But you know, money corrupts everything. Stay away from the money and stay true to your principles. Thomas Massie has stayed away from the money. He stayed true to his principles. And we, the people of the United States, owe it to him to not punish him for that. And it's important that his constituents stand up and do the right thing by Thomas Monday uh by by Thomas Massie on uh on primary day.
SS:Yeah. I told everybody uh yesterday I said it's Thomas Massie or the Epstein class because uh it was brought to my attention Lauren Bobart said this at his rally that one one of the billionaires that's in the Epstein files donated just recently to Thomas Massiey's opponent. Like this is insane.
SR:Straight up straight. They're not even hiding it. They're not even hiding it. I mean again I you know I said if you want to talk to somebody about Epstein file talk to Ryan Dawson. Don't talk to me because I I I don't know as much as everybody. But, you know, here's the here's the thing. For somebody who has assiduously tried to stay away from the Epstein files and that whole story because it was just, you know, I'm a foreign policy guy. I'm a military guy. I'm a national security guy. You can't stay away from it because it's everywhere. It come it's it's launched back. It's like it's it's it's like, you know, acid reflux. You want it to sting in your stomach, but it keeps coming up, you know, and that's Epsi that just keeps coming up. So, you can't ignore it no matter how hard you try. And I have tried so hard to not talk about it because I find it to be a distraction from, you know, figuring out what the Iranian government's doing, figuring out what Russia's doing, Ukraine's doing. I don't want to hear about it, but it's everywhere. The Epstein case and people who are involved in the Epstein case is permeated in every throughout the fabric of America today. This is the sad reality. You know, it you often listen to the propaganda of the other side. You know, I mean, this is operation, you know, I forget what the Iranians call it instead of um I don't what we fury or whatever the ultimate fury or you know what it's Epstein and they're right. This is a distra you you have to understand now that almost everything that's being done is being done for political reasons for this president. And it used to be when you talk about politics, it's the economy, stupid. You know, Bill Clinton taught us that lesson and it that's still very much true. But it's now it's Epstein stupid. Epstein is everywhere. Everywhere. I mean, and you can't avoid. And it's this is what's disgusting about it because the more you learn about it, the more you realize it literally is everywhere. Yeah. Everywhere. It's in the banking industry. It's in everything. I I I mean, since we're here, if you don't mind, I I I was invited out to dinner um last summer um by uh guys who were involved in security and uh one of the guys there was a very senior uh retired New York City detective. Um very senior. And these are good guys. These are salt of the earth guys, you know. I don't know if you'd like them because they're they're from a certain policeoriented um you know cops are right kind of kind of attitude, but they're I they're honest guys and and you know me um I mean I have conversations with guys and we we butttheads on things but we butttheads as colleagues, as friends, as people who are allowed to disagree. But this guy, we we we we had a couple drinks. this guy started talking about the reality of New York City. ou know, for instance, a lot of cops and a lot of people, they do security work for for for bars um and for clubs. And he told about a security job that he did. And long story short, there was underage sex ring taking place right there in the club. Um they they they you know, and and and he basically said, "Shut it down or I walk. I'm not going to do security for this at all. I mean, it's it's and all that. But the point is, it's everywhere in New York City. It's everywhere in Boston. It's everywhere. It's right in our face. And we just ignore it. And this is what I hope the Epstein files does. I hope not only do we convict everybody in Washington DC that deserves to be convicted, but as a society, we need to just clean up our act. We we need to stop having to allow limousines to drop off, you know, 15 and 16 year old girls to club and pass them off as if they're, you know, 21 so that rich men could come in, sit down and bid on them and then take them away in the limousines because that's the gig that was happening. And that gig apparently when I mean the sad thing is he shut it down but it just transfers to another place.
SS:Yep.
SR:because it's all about the money. The amount of money that people are willing to pay for this kind of stuff is apparently outrageous. Anyways, I I went in the direction I didn't want to go, but it it is what it is, man. It's it's bad. It's bad.
SS:I want to pivot to Russia for just a second because um there are some things that are happening in Moscow. Uh this video is making the rounds. uh Moscow after a Ukrainian attack. And this looks like this is city center?
SR:It's huge. I can't see the buildings around it. So, you know, there's a lot of in in Moscow. There's a lot of um you know, it's a big city, first of all, and it's surrounded by um I mean, you live in Boston. U looking at the buildings there.
SS;That's it. It doesn't look like a place that's acceptable to to attack. Like Ukraine will pay will pay a heavy price for this.
SR:Um there's there's no doubt about that. But I don't think that's city center. I don't think that's I don't see any landmark buildings. I don't see, you know, it it's when you get around Moscow, you get um it's like Boston, you know, Boston itself and then you have Cambridge and you have, you know, other places around. But for people like me, I go, "Oh, that's all Boston, the greater Boston area." You you have the greater Moscow area. And so there's different um cities that are in and you know, suburban, not suburban, urban areas that attach themselves to Moscow, to the greater Moscow district. And so these drones come in. Um there's there's heavy air defense all around, layered air defense. Um, and the vast majority of these drones were shot down, but you get a leaker every once in a while. And the leakers are hitting apartments and they're hitting these sorry, but they didn't leak into the city center, but apparently they they got close to Sheretto, shut it down, the major airport, um, major disruption. Um, you know, I can't speak for the for the Russian government, but um, I would imagine that this is not a sustainable um, you know, model of operation. Uh, and it's not just this. I mean, Zalinsky calls them his long range sanctions. Um, you know, and and the Russians have historically been pretty good at dismissing, you know, Zillinski's words as propagandistic tripe. Um, not to be, you know, you don't let it influence your policies. Um, but some of these long-range sanctions are starting to strike Russia's strategic depth and they're having a meaningful impact on, you know, things that are important to Russia, like their um the ability to export oil. Uh, depending on whose assessments you have out there, between 10% and 20% of Russia's oil export capacity has been impacted by these long range sanctions. This isn't a sustainable model. It's not something Russia can just say, "Don't worry about it." Uh when I was in there in Russia in November, I spoke to somebody who's with the state Duma on the committee of that deals with the security of energy infrastructure against drone attacks and uh talked to he said yeah that the Ukrainians every once hit a target and uh it looks big you know boom but the Russians were able to you know clamp clamp it off repair it get the facility back up and running in very short order. So it had no it had a propagandistic effect, meaning the Ukrainians could show the photograph and say, "Oh, look what we're doing." But realistically speaking, the Russians were like, "Nope, not a big deal." This they can't write out there. There are things happening today because of these. The Ukrainians are getting bigger drones, better drones, more powerful drones that are produced outside of Ukraine, by Germany, by Great Britain, um, by Denmark, uh, by the Czech Republic, by others. Uh, they're they use guidance and control equipment provided by the Germans. Uh, and they incorporate intelligence provided by the United States, the CIA, and NATO. and that they combined and then they use corridors of invulnerability meaning that they launch from Ukraine, fly through Poland, then through the Baltics so they can strike uh St. Petersburg or they fly through the Caspian Sea up through Kazakhstan so they can strike the Russian interior. Um you know because the Russians layer their defense where you normally expect the drones to come in. This is creating an unsustainable thing. ou know, back in 2023, I believe, um a gentleman named Sergey Kardaganov, who is um a very very um influential political scientist uh who has known connectivity with Vladimir Putin. He advises the Kremlin, he advises the Russian ministry at the highest levels. He wrote a he wrote an article in which he talked about the need to preemptively use nuclear weapons against NATO and Europe because of the fact that the war in Ukraine had stopped being a Russian Ukrainian conflict become a Russian conflict against the collective west that the collective west was actively trying to destroy Russia. And we know Lloyd Austin said our job is to you know we want to strategically defeat Russia and NATO has made that theirs. And so he said well that if they want to play that game then let's just strategically defeat them. let's go in and hit them. And he said the gamble is that if we strike Europe with a nuclear weapon, um the United States will not trade. And don't take this personally, but he said Boston proposing that if we blew we being Russia blew up posnum with a nuclear weapon. No American president is willing to have to to retaliate knowing that the price would be Boston or New York City or something else. Um that was the big gamble. Vladimir Putin at that time said, "Well, I don't I don't endorse what Sergey Caragano is saying. That is not Russian policy." But the problem is it resonated with so many people that in 2024, Vladimir Putin appointed Sergey Karaganov to the head of the consulting um that was being done to reformulate Russia's strategic deterrent doctrine, how to deter enemies from attacking Russia. And in 2025, last year, Russia published a new strategic doctrine, nuclear doctrine written by Keraganov that said, "If nuclear powers provide conventional military assistance to a non-uclear nation to strike Russia's strategic depth, we will treat that as an attack by nuclear powers on Russia, and we will respond with nuclear weapons." So, we're right back to where we started. And this is now the official policy of Russia. The official policy. So, what is happening today? Nuclear powers, France, Great Britain, NATO, the United States are providing conventional military capabilities to Ukraine, a non-uclear power, to strike the strategic depth of Russia. Russia now doctrinally can use nuclear weapons. And so the question is are they going to cross that Rubicon? Are they going to say let's do it? And Keranov is saying we don't need to do it upfront. What we need to do is strike Europe with the archnik. And we all know about the archnic and there's an arric 2.0 and there's all this stuff. Um, and we need to take out the facilities that are building these drones and we need to signal send a signal to the European people and European governments that it's no longer a free ride. And if you don't get the message, then we will hit you with nuclear weapons. And that's where we are today. Just today, Belerus, Belerus is doing full-scale um training of their nuclear arsenal that was given to them by the Russians. They're training to use nuclear weapons right now as we speak. Um, and the Ukrainians just continue to do stupidity such as this. You know, people need to understand Ukraine has lost this war. Ukraine cannot win this war. It's fiction to think they can't otherwise. And what Ukraine is doing right now is turning this loss instead of accepting defeat gracefully, they're trying to bring down Russia. And Russia was big enough just to wipe that off and say, "We don't care about the propaganda. we just care about the final result. But they now with the help of the collective west have found that scene that is doing existential harm to Russia. So Russia has no choice but to respond. The Russians warned the Ukrainians leading up to the May the victory day celebration on May 9th. If you attack Moscow, we will take Kiev out. The decision-making centers of Kiev will be taken out. Five times they made that warning. Now the Ukrainians didn't attack Moscow. And a lot of people are saying, "Well, that means the warning's over." I've actually reached out to several people in Russia who were very close to Sergey Keraganov and other decision makers and asked the question, is the threat still standing given what else is happening? And they answered honestly. They said it should be, but we don't know. We don't know because it's that's conversations are being held. But here's the big question. Do we want to find out? I mean, again, these are questions that American people need to understand. Let me put it this way. If any new major nuclear power today uses a nuclear weapon, the world will end as we know it. It's a guarantee. Why? You say, "Well, what if Kagano is right? They hit polls and then America goes, "No, we ain't going to sacrifice Boston. Sorry, Europe. You just lost the city. You may want to do what the Russians want them to do." That's fine. But now put yourself in the American's shoes. Russia just changed fundamentally strategic nuclear deterrence doctrine concepts. It's no longer premised on what it currently is, which is nuclear wars cannot be won. Therefore, nuclear weapons can never be used. By using a nuclear weapon, you're saying, "I have weapons I am willing to use and have used, and therefore you must sit up and listen to me." And if you're a nation that has nuclear weapons, but you haven't demonstrated the ability to use them, you're at a disadvantage. The Russians now have escalatory dominance. So what do we do? We have to nuke another n. We have to nuke a nation. Now, we're not going to nuke Russia. We'll nuke Iran. We'll nuke some other nation close to Russia. And then we start that exchange. It might be a slow exchange unfolding over months, maybe years. Boom. Boom. 秒Boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom boom. Every computer simulation ends the same way. One nuclear weapon's used and eventually all nuclear weapons are used. This is the danger. We need to stop this madness right now. We need to stop pushing the Russians to where they believe that the only option they have left available to them is preemptive use of nuclear weapons to stop the collective west from empowering Ukraine to do existential harm to Russia.
SS:And that leads me to the the Sarmat um situation. I saw that speech from Vladimir Putin where he basically said that he's tried and that he is looking to advance in in nuclear weapons. And I was like, whoa. Because I felt like it was just a week or two ago, Vladimir Putin said that this conflict with Ukraine is going to be wrapping up shortly. I think it was about a week or two ago. And then now it went from that to this. I was like, what is going on? What did I miss? So,
SR:well, wrapping up, a lot of people misunderstood that because um wrapping up means Russia wins. Meaning that it's not that Russia compromises, Russian negot wrapping up means we're going to win this thing. It's over. Um it's done. But here's the thing. In 2016, I believe right after the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum, which is happening in less than two weeks, um big thing. And if Ukraine attacks the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum. It's all over. All over. It'll that's that's it. And these people are stupid enough to think that they can't attack it to send a message to Russia. Russia will send a message which is called we erase Ukraine. Um and maybe erase Europe in the process. But um 2016 Vladimir Putin said, you know, we're very worried about the United States. Um you know, we have the New START treaty, but was negotiated in bad faith. you've withdrawn from the anti-bballistic missile treaty and now you're starting to install missile defense systems throughout Europe. Um, and you guys have to understand this is a threat to us and if you don't change what you're doing, we have to take action. So far, we've held off taking action, but we will have to take action if you don't change what you're doing. Well, we didn't change what we're doing. 2018, this is a speech I believe you were referring to. Putin delivers a presentation, his annual presentation to the Federal Assembly, um, in which he says, "Okay, because the United States has, you know, behaved the way they have, um, we're developing all new weapons. We're developing the Bureau, a nuclearpowered cruise missile. We're developing the Avanguard, a hypersonic maneuvering re-entry vehicle that can be loaded on uh different weapon systems. We're developing the Poseidon, which is a giant nuclear torpedo that uh will be fired and just go dormant off the coast of the United States, England, whatever. And when it blows up, it sends a huge tidal wave of destruction over the entire east coast. Boston would cease to exist thanks to Poseidon. Um and we're developing the Sarmat. The Sarmat is a heavy ICBM that u not only I mean the amount of destruction power just on the ICBM itself can take out France. one missile. Um, but now it doesn't fly the normal way you want it to fly. Sarmach can go around the world the other way, meaning that it comes in from behind our defenses. Uh, Sarmach can go into what they call a fractional orbital system, meaning that it goes into orbit continuously. Um, that means it can come down any place and you can't defend it because it's not coming in. If your defenses are here and Sarmat's coming in here, you can shoot it down. But if your defenses are here and Sarmat's coming down here, you can't shoot it down. or if your defense is here, focus this way and Sarmat comes in this way, you can't shoot it down. Sarmat can not only do traditional ballistic trajectory, but because of advances in solid rocket motor technology, the Russians can actually do it and do it this way. So, it's not flying in a parabola, it's flying this way, and it can't be shot down. And then you know it and it's it was tested a couple times and there was a big dramatic failure and all the west picked up on it because the Sarmat came out of its silo and went boom because you know you know that that that uh advances in solid rocket motor propulsion I've talked about it's cutting edge. What happens when you do cutting edge stuff? Every once a while you get it wrong. You test it. That's why you do a test. So the Russians are testing this cutting edge stuff and it glitched. Boom. Everybody, ah, the Russians suck. No, the Russians are actually pretty damn good, the best in the world at this. And they fixed the glitch and they just tested it and it works like a champ. And now by the end of the year, Russia will have an operational regiment of Sarmat. That's nine Sarmats. We can't shoot down. Each one of them is capable. One is capable of destroying a nation. And that's just the beginning. They will have more Sarmats and more Sarmats and more Sarmats. Um, this the BureSnik is operational. Russia now has a cruise missile nuclearpowered that can fly unlimited distance. That means it can just fly around and go into loitering mode forever because it's nuclearpowered. And strike can't shoot it down. It'll come in from a direction you can't do. You know, when we fire a cruise missile, we we're limited by range. And so, you know, our ships have to be closed or our airplanes have to be close and we have to fire and depending on the range we can hit certain targets. There's targets we can't hit. Beerus Vestnik can hit any target in the world and you can't shoot it down. The Yars hasn't been tested. I mean, hasn't been testing combat. KV may find out because I think uh the Yars may be used with the non-uclear avanguard. Av on guard again a hypersonic missile maneuvers in can't be shot down hits the ground with high kinetic energy will take out an entire block. Um then add on to that uh we withdrew from the uh INF treaty in 2019 that caused the Russians to say well gosh guys we don't want to do this but if you do anything stupid like deploy INF systems into Europe we'll have to go back to building INF. We had a exercise in Denmark where we brought in an INF system and you know part of the exercise the Russians went well don't say we didn't warn you next thing you know you have a rnik today a rashnik is a intermediate range system it can strike all of Europe um non- nuclear warheads which means Russia now has additional escalatory dominance remember Sergey Caraganov's concept strike Europe first with a rnik that's an escalation that cannot be matched by the west strike them and say we are dominant. If you don't yield to our dominance at that point, we go nuclear and that it'll be tactical nuclear, but now you have to go strategic nuclear to respond and we guarantee we will kill everybody. Um, you know, so Russia has three layers of escalation dominance in in play today. All because of the stupidity of the United States and the stupidity of Europe. We don't know how to live in peace with people. We can't accept that. We must be dominant. We must be the winners. We had to expand NATO. We have to, you know, suppress Russia. We have to be the dominant power in the world. Vladimir Putin doesn't want to be the dominant power in the world. He's never aspired to that. The proof is in Ukraine where everybody says, "Well, look, he went to Ukraine. That speech on May 9th, interesting speech. One of the things he said is um you know after the Russians initiated the special military operation and had their troops around Kiev. Well, we now know because of an earlier presentation that the they weren't there to conquer Kiev. They were there just to get the Ukrainians to the negotiating table. And the the the fiction is that Ukraine was never going to accept this uh this treaty. It was forced on them. Well, Trump Putin just released a new fact that the Ukrainians were going to accept the treaty. McRone called up Putin and said they can't accept it with a gun to their head. Meaning you can't accept the Ukrainians to sign this document which is in effect saying, you know, everything they want NATO membersh won't happen with a gun to their head. And Putin said, "Okay, we'll withdraw our troops from Kiev." Everybody said that the Ukrainians defeated the Russians, that the Russians retreated from Kiev. Emanuel Mcronone made a phone call, told Putin, "The Ukraines are ready to sign, but they can't sign with a gun to their head." So Putin took the gun away from their head. And then Boris Johnson flew in and got them to rip up the treaty and everybody declared victory. Part of the propaganda that is spewing around. Um Russians wanted peace the whole time. And the peace agreement that they were going to sign with the pistol to the head would have returned Keron Zaparisia to Ukraine. The two territories that create the land bridge between Crimea and the Donbass would have been returned. Russia never had any intent to keep them would returned all the territories that they that they occupied. the Donbass would be independent because that's the will of the people of the Donbass of Lugansk and Donetsk. Um, and then it would be up to them to decide where they wanted to go. Crimea, even though it remained Russian, the Russians were like, "We recognize there's a historical link to Ukraine and we're willing to negotiate Ukrainian influence or presence in Crimea. It's on the table. We're not It's the most reasonable approach." And compare and contrast that with where the Russians are today. Unconditional surrender. Everything belongs to us. We turned our back on a great deal. Um, you know, the point is in the west we we treat Russia as an enemy when the last thing Russia is is an enemy. What what enemy gives you a chance to not do something stupid? I mean, Vladimir Putin said, "Don't do this in 2016. Don't be stupid. We don't want to do this." 2018, you made us do this, but we can still undo it. And today, too late. It's all there. you made us do this. It's not like Russia said, "Oh, we want to dominate Europe, so we're going to do all this." Russia gave us every chance to deescalate, to walk back. And that's the chance we have today. We have to tell the Ukrainians the war is over. You're not going to win. And what you're trying to do right now is, you know, create a a conflict between NATO and Russia where you believe NATO is going to ride in like the cavalry to save you. That isn't going to happen. that NATO lacks the capacity. The United States isn't going to back NATO up. Um, there is no hope and we're not going to let you take everything down with you. We need to bring this war to an end. You have lost. Europe needs to accept that. The United States needs to accept that. And Russia is not going to be moving on Poland or anybody else. Russia just wants peace. We go back to the original purpose of the special military operation to get Ukraine to the negotiating table to sign a pe a a lasting peace deal and that was a lasting peace deal that wasn't taking territory from Ukraine.
SS:Well, Scott Ritter, thank you. Thank you so much for your time again. Crazy times we're living in.
SR:Yep. Thank you very much. I would just say look, I'm I'm heading back to Russia in lesson two. I'm going to that St. Petersburg international.com before and um if if people want to support this work just go to my website skyrader.com and there's a donate button. Um nothing happens for free. I get I've just been attacked on the internet again by people who accuse me of taking Russian money. I take no Russian money. I pay for everything myself. Uh but the only way I can pay for it is through donations. So if if people think the work is important, please go and uh and donate. I'd appreciate any support you can provide.
SS:Yeah. Just let everybody know uh people do that. They've been saying that about a lot of people. They were saying that about a lot of people. They're attacking Max Blumenthal right now, too.
SR:Yeah. I I saw that a you know, look, they're going to come after you. They're going to come after us all. I mean, the point is this is this is the Thomas Massie effect. When you're over target and your bombs are having an impact, your truth bombs are having an impact, there's going to be flack coming your way. And um you know, that's the way it is. So, take it as a sign of pride. If people come after you, it's like, "Yeah, okay. That must mean I'm doing something right. Thomas Massiey's doing something right. Max Blumenthal is doing something right. You're doing something right. And I'd like to believe I'm doing something right.
SS:All right, Scott. Thank you so much. Thanks for having me. Hey guys, this was a savvy clip. If you like what you saw, hit that like button and subscribe.
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