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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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BREAKING! US Drone SHOT DOWN! w/Scott Ritter
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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.
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BREAKING! US Drone SHOT DOWN! w/Scott Ritter
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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.
SS:サヴィー・サヴのポッドキャストへようこそ。ホストのサブリナ・サルヴァティです。本日の特別ゲストはスコット・リッターです。ここで彼を見たことがあるだろう。彼は元国連兵器査察官です。お帰り、スコット。
SR:お招きいただき、本当にありがとうございます。
SS:今は本当に大変な時代だと分かっています。ええと、でも今中東では多くのことが起きています。ご存じない方のために説明すると、ドナルド・トランプはイランに対して声明を発表しました。そのクリップをここに持ってきてほしい。
[トランプ大統領は日曜日にソーシャルメディアでイランに警告を発し、「時間は刻々と迫っている。彼らは早く動かなければ、何も残らないだろう」と投稿した。時間が勝負なんだ。」これは、大統領がイスラエルのベンヤミン・ネタニヤフ首相と電話でイランについて話し合ったと報じられた同じ日に起きた。パキスタンが和平交渉の再開を推進する中、アラブ首長国連邦の原子力発電所でドローン攻撃が火災を引き起こしたことで、両国間の停戦は再び妨害されています。同国の内務大臣は週末にスランを訪れ、イラン大統領と議会議長と会談した。これは先週、トランプ大統領がイランの最新の和平提案を拒否した後のことである。見てみて、最初の文が気に入らなければ捨ててしまう。数日間。】
SS:では、ここで一旦立ち止まって、意見を聞いてください。つまり、ドナルド・トランプはイランに時間が刻々と迫っていると言っているのです。スコット、君の意見を聞きたい。
SR:まず第一に、その文の構成は非常に興味深いものです。ドナルド・トランプはイランに伝えている。ええと、それはドナルド・トランプが優越的な立場にあり、彼の言葉が意味を持ち、イランが耳を傾けるモードにあることを示唆しています。えっと、こうしよう。イランはドナルド・トランプの発言をすべて無視している。なぜなら、ドナルド・トランプは無関係だからだ。さて、文を訂正しました。これが現実です。西側諸国に好きなように話をねじ曲げさせることはできる。でも、他にも起こったことがある。イランは正式に、ええと、ストレートホースを管理する組織を設立しました。ゲームチェックマッチ。チェックメイト完了。さようなら、ドニー。ドナルド・トランプの発言は意味を持ちません。なぜならイランはすでにホルモス海峡を所有すると決めており、それを変えることは何もできず、アメリカがその現実を変えることはできないからです。ドナルド・トランプはイランに核物質をアメリカに送ることを望んでいますが、すでにポンドサンドは二度と実現しないと言っています。だからイランでは、ドナルド・トランプの発言に全く関心がありません。例えば、「私たちはあなた方を爆撃する」というよりも、37日間にわたって攻撃した15,000発の独立した標的地よりもそうです。イランに対して、私たちはさらに何ができるのでしょうか?何も。実際、私たちは紛争を始めた時よりも今の方が弱いのです。つまり、ドナルド・トランプの脅しは空虚なものです。今のところアメリカが望める最善のことだ。そして、彼らが計画していることは、イスラエルと共に、撤退して勝利宣言するよりも短期間の攻撃を計画しているということです。なぜなら、私たちは敗北したからです。戦争は終わった。負けた。私たちは何も成し遂げられませんでした。政権交代もなく、ミサイルも、ええと、廃止されたりしない。そして、ストレートまたはムーブは常にイランのものとなる。ドナルド・トランプの行動はすべて自己破壊的です。つまり、これは極端な愚かさです。なぜ彼はこんなことをしているのか、という疑問があります。わからない。彼が市場を操作していると言う人もいます。ある日極端なことを言い、次の日には極端なことを言い、市場を駆け回っているのだと。そして、もはやそれを否定することはできません。なぜなら、彼は地球上で最も腐敗した人物の一人だからです。トランプの事業は、ご存知の通り、詐欺や詐欺、詐欺の象徴です。えっと、それだけだよ。だからこそ、彼の言葉に市場操作以外の意味があるふりをするのはやめなければならない。イラン人は気にしていません。彼がもう一つ言うべきだったのは、「私たちは、彼が永遠にいなくなることを心配している人々に警告します。アラブ首長国連邦です。彼らは消えてしまう。それ。あそこでは彼らの核兵器に対するドローン攻撃を見たんだ。イランが攻撃された場合、イランはすでにアラブ首長国連邦のエネルギー生産能力全体を排除すると表明しています。おそらく海水淡水化プラントや発電能力を標的にするでしょう。アビー、中東に行ったことある?今の中東がどれだけ暑いか知ってる?気温は50度で、日に日に暑くなっています。エアコンなしでは生きられない。アブダビやドバイといった現代の都市では、淡水が必要なほどの水、淡水が必要ですが、ユナイテッドエアには淡水化プラントがなければ水がありません。淡水化プラントを爆破すれば、淡水は使えません。発電を爆破するだけで、エアコンは使えません。この組み合わせは、これら二つの主要都市圏にとって致命的です。ええと、それから石油生産を止めれば、アラ首長国連邦は永遠に終わる。それがこれから起こることだ。すべての経験値世界のERTは、ドナルド・トランプが約束しているこの攻撃を実行できないと言っています。なぜなら、そうすれば中東のエネルギー生産を私たちの生涯にわたって破壊することになるからです。つまり、世界のエネルギーの20%を市場から撤去するということです。ええと、専門家ではありませんが、現存するエネルギーインフラを見直し、そのエネルギーレベルを下げると、製油所は倒産します。ええと、それは連鎖的な影響を及ぼすでしょう。製油所は倒産します。海運会社は倒産します。現在ヨーロッパでは、航空業界全体が廃業寸前です。アメリカではデルタ航空に乗るのが好きだと思っても、すぐに飛行できなくなります。アメリカン航空は運航停止。サウスウエストは倒産しました。ええと、これが私たちが突き入ろうとしている現実です。この[ __ ]の最高主権者は、自分が負けた戦争を始めたことを認められないため、アメリカの安全と世界の安全を危険にさらしています。この戦争に負けた。それだけです。
SS: 興味深いのは、UAEの原子力発電所の隣で起きたあの攻撃、つまりドローン攻撃について、誰がやったのかは明かされていません。彼らはまだ誰かを責めていませんが、企業メディアはすでにメッセージを広めていて、おそらくイランだと言っているのに気づきました。あれはまた無謀な言葉遣いだ。ええと、それが壊滅的な出来事につながることもあります。しかし、UAEは事実上終わったと言っているのですね。
SR:100%です。そして、彼らは事態をさらに悪化させました。UAEで起きていることを人々が注目しているかどうかはわかりません。ええと、過去10年ほどの間に、サウジアラビアと深刻な競争がありました。彼らは同盟国ではありません。お互いを好んでおらず、アフリカ全域、つまりアフリカの角を通じて代理を通じて積極的に対立しています。スーダン、ユナイテッド・アラブは、ジェノサイドの実践者たちと肩を並べました。そしてUAEは中東、スパルタのように自らを振る舞おうとしています。しかし、彼らは全体的に失敗しました。失敗しました。だからこの戦争で大きな賭けに出ました。多くの人が知らないんですね。ベンジャミン・ダニエルは「アラブ首長国連邦を訪問する」と言って、実は秘密を明かしました。今、考えてみてください。イスラエルの首相がアラブ首長国連邦を訪問します。ええと、なぜですか?もう一つ明かされたのは、イスラエル軍がアラブ首長国連邦の領土内で作戦を行っていたことです。ミサイル防衛システムも存在していました。そして、イスラエルはUAEと協力してイランに対する攻撃を仕掛けてきました。ですから、UAEが被害者であるという考えは極めて馬鹿げています。UAEはこの紛争の積極的な参加者です。そして今、アメリカがかつてこの地域に重ね合わせていた安全保障の枠組みが、イランの勝利によって崩壊しつつあるのを見ています。ええと、イスラエルとアラブ首長国連邦は、ある種の急進的な方向転換をしています。UAEはOPECプラスから脱退しました。彼らはもうその一員ではありません。その目的は、石油生産を最大化するためです。ベンヤミン・ネタニヤフは先日、10年後にはアメリカの資金を受け取りたくないと言った演説をしました。「私は離婚したいと思っています。なぜなら、彼はイスラエルの60%のアメリカ人がもはやアメリカのイスラエル政策を支持していないことを認識しているからです。」「沈みゆく船です。」「ええと、アメリカ国内でのイスラエルは終わったのです。」「私たち自身が扉を閉ざすのは時間の問題です。」「だからネタニヤフは出口を探していました。」「彼はアラブ首長国連邦を選びました。」UAEとイスラエルは共同のパートナーシップを築いています。そして、ええと、それはすべて問題なく、細かい条件だけが問題です。もしドナルド・トランプとイスラエルがイランへの爆撃を再開すれば、アラブ首長国連邦は存在しなくなります。これは遊びではありません。これは存在に関わる問題であり、重要な問題です。イスラエルとUAEのパートナーシップは平和のパートナーシップではありません。それは一つの目的、つまりイランを破壊することを目的とした戦争のパートナーシップです。それで、イスラエルとUAEが裏でささやいていたことを行動に移した今、イラン側は「それでいい。彼らを繁栄させておこう」と言うと思いますか?いいえ、イランはすでにこれが未知の事態ではないと言っています。彼らはそう言っています。もし再び攻撃されたら、すべては消えます。すべてが消えます。というわけで、ここが現実です。そして繰り返しますが、一般のアメリカ人にとって理解してほしいのは、単にガソリンの価格が上がるだけではありません。私たちが話しているのはアメリカ経済の崩壊です。アメリカ経済の完全な崩壊です。私たちは自分たちのやることすべてを再定義しなければなりません。だからこそ、私はドナルド・トランプがイランを攻撃するつもりはないと心から信じています。なぜなら、この男がどれだけ犯罪的に愚かであっても、知っているはずだからです。なぜなら、誰かが彼の耳元で他の事実をささやくなんてありえないからです。この男はいつもそうでした大げささ、虚勢、虚勢の話ばかりだ。ですので、私たちはそれを話半分に受け止めます。しかし軍は彼に「君たちが望むことは達成できない」と伝えなければならない。つまり、7週間のキャンペーンはできます。私たちは多くのものを爆破できますし、彼らは橋などを爆破するでしょう。イランには全く影響を与えません。彼らの真の能力や再編成・拡大された弾道ミサイル戦力には全く影響を与えません。先週イラクはトランプが13%まで下げたと言っていました。CIAが出てきて、「いや、本当に70〜75%くらいだ」と言いました。その後、更新されて「実質的には約90%です」と言われました。実は外務大臣は「いいえ、約120%です」と答えました。ご覧の通り、我々は戦争中に費やされたすべてを再建しただけでなく、秘密裏に地下ミサイル生産施設を持ち、さらに高度なミサイルを生産しています。前半は予定が詰まっています。準備万端だ。そして、えっと、必要なのは言い訳だけです。言い訳はしないでください。過去は少しずつ、少しずつあそこから始めましょう。彼らは0から60マイルまで3.4秒で直進する。
SS;リンジー・グラハムが最近言ったことをお見せしたいと思います。ええと、彼は『ミート・ザ・プレス』に出ていました。少し話を戻させてください。
[日曜日の間、トランプの強固な支持者である共和党上院議員リンジー・グラハムは、さらなる米軍攻撃を推進しました。もっと傷つける。もしかしたら、十分に傷つければ取引をしてくれるかもしれない。民主党
員の話を聞きたかったんだ。それを聞かせざるを得なかったのは、リンジー・グラハムがこの問題の答えはイランをさらに傷つけることだと考えているようだからです。興味深いですね。でも、彼が誰かと戦うために申し込むとは思えません。でも、どうぞ、スコット。
SR:話し始めたらやめてほしい、私は努力しているんです。妻から言われました。私は祖父になったので、孫娘が成長して動画で私が話すのを見たとき、私の言うことが理性的で怒りに満ちないようにしなければならないと言っています。そしてリンジー・グラハムは私をとても怒らせる人です。私はこの男性に対して非常に冷たいことを言うことができるのです。そう言うのは間違いではありませんが、これはインターネット上で永遠に残ることを忘れてはいけません。それで、リンジー・グラハムは戦争好きだと私たちは知っています。彼は最初から戦争好きです。彼は弁護士であり、戦争法について知っているはずですが、彼は最悪のタイプの弁護士です。なぜなら、法の大義を受け入れるどころか、むしろ歪めてしまう弁護士だからです。彼は、ええと、彼は法を守る市民の基盤を築くわけではありません。彼は法の抜け穴を見つけて、犯罪者が制度を悪用できるようにしている人物です。そして犯罪者はもちろん、国際法の枠組みの外で機能する国家として機能しているアメリカ合衆国そのものです。ええと、リンジー・グラハムは暴力について知りません。暴力を知っている人や無責任な発言をする人もいますが、暴力を直接経験した多くの人は、彼のように暴力を言葉で表現しません。もう一つは、彼の経歴は航空戦力が実際に何をしているのかを理解するには適していません。彼は空軍にいたにもかかわらず、空軍力の適用について何も知りませんでした。もし彼が実際に戦争の技術を学んでいたら、法を操作する方法ではなく。歴史的に言えば、例えば砂漠の嵐作戦は、空軍力の基準を定めたようなものでした。つまり、湾岸戦争後の空軍力調査は、アメリカ空軍が提案したもので、アメリカは空軍力だけですべてを成し遂げられると示すためのものでした。もう地上軍は必要ありません。ええと、ちょっと余談ですが、私は戦後1991年3月に戦域から追放されました。私はスカッドミサイルを撃墜していないと言って多くの友人ができました。そして私は空虚に言っています。そう言って友達はできませんでしたが、それが真実でした。そして私は戦闘被害評価士官として、クウェートのグリッドを整理し、イラクの装備が何で破壊されたのかを正確に調査し、装備の法医学的処理を一つ一つ調査し、弾薬納入日と照合するために地上電力調査を始めました。最初の結果では、ほとんどの装備は地上部隊によって破壊されていたため、米空軍は私を逮捕し、現地から追放しました。なぜなら、彼らが提示した話とは違っていたからです。私は空軍戦争について研究しました。最初から関わっていました。ええと、私たちがイラクを徹底的に爆撃するのを見ていました。私は写真や多くの建物の写真を見て、侵入口を探していたので、それが全てでした。爆弾が投下される前の建物の写真が撮られていて、それを破壊したいと思ったのです。だからあなたはこう言うのです。「よし、この建物、この建設、これ、あれ、そしてもう一つの建物。この爆発効果のある弾薬を投下するんだ。ここに侵入口があるなら、ここに侵入口があるならここで爆風効果、ここで爆風効果、建物が破壊されているか判断できる。ミッション完了、捨てろ。穴を開けて爆発効果を狙って、破壊するのに多くの時間を費やしました。穴だらけ、穴だらけ、爆風だ。ドン。僕たちは世界で一番素晴らしい存在だと思ってた。その後、武器検査官となり、イラクの現地に出て実際にその場所を訪問しました。そして私が知ったのは、建物に爆弾を落とし、小さな穴を開けていたということです。爆発効果があり、私たちはそれを破壊したと言いました。あの建物には何もなかった。イラク軍はすべてを避難させていた。そして、戦争が終わった後に何が起こったか知っていますか?これらの建物はすべて再建されました。新しいコンクリートが流し込まれた。その後、購入時に建物に隠されていたはずだったすべての装備が返還され、イラクの能力は再構築されました。ええと、その将軍はラシッドでしたか?アマル・ラシッド・アルバディでした。彼は石油大臣でしたが、防衛産業の副大臣でもありました。ええと、その後イラクの調査をしました。ええと、今日はアメリカ政府が持っています。機密扱いにされた。彼らはそれを公開しない。えっと、でも彼が呼んだんだ。スコット、いつもあれこれ聞いてくるからね。これを見てみましょう。そして彼は私がやるべきことをやり遂げましたが、それはイラク全土で行われました。そして、爆弾を一つ一つ、建物ごとに。空き建物で何も壊していない。しかし、破壊に関しては何もありません。今ここで言いたいのは、我々はイランで何も破壊していないということです。何も。理由を教えましょう。しかし、彼らは私たちが交渉の最中だと思い込んで、指導部を暗殺するという奇襲攻撃を達成できませんでした。嘘をついた。でも覚えておいてください、私たちは6月に爆撃しました。6月に爆弾に失敗しました。そして6月から2月の間に、イラン側は「これは終わっていない」と言いました。すべてを地下に移した。パーチン弾道ミサイル生産施設は、スロン以外で世界最大級の固体ロケットミサイル生産施設の一つであり、地下に移転されました。それなのに、私たちは何を爆破したのでしょうか?パーチオン施設。上院のブラッドリー・クーパー提督が「これを爆破した、あれを爆破した」と言っているのです。ブラッドリー、お前は空っぽの建物以外何も爆破してない。すべての生産設備は撤去され地下に移され、現在もイランがミサイルを生産し続けている場所である。何も殺していない。全く分かりません。これが現実です。では、イランがその間にさらに深く地下に潜った今、トランプは何を成し遂げようとしているのでしょうか?イラン人が「戦争は終わった」と言ったわけではありません。全部持ち上げろ、みんな。すべてを元に戻して、アメリカ人が入ってきて本当にすべてを破壊させよう。」さらに深く掘り下げています。さらに厳しくなっています。イランを攻撃しても意味のある成果を上げるチャンスは全くありません。軍事的目標、地政学的に妥当な目標を達成する観点から見ると、戦争は終わった。できない。私たちは負けてしまい、このまま続ければ状況は悪化する一方です。なぜなら、その影響と結果が同じ言葉だから、繰り返しているからです。私は繰り返します。しかし重要なのは、もし我々がイランを攻撃すれば、結果が伴うということです。そしてそれは単なるエネルギーだけではありません。みんなささやいてるけど、誰もその意味について話したがらないんだ。もしイランがインターネットケーブルを引き裂いたらどうなる?彼らは下を走りますペルシャ湾に及び、中東のすべての金融機関のデータ転送能力を停止させる。中東のような、石油が豊富にある場所です。君もそれが僕たちに何をもたらすか分かっているよね?イランがすべてのカードを握っている。我々は何も持っていない。そして我々の軍は現実を理解できないほど愚かかで、将軍たちは腐敗しているようです。私は腐敗したという話をしたいと思います。なぜなら、私は軍にいた経験があり、特に下級レベルの将校の知的能力を理解しているからです。私がこれまでにした中で最も知的な11秒の会話は、カリフォルニア州29パームズの将校クラブで、同僚の中尉たちと交わしたものでした。彼らは皆、博士課程の本を読んでいて、戦争技術や歴史などについての本を読んでいました。そして、私たちはこうした会話をしているのです。なぜなら、これが私たちの仕事だったからです。これが私たちの使命でした。これが私たちの義務であり、責任です。私たちは純粋な戦士だった。純粋な戦士たち。しかし、指揮系統を上がるにつれて何かが起こります。純粋な戦士でいられなくなり、政治家になる。そして、あなたは戦争の専門家ではなく、戦争物資の調達の専門家になるのです。それは、必要な人々に最高の武器を届けようとしている限りで問題ありません。しかし、防衛産業に巻き込まれると、すべてが金銭的になる。そして議会に巻き込まれ、すべてが影響力の問題になり、突然腐敗が蔓延する。そして、肩に4つ星をつけたあの連中はみんなとっくに売り渡してしまった。彼らが中佐になるのは、裏切らなければなったでしょう。そして、売り渡さない限り大佐に昇進することはなかったでしょう。そして、本当に売り切れていなければ、その星はもらえません。そして、登場するスターは基本的にサインであり、さらに大きな売り渡しを意味します。4人揃う頃には、システムに100%堕落しています。だからブラッドリー・クーパー、恥を知れ。恥を知れ。あなたは議会に嘘をついているので、気持ち悪い。ですから、議会が何かをするわけではありません。戦争権限などを放棄しているのはすでにわかっていますが、ホワイトハウスに圧力をかける希望は、アメリカ合衆国議会という別個だが平等な政府機関から来ています。そして、知識と情報を得ると、議会は政治的動機に駆られて大統領に「いや、あれこれやあれはやらない」と伝えるかもしれません。ブラッドリー・クーパーは議会に嘘をつきました。もちろん、議会はあまりにも愚かで政治的に腐敗していて、後で質問をするほどではありません。しかし、アメリカ国民にはブラッドリー・クーパーが嘘をついたことを理解してほしい。私たちの代表者に嘘をついた、つまり私たちにも嘘をついたのです。そして彼らは皆嘘をついています。正直な人たちはそこには来ない。だって、これは以前にもあったことだ。自慢しているわけではありませんが、湾岸戦争中に真実を語ったために解雇されました。シュワルツコフ将軍自身によって解雇されました。解雇された。しかし幸いにも、その情報は統合参謀本部議長のコーエン・パルに伝えられ、私の言っていることが真実だと認めてくれて、私の職を取り戻すことができました。ええと、いわば真実があなたを自由にするからです。しかし今では、それは起こらない。今日は、もし真実を話すと、最初からクビになる。恥をかいている。ドナルド・トランプが現れて弱いと呼ぶだろう、それもまた別の話だ。えっと、誰かが試してみたらトニー・アギラール、彼に何が起きたのか、そして彼に何が起きたのかを見てください。彼に何が起きたのか、そして彼に何が起こったのかを見てください。彼はアメリカの英雄であるべきですが、主流メディアがそうした物語を伝えることはなく、真実を伝えるのは非常に難しいのです。しかし、今日の軍には尊敬すべき男女がいます。ほとんど全員が、実際に戦っている現場の人々に最も近い下層部の人々です。彼らは私たちの全面的な支援に値します。しかし、彼らを支援する最善の方法は、勝てない戦争に巻き込むことではありません。アメリカの国家安全保障上の利益を全く促進しない戦争です。
SS:そうですね、興味深いことに、トランプは実際にその将軍たちの何人かを解任しました。彼に逆らう奴は誰だって、ただ解雇されるだけだ。彼はそれらを排除する。でも同時に、起きていることをすべて伝えていない気もします。例えば、多くの人はこれが起こったことを知らない。ええと、今回はDropside Newsに感謝します。イランおよび地域のメディア、特にイランのFARS通信は、イエメン北中部に位置する重要な石油・ガス地域であるマリブ州上空で、米国のMQ9リーパードローンが撃墜されたと報じています。だから、みんなに映像を見せたいんだ。当時はその主張と映像は確認されていませんでしたが、今は確認されています。それで、確認映像をお見せしますが、これが彼らが言及している映像です。だから、あそこに残骸が見えるよ。そして今、それが確認されました。そして繰り返しますが、先ほども言ったように、トランプ政権は多くの情報を隠しています。ええと、Open Source Intelligence Monitorによると、流通している写真や動画に残骸が明らかにMQ9のものでした。だからアンサール法で撃墜されたんだ。これはアメリカの飛行機だと思いますが、スコット、誰もその話をしていません。
SR:はい。つまり、リーパーの進化版のようなものです。ええと、興味深い事実があります。ヘルファイアミサイルの特別でユニークな暗殺バージョンを搭載しています。ええと、ヘルファイアミサイルは空対地ミサイルです。それは対装甲能力で注目を集めたのです。戦車を爆破できるけど、その分弾頭は爆発するんだ。えっと、もし地獄火で人を暗殺して爆発したら、多くの無実の人を殺すことになる。そこで私たちは「飛ぶギンスナイフ」と呼ばれるものを作り出しました。つまり、これは地獄の火で、鋭いプロジェクトを持ち、入っては出て、露出し、回転し、車に乗っていると文字通り切り刻まれるようなものです。それでカシムスルミを殺したんだ。彼の指輪がついた腕から手が切り落とされたのには理由があります。なぜなら、フライング・ジェニュが入ってきて、彼や車の中の他の人たちを切り刻んだからです。ええと、ミサイルを失いました。地上には5体が完全に無傷で落ちている。情報の観点から見ると、フーディが持っているだけでなく、イランも、ロシアも、ロシアも、中国も持っていることが分かります。彼らは皆、これを逆解析し、自分たちを守る方法を模索しています。 ジャムして、好きなようにやって。つまり、これは非常に大きなことです。しかしもう一つの疑問は、なぜギンサスを乗せたリーパーをイエメン上空で飛ばしているのかということです。ええと、マナブ地域は争われている地域です。ええと、彼らはそこにいて、大規模な石油生産地で、サウジアラビア支援の人々は2014年に遡らなければなりません。ええと、サウジアラビアは、いわゆるイエメンの合法政府のために介入しました。アンサッラによって打倒された政府です。彼らは亡命政府を支援するために軍事的に介入し、それ以来内戦が続いています。サウジアラビアはユナイテッド・アラブの側につきましたが、その後アルカイダを支援しました。はい、彼らはアルカイダを支援しました。なぜならそれが彼らのやり方だからです。ええと、彼らはイスラエル支援のアルカイダの同盟者だということを忘れないでください。イスラエル。皆さんはここにつながりを感じますか?好きなところに持っていってください。でも要するに、あの二人はずっと喧嘩を続けているんだ。じゃあ今度は何のために入ってるんだ?これらは暗殺の武器だ。だから私たちは中で人を狙っていた。人を狙うこと。今は思い描くことができた。私の推測では、イラン革命防衛隊司令部の顧問たちを標的にしており、彼らは次に何が起こるかについて調整している。そしてこれが皆を怖がらせるべきことだ。なぜなら、誰が行くかはわかっているからだ。アンサラが前回バベル・ナンド・デブ海峡を封鎖した時に何をしたか。今、どうやって中東から石油を手に入れているのでしょうか?中東から得られるのは、サウジアラビア西部のヤム港に輸送され、そこからヤンブーから紅海を経てバベル・メンデブ海峡を経てさらに出荷されることです。それだけです。それが油が抜ける方法です。それが唯一漏れる油です。それを失いかけています。だから、起こることすべてに小さな手がかりがあるんです。それが情報将校の魅力だ。情報を集めて、黒板に点を置き、点をつなげて意味を成すようにします。でも、それは広告を出す理由の一つの解釈に過ぎません飛行属を搭載したMQ9がイエメン上空を飛行していた。俺たちは人を殺しに来たんだ。それで、なぜ今日アンセラとトラブルを起こしてから攻撃したいんだ?アンサラと連携している連中を殺そうとしている。えっと、あのドローンを失ったんだ。ミサイルを失った。これは大規模な情報機関の失敗であり、アメリカの納税者にとって大きな打撃です。私たちは多くのMQ9を失いました。イラン戦争とイエメンの間の損失総数は、終わったかどうかわかりませんが、24人くらいかもしれません。それ以上かもしれません。でもこれらは非常に高価な装備で、私たちはただ保管しているだけで、すぐに落ちてしまいます。
SS:正直に言うと、ロンとの戦争が始まるまで、これらの飛行機が何なのか知らなかったんです。だって、私は専門用語を知らないからです。ええと、でも今は注意深く見ていました。なぜなら、リーパーのようなものを見たのはこれが2回目だからです。しかし、アンサール・ローが再びそれを阻止できたという事実は、トランプが交渉について何と言おうと、決して警戒を緩めていないことを示しています。アメリカが何らかの形でイランを陥れようとすることを彼らは知っているのです。だから、アンサラのような存在を知らない人にとっては強力です。
SR:いいえ、サウジは彼らを死ぬほど恐れています。歴史を研究すると、イエメンとの国境に沿ったサウジアラビア南部の多くはかつてイエメンの一部であり、サウジアラビアに奪われました。イエメン政府、エンスララは本当に私たちのものであり、私たちが取り戻すかもしれません。それはいいかもしれない。湾岸戦争の時、砂漠の嵐の時、イラクがクウェートに侵攻し、アメリカ軍を北に送り始めた時のことを覚えています。最初はあまり多くの兵力がなかったので、ただの障害物でした。それで、第7海兵水陸両用旅団の皆さん、どうするつもりですか?俺たちは道で死ぬんだ。スピードバンプ。彼らを遅らせようとしました。なぜなら、私たちはそれを持っていなかったから、それで強化し、安定させることができました。しかし、スピードバンプ期間中は、サウジ側に「イエメン国境にいる部隊の一部をここに連れてきて、イラク軍が動き出せた場合に備えて準備してくれないか」と言い続けています。彼らは「いいえ、イエメンはイラクと同盟していたから」と言います。ええと、彼らは安全面に立っていました。私は武器査察官として、例えばギミットがイラク側にSS21発射装置や、イラク側がリバースエンジニアリングしようとしていたミサイルを提供した証拠を発見しました。それは二人の関係性を描く番組です。ええと、サウジ側は「ううん」と言っていました。なぜなら、私たちがイエメンに進出した瞬間、ちなみにイエメンは非常に人口の多い国なので、人々はその点を見直す必要があるからです。イエメンでは何も恐れていない。彼らは決して引き下がらず、一気に前に出てきて、まばたきする間もなくリアドを占領できる。サウジはイエメン人を死ぬほど恐れている。ですから、ええと、あの場所で何が起きているのかという非常に複雑な歴史があります。時々、イランの代理勢力やイランのことだけだと思われがちです。それはもっと複雑な話です。いろいろな複雑さが絡んでいます。でも、ええと、サウジアラビアはイエメンを死ぬほど怖がっています。そして、もしこれが地域紛争に発展した場合、例えばイランがサウジアラビアに大きな損害を与え、社会的混乱を引き起こす可能性がある場合(これは東部州で大きな可能性です)、人口の大多数はシーア派です。ええと、サウジアラビアはシーア派の蜂起を非常に懸念しています。では、シーア派が蜂起したとしましょう。サウジアラビアは油田を確保するために介入しなければならず、資源をイエメン国境から逸らし、イエメンは進軍を決意する。南部の州は問題なく奪えます。しかし、もし彼らがリアドまで行くことを決めて、何も止められなかったらどうなるでしょうか。この地域は人々が思うほど明確に定義されていません。あなたの聴衆のうち、イスラエル・アラブ首長国連邦同盟が地域をどれほど劇的に変えたかを知っていた人がどれくらいいるかはわかりませんが、イエメンのことも忘れてはいけません。それは物語の中で眠る幽霊のような存在です。彼らはババ・メンデを閉鎖するだけでなく、サウジアラビアの存亡的脅威にもなり得ます。
SS:はい。ええと、それに人々は彼らを寝ることができないんだ。それは私も同意します。それが私の言いたいことなんです。スコット、君の意見を聞きたい。えっと、ちゃんと見てるか分からないけど、トーマス・マッシーには大きな選挙戦があるんだ。選挙は火曜日で、見たかわからないけど、ピート・ヘグセスがケンタッキーに派遣されて、基本的にエド・ガワーと一緒に選挙運動をしているんだ。ここでは彼をエド・ザ・フェッドと呼んでいるんだ。 ええと、トーマス・マッシーに対抗するために。ハッチ法の下では、連邦政府の役人が誰かのために選挙運動をすることはできないと思っていました。そして、もし間違っていたら訂正してください。多くの人がこの問題を指摘していないように感じます。なんで彼がそこにいることを許されているのか?このレースに投じられたエネルギーや、トーマス・マッシーを負けさせるために投入された膨大な資金について、あなたの意見を聞きたいです。
SR:興味深いのは、トーマス・マッシーはケンタッキー州の非常に小さな選挙区の代表だということです。このケンタッキーの地域からはあまり権力や影響力が出ていません。うーん、そこには大手防衛請負業者はないと思います。そこには大きな蒸留所はないと思います。ええと、ただの良いケンタッキーの市民が多く住む小さな地区だから、危険なんだと思う。ご覧の通り、それは汚れていないアメリカの一片です。ここはアメリカ市民が、ええと、私たち全員に植え付けられた価値観を実際に受け入れる場所です。私はよく自分の政府を批判しますし、あなたもそうだと知っています。でも私はアメリカ国民を愛しています。つまり、私もアメリカ国民に批判的です。自分に厳しいです。私は友人たちに批判的です。改善が必要なら、改善しなければなりません。ええと、アメリカ国民は私たちが民主主義と呼ぶこの役割についてもっと努力しなければなりません。でも言わせてください。アメリカで車が故障しても、誰も助けに来ない場所はほとんどありません。実際、大都市の外に出ると、ほぼ100%確実に人々が立ち止まって助けてくれるでしょう。彼らは背中のシャツを脱ぎ捨てるでしょう。タイヤを交換する。彼らが運転してくれる。彼らはあなたを助けてくれます。もしあなたが助けるために知っているなら、彼らは財布からお金を引き出してあなたに渡します。アメリカの人々は根本的に善良な人々だからです。私たちは間違いを犯し、人々により大きな過ちを犯す力を与えています。でも平均的なアメリカ人は良い人で、肌の色や宗教が何であろうと関係ありません。もしあなたがアメリカの価値観に染まっているなら、アメリカの価値観とは「私たちは人を助ける」ということです。これが私たちのすべきことだ。トーマス・マッシーは、正しいことを信じるアメリカ人の地区から来ました。したがって、彼は有権者から正しいことをする権利を得ています。そして彼は自分の選挙区から再選されることだけを心配すればいい。彼は大企業やそういったことを心配する必要がない。だからこそ彼は当選し、今の行動を取るのだ。だからこそ、ドナルド・トランプや議会の他の人々、特に共和党の既成勢力、そして売り渡した民主党にとって非常に危険な存在なのだ。 完全に特定の利益団体や権力政治に身を委ねてしまった。トーマス・マッシーはアメリカの良心の声となりました。だからトーマス・マッシーが話すとき、腐敗した1%の人たちは「これを聞かせるわけにはいかない」と言うでしょう。なぜなら、十分な数のアメリカ人がトーマス・マッシーの言っていることを聞けば、「ちょっと待ってくれ。彼の言うことはある意味正しいし、彼らは間違っている。」トーマス・マッシーは今日のアメリカで最も危険な人物の一人です。もしあなたが伝統的な現状維持のアメリカ政治家、特に共和党員、特にドナルド・トランプと肩を並べる共和党員なら、冒頭で述べたように、彼は地球上最も腐敗した詐欺師の一人であり、ましてやホワイトハウスを占拠したことなどない。だから今、彼らは彼を排除しなければならない。えっと、まだ完璧な人に会ったことがないんだ。君はそうか、サヴィー?わからない。いや、違うよ。完璧な人に出会ったのでしょうか?
SS:いいえ。
SR: 私たちの中に「私は一度も間違いを犯したことがない」と言える人は一人もいません。私は一度も悪いことをしたことがありません。一度もないよ、よ「わかるだろ」って、みんな色々あって、「それはかなり恥ずかしいな」って感じで。そんな話はしたくないな。」うーん、それでいいんだ。だからこそ、私たちには自由があるんです。プライバシーは守っていいんだよ。プライバシーはある。トーマス・マッシーの私生活については知りません。正直なところ、トーマス・マッシーの私生活には興味がありません。ああ、関係ない。ええと、でもそれは私自身が実際に経験したから知っています。あなたがミスをすると、彼らはそれに飛びついて誇張します。彼らはやるだろう。彼らはきっとやり遂げる。足の指をぶつけて、突然15人の赤ちゃんと26人のおばあさんを蹴ったことになる。いや、ただ足の指をぶつけただけだ。いや、いや、いや。今や赤ちゃんキッカーだ。ああ、いやだ。トーマス・マッシーについては知らないけど。話には様々な側面があります。いい話を信じたいけど、何であれ、彼は何も犯していない。誰も彼を犯罪の犯人だと非難したわけじゃない。人々が言っているのは、彼の判断力が悪かったかもしれないということです。じゃあ、また列に並んで。でも、それが本当だとは言いません。ただ、誰が気にするのかと言っているだけです。彼は選挙区の良心である選出された代表者であり、政策に関して語ることは良きアメリカ国民の共感を呼び、彼らは彼を黙らせようとしています。そして、トーマス・マッシーの政策声明について話すのではなく、彼がこの人物と写真を撮ったかもしれないという事実について話している瞬間、その人物は誰が知っているのか、誰が気にするのか?私は知りません。そして、トーマス・マッシーを攻撃する人々が、世界でも最大級の浮気者の一人であり、13歳の少女をレイプしたと告発されたドナルド・トランプの支持者であるという事実も。信頼できる告発です。信頼できる告発です。えっと、本当にみんな、これはおかしいよ。つまり、今やピート・ハゲディスというアルコール依存症の浮気女性が登場します。なぜピート・ヘッジズをケンタッキーに送り込んでトーマス・マッシーを追わせるのか?彼がそこに立って「私は輝く技巧の像だ」と言うわけではない。私はミスター・ヴァーチューだ。」違う、お前は酔っ払いの浮気者のクズだ、ピート。それだけの存在だ。だから、これは本当にクレイジーな話です。トーマス・マッシーの有権者の皆さんが、ここで何が起きているのか理解してほしいと思います。これはアメリカの魂への攻撃です。トーマス・マッシーは腐敗した政治の観点から純粋です。トーマス・マッシーは正しいことをしようとしています。ええと、ケンタッキー州の彼の選挙区の人々は彼を正しいことをするために選びました。そして今、彼は正しいことをしたことで責任を問われている。そこに注ぎ込まれた資金と注目の量を、私は本当に期待しています。えっと、残念ながらお金はすべてを腐らせるんだ。つまり、それがすべての悪の根源なんだ。つまり、時には聖書が良い指針を与えてくれることもあるし、お金はすべての悪の根源だって。えっと、お金は避けてください。完璧だとは言いませんが、これだけは言えます。おそらく、1998年にポール・ウォラウィッツからサダム・フセインを売り渡すために600万ドルの賄賂を断った唯一の人間だと思います。私がすべきことは、サダムが大量破壊兵器を持っていたとサダムが言っただけでした。600万ドルの賄賂がテーブルの上にある。ポール・ウルフウッズは他のみんなに支えられた。もしそれを取っていたら、今どこにいたかわからない。たくさんのお金。えっと、私は大きなテレビ番組に出るつもりだった。私はこのすべてをやっています。でも、お金はすべてを腐らせるんだよ。お金から離れ、自分の信念に忠実でいてください。トーマス・マッシーはその金から距離を置いています。彼は自分の信念を貫き続けました。そして私たちアメリカ国民は、そのことで彼を罰しない義務があります。そして、彼の有権者が立ち上がり、正しいことをすることが重要です。トーマス・マンデー、ええと、トーマス・マッシーが予備選の日に。
SS:はい。昨日、私は皆に言いました。トーマス・マッシー、あるいはエプスタイン・クラスだと言ったのは、ローレン・ボバートが集会でこう言ったと言ったからです。エプスタインのファイルに載っている億万長者の一人が、最近トーマス・マッシーの対立候補に寄付したと。こんなの狂ってるよ。
SR:まっすぐです。隠すことすらしていない。隠すことすらしていない。つまり、エプスタインのファイルについて誰かに話したいなら、ライアン・ドーソンに話してくれと言っただろう。私に話しかけないでください。みんなほど詳しくは知らないからです。でも、こういうことなんです。エプスタインのファイルやその一連の話からは一生懸命避けてきた私にとっては、私は外交政策の人間だからです。私は軍人です。私は国家安全保障の人間です。どこにでもいるので、避けられないのです。やってきて、戻ってくる。まるで、胃酸逆流みたいな感じだ。胃が痛むようにしたいけど、何度も出てくるんだよね。それがエプシの話だよね。だから、どんなに頑張っても無視することはできません。そして私はそれについて話さないように必死でした。なぜなら、それはイラン政府やロシア、ウクライナが何をしているのかを考える気をそらすものだと感じているからです。聞きたくないけど、どこにでもあった。エプスタイン事件と関係者たちは、今日のアメリカのあらゆる場所に浸透しています。これが悲しい現実です。よく相手側のプロパガンダを聞くと、つまり、これは作戦で、イラン人が何と呼んでいるか忘れてしまいましたが、ええと、何を怒らせているのか、究極の怒りかもしれません。エプスタインの言う通りです。これは混乱です。今や、ほとんどのことがこの大統領のために政治的な理由で行われていることを理解しなければなりません。昔は政治の話をすると経済の話だ、バカみたいな。ビル・クリントンがその教訓を教えてくれましたし、それは今でも非常に有効です。でも今はエプスタインの愚かさだ。エプスタインはどこにでもいる。どこにでも。つまり、避けられないんだ。そして、これこそが気持ち悪い点です。なぜなら、学べば学ぶほど、それが文字通りどこにでも存在していることに気づくからです。はい。どこにでも。銀行業界の仕事です。それはすべてに存在しています。えっと、いわゆる、せっかくここにいるのですが、もしよろしければ、昨年の夏に、ええと、警備に関わっている方々に夕食に誘われて、その中にニューヨーク市の非常に年配の元刑事が一人いました。ええと、とても年上の方です。そして彼らは良い人たちです。彼らは地に足のついた人たちだよ。彼らが好きかどうかはわかりませんが、彼らは警察志向の、ええと、警察は正しいというような態度の人たちです。でも、彼らは正直な人たちで、私も知っていますよね。つまり、私たちは同僚や友人としては、いろいろなことにちょっとバカで合うけど、 意見が異なっても許される人々として。でもこの男は、俺たち、ちょっと飲んだんだ。その男はニューヨーク市の現実について話し始めた。例えば、多くの警官や多くの人々がバーやクラブのために警備の仕事をしています。そして彼は警備の仕事について話してくれました。話を短くすると、そのクラブで未成年の性的行為のリングが行われていました。ええと、彼らはそういうもので、彼は基本的に「閉鎖しろ、さもなければ俺は去る」と言いました。この件でセキュリティは全くやらない。つまり、それがそういうことだし。でも要するに、それはニューヨーク市のどこにでも存在する。ボストンのどこにでもあります。どこにでもいる。目の前にいる。そして私たちはそれを無視しています。そしてこれが、私がエプスタインのファイルに期待していることです。ワシントンDCでふさわしいすべての人を有罪にするだけでなく、有罪判決を受ける必要がありますが、社会としては自分たちの行動を改め直す必要があります。リムジンを15歳や16歳の女の子たちをクラブに連れて行かせ、まるで21歳の子のように振る舞わせて、裕福な男性たちが入ってきて入札し、リムジンで連れて行くのをやめなければなりません。それが当時の仕事だったのですから。そして、悲しいことに、彼はそれを閉めたけど、別の場所に移ってしまうんだ。
SS:そうです。
SR:結局はお金の問題だからです。人々がこのようなことに支払う金額は明らかに法外です。とにかく、私は行きたくなかった方向に行ったけど、仕方ないんだよ。それは悪いことです。ひどい。
SS:少しロシアの話に話を移したいと思います。モスクワでいくつか起きていることがあるからです。えっと、この動画が話題になってるんだ。ええと、ウクライナの攻撃後のモスクワです。そしてここは市の中心部に見える?
SR:とても大きいです。周囲の建物が見えない。だから、モスクワには多くの情報がある。たくさんありますよね。まず大きな都市で、周りはボストンに住んでいます。あそこの建物を見ている。
SS;それだけです。攻撃しても許される場所には見えません。ウクライナが支払うなら、この代償は大きいだろう。
SR:ええ、それは間違いありません。でも、そこは市の中心部ではないと思います。ランドマークの建物が見当たらないからだと思います。モスクワ周辺に行くと、ボストンのような感じで、ケンブリッジや他の場所もあるんです。でも私のような人間にとっては、「ああ、それは全部ボストン、グレーター・ボストン地域だ」と言います。モスクワ大都市圏も含まれます。ですから、郊外の都市が、モスクワ大都市圏に属しています。こうしてドローンが入ってくる。ええと、周囲には重い防空があって、多層的な防空ができています。ええと、ほとんどのドローンは撃墜されましたが、時々リーカーが出ることもあります。リーカーたちはアパートを襲っていて、すみませんが市中心部には漏れていません。ただ、シェレットに近づいて閉鎖し、主要な空港を封鎖し、大きな混乱を引き起こしたようです。ええと、ロシア政府については私が何とも言えませんが、これは持続可能な運営モデルではないと思います。えっと、それだけじゃない。つまり、ザリンスキーはそれを長距離制裁と呼んでいます。ええと、ロシアは歴史的にジリンスキーの言葉をプロパガンダ的なたわごとに軽視してきた。ええと、そういうのは、政策に影響を与えないようにするためです。しかし、これらの長期制裁のいくつかはロシアの戦略的な深度に影響を及ぼし始めており、石油輸出能力などロシアにとって重要な点に意味のある影響を与えています。ええと、どの評価をしているかによっては、ロシアの石油輸出能力の10%から20%がこれらの長期制裁の影響を受けています。これは持続可能なモデルではありません。ロシアが「気にしないで」と言えるようなことではありません。ええと、私が11月にロシアにいたとき、国家ドゥーマの委員会に所属している人と話を聞きました。その委員会はドローン攻撃からエネルギーインフラの安全保障を担当しているのですが、彼はウクライナが一度標的を攻撃し、見た目は大きくて、爆発的に見たが、ロシア人はクランプで固定し、修理し、施設を取り戻すことができたと言っていました非常に短期間で稼働開始しました。つまり、それは宣伝効果があり、ウクライナ人が写真を見せて「見て、私たちが何をしているか」と言うことができるのです。しかし現実的に言えば、ロシア側は「いや、大したことじゃない」と言っていました。これは外に書けない。今日、これらのために何かが起きています。ウクライナ人は、ドイツ、イギリス、デンマーク、チェコ共和国など、ウクライナ国外で生産される、より大きく、より優れた、より強力なドローンを手に入れています。ええと、彼らはドイツ軍が提供した誘導・制御装置を使っています。そして、アメリカ、CIA、NATOから提供された情報も含まれています。そして彼らは連携し、無敵の回廊を使ってウクライナから発進し、ポーランドを経由し、バルト三国を通ってサンクトペテルブルクを攻撃したり、カスピ海を経てカザフスタンを経てロシア内陸部を攻撃したりします。ええと、ロシアは通常ドローンが入ってくるはずの場所に防御を重ねているからです。これは持続不可能な状況を生み出しています。2023年に、えっと、紳士のナセルゲイ・カルダガノフは、非常に非常に影響力のある政治学者で、ウラジーミル・プーチンとのつながりを知っています。彼はクレムリンに助言し、ロシア省の最高レベルにも助言しています。彼は、ウクライナ戦争がロシアとウクライナの対立ではなく、ロシアの西側集団に対するロシアの対立となり、西側集団が積極的にロシアを破壊しようとしているため、NATOやヨーロッパに対して先制的に核兵器を使用する必要性について語った記事を書きました。そしてロイド・オースティンは、我々の仕事は戦略的にロシアを打ち負かすことだと言い、NATOはそれを彼らのものにしました。それで彼は、もし彼らがそのゲームをやりたいなら、戦略的に倒そうと言いました。中に入って叩きに行こう。そして彼は、もし我々が核兵器でヨーロッパを攻撃すれば、アメリカは貿易をしないだろうと賭けていると言いました。個人的に受け取らないでくださいが、彼はボストンが提案したように、もし我々が爆破すればロシアは核兵器でポスナムを爆破することになると言いました。どのアメリカ大統領も、代償がボストンやニューヨーク市、あるいは他の何かであることを知って報復しなければならないことを望まない。ええと、それが大きな賭けでした。当時のウラジーミル・プーチンは「私はセルゲイ・カラガノの言っていることを支持しない」と言いました。それはロシアの政策ではない。」しかし問題は、この議論があまりにも多くの人々に響いたため、2024年にウラジーミル・プーチンはセルゲイ・カラガノフを、ロシアの戦略抑止ドクトリンを再構築し、敵がロシアを攻撃するのを抑止する方法を策定するコンサルティングの責任者に任命したことです。そして2025年、昨年、ロシアはケラガノフが作成した新たな戦略ドクトリン、核ドクトリンを発表しました。そこには「もし核保有国が不明確な国に通常軍事支援を提供し、ロシアの戦略的深さを攻撃するなら、我々はそれを核保有国によるロシアへの攻撃とみなし、核兵器で応じる」と述べています。つまり、また元の話に戻ってしまいました。そしてこれが現在、ロシアの公式な政策です。公式の方針です。では、今日は何が起きているのでしょうか?核保有国、フランス、イギリス、NATO、アメリカ合衆国は、ウクライナという非明確な大国に対し、ロシアの戦略的深部を攻撃するための通常軍事能力を提供している。ロシアは今や教義的に核兵器を使用できる。では、彼らはあのルビコン川を渡るのでしょうか?彼らは「やろう」と言うのでしょうか?そしてケラノフは、最初からやる必要はないと言っている。我々がすべきことは、アーチニクでヨーロッパを攻撃することです。そして私たちは皆、アークニックのことを知っていますし、Arric 2.0もあって、いろいろなものがあります。ええと、これらのドローンを製造している施設を撤去し、ヨーロッパの人々や欧州政府に対して、もはやタダ乗りではないという信号を送る必要があります。もしメッセージが伝わらなければ、核兵器で攻撃します。そして今の状況はまさにそうです。ちょうど今日、ベレルスはロシアから与えられた核兵器の本格的な訓練を行っている。今まさに核兵器の使用訓練を行っています。うーん、ウクライナ人はこんな愚かなことを続けている。人々はウクライナがこの戦争に敗れたことを理解する必要があります。ウクライナはこの戦争に勝てない。そうでなければできないと考えるのはフィクションです。そして今、ウクライナがしていることは、敗北を受け入れるのではなく、ロシアを倒そうとしているのです。そしてロシアは、それを一掃して「私たちはプロパガンダなんて気にしない」と言えるほど大きかった。私たちはただ最終的な結果を重視しています。しかし今や、西側諸国の協力を得て、ロシアにとって存在に害を及ぼしている光景を見つけ出しました。そのためロシアは対応せざるを得ません。ロシア側は5月9日の勝利記念日の祝賀行事に向けてウクライナ側に警告を発しました。モスクワを攻撃すれば、キエフを壊滅させる。キエフの意思決定センターは破壊される。その警告は5回も出しました。ウクライナ軍はモスクワを攻撃しなかった。多くの人が「警告は終わった」と言っています。実際、セルゲイ・ケラガノフや他の意思決定者に非常に親しいロシアの何人かに連絡を取り、他に何が起きているかを踏まえて脅威はまだ存在しているのか疑問を投げかけました。そして彼らは正直に答えました。そうあるべきだと言われましたが、私たちはわかりません。なぜなら、その会話が行われているからです。しかし、ここで大きな疑問があります。確かめたいですか?つまり、これらはアメリカ国民が理解すべき質問です。こう言いましょう。もし今日、新たな主要な核保有国が核兵器を使用すれば、私たちの知る世界は終わってしまいます。保証だ。なぜでしょうか?「もしカガノが正しかったら?彼らは世論調査に出て、アメリカは「いや、ボストンを犠牲にしない」と言う。ごめん、ヨーロッパ。街を失った。ロシア人が望むことをしたほうがいいかもしれない。」それでいいよ。しかし今度はアメリカ人の立場になって考えてみてください。ロシアは根本的に戦略的な核抑止ドクトリンの概念を変えたばかりです。もはや現在の前提、つまり核戦争は勝てないという前提ではありません。したがって、核兵器は決して使用できません。核兵器を使うことで、「私は使う覚悟があり、実際に使った兵器がある。だからこそ、私の話を聞いて座ってほしい」と言っているのです。そして、核兵器を保有している国であっても、その能力を実証していない場合、不利な立場にあります。ロシアは今やエスカレート的な優位を握っています。じゃあ、どうする?また別のnを核攻撃しなきゃ。私たちは国を核攻撃しなければなりません。さて、我々はロシアに核攻撃をしない。イランを核攻撃する。ロシアに近い他の国に核攻撃をする。そして、そのやり取りを始める。それは数ヶ月、あるいは数年にわたってゆっくりと展開していくやり取りかもしれません。ドン。ドン。秒 ブン ドカン ブン ドカン ブン ドーン ブン ブン ドーン ブンすべてのコンピュータシミュレーションは同じ結末を迎えます。核兵器は一つ使われ、最終的にはすべての核兵器が使われる。これが危険だ。今すぐこの狂気を止めなければならない。ロシアが残された唯一の選択肢は核兵器の先制使用だと信じるまで、ロシアを追い詰めるのをやめなければなりません。西側諸国がウクライナに存在的な害を与えるのを阻止するためです。
SS:そして、それがサルマットの件につながります。ウラジーミル・プーチンの演説を見ました。彼は基本的に、核兵器の開発に挑戦し、前進を目指していると述べていました。私は「うわっ」と思いました。ほんの1、2週間前のように感じましたが、ウラジーミル・プーチンはウクライナとの紛争がまもなく終結すると言っていました。たしか1、2週間ほど前のことだったと思います。そして今、それが今のように変わってしまった。私は「一体何が起こっているんだ?」と思いました。何か見逃した?それで、
SR:さて、まとめると、多くの人が誤解していました。なぜなら、まとめるとロシアが勝つということです。つまり、ロシアが妥協するわけではなく、ロシアの取引が終われば我々が勝つということだ。終わったんだ。えっと、終わったよ。でも、こういうことなんです。2016年、私は2週間も経たないうちに開催されるサンクトペテルブルク国際経済フォーラムの直後だと記憶しています。大きなイベントです。そしてウクライナがサンクトペテルブルク国際経済フォーラムを攻撃した場合も。すべて終わった。全部だ。それで終わりです。そして彼らは、ロシアにメッセージを送るために攻撃できないと愚かに思っています。ロシアは「ウクライナを消し去ろう」というメッセージを送るでしょう。ええと、その過程でヨーロッパを消し去るかもしれません。しかし、2016年にウラジーミル・プーチンは「我々はアメリカ合衆国を非常に懸念している」と言いました。ええと、私たちは新START条約を持っていますが、それは悪意ある交渉でした。あなたは反ババリスティックミサイル条約から離脱し、今ではヨーロッパ全土にミサイル防衛システムの設置を始めています。ええと、みんな理解してほしいのは、これは私たちにとっての脅威だ。もし君たちがやっていることを変えなければ、私たちは行動を起こさなければならない。これまで行動を控えてきましたが、あなたが今の行動を変えなければ、私たちは行動を起こさざるを得ません。まあ、やってることは変えてないよ。2018年、これはあなたが言及していた演説だと思います。プーチンは連邦議会で毎年恒例のプレゼンテーションを行い、そこでこう言います。「アメリカはこれまでの行動を取ってきて、ええと、私たちは新しい兵器を開発しています。私たちは原子力推進の巡航ミサイル「ビューロー」を開発しています。私たちはアバンガードを開発しています。これは極超音速機動再突入機で、さまざまな兵器システムに搭載可能です。私たちはポセイドンを開発しています。これは巨大な核魚雷で、発射されてアメリカやイギリスなど沿岸で休眠状態になる予定です。そして爆発すると、東海岸全体に巨大な破壊の津波を送り込む。ボストンはポセイドンのおかげで消滅することになる。ええと、サルマットを開発しています。サルマは重いICBMであり、ICBM自体の破壊力だけでフランスを壊滅させることができます。ミサイル1発。でも今は普通の飛ぶように飛ばなくなった。サルマッハは逆方向に世界を回ることができ、つまり我々の防御の背後から侵入してくる。ええと、サルマッハは「フラクショナル軌道系」と呼ばれるものに入ることができます。つまり、連続して軌道に入ります。つまり、どこにでも落ちてきて防御できないということです。なぜなら、ボールが入ってこないからです。もし防御がここにあり、サーマットがここに来ているなら撃ち落とせる。だが防御がここにあり、サルマットがここに降りてくるなら撃ち落とせない。あるいは、防御がこちらにいるなら、こちらに集中してサルマがこっちから入ってきて、撃ち落とせません。サルマトは従来の弾道軌道を実行できるだけでなく、固体ロケットモーター技術の進歩により、ロシアは実際にこの方法で実行可能になっています。つまり、放物線を描いて飛んでいるのではなく、この方向に飛んでいて、撃ち落とされることはないのです。そして、何度かテストされた結果、大きな劇的な失敗が起こり、西側諸国がそれに注目しました。なぜなら、サルマットがサイロから出て爆発したからです。なぜなら、固体ロケット推進の進歩は最先端だと話してきました。最先端のことをやるとどうなるのでしょうか?時々間違えることもある。ユー・テやめて。だからテストをするんだ。ロシアは最先端の技術をテストしていて、バグった。ドカン。みんな、ああ、ロシア人はダメだ。いや、ロシアは実はかなり上手く、世界一だ。そして彼らはその不具合を修正し、テストしたら完璧に動いた。そして年末までに、ロシアはサルマトの実戦連隊を手に入れる。つまりサルマトは9機だ。撃墜はできない。それぞれが能力を持っている。1体は国を破壊できる。それは始まりに過ぎない。彼らはさらに多くのサルマトを手に入れるだろう。ええと、これがブルスニクは稼働中だ。ロシアは今、無限距離を飛行可能な核動力の巡航ミサイルを持っている。つまり、核動力のため、そのまま飛び回って永遠に徘徊モードに入ることができるということです。そしてストライクでは撃ち落とせません。撃ち落とせない方向から接近してくるのです。巡航ミサイルを発射するとき、射程に制限があります。だから、艦船や航空機が近づいて発射しなければなりません。射程によって特定の目標を命中させることができます。命中できない目標もあります。ビルス・ヴェストニクは世界中のどの目標でも撃ち落とせますが、撃ち落とすことはできません。ヤーズはテストされていません。つまり、戦闘のテストもされていません。KVが気づくかもしれません。なぜなら、ヤーズは非クリア・アヴァンガードと組み合わせて使われるかもしれないからです。再び警戒状態に、極超音速ミサイルの機動は撃ち落とせず、高い運動エネルギーで地面に命中すれば、ブロック全体を破壊できます。さらに付け加えると、2019年にINF条約から離脱したことで、ロシアは「いや、みんなこれをやりたくないけど、もしヨーロッパにINFシステムを配備するなど愚かなことをしたら、またINFの製造に戻らなければならない」と言いました。デンマークでINFシステムを導入した演習があり、その演習の一部でロシアはうまくいきました。警告しなかったとは言わないでください。次に、RNIKは中距離システムで、ヨーロッパ全土を攻撃できる非核弾頭を攻撃できます。つまり、ロシアは今や追加のエスカレーション的優位性を持つことになります。セルゲイ・カラガノフのコンセプトを思い出してください。ヨーロッパを先に攻撃するRNIKで西側が太刀打ちできないエスカレーションを発動し、我々が支配的だと宣言するというものでした。もしその時点で我々の優位に屈しなければ、核攻撃に移行し、戦術的核攻撃になると言いますが、今度は戦略核攻撃に切り替えなければならず、私たちは確実に全員を殺すことを保証します。ええと、ロシアは今日、エスカレーションの支配の三層を行っています。すべてはアメリカの愚かさとヨーロッパの愚かさのせいです。私たちは人々と平和に共存する方法を知りません。それを受け入れることはできません。私たちは支配的でなければなりません。私たちは勝者でなければなりません。NATOを拡大しなければなりませんでした。ロシアを抑圧しなければなりません。世界の支配的な大国でなければなりません。ウラジーミル・プーチンは世界の支配的な大国になりたくありません。彼はそれを望んだことがありません。その証拠はウクライナにあります。みんながこう言っています。「彼はウクライナに行った。5月9日のあの演説は興味深いですね。彼が言ったことの一つは、ロシアが特別軍事作戦を開始し、キエフ周辺に部隊を配置した後のことです。しかし、以前の説明から、彼らはキエフを征服するためにそこにいたわけではないことがわかっています。彼らはウクライナ人を交渉の場に引き込むためだけにいたのです。そして、そのフィクションはウクライナがこの条約を受け入れるつもりはなかった、というものです。それは彼らに強制されたものでした。さて、トランプ・プーチンはちょうどNEを発表したばかりですウクライナ側が条約を受け入れるつもりだったという事実。マクローンはプーチンに電話し、銃を突きつけられても受け入れられないと言った。つまり、ウクライナ人がこの文書に署名することは受け入れられません。これは実質的に、NATO加盟国が銃を突きつけても何でも実現しないと言っているようなものです。プーチンは「わかった、キエフから軍を撤退させる」と言いました。みんなウクライナがロシアを打ち破り、ロシア人がキエフから撤退したと言いました。エマニュエル・マクロノーネは電話をかけ、プーチンに「ウクライナは署名する準備ができているが、銃を突きつけられても署名はできない」と語った。だからプーチンは彼らの頭から銃を取り上げた。そしてボリス・ジョンソンが飛んできて、彼らに条約を破棄させ、皆が勝利を宣言しました。これは広まっているプロパガンダの一部です。ええと、ロシア人はずっと平和を望んでいました。そして、彼らが署名しようとしていた平和協定は、ケロン・ザパリシアをウクライナに返還するものでした。クリミアとドンバスを結ぶ陸橋を形成する二つの領土は返還されるはずだった。ロシアは彼らを保持するつもりはなく、占領していたすべての領土を返還するつもりはなかった。ドンバスはルガンスクとドネツクの人々の意志であるため独立する。ええと、それからどこに行くかは彼ら次第です。クリミアはロシア領のままだったが、ロシア側は「ウクライナとの歴史的なつながりがあることを認識しており、クリミアにおけるウクライナの影響力や存在を交渉する用意がある」と言いました。テーブルの上にあった。「私たちはそうじゃない。それが一番合理的な方法だ。」そして、それを現在のロシアの状況と比較してみてください。無条件降伏。すべては私たちのものです。私たちは多くのことを背を向けました。ええと、要点は西側ではロシアを敵として扱っていることですが、ロシアが敵であることは最後です。どんな敵が、愚かなことをしないで済むチャンスを与えてくれるんだ?つまり、ウラジーミル・プーチンは「2016年にこれをやるな」と言いました。馬鹿なこと言うな。こんなことはしたくない。」2018年、君が僕たちにこれをさせたけど、まだ取り消せる。そして今日、もう遅すぎた。すべて揃っています。お前が俺たちにこんなことをさせたんだ。ロシアが「ヨーロッパを支配したいからこんなことをやる」と言ったわけではありません。ロシアは私たちに緊張を和らげ、後退するあらゆる機会を与えました。そして、それが今日私たちに与えられたチャンスです。ウクライナ人に戦争は終わったと伝えなければならない。君は勝てないよ。そして今あなたがやろうとしているのは、NATOとロシアの間に紛争を作り出し、NATOが騎兵のようにあなたを救うと信じることです。そんなことは起こらない。NATOにはその能力が欠けている。アメリカはNATOを支持しない。もう希望はないし、全部持ち込ませるわけにはいかない。この戦争を終わらせなければならない。あなたは負けました。ヨーロッパはそれを受け入れる必要があります。アメリカはそれを受け入れる必要があります。そしてロシアはポーランドや他の誰に対しても動くことはありません。ロシアはただ平和を望んでいるだけだ。私たちは、ウクライナを交渉の場に引き出し、持久的な和平合意に署名させるという特別軍事作戦の本来の目的に戻ります。それはウクライナから領土を奪うものではありませんでした。
SS:スコット・リッターさん、ありがとうございました。改めてお時間をいただき、本当にありがとうございました。今は本当にクレイジーな時代に生きています。
SR:はい。どうもありがとうございます。私はただ言いたいです。私はレッスン2でロシアに戻ります。その前にサンクトペテルブルクの international.com に行く予定で、もしこの活動を支援したい方がいれば、私のウェブサイト skyrader.com に行って寄付ボタンがあります。ええと、無料では何も起こりません。またインターネット上でロシアのお金を受け取ったと非難される人たちに攻撃されたのは理解しています。私はロシアのお金は受け取っていません。すべて自分で支払っています。でも、それを支払う唯一の方法は寄付です。もし人々がその作品を重要だと思うなら、ぜひ寄付してください。どんな支援でも感謝します。
SS:そうですね。みんなに知らせておいてほしいんです、そういう人はいます。彼らは多くの人についてそう言っています。彼らは多くの人に対してそう言っていました。今、マックス・ブルーメンタールも攻撃しています。
SR:はい。見たんです、彼らはあなたを狙ってくるでしょう。彼らは私たち全員を狙ってくるのです。つまり、これはトーマス・マッシー効果です。ターゲットを過ぎていて、爆弾が影響を及ぼすと、批判が来るのです。それが現実です。だから、誇りの表れとして受け取ってください。もし誰かがあなたを攻撃したら、「そうだね、いいか」と思われます。それは私が何か正しいことをしている証拠に違いない。トーマス・マッシーも何か正しいことをしている。マックス・ブルーメンタールも何か正しいことをしている。あなたは正しいことをしている。そして私は、自分が何か正しいことをしていると信じたい。
SS:はい、スコット。本当にありがとうございます。招いてくれてありがとう。みなさん、これは賢いクリップでした。気に入ったら、いいねボタンを押してチャンネル登録してください
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