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SPINNING THEIR WHEELS
This time last year, US and Russian diplomats were not talking at all. With the swearing in of Donald Trump as the 47th president, this changed. Walls that had previously separated Russians from Americans suddenly came tumbling down, and conversations—substantive, serious conversations—were suddenly the norm.
But talking in a vacuum is simply noise—in order for diplomacy to be viable, there must be actions attached to the spoken word.
Otherwise the machinery of diplomacy is simply spinning its wheels, going nowhere fast.
In this edition of The Russia House, I speak with Dmitri Polyansky, the Deputy Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the United Nations, about the state of US-Russian relations from the perspective of the UN.
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"USA WOLLTEN MICH ZUM SCHWEIGEN BRINGEN" – SCOTT RITTER ÜBER PROPAGANDA UND DEN UKRAINE-KRIEG
Interview for Patrik Baab
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TRIP TO RUSSIA AND THE INF TREATY
Interview for ZolotarevDm">Dmitry Zolotarev
In this video, I discuss my two upcoming trips to Russia, and the importance of independent journalism and citizen engagement to creating an atmosphere in the United States supportive of arms control.
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THE SCUD HUNTERS: CHAPTER THREE
The Threat
Then war came.
When I left for Eskan village at the end of my shift on the evening of January 16, the CENTCOM headquarters was gripped with tension, like a locker room before a big game. Up until now my experience had been like the various training exercises I had previously participated in—a lot of looking at maps and photographs and theorizing about the potential for conflict. Theory was transformed into reality in the blink of an eye, with hundreds of coalition aircraft sortieing into Iraq to attack locations across the width and breadth of that country. These locations were, in turn, imaged by any number of intelligence collection means. When I arrived back the next morning, the headquarters was buzzing with activity, and my desk was already piled high with photographs and reports, including a stack of black and white polaroid images of various locations inside Iraq I was responsible for analyzing.
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TRUMP'S "SUPER DUPER" DELUSION
The President thinks we have the best missiles in the world. The truth is far different: our missiles do not work.
For years now, Donald Trump has been hyping the existence of a “super-fast” missile—something he calls the “super-duper missile” capable of flying “17 times faster” than the nearest competition.
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In this episode of The Russia House, Mokey Rusinov, film director and executive director of the Nikolai Danilevsky Film Studio, discusses the war on Orthodoxy in Ukraine and his documentary.
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NATO'S TOUGH TALK IS NOT BACKED UP BY MILITARY POWER
Interview for Garland Nixon
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ASK THE INSPECTOR EP. 283
Live Stream Scheduled for October 08, 2025 at 7:00pm ET
TOMAHAWKS, END OF NATO & COMING NUCLEAR WAR
Interview for Glenn Diesen
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THE MOST SUCCESSFUL MILITARY RAID OF THIS CENTURY: THE OCTOBER 7 HAMAS ASSAULT ON ISRAEL
I published this article back on November 20, 2023, approximately six weeks after the Hamas raid on Israel. On this, the second anniversary of the Hamas raid, this article has stood the test of time.
There is a truism that I often cite when discussing the various analytical approaches to assessing the wide variety of geopolitical problems facing the world today—you can’t solve a problem unless you first properly define it. The gist of the argument is quite simple—any solution which has nothing to do with the problem involved is, literally, no solution at all.
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THE MISSILES OF OCTOBER
Arms control teeters of the brink of extinction, and with it all of humanity
The last remaining nuclear arms control treaty between the United States and Russia—New START—is set to expire on February 5, 2026. This treaty, which caps the nuclear arsenals of both nations at 1,550 deployed strategic nuclear weapons each, was signed back in 2010, during the administrations of US President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev. At that time, the two nations were engaged in what proved to be an abortive “reset” of relations.
But the underlying problems which prompted the need for a reset—NATO expansion, continued US pursuit of hegemony disguised as a “rules based international order”, and a general US disregard for arms control as a necessary mechanism of global stability—were never fully addressed, and new problems emerged (such as the reemergence of Vladimir Putin as the President of Russian, Russian intervention in Syria, and the conflict in Ukraine) which made a reset impossible.
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THE RUSSIA HOUSE AT FIFTY
We have come a long way since we started back in February. And we have a long way to go.
On February 1, 2025, the administrator of my Telegram channel, Alexandra Madornaya, and I embarked on a grand experiment, the goal of which was to capture the Russian voice and bring it to an American audience. The product of this experiment—The Russia House with Scott Ritter—has reached the 50-episode benchmark. This provides me with a chance to reflect on how we got here, and where we are going.
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ON FOREIGN POLICY, RUSSIA/UKRAINE, ISRAEL/GAZA,TRUMP AT THE U.N., DE-WOKEING THE MILITARY, THE RUSSIA HOUSE
Interview for Declare Your Independence with Ernest Hancock
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IRAN AND THE NUCLEAR QUESTION
Iran and the West are at an impasse regarding the resolution of the question of Iran’s nuclear program. Diplomatic options have largely stalled, increasing the risk of war. But a war with Iran could carry severe costs for both Israel and the US, and the region will most likely remain in a state of high tension for some time to come.
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WAR W/RUSSIA BUT NO CAPABILITY TO FIGHT
Interview for Garland Nixon
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RT TURNS 20
I'm in Moscow to help celebrate RT's 20th Anniversary. There's no place I'd rather be. Let me explain why.
On June 7, 2005, Margarita Simonyan, an intelligent, articulate Russian journalist who had previously worked in the Kremlin press pool reporting for Rossiya, a leading Russian state television network, announced the creation of Russia Today. “It will be a perspective on the world from Russia,” she said. “Many foreigners are surprised to see that Russia is different from what they see in media reports. We will try to present a more balanced picture.”
RT went live on December 10, 2005, and the journalistic world has never been the same.
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SCOTT RITTER BREAKS DOWN TRUMP’S CEASEFIRE DEAL AFTER HOSTAGE RELEASE
Interview for TMJ News Network
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A PALESTINIAN VICTORY
Interview for Judging Freedom
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RUSSIA ARMS IRAN WITH ADVANCED WEAPONS
Interview for Legitimate Targets
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SCOTT RITTER VS. JOHN HELMER: NATO AND RUSSIA ON THE BRINK OF DISASTER
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CAN WE TRUST THE ISRAEL–HAMAS DEAL?
Interview for Judging Freedom
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Israel is crumbing as the Gaza “peace deal” begins phase 1 but this isn’t the real story. Netanyahu’s opponents are galvanizing to oust his regime as the economic and military fabric of the colony tears apart. Analysts Scott Ritter, Ray McGovern, and Garland Nixon join the show to comment on the significance of this shift and what the pause means for US escalations against Iran and Russia as WW3 nears.
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THE SCUD HUNTERS: CHAPTER TWO
The Home Front
There is a saying in the Marine Corps that if the Marines wanted you to have a wife, they would have issued you one. There used to be a two-year ban on getting married for Marine recruits, and while that regulation was eventually done away with, in the mid-1980’s any Marine under the rank of Sergeant had to secure the permission of his battalion commander before he could get married. The reason for these restrictions was that in the competing demands of serving the needs of the Corps and those of a spouse (with or without children), the Corps always won.
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TRUMP’S TOMAHAWK ORDER: WW3 INCOMING?
Interview for Dialogue Works
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RITTER'S RANT #60: OUTRAGE
The US Congress is outraged that the Biden administration turned the FBI on them. Where was this outrage when Biden unleashed the FBI on innocent Americans?
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NATO COLLAPSING
Interview for Judging Freedom
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SCOTT RITTER & IDF's CONRICUS ON TRUMP'S HUGE ISRAEL-HAMAS DEAL
Interview for Mario Nawfal
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RITTER'S RANT #59: CENSORSHIP
YouTube took down my last rant. Israel was behind it. YouTube is un-American.
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EUROPE RESPONSIBLE FOR UKRAINE CONFLICT AND CRIMES
The Russian president’s speech proves the point that Vladimir Putin continues to be the adult in the room.
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ASK THE INSPECTOR EP. 282
Live Stream Scheduled for October 01, 2025 at 7:00pm ET
