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Russia (Putin) did not start this war.
America did.
You’re the former Director of the CIA.
I know you brag about lying being a core value of the institution you led (pro hint—it’s not a good thing), but for once reach into your dark heart and tell the truth.
Did the CIA maintain a relationship with the Organization of Ukrainian Nationalists, Bandera faction (OUN-B) from 1948 through 1990?
I’ll help you—yes.
Did the CIA use its connectivity with the OUN-B to build connections inside Ukraine designed to promote Ukrainian nationalism in a way that sought to bring harm to the Soviet Union and, after 1992, Russia?
Again, yes.
Did the CIA facilitate the work of USAID and NED, through various US funded NGO proxies, to help bring Ukrainian nationalists to power in the 2004-2005 Orange Revolution in Ukraine?
Yes.
Did the CIA view the return of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych in 2010 as a threat to US strategic goals and objectives regarding Ukraine and Russia (i.e., Ukrainian NATO membership)?
Yes.
Did the CIA help orchestrate the 2014 Maidan Coup designed to remove Yanukovych from power?
Yes.
Did the CIA use its connectivity with the OUN-B in Ukraine and diaspora to promote an anti-Russian agenda in post-Maidan Ukraine?
Yes.
Did the CIA fund and help build, organize, train, and operate up to 20 bases inside Ukraine from which covert operations could be conducted against Russia, including actions that could be considered acts of war?
Yes.
Were you the CIA director when these bases were built and operated?
Yes.
Did the CIA help Ukraine prepare for a military operation designed to seize the Donbas from pro-Russian elements that was scheduled to take place in late February-early March 2022?
Yes.
Were you aware of these plans when you were CIA director?
Yes.
Who started this war?
You did.
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THE LVOV MOMENT
The Odessa Moment changes the course of the Special Military Operation.
The Lvov Moment changes Europe.
TRUMP'S FANTASY CRUSHED BY PUTIN
Interview for Dialogue Works
00:06 Introduction.
01:04 Reaction to the phone call and Trump's policy.
13:45 Evaluation of Putin's proposals and economic aspects.
28:14 Russia's reaction to arms supplies.
32:52 Demilitarization and denazification.
42:51 Situation in Gaza.
49:51 Situation in Syria and the role of Marco Rubio.
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On Ep. 3 of "Trump Watch with Scott Ritter," former CIA analyst @raymcgovern was the special guest for a discussion on the phone call between President Trump and President Putin, the prospects of peace between Russia and Ukraine, and the possibility of improving US-Russia relations.
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THE ODESSA MOMENT
Russia has informed Ukraine of its baseline condition for conflict termination—the withdrawal of all Ukrainian troops from the territory of lands which, from the perspective of the Russian Constitution, constitute part of Mother Russia. These include Kherson, Zaporozhia, Donetsk and Lugansk.
Russia has also made it clear that if Ukraine does not accept these terms, the next time Russia is willing to sit down and negotiate with Ukraine their demands will include four additional Ukrainian oblasts, or administrative regions—presumably Odessa, Nikolaev, Dnepropetrovsk, and Kharkov.
We have reached the Odessa Moment.
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ASK THE INSPECTOR EP. 264
Live Stream Scheduled for May 16, 2025 at 8:00pm ET
On Ep. 2 of "Trump Watch with Scott Ritter," Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell) was the special guest for a discussion on Marco Rubio and the role of the Secretary of State historically.
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PENTAGON’S WAR ITCH? TALK OF DIRECT US-RUSSIA CLASH CONTRADICTS TRUMP’S POLICY
There are “several plausible pathways” for the Ukraine conflict to escalate into a direct US-Russia war, claimed Gen. Gregory Guillot, head of US Northern Command, who labeled Russia as one of the US' "principal adversaries."
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SHOWDOWN ISTANBUL 2.0. RITTER RAGES OVER TRUMP'S UKRAINE POLICY
Interview for Journalistically Speaking with Rick Sanchez
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SCOTT RITTER AND MOHAMMAD MARANDI: BONE-CHILLING GEOPOLITICAL LESSONS FROM RUSSIA AND YEMEN
Interview for Dialogue Works
00:04 Introduction and discussion of the New York Times article.
01:38 Strategic aspects of the conflict.
07:15 Professor Marandi's opinion.
14:17 Changes in Trump's policy.
24:08 Misuse of the document.
26:05 Uncertainty in Trump's policy.
30:50 Recognition of a Palestinian state.
34:38 Duality of the Trump administration.
37:50 Negotiations with Iran.
47:29 War in Ukraine.
51:45 Maturity of the leadership of Iran and China.
56:13 Strategic dynamics of the conflict.
01:07:36 Influence of China and its technological development.
01:10:00 Global changes and their impact on US policy.
01:13:33 The dangers of a geopolitical vacuum.
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ON TRUMP, UKRAINE AND INTERNATIONAL POLITICS
Interview for Day Center
English subtitles
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Israel has been spying on the United States for decades.
Jonathan Pollard did more damage to the national security of the United States than can even be admitted to this day.
Israelis have monitored the communications of US presidents and senior officials.
Israeli intelligence has infiltrated the pro-Israeli lobby, using it as a proxy to steal American secrets.
American presidential administrations have tolerated this insult out of fear about the political consequences of calling Israel out for its malfeasance.
Israel is the greatest single threat to the United States, a cancer that has disguised itself as part of the American body.
America should be grateful that we elected a narcissist like Donald Trump as president.
Because only someone with Trump’s ego could allow the outrage that comes with discovering the truth about Israel—that it is disdainful of America and Americans, that it uses us for its betterment, that it will gladly sacrifice America in pursuit of its Zionist goals and objectives—to get him to take the necessary action needed to save America from this insidious threat—the divorce of US national objectives from the ideological prison of Greater Israeli Zionism.
If Trump follows through on the direction he appears to be headed in, the world will be a better place.
America will be great again. And Israel will be no more.
A fitting end to the greatest threat that has ever confronted America.
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THE PROPOSAL FOR DIRECT NEGOTIATIONS IS A BRILLIANT MANEUVER
Interview for REN TV
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WHO DEFEATED THE NAZIS? A COLLOQUY
In June 2019, Scott Ritter wrote an instructive review of key aspects of WWII, “What Russia Rightfully Remembers, America Forgets” Scott’s fellow Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) were asked to comment on his article and an informal colloquy emerged – primarily between Scott and Larry Wilkerson.
At the 80th anniversary of VE Day Friday, I have the dubious distinction of remembering that glorious day as a 5 year-old. I am grateful to be still around and happy to have the opportunity to offer below the fact-based views of younger esteemed colleagues, who have grappled long and hard with political-military issues of this kind – both as historians and as practitioners. I have slightly condensed their prose.
— Ray McGovern
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ASK THE INSPECTOR EP. 262
Live Stream Scheduled for May 09, 2025 at 8:00pm ET
In this weeks episode of The Russia House with Scott Ritter, we reconnect with the noted Russian writer and political commentator, Andrey Vajra, to discuss the larger political aspects emerging from recently published article, The Odessa Moment.
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DOES TRUMP UNDERSTAND RUSSIA?
Interview for Judging Freedom
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ASK THE INSPECTOR EP. 265
Live Stream Scheduled for May 20, 2025 at 3:00pm ET
“Vladimir Putin decided to remain in power after his constitutionally mandated presidential terms ended in 2008, rotating into the Russian prime ministership while clinging to the real levers of influence. That same year, Moscow began a brutal invasion of Georgia, a young democracy located just to Russia’s south. Putin’s troops killed thousands there, repeating a playbook developed in Chechnya and Moldova in the 1990s and early aughts when the West was enticed by the prospect of cooperating with the new Russia. Facing little serious resistance, Russia would soon continue its pattern of death and destruction in Syria, and, of course, Ukraine. All while Vladimir Putin continued to rule Russia with an iron fist, hiding behind the facade of fake elections and suppressing the last vestiges of freedom.”
You wrote this.
In 2008, the United States was embarked on a policy of regime change in Russia.
You might want to familiarize yourself with the mission of the CIA’s Moscow Station at that time. Regime change was the coin of the realm.
That meant expanding NATO to Russia’s borders and seeking color revolution style unrest in Moscow similar to the Orange Revolution orchestrated by the CIA in Ukraine. Navalny, Nemtsov and others were on the CIA payroll for this purpose, perverting the very notion of democracy.
Russia did not brutally invade Georgia. It was Condoleezza Rice who encouraged Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili to break off diplomacy with Russia in favor of a Georgian invasion of South Ossetia, offering vague promises of US support. Georgian troops fired upon Russian peacekeeping forces in their barracks. Russian forces responded, and drove the Georgian troops from South Ossetia, advancing into Georgia itself before accepting a ceasefire brokered by the European Union.
You liken the Georgian conflict to Chechnya. The only thing these two conflicts had in common was the involvement of the CIA in stirring up trouble. The Russian-Chechen reconciliation will go down in history as one of the greatest collaborations in peaceful resolution of conflict in modern times. The partnership between Orthodox Russia and Muslim Chechnya is a role model other nations, including the US, could and should learn from.
Russia was invited into Syria to stop the advance of US-supported Islamic extremists loyal to Al Qaeda. Your misrepresentation of this intervention can only be the product of ignorance or a deliberate distortion prompted by Russophobia.
Your ignorance of the Russian political and social reality is manifest.
You are angered that Russian Cosmonauts would fly a banner celebrating the 80th Anniversary of the defeat of Nazi Germany, not comprehending that they were celebrating an allied victory over evil.
I have often cited the “overview effect” experienced by persons who travel into space as an ideal for all mankind, given that it compels one to realize the fragility of the planet we live on.
Your ignorance-laced anti-Russian screed is evidence that space travel does not purge one of national prejudice.
The anger you evince toward your one-time Russian colleagues is simply the byproduct of your own ignorance and hate, proof positive that even the rigors of international space travel cannot cure stupid.
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On Ep. 2 of "Trump Watch with Scott Ritter," Col. Lawrence Wilkerson (former Chief of Staff to Colin Powell) was the special guest for a discussion on Marco Rubio and the role of the Secretary of State historically.
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TRUMP'S DEALS WITH THE MIDDLE EAST / WILL RUSSIA COLLAPSE FROM WITHIN?
Interview for Through the eyes of
01:02 Trump's visit to the Middle East.
10:10 The situation in Syria and relations with Israel.
14:41 Peace talks in Turkey.
32:49 The future of the US, Russia and Europe.
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SOLO EPISODE: RUSSIA, 80 YEARS AFTER VICTORY
In the search for an uncomfortable truth, sometimes the path best taken is one that takes time to pause for a moment of self reflection. This week The Russia House with Scott Ritter does just that, reflecting on Victory Day and the Russian journey of self discovery that this moment in time reflects.
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THE PEDESTAL OF HISTORY
Vladimir Putin has been the leader of Russia for more than a quarter century. In his lifetime he has served as an officer in the Soviet KGB, as a private citizen (taxi driver) trying to make ends meet in the post-Soviet era, an advisor to the Mayor of Saint Petersburg, within the Presidential administration of Boris Yeltsin, as the head of the Russian state security service, as the prime minister of Russia, and as the president of Russia.
During this time, the Soviet Union collapsed, the Russian Federation was born, Russia struggled with the consequences of the failure of Perestroika and Boris Yeltsin’s inept leadership, fought two wars in Chechnya, three wars in Georgia (Ossetia 1991, Abkhazia 1992-93, and the 2008 war), intervened in Syria, and continues to wage a three-plus year conflict with Ukraine and the collective West.
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This photo underscores everything that’s wrong with America today.
The man-child poses with the anti-American Al Qaeda operative and his Saudi paymaster.
Anyone who served in Iraq should be outraged at this photo.
Anyone who lost relatives on 9/11 should be outraged.
Anyone who calls themselves America’s should be outraged.
Trump has betrayed everyone and everything.
And he’s too stupid to understand why.
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ASK THE INSPECTOR EP. 263
Live Stream Scheduled for May 13, 2025 at 3:00pm ET
CAN TRUMP RESIST THE NEOCONS?
Interview for Judging Freedom
02:16 Start
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PUTIN'S PEACE TALKS PUSH FORCES ZELENSKY TO EITHER 'PUT UP OR SHUT UP'
President Putin has announced Russia's readiness for "direct talks" with Ukraine in Istanbul on May 15, "without preconditions" and aimed at eliminating "the root causes of the conflict."
Now Russia has the initiative and Russia has the moral high ground. There will be no more talk about 30-day artificial ceasefires. Ukraine either has to put up or shut up.
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THE MARGIN OF VICTORY
As US President Franklin Roosevelt noted in 1942, “Russian troops have destroyed—and continue to destroy—more manpower, planes, tanks and cannons of our common enemy than all the other United Nations combined.”
This article originally appeared on The Russia House with Scott Ritter Telegram channel. It is re-published here in honor of Victory Day.
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Happy Victory Day!
Today we celebrate the 80th Anniversary of the Allied victory over Nazi Germany!
For those in Russia, enjoy this day.
You especially earned the right to hold your head high.
