Scott Ritters discusses U.S. military losses across the Middle East in its aggression against Iran and how Washington is coping with it. Does the U.S. have a future in the region? Watch the replay.
Guest: Scott Ritter. Host: Joe Lauria. Producer: Cathy Vogan
Scott Ritter is a geopolitical and military analyst, columnist, author, former U.S. Marines Corp counterintelligence office and a ex-U.N. chief weapons inspector in Iraq.
Joe Lauria is the editor-in-chief of Consortium News.
Back 50 minutes in. Money nothing like winning right.
It is time some one who us a professional
When we have leadership who is already brain dead this is the bullshit you will have to listen to.
I’m not sure Trump get embarrassed the way many think. I think Scott might agree when I say Trump get frustrated and then angry. Which is why he should have never been elected and has never been fit to serve. Got that folks ? He is not fit to lead and it is very obvious right now.
Loss of situational awareness leads to defeat. Check out Sun-tzu, if you don’t believe Scott think about “Loss of Situational awareness! The top folks at the Pentagon are not being effective at this moment.
The truth is Trump & his Cult must be stopped.!
I hope everyone is listening to the words of a seasoned veteran who ran afoul of his lying bosses and has nothing left to lose by telling the truth to you.
We must back this guy and fire the entire Republican Party and the Democraps if necessary.
Well Scott you have this right for sure and trump & cult are an example, a great example of how to lose, no problem!
1:58 I’m taking another break. 1:20 ready fir phase 2?
Love Consortium News!! The world needs you!
We have Full Blown Psychopaths with the worlds most powerful military under their control.
I think WWIII has almost arrived, we’re mere seconds away from midnight on the Doomsday Clock.
The United States government is now comprised of pro wrestling fans and outright comic book characters. But when this thing comes to a bloody halt and the enchantment ends, there will have to be trials for the political leaders, Silicon Valley executives, propagandists and Christian fanatic generals who brought the world so much death and destruction.
This sounds to me as if this is some sort of plan i.e. a systematic, trimming of expertise to hire contractors who are either set up to fail purposely setting up more failure. Look around! The republicans could stop this anytime they choose. They have not.
Scott has this stuff figured out.
They have always been lying con-artists !
Scott you are blowing me away.
I have to take a pause. be back later,
I am not a bit surprised no one should. There are no excuses. The republicans are directly responsible for not putting a quick end to this B.S.! They have refused to do. Time to hold them responsible. If the democrats need help doing this we all, each one of us who finds themselves for pledging that Oath to the Constitution to preserve and protect will.
Time to pitch in and Make It Happen. Make these idiots pay for what they have done, most all of which is illegal.
At 29 minutes I know wactly what C=Scott is talking about here. I got bought out to retire as they asked and did so Feb 2007. I had seen enough of exactly what Scott is talking about here.
I could not agree more. Get after them Scott.
It’s obvious Scott is a professional and his arguments are persuasive. It’s one thing to propagandize U.S. and western Euro publics. It’s another to to get rid of veteran analysts and advisors because they report things an administration doesn’t want to hear. With nothing left but an echo chamber, this won’t go well. Military might alone cannot rewrite reality.
As predicted in Chalmers Johnson’s 2001 book/Blowback,/ the horrors committed in wars abroad come home to haunt the perpetrators. The sick justification during the Vietnam war “we had to destroy the village to save it” is being applied domestically. Declining econ and political powers are desperate to stay in control, so any opposition, including the supposed western values of democracy, a free press, independent higher education, religious moral traditions, etc. must be suppressed. As the newspaper cartoon strip Pogo of the VN era said: “We have met the enemy and he is us.”
I see this runs 2 hours and 20 minutes. At 14 minutes in I can tell this is going to take me a while to decide how I wish to respond.
I have some device to everyone. Don’t watch Scott he is on a mission. I found listening without watching his facial expressions makes for less distraction and more retention.
Watch listen, what ever, but you best listen to this man because HE KNOWS!
Jesus Christ. what a mess.
Ask yourself why this happened. Iran did talk and wanted to settle. Can you say Fascist Zionist, billionaire fat bastards.? Got to run I’ll be back.
Remember, regarding Vietnam, Westmorland is supposed to have said, “You know you never defeated us on the battlefield.” To which General Giap responded, “That may be so, but it is also irrelevant.”
Thank you, Joe Lauria and Scott Ritter, for another extraordinarily valuable, pertinent and instructive discussion.
Every American would do well to listen very closely…
Why NO closed captions for deaf people like me?
It is up to the viewer to choose closed captions by hitting the CC button at the bottom on YouTube. We cannot control that. The option is up to you.
I am deaf too, but there were no captions on either the CN or the utube video. Normally there are, but this time there was not.
You must click on the CC button.
Oh my God. Thanks for that response and all of your top notch reporting.
Take good care.
A stunning exposition by Scott Ritter.
One question that keeps nagging me, if the targeting of a girl’s school & killing of innocents on the first morning of the joint US-Israeli-Pariah campaign was due to outdated data fed through an AI scheme, then why do more schools & now hospitals continue to be targeted & bombed? Are they all AI “mistakes” or is this some unholy ritual by Israel to initiate the Americans in the Gaza “method”?
Thank you for another thought-provoking broadcast.
Figures from Iranian Red Crescent of damage by US and Israel as reported in mainstream media included 65 schools, 14 medical centers, 13 Red Crescent facilities. No published figures that I could find of casualties from the “double-tap” bombing in Tehran, which Israel experimented with in Gaza.
At first I was sure it was done by Israel. Then it was determined that the bombing was done by US. So then I started thinking that since they control us, we’re now doing things their way vis a vis targeting civilians–after all, they’ve been training ICE and many police forces in the US…We’re behaving just like them. It’s sickening.
As to the destruction of the US military installations in the region, i wonder why i do not see photos of any damage. But i see many photos of damage to Iranian and Lebanese buildings etc. I am not saying i do not believe the US bases have been hit, but wonder if it’s a government directive to the media to not show any attacks on US property.
No wondering about it!
Censorship has been the major root, to this point, of the Israeli Apartheid states highly successful propaganda tree, that for too many years has blocked out; shaded the despicable truth of its homicidal behavior from the Zionist states own population.
This fact has been consequential for the entire global population, which only recently has begun to be more fully aware of, and comprehend what it, itself is now acing; what has actually been taking place behind the walls of the murderous, tyrannical regime, because finally the cat is being forced out of the bag, and the chickens coming home to roost for all the world to experience firsthand.
I really cannot do anything but laugh at the “most incompetent people in the world”.
Á propos the european energy crisis: yesterday the petrol prices here have already increased from €1.47 per litre to €1.59.
Just wait and see what happens when the food runs out.
The Nazi regime committed genocide, a war crime. The Trump and Biden administrations are guilty of the same war crime. Charge war crimes. Want to stop illegal war of aggression? Charge them with war crimes.
I believe Dave is right. Both Biden & Trump should be charges and anyone else who supported their war efforts.
The soviet regime was far worse.hankus
Isreal and Netanyahu have already been charged/indited with war crimes but that hasn’t stopped them and if the ICC charged any American the US would invade The Hague and probably destroy it!
It is obvious that your guest Mr. Joe Lauria, Scott Ritter is not only knowledgeable about what he is sharing with your audience but also a person of experience, education, and wisdom. I think Israel for decades has been behaving like that small little kid that brings a big, strong, tough guy to finish his fight when the runt starts one. Hence, the USA in my opinion has been drawn in by Israel only to realize that soon of their blunder and huge miscalculation’s.
Thank you,
Tony Bruno
From México