Scott Ritter: "On my way to Russia I met Big Brother
This is highly significant discussion between Scott Ritter and Judge Andrew Napolitano.
I have done a rough transcript of some parts that I thought were significant.
…. People are saying that the Russians are bluffing, that the Russians lacked the capacity to back these words up with meaningful force.
There's even a people who say, “Look, Russia is focused on the BRICS summit in October, . Why would Russia risk, you know, a war with the West?”
Well, because the West is threatening Russia's existential survival.
And this is the danger. I mean, even President Putin came out today and said, you know, this is a very dangerous game that's being played that will have fatal consequences for the United States.
Judge, in retrospect, it might be a good thing that you and I didn't go to Russia, because I'm very fearful that while the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum is underway, that a red line will be crossed, and Russia will respond.and we will be looking at an outbreak of actual war between the United States and Russia.
This is why I wanted to travel.
I was hopeful that by speaking to the Russian government, speaking to the Russian people speaking to the Russian nation, about the potential of the American people to do the right thing come November, maybe vote in somebody who isn't hell bent on going to war with Russia, that the Russians might not be inclined , to act precipitously when we cross these red lines.
But I was denied that opportunity by the US government. And now, sadly, there's no voice in Russia right now, American voice, that can caution.
The US Embassy isn't that we don't have an American ambassador that's meeting with the Russians on a regular basis, saying it's all misunderstanding what do we need to do to avoid war.
We have a US government together with NATO allies that think Russia is bluffing and they are seeking to put as much pressure on Russia as possible, prior to this "peace summit" that's been convened by Ukraine and Switzerland, in the middle of this month, a peace summit that's falling apart before it even begins.
But the operating notion is that we must convince Russia that we are serious about the consequences Russia will accrue if it continues military engagement against Ukraine that Russia's only choice is to be compelled to the peace table. Russia is not playing that game. Russia is playing the game of "we've won this war and if you want to make it a broader war, we win that war too"
Here's how serious Russia takes it. Here's another statement. from Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on May 30,
"We do not rule out additional steps in the sphere of NUCLEAR deterrence, because our command centers and the locations of our nuclear forces will be in range of American forward-based missiles."
This is about as serious as you can get.
You know, there's a lot of Americans out there in the armchair warrior category, who are like "unleash the ATACM's. The ATACM , is the long range, up to 300 kilometer range missile, that we have provided to the Ukrainians.
Ray McGovern, and next time you have Ray on you can talk to him about this has highlighted, you know, some of the negotiations that were taking place between the Russians in the United States before the initiation of the Special Military Operation.
And the Russians kept saying, "we can't let NATO into Ukraine", because we can't allow American missiles into Ukraine because a lot of these Russian facilities, command centers, etc, that Russia uses were conceptualized and constructed during the Soviet Union when Ukraine was part of the Soviet Union.
So, from a Russian perspective, they were deep in the Russian rear protected, but if Ukraine now was carved out made part of NATO, and you insert American missiles there, all of these places that were thought to be safe in the rear are now reachable if America allows Ukraine to use ATACM's them as missiles to strike these facilities. Russia will nuke NATO, not Ukraine, NATO.
And this is what Lavrov just said, …"if you do this now, according to the Ukrainians, they're complaining that the United States will only allow them to use the HIMAR's that they won't be allowed to use the attackers to strike Russia yet.
Just so everybody in your audience understands, we are one ATACM launch away from everybody dying. We are one attack and launch away from everybody dying.
Do you think Russia would attack Berlin, Paris,London?
Russia said they will attack Berlin, Paris, London, Brussels.
Russia will attack the decision-making centers associated with any attack against Russia that Russia deems to represent an existential threat.
Let's get back to the ATACM's.
The ATACM system uses a guidance system, a GPS guidance system backed by an inertial guidance system that requires specific information to be loaded into the system.
That can only be done by an American.
I'll just repeat that one more time, that can only be done by an America.
And now it's not just it's that we get to the next part, that information will be transmitted from collection platforms, overhead satellites, drones, other ground and air breathing, intelligence collection resources.
They collect data, that data goes to a center inside Poland, or in Germany, where that data is collated and then used to create a target model of data against a specific target - what targets going to be attacked, how they're going to attack it, with what, from where.
That data that is put together into a target package, which is transmitted again, using top secret, communications channels that the Ukrainians don't have access to.
So we have somebody on the ground in Ukraine, receiving this package from somebody who planned it outside of Ukraine, and then they will put it into the missile.
And then the Ukrainians do the last part, which is to push the button and launch
But every other aspect was done by American hands, and the Russians know this.
And so wherever in Europe, this planning is taking place.
This collation of intelligence data, this communication of targeting data - these are now legitimate targets that Russia will take out, either conventionally, or if required using nuclear weapons.
And if the Germans are party to this Macron needs to understand if the Ukrainians use the French-provided Scout missiles, the same thing applies.
The targeting data that goes inside can only been put in place by a French actor. s
Do the Russians have missile capability that we cannot intercept?
Yes, pretty much every modern Russian missile is designed to evade American and NATO missile defense on the strategic level.
They have hypersonic missiles, they have maneuvering hypersonic warheads, they have similar capabilities at the tactical and intermediate level.
We can't defend against this.
The bottom line is that the Russians launched the missiles, those missiles will hit the targets they're aimed at.
If those targets if those missiles have nuclear weapons, those nuclear weapons will detonate where they're supposed to .
This will be devastating.
It will be the the end of Europe at a minimum and potentially the end of the United States the end of Russia and the end of the world.
Do Biden, Blinken, Sullivan, Austin, etc. President, the Secretary of State, the National Security Adviser, the Secretary of Defense, understand the gravity of this moment as you've explained it, or, are they just propagandists?
You know, I used to have a friend named William Polk, and I say used to because tragically, he passed away a couple years ago. William Polk was a man who was in the inner circle for John F. Kennedy during the Cuban Missile Crisis.
He talked to me many times about the decision making that was going on and the in the role that Kennedy played in preventing a nuclear war - the maturity Kennedy had as a leader.
Part of that maturity came from when Kennedy was first briefed on what was then called the Single Integrated Operation plan, the SIOP, the American war plan.
He went to the Pentagon, and they briefed him, they said, this is "if we go to nuclear war, this is what we got.
Basically, it was premised on the notion that America will be the largest surviving civilization, but in order to guarantee that we have to kill everybody in the world,
Kennedy said, "that's insane. I'm not doing that"and he turned to his advisers, and said, "you have to give me options".
Every president since then, or up until George W. Bush, reacted the same way when they first got that briefing on how America plans to go to war, which is to destroy the entire world so that when the 20 to 30% of America that survives, will be the largest remaining civilization cluster in the world, guaranteeing American global dominance in a post nuclear conflict.
Insanity.
They all said the same thing and said, "give me options, I can't go to that. You can't make me do this. ou have to give me options”. And the Pentagon always gave them options that inevitably led to that".
After the end of the Soviet Union, the Americans downplayed their nuclear war plan.
We detargeted our missiles; nothing was on an automatic anymore and we were heading into path of getting rid of nuclear weapons.
And then George W. Bush came in, post-911 environment, and said, "We will use our nuclear weapons to ensure that a 911 never happens again" and we reinserted nuclear war planning into our military doctrine.
Today, we have that same mindset, that same nuclear war strategy without the maturity of John F. Kennedy.
We have people who look at the plan, say, “well, that's just a plan, we're not really going to do that”. And they say "the Russians are bluffing. We don't have to worry about this".
The problem is, the second something happens - and that plan is pulled out, the dust is brushed off and we start pushing buttons. we go to the scenario that John F Kennedy said was insanity.
Judge, we're going to blow up the entire world. because we know that in a post nuclear environment - we can't allow, for instance, India to survive intact, because we're going to be reduced to 30% of our capacity. We can't allow India to have a superior civilization in a post- nuclear conflict.
We're going to destroy the entire world.
That's what the American nuclear war plan is. And the American people need to wake up and understand it's on full automatic.