Scott Ritter is a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and author of 'SCORPION KING: America's Suicidal Embrace of Nuclear Weapons from FDR to Trump.'
He served in the Soviet Union as an inspector implementing the INF Treaty, served in General Schwarzkopf's staff during the Gulf War, and from 1991 to 1998 served as a chief weapons inspector with the UN in Iraq. Follow him on Twitter @RealScottRitter
Russian Strategy in this Intervention
Demilitarization and DeNazification
Not “Shock and Awe”
What is their strategy?
Explain encirclement - “cauldrons”
- Status of Mariupol, Odessa, Karkhov, Kiev
Civilians used as human shields
Mercenaries
Chechens - some 200 - on Russian side - to Mariupol
ISIS, Al Qaeda, others -
Several hundred killed yesterday at training centers with precision missiles….many fled and will not return
US, Canada, UK others trained Ukrainian Army - Neo Nazis?
weapons to civilians and prisoners released from jail
Airlifted - tons and tons of tanks, artillery, grads, etc.
Stinger and Javelin missiles - in the hands of Nazis and ISIS
Political Settlement?
Talks - Lavrov not giving in - Russia’s demands
Zelinsky “peace by May”
The Epic Battle for the Future Order of the World
Between the USA and Russia/China
One Bridge One Road - Europe as the Western Peninsula of Greater Eurasia
Multipolar world vs Unipolar world
Spells the end of the US Hegemon and US Dollar
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