Scott Ritter
“ Russia’s decision to invade Ukraine on February 24, 2022 was not an unprovoked act of aggression, but rather a legitimate exercise of its right, together with the newly independent republics of Lugansk and Donetsk, of preemptive collective self-defense in the face of the imminent threat of aggression by Ukraine’s newly trained army which was, by design, little more than a NATO proxy.
- — Scott Ritter, “90 Seconds to Midnight?”, January 24, 2023
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russian invasion of Ukraine
- Scott Ritter, “For those who have bought into the fiction of a noble Ukrainian resistance, you do not understand modern war. The Ukrainian Military will be annihilated in short order; any Ukrainian militia dumb enough to try to pull a trigger will not live to see another day. This is reality.”, February 17, 2022
- Scott Ritter, “Lvov is the heart of this cancer. There cannot be de-Nazification without Russia taking that city and purging this poison. Just a heads up for those who think this ends when Kiev falls.”, March 4, 2022
- Scott Ritter, “I’ve always viewed the Kiev operation as a means of fixing significant Ukrainian forces in place, and siphoning off reserves/reinforcements that could otherwise be sent east/south. Taking a city of 3-plus million was never in the cards.”, March 25 2022
- Scott Ritter, “This war will go down in history as a strategic Russian victory. Russia will have halted NATO expansion, destroyed a dangerous den of Nazi ideology in Ukraine, redefined European security by undermining NATO, and demonstrated Russian military prowess, an important deterrent.”, March 27, 2022
- Scott Ritter, “Russia, in contrast, has fought a war against domestic terrorism (Chechnya), foreign aggression (Georgia), in response to a CIA-backed coup (Ukraine) and at the invitation of a nation threatened by foreign jihadists (Syria). Russia won these because it was on the side of right.”, February 23, 2022
Syria
- Scott Ritter, “Epistle to the Galatians 6:7–“Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.””, August 17, 2019, replying to: “Some terrible images coming out of Russian/Syrian airstrikes in Idlib today. A headless child. A breathing, bleeding fetus. A boy shredded from the chest down. They’re too awful to post. But it doesn’t stop.”
- Scott Ritter, “Someone needs to educate Angelina Jolie that she is advocating on behalf of an al Qaeda affiliate, people who celebrate the destruction of the Twin Towers and murder of thousands. Killing rabid dogs isn’t a pleasant task, but it is necessary.”, February 22, 2020 (Angelina Jolie: The Cost of Inaction in Syria is Too High)
- Scott Ritter, “Assad is the most progressive choice available to the Syrian people today. The fact that you don’t see this is an indictment of your lack of intellectual curiosity and/or your covert embrace of either American-imposed hegemony or the tyranny of Islamic extremism. Prove me wrong.”, July 5, 2021
- Scott Ritter, “Nearly every negative thing written about the Russian military intervention in Syria has been demonstrably proven wrong. Keep this in mind when reading about atrocities committed in Ukraine, written by the same people who got the Syria story so wrong. Western journalism is dead.”, 7 March 7, 2022
- Scott Ritter, “I was recently notified that I had been selected as a recipient of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity. Past recipients of the award include Jimmy Dore, Max Blumenthal and Julian Assange. I’m in solid company!”, January 11, 2023
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Gonzalo Lira fake news
Threads and articles about Scott Ritter
- Pekka Kallioniemi, “In today’s #vatnik soup I’ll introduce an American arms inspector, convicted criminal and a pro-Russian propagandist, Scott Ritter (@RealScottRitter). He’s best known for his biased takes on the Russo-Ukrainian War, his propaganda work for RT and for his sex offenses.” (thread) (pdf)
Arrests and conviction
https://cases.justia.com/pennsylvania/superior-court/975-eda-2012.pdf?ts=1462434474
https://law.justia.com/cases/pennsylvania/superior-court/2013/975-eda-2012.html
https://casetext.com/case/commonwealth-v-ritter-9
2001, New York
On two separate occasions in 2001, Ritter met what appeared to be two girls, one age 14 and the other age 16, in adult chat rooms and traveled to different locations to meet the girls, who both turned out to be undercover police.
https://eu.poconorecord.com/story/news/crime/2011/10/27/prison-for-ex-u-n/49853870007/
