Convicted pedophile Scott Ritter wrong so many times, I really need him to explain how Ukraine is dropping so many artillery rounds without any artillery.
Posted on 11/22/2022 2:07:01 PM PST by Cathi
Answer to one question Scott Ritter:
Well now we have people who say we want to do this with Ukraine. Well right off the bat I want to tell you any time we deal with Russia, let's put it this way, you can't solve a problem unless you have properly defined the problem. Any time we are dealing with Russia we need to understand that the United States and our NATO allies don't understand Russia. We don't have an accurate assessment of Russia. We've under estimated them in some areas and over estimated them in other areas. I'll give you an example...the Special Military Operation.
Mark Milley briefed Congress that Kiev would fall within 72 hrs. The director of the CIA made a similar assessment. His belief was that Ukraine would collapse in less than a week. Guess who else made that assessment? Me. Why? Because anyone who knows anything about the Russian way of fighting a war would have said that if the Russians come in even with 200,000 troops they come in doctrinally and they smother everything with fire power and overwhelm you with mass and slaughter everything there is nothing the Ukrainians can do to stand up to that.
But, Russia didn't come in that way. Why? Because see we're mirror imaging ourselves on Russia. We're acting as if we are fighting the Iraqis whom we don't identify with. Therefore we are capable of dehumanizing them to the extent that we have no problem with steamrolling over their troops and killing tens of thousands of them. And afterwards we will have the nightmares and the PTSD and the value of what we have done with hit home. But, at the time they are just ragheads, we're killing the ragheads and kids, civilians....shame on you for being alive. Boom, boom, boom, we'll roll through you and we'll do what we need to do.
But, the Russians are coming in saying "these are our brothers." See we don't understand that. We don't understand the concept of Slavic cultural unity, the identity that during the time of the Soviet Union they literally were brothers; that they fought side by side against NAZI Germany....27 million shared casualties. They have a shared culture, shared history, shared everything. So the Russians don't want to come in and steamroll. They were trying to do something different, a softer approach and because we don't understand Russia we misunderstood their softer approach as a sign of weakness. We interpreted it as weakness. At first we said, "Oh, they're going to steamroll" and when they didn't steamroll we said, "Gosh, that's cuz they're weak; they suck."
So then we step up and think now we can simply reinforce Ukraine and Russia is going to fold. We don't understand anything about Russia. The Russians will never fold. I am not saying they are invincible, they are not, but they are willing to step up. It's like if I wanted to play football. Juan you and I are going to play a football game next year and you know you get your team ready. So you get your team ready and I get my team. And your team if lighting weights all day long, running wind sprints, getting ready running plays. My team is sitting in the bar drinking beer and talking about how good we are. And when we show up on the field your team is going to wipe me off the field because you've actually prepared. It may take you time to prepare. Your guys may not be in as good a shape at the beginning but my lifting weights and running you're there.
The Russians are lifting weights and running. They're preparing. They are ready for this. We've been sitting in the back drinking beer fighting insurgents for twenty years. We think that because we can kick down the door in an Iraqi village we're somehow superman. We think because we can bomb and Afghan wedding party "God, we're really good." But, we're not; we're not that good. We're not; we are a bunch of beer drinking slobs in a bar thinking we can play a football game without actually preparing to play the game. The Russians meanwhile may not be as good as we are in terms of their potential but they are lifting weights every single day; they're running...they are ready to play. That's what's happening right now. The Russians have never given up on this; they are doubling down while we have sat here and we've burned up all our resources in fruitless attempts to build this Ukrainian army the Russians have been mobilizing. While we are sitting here talk, talk, talking they are training right now. You're familiar with the National Training Center in Fort Irwin, California where the army does it's force on force training...big stuff. Well that's what the Russians are doing right now. We just don't follow it in the Western media. But, they've got 10 to 15 divisions going through the final preparatory training of getting combat certified.
What are we doing? Nothing; but the other day we sent the 101 airborne division to Romania and everyone's like "Oh my God the hundred and first." 4,700 guys, light infantry men on helicopters. We're going to what? Fly into the most heavily defended air space in the world? We've lost our brains. The fact is that NATO has nothing that can take on the Russians.
Look, we thought that we could intimidate Russia just by imposing sanctions. We belittled Russia calling them a gas station disguised as a country. But, if you are going to call your opponent a "gas station disguised as a country" don't be the car on a freeway in the middle of nowhere with an empty gas tank because that is what happened here. The Russians know energy security better than we do. They know it better than anybody. We thought we could do something but we didn't define the problem properly. Therefore the solution we were trying to impose...sanctions...backfired. It's not Russia that is going through an energy crisis right now...its Europe, its the United States. And we made the same mistake on the military. We concluded weakness when it is actually strength. The Russian approach isn't a sign of weakness, it is a sign of strength. It's the Russian way of doing things and if you studied Russia you would have known that but we don't have anybody who does that because we don't respect Russia anymore. We treat them as they are this little nation and we are insulted that they dare stand up and demand a seat at the table. And what we find is that, you know, we are treating them like children and they are actually adults and they are adults who do the job better than we do. So the reason why people did what they did and do what they do is a combination of arrogance and hubris and ignorance on our part and we totally failed to understand. Sun Tzu said "Know your enemy as you know yourself." We don't know our enemy. We know nothing about the Russians. We pretend to, we call it Russophobia. And the way we deal with Russia is say "Russia" and go "Putin...Putin did this, Putin did that." That's our response to everything. And if that's your response it means you are ignorant and you are never going to solve any problems.
All the kings (TSARS) Pedophiles.
“We don’t understand the concept of Slavic cultural unity...”
Oh jeez, this is real rich. The Russians have shown such Slavic cultural unity that the Poles, the Czechs, the Slovaks, the Hungarians, the Ukrainians, Romanians, Moldovans, and basically every other Slavic people except the Serbs and Belorussians want nothing to do with them ever again.
Convicted pedophile Scott Ritter wrong so many times, I really need him to explain how Ukraine is dropping so many artillery rounds without any artillery.
This I can attest to, having trained Ivans for three years in Moscow. The US immoral agenda, wokeism, , liberalism, and way of life that is the norm, is NOT the norm in Russia. The West is incapable of understanding the Russian culture, they judge Russia by their own western narrative- the Democrat Russian Derangement Syndrome has infected the West.
The dose of humility we’re in store for is going to kill a lot of us. And really, we deserve it.
Friggin hilarious. The rus nazi propagandists are calling to genocide “Ukrops”, it's all over their state media, they have been preparing the ground for that shit since years.
How do you know they are pedophiles?
Are you just making an assumption or do you actually
have knowledge about these people? What people specifically?
Can you name them? And what acts they committed that makes them pedophiles?
Or maybe you are just acting like Qtards and labeling anyone you
don't particularly like as a pedophile? Actual pedophiles love it
when you do that, it takes the focus off of them.
Or maybe you just have no clue and are spouting crap.
Scott Ritter is right on, his prior service and experience can not be denied, his qualifications are admirable… no one can take away what he has done and how he has served, that said, have you ever served? I didn’t think so.
Everyone can easily google up what that guy was saying 1, 3 or 7 months ago. He's been wrong about basically everything.
So, it’s ok to invade, destroy, rape, and loot. Those are the Russian qualities we’ve come to learn over the past 80 years.
Just go home and leave the rest of the world alone. Russians have been told that for the past 200 years. You’d think they would have figured out they are not wanted anywhere.
LOL, you want to listen to pedo Scott Ritter, go ahead.
I don’t think Ritter is delusional - I think he knows he’s lying. But I suppose self-delusion is still a possibility, however remote.
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It's amusing finding the biggest defenders of yesterdays idols of the far left, are today, the Pro-Russian far right.
Amusing, yes; surprising, no.
⚡🇪🇺🇺🇦Stockpiles of weapons in Western countries have reached critically low levels due to deliveries to Kiev
📎 Le Monde
According to Western analysts, stockpiles in the arsenals of Europe and the United States are running low and have already fallen below the level required for military planning and training. Washington was forced to buy shells from South Korea to give them to Ukraine, while analysts say Seoul opposes this approach because it does not want to supply weapons to countries involved in the conflict.
And I don’t think many Belorussians are too keen on them either.
“The West is incapable of understanding the Russian culture...”
I disagree. I think the West has a pretty good take on Russian culture, some admirable, some not.
I think perhaps he is talking about Scott Ritter, not Russians in general.
Is that what we did in Iraq?
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