Scott Ritter: “Agent Zelensky, Part I”

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1. @Ari Dale

   your unremitting verbal attack on Ukraine of the evil of NATO and the glowing righteousness of the Putin Federation.

   Perhaps you might actually challenge Ted’s position with more than your disdain. There was a time, not that long ago, when open debate was understood to be the manner in which to prove your assumptions as accurate, but of course this is not the modern way – which scorns challenging debate while seeking a comforting acquiescence from only like minded colleagues.

   If you believe that NATO is not to blame here, speak to the villainy which brought us to this point. Explain how the overthrow of the Ukrainian govt was either legitimate or even in the vital interests of the US. Explain why they US armed and trained neo Nazi units, funded the war, and spurned all attempts by Russia to negotiate a peaceful outcome which did not require any land transfer to Russia. Explain why the US still finds it necessary to fund a war which has missed its mark, and which is overwhelming US military stocks. If NATO was right to provoke this war tell us why, and if you believe they did not provoke this war explain how these actions by the US listed above could actually be seen as not being provocative.

   Few supporters of the Neocon gambit in Ukraine have the stomach to actually interact on these topics more than the non-conversation you have shared below, which is neither persuasive nor useful to support the position which they seem to hold but can not or will not defend. Who knows, by actually interacting in a conversation, either one of us might actually learn something, perhaps both of us, which is otherwise lost while seeking only a discussion within a friendly echo chamber.

2. @Ari Dale
   I am in good company. Col Douglas Macgregor, Jeffrey Sachs, Brian Berletic, Alex Mercouris, Redacted, Duran, and many others all agrees.

   In addition I agree with Trump. “Stop the killing”. The resistance or aggression of the West has cost over 300,000 casualties in Ukraine alone, dead and wounded. And for what , a few provinces.

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3. I wonder if even one person has been convinced by your unremitting verbal attack on Ukraine of the evil of NATO and the glowing righteousness of the Putin Federation. Maybe move on to something else?

4. EMAIL

   WATCHED ZELENSKY ‘AGENT ZELENSKY-PART ONE”. IT’S AN INTERESTING PERSPECTIVE. MY OWN CONCLUSION, WHICH I STARTED WRITIING ABOUT THE DAY THAT PUTIN THREATENED TO INVADE THE UKRAINE AND EVEN BEFORE THE FIRST BULLET WAS EVER FIRED WAS THAT THIS WAS A WAR, WELCOMED BY THE WORLD, SINCE NO LEADER EVER STEPPED UP TO THE PLATE TO SAY, ‘THE WORLD DOESN’T NEED THIS WAR’ AND TO USE ALL OF WORLD LEADERSHIP POWERS TO STOP THIS WAR FROM HAPPENING. I SAID FROM DAY ONE ZELENSKY LOVES BEING THE CENTER OF ATTENTION AND ENCHANTING THE VARIOUS PARLIAMENTS, CONGRESSES, KNESSET AND ACADEMY AWARDS WITH HIS UNSHAVEN PUSS AND HIS MILITARY SWEATSHIRT. THE ‘AGENT ZELENSKY- PART ONE’ SUGGESTS THAT ZELENSKY IS AN AGENT AND HAS A HANDLER. IF YOU CAN SPARE 30 MINUTES, GO AHEAD AND WATCH IT (DOWN BELOW). I FOUND IT VERY INTERESTING, BUT LIKE ALL NEWS, ONE MUST NEVER RUSH TO CONCLUSIONS, ALTHOUGH WHEN I SAID FROM DAY ONE ‘THE WORLD DOES NOT NEED THIS WAR, I WAS REALLY BEING PROPHETIC. THAT’S INTERESTING BECAUSE MY HISTORY WAS NOTHING MORE THAN A SALESMAN OF SECOND HAND ONE ARM BANDITS THAT NEVER PAID OUT ON JACKPOTS. FUNNY HOW THE 80% JEWS OF AMERICA DECLARED ZELENSKY A JEWISH HERO, EVEN THOUGHT ZELENSKY SEEMS TO FEEL BEING JEWISH MAKES HIM UNHAPPY. HE SAID SO.

5. Ukraine Loses Turning Point USA Straw Poll

   Trump crushed his opposition in the TPUSA Straw Poll by gaining near unanimous support of 86%, leaving Desnatis in just third place with only 4%, but the real statement made at TPUSA was that they fully rejected any US involvement in Ukraine’s war with Russia.

   95.8% said NO when answering the question

   ‘Do you support U.S. involvement in the war in Ukraine?’

6. Vivarto is quite correct. There is only one subject which is relevant to the video and that subject is neither Ritter, nor McGreggor nor Carlson. As Galina and Andrew would prefer to discuss anything else, the only point which is relevant to the charges raised in this video is Zelensky himself. What remains incontestable about this man is also quite detestable enough as he has seized complete control of his govt, banishing the opposition, beating, robbing, and ransoming the leader of the opposition, outlawing a well established religious order, and cancelled elections til such time as he chooses to end the war and face the electorate again – which is probably never. None of these facts are raised by Ritter’s first installment, but they remaine the more significant charges which should be added to those embraced in the video.

   If Ritter were Adolf Hitler himself, it would not change any of this. So perhaps Galina and Andrew might drop their distraction tactics and address the real subject here and try to defend the villain Zelensky from at least some of the charges made against him.

7. @Ted Belman

   I don’t know if Ritter is a mouthpiece for Kremlin and I don’t care.
   I want to know if his statements about Zielensky are true or false.

8. https://youtu.be/HLeBb6hPUC8
   Here is the link to youtube

9. Galina writes:

   I will not judge the quality of the video and its content. I want to draw the attention of the audience to the ideology and worldview of Mr. Ritter. And his worldview is not objective.
   Mr. Salim Mansour does not know, or rather, keeps silent about the fact that Scott Ritter is the mouthpiece of the Kremlin. He is not an independent journalist, as he feeds on Putin’s hands, working for money on Russian state channels. I would like the viewer to know for whom S. Ritter works (not disinterestedly), posting his videos against Ukraine and Zelensky. He collaborates with the state channel Russia Today. Russia Today is the most massive state television channel, the head is M. Simonyan. She is known for her zoological hatred of Ukraine. In addition, Ritter has his own Al Jazeera column. In 2023, Ritter visited 12 cities in Russia. I wonder who paid for this trip? Who gave permission to visit these cities to a former intelligence officer from America? Usually a simple foreign journalist is denied such trips. Only the FSB gives such permissions. And I’m not surprised. The hand washes the hand (Russian proverb). I hope my comment will help more objectively evaluate the video of Mr. Ritter.»

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10. @Andrew
    You state

    Article one of the Helsinki Final Act said that the signatory states would

    “respect each other’s sovereign equality, juridical equality and territorial integrity”,

    Was the US not a signatory to the Final Act in 2014 when it overthrew the legitimate Ukrainian govt? In fact they were. Yet you ignore the coup which violated both the Helsinki Final Act, the Budapest Memorandum and the UN Charter while also challenging Russia for having reacted to a rising existential threat to their strategic interests on their own border. More than this, the illegality of the American coup in Kiev established a Nazi presence in the highest echelons of power in a nation bordering Russia. That was in 2014. Since that time, negotiations between the parties continued over the following 8 years. Among the initiatives, plans and negotiations, the diplomats turned out the following attempts at a negotiated peace:
    -The Geneva agreement of April 2014
    -The Minsk accords of August 2014
    -Minsk II Accords of February 2015
    –The Morel Plan of October 2015
    –The Sajdik Initiative of January 2019
    –The Steinmeier Formula of December 2015
    –The Clusters Approach of 2021
    -Medvedchuk’s Restoring Donbass to Ukraine, and Ukraine to Dombass strategy of January 2019
    -Novinsky’s Ukrainian Formula for Peace of 2018
    -Sivokho’s National Platform for Reconciliation and Unity of March 2020

    French, German, and Ukrainian politicians who were involve in the above peace negotiations have acknowledged that the maneuvers to avoid war were in fact simply tactics by which to build a better army to defeat Russia. In fact, it should also be noted that this is far from an exhaustive list, which does not include the endeavors taken by Russia to avoid war in the weeks and months prior to the invasion, which the US simultaneously completely ignored and actively obstructed every effort by its NATO allies to do otherwise.

    Despite the reality that it was Russia’s sphere of influence which had been violated by American intrigues placing neo Nazi’s and anti-Russian Nationalists in power in Kiev, Russia did not walk away from any possible negotiated settlement and continuously sought a peaceful resolution to avoid war right up to the point the war broke out.

    Your use of distractions to malign the characters of those who disagree with your support of what the Americans have done does not in any way alleviate America from having committed the crimes which it did in fact commit, and which you still do not address, even while you use the same diplomatic agreements violated by the American coup plotters to chastise the Russian response to those violations.

    Perhaps you might take this opportunity to speak to the issue of the American coup which actually led to the war rather than trying to bury it under the tactic of character assassination which seems to be your preference.

11. Ritter is an unregistered foreign agent.

    No amount of Ritterite, Tuckerite, MacGregorite, Loganite, Gabbardite BS changes any of this, does it?

    IRELAND FOR LAW:

    “On…1 August 1975, the then Taoiseach, Liam Cosgrave was one of the signatories of the Helsinki Final act governing relations between European states. He signed along the United States, all other European countries (except Albania), and the USSR, which at the time encompassed both Russia and Ukraine.

    Article one of the Helsinki Final Act said that the signatory states would

    “respect each other’s sovereign equality, juridical equality and territorial integrity”,

    and that they would refrain from the

    “use of force or the threat of the use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of any state”.

    “…Russia became a member on 28 February 1996. The Council of Europe is the source of a dense and comprehensive network of treaties on many topics… and its Treaties only have meaning to the extent that its members are willing to abide by international law…”

    READ THE REST HERE: https://andrewgbenjamin.substack.com/p/is-ukraine-in-the-national-interest

    As for “Russia is under no threat of internal revolt or even protests.”

    Russia Is Fortifying Kaliningrad, But NATO Can Destroy it Anyway
    https://nationalinterest.org/blog/reboot/russia-fortifying-kaliningrad-nato-can-destroy-it-anyway-199168
    The collapse of Russian influence is widening | The Hill
    https://thehill.com/opinion/national-security/4007441-the-collapse-of-russian-influence-is-widening/
    Transforming German Königsberg into Soviet Kaliningrad
    https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/transforming-german-k%C3%B6nigsberg-soviet-kaliningrad-16339
    KALININGRAD, A GERMAN REGION, VOTES FOR INDEPENDENCE FROM RUSSIA
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IaXrG6_Qs6Q
    They are Russia’s Baltic base, now surrounded and blocked by NATO. Crimea is Russia’s Black Sea base, now being attacked by Ukraine. Russia’s next base is near China. Geography is destiny I remind you all.
    Putin is in Retreat from Kaliningrad!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxz2PgB1wRw

    The fact is this: Russia is collapsing internally, with large swaths of its regions are in open rebellion, separatism and sabotage is happening all over the country, and today most of the Russian people, as well as his soldiers are turning on Putin.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7z-DTucwQJU

    WAGNER has totally abandoned Putin.
    https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12298609/Putin-insists-Wagner-doesnt-exist-reveals-fighters-refused-offer-continue-fighting.html

    And then you have this complete idiot, Doug MacGregor, bloviating that Ukraine has been annihilated: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtXpKYJ3tI8

    That’s why Ukraine pushed in 75 km toward Russia, eh Doug?

    MacGregor and Ritter are clowns.

    This is Andrew Benjamin reporting from Budapest.

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12. @Michael
    The use of the Vietnam analogy fails to include the relevance of the fact that the Ukraine war is a war of existential threat for Russia, and this was never true for America in Vietnam. This distinction is no mere nuance. If the US saw its fate as being determinant upon the conquest of Vietnam, it would not have left the war when it did.

    In fact, the American public were not supportive of the war, and they did not see losing Vietnam as being relevant to securing either their national integrity nor their political continuity, as is clearly true of the situation in Ukraine from the respect of the Russians. Instead, the Americans conducted protests against the war and the opposition to the war led, in part, to Johnson being displaced from not only the presidency but his own party even before the election took place. In fact, opposition to the Vietnam War, albeit combined with many other socio-economic and political factors, led to one of the greatest election victories in US political history.

    Russia is under no threat of internal revolt or even protests. The recent mutiny, if it was a mutiny, led to no one actually supporting the mutiny besides the US, which likely only served to strengthen the resolve of Russians to recognize the threat under which they are facing should they be defeated in Ukraine. 1

    As I have noted previously, we will see what the future reveals. While it is not impossible that history may reveal an upset for Russia similar to that which befell Johnson, there seems to be nothing to actually support your analogy to Vietnam except a conclusion which you seem to prefer.

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13. pushing their wicked war to undo the Russian Federation

    When I was in the US Army, during the Vietnam War, we passed along skuttlebutt about how the peace negotiations were getting on in Paris. The North Vietnamese legation, at one point, was said to have said,

    “If the US pulls its troops out of Vietnam, we will pull our troops out of the US.”

    That is the case here, with Zelensky summoning the spirit of Ho Chi Minh and Putin summoning the spirit of Lyndon B. Johnson. For those who are new to all this, Ho’s side won and Johnson’s side lost.

14. Very interesting review of both Ukraine and Zelensky. Looking forward to part 2.

15. Ritter’s research is mind-blowing.

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