NATO COLLAPSE! THE WEST NEVER WANTED TO SAVE UKRAINE! THE REAL TARGET WAS RUSSIA! | Scott Ritter

[00:00:00]the the the common sense would say we need to mitigate against disaster and we need to negotiate a conclusion to this conflict um to save as much as possible.

[00:00:08]But the West has no intention, zero intention of saving Ukraine. Ukraine has always been offered up as a sacrificial lamb designed to wear Russia down, to break Russia down. Now, they're willing to continue to sacrifice Ukraine, but now they understand that, you know, they're not going to win the battlefield. What they need to do now is classic information operation. Now Andre Elnitzky a lieutenant general um you know worked under Shuyu came up with the term mental warfare. The concept of mental warfare is to plant ideas seeds of thought discord into the psyche of a nation and have it eat the nation from inside to break the nation down to cause the nation to collapse. The goal and objective of the west has always been to get a Moscow Maidon to create a massive unrest in Moscow that brought down Vladimir Putin. So there's an information operation ongoing today.

[00:01:00]massive information operation u mainly here in the west but then the design the goal is to echo it back into Russia through the residual uh liberal elites who reside there and then have that echo into and get a counter blast from the from the conservatives to start you know this this dissonance inside of Russia saying that um Russia can't win and one of the ways they said that Russia can't win is to invest you know a tremendous amount of resources into this drone campaign to create the impression that drones were a magic weapon when uh coupled with artificial intelligence uh created an unbeatable um tool for Ukraine that Russia couldn't deal with.

[00:01:42]They're hitting you, you know, oil refineries and they're hitting factories and they're hitting warehouses and things are burning and there's smoke in the sky and the Russians are, you know, oh, it's defeat. You hit a gas station and there's no gas. There's gas lines. I mean, cor it's collapsing. It's horrible. Russia needs to do something.

[00:02:00]Russia needs to respond. Russia needs to attack Europe right now with an exclamation mark. Um, that's the only way to save Russia, but now we back off.

[00:02:10]None of what they say there is true.

[00:02:12]Yes, they're hitting oil refineries. The oil refineries come back online a week, a week and a half later. There is no permanent disruption. All the gas, you know, the way the information operation works as follows. Let's say you hit the Samara um uh refinery in central Russia.

[00:02:29]First of all, you brag, it's 800 km in.

[00:02:31]Look, we're we're doing things striking deep. Okay, you hit it. It's down for a week and a half. Rosenef owns it. Now, they do that. What they'll do is they'll say, "Okay, Rosenef, you know, it's a refinery making you refined products, including gasoline. What gas stations does Rosenef service in the region?" And then they'll go to that gas station because they understand that when you shut that down, it's not going to get a gas delivery and there's going to be a line of cars. They say, "See, the gas shortage. It's over. Finished. Goodbye."

[00:03:01]What they don't do is go back three days later when the Russians say, "Hey, yeah, that's right. Um, let's call up Luke Oil. Hey, Luke Oil, you've got reserve capacity. Divert it over to Roast so they can get over to their gas stations." Three days later, there's no gas lines. See, we're being lied to.

[00:03:15]It's all a lie. Everything's [clears throat] a lie. Nothing they say is the truth. The drone war has failed.

[00:03:21]That's the other thing they're not telling you. Gilbert Doctr wrote an essay where he talked about German drones be matched with AI. It's going to bring death and destruction. But the reality is that one of the drones he talked about isn't a German drone. Uh and it's been countered. The Russians have the solution and it's not as effective today. The ones he proclaimed were magic are so bad that the Ukrainians won't use them. Won't use them because they're dying. Gilbert Doctor doesn't talk about the fact that the most dangerous job in the Ukrainian military today is drone operator. 80 to 100 drone operators are being slaughtered by the Russians daily. That number is going up because Ukrainians put so much emphasis into drone warfare.

[00:03:59]The other thing people talk about is when these drones hit a Russian target, they go pop. There's 60 kilograms of high explosive. They don't do that much damage. They set some things on fire.

[00:04:09]Those fires are put out. The Russians retaliate with far more weapons that hit their targets that go boom. When a Russian missile hits a target, that target is gone, finished, never to be resurrected. There are more things going boom in Ukraine than are going pop in Russia. And right now, the drone factories are being blown up. Uh they they're running out of drones. They're running out of drone operators. Yes, they'll have the occasional success here and there, but it's petering out. So, now we come to Fedorov. Federov was the guy who said, "I I can work with the West to create the impression of the inevitability of of Ukrainian victory, that we will have drones. We will pour drones in. We will pour this technology in." But that required a diversion of resources away from the Ukrainian army.

[00:04:51]Whereas Sirki, the commander, is saying, "I need those resources to build brigades to fill the holes in the front line. They're being created by the Russian victories. If you know, if you don't want if you don't want to lose the Dumbbas, I need brigades." He lost that debate. Federal got the debate but now it got the resources but now it's known by everybody in Ukraine and everybody in that that their western sponsors that the drone war was lost. Fedov saying that's okay just give me more resources give me more resources and sirki is saying I need those resources right now at the front line and the situation is so desperate at the front line that Zalinsky had no choice but to say I give it to Sirki that created a problem with Fedorov and Fedorov was removed from power. That's what's going on. This is the reality of the situation. Ukraine is losing massively. The West is losing massively. Russia's winning massively.

[00:05:43]Now, people say, "Well, Scott, you've been saying for that long time." I have, and it's the truth. Um, now they're going to say, "Well, how when is Russia going to win?" It doesn't matter because Putin doesn't care. He's not playing the calendar game. The only people that play the calendar game are is the West because they're trying to create artificial, you know, um, standards. Oh, he didn't he didn't liberate Kiev by May. He didn't do this by June. He didn't do this. Doesn't need to. He's killed over two million Ukrainians. He's slaughtering them. This war will inevitably end in a massive Russian victory, which is the only thing that matters from the Russian perspective.

[00:06:19]you um I'm going to segue a little bit because you mentioned earlier in in your comments uh foreign minister Lavough who has been quite vehement uh of late particularly over the weekend which he said a couple of things. He warned about great escalations of global tensions and he basically said Donald Trump's word is meaningless.

[00:06:46]>> [clears throat] >> How how does this play into Iran if at all? Or an easier question, how does this affect USRussian relations? I assume if Lavough is saying this as profoundly and vehemently as you know he did, Putin agrees.

[00:07:05][snorts] >> Yes. Um I mean we're we're we're at that situation now where it's it's become painfully. I mean, the Russians have just basically come out and said that um the spirit of Anchorage is never was um >> right >> and I think it was Lavrov who said uh or maybe he was in Putin. I'd have to double check, but something along the lines of um I wouldn't want to think that Anchorage was about buying time for the United States to arm Ukraine.

[00:07:40]>> [clears throat] >> I wouldn't want to think that the that Anchorage was about buying time to resurrect uh you know to build uh European defense industrial capacity to harm Ukraine. I wouldn't want except now we know that that's what it was and therefore the United States word is worthless finished. Um now normally that would slam the door mean that diplomacyy's dead. Um but there's a a a new concept uh I say new I came up with it but uh I try to use it to explain this new reality called hybrid diplomacy. Uh hybrid diplomacy is um diplomacy that understands because normal diplomacy requires uh a level of tact um and a level of uh integrity. Um hybrid diplomacy requires no tact and no no no integrity. Hydro diplom hybrid diplomacy is when it's basically managed chaos when everybody understands that at least one of the sides is committing an act of perity but in order to manage the chaos you have to um continue to interact with this person or else the chaos blows out of control and what does this mean it means that even though Vladimir Putin and Sergey Lavrov understand that Donald Trump's word is worthless that they will continue to leave the door open for Steve Woodcock and Jared Kushner or people of their ilk to come to Russia to talk. Um because chaos in order to be managed can't be allowed to be chaotic 247, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. Uh chaos every once in a while has to be you know uh brought down and we can see hybrid diplomacy in the in in terms of what the United States did with Iran and what the Iran the Iranians knew up front. They've stated it all along. We don't trust the United States. They're not telling the truth. We're not you know we theou is useless. But they signed it. Why? Hybrid diplomacy. They understood that in order to manage the chaos that's being engendered by Donald Trump, they needed to sell 60 to 80 uh million barrels of oil to get income coming in. They needed to take advantage of the pause to rearrange their forces, uh work on diplomacy, etc. Hybrid diplomacy. And the United States is the same thing.

[00:09:53]Donald Trump has said I was compelled to sign theou not because I believed in the 14 points but because I had to get oil and JD Van said yeah theou is just to buy time to get oil hybrid diplomacy where everybody lies nobody's telling the truth but they go through the motions of diplomacy nonetheless.

[00:10:09]>> Wow.

[00:10:11]Do um Trump and Hegsth really want us to believe that they can restart the war and achieve their military objectives by massive bombing alone.

[00:10:25]>> Well, [laughter] they are trying to sell that to the American public, but the problem is that they, you know, they're overselling it and um it's it's not going to work. I mean, you know, who am I to predict outcomes? I don't know, an analyst who does predictive analysis maybe. But [laughter] the the the fact is um you know, we spent 39 days trying to bomb Iran into the rubble, trying to achieve everything that Donald Trump's trying to achieve today. And back then we had more weapons, um better targets, um the and the element of surprise. Never forget that that we started with a surprise attack. Uh today we have fewer weapons.

[00:11:03]Um our our intelligence is dated. It's it's not um it's not accurate. And there's no surprise the Iranians have been preparing for this. They said right up front, "We know you're going to cheat. We know you're going back." So, they live every day as if the United States was going to resume bombing. So, you know, every factor is lined up against us. We're not as strong as we were. The Iranians are stronger. Um we don't have the weapons we need. We're using a whole bunch of highars and attackums missiles because we don't have bombs. So that means that we're limited to strike into the depth of Iran that is that is marked by these uh by the range of these weapons. Um we are going to run out of weapons very soon. Donald Trump hinted at it. He he was talking about three-week war. Well why three weeks Donnie? Because you run out of ammunition in three weeks. And at that point then what happens? We're not going to get the straight over back. There's not going to be an invasion again. We come to Lindsey Graham you know saying uh you know we the Marines did. Well yeah I know Lindsay. I've been to the Ouija memorial and uh studied the battle. Um but Lindsay, in the 1980s, we uh we embraced something called maneuver warfare because we made a decision collectively, the Marine Corps, that we didn't want to build more Eoima memorials. We don't want to put 5,000 Marines across a beach and have them be killed. Um we'd like to win a war with fewer casualties, fight smarter. Um and but he's sitting there saying, "We shouldn't be afraid of Car Island because we did Eoima." No, we should not do Car Island because of Evoima. because we don't want to do this kind of attack.

[00:12:33]Car Island too, Evoima didn't have a major land mass 16 miles away with 80 to 100 kilometers of depth which is Iran where missiles are arrayed that we can't strike that are going to pour down on Car Island and kill everybody we put onto Car Island. This there will be no land invasion. There won't be. If we try one, we'll everybody who does it will become a casualty. That's pretty much guaranteed. Um we're going to start losing aircraft as we as we try to move in deeper. Um, and the Iranians haven't yet begun to fight. One of the important things here, remember, we come back to Donald Trump's terms. I I needed to get oil. Well, Iran is in the process of taking Kuwait off the map. If they continue to strike desolinization plants and power generation plants, Kuwait ceases to exist as a modern nation state. Saudi Arabia will have to step in to provide emergency water and power.

[00:13:23]Iraq may do so. uh but Kuwait as a as a nation will be completely subordinated to others and um this could lead to actually the dissolution of Kuwait and absorption of Kuwait into uh Iraq where they long have considered to be the 16th province of Iraq. The irony is that's what Saddam Hussein was trying to accomplish when he invaded back in August of 1990. It may be happening now because Iran has taken Iran has sent the word out that the next nation to fall will be the United Arab Emirates.

[00:13:51]They're getting ready to basically remove the United Arab Emirates from the map, destroy water, desel. The point is the Iranians can do this all day, every day for many, many days. They haven't even begun to engage with the the scope and scale of the force they can bring to bear. Each day is a measured response.

[00:14:08]If they decide to escalate, they can out escalate us. They're hitting our sights.

[00:14:12]Uh the the soldiers that died the other day, the four, they were from a Patriot battery that no longer exists because the Iranians took it out. The Iranians have taken out an attackim unit. We don't know the casualties affiliated with that yet. The Iranians have taken out an F-15 in its hanger.

[00:14:26]Unprecedented. They've taken out P8 aircraft. They've taken out other aircraft. They've taken out a whole bunch of uh of Blackhawk helicopters.

[00:14:34]The Iranians are just devastating the United States. And we're bombing empty buildings. That's the other thing. We're bombing empty buildings. We're having zero impact on Iran's ability to continue this conflict. I'm going to play a clip in just a moment uh in which President Trump more or less agrees with you saying this thing cannot go on for another three or four weeks. But before that, I won't mention names, but one of the people with whom you will be dining in the next hour just texted me the following. Iranian military forces are reportedly amassing near the Kuwaiti border. You you just intimated this. It is likely that the Iranian armed forces will launch a shakur launch a security operation toward Kuwait in the coming hours or days. Iran is also expected to establish buffer zones along the Kurdistan front if the operation expands into that area. Does this make sense to you? Yeah, I mean this, you know, in in the 1980s I spent uh, you know, two and a half years in 29 Palms, California as part of the 7th Marine Amphibious Brigade and then the fifth battalion, 11th Marines part of it. That's the marine component of the rapid deployment force. Um that means that I had a go bag with me 247 ready to board an airplane and fly out and execute uh you know op plans, operation plans uh that would be about an Iranian breakthrough through what we called Fish Island at that time.

[00:15:58]Um it was an Iranian defensive belt. If they broke through Fish Island then pivoted, they'd take Bazra and then they could go down to Kuwait City um and you know cause a lot of harm. uh the the Iranians um you know they have a war plan for this um and we don't have a response to it. Um the our military forces in Kuwait are not u sufficient enough to to the you know and if the Iranians go into Kuwait understand they just have uh basically um taken out the logistical uh support base for all American forces in Iraq and uh and elsewhere in that region all ground forces. Uh that means that we're going to be isolated. They'll take out not just the logistical places, but they'll take out the staging areas, meaning where we would normally stage if we were going to fly materials in. Um this is a genius move on the part of Iran because there is no ground forces capable of with with withstanding them. Again, the United States military is a shadow of its former self. The Marine forces that are in theater are two battalion landing teams. They will not be able to do anything other than die in mass if they try to confront the Iranians. We have no meaning. We have an army brigade, but it's the troops have been removed because of the threat of Iranian ballistic missiles. If the Iranians do this, it'll be one of the more genius moves ever because they will succeed.

[00:17:17]They will take Kuwait city. They will throw out the uh al Sabah family or whoever is governing Kuwait today. Um and Kuwait will be there and then next that will come will be Bahrain. Bahrain.

[00:17:29]If the Iranians move on Kuwait, you will see Bahrain, 60% Shia population, go up and then they threaten the eastern Saudi oil fields. If Iran continues to thrust down and Saudi Arabia can't stop them, they don't have the military force to do this. And the Shia revolt in the in in there, this is something the Iranians that the Kutz force has been preparing for some time now. This could set the entire region on fire. This is could be the end of the Alsad family. um the end of you know a number of these uh perfume princes that have been governing uh at the behest of their British neoc colonial lords and their American warlords for some time now. Um I don't know if this is true. I mean again I'm hearing it for the first time here but it's uh it's definitely something that the Iranians have been preparing for since the 1980s and um they have the forces to do this. Uh and this is a gamecher. Again the Iranians aren't playing around. This isn't uh you know this isn't an inferior enemy. This is an enemy who has extraordinary technology.

[00:18:31]They understand military art. They've been These are people that hijack American drones because they know how to break into the codes. These are people that trained Hezbollah to mimic Israeli spot special operations forces in terms of communications voice patterns etc. so that Israeli special forces could be slaughtered. These are guys that uh you know defeated our JC raiding team on the ground in Isvahan. So the these are really really the Iranians are very very good at what they do and we just don't have the capacity to uh to do anything other than get defeated. And this could be bad because you know we have lots of Americans on the ground right now in Kuwait. They are not combat troops. So we have the potential now if Iran makes this move of losing tens of thousands of Americans as prisoners or casualties because they can't defend themselves.

[00:19:17]They aren't ground combat troops. These are, you know, these are in the rear with the gear kind of guys who are sitting there manning radar post and doing this that and the other thing.

[00:19:25]There is no ground combat force that can stand up. The Kuwaiti army has no capacity. So, this could become an absolute disaster for the United States if it's true and if the Iranians pull the trigger.

[00:19:35]>> Back from vacation, happily so, and welcoming all of you with open arms.

[00:19:40]Today is Monday, July 20th, 2026 from France. We're joined by my dear friend and one of your ultimate favorites, Scott Ritter. Scotty, I know you're busy. I know you're on the other side of the world and it's a different time of day, but thank you very much for taking the time uh to join us. What is Lindsey Graham's legacy?

[00:20:04]>> Lindsey Graham will go down in history as you know part of a cabal of um pseudo patriots who destroyed the United States. Um I you know we I I've actually outlined a book. I don't know if I'm going to write it but um maybe one day when I get the time. But it it it'll be basically it's the decline of the um of the constitutional republic called America. Uh and the the narrative begins with the election of Ronald Reagan and uh we have a decade of hope uh decade of um you know of of potential. Um then you know we'll extend that through George Herbert Walker Bush who is a continuation of Reagan. Um but then we have the collapse of the Soviet Union and then we have the decade of Bill Clinton. Um and America just went in the wrong direction. And we instead of embracing a multi-olar world which you know was the trajectory of inevitability, we chose to become the global hegeimon. We chose war. We over peace. Uh then we get George W. Bush. We get Barack Obama and uh you know on and on and on. Um, you know, 911 put us on a on a on a permanent uh trajectory of um uh away from uh America, a land of potential to America, a land governed by war. 911 created the permanent war economy uh permanent war mentality. And Lindsey Graham became a senator in 2003, right after 9/11. And you know, he's one of the people that articulated in favor of war with Iraq. uh and he's been articulating favor of war ever since. He is the personification of um the demise of the American constitutional republic, the American ideal, American values. I call him a pseudoamerican because while he wrapped himself in the flag and he you know proclaimed his uh adherence to the constitution, he was anything but. Uh this is a man who sold his soul to Israel. a man who put Israel before the United States and a man who didn't give a hoot about international law and with all due respect to Lindsey Graham and other um you know people who call themselves lawyers um and you can correct me judge I know you're you're you're the constitutional expert but you know we have the supremacy clause and the supremacy clause uh basically says you know for instance regarding treaties uh when a treaty is signed by a president ratified by the senate it becomes the supreme law of the land and the United Nations charter is the equivalent of a treaty. We are bound by our constitution to the charter and the charter stipulates two conditions and only two conditions under which wars can be fought. One is self-defense under article 51 and the other is if a chapter 7 resolution is passed by the security council authorizing use of military force to rectify an imminent threat to international peace and security.

[00:22:55]Lindsey Gra didn't believe in either of these. He didn't give a hoot about international law, which means he didn't give a hoot about the constitution because once you uh believe that you can violate one aspect of the con aspect of the constitution, you could violate all of them. Lindsey Graham will go down in history as one of the people who destroyed America. Now, I I'd like to believe that there is a, you know, a fourth chapter to be written in this book or fourth part called the resurrection of the American Republic, but um that'll have to be built on the grave of Lindsey Graham because so long as people like Lindsey Graham are alive and in government, this constitutional republic is under attack and is in danger of going away altogether.

[00:23:34]>> What you said about the constitution is 100% correct, Scott.

[00:23:39]uh the treaties ratified by the Senate become the supreme law of the land equivalent to the constitution and all who are subject to the constitution which is everybody in the government from a school board janitor to the president and everybody in between you've taken the same oath that I took uh is subject to the constitution and to treaties. So dangerous is it that a man like this who loved the bloodshed of others and the dominance over others was whispering into the president's ear almost every afternoon.

[00:24:14]>> No, it's extraordinarily fright there there's two aspects to this danger though, judge. One is the fact that a man who has no moral compass whatsoever, and I'm not talking about his personal life because I don't care about his personal life. I'm talking about his public life. That's the only life I care about. the life that uh revolves around the oath he took, the oath you took, the oath I took uh to, you know, allegiance to the Constitution. Um you I I'm very deeply disturbed that a man like that is granted uh you know, close and continuous access to, you know, presidents of the United States, including this president. Um but you know what, uh what what what bothers me uh you know, equally is that >> [snorts] >> He he represents an ideal that is, you know, so I I have to be careful with my words. Um it's a perversion of everything we stand for.

[00:25:14]Um he the fact that he exists bothers me. It's not just that he whispered to the president ears. The fact that this man exists because it represents a poison in American society. America produced Lindsey Graham. We, you know, we can condemn Lindsey Graham all we want to and I condem, as you know, I have condemned him openly and repeatedly, but we can't escape the fact that he is a byproduct of an American system, a sensibly a democratic system that not only put him into power, but kept him into power even though he exposed himself. Um, just a second. No, thank you.

[00:25:55]room service. But [laughter] >> you're in a five-star joint, Scott.

[00:26:02]>> Yeah, I know. But if I didn't if I didn't do it, he'd just keep knocking on the door. So, I I apologize to your audience, but the the the the point is, you know, Lindsey Graham is a system of American disease of of of the disease that is encompassed. He's not, you know, unique.

[00:26:19]Sadly, uh the same system produced, you know, a John McCain. The same system produced Chuck Schumer. The same system produces Mitch McConnell. The same system produces all of the senators, all of the representatives who have ignored their oath or never even comprehended their oath uh to office and instead took a took the country down a path that is so far removed from the original intent and vision of the founding fathers as to be unrecognizable. This is what bothers me. Well, uh, switching, uh, gears, Scott, why are so many pundits in the West of the view that Ukraine is winning its military confrontation with Russia? And if they're right, if it is, I don't think they're right, and I know you don't think they're right. Why would Sinsky fire the defense minister at a time like this?

[00:27:15]>> Well, there's there's two things. one, there's just a fundamental ignorance about the reality of Russia amongst um the vast majority of people who comment on Russia, including some who call themselves uh you know, Russianists or uh you know who who you know brag about their their Russian credentials. Uh they don't understand Russia for a number of reasons. one, they um they gained their access to Russia um you know in the at the end of the Cold War during the 1990s when it was a completely different Russia. And these are people who um like the United States government are alienated by the rise of Vladimir Putin.

[00:27:55]Uh Vladimir Putin represents everything that they despise, they hate. um you know they they they prefer to have a Boris Yeltson in government because Boris Yeltson uh you know allowed the West to run wild inside uh Russia. Um Vladimir Putin believes in Russia for Russians uh and it's a direction that these people don't want. And now what we have is a um we we have to deal with the the fact that across the board and you know this is non-debatable. I mean people can try to debate but the facts are the facts.

[00:28:28]Russia is dominating on the battlefield.

[00:28:30]Uh even people like uh Gilbert Doctoro who take a contrarian position acknowledge Russia is winning on the battlefield. Thank you, Gil. Um you know, Russia is dominating economically.

[00:28:41]People don't realize, you know, they don't comment on this. They forget about they only focus on the battlefield. You know, a major part of this fight that's going on, this collective war of the West against uh against Russia is economic and Russia's dominating. Not only has Russia withstood uh the the the massive sanctioning of its economy by the collective west, Russia's economy is thriving, growing, um you know, it's it's and the proof is in the pudding. Um talk to investors. You know, judge, you know, you know that investors just don't throw their money away. Sound investors don't. Um they only invest in uh investment opportunities that have a legitimate uh you know, perspective for growth. The St. Petersburg International Economic Forum convened in early June while Russia was under attack. Hell, while St. Petersburg was under attack, 13 people, represented from 130 nations, 20,000 people, the largest audience ever, showed up under fire and then invested $84 billion directly into the Russian economy. So, we have to respect the fact that these people aren't doing this for propaganda. These are investors that you know look at Russia as a long-term economic opportunity. And this is something that people don't understand that Russia is dominating uh this conflict economically. I mean you compare and contrast the Russian economy with any of the European economies and even the United States economy. Russia is doing okay. They're doing great especially given given the fact that we've tied their hands diplomatically.

[00:30:14]Russia is supposed to be isolated, totally isolated. Um and yet we had uh you know Sergey Lavrov just do a victory lap in Africa which is becoming increasingly a Russian continent. Um you know as I said 130 nations represented at the St. Petersburg international reform. That is not isolation. Russia has you know this war has actually made Russia stronger diplomatically than it was going in. Um, so we've failed there.

[00:30:38]And and then politically, Vladimir Putin, you know, is as popular today as he was when this war started, plus or min, you know, within the margin of error. There hasn't been a collapse of support compared to what Donald Trump has is experiencing. And so what across the board, we have the reality that Russia is dominating. So now the the the common sense would say we need to mitigate against disaster and we need to negotiate a conclusion to this conflict um to save as much as possible. But the West has no intention, zero intention of saving Ukraine. Ukraine has always been offered up as a sacrificial lamb designed to wear Russia down, to break Russia down. Now they're willing to continue to sacrifice Ukraine, but now they understand that, you know, they're not going to win the battlefield. What they need to do now is classic information operation. Now under the Elnitzky a lieutenant general um you know worked under Shyu came up with the term mental warfare. The concept of mental warfare is to plant ideas seeds of thought discord into the psyche of a nation and have it eat the nation from inside to break the nation down to cause the nation to collapse. The goal and objective of the west has always been to get a Moscow Maidon to create a massive unrest in Moscow that brought down Vladimir Putin. So there's an information operation ongoing today.

[00:31:58]massive information operation u mainly here in the west but then the design the goal is to echo it back into Russia through the residual uh liberal elites who reside there and then have that echo into and get a counter blast from the from the conservatives to start you know this this dissonance inside of Russia saying that um Russia can't win and one of the ways they said that Russia can't win is to invest you know a tremendous amount of resources into this drone campaign to create the impression that drones were a magic weapon when uh coupled with artificial intelligence created an unbeatable um tool for Ukraine that Russia couldn't deal with.

[00:32:40]They're hitting you, you know, oil refineries and they're hitting factories and they're hitting warehouses and things are burning and there's smoke in the sky and the Russians are, you know, oh, it's defeat. You hit a gas station and there's no gas. There's gas lines. I mean, cor it's collapsing. It's horrible. Russia needs to do something.

[00:32:58]Russia needs to respond. Russia needs to attack Europe right now with an exclamation mark. Um, that's the only way to save Russia, but now we back off.

[00:33:08]None of what they say there is true.

[00:33:10]Yes, they're hitting oil refineries. The oil refineries come back online a week, a week and a half later. There is no permanent disruption. All the gas, you know, the way the information operation works as follows. Let's say you hit the Samara um uh refinery in central Russia.

[00:33:27]First of all, you brag that's 800 km in.

[00:33:29]Look, we're we're doing things striking deep. Okay, you hit it. It's down for a week and a half. Roseneft owns it. Now they do that. What they'll do is they'll say, "Okay, Rosenef, you know, it's a refinery making you refined products including gasoline. What gas stations does Rosenef service in the region?" And then they'll go to that gas station because they understand that when you shut that down, it's not going to get a gas delivery and there's going to be a line of cars. They say, "See, the gas shortage, it's over. Finished. Goodbye."

[00:33:58]What they don't do is go back 3 days later when the Russians say, "Hey, yeah, that's right. Um, let's call up Luke Oil. Hey, Luke Oil, you've got reserve capacity. Divert it over to Roast so they can get over to their gas stations." Three days later, there's no gas lines. See, we're being lied to.

[00:34:13]It's all a lie. Everything's a lie.

[00:34:16]Nothing [clears throat] they say is the truth. The drone war has failed. That's the other thing they're not telling you.

[00:34:21]Gilbert Doctto wrote an essay where he talked about German drones be matched with AI. It's going to bring death and destruction. But the reality is that one of the drones he talked about isn't a German drone. Uh and it's been countered. The Russians have the solution and it's not as effective today. The ones he proclaimed were magic are so bad that the Ukrainians won't use them. Won't use them because they're dying. Gilbert Doctor doesn't talk about the fact that the most dangerous job in the Ukrainian military today is drone operator. 80 to 100 drone operators are being slaughtered by the Russians daily.

[00:34:53]That number is going up because Ukrainians put so much emphasis into drone warfare. The other thing people talk about is when these drones hit a Russian target, they go pop. There's 60 kilograms of high explosive. They don't do that much damage. They set some things on fire. Those fires are put out.

[00:35:08]The Russians retaliate with far more weapons to hit their targets to go boom.

[00:35:12]When a Russian missile hits a target, that target is gone, finished, never to be resurrected. There are more things going boom in Ukraine than are going pop in Russia. And right now, the drone factories are being blown up. Uh they they're running out of drones. They're running out of drone operators. Yes, they'll have the occasional success here and there, but it's petering out. So, now we come to Fedorov. Federov was the guy who said, "I I can work with the West to create the impression of the inevitability of of Ukrainian victory that we will have drones. We will pour drones in. We will pour this technology in." But that required a diversion of resources away from the Ukrainian army.

[00:35:49]Whereas Sirki, the commander, is saying, "I need those resources to build brigades to fill the holes in the front line that are being created by the Russian victories. If you know, if you don't want if you don't want to lose the Domeas, I need brigades." He lost that debate. Federal got the debate but now it got the resources but now it's known by everybody in Ukraine and everybody in that that their western sponsors that the drone war was lost. Fed off saying that's just give me more resources. Give me more resources and sirki saying I need those resources right now at the front line and the situation is so desperate at the front line that Zalinsky had no choice but to say I give it to Cerski. That created a problem with Fedov and Fedov was removed from power. That's what's going on. This is the reality of the situation. Ukraine is losing massively. The West is losing massively. Russia's winning massively.

[00:36:40]Now, people say, "Well, Scott, you've been saying for that long time." I have, and it's the truth. Um, now they're going to say, "Well, how when is Russia going to win?" It doesn't matter because Putin doesn't care. He's not playing the calendar game. The only people that play the calendar game are is the West because they're trying to create artificial, you know, um, standards. Oh, he didn't he didn't liberate Kiev by May. He didn't do this by June. He didn't do this. Doesn't need to. He's killed over two million Ukrainians. He's slaughtering them. This war will inevitably end in a massive Russian victory, which is the only thing that matters from the Russian perspective.

[00:37:17]you. Um,