Scott Ritter: Trump’s Betrayal and the Total Collapse of US Power in the Middle East

I don't know. I think everybody um I mean he this this is a man who [snorts] you know Theodore Roosevelt once uh said um speak softly but carry a big stick. Um Peak Hath is a man who screaming loudly in order to impress on everybody that we have a big stick. But you know you have to be reminding everybody about how big bad and important we are. Maybe we're not as big and bad and as important as we as we think we are. So, I think there's a lot of bluster going up here to disguise the fact that uh we're in trouble in in Iraq, I mean in Iran. And um you know, he's doing his best to distract people from digging too deep into the fact that Iran has the strategic initiative. It's the United States that's re-evaluating its plans every 24 hours, not Iran. And it's Pete Heget that has to go in front of people and uh you know, play the role of cheerleader. I think the strategy of Iran is to permanently evict the United States from the Middle East. Um, you know, they're attacking the military installations, they're attacking diplomatic facilities, they're attacking intelligence facilities. Um, and uh, they're attacking the nations that play host to these. So, I think Iran is setting the conditions for uh, eventual conflict termination, which will be Iran will stop these attacks when these nations kick the United States out of their soil. Yeah. >> Well, I mean, you know, what we're experiencing right now is a continuation of the 12- day war, and we know at the end of the 12- day war, um neither Israel nor the United States nor the two of them um you know, operating together had a solution to the Iranian ballistic missile threat. And that's been played out today as um you know the Iranians are launching attacks that are penetrating the defenses and inflicting serious harm on Israel. We now see Hezbollah you know engaging uh in this conflict. I don't know the specifics of the weaponry that are being used by Hezbollah, how sophisticated they are. Uh it's very difficult to make an assessment except to point out that Hezbollah rockets are impacting on Israeli soil. um which implies that the Israelis are not able to defend themselves um effectively from the threat from Hezbollah. [clears throat and cough] I I can't wait to see what happens when Anrella uh enters the frey and starts firing its uh missiles and uh and drones. Um I I I I think we're looking at a conflict where um assumptions had been made about the effectiveness of air defense that have been proven wrong. And um and this is going to require a continuous readjustment of uh of war plans on the part of Israel and the United States and their Gulf Arab allies. Um Iran on the other hand just continues to do what it does. Sort of a pre-planned action of uh broadspectctrum pressure being placed on Israel, the United States, and the Gulf Arab region. >> Well, I mean it's not just the Gulf Arab states that are, you know, understanding that they play second fiddle to Israel. Um I think Ukraine is figuring that one out. Um and I also think that South Korea, Japan and Taiwan are also figuring that out. you know, the United States had promulgated a um a geopolitical posture through the national security defense doctrine that was published in November that spoke of um achieving conventional military overmatch with China in the Pacific as sort of a a foundational, you know, concept of how we're going to approach how we interact with the world. Um, [laughter] [cough] you can't have much much overmatch when one of the known Chinese threats and the threats from North Korea are ballistic missile threats. And the most effective system the United States has to counter ballistic missiles in theater is the THAAD. Um, and now the THAAD that was deployed in South Korea is being removed from South Korea. What's that tell the South Koreans? especially after the United States spent so much time uh crafting this new uh tripartite alliance between South Korea, Japan, the United States that you know incorporates elements related to nuclear war for instance joint nuclear war planning etc. Um so Japan and South Korea have taken that dangerous step forward toward nuclear confrontation with North Korea on the assumption that the United States was there to back them up. Well, guess you can't make that assumption anymore. We now know that the United States will sell anybody out for Israel. And as an American, I mean, you know, I've always been, not always, but recently, so especially since October 7th, uh, I've been very critical of Israel. Um, and I've called Israel out as a threat. But you know I've always left open the possibility that you know it's just Netanyahu that if you can change the government in Israel u maybe you know you can change the trajectory and I I'm coming more and more to the conclusion that it's not just Netanyahu that it's Israel in its totality that the most dangerous threat to peace and security in the world today uh collectively is the state of Israel. Um hopefully the Gulf Arab states come to this recognition uh that they have been sold a bill of goods by the United States that this whole Abrams accord was never about mutually beneficial economic relationship with the absolute complete subordination of the Gulf Arab states to Israel. Um and the United States isn't there to secure the Gulf Arab states. The United States is there to um secure Israel from the Gulf Arab states. Um, and now that Iran has basically exposed this lie, it's imperative the Gulf Arab states take action accordingly. And I think this is part of the Iranian strategy by destroying the American military infrastructure. Um, in order for America to come back, they'll have to rebuild this infrastructure. And this will require significant investment from the Gulf Arab host states. And hopefully the Gulf Arab host states say, "No, we have no interest in rebuilding. Uh, stay, leave, don't come back." And now that the CIA is pulling its assets out of the region, uh they too should not be allowed back in. Um and you know this is this is just a statement of fact that u the Middle East uh has been infected by uh a [snorts] cancer that is the you know American Israeli posture. Um and that cancer has to be excised and I think that's what Iran is in the process of doing. And even though I love my country and all this, um, you have to call a spade a spade. And right now, the United States is, you know, facilitating the genocide that, uh, that Israel committed against the Palestinians, facilitated the slaughter of Lebanese uh, civilians through the bombing of Beirut, and now is facilitating a genocide type attack on Iran by by Israel. Take a look at what Israel is doing to tan. uh they're in the process of turning Tan into Gaza and they're proud of it. They're bragging about it. So, um we we now have seen evil. We know what evil looks like and it's time for the world to collectively work to eradicate this evil. And to weaken Israel, you have to get the United States to eliminate its aggressive posture uh geopolitically um and militarily in the Middle East. We know what's going on. Donald Trump has completely sold American interests to the state of Israel 100%. Uh it's Benjamin Netanyahu that's calling the shots. What leverage he may or may not have over Donald Trump is irrelevant at this point. We just have to deal with the the um you know the ramifications of this uh you know but this shouldn't take anybody by surprise. Even during the campaign, we saw the degree to which Donald Trump uh slavishly subordinated um himself to the pro-Israeli camp. Um you know, taking all that money from Miriam Adlesen should have been a red flag to everybody. Then appointing just flagrant Zionists throughout his cabinet and positions of power, people. There's, you know, we saw when Tulsa Gabbard uh attempted to install as her deputy somebody who questioned um, you know, the aspects of Israel's dominance that they were removed. They weren't allowed to achieve. You're not allowed to question Israel. You're not allowed to hint that there's a problem with Israel. Uh, you have to be completely subordinated to Israel. And that's the problem. Again, I just say this as an American. The number one threat to American national security is the state of Israel. straight up. Um, and we we need to eliminate it. You know, Marjgery Taylor Green needs to start calling a spade a spade. It's uh it's not anti-semitic to call out threats. We're not condemning the Jewish faith. We're condemning this this perverse Zionist entity uh that has assumed a biblical um you know title um in order to corrupt America, corrupt democracy and corrupt the region and corrupt the world. Um, Israel brings nothing positive to the stage. Israel is a parasite on the global community. It exists to suck the lifeblood out of the world solely for its benefit. Um, and until we call it that, if we continue to pretend that Israel has legitimacy in the world today, we just allow this u this activity to continue because the moment you legitimize the state of Israel, you legitimize their government, you legitimize these programs. If the Israel is if Israel is legitimate and the government's legitimate, then therefore, you know, there's a limit to the umbrage and anger and angst that we can have about the recruitment of Jonathan Pard, an American naval analyst who sold out his country in the worst possible way. He gave away, you know, the uh the the the the the volumes on um you know, American sigant collection. Uh it cost us billions of dollars to gather that information. Much of that information was related to very sensitive things to include America's nuclear war plans. Um and uh how we collect that information. Some of that was done through, you know, covert means that could put not just uh capabilities at risk, but people at risk. Uh you know, putting brave people's lives on the line who were doing things for their nation. Um Jonathan Polard sold that out to Israel. Then Israel went ahead and sold that out to get Jews out of the former Soviet Union. So, you know, the idea that he was doing this for Israel is just absurd. He was doing this as you know, the is part of a a [clears throat] global um you know, Zionistic uh endeavor uh that is detrimental to not just American security, but global peace and security. You got to call it out. If you don't call it out today, then shame on you because we know what's happening. We're just not allowed to say it. But it's it's time that we call it out straight up. And that includes calling out the Gulf Arab states. I mean, when when are the population of the Gulf Arab states going to realize that their monarchies have sold them out to the state of Israel, have become completely subordinated to the will of Israel? I mean, my god. Um, you know, the Palestinian people have a genocide committed against them and the Gulf Arab states are silent. Now, we know why. Because they're actively complicit with the Israeli government and the conduct of this genocide. And now they're transferring that genocidal behavior onto other Arab populations in Lebanon and now the population of Iran. [gasps] You gota we we just got to call it out. And um and if they can't call it out, then they need to be removed. And so yes, I'm actively encouraging the populations of the Gulf Arab monarchies to rise up and remove their uh their corrupt regimes from power because they're not doing they're not serving you. uh they've abandoned you just like the United States has abandoned them. Maybe the lights's gone off and they realize as they sit there and beg for more interceptors that we're not giving them because we're giving those interceptors to either our forces protecting Israel or to Israel directly that all the promises we made over the course of the past several decades that we are the security shield dating back to the Carter doctrine of 1979. We are the shield that will protect you. We're not going to protect you. We're abandoning you. Um, and when it's all said and done, we're going to want you to keep your doors open so we can come back and reassert ourselves. Um, that can't be allowed to happen. But, you know, hopefully the people rise. We see in Bahrain um hence of um regime change uh as the majority Shia population not only begins to [clears throat] confront the corrupt Khalifa family but um also violently confront the Saudiled Gulf the GCC security forces that are that are coming in to keep Khalifa in power. Tapo Khalifa um Bahrain becomes a revolutionary state and then watch what happens in eastern Saudi Arabia where the majority Shia populations and then the Saudi shifts forces to deal with that. Watch what Ansalla does because you know Ansalla has been kicking Saudi butt for a number of years now and uh they've been kicking UAE butt for a number of years now. And if you take the shackles off and you let the ensural go wild, uh they will destroy the energy infrastructure of both nations and they will physically reoccupy territory that currently uh is considered to be Saudi territory uh but historically is Yemen territory and they'll reconquer that and hopefully we could see Ansarella marching through the streets of Riad to take the als and drag them behind them the same way the Hashimite family was dragged through the streets of Baghdad when uh the Ba'ists rose up and remove them from power. Um, we need this kind of cleansing in the Middle East. These corrupt monarchies have been ruling for too long. There's simply a, you know, a residue of former British colonialism and then the United States took over uh, guiding their neoc colonial continuation and uh, they've sold their people out. These people don't stand for anything. They're not very religious because, you know, the moment they leave their countries, they get on an airplane, when they leave the airspace, the alcohol comes out, the women dress in Western standards, they go to Paris, they go to London, and they behave ostentatiously, which is fine if you're somebody in the West who has incorporated that lifestyle. But if you're pretending that you're somehow a pious um you know god-fearing person um and you and you and you make that the cornerstone of your image projection in your homeland only to find out that when you fly away you behave differently. You're just a hypocrite. And this is the reality of the Gulf Arab states. It's 100% hypocrisy 100% of the time. And that hypocrisy has come back to haunt them. How powerful are they militarily if they decide to go to join the United States? Because many people in the Persian Gulf, they're talking about, "We are getting angry. We are going to get we are going to >> I I I hope they get really angry. I hope they stamp their feet and turn purple in the face." Um Saudi Arabia has been trying to defeat Ensla since 2014 and they haven't done it. Anrella. The United Arab Emirates joined in with Saudi Arabia to try and defeat Ensrella since 2015 perhaps. Haven't done it. Can't do it. Um, United Arab Emirates, uh, their military is 85% mercenaries. So, I mean, what you're going to tell me a UA is going to stand >> from Pakistan or >> Pakistan primarily. They come from Pakistan, India, other Bangladesh. But the point is they're not Imirati uh you know citizens. Emirati citizens are fat, pale, soft hands, soft skinned um effeminate because they don't know how to fight because they don't want to fight. They let other people do their fighting for them. I mean, you'll find a couple spoiled princes because they have the lifestyle. They go to the gym and they run and they have chiseled features. Um, but put him in a ring against the kid from the Bronx and we'll stomp him into the dirt because the kid from the Bronx can take a punch. Been taking a punch his entire life. But these soft Emiratis, they can't take a punch because anytime anybody threatens them, they snap their fingers and their Pakistani bodyguards come over and beat the people into a pulp. This is the reality of the totality. These Gulf Arabs, there's not a single one of them that measures in any degree of manhood. They hide behind money, money, money. They buy their way out of everything. I said this to Major General Matt Cfield in uh se August I think August of uh 1990. I was called in. I was being pulled out of the amphibious warfare school to be sent to a a special planning cell that the comedon the Marine Corps is putting together to plan amphibious warfare. And Matt Cfield wanted to because I was a captain going into the company of colonels and he I was recommended by some people and he he was like I got to find out why they're recommending a captain. Um you know what the hell does a captain know? He started questioning me and at the end I said sir we're he said what do you believe? I said we're fighting the wrong Arabs. So the Iraqis are hardwork. I mean when you want to dig a d in Iraq the Iraqis dig the ditch. You know when you want to get something done the Iraqis are doing it. Um, you go to Kuwait and they they farm it out because they're just fat, obese, rich, perverted people. Um, we're fighting the wrong Arabs. We're we should be fighting the Kuwaitis. We fighting the the Saudis. He was like, why do I want you on this project? I said, well, you you asked me a question, I gave you the answer, you know, but if you order me to plan a military operation, I'll plan that military operation. That's my job. That's my duty. But my duty isn't to blow smoke up your ass. My duty duty is to answer the question that you give me honestly and accurately that answer. And so I plotted a war against Iraq knowing the whole time we're fighting the wrong Arabs because the Iraqis are far more men than any Gulf Arab state will ever be. The Gulf Arab states can't fight, don't know how to fight, won't fight. They farm it out. I was in a hotel in Riad before the war started. We would take our meals there. We work down in the in the bunker of the Ministry of Defense building. So we go across the street and they had this I think it was a Sheran hotel had a nice uh you know buffet spread and so we would go there and the Saudis paid for it all because they got a lot of money. And so we're sitting there and I had just spent the day you know prepared you know going through target lists and all this stuff about a conflict we're getting ready to fight to liberate Kuwait from Iraqi occupation. And uh at the same buffet where a bunch of Kuwaiti princes who had fled Kuwait city were now taking refuge in Saudi Arabia. And but we overheard them. They were sitting there talking to their Saudi hosts. And they said, uh, you know, these Americans uh are our mercenaries. You know, we're paying them to come here and liberate night. And uh the lieutenant colonel I was with basically ordered me out of the room because he saw that I was going to get up. I was going to go over there and I was going to beat the living out of this Kuwaiti. Stomp him into the ground. I'm nobody's mercenary. I take the orders only from my legitimate chain of command. Uh it was deeply insulting. But the problem is that's their mindset and that's how they view everything. They don't view anybody as their equal. They don't view anybody as a partner. You are a paid servant. When they pull out their wallet and they start putting money on the table and you take that money, they believe they own you. And in fact, they they do. Except now what they're finding out is they've been played the whole time that we've let them sit there and and treat us to free lunches and free hotel rooms and free this and they buy our goods. But at the end of the day, all they're good for is facilitating the desire of their Israeli masters to promote greater Israel. What do you think the Abrams Accords is? It's not about, you know, collective empowerment through economic development. It's not about mutual benefic mutual beneficial relations. It's about the Arabs subordinating themselves to a greater Israel. 100%. That's all it's about. And that's what they've done. That's what these perverse, fat, pale, effeminite, non-men rulers of these nations have done. And I and I'm going to say I'm just tired. We have to start calling it out. You can't solve a problem unless you accurately define a problem. And so if we continue to pre pretend that Saudi Arabia is a military power when it's not, can defeat Sa and I pray they will. If Ansalla is listening to this march on Riad, do it. do it. Get rid of this ridiculous outst family that only came in because a bunch of bunch of Wahhabis ran around in camels and intimidated other Bedawin tribes in the 1920s and 30s. That's it. There's no legitimacy here. There's no mandate from God. They just happen to be a tribe outside that that had better camel operators than [laughter] everybody else. It's the same thing with the rest. The the you know the Emirates, the British put them in. The British put everybody in. colonial legacy. There's no legitimacy. They have no mandate of the people. There's no democracy. And then they got lucky because they happen to be sitting on a bunch of oil and gas that has now made them richer than they can possibly imagine. But the money doesn't bring legitimacy. The money just makes them rich. Legitimacy has to come from standing for something. Standing [clears throat] for something. They don't stand for democracy. They don't stand for liberty. They don't stand for justice. They're just rich. That's it. And they believe that they could sit there and leverage their control of the United States into controlling Iran. But it turned out that it was the United States controlling them, using them on behalf of Israel. And that truth has now come out. That truth has been played out in broad daylight by Iran. This is one of the greatest gifts Iran's given to the region and the world. By bringing everything to a head, everything to a head, the world will now get to see what kind of country Iran is. They'll get to see the support that the Iranian people provide to their country. And they'll also get to see the fact that the United States has been using the Gulf Arab states on behalf of Israel for decades. And they'll get to see what Israel's real plans are. that Israel is nothing more than a genocidal state wrapped into a tiny piece of territory with meaningless biblical reference. I mean, throw away the Bible and what do you have? Nothing. So, the, you know, the Bible is, you know, what these Zionists are abusing to pretend that they have legitimacy, that they are God's chosen, that somehow Israel, the Israel of today is part of a 3,000y old legacy. This is what, of course, the Christian Zionist believe. Mike Huckabe and Ted Cruz and others and we're exposing the perversion of their thought, the illegitimacy of their thought. So this war in many ways is a clarifying moment. It's a tragic moment and I wish it hadn't come to this, but now that it's here, we might as well just embrace all ramifications and call it out as we see it. Uh it's not a time to hold back. It's not a time to continue to shield the truth. It's time to be brutally honest about everything. If you're out there and you want to be pro- Israel, say it. Acknowledge it. Be honest about it. Be honest. Because the people are tired of the lies. They're tired of lies. It's time we have the truth. And if America truly wants to be a nation that has foregone its status as a constitutional republic, wants to operate as nothing more than a collective of sheep underneath a cult of personality serving the interests of greater Israel. Fine. [laughter] Fine. Just be honest about it. We have an election coming up. Tell the American people that's what they're voting for. When you vote for me, Donald Trump, or vote for my party, what you're voting for is greater Israel. We're not hiding it. It's there. We're voting for greater Israel. And we're not voting for the Constitution. You're voting to empower me, a cult of personality. I will continue to rename buildings in my name. I will continue to drop banners with my face. I will continue to make sure that everything centers around me, Donald Trump. If you can't see as an American what's happening, what other sitting president has operated with this degree of hubris and narcissistic uh arrogance? None. America is infected with a sickness, a disease that's destroying what we are. And what we're doing in the world today is just facilitating the downward slide of our nation. We we do need to resize ourselves. We have to understand that we aren't the sole remaining superpower. that the world is not conditioned to continue American hegemony. That doesn't mean America goes away though. We just have to resize ourselves to the appropriate size, the size we should be of a nation of 340 million people with the natural resources that we have. Uh but that means we have to learn how to live in, you know, as equals with Russia, with China, with India, with others. But we can't live as equals. We're the most arrogant people on the planet other than the Israelis. and we've subordinated ourselves to the Israelis.

In this explosive briefing, Scott Ritter dismantles the current US military posture and the "bluster" of Pete Hegseth regarding Operation Epic Fury. Ritter argues that Donald Trump has completely subordinated American interests to Israel, a move even being questioned by Republicans like Marjorie Taylor Greene. The discussion covers Iran's strategic initiative to evict the US from the region, the failure of Israeli air defenses against Hezbollah, and the dangerous removal of THAAD systems from South Korea. Ritter issues a stark warning about the "parasitic" nature of the current US-Israel alliance and the inevitable uprising of the Gulf Arab populations against their corrupt monarchies. #Scott Ritter #Donald Trump #Middle East Crisis #Iran vs Israel #US Foreign Policy #Geopolitics #Pete Hegseth #Marjorie Taylor Greene #Operation Epic Fury