Scott Ritter EXPOSES Trump’s Iran Plan: “We Are Going To Lose This War”

I mean, people may not understand this, but I um it hurts to be honest. Um, you know, as an intelligence officer, my job has always been to tell my boss um not what they wanted to hear, but what the facts were. And hopefully that I could package these facts in a way that enabled them to make the right decisions. Uh because, you know, you're part of a team. And so my my participation as an intelligence officer is to inform my leadership uh and based upon this information they will make the right decisions that lead to the right choices that lead to outcomes that are beneficial to our cause victory. Um, so you know with Iraq it is especially painful because I I'm not bragging here but I was uniquely qualified maybe not because of brains or anything like that but because of the resume. I mean through serendipity I actually was somebody who invented the concept of arms control. I was the first weapons inspector on the ground in the Soviet Union implementing the intermediate nuclear forces treaty. Not because I was the best. I was the first. I always tell people there's a couple ways you could become an expert. You can actually go to school, study, and be really smart or just be the first person to ever do something. And therefore, by the benefit of being the first, you're the only, and you're the best. Um, so I helped write the book on on-site inspection. I helped create this notion of uh human presence for compliance verification. Um, and I did it in an intelligence framework. I got a couple commendations from the director of the CIA for my work. I I was well regarded. I fought during Desert Storm. I was on General Schwarzkov staff. I had what they call a good war, which means I didn't get killed. And the stuff that I did was uh contributed. I I was accurate in my assessments. I'm very proud of the fact that I've been very accurate in my assessments. Presidents of the United States have listened to me. Secretary generals have listened to me. Fourstar generals have listened to me. Um and so here I go and I become a chief weapons inspector in Iraq. I I was brought in to head up the intelligence capability. I built an intelligence unit in the United Nations that never existed before. And uh we were the best we were the best in the world. The entire world came to us about information about Iraq. So when I resigned and was protesting against the lies being told by the US government, I felt that this should be the easiest case in the world to make. I mean there was no one more qualified than me to make this case. And I made the case with all the facts I had available to me, which turned out to be 100% correct. Why not? I was the guy who was doing the job. So, of course, I'm gonna be accurate in reporting what we did. >> Yeah. >> But I wasn't able to convince people. I wasn't able to convince the government. I wasn't able to convince the American people. And this weighs on me. It weighs on me every day. Uh, you know, people may not realize this, but you know, I was against the invad the invasion of Iraq in 2003. Anybody studies my resume, you saw that I was dead set against it. But when it became clear that we were going to go into Iraq, I was at that time out of active duty. I called the uh prior service recruiter and I said, "Please bring me back on active duty." He said, "Why would we bring you back on active duty?" I said, "Because I can save Marines lives. I know Iraq better than anybody out there. There's nobody knows Iraq better than me. I've been to Iraq. I've been everywhere in Iraq. I can help save Marines lives because that's my number one priority. I care about the Marine Corps. I care about Marines. I don't want them to die in a war that they don't need to be fighting it. Um, now the the Marine Corps was happy about, but the CIA said no. So, um, I didn't get to an opportunity to go off and do that, which is probably good. I was a little long in the tooth and, uh, you know, soft in the belly. Wasn't quite the Marine I used to be at the time. But the point is, you know, I don't do this for gratification. I don't do this to look in the mirror and say, "Man, I'm really good." I do this because it's the right thing to do. And you as an intelligence officer, it's my job to tell the the the people who matter what the truth is to lay the facts out. And in this case, I always have to ask myself, could I have done it better? Is there something I could have done better? I take no um no pride in getting it right. Because getting it right got it wrong. Getting it right for me, it looks good on the pages of history. But the reality is thousands of Americans died because our leadership didn't do the right thing. And so I I don't I don't sit there and pat myself on the back. I literally I wrestle with it. What could I have done differently? Was I too egotistical, too insistent on my facts, unwilling to compromise and debate? Could I have approached this differently? Uh sold it less forcefully so that >> Yeah. No, no. I I I can tell you as as as a somewhat lesser whistleblower myself, I can confirm to you that there was nothing you could have. these people were hellbent and there would be a war if Jesus Christ himself came down. I swear to you, I'm saying this literal. That would not have swayed anybody because you had all the evidence and all the facts out there and they were self-evident. Um, but it just didn't matter because they didn't want the facts. In fact, they wanted you hidden and they wanted you discredited, etc. because they wanted anyone discredited because of that. So, there's nothing you could have done there. Uh, and I I totally get the issue about not patting yourself on the back for being right because of the consequences, but you were right. And so that is one of the reasons we are happy to have you on today. Uh, and Gary, were were we able to find that one for for Witco I was looking for a second ago? >> Just to give you a little bit of a taste for um how these three uh three days of negotiations went three separate times. Jared and I opened up with uh the Iranian negotiators telling us they had the inalienable right to enrich all their nuclear fuel that they possessed. That's how they opened up. We of course responded that the president feels we have the inalienable right to stop you dead in your tracks. They then went on to say that beyond the inalienable right uh to enrich um that that was going to be their starting point. And Jared and I uh just sort of looked at ourselves flumxed and said, "Well, we're really in for it now." >> Well, first of all, we have to understand that, you know, when Donald Trump sent Jared Kushner and Steve Whitco to uh Oman to negotiate, he sent his two most highly qualified people. I mean, Jared has his PhD in nuclear physics and he's Oh, wait a minute. He doesn't. He's a corrupt real estate broker and Steve Witco doesn't know anything about nuclear weapons or nuclear enrichment either. He's a corrupt real estate broker and they work for a corrupt real estate broker. I mean, we're already behind the curve here when we have these two people representing because they have no idea what they're talking about. When the Iranians said they have an inalienable right to enrich, it's article 4, the nuclear non-prololiferation treaty, which because it hasn't been walked away yet by this administration, continues to be the supreme law of the land. I remind people that constitutionally when we have a treaty that's been signed by the president rat by the Senate, it is the supreme law of the land. The, you know, supremacy clause of the constitutions. For all you people out there that say you're proud Americans and you're MAGA and all this, you know, we are a constitutional republic where the constitution is the only thing that matters. And so right off the bat, these negotiators are uh showing their absolute ignorance. The president has no inherent right to do anything except what the Constitution allows him to do. Uh he doesn't get to go around and say, "I want to do this. I want to do that. I want to do this." And so we went in there not being honest about what our intent was. We brought people whose job wasn't to succeed, but to fail. Now, the Iranians and the Omanis, on their hand, were looking to succeed. Let's let's remember what they started off with. We have 450 kilograms of 60% enriched uranium hexafllor hexafflloride. That's what they said. Now if I were Kushner and Wickoff, I would have looked at it and go, okay, they they've admitted to having it. So now what we need to do is get it. We need to get the Iranians to turn this over to us. We need to get this diluted down so that we eliminate the immediate threat of nuclear weapons, which is what the president told us publicly what he wants to do. I would have been relieved at that point in time. I would have said we have a chance now. We have a chance. And then that's what the Iranians and the Omanis did. They agreed to the procedures in which this 450 kilograms of 60% enrich enriched uranium which is only two cycles of enrichment through 164 uh centuge IR8 IR9 um cascade which the Iranians have um to becoming 90 92% which is what makes file material for nuclear weapons. So here was your our chance to actually get rid of this stuff to do what the president said he wanted to do to deny Iran a pathway to a nuclear bomb verifiably because the other thing the Iranians agreed to at the time wasn't just the return of IAEA inspectors, international inspectors, but they would be accompanied by American inspectors. For the first time in the inspection history of the Iranian nuclear program, American inspectors would be allowed on the ground to verify what the Iranians said. This is this is the biggest victory in arms control one could imagine if this president was serious about arms control. But the fact is the day he initiated these negotiations was the day after he agreed upon the date to attack Iran with Benjamin Netanyahu when he visited us. They had already made the decision. We lied. And again I just want to remind people this. You know these details are important. Perity is a war crime. Okay? Perity that hiding behind a flag of truce is a war crime. Not only have we carried out an illegal war of aggression, and again, Justice Jackson, who is the prosecutor at Nerburgg, has said that, you know, he's the guy who prosecuted the German war criminals, hung several of them. The greatest war crime is the crime of an illegal war of aggression because from that all other crimes emanate. The United States has just committed an illegal war of aggression, a surprise attack. How many people out there on December 7th, hang your head and say a prayer for those who perished in Pearl Harbor when the Imperial Japanese fleet carried out a surprise attack us? A day that will live in infamy, President Roosevelt said, and a day that should live in infamy. Well, we just trumped that because what we did is under the flag of truce, carried out a surprise attack against Iran that assassinated Ali Kaman, the supreme leader. Now, for the people out there who aren't familiar, he is a, you know, that the Iran is an Islamic republic. the supreme leader is the head juristprudent. They call it the vile. Uh he's the head juristprudent of the of the faith. Um he is the equivalent to 12 Shia which is a faction of the Shia faith, the major faction in Iran, Iraq and elsewhere of the pope for the Catholic Church. So this is like us carrying out a surprise attack against the Vatican to kill the pope. Uh this is like the archbish archbishop of Canterbury for the British. We just killed him. It's like Kuriel, the head of the Orthodox church for the Russians. We just killed him. We killed a major religious figure that resonates deeply with these people because they are after all the Islamic Republic. This is the man who issued a fatwa. Remember, President Trump says he doesn't want a nuclear bomb. This is the man who issued the fatwa which has been recognized not only by Barack Obama when he signed the JCPOA, the joint comprehensive plan of action back in 2015 where he recognized that we recognize Iran has a religious fatwa or edict that prohibits them from developing nuclear weapons and we take this seriously. Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence for Donald Trump, made the same statement before Congress and she mentioned the fatwa. She said there's a fatwa. We have seen no political move by the Iranians to reverse this fatwa. Therefore, there's no evidence of them pursuing a nuclear weapon. The guy who issued the fatwa in 2003 and kept it relevant. We murdered. We killed. And now they replaced him with somebody who says, "H maybe that fatwa is not uh all it was." And guess what the Iranians have today? 450 kg of uranium hexaflloride enriched to 60% that they can within a matter of two weeks turn into uranium metal riched to 90% which can be used to produce 5 to 10 10 15 to 20 kiloton nuclear bombs the size of those we dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki that are can be put into warheads mounted on the Fatah 4 missile which is now operational striking Israel as we speak. the weapon that we said we don't want them to have. We just opened the pathway for them to have this. >> By the way, we just had uh just before you came on here, we had Ambassador Chaz Freeman uh who went further than than John Mirshimer has previously on our show saying he doesn't understand why they haven't. Chaz Freeman said he now thinks they will. Where do you fall on that? >> 100%. Um we know that there was a lot of pressure placed on Ali K and starting in uh the the fall of 2024. Um and al you know that that that the people around him were saying the Israelis and the Americans are getting ready to attack us. This will be a war of existential survival for Iran. We need nuclear weapons to deter them. And Ali Kame said no under no circumstances. I met with the Iranian president in September in New York City and I asked him that question. I said is your ballistic missile deterrence capable of actually preventing these nations from attacking or do you need to have a nuclear weapon? He said we don't want a nuclear weapon. we believe our missiles are enough. But moreover, he said we're prohibited from even thinking about it because of this fatwa ali. But Kam was under a lot of pressure. And um what happened is some certain of the Ayatollas did get him to admit that if the Islamic Republic of Iran is under existential threat from powers who possess nuclear weapons, then the fatwa can be done and it will be religiously acceptable to produce nuclear weapons as a way of preserving the Islamic Republic in the face of this nuclear threat. Today we have nuclear armed Israel and nuclear armed United States attacking Iran with existential desires. Um, so we've just literally created justification. If the Iranians couldn't have asked for a bigger favor from us if because if there was people in Iran that wanted a nuclear weapon, what was preventing them was a fatwa issued by the supreme leader. We killed the supreme leader and the fatwa there were conditions set where it could be overcome and we created those conditions and now we've empowered them. Moreover, we've proven that there is no diplomatic path out of this because regardless of what Iran may want to do, the United States and Israel can never again be trusted ever across the board. And every American should be ashamed. >> I mean, aside from just the practicality of what you just said, there's also the literal letter that Trump wrote today on Truth Social demanding saying that there would be no negotiated settlement and only unconditional surrender is now on the table. What does that do to the move that you just described? Well, >> it means that um the United States will have to unconditionally surrender to Iran when we lose this war because we are going to lose this war. We can't win this war. Um we we don't have a plan. Our plan changes every 24 hours. Um we don't have the ammunition. Uh that's proven. Um you know, I mean, Heg, Seth, and Trump can talk about unlimited ammunition, but we're literally talking about um you know, gravity bombs. uh up up until now the weapons we've been using are standoff munitions. We have a finite number of them and we're running out of them. Um and when we run out of them, we're going to have to put our uh airmen at risk because now instead of being able to stand off and strike targets, we're going to have to close with the targets, which means we have to bring in the wild weasels, clear out enemy air defense, and we're going to put people at risk. Anybody who thinks that claiming air supremacy means we don't lose anybody, look at the Gulf War, look at Desert Storm. We were losing aircraft up until the very last moments of that war because even if we had air superiority, we don't have air supremacy. As long as there's any means left to defend and when you force airplanes to close with the enemy, they are vulnerable to being shot down. So this president is going to put American lives at risk because we didn't think this war out. But air defense is the big problem. The Iranians have shown a proclivity to destroy the totality of our Middle East infrastructure. Uh Colonel, I don't know how many THAD batteries we deployed into the region. The THAAD being the more advanced of our air defense system. So that's probably a classified number. What I do know is that there's photographic evidence that five radars associated with THAD batteries have been destroyed by the Iranians. The Iranians are precisely picking us apart. They're taking us apart piece by piece by piece. They took out our early warning eyes in Alu 1.1 billion uh early warning radar gone. They've taken out other radars. They destroyed five THAAD batteries which I believe and I wrote this earlier is the maximum number we have deployed in the region. So our THAAD is no longer operational outside of Israel. Um and and they are now picking us apart, destroying the there are people who are saying the amount of destruction have done to American uh military infrastructure is is the greatest in the history of the United States that outside of the Civil War. Nobody has ever inflicted this much harm on the United States. Nobody has attacked American military installations to this degree. And the Iranians are just picking us apart piece by piece by piece. They're using intelligence provided by the Russians and the Chinese that specifically identify locations and they have the weapon systems that are able to strike these locations and we don't have the ability to defend ourselves. So ask yourself, who's winning this war? >> The trajectory is in favor of Iran. >> I can tell you if you ask an Israeli general Zamir, he thinks we are. Watch this. I am in continuous contact with my American counterparts, including the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff of the United States, General Dan Kaine, and the commander of scentcom, Admiral Brad Cooper. We are fighting based on shared interests and values. In this war, shoulderto-shoulder, they are true friends. Through coordinated action, we are stripping the regime of its military capabilities and bringing it to strategic isolation and a point of weakness in which it has never been. >> Yeah. So, pretty much game over. I mean, you saw the secretary of uh of war, Pete Hexath, is like said, "Yeah, they're toast." Uh, we are definitely winning. And boy, you ain't seen nothing yet. He said yesterday, "Much, much more is coming." What do you say to that? >> Well, I believe much much more is coming. I believe we will continue to drop bombs on Iran. I think we're going to continue video of things blowing up. Um, I I I I saw on your resume, Colonel, that you were a participant in Operation Desert Storm. So, you know full well um that we blew up a lot of infrastructure in Iraq as well. I was one of the people to help design the strategic air campaign and I monitored it as a battle damage assessment officer. Um, and then I went into Iraq afterwards as a weapons inspector and visited all the places that we blew up, all the places that were in our target package. Uh, and what I found is that we blew up a lot of buildings. I was told by an Iraqi general, very senior Iraqi general, he said, "Mr. Scott, you guys are really good at blowing up buildings. Really good." He said, 'You know, and we're pretty good at pouring concrete. And he said, uh, the thing is, when you blow up the buildings, they're all empty, but when our concrete cures, we put everything back in and we're back in business. And that's what happened to us after Desert Storm. We didn't destroy anything. I'm just here to tell you that straight up. We blew up everything and we destroyed nothing. I can guarantee you right now, this is a war that the Iranians have been preparing to fight for over 20 years since Dick Cheney threatened to invade them back in 2005. and they have broken their country into 12 autonomous military districts and each one of these has been preparing. They've been going underground. Uh those uh the enrichment facility that uh that Trump bombed uh operation midnight hammer um that place wasn't carved out to put in centures that was part of over a 100 different places prepared around Iran to evacuate material so that when they think they're going to be attacked, sensitive material is evacuated. This one was converted to be used as an underground um enrichment facility. But around Iran are hundreds of others that are there to receive all of the precision equipment, all the the the the the production equipment, all the sensitive stuff that's very difficult to replace, very expensive, is now in hiding. We're blowing up empty facilities and we will continue to blow up empty facilities and and then we we we pretend that it's victorious, that we're doing some great stuff. We're not. We're not doing anything. And I also want to remind people if if you study history, just take a look at a simple thing. Measure Schmidt fighter production in Nazi Germany during World War II and then plot the number of Measure Schmidt's fighters built by the Germans in 1942. Then over or in 19 in the 1940s and then overlay the strategic bombing campaign. And what you will see is the more we bombed, the more fighters were produced because the better the Germans got to adapting to our bombing. Bombing doesn't accomplish anything unless it's attached to sound targets. And we saw tragically with the murder of over 170 uh school girls uh on the first day of the war that we have no idea what we're hitting. We used a target deck that's dated 15 years and we had nobody. Where's the intelligence officer whose job is to go through that target deck and vet it to make sure we have the most up-to-date information that we're not bombing a target based upon 15-year-old intelligence. I did this in 1985 when I went through the war plan for the amphibious assault against Bonderbos and Chabahar. I had to go through each target because it was my job to do and and go this is dated information update the information vet each target to make sure that we have the most valid update information to justify this target still being in the target deck and to ensure that when we bomb the target we get the the the results we want. People need to understand that by bombing that that school we have destroyed our credibility not only in Iran but around the world. Um again we are mass murderers. We the people of the United States of America are citizens of a nation that has carried out an illegal war of aggression with no legal authorization, an act of perity and mass murder. There's no justification out there at all for murdering 170 school girls. >> Thing is to recognize that uh Iran has been at war with us for uh at least 47 years uh all the way from 1979. People may forget they took our embassy hostage 440 uh 444 days. Uh they were responsible for the killings of uh 300 plus Marines in Lebanon in the early 1980s. Um and uh if you ask people about Iraq, uh what was the source of many of our casualties in Iraq, uh you'll get estimates as high as 75 or 80% of them were due to Iranianmade uh roadside bombs. if it is uh trying to deny them a conventional umbrella for their nuclear ambitions. Uh I that is a worthy uh goal. Now uh what comes after people are of course concerned about that. But if you can render Iran essentially incapable of military action against us and against our allies, that's uh worthy. And I think what they're trying to do is to neuter Iran as a military power in the region. I hope I made it clear to your audience that uh when I when I said that I was going to um I apologize. A school bus is pulling up in front of my house. My dogs are going crazy. >> My dog doesn't so I >> They do. Um so hopefully I'll stop barking soon. But um the the you know when I said that I was willing to go back on active duty. Um I I was willing to go on active duty not because I supported that war, but because I support Marines. I want to keep Marines alive. Um and and so no one can ever make the case that I would ever articulate anything that could bring harm to my fellow Marines or to soldiers, sailors, um you know, the the the Coast Guard, anybody. Um American life is sankerank. I I am an American patriot. U and I will do what I can to preserve the lives of my fellow Americans. But we also have to be realistic here. You know, with all due respect to Condisa Rice, who is a war criminal, by the way, she's uh she was part of the cabal that led us into the last illegal war of aggression that we waged before this one, which was the illegal invasion occupation of Iraq. Um, no justification under international law or domestic law. Um, unlike Desert Storm, again, I just want to remind people because law is very important. Desert Storm, we had a chapter 7 resolution passed by the Security Council that authorized the use of military force and the United States Congress passed a war resolution uh before the bombs fell that gave us congressional authority to do this as well. So everything we did in Desert Storm may not have been wise, but it was definitely legal. Nothing we've done in Iraq in 2003 was legal and nothing we're doing to Iran today is legal. In 1979, you know, the the the takeover of the US embassy didn't happen in a vacuum. It happened because the CIA was working handinhand with Savvak which was the u secret police arm of Raash Sha Palevi and they were committing horrific crimes against the people of Iran and the people of Iran rose up and they took over the embassy. I'm not in favor of that. I wish they hadn't taken the embassy but to pretend that it happened in a vacuum that people just woke up one morning and said, "Hey, what can we do to really get America?" No, it woke up because they were furious at the United States. Because they were furious at how we had worked with the Sabbach to torture Iranians that we were giving safe haven to Raisale Levy who had cancer and he was in the United States and Iran said, "No, you got to get him out here back here to be accountable to us." So, they took the embassy. You know, one of the things is the CIA was shredding documents back then. That's before we had cross shredders. Um, and so we had these long strips of uh of 1/8 inch shredded paper and these students actually pulled out the burn bags that didn't get burned and put all those documents back together and they published them and it proves just how bad we were. So when you want to sit there and say that Iran has been at war with the United States for 47 years, I would make the counter argument the United States has been at war with Iran for even longer than that because you know who put the the Shaw in power? We did. How? through a CIA orchestrated coup that removed Mosa Mossad Day from power in 1953. The constitutionally elected prime minister of Iran. We removed him from power using a CIA coup. We installed this fake Shaw who then with American backing butchered the Iranian people until he was removed from power by the Islamic Revolution. What happened in Beirut? Dead set against it. But ask the Marines who were there, they know that we chose sides. We walked into a civil war-like environment and we chose sides. We started shelling people. We started intervening. We became the enemy. And then we cry when we get treated like an enemy. I don't want those Marines dead. I don't want them dead at all. I want them alive. But the best way to have kept them alive is to keep them out of Lebanon. We put them in a place where they shouldn't have been and then they paid the ultimate price. Don't blame us when people choose to defend their homeland using the means necessary. You know, everybody talks about the American Revolution. You know, of course we hid behind trees and we hid behind bushes and to shoot at the British red coats marching in there because that's the way we had to fight. What do you want people to do when they have to go up against the battleship New Jersey? When they have to go up against aircraft carriers, when they have to go up Marines with helicopters and everything, you want them to line up and say, "Kill us." Or you want them to use the tactics necessary to achieve the results they want, which is the eviction of Marines from their territory. Again, I don't want Marines dead, but we shouldn't have been there. And then we come down to the the toughest one of all because there's a lot of veterans out now that are going to get really mad at me. I don't care. I don't care if you get mad at me now because I'm going to tell you the awful truth. If you were in Iraq in 2005 and you got hit with an explosively formed projectile that had been provided to the Shia of southern Iraq Mad Al Sader's people by Alkud's force, Kusin Sulammani and the Iranians. Um, and it kills you, killed your your your comrades, wounded you, wounded other people. Um, you shouldn't have been there. You do know that you illegally invaded and occupied a sovereign state, that there was no justification for you being there whatsoever. And the people who resided in that country didn't want you there and they resisted you. Now, what would you do if a foreign power invaded your hometown, kicked in your door, took your family out, lined him up in the streets, your younger brother came down a little too fast, so the guy shot him because I felt threatened. You don't belong there. We didn't belong in Iraq. We illegally invaded and occupied that nation. And the people who lived next door to them, co-religionists, supported the resistance. It was a resistance movement. and we paid the price. We shouldn't have been there. Do I want any Marines and any soldiers to have died in that? Absolutely not. I wish they were all home doing the right thing, training for a legitimate conflict, one that were a real threat. This was a war of choice in Iraq. A war of choice. We didn't need to be there. And >> and can I just say that I mean, and I'm I'm sure that you'll probably resonate well with this one as well. It's hard for me to hear those arguments that she made there about uh the EFPs and all the stuff that we suffered there. Uh and a lot of it is legit, but that probably number 600 probably is close to being right. But I I got to think what in the world how do we point a finger at Iran and say that they're worthy of death when we do it on a four years basis in in in Ukraine >> against Russians for the purpose of killing Russian soldiers. we are doing on an industrial scale what you're saying they did on a moderate scale and I >> we lost 600 600 soldiers I think is a is is an accurate number. I I I wouldn't dispute that number. Um we are responsible we the United States are responsible the deaths of tens of thousands of Russian soldiers because of what we provided to the Ukrainians. And remember that war started when we instigated a coup in 2014 uh and replaced the legitimate government of Ukraine with Ukrainian nationalist movement that had been supported by the CIA since 1948. If you guys want to get into history lessons with me, I'd be more than happy to do it. I'm

Former UN weapons inspector and Marine Corps intelligence officer Scott Ritter joins the Daniel Davis Deep Dive to deliver a chilling warning about the escalating conflict with Iran. Ritter draws direct parallels between the current administration's rhetoric and the intelligence failures that led to the Iraq War. He analyzes why the U.S. military is unprepared for modern drone warfare and why the goal of "unconditional surrender" is a dangerous fantasy. This interview explores the geopolitical consequences of the conflict, including the roles of Russia and China in supporting Iranian intelligence. #Scott Ritter #Donald Trump #Scott Ritter Interview #Scott Ritter Iran #US Foreign Policy #Geopolitics #Military Analysis #Breaking News #Middle East Crisis #Daniel Davis