Scott Ritter & Nima Alkhorshid: Ukraine Collapsing on All Fronts and NATO’s Strategy Being Completely Defeated

by Dialogue Works [7-20-2024 published].

This very  thoughtful discussion is a hard reality check on the significance of NATO, Europe, Germany, France, UK, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan and their military postures in today's world. Of course, we all know that the USA is a member of NATO and NATO is simply an extension of US policy. Today NATO is only trying to impress itself and how important it is in the world, which is far removed from reality.

The German, French & UK militaries are shrinking. Also, because they haven't been maintained, they are rotting at the core, just like a house infested with termites. NATO can't even generate enough military equipment & ammo to supply the needs of Ukraine. Throwing more $money into Ukraine doesn't help, since Ukraine is losing more soldiers every week than they can possibly replace. Even sending in old F-16 fighters will only accelerate the defeat of Ukraine. This is all a pipe dream with no substance to back them up. NATO is panicking.

President Eisenhauer warned about the dangers of the military-industrial-congressional complex in 1961. After WW2, in order to maintain our military, we have pursued a policy of conflict & wars around the world. There is not a single place where we have promoted peace.

Back in the 1980s, the US had the best military in the world. We needed massive fuel, ammo & other supplies to support the types of Cold War conflicts envisioned and were geared up to provide this. But when the Cold War ended, we cut back significantly since that is very expensive. Now we are not in a position to fight any major sustained war. To think otherwise is folly.

Scott's daughter studied at Georgetown University. Last December he took her to Russia, Georgia, Chechnya & related areas to give her some first hand experiences, since her studies were focused on those areas. She got to meet many very influential people and had substantive discussions & was even invited to their homes. But when she got back, Georgetown University ostracized her in very cruel ways, instead of having discussions to better understand what she had learned. Contrary to Georgetown saying that they had an 'open mind' about what is happening in the world, they demonstrated exactly the opposite.

Whether you agree with China's Belt & Road initiatives or Russia's BRICS & SCO focus, these countries are taking the opposite approach to our focus on chaos & war.

Unfortunately, the US is currently the greatest threat to peace in the world today. Our military-industrial complex and foreign policy can't be sustained by peace. Peace is our enemy. It will require major changes for us to switch from a war footing to a peace initiative. Unless we make these changes, we will destroy our country.

I would encourage you to take the time to thoughtfully listen to this discussion by Scott & Nima. Scott is a student of history and was a Marine with significant involvement in the Iraq war and helping implement the INF Treaty.

— RAD

Resources

https://www.amazon.com/Covering-Ukraine-Ritter-Interviews-Through/dp/1963892089 Covering Ukraine: The Scott Ritter Interviews Through the Eyes Of Ania K Paperback. (This is the book Scott mentioned)

War weighs heavily on the soul of even the most hardened observer, and the conflict between Russia and Ukraine is no exception.

Often, when called upon to address such complex conflict-related situations, analysts endure a kind of weary cynicism, having repeatedly provided the same narrative-based facts to the same audience without seeming to have moved the needle of public perception. One of the reasons for this melancholy is that both the interviewer and the interviewee have often gone over the same ground in what seems like a never-ending cycle of gloom and doom.

Then, out of the blue, something changes! You are called upon to lay out the same old set of facts to someone who is new to the story, to someone whose spirit hasn’t been dulled by the repetitive ravages brought on by covering the death and destruction of never-ending conflict. To someone for whom the insanity and horror of war, and the complexity and hypocrisy of the politics that serve as its intellectual foundation is a new, terrifying and confusing experience.

At that moment, the old analyst inside you reawakens. You are reminded why you got into this business to begin with. You are challenged by questions so innocent and pure that you are compelled to reexamine the assumptions that had calcified your own assessments, past and present.

I am that old analyst, and Ania K is my welcomed fellow traveler. In this book we take you on a journey of discovery and rediscovery, borne from the probing questions of someone new to the intricacies and duplicities of war and yearning to understand. Here you will find the answers of someone whose dulling senses have been galvanized by the challenge of putting into perspective problems for which there once had seemed to be no solution, and yet, upon this reexamination, now become comprehensible―and even solvable.

Covering Ukraine: The Scott Ritter interviews through the Eyes Of Ania K. is a unique and timely addition to the literature on the conflict in Ukraine. It offers a fresh look at complex problems that will empower and entertain the reader with new insights and sharp analysis of a war few understand―which as such is doomed to continue in perpetuity, the living manifestation of the age-old adage, “You can’t solve a problem if you do not first properly define what the problem is.”

In this book, Ania K. and I embark on a journey to properly define the problems manifest in the Ukraine conflict, and together, we struggle to find a solution.