Scott Ritter tells Glenn Diesen that the largest drone attack on St. Petersburg did not exploit a hole in Russian air defenses so much as a corridor along Belarus, Poland, and the Baltic states, where intercepting the drones would put Russian assets into NATO airspace, and that the precision implies guidance beacons inside NATO countries. He says Zelensky made the quarrel with Donald Trump personal, a mistake he calls fatal, and that the split points to the collapse of Ukraine and, with it, of NATO and the European Union.
Scott Ritter with Nima Alkhorshid on reports that two ships are sinking, one in the Strait of Hormuz and one in the Gulf of Oman, after more than ten vessels were hit. They discuss an Ansarallah announcement of strikes on Aramco headquarters, an Aramco facility, and King Khalid International Airport, and Ritter's view that Iran controls the strait while Saudi attempts to divert oil to the Red Sea have failed.
Scott Ritter with Danny Haiphong on C-17 transports surging into Ben Gurion, a Trump-Israel war plan for Iran the show says is already underway, and an Iranian response that has left Washington and Tel Aviv panicking.
Vasily Prozorov, a former Ukrainian SBU officer who defected to Russia and survived two assassination attempts, has spent years tracking the network of foreign fighters and mercenaries operating inside Ukraine. His new book, "Ukraine: Murderers for Hire — Dogs of War Lured by Kiev," is a documentary investigation into who these fighters really are.
He sits down with Scott Ritter, a former UN weapons inspector and Marine Corps intelligence officer, and DDGeopolitics to break it down.
He sorts foreign fighters into three categories: ideological neo-Nazis, mercenaries chasing a paycheck, and Western military professionals operating NATO systems under official deniability. British Afghanistan veterans could not answer how to defend a checkpoint against a tank. A Ukrainian officer had already faced that in 2014. By late 2023 most Western mercenaries had left Ukraine. The war was nothing like Afghanistan or Iraq.
The supply has shifted to Latin America. Colombians are now the dominant foreign mercenary group and are used as cannon fodder. Western countries are paying their own mercenaries through Ukraine's Ministry of Defense, with their own financial assistance. Colombian cartels are recruiting Ukraine-trained FPV drone operators. Prozorov says he has seen it firsthand. Ukrainian instructors have been sent to Colombia to train cartel members on FPV drones on the spot.
Israeli instructors were seen in the Dnipro battalion in 2014, a personal connection through Kolomoisky. On drone operators controlling strikes from European apartments, he says: "War criminals. Nothing but disgust." He calls Laura Loomer a soldier in information warfare, a foreign mercenary serving the Kiev regime. His next book is on weapon smuggling from Ukraine.
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This past June I was able to sit down with Dmitri Rogozin, the former head of Roscosmos, current Senator for Zaporozhia, and the commander of the BARS Sarmat Brigade, which focusses on drone warfare in the Special Military Operation.
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00:00 Hegseth reshapes the rules of the military
03:43 Personnel decisions divide military leadership
07:07 Top commanders gather under one roof
10:26 Netanyahu and Trump discuss political influence
14:17 Vance could become Trump’s political safeguard
17:48 Expensive diesel drives up American prices
21:13 Saudi Arabia faces mounting internal pressure
24:14 Saudi megaprojects raise serious questions
27:44 Witkoff emerges as a diplomatic channel
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What is NATO 3.0? Is this a reboot or a failed compile? Is this failure mascaraeding behind a PR Puff piece by Rutte? On whose money and with whose soldier will NATO 3.0 be launched?
Former US Marine intel officer and weapons inspector Scott Ritter on Iran's new ship-sinking missile, US panic over the naval blockade, and the wider confrontation with Iran and Russia.
Scott Ritter and Patrik Baab on The World This Week: Germany continues the drive towards war with Russia, alleging a Leipzig drone scare, while Zelensky threatens Russian civilian airspace; and will Trump take the offer to save face in Iran?
Scott Ritter and Ray McGovern on The World This Week. Tensions soar between Tel Aviv and Ankara over their designs on Syria; would Trump really nuke Iran? Gaza and Ukraine updates and the Pentagon punishes Stars & Stripes by firing its editor and publisher.
Judge Andrew Napolitano with Larry Johnson, Scott Ritter, and Joe Kent. They discuss the reported Air Force One threat (Israeli warning, CIA skepticism, Trump taken off the plane), Israel's influence on US intelligence, the Iran war and Hormuz blockade, and Putin's Far East order that Russian ships may seize European vessels if Europe seizes Russian ones.
Former UN weapons inspector and US Marine intel officer Scott Ritter on Danny Haiphong — an alleged Iranian attempt on Trump’s life, and the crisis aboard the USS Lincoln as 5,000 US sailors face catastrophe.
