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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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?
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Former Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter discusses US deployment of a new space weapon and why a nuclear space race is being launched by Trump just as Yemen downs an f-15 and leaks over the extensive damage to US bases has come out.
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.
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Scott Ritter discusses the desperation mounting for the Trump administration as it pursues a potential nuclear option for Russia and China following its massive defeat in Iran. Meanwhile the USS Lincoln is reportedly in crisis, further complicating the war designs of the American empire.
Scott Ritter is a former UN Weapons Inspector and US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer now widely renowned for his searing critiques of US foreign policy and pursuit of peace.
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Why does religious faith decide who wins wars in the Middle East? Former Marine intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter argues the "axis of resistance," Israeli hardline politics, and US Christian Zionism are all shaped by deep, often overlooked religious conviction — and that Western policymakers consistently misread it.
In this episode of Deep Dive Perspective, Scott Ritter draws on his own intelligence background preparing for a potential US-Iran conflict in the 1980s, explaining how Shia theology and the concept of martyrdom rooted in the Battle of Karbala shaped Iranian combat resilience. He traces how this same religious lens explains the rise of Hezbollah out of Amal's resistance to Israeli occupation, and the complicated, more recent alignment between Iran and Yemen's Ansarullah movement.
Ritter also discusses what he describes as the growing influence of religious hardliners within Israeli politics and the eschatological beliefs of Christian Zionism within parts of the US administration, arguing both distort strategic decision-making around the region. He is critical of US policymakers and institutions for failing to understand the ideology of adversaries, and offers his own view on which strands of religious extremism — across multiple faiths — he considers most dangerous to regional stability.
This episode contains strong personal opinions and characterizations of religious and political movements. These are presented as Scott Ritter's own analysis, not verified facts or the position of Deep Dive Perspective, and should be weighed against other reporting and primary sources.
In This Episode:
- The faith behind the "axis of resistance"
- Shia theology, martyrdom, and Iranian combat resilience
- How Hezbollah emerged from Amal's resistance to Israeli occupation
- Iran and Yemen's Ansarullah: allies, but not natural ones
- Religious hardliners' growing influence in Israeli politics
- Christian Zionism and eschatology in US policy circles
- Why Washington keeps misreading the region
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Scott Ritter discusses the new fronts of war emerging in the Iran war despite US retreat from striking deeper into the country.
What has been a catastrophe for the Pentagon is set to get a lot worse and the former UN Weapons Inspector and US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer breaks it all down.
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Recent government-assisted censorship began under Biden but Donald Trump has now unleashed the return of full-blown McCarthyism in which "communism" is once again the greatest menace to the United States. Joe Lauria's guests this week are Scott Ritter and Patrick Henningsen.
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Scott Ritter discusses Iran's new ballistic missile and the massive destruction of Patriot batteries, air defenses, radars, and billions in military hardware as the blown open cover up of US troops casualties sends Trump scrambling toward all out war.
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Scott Ritter, Former UN Weapons Inspector and Marine Corps Intel Officer, discusses the massive escalation in the Iran war as Yemen enters into renewed conflict with a US-backed Saudi incursion, and Iran strikes back hard after Trump declared war following day 3 of CENTCOM strikes.
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Scott Ritter is a former Major, Intelligence Officer, US Marine, and UN Weapons Inspector. Ritter discusses the intense war propaganda by NATO to sell the narrative of a victory in Ukraine, even as Russia's position is improving significantly.
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The NATO summit in Ankara this week recommitted to provoking direct war with Russia by 2030, with or without the US it seems. Meanwhile Trump's fruity Iran policy plays in a loop as Israel stands ready to again launch full-scale war.
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Former UN Weapons Inspector & US Marine Corps Intel Officer Scott Ritter discusses being targeted by drones on recent travel to Russia, the state of the two biggest wars in the world at this moment, and why defeat in both is irreversable for Trump & Washington.
In St. Petersburg this week, the Russian president spoke frankly about Ukraine, NATO and the course of the war: there is no end in sight. Scott Ritter reports live from Moscow after arriving there from St. Petersburg.
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Is NATO provoking a direct war with Russia? The ultimate aim of Project Ukraine has always been to weaken Russia and overthrow Vladimir Putin. To launch the economic, information and ground proxy war on Moscow, NATO needed Russia to invade Ukraine. Now it needs Russia to attack a NATO country to justify direct war on Putin.
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Former UN weapons inspector and US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer Scott Ritter joins the show to discuss the latest round of strikes between Iran and the US as Trump & Israel's war of aggression escalates to a point of no return.
