marine corps intelligence officer scott ritter scott thanks so much for taking the time to talk to us about this today thursday the state department released this statement writing quote the united states government was not involved in recent events in venice whaler including mr grig drone now there is a major dissent from ation campaign underway by the federal regime making it difficult to separate facts from papa ganda but then you have this confession from one of the mercenaries captured listen here. this culture was. similar. but it was. 'd a larger group. one group of. so scott who is telling the truth here and are there any dead give away as to who actually is telling the truth. right now i will tell you that the 2 captured americans. are telling the truth to their best of their ability. they understand that their their treatment and their future a relies on them being as forthcoming as possible but there are some a hints here for instance they say they were tasked with seizing would dural that would be done by venezuelan elements their job was to secure an airfield and then cal

weapons inspector say this would be a massive provocation to russia now that expert is scott ritter he was also a u.s. marine corps intelligence officer at one point in his career and he is joining us now to discuss this now scott you have an interesting piece for r.t. dot com on this matter so you would actually agree with the folks at brookings institute saying this is a bad idea. it's a horrible idea it's 1st of all it serves 0. deterrent value i mean the whole purpose of having nuclear weapons in europe is part of the nato a nuclear capability is a is for its deterrence value anybody who actually thinks these weapons are going to be used or have the utility in combat suicidal should get their their mind checked if you're going to deter somebody you don't provoke them simultaneously and to move these weapons from where they currently reside in germany. poland eastward violates a whole host of agreements and. it also puts nuclear weapons within you know moment momentary striking distance of a russian territory which means any time a polish aircraft that was configured to be capable o