ok let's get the thoughts now scott ritter he's a former united nations weapons inspector we appreciate your time thanks for coming back on thursday let's talk about russia's response i'm not sure how much you heard of that so i just run through it with the in response russia's proposed to expel proposed to expel 10 u.s. diplomats it said that it could reduce the u.s. diplomatic mission in russia considerably it hasn't gone ahead with that but it's a threat and it said it will stop u.s. organizations from operating in russia although not stating exactly who yet and 8 american individuals will be sanctioned. well it's clear that russia is being far more mature about this than the than the united states and i think that's a recognition on the part of russia that what they're dealing with is is an american domestic problem not an american national security problem. and the best thing to do is to let the united states resolve its problem it has with russia internally and that's happening right now the it within the by the ministration there is a developing dialogue that talks to the reality

bring core intelligence officer scott ritter. the mere fact that you have politicians action on intelligence that has appeared on the front pages of the new york times bill is you right off the bat that it's not intelligence it's been it's clear the size information as opposed to hard intelligence that the united states and russia are adults they they they they sit at the big table they wear big boy pants and their intelligence services do things against one another because that information normally we understand this is the reality of the world but the united states right now is very defensive it's dealing with a changing world a changing reality and the fact that russia refuses to play the game of being subservient to you know a dominant america and so this is a domestic political problem where intelligence is 0 and political objective as opposed to doing what it's supposed to do providing insight american decision makers about what ground truth and russia is. still ahead the funder of an investigative journalism blocked on twi

weapons inspector scott ritter saying is nato backing for kiev's actions is cool. the discipline comes and 3 things one is the ongoing material support the united states continues to provide big holes arms munitions and other military equipment to the ukrainian military much of this is lethal in nature of meaning used in combat then there's the the the training that's taking place across training between nato forces including americans and ukraine and ukraine believes that this training shows that they're somehow you know brothers in arms and then there's the political rhetoric the phone call for instance from the secretary of defense to his ukrainian counterpart yes ukraine is being led to believe that there will be support and there will be but the support will be military the support will be diplomatic political you know they they support the right that the ukrainian objectives and they also view the ukrainian russian. tension as supporting an overall western strategy of containing and destabilizing russia so everything bad that savage in ukraine today. props up

marines intelligence officer scott ritter he thinks the flare up of the fighting is being driven by cancer economic concerns the cravings also understand that they could very well be being put in a very difficult economic situation in the months and years ahead if north stream too is completed and russia decides to stop transmitting gas through ukraine depriving ukraine of billions of dollars in revenue there will be an economic crisis so i think ukraine is anticipating this and seeking to promote a euro or at least advertise the kinds of to a military solution in hopes that nato in europe will intervene politically and diplomatically on their side to get a resolution to this issue or to stop north stream to unless is in support of the ukrainian objectives of ukraine is being led to believe that there will be support and there will be but the support will be military the support will be diplomatic or political but the united states is not going to deploy military forces to fight on the soil of ukraine against the russian army it just isn't going to happen. this is out say still to come ano

the independent institute and author of the book war and the road presidency in del mar we have scott ritter is a former intelligence officer and the united nations weapons inspector and in los angeles we cross the joe collins he is a former california congressional republican candidate and u.s. navy veteran our gentlemen crossed up rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate.

as i bring in scott ritter who's a former u.n. weapons inspector and u.s. marines intelligence officer scott welcome back to r.t. how are you reading the situation there is it likely to descend into all out open conflict like we saw in the dark chapter of 20142050. there's a there's a very big risk that it could be the main reason this would happen is a gross miscalculation on the part of ukraine one that's similar to the one that georgian president saakashvili made back in 2008 when he initiated of military operations and so those asia under the belief that the united states would would have his back russia responded militarily and. crushed the georgian military and embarrass them. that's that's the shade of ukraine if they if they seek to move forward there's simply no way the ukrainian military could carry out large scale offensive operations of. the kind necessary to liberate. the territories that are currently under control of you know the russian. the russian populations in ukraine not only that they would not survive a russian military counterattack t

the independent institute and author of the book war and the road presidency in del mar we have scott ritter is a former intelligence officer and the united nations weapons inspector and in los angeles we cross it joe collins he is a former california congressional republican candidate and u.s. navy veteran all right gentlemen crosstalk rules in effect that means you can jump in anytime you want and i always appreciate let me go to scott 1st and elmore i want to go offer my introduction here we have a new president we have a new administration we were told that would be everything different from tom but in terms of foreign policy there's an enormous amount of continuity and i think it's very important to point out too is that as i said is that. the bipartisan consensus any largely lost. with joe biden seems to be really quite willing to embrace that i mean when we look at biden's policy towards russia towards china his administration is going to places really fast i don't think they know how they're getting there and what the outcome is going to be because it's terrifying a lot of people how