Scott Ritter’s warning (that the USA might have to fight on two fronts).

Scott Ritter is a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer who served in the Soviet Union as an inspector implementing the INF Treaty, in General Schwarzkopf’s staff during the Gulf War and, from 1991-1998, as a UN weapon inspector. Not only does Mr Ritter write articles for various independent or non-Western-aligned news outlets (including for Russia Today – https://www.rt.com/search?q=Scott+Ritter) as well as books, but he also gives interviews (sometimes several in a week) to various independent news outlets. As he is one of the few voices in the USA to provide a more balanced analysis of the Russia-Ukraine conflict, he is regularly featured in the alternative news space.

Invited to do so by the Ron Paul Institute for Peace and Prosperity, Scott Ritter gave a speech at a venue in Houston, TX, on 4th June 2022, entitled ‘Two-front war: Biden's mouth is writing cheques the US military can’t cash’, following comments made by Joe Biden on 23rd May during a visit to several countries in the Asia-Pacific region that his country would stand firm on its commitment to defend Taiwan – including through military force.

As I am not a military analyst, I cannot offer an informed opinion on all of the claims made by Scott Ritter during his 26-minute speech, although I certainly agree with him that to be involved in wars with both Russia and China at the same time would be far more costly for the USA than the previous wars it has taken part in since, say, the Korean War (1950-1953). Of course, a worst-case scenario for the Biden administration would be if a third front were to open up in the Middle East (say, a war between Israel and Iran), a possibility that Scott Ritter was not even willing to consider in his speech of 4th June.

For my part, I would simply point out that, so far, Russia has been using only a fraction of its military forces against Ukraine and I invite you, dear reader, to ponder why this is the case.

Link: https://t.me/ScottRitter/

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Source: The Ron Paul Liberty Report (YT, BitChute)

TRANSCRIPT (24:14- 26:12)

We’re not only in danger of getting involved in a war in Europe that we can’t win, we’re in danger of promulgating a conflict in the Pacific we can’t win. That’s a two-front war that we can’t win. We can’t win it, so why are we doing it?

Because we have a Commander-in-Chief whose mouth has no checks and balances, we have a population which has been made stupid – I guess as the most polite word I can give – from exposure to a media that’s no longer in the business of informing the American people but entertaining the American people.

Do you remember that old line ‘if it bleeds, it leads’? Nothing bleeds more than war and there’s nothing immediate that the mass media likes more than a war that they can put out there every day. Change the narrative, make it horrible, make it … and the American people tune in like the compliant, little brain-dead people they are and they just eat it up because other people are dying, because Ukrainians are dying, because the Taiwanese are going to be dying.

But let me just give you a news flash: when we go to war against Russia and we go to war against China, we’re going to be dying and it’s not going to be in small numbers. This isn’t Afghanistan, this isn’t Iraq; this isn’t where a bad week was seven Americans dying: this is where a bad hour is five thousand Americans dying; this is where a bad day is fifteen thousand, twenty thousand Americans dying; this is where a bad week is sixty to eighty thousand Americans dying in conflicts we can’t win unless we go nuclear and then nobody wins, everybody loses.

Joe Biden, your ego and your mouth are writing cheques the American body can’t cash.
Thank you very much.

Lausanne, the lines above were posted on the thirteenth day of the seventh month of the year two thousand and twenty-two.