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Mundu multipolarra versus unipolarra

NBE (Nazio Batuen Erakundea) gaindituta, ICC (NAPE) (International Criminal Court) alboratuta, eta Mossad nagusi… aspalditik gainera…

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Stop saying history will judge them, judge Israel now. With ICC judges.

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ICC (international Criminal Court) NAPE (Nazioarteko Arlo Penaleko Epaitegia)

Kenneth Roth@KenRoth

International Criminal Court judges refuse to be bow to Trump’s sanctions as he tries to exempt Israeli and American officials from the rule of law:We are not going to be intimidated.”

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Israel killed JFK to get nukes. Not Iran

Israel stole several hundred pounds of highly enriched uranium from U.S. Not Iran

Israel stole other nuclear secrets and components from us to build their bombs. Not Iran

Israel refuses to sign the Nuclear Non- Proliferiation Treaty. Iran signed it.

Israel won’t submit to nuclear inspections. Iran does.

Israel violated the Atmospheric Test-Ban treaty. Not Iran

Israel holds the world hostage with Samson Option nuclear blackmail. Not Iran

Israel controls U.S politicians through the israel lobby & Epstein-style blackmail. Not Iran

Israel controls our online speech through the ADL, SPLC & their infiltration of Big Tech. Not Iran

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Kenneth Roth@KenRoth

For the second consecutive year in 2025, Israel killed more journalists than any other country.

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Hamas was encouraged and really started by Israel and the United States to counteract Yasser Arafat.” – Ron Paul

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/2026876326486192606

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Israel is responsible for two in three journalist killings across the globe in 2024 and 2025

@pressfreedom has also collected testimonies from Palestinian journalists released from Israeli custody since Oct 7, 2023. All but one reported being subjected to torture, abuse, or other violence because of their work

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Committee to Protect Journalists@pressfreedom

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More journalists and media workers were killed in 2025 than in any other year since CPJ began collecting data more than three decades ago. At least 129 journalists and media workers were killed, two-thirds of them by Israel.

Read CPJ’s #2025KilledReport: https://cpj.org/?p=553549

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Read this and read it again… NOW LOOK AT THE EVIDENCE:

The number of journalists killed in major conflicts:

World War II — 67.

Korean War — 17.

Vietnam War — 63.

Bosnia — 45.

Afghanistan — 65.

Gaza — 280.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/2026377731617816661

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Prof. Jeffrey Sachs : Negotiation or Escalation? Trump’s Iran Crossroads

Congress and the White House are owned by radical, militant, crazy Zionists

In Israel, Bibi Netanyahu, Smotrich, Ben-Gvir, who want a war with Iran.

Trump is a puppet.

Trump lied every word that we just watched, and the Congress stood up and applauded him, but that’s for a reason. That is the chokehold on American politics that this Zionist lobby has right now, and we need to break that chokehold for our own security.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/2026814455334478186

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You Can’t Wage a War on a People Under Occupation

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese stressed that labeling the situation in Gaza as a conventional “war” is legally and morally misplaced.

She explained that Palestinians in Gaza, the occupied West Bank, and East Jerusalem are a population under occupation, meaning a different legal framework applies, not the framework of war between equal states or armies.

Albanese further noted that even during so-called ceasefires, Palestinians continued to be killed, more than 150 between January and March during the first truce, and over 600 since.

While the scale of killing may fluctuate, she questioned how Gaza can be described as at peace when killings persist and destruction continues.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/2026755681874047196

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Jeffrey Sachs: Iran never wanted nukes. The UN-backed JCPOA enforced strict monitoring. Then Trump, acting as a pawn of Netanyahu, ripped it up.

This was never about nukes, it’s about Israel seeking regional hegemony and toppling the Iranian regime.

The U.S. has no interest in war with Iran; if there is one, it’s because Israel told the U.S. what to do.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/2026585457199558723

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“Formally, I am Ukrainian. And I have such a strange last name. It’s hard to find even in Ukraine. It’s from the Zaporizhzhian Cossacks. We are all (Russia, Ukraine & Belarus) from Kievan Rus, which you [referring to smirking Ukraine’s representatives at the meeting] sold for 30 silver coins. We had a common fatherland. What have you turned your current one into?” – a powerful message by Russia’s Representative to the UN, Vasiliy Nebenzya.

Mr. Nebenzya emphasizes the common and intertwined historical, cultural, and social heritage of the Slavic nations. Yet, Western warmongers and Ukrainian neo-nazi formations, such as Azov, work overtime to brainwash Ukrainians into forgetting these simple, yet crucial truths.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/2026688661626986737

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@DropSiteNews

erabiltzaileari erantzuten

Also here:

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Committee to Protect Journalists

@pressfreedom

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New special report CPJ collected 59 testimonies from Palestinian journalists released from Israeli custody since October 7, 2023. All but one reported being subjected to torture, abuse, or other forms of violence because of their work. https://cpj.org/special-reports/we-returned-from-hell-palestinian-journalists-recount-torture-in-israeli-prisons/

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Furkan Gözükara@FurkanGozukara

BBC World Service compiled evidence on 160 cases of children shot in Gaza by the IDF It

found that in 95 cases (60%) the child was shot in the head or heart

In most cases the victim was under 12

And you will never see this on CNN or FOX evening news

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/2025712919732740511

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Kerry Burgess@KerryBurgess

It’s hard to forgive America for giving those psychopaths 14000 of these bombs, knowing full well that they were only ever going to be used on a defenceless civilian population…

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/2025700911637553192

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Five Israeli settler-colonial attacks occur per day, attempting to displace Palestinians from their land and replace them with a settler population, with the full support of the State.

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Middle East Eye@MiddleEastEye

Protesters gathered at the British Museum after it removed references to Palestine from its ancient Middle East galleries, a decision widely condemned as an act of cultural erasure.

The museum changed labels in exhibits on ancient Egypt and the Phoenicians, replacing the term “Palestine” with “Canaan” and “Canaanite descent”.

It said the word was not “meaningful” as a historical geographical term for the periods shown.

Historians, legal experts, activists and scholars condemned the move as part of a wider attempt to erase Palestinian history.

Speakers at the protest accused the museum and the British government of being complicit in the ongoing genocide in Palestine.

The changes followed a letter from the pro-Israel lobby group ‘UK Lawyers for Israel’, which objected to the use of “Palestine” in displays.

Critics say ‘UK Lawyers for Israel’ is actively leading a coordinated effort to erase references to Palestine and Palestinian freedom from British cultural, academic and public institutions.

The British Museum denied acting in response to the complaint, claiming the decision was based on curatorial judgement.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/2025747659995447556

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Ryan Rozbiani@RyanRozbiani

I Fear this is Israel’s Plan to Destroy Al-Aqsa using Iran Israeli Rabbi Yosef Mizrachi has called on Israeli officials to target Al-Aqsa Mosque with a missile and lay the blame on Iran for causing Arab states to take up arms against Tehran and allow Tel Aviv to build the ‘Third Temple’ in place of the Muslim holy site.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/2025556187698114711

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Declassified UK@declassifiedUK

?￰゚ヌᄆSir Richard Dalton, who held a number of very senior roles as a diplomat, explained to us how the Israel lobby is “a very powerful force in our society”, and how many politicians and journalists “tow the Israeli line” in exchange for a quiet life.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/2025616581678465455

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Jewish Voice@jewishvoicelive

Zionism, an occupying, colonial, and racist ideology, has been shedding blood in the Middle East for over 77 years. However, especially in the Western world, Zionism is not known in its true sense, and the real plan of the Zionist ideology is unknown. In the West, most people – under the influence of misinformation – think that Zionism is an innocent ideology aiming to provide an independent homeland for Jews, and some even sympathize with this ideology. However, the reality is quite different.

Zionism attempts to gain legitimacy by using Judaism, distorting the Jewish religion in the process, using Jews as a tool, and inflicting the greatest harm on Jews.

It should not be forgotten that Zionism’s plans are not limited to the Middle East. Zionism is a secular and racist ideology aiming for world domination, therefore it threatens world peace. For this reason, the humans struggle against Zionism is a responsibility not only of Muslim countries in the Middle East, but also of all conscientious and sensible people worldwide, of every nation and religion (including Jews).

An alliance of conscientious people against secular and violent ideologies like Zionism will establish world peace. Therefore, we must all fight against this godless structure together.

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/2025499752612147330

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Torah Jews@TorahJews

Public Statement

Regarding Ambassador Huckabee & Tucker Carlson Interview: “The phenomenon of political leaders erroneously citing biblical passages to support Israel, a political entity, is both bewildering and revealing to us American Jews.

It highlights how Zionist ideology has tragically seeped into mainstream perception while simultaneously demonstrating how far such rhetoric is from authentic Judaism.

Israel is a twentieth-century political entity, not a religious fulfillment of Torah promises. Zionism, a movement rooted in nineteenth-century European nationalism, is completely inconsistent with Torah teachings and does not represent the “People of Israel” described in the Torah.

Judaism does not equate contemporary political developments with divine prophecy.

Blurring the line between a political movement and Judaism is an insult to Jewish faith and a mischaracterization of our loyalty to our country. It misrepresents our sacred faith and places Jews worldwide at risk, serving as a harbinger of rising antisemitism.

We pray for peace to be restored in the world, for harmony to reign, and for prosperity for all.”

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Shaun King@shaunking

The most important thing that Tucker says here is this:

@netanyahu is not even a practicing Jew.

He’s a European atheist who hasn’t taken Judaism seriously his entire adult life.

He has ZERO ancestral connection to the land.

He’s Polish. His real last name is Mileikowsky.

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Stew Peters@realstewpeters

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CARLSON: “Netanyahu’s family is from Poland. He doesn’t practice Judaism, there’s no evidence his ancestors EVER lived here [Israel], they never spoke the language. On what basis does he have a right to be here?

HUCKABEE: “I’m totally unable to process what you’re saying.”

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/2024945140301722049

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African@ali_naka

Apartheid Israel was created in 1947, South Africa’s apartheid regime came into power in 1948. Zionists and Afrikaners are Siamese Twins. They both enjoy the direct backing of White Supremacists in Washington. It wasn’t by coincidence. The pattern is repeating itself

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/2025573653350420667

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Mr Pool@pooL_rM311_7221

Tucker Carlson delivers a blunt and highly controversial assessment of Israel:

“I mean, not to be paranoid, but again, this is probably the most violent country in the world — Israel.

Is there a country in the world where a higher percentage of the population has held a gun or shot someone?

This is also the country that bombed the USS Liberty, even though there were tremendous intercepts showing that it was an American ship.”

Bideoa: https://x.com/i/status/2025663635008414054

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#Declaración | Los Ministerios de Asuntos Exteriores de Arabia Saudita, Egipto, Jordania, Emiratos Árabes Unidos, Indonesia, Pakistán, Turquía, Qatar, Kuwait, Omán, Bahréin, Líbano, Siria y Palestina, junto con la Organización de Cooperación Islámica (OIC), la Liga de Estados Árabes (LAS) y el Consejo de Cooperación del Golfo (GCC) expresan su fuerte condena y profunda preocupación con respecto a las declaraciones hechas por el Embajador de los Estados Unidos ante Israel, en las que indicó que sería aceptable que Israel ejerciera el control sobre los territorios pertenecientes a los estados árabes, incluida la Cisjordania ocupada.

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Foreign Ministry @KSAmofaEN

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#Statement | The Ministries of Foreign Affairs of Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, UAE, Indonesia, Pakistan, Türkiye, Qatar, Kuwait, Oman, Bahrain, Lebanon, Syria, and Palestine, together with the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), the League of Arab States (LAS), and the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) express their strong condemnation and profound concern regarding the statements made by the United States Ambassador to Israel, in which he indicated that it would be acceptable for Israel to exercise control over territories belonging to Arab states, including the occupied West Bank.

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ATTACKING IRAN: US Weighs Decapitation Strikes, CIA ‘Ground Game’ Amid Nuclear Talks | Scott Ritter, by

https://substack.com/@realscottritt

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ATTACKING IRAN: US Weighs Decapitation Strikes, CIA ‘Ground Game’ Amid Nuclear Talks | Scott Ritter

Rachel Blevins and Scott Ritter

Feb 26, 2026

Delegations from the U.S. and Iran ended another round of talks in Geneva without a deal, but with positive comments coming from the foreign ministers of Iran, and mediator Oman. They say the plan now is for a round of technical negotiations in Vienna early next week.

Scott Ritter, a former UN Weapons Inspector and US Marine Corps Intelligence Officer, noted that right now, the U.S. is calculating whether it can carry out its plan for a series of “decapitation strikes” targeting Iranian political and military leaders, while the CIA handles the “ground game” and fuels unrest among the public… or whether it’s too risky, and they should agree to a nuclear deal to de-escalate tensions for now.

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It is February 26th, 2026 and all eyes are on Geneva today where delegations from the US and Iran are participating in another round of indirect talks. And from all of the reporting that we’ve seen, it doesn’t seem as though they’re too close to making a deal.

The Trump administration still has a long list of demands and those demands are followed closely by the threat of an attack. But even though we have this growing U.S. military buildup in the region around Iran, the question still remains, what exactly is the Trump administration planning and what do they need to come

into place in order to carry out those plans when it comes to not only the military attack, but also what the CIA is doing on the ground today? as we do have reports of renewed protests. We got into all of the latest and what we should be keeping an eye on with a special guest earlier.

So let’s take a listen to that conversation now. Joining me now to discuss is Scott Ritter, a former U.N. weapons inspector and U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer. Scott, thanks so much for taking the time to join me.

Thank you very much for having me.

It’s great to have you on the show. Now, I want to get your take on the latest here, as I know that delegations from the U.S. and Iran are in Geneva today for another round of indirect talks aimed at securing a potential nuclear deal. And this does come as the Trump administration has been building up U.S.

military assets in the region, threatening an attack if Iran doesn’t comply with this reported very long list of demands. So how do you view the current tensions? Do you have any hope for a deal here and kind of an off ramp for Trump? Or does it seem like we are just buying time before the next attack?

I don’t know. I mean, that’s the honest answer. We can parse this out. We do know that the US demands are non-starters. Anything dealing with Iran’s missile program is a non-starter, and Iran’s foreign policy in the region isn’t going to be resolved by Iran capitulation, but rather solving the root causes of these problems.

If you want Iran to stop supporting Hamas, maybe it’s time for a free and independent Palestine state to be created. If you want Iran to stop supporting Hezbollah, maybe Israeli troops need to get out of Lebanon. You know, if you run Iran to stop supporting the Houthi, maybe the United States and Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates stop,

you know, stop declaring war against them and Israel stop attacking the Palestinian people. So the Houthi won’t intervene. You know, these aren’t going to be resolved at this negotiating table. Iran has made it clear they’re going to talk about one thing and one thing only, and that’s the nuclear program. And Iran’s intention is not to capitulate,

but rather to do that which is necessary to convince the United States and the world, but especially the United States, that Iran does not have a military program, that Iran is not pursuing a nuclear bomb. And, you know, this isn’t Iran’s first rodeo. If you remember back in June, on the eve of the Israeli surprise attack,

the Iranians were pretty much… creating the same text that they are now. You know, the Iranians had said, we have a breakthrough, we’re ready to, you know, take these measures and they’re measures that restrict the scope and scale of enrichment, the dilute 60% down to levels, you know, that are not worrisome, the whole thing.

And then they got a surprise attack. Iran’s preparing the same text now. The points that Iran is putting on the table today appear to be the same points that they were getting ready to put on the table back in June before they were bombed. But there’s the problem.

Points they were ready to put on the table back in June before they were bombed. The United States does not have a good track record when it comes to negotiating in good faith. But there’s a difference here. Israel took the lead in June and Israel failed. And so, you know,

Donald Trump was able to find an off ramp by, you know, carrying out Operation Midnight Hammer, which he brags about all the time and saying, I brought an end to the war. His story, he gets to tell it anyone who wants to. But this time, It’s the United States in the lead.

It’s the United States that has deployed this massive military capability into the region to carry out an attack that’s supposedly designed to eliminate the Iranian regime altogether. I mean, people don’t reflect on this, but before Jared Kushner, one half of the Kushner in Whitcoff negotiating team, sounds like a New York law firm.

Before he went to carry out the negotiations, was having meetings in the United States with Iranian expatriates, businessmen, et cetera, to form the next government of Iran. Because the United States policy is regime change. And so if you’re an Iranian, you’re like, wait a minute, Jared, quick question before we get to the nuclear portfolio.

Did you really just meet with some people that are supposed to take over from my government? And so why are you here? Because we’re here to negotiate a solution to the problem, to avoid conflict. Seems to me you’ve already made a decision, which means what’s the purpose of this negotiation? And that’s the question.

What is the purpose of this negotiation? And to answer that, we have to understand, can these military strikes take place? What we’re finding out is, again, issues that have been raised all along. I believe that the United States, let’s put it this way. When you see reports being leaked out in the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post,

I think Politico, that says, you know, General Cain, the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff is saying, you know, we shouldn’t go to war with Iran, we can’t win, it’s not a good idea, etc. When I look at what General Cain appears to be saying, because he parsed it out, he never said we couldn’t win.

He never said Iran will beat us. But he says we’re gonna run out of ammunition. And that’s a problem. They have a plan. plan will succeed if they have enough ammunition the plan will fail when they run out of ammunition and so what he’s saying is we have a sustainability problem

that’s two different points because if it was we can’t win at any cost I’d say these negotiations are that Trump will find a way out of this using the negotiation path. But if you’re saying we can win, but we just don’t have enough ammunition, then the next question, because it always happens.

I mean, you see, do you remember when I said, do you remember? I remember, but you may not have been born. Desert One, the Iran rescue mission in April of 19… 80, I believe. We flew Delta Force into the desert landing strip, preparing to fly into Tehran to rescue the American hostages that had been taken

over when the Iranians took the embassy. The rescue mission, they launched eight helicopters and they needed six to be able to fly in order to do the mission. Only five could fly. Now, normally the military, they had said, No debate, no question, no nothing. If we don’t have six, we don’t go. That’s a hard thing.

But the operation’s halfway through. And what happened on the ground in the desert, they’re going, can we go with five? Now, remember, you’re not supposed to even consider that question. Can we go with five? What can we do? Who can we leave out? What can we do?

And they had that conversation before they realized that they couldn’t go with five. The reason why I bring this up is I can guarantee you the conversation is taking place at the Pentagon right now is, okay, you say we need X amount of ammunition to carry this off. Can we go with X minus 20?

What can we do to the plan so that the solution isn’t X, but X minus 20? Can we still achieve the same outcome? And so they’re thinking about that right now. And there’s number crunching going on inside the Pentagon to see if they can do the X minus 20 solution. If they can,

These negotiations are just a pretext to lull the Iranians into a false sense of complacency, and there will be a military strike. But if they come back and they say, as they did on Desert One, nope, it’s X. It’s X 100%. And without that, we can’t do it.

And we can’t get to X 100% right now in any meaningful timeframe. Then the president will use these negotiations to come up with a face-saving mechanism. And you already see the rhetoric from it. The Iranians apparently are going to reduce the scope and scale of their enrichment to a very, very small level so that they can say,

we still have enrichment. But there will be nothing about that enrichment program that would be conducive to operating on the level necessary for potential weaponization. It’s a face-saving mechanism. They’ll get rid of the 60% enriched uranium, dilute it down, get it out of the country. They’ll do a whole bunch of stuff that allows them to say,

we still have a nuclear program, but the nuclear program will have been gutted to such an extent that it’s incapable of being reconstituted. You know, in any meaningful period of time to become a nuclear weapons program, if that was ever the direction they want. I think the Iranians are putting that on the table.

And I think Trump could take that and say, we succeeded. We don’t, because Trump has said, I don’t, my goal is no Iranian nuclear weapon. And so he could say, this is the deal better than JCPOA. And to be honest, it would be because there would be no sunset clauses that confuse the issue from the American perspective.

From the Iranian perspective, they’re making some difficult compromises because it becomes things they said they didn’t want. They don’t want an Iranian cutout to the NPT. Article four says you can do X, Y, and Z. And yet Iran is being forced to say, well, we will accept further restrictions. But the Iranians don’t want a war.

They don’t want a war. They want to move in a direction other than war. They want to work on getting sanctions lifted and getting their economy back and helping the people. So Iran appears to be ready to make these very difficult compromises. The question now isn’t whether the United States wants to do the right thing by peace.

It’s a question of, will the Pentagon come back and say, we can accomplish the goals and objectives of the X plan with X minus 20. And if they say they can do that, we’re going to go to war. If they say they can’t, Trump will have a face saving way out of it.

And I think that that’s a good thing to keep in mind as you’re watching this play out, because I know a lot of people see it and they go, OK, is the Trump administration serious about a deal? And it’s like, well, maybe they are for now. Maybe they are for the current capabilities we have.

But what does that look like five to 10 years down the road if they try to come back, which is another reason why Russia isn’t jumping into a deal right now, because they’re going crazy. we don’t want to have this fight again in five or 10 years down the road. We want to finish it.

Now, when it comes to those goals and objectives for Iran specifically, how do you see it? Because I look at this and I go, okay, if they go in, let’s say they carry out a series of decapitation strikes, they take out the Ayatollah, they take out Iran’s president. Let’s say that they achieve all of that.

That doesn’t really put the U.S. in a position of complete and total control because you also think have guys that will be the replacements. You could see a version of in Venezuela where the government is still largely intact, even if you take out the top guy. So how do you see kind of those overall goals there?

Again, Rachel, I’m going to give you an answer because you know me. I’ll answer any question if I’m in a position to do so with integrity and some facts. But a lot of speculation is built into this because I’m not privy to the war plan. So I have to read into

statements that have been made, actions that have been done. But what we can see is that in December, the United States initiated something through Scott Besson, through the Secretary of the Treasury to collapse the Iranian real, the Iranian currency by denying them access to dollars. They did this through sanctioning, denying the ability to sell oil.

And so there was a collapse. And Scott Besson bragged about it. He went to Davos, the World Economic Forum, and he just basically said, look what we accomplished. And we did it without firing a shot. And look where we are. Took full credit for it. So the United States triggered something. What did they trigger?

The desire was to trigger demonstrations in the streets. And early on in the demonstrations, I think the demonstrations began on December 28th. By the 30th, The Mossad’s Farsi language of social media is telling the people, we are here with you, not just in spirit, but on the ground, side by side. This is before it went violent.

The Mossad is saying, We are you. You are us. We’re here together. And then it begins to go violent, directed violence. And the way the Iranian government has talked about it is that they were basically told to up the temperature, to hijack the demonstrations and turn them into expressions of violence designed on

purpose to generate an Iranian security reaction. So you’re seeing cause and effect taking place. And as this is happening, you start to see other people get involved. You start to see a different organization, Mujahideen al-Khulk get involved. You see their American affiliate get involved. You see… The Shah, the Shah’s son, the monarchists get involved.

You see the Kurds, Pijak start to get involved. Everybody start to rise up and get involved. More militancy, more militancy. And the mechanism of coordination is done through Starlink. Fascinating. I don’t know if you saw the testimony that just took place two days ago, maybe in Congress, where the head of the National Endowment for Democracy was saying,

oh, yeah, we are. We’re responsible for what happened in Iran. We’re the ones that gave them like 200 Starlink to do this. And you can see the congresswoman going, maybe we don’t want to talk about this in an open forum. Maybe we don’t want to, you know, because he was taking credit. He said, yeah, we did that.

We did that. You know, there’s between 70 and 100,000 Starlink terminals in Iran today. They’re part of a longstanding State Department CIA program based upon what they call digital democracy, basically to infuse a denied area with Internet capability that cannot be interdicted so that we can carry out mental warfare to bring in information designed to

get these people to be against the government, to collapse the society from within, and then to control them, to give direction, to rise up in the streets, do that. This is what the startling thing was. And so this is happening. Then we start to see a program. And we saw this in Syria.

If you remember, when the Syrian thing first started, you had these… These community councils or whatever they called themselves, these were nothing more than fronts funded by National Endowment for Democracy and others using CIA money to give internet connectivity to these groups inside Syria that when they went out and would generate actions that would get the Syrian

government to respond violently, they would film it. And then they would send the clips out. And these clips are managed by professional information managers, CIA, and get them into the hands of the people that need to. And next thing you know, there’s a narrative. The Syrian government is gunning the Syrian people down. These are the worst people.

We have to support the overthrow of the Syrian government. I mean, that just wasn’t the case. There was a town up north whose name I can’t remember right now, but they were talking about the Syrian government slaughtering the people in the streets. It actually turned out the other way around.

The militants took over a headquarters building and slaughtered Syrian intelligence officers who were in the building running communication intercept operations. The murder was being done by the militants, not the Syrian government. But whenever the Syrian government responded, These film clips would show up and be broadcast out.

You know, that’s just the way we saw that with the chemical weapons allegations about Syria. You know, when the Syrian Air Force attacked, next thing you know, you have the white helmets out there and they’re full gear collecting information. And, you know, the average person is going, damn. They’re wearing full mop gear.

This must be really dangerous stuff. And look at them, how carefully they’re collecting that sample. But people who know, like, I don’t know, me, look at it and go, that’s a training suit. And the collection techniques aren’t collection techniques. This is theater. And it’s being filmed and then broadcast out to confuse stupid people who don’t

know the difference between a real suit and a training suit, real chain of custody collection and stuff done for TV. And that’s what happened in Iran. People start releasing these clips designed to foster the notion that that the Iranian government is killing tens of thousands of people. I mean, the number change, you know, 10,000, 30,000, 60,000, 80,000.

And it’s horrible. Mark Levin, now they’re murdering these people. And that just over and over, the monarchists come in, they’re slaughtering that whole. And then it’s like, we have to come in. And the president jumps in. We are with you. Help is on the way. And it looked like that was going to be it.

But what was it? It was supposed to be a concerted air campaign designed to decapitate the leadership and suppress security so that then we could, the CIA and everybody could take the demonstrations to the next level. But the military stepped in and said, boss, If we start this, we’re probably not going to decapitate.

And we ain’t got enough to stop the missiles. And Israel was going, Donnie, Donnie, Donnie, over here, over here, Tel Aviv, Tel Aviv. We can only absorb 700 missiles. If you don’t kill the regime after 700 missiles, we’re screwed. Only 700, baby. That gives you about seven days. And, um,

My military is telling me that your military says they can’t do it. So don’t do it. Saudi Arabia is going, whoa, Donnie, Donnie, our oil fields over here sort of standing naked. You start doing this attack thing. They may shut us down and we can’t defend and we lose our economy. Don’t do it.

And so they stood everything down. And now what’s happened? It appears, I mean, if you take a look, they’ve started the demonstrations again. The students are in the streets starting to demonstrate. So they’re starting to build up this momentum. They haven’t gone violent yet, but what they’re doing is they’re getting this, the notion of an angry population.

The Shah’s son is back at it. They killed. We are with you. You are so strong. All the propagandists out there, the video clips coming out, the Starlink connectivity is doing it all again. But this time we have massive amounts of force in. So what will happen? Two things.

One, we are going to decapitate their leadership, or at least try. The president has been speaking. Again, if I were in the intelligence service, I’d be totally white by now and probably bald, pulling my hair out. Because this man just doesn’t know when to shut up. I mean,

let’s just hypothetically say that I was working military intelligence and I pulled off a cool operation where I got a hold of a Chinese radar, advanced Chinese radar. Don’t ask me how. We don’t talk about that. But I got the guts of it and I brought it back.

And our specialist radar people said, we can shut this thing off anytime we want to. We found the kill switch. And let’s say I did the same thing with a Russian radar. Again, this is stuff we used to do during the Cold War. I don’t know if we still have the units,

but there’s these units that used to do really cool things and you end up working with really cool people and you get really cool results like the kill switch. All right, so let’s just say that I’ve done that. So this means that if we ever go to war against China,

On the opening day, our prowlers and growlers and all this stuff will come in. They’ve got a pod underneath their wing. And the guy in the back, you know, sits there and goes, yeah, this is a Maverick executing phase four. Click. All the radars go off. And then we go in and kill everything.

because that’s what we’re supposed to do. The American military is pretty cool. We could do a lot of really cool things. That doesn’t mean I want to go to war. People, please don’t misunderstand me. I’m just saying that, you know, we’re not bad at what we do. So the president’s like, well, in Venezuela,

they had all those Chinese and Russian radars that suddenly went off. They didn’t work. I wonder how that happened. Someday I’ll be able to tell you. And if I were the guy, I’d be just going, you just screwed us. You just took all the work that we did, lives were put on the line, money was spent,

and you just basically acknowledged that we shut down the Chinese and Russian radars. So now, back in China and Russia, there are people, there are smart people going, we got a problem. Bring it in here, boys. Okay, what do we got? Where was the exposure? Let’s go through this. Let’s start thinking like an American.

Where’s the kill switch? And they go in and boom, boom, boom, and they start hardening it up. So now when the next war comes in and Scott Ritter sitting in the back of a, you know, EA, I don’t think we fly EA6s anymore. Maybe we do. But, you know, an EF-18.

And, you know, all right, execute the, you know, phase Oscar, phase Oscar. Click on. Hey, Scott, the radars are still on. Just a second. Toggle, toggle, toggle, click, click, click. I’m doing it. Scott, it’s not working. The radars are on. The missiles are firing. We’re screwed. We’re going to die.

Boom, shut down because we didn’t shut down the radars. Thanks, Mr. President. You have a big mouth. But the point is, we’re not just one solution. There’s a lot of confidence in the part of the president. He is of the opinion that we know where Khamenei is. Now, this could be propaganda. He could be saying that.

But what we do know is that the Israelis knew where a lot of people were on first night of the June war and killed a lot of people. How did they know that? I knew there was a problem. If you remember when they killed the Hamas guy that was in Iran for the swearing

and for the inauguration of the Iranian president. And he went up to the special IRGC condominium and the Israelis threw a drone in there and killed him. Now, that means the Israelis could have flown the drone in and killed the president, could have killed the supreme leader. They were tracking this whole thing.

They just decided to kill that guy when he was alone. But the signal they sent to the Iranians is, we can kill you anytime we want to. Now, I’m surprised they did that because normally, if I were the Iranians, I would have said, how’d they get the drone in?

I’d start looking for all options, including, I don’t know, covert drone factories. Because it turns out there were a lot of covert drone factories in Iran working for the Mossad that enabled them to carry out the initial strikes during the, sorry. And I warrant,

I’m on record as saying one of the first things that will happen is that Mossad is going to use a massive drone strike to decapitate, to eliminate and all this stuff because they’ve given away that capability by murdering this Hamas individual. Trump knows something. And this is key.

Trump is under the belief that we have solved certain intelligence problems that will enable us to be far more effective in the opening phases of a military conflict. This gives them a lot of confidence. The Israelis have made it clear that they don’t want missiles hitting their soil in large numbers.

So the way we stop that is to flood the zone over Western Iran and control the skies and the ground where these missiles would operate. They may get some leakers, one here, two there. Israel said they could take 700. But we also have layered our air defense so that a leaker may not survive.

You know, the reason why the Iranians were successful before is they flooded the zone. They made everybody shoot off all their missiles. And then they had the radars talking, they confused them. The Iranians are very good at knowing how to do this stuff. And they understand how radars work, how to send a false signal here.

What happens if you have a warhead dispensed chaff cloud here? What signal that does do this? It confuses the signal, create a white zone. Now you fire the other missile in through that white zone, hits its target. You know, they were very good at that. So they were doing this and they were getting good results.

But what happens when you can’t get the missiles launched that you need to launch to make this happen? And you start firing onesies and twosies. Suddenly the system isn’t confused. There is no ghost in the machine. We start shooting down the missiles and then they’re not impacting Israel. This is the goal and objective of the military.

I’ve taken a look at the aircraft that we are just sending there. A lot of Wild Weasels. Wild Weasel is a Special Suppression of Enemy Air Defense configured F-16 and they are supported by the electronic warfare aircraft that I talked about. They go in there and their job is to take out air defense.

And you’re taking out air defense, not just to come in and drop bombs on a target, but to be able to then put a blanket of air coverage over an area of constant combat air patrol, which is looking for missiles getting ready to be launched. And then you come in or like we did during the Gulf War,

we have teams on the ground of special forces who are in there looking. calling the airstrike. If the airstrike can’t come in, they have their own capability. The Israelis did this in June. I was surprised. I was shocked when the Israelis released a video that showed one of their covert

teams on the ground using a special missile to take out an Iranian missile before it could be launched. And the Israelis did that, I think, trying to send the signal that we’re in control of everything. But if the Israelis had special operations forces on the ground doing interdiction of missiles, That’s what we do too.

That’s what the British do. So I think all of this is going to be at play here. And the idea is to suppress the ability of the Iranians to launch mass attacks against Israel and against us, against Saudi Arabia, against Azerbaijan, against anybody.

That doesn’t mean one or two missiles aren’t going to be launched and they may even get through, but they’re not going to be able to do it. That’s our plan. And I believe our military believes we can accomplish this if we have 100. X minus 20 means that we start doing this and at some point in time,

maybe at the moment of culmination, we run out of bombs. And suddenly we’re not blanketing Western Iraq, Iran. And suddenly the surviving missiles come out and the massive launches take place and overwhelm defenses. And then we have a problem. That’s why X-100 is what’s needed. But we’ll also be taking out leadership and we’ll also be encouraging violent

demonstrations in the streets. We have the students already primed. We see the paramilitary starting to talk to one another. The Kurds talking to the Baluch, talking to the LAR, talking to the Azeris. talking to the MEK. I don’t know if the MEK talks to anybody, but the monarchists. And you said, how does this play out?

If I were a CA paramilitary, and I never have been one, but I’ve worked closely with them, I would be briefing the following in the White House situation. That, Mr. President, we are going to decapitate Iran. We’re going to jam the hell out of their signals so they’re not going to be able to

talk to the Iranian people. While their streets are going to be on fire, there’s going to be chaos, and the troops that are supposed to be responding, we’re going to be blowing up before they get out of their barracks. We know where they all are because we already did a dress rehearsal. And then at the appropriate time,

we have paramilitary units here, here, here, and here that we control. We will have case officers on the ground, and we’re just going to basically be driving through the streets of Tehran. Now, here’s the gamble. Will the Iranians come out in the streets by the millions and confront these people? I’m not picking on you, Rachel.

I just want to ask you the following question though. If you woke up one day in Austin, Texas, and you looked out and police cars were on fire, cops were dead, and pickup trucks of Mexican cartel members were riding through fully armed, what’s your go-to move?

I was going to say, I’m not going out there. I’m curious to see for the, Iranian people though and also for because you bring up an interesting situation here right because you look at the Iranian people and you go okay it’s not because I feel like many Americans can be more complacent right for the Iranians this is

the final war the existential war that they have been preparing for for decades now and even though yes the U.S. has been preparing the U.S. has been preparing for a lot of wars so What kind of a situation does that put us in? Do you think that the U.S.

military is prepared for what it would take to not just carry out the decapitation strikes, maybe they’re successful, but then to take that next step?

No, there’s not going to be a next step. There’s no boots on the ground. If there were boots on the ground, we’d have to have a quarter of a million to 500,000 troops already deployed in the region. We don’t. So this, the CIA is responsible for ground game. This is a purely CIA operation.

But now I’m going to make the following observation. Again, I probably am going to anger a lot of people who think that I’m encouraging this to happen. I’m not. But Rachel, remember Venezuela? Maduro was in power. And remember how everybody said, you know, we bomb five million people are going to rally in the streets around this guy.

You know, the people of Venezuela are behind him 100%. Turns out that the CIA bought everybody. We got rid of Maduro and we own Venezuela. We own Venezuela. How many American troops are on the ground in Venezuela? None. But we own it. The CIA

I believe, has a plan in Iran that’s premised by a lot of preparatory work. When you have 100,000 Starlink terminals on the ground in Iran communicating, that’s ground game. That means you’re already in Iran. When you were able to build covert drone factories and operate them for a decade without being detected, that’s ground game. You’re there.

When you’re able to assassinate Iranian scientists in downtown Tehran, that’s ground game. And the other thing that we’re finding out is, you know, the Iranians are their own worst enemy. And what I mean by that is they’re very intelligent people. I mean, one of the things that surprised me when I was originally doing research in the

Iranian nuclear weapons program is the number of peer-reviewed PhD theses that are published in Iran every year. Peer-reviewed means out there for the whole world to look at. Iranian universities produce the highest percentage of peer reviewed PhD work in the world. It’s definitely in the Middle East.

These guys are smart, but they are also people that want to be part of the West. Even within the government today, the Iranian president is not anti-West. He is looking for an opportunity to repair relations with the West. They are desperate for sanctions relief. They have not fully committed. You remember when Raisi died, before he died,

he and his foreign minister were fully committed to the Kazan BRICS summit. They were going to go there and Iran was going to fully commit to BRICS and the whole thing. Jump in with both feet. Then he died and the new president and his foreign minister went, not so fast. Not so fast.

And they sort of pulled back. Why? Because they weren’t ready to make the pivot. They were still looking at the West going, hey, can we try again? I know we had a bad first date, but I don’t know. I like you. I think you dig me, too.

I think we could go out and let’s see if we have a better date kind of thing. And there’s enough Iranians there that are interfacing with the West. There’s enough Iranian businessmen that are continuing to maintain contacts with the West. And remember, and this is the part that everybody tends to forget.

Who is the number one controller of business in Iran today? The Revolutionary Guard Command. If you remember at the end of the Iran-Iraq war, there was a man who became president. I can’t remember his name, but he had the white, oh, they all have white turbans, but he was…

He basically is part of the deal with the Revolutionary Guard post-war. He instead of demobilizing them, he empowered them by giving them the ability to do business contracts. And so they took over a lot of real estate development. They built up contracting, the ability to defense industry and all this stuff. And they’re doing business in Iran,

which means they’re interfacing with people outside of Iran, including the West. Now I’ll put on my CIA hat and I’m Scott Ritter, station chief of the Iran mission center in Munich because we don’t operate inside Iran anymore. So I’m in Munich and I’m watching all these Iranian guys come in here,

either directly from the Revolutionary Command or their proxies coming in by extension. And do I just sit there and go, oh, geez, there’s a lot of Iranians here. How interesting. Or do I say, let’s recruit a whole bunch of them. And recruiting Iranians is surprisingly easy because all I have to do is get the 33

year old Iranian businessman who’s never been out of the country before. And I get him to a Berlin bar and I put drinks into him and now I got him drunk. And then I introduce him to, you know,

whatever you want to call her, Gertrude, or whatever the cute German girl is.

And they go upstairs and they do the thing. And I got it on video camera. I’ve videoed it from every angle possible. And then I take the guy the next morning while his head hurts. And I said, Hey, Muhammad, you have a good time last night? Because it sure looked like you did to me.

And Muhammad’s looking at this. And I go, it’s a come to Jesus moment right now, Muhammad, because you see this videotape. I’ve got it in an envelope. It’s going to your mission. And when your director of mission sees this, you’re screwed. Your wife’s going to leave you. You’ll never see your kids again. You’ll probably die.

Your life’s over. The good news is I can keep you alive. You can go home. You can have your wife. You can have your children. You can do all this stuff, but you work for me now, Muhammad. You work for me. This is one of the reasons why I didn’t go in the CIA, because this is horrible,

this kind of manipulation, but it happens all the time. And Muslims are the easiest people in the world to fall into this trap because Muslim men live a sexually repressed life in their respective societies. They come out to the West and they can go hog wild. And we just take advantage of that.

And the CIA has been corrupting Muslims. Iranian scientists, Iranian businessmen, technicians for decades. And then we send them back and they’re in there. And then we help promote their careers. We let things happen. You need a contract? We’ll get you a contract. Now you can go in and say, I’m the guy responsible for the multimillion dollar contract.

They go, well, let’s promote you. Let’s get you in. And next thing you know, we got everybody, everybody inside Iran. I think that’s what’s happened. I think the CIA has a huge grip on the Revolutionary Guard command that infiltrated every aspect of Iranian society. And I think when the time comes,

remember I talked about the pilot hitting the kill switch to kill the radars? Look what happened in Venezuela. It wasn’t just the kill switch to kill the radars. Trump has admitted that. The CIA hit the kill switch on Venezuelan society. There was no reaction. Click and everybody they owned went. We go into passive mode.

And I have a feeling that we’re going to hit a kill switch in Iran. Now, the question is, are the Iranians good? Because, you know, you know who is really good at taking out the kill switch? The Iraqis. I know personally, because I unfortunately got involved in something I didn’t want to get involved in.

I didn’t know I was involved in at the time. But I helped infiltrate 12 CIA paramilitary operatives inside Iraq who were there to kill the president. And they were there to interface with special forces of the Special Republican Guard. And they had been working out of Amman, sending in communications equipment, the whole thing.

And my inspection was supposed to trigger… But I’m talking about trigger a crisis where we come in and we bomb all the security except the 3rd Battalion of the Special Republican Guard, which the CIA had fought. And they were going to go in and kill Saddam and take over the government.

And about the week before I came in, they surrounded the 3rd Battalion and they killed everybody. Iraqi government because they had rounded up the guys coming in. They had the listening in on everything. They knew everything. And they sent the last message to David Manners, the station chief in Amman, and said, we killed everybody.

And they clicked the off switch and the CIA operation went dead. And I later on got pulled into an alley by Iraqi security services and asked what I knew about this. And if they believed that I was part of it, I don’t think I was coming out of that alley.

I mean, this is one of those come to Jesus moments. So I know how they operate. And have the Iranians trumped them? Because the CIA may be operating under the impression that they’ve done all this. But the Iranians aren’t stupid. Some clues were given. I mean, I watch social media accounts where Iranian professors left in June.

and then left again in December and are now on the other side broadcasting. I’m like, wow, why did the CIA allow this to happen? Because if I’m the Iranian counterintelligence guy, I go, Professor, when did you last travel to Germany? Who did you travel with? Then when you came back, what did you do?

Who did you meet with? This is why remember Valerie Plain, the CIA officer who got outed by Scooter Libby back during the lead up to the Iraq war, because her husband had gone and investigated the Nigerian uranium yellow cake thing and said it’s just garbage. So to get him, they outed his wife.

She was what they call a non-official cover, knock. That means that she was in Europe and she’s there as a civilian. She’s not working as a diplomat in the embassy with a diplomatic passport. She’s naked to the world. If she gets arrested, there ain’t no protection. She’s there running a civilian cover job.

And when you out her, every counterintelligence service goes, really? All right, let’s reverse engineer. Where did she go? Who did she meet? And those people get rounded up, innocent or guilty. They get rounded up. So this professor comes out and starts tweeting crap about the Iranians are reverse engineering that. So, you know,

there’s a chance the CIA is going to say hit the kill switch and it doesn’t do it or it’s just it’s a fizzle. But the president seems to be extraordinarily cocky into believing that he can hit a kill switch on the regime. And you couple that kill switch with suppression by aircraft, with uprisings, with paramilitaries,

and you end up with a bunch of scared Iranian people in their apartment building looking out the window, seeing their security forces dead and seeing flames and seeing pickup trucks with armed men running around saying, stay in your home. We are in control. Then it’s over. So I don’t know how this is going to turn out,

but I can tell you that it won’t involve American boots on the ground. The key thing is what I’d really like to see is that the military comes back and says, X minus 20 can’t be done. Mr. President, take the nuclear deal. I will be so happy.

I’ll be the happiest man in the world because then nobody dies. Americans, because we’re going to lose a lot of Americans. Just so people understand this ain’t going to be bloodless. We’re going to lose guys. You know, everybody’s out there shedding tears about the chief warrant officer five hero.

I mean, again, you don’t have to support the Maduro operation or nothing. That man’s a hero, straight up hero. got his legs blown off midair and continued to fly the mission and do the mission, do the job. And he got the Medal of Honor and he earned the Medal of Honor.

And we’re all sitting there looking at this guy and understand that our military is full of people like him. Good men, good women who joined to serve their country. They don’t pick the fights. The fights are picked for them. They’re just called upon to do a job. And

Nobody wants to see them come home in a casket with a funeral, a family mourning their loss. You saw that man’s wife next to him, the admiration in her eyes, the love that she has for him. What if he had died? What happened to her life? Do they have children? I don’t know.

But my point is, anybody promoting this war is a fool. Because this war will result in dead Americans. And there’s nothing about Iran today that’s worthy of the life of a single American. And certainly there’s nothing in Iran today that’s worth the United States slaughtering millions, hundreds of thousands,

maybe millions of Iranians when it’s all said and done. I’ve been to Iran. These are wonderful people. I mean, my God, wonderful people. Intelligent as the day is long. Cultured. The Persian culture goes back centuries. These people are aware of it. open hearted. I mean, just a little story.

Before I went to Iran, I met with Ambassador Zarif. He was the Iranian ambassador to the UN. He went down to become the foreign minister and all this. And I said, you know, I want to go to Iran. This is what I want to do. He said, yeah, we can help make that happen.

I said, okay, now what do I do just practical wise? How do I live there? Can I bring credit cards? He went, ah, don’t worry about it. Credit cards. Sure. And I threw in like 1,500 bucks in my wallet of cash and I had credit cards. I get to Iran.

I register at the hotel and I go to put down a credit card and they go, we don’t take credit cards. I said, really? And I, does anybody? Nope. We’ve been cut off from the system. No credit cards. I’m like, damn, I’m in trouble now because I’m going to run out of money like in three days.

And, um, I got no money. And then when I tried to check out, if I, even if I wanted to leave, I’m walking away from an unpaid hotel bill in Iran on prison. I’ve just found a direct route, not past go. Um, And I went to the bank and I said, I’ve got an issue here.

Is there any way that we can get money wired in? No, nothing. No, no, no. And I’m walking out dejected. And the bank teller, a female, comes out. Now, they won’t touch you because that’s Mr. Ritter. Yes. I’m not supposed to tell you this, but. Go down three blocks. There’s a hotel.

He gave me the name of the hotel. Go in the hotel, go downstairs. There’s a gift shop. Go in the gift shop and ask for Ibrahim and tell him your problem. I think he’ll find a way to help you.” And I went, wow, thank you. She didn’t have to do that. And I went to the hotel.

I found Ibrahim and I explained to him what was going on. And he went, first of all, he asked me a lot of questions to make sure this wasn’t a setup, you know, but then he’s like, okay, What’s going to happen is your wife is going to meet my cousin in New Jersey,

and she’s going to give him $5,000. And then my cousin is going to call me and say that your wife has given him $5,000. And then I’m going to give you $4,990, you know, because there’s a fee or whatever, but I will give you the cash and then you can go and exchange it into reals and all

that. And we did it. But my point is, this is right after Ahmadinejad was elected. And I’m a notorious figure. I mean, I was walking in downtown Tehran and people were coming up going, you’re Scott Ritter. Yeah. Why are you here? I’m trying to be friendly. No, no, no. We’ve been watching you.

One question was, are you going to be speaking to our parliament? I said, well, why? Why? Because when you went to Iran, Iraq, you spoke to the parliament and then the United States bombed them. Are you speaking to our parliament? I said, no, no, I’m not speaking to your parliament. Good.

But the point is, they could easily have screwed me. Easily. And they didn’t. They did the exact opposite. They worked with me to make sure that my time in Iran was pleasant, that I had a great time. These are wonderful people. And the last thing I want is harm to come to these people.

So, you know, I hope there is no war at all. And unfortunately, Rachel, I got to go. I have a hard drop.

Yeah, and I know a lot of moving parts there, a lot that is going into this campaign. But I really appreciate you taking the time, too. Join me today to break down all of the latest here. Scott Ritter, a former U.N. weapons inspector and U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer. Thank you so much for your time and insight.

Thanks for having me, Rachel.

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Ritter’s Rant 078: Rumors of War

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Ritter’s Rant 078: Rumors of War

It looks like the US has decided to attack Iran. Unless something changes, this may be the last peaceful Friday America and the World enjoys for some time.

Scott Ritter

Feb 27, 2026

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Hello and welcome to this edition of Ritter’s Rant. It’s a Friday afternoon, peaceful day. Weather’s nice. Cold, some snow on the ground, but all is well in my neighborhood in America. But this may be the last Friday where I can say that. You know, the Bible, Matthew 24, verse 13. There will be wars and rumors of wars.

But don’t let that trouble you. These things shall happen. But the end is yet to come. We have rumors of war. And when you look at all of the movements taking place, all of the words being said, it appears a decision has been made for the United States to initiate an illegal war of aggression.

against a sovereign state, Iran, that posed no threat to it, a state where the international community has not come forward through the only vehicle possible, the United Nations Security Council, and issued a resolution under Chapter 7, demanding behavioral modification by Iran or else. That has not happened.

Nor has the United States Congress come forward in accordance with its constitutional duties. and issued a declaration of war, finding that a threat exists such that the United States has no choice but to send the men and women who honor us by putting on the uniform of the armed forces of the

United States send them forth to war, to kill and be killed. None of this has happened. We’re going to war because a rogue nation, Israel, has hijacked our country, the United States of America, and has poisoned the minds and the hearts of so many Americans, including the President of the United States,

that we’re willing to sacrifice everything we believe in, everything we stand for. We’re willing to sacrifice our sons and daughters. We’re willing to slaughter tens of thousands, if not more, innocent Iranians, all in the name of greater Israel. There will be wars and rumors of wars. It looks like The war is no longer a rumor.

The war is upon us. And I think it’s time we reflect on how this came to be. What role did our government play? What role did we, the people, play in electing those whom represent us in higher office who are making these decisions, those who have foregone their constitutional duties of checks and balances to hold irrational,

irresponsible tyranny in check? That’s the Congress of the United States. They’re not doing their job, but we haven’t done our job because we’ve empowered them. The ignorance that exists in this country about Iran, about the Iranian people, about Iranian culture, about the religion, the faith of the Iranians is manifest.

We have people like Mark Levine flooding social media and, you know, his radio channels and his TV channels, just straight up lies, distortions, manufacture, He is literally facilitating an illegal war of aggression. If there was justice, he would be arrested and charged with this crime. It’s one of the highest crimes possible.

Nazi Germans were tried for this crime and executed because they were found to be the most vile sort of criminal. But Mark Levine is not alone. We have a nation of war propagandists who are manufacturing a case and selling it like snake oil to a population only too willing to consume it? Have we forgotten how to think?

Have we forgotten that we have a soul, that we have a heart that’s attached to basic concepts of humanity? Do we know what we’re about to do? I think not. But we will soon. Because these rumors of war, when they manifest themselves as war, will come back to haunt us.

Not only in the flag-covered caskets of American dead. We’ve done that before. And sadly, our country seems to have an appetite for flag-covered caskets. We misrepresent this as heroism and sacrifice instead of just the tragic death of fellow human beings, fellow citizens. no this war may have economic consequence look at your bank account now let’s talk

in a month look at the price of gas and let’s talk in a month look at the price of food and let’s talk in a month look at the availability of food let’s talk in a month this war will come back to haunt us as no war in modern times ever has because we’re fighting an enemy

that actually has their hand on the on-off switch of global energy security. And should we confront them with an existential crisis, they may very well respond to turning that switch off. There’s nothing we can do about it. We have to think, too, when this war ends, what will we do? We’ll still be alive.

we’ll still have our communities we’ll still have our society we’ll have taken our hits and we’ll be suffering but we’ll still be alive how will we emerge from this crisis this crisis of consciousness this

c risis of faith this crisis of humanity

this crisis of what it means to be an american what will we do and i will tell you this if we don’t hold to account those who have taken us down this path to ensure that we send a signal

that forevermore we will not tolerate this kind of indecency, this kind of irrationality,

this kind of disrespect for the rule of law, this kind of hatred for basic human principles, then we’ll have identified ourselves to the world. as people who share those vile traits, those vile attributes.

That is not who I am. And I’m confident that’s not who the majority of the American people are.

But we are asleep at the wheel. There will be wars and rumors of wars. War is upon us. Enjoy this Friday. It may be the last peaceful one you have. And reflect on this. Matthew 9. Blessed be the peacemakers, for they will be the children of God. Be a peacemaker, not a war monster. That’s my rant.

Next time a thought crosses my mind, I’m sure to let you know.

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Regime Change, the Double-Edged Sword

https://open.substack.com/pub/scottritte

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Regime Change, the Double-Edged Sword

“Epic Fury” was initiated with the end of the Iranian regime in mind. Regime change may indeed be the result of this attack. But the question of who will be gone when the dust settles is not clear.

Scott Ritter

President Trump arrives in Palm Beach Florida before announcing the US-Israeli attack on Iran

President Trump has gambled his entire legacy on a quick and relatively bloodless victory over Iran.

His goal (and the goal of his Israeli masters/partners) is regime change.

The plan his “Secretary of War” (a name which is fundamentally at odds with the concept of a “Peace President”) has convinced him to implement involves decapitating the Iranian leadership, suppressing the Iranian security apparatus, and waiting for the Iranian people to take matters into their own hands. In his concluding remarks made in an 8-minute video posted on his Truth Social account shortly after the joint Israeli-US attacks began, Trump laid out the basic gist of his plan:

To the members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard, the armed forces and all of the police, I say tonight that you must lay down your weapons and have complete immunity. Or in the alternative, face certain death. So, lay down your arms. You will be treated fairly with total immunity, or you will face certain death. Finally, to the great proud people of Iran, I say tonight that the hour of your freedom is at hand. Stay sheltered. Don’t leave your home. It’s very dangerous outside. Bombs will be dropping everywhere. When we are finished, take over your government. It will be yours to take. This will be probably your only chance for generations.

For many years, you have asked for America’s help. But you never got it. No president was willing to do what I am willing to do tonight. Now you have a president who is giving you what you want. So let’s see how you respond. America is backing you with overwhelming strength and devastating force. Now is the time to seize control of your destiny, and to unleash the prosperous and glorious future that is close within your reach. This is the moment for action. Do not let it pass.

Using intelligence provided by the United States (and openly bragged about by Donald Trump in the lead up to this war), Israel attacked and killed some 46 members of Iran’s senior military and civilian leadership—including the Supreme Leader of the Islamic Republic, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.

This single action, more than anything else the United States has done (including yet again carrying out the war crime of perfidy by lulling the Iranians into a false sense of security through so-called “peace negotiations” that neither the US nor Israel ever intended to follow through on) shows both the moral and intellectual vacuum that exists within the Trump administration when it comes to Iran.

Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei

Ali Khamenei was a major religious figure in the Shi’a faith, second only to Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani, who resides in Najaf, Iraq. The Islamic Republic of Iran is predicated on a religious doctrine known as Velâyat-e Faqih, or the Guardianship of the Islamic Jurist, which is a defining principle of the Islamic Republic of Iran, and is grounded in the faith of the Twelver branch of the Shi’a faith. The Twelver branch dominates in Iran and Iraq, and has a very powerful presence amongst the Shi’a faithful throughout the Middle East.

Killing Ali Khamenei is the equivalent of killing the Pope, the Archbishop of Canterbury, or the Head of the Russian Orthodox Church in terms of the impact it will have on the faithful.

Shi’ism is born on the backs of the martyrdom of Hussein, the youngest son of Ali, the cousin of Mohammed who was designated as the rightful heir to Mohammed’s work, and who was appointed the Fourth of the Rashidun, or “rightly guided”, caliphs, at the Battle of Karbala on October 10, 680. Hussein embraced martyrdom to save the lives of his followers and to awaken the collective conscience of the Muslim community to the reality of the anti-Islamic nature of the Umayyad regime, which had usurped leadership from Hussein’s older brother, Hassan.

The final post on Ali Khamenei’s X account, on February 28, 2026, declared “In the exalted name of Haidar (peace be upon him)”, invoking Haidar—a reference to Imam Ali, the first Shi’a Imam who was himself martyred at the hands of an assassin. The X post, released after the announcement by Israel and the United States of their assassination of Ali Khamenei, stands as a posthumous message of defiance.

In attacking Iran, Donald Trump believed he was laying the foundation for the Iranian people to rise up and seize the moment, to take matters into their own hands and help define their future.

The assassination of Ali Khamenei was meant to be a triggering moment for motivating the Iranian people to rise up and take to the streets.

Donald Trump and his close circle of pro-Israeli advisors have succeeded beyond their wildest imagination.

Today the streets of Iran are full of enraged citizens.

But instead of shouting “Death to Khamenei”, they shout “Long live the Martyr Khamenei!”

People demonstrate in support of Ali Khamenei

The people of Iran are voting, and the choice they are making is stark: no to Trump, no to America, no to Israel.

No to Pahlavi.

And yes to Iran.

Yes to the Islamic Republic of Iran.

Ali Khamenei had predicted his death. He did not want to die a feeble old man. He wanted to die like Hussein, a martyr’s death in the service of his faith, in the service of his people.

Trump brags about how US intelligence tracked down Ali Khamenei and provided his location to the Israelis so they could murder him.

Ali Khamenei died in his home.

He wasn’t hiding.

He was working.

Surrounded by fellow Shahids who knew that by meeting with Ali Khamenei as they were they were inviting their own deaths.

Ali Khamenei and his fellow patriots sacrificed themselves for Iran. They knew that their deaths would not hurt the defense of Iran, because Iran was a Constitutional Republic with well-defined lines of succession.

Because of the January 2026 violence that struck Iran, Ali Khamenei knew the goals and objectives of the US and Israel was to promote a popular uprising amongst the people of Iran to overthrow the Islamic Republic.

Ali Khamenei knew that if he opted to spend the war hiding in bunkers, his reputation would be at risk, and confidence in the Islamic Republic reduced.

By sacrificing his life, Khamenei became a martyr to his cause.

The people of Iran and the Shi’a faithful of the Middle East are rallying to the defense of Iran in a way none of the warmongers in Washington, DC or Tel Aviv could have imagined.

On the morning of February 28, Israel launched a salvo of missiles into Iran as part of a surprise attack designed to decapitate the leadership of Iran.

The first six missiles struck the residence of Al Khamenei, resulting in his death, the death of his family members, and the death of senior Iranians who were meeting with Khamenei at the time.

Donald Trump brags that the United States and Israel won the war at that moment, having cut off the head of the snake.

But the reality is that the US and Israel lost the war with Iran the moment those missiles exploded.

Ali Khamenei’s death is the spiritual fuel that will empower the Iranian people and their government to persevere in the face of perfidy and adversity.

Iran won the war the moment it began.

Israeli bombs strike Ali Khamenei’s residence

In attacking Iran, Donald Trump has made the gamble of a lifetime. His political legacy, already shaken by his gross mismanagement of the issue of immigration and deportation, has been further tarnished by allegations of criminal conduct related to his past association with Jeffrey Epstein. The mid-term elections in November are on the line, and the stakes have never been higher. Not only is the political viability of the Trump administration on the ballot (where a democratically-controlled House of Representatives being able to paralyze all policy initiatives coming out of the White House), the President is in danger of seeing the Republican Party lose control of the Senate, meaning the inevitable House tactic of impeachment carries with it the threat of conviction.

The realities associated with the logistics of moving massive amounts of military resources in support of a military campaign put President Trump in a damned if you do, damned if you don’t quandary. By redeploying critical air defense systems allocated to European and Asian defense postures, Trump created a self-imposed window of strike opportunity that could not be sustained more than a few weeks. Moreover, the flow of military material (aircraft, fuel, weapons) likewise produced a “use it or lose it” time factor, since this level of military power projection was not sustainable for more than a few weeks.

Trump’s senior leadership informed him that the US probably lacked the resources necessary to sustain the scope and scale of military operations necessary to attain the mission objective of regime change. If Trump listened to his commanders, he would have to begin retrograding missile defense and combat aircraft back to their home bases. By the time these forces could be reassembled, it would be summer.

But summer is too close to the critical mid-term elections, and not a good time for a President who ran on a platform of peace to begin an illegal war of aggression, a war of choice driven by domestic American political prerogatives and not by any real threat to the security of the United States of its allies. The main driver of this conflict is Israel, and the political legacy of its long-time Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who has made the elimination of the Iranian government the cornerstone of his security-focused vision of creating a “greater Israel.”

Trump’s crafting of the most pro-Israeli cabinet in history has not escaped the notice of the “Make American Great Again” (MAGA) crowd which serves as the core of his political base. The Israeli press understands this. Writing in the aftermath of a devastating interview by Tucker Carlson of the US Ambassador to Israel, Mike Huckabee, in which the former Arkansas governor openly said he supported Israel’s right to seize the territory of its Arab neighbors in order to achieve the goal of a modern-day version of biblical Israel, Israeli media underscored the dangerous divide that was growing in the ranks of the MAGA faithful as they come to grips that their “America First” president is, in fact, a hard-core proponent of “Israeli First.”

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu

This divide will grow the longer this unprovoked war of aggression by the United States, on behalf of Israel, against Iran continues.

Every dead American servicemember is a reminder that their lives were sacrificed not in support of the defense of the United States, but in promotion of Greater Israel.

And the American people will never forgive this.

Donald Trump faces the political challenge of a lifetime this coming November, a midterm election that will determine whether he is able to continue his agenda for another two years, or find himself paralyzed by impeachment trials that could very well lead to his conviction.

On February 28, Donald Trump started a regime change operation against Iran.

But regime change is a sword that cuts both ways.

And in the end, it is the regime of Donald Trump that is at risk of finding itself thrown into the dustbin of history, while the Islamic Republic of Iran lives on, empowered by the memory of its newest martyr, Ali Khamenei.

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Geure herriari, Euskal Herriari dagokionez, hona hemen gure apustu bakarra:

We Basques do need a real Basque independent State in the Western Pyrenees, just a democratic lay or secular state, with all the formal characteristics of any independent State: Central Bank, Treasury,

proper currency1, out of the European Distopia and faraway from NATO, being a BRICS partner…

Euskal Herriaren independentzia eta Mikel Torka

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Esadazu arren, zer da gu euskaldunok egiten ari garena eta zer egingo dugun

gehi

MTM: Zipriztinak (2), 2025: Warren Mosler

(Pinturak: Mikel Torka)

Gehigarriak:

Zuk ez dakizu ezer Ekonomiaz

MTM klase borrokarik gabe, kontabilitate hutsa

Anthony Anastosi: Estatu dirua, Klase borroka


1 This way, our new Basque government will have infinite money to deal with. (Gogoratzekoa: Moneta jaulkitzaileko kasu guztietan, Gobernuak infinitu diru dauka.)

Utzi erantzuna

Zure e-posta helbidea ez da argitaratuko. Beharrezko eremuak * markatuta daude