In run-up to WW III, former Marine intel officer says U.S. government ‘overhypes’ its weapons capability and sells a perception of American invincibility

As U.S.-sponsored war games get underway in the skies over Germany on a scale not seen since the founding of NATO in 1949, one well-positioned analyst says U.S. government has lied to us for years about the effectiveness of the Patriot system and other weapons

The United States is taking the next couple of weeks to hold massive war games over the skies of Europe that are meant to send a message to Russia. 

But does U.S. military power live up to the hype? Let’s break it down and get into a side of the story you are unlikely to get from the corporate mainstream media.

This exercise has been dubbed “Air Defender 23.” It kicks off today, June 14, billed as the largest air-deployment exercise in NATO history. Germany will serve as the host and logistical hub. Three flight zones will be temporarily closed to civilian air traffic over Germany, and authorities are warning there will be delays to civilian flights.

From June 12 to June 23, up to 250 aircraft will be stationed across six military bases, with 25 countries taking part. The U.S. alone is sending 100 aircraft across the Atlantic.

This “training” exercise is so intense, that some analysts have even warned about the danger that it could actually be cover for a surprise NATO attack on Russia and the launching of World War III. We all know that if the U.S. and its allies take us down that path, such a war would likely escalate to nuclear exchanges. But even a conventional war with Russia could result in significant damage to major U.S. cities and military installations, all of which would become easy targets for non-nuclear hypersonic missiles — these are super-fast missiles that the U.S. Patriot system appears helpless to defend against.

To hear former U.S. Marine intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector Scott Ritter tell it, much of Western military power is built on perception and not on real-world war scenarios. He says Russia, on the other hand, is focused more on making sure its military hardware works and works consistently, rather than on trying to bedazzle the world with a glitzy public relations campaign.

I can’t vouch for how accurate Ritter’s assessment is. I don’t know him. But I do think it’s important to give him a full hearing and make up your own mind. He does have actual military experience in Iraq and has inspected the weapons he talks about up close and personal. Does he have some secret motive to lie to us? I don’t know. And time will tell whether his perspective is the right one or not, but again, I think we would be foolish to write him off without even giving him a full hearing.

The Patriot anti-air defense system is one weapon that Ritter focuses on in an interview that was livestreamed today, June 14, on YouTube. If the truth about U.S. capabilities lies halfway between what Ritter tells us and what corrupt U.S. military officials like Gen. Mark Milley and Lloyd Austin tell us, which I suspect may be the case, then U.S./NATO military power is not nearly as invincible as Americans and Europeans have been led to believe.

Ritter says many of the weapons systems in the Western NATO arsenal are “overhyped” and “don’t work,” at least not as advertised in the slick propaganda videos put out by NATO member states or even as seen in the skies during their vaunted military exercises. Why? He gives an intriguing answer to that question.

“Because they were built by criminals,” he says. He then goes on to explain how the U.S. defense industry works, with contractors putting out weapons that maximize profits rather than focusing on functionality during actual military scenarios against a fellow superpower like Russia or China.

“The Russians, their stuff might not look as cool or as down-draft but their stuff works,” he said.

The Patriot system, for example, is “filled with glitches in its radar. It is a problematic system, at best,” he said, especially when run on full-auto mode.

To run it effectively, he said it must be run on manual mode, but that requires several operators per unit to get months of training.

If running the system on full auto mode, which the Ukrainians have been trained to do, it can take up to six or seven missiles to hit one enemy missile and knock it out of the sky. “That is unsustainable,” said Ritter, who goes into detail about how these systems are designed and how they are not vastly superior to Russian counter-weapons, at least not in a real-world scenario of how wars are fought.

We can argue about how much credibility should be assigned to Ritter’s analysis, but here’s the bottom line: The U.S. military has never gone up against a force like Russia or even China. If you look at all the wars we’ve been involved in since the end of World War II, they have all been against countries that have little or no real air force. Iraq had SCUD missiles but nothing like what Russia possesses in terms of the numbers and capability. We have never seen war against a country with an air force comparable to ours, armed with hypersonic missiles, thousands of tanks and armored vehicles, all supported by its own defense industry capable of churning out endless munitions.

Have we been lied to by a succession of U.S. presidents, going back to the early days of the Cold War? Has our government, combined with a corrupt media, given we Americans a false sense of security and invincibility? Please hear this man out and draw your own conclusions. Share with others if you find him credible. We cannot allow our government to continue to escalate this conflict and steer us into World War III and nuclear Armageddon.

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60 thoughts on “In run-up to WW III, former Marine intel officer says U.S. government ‘overhypes’ its weapons capability and sells a perception of American invincibility”

  1. A bit late posting this here, but here’s my two bits worth.

    I believe Scott Ritter and Col. Douglas MacGregor and other analysts who say the same thing. Our military capability is long been way oversold, certainly hugely overpriced, and we don’t get the functioning weaponry that we’ve paid for. I think MacGregor said recently that our weapon supply chain is very inefficient (by contract bidding process) and hugely bureaucratic compared to the much more streamlined weapons manufacture and supply system of Russia and China. That’s why we can’t supply Ukraine with enough shells to keep pace with the WWI type artillery duels with Russia. In addition, our weaponry is overly complicated and subject to breakdown in the field, unless large numbers of highly trained maintenance people can keep it going. Not to mention that NATO supplied Ukraine with motley collections of non-standardized weapons (think of the ammo logistics problem for all that variety). The Ukraine war has really shown the US/UK/NATO deficiencies in many areas. In fact, for a NATO proxy war, it’s been in every aspect a poorly played operation run by incompetents, criminals and Nazis for their own benefit. Kind of like what Iraq and Afghanistan was.

    But the ones running this proxy war don’t care about that the ongoing military failure in Ukraine or how many Ukrainian casualties suffered as a result of all this US/UK/NATO grift, idiocy, outright evil, fraud and criminality. They just want a big war to level everything and with luck, it may take out several billion people. Right on schedule for the Great Reset, don’t you know…and we’re all supposed to march to that tune.

    And can we even trust our military anymore? What have they been fighting for–America the Republic or Amerika the Empire? They are as likely to be turned upon us as on the Russians or Chinese.

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    1. I insulted Leo with my earlier comments but I’ll try to explain better now. Long range strategy of the Soviets since Khrushchev has been one of absolute deception to the West. America praised Ronald Reagan for ending the Cold War but in actuality he did no such thing. The Soviets had a strategic plan to fool the West into thinking such a thing, including the fall of the Berlin Wall. They’ve never stopped building up their nuclear arsenal (Leo himself asks someone here on the thread about hypersonic missile technology). The West strategy has always thought that everyone e else thinks as we would….so while our so called “leaders” on both sides of the political aisle work to make peace and dissolve nuclear armaments? The other side simply continues to arm themselves while we, as such a trusting country, believe that the opposition will take honor as the same definition as the West defines the word.

      Fast forward to today…the likes of Scott Ritter, former Marine intel….once a pretty hard nosed weapons inspector during the Iraq War….now? A convicted sex offender who is married to a lady who is today suspected by the FBI as a Soviet spy…. He pushes for pro Russian sentiment as is evident by even some of the comments here on this thread. Russian intel love to blackmail sex offenders, especially anyone connected to government in the US….hmmm and let’s look at the seemingly spotless record of Douglas McGregor. Former military which seems ok….and yet from his own words, are we to believe anything he says today? From the beginning, he stated the war (Russia v Ukraine) would be over in 10 days. He told of all the Ukrainian casualties being killed last fall…wiped out…
      15 months later? The Ukrainians are still alive and kicking so to speak and now launching an offensive…

      Then another gentleman, Scot Bennett. Former military, claiming Russia is no longer a threat, is an Orthodox Christian nation now, as well as Iran also being a Christian nation…
      All Russian propaganda. The West has no clue, as they have no clue of history. Our young people, the last generation, courtesy Marxist teaching in primary, secondary and collegiate education have been indoctrinated, dumbed down and instructed not to question anything. And Ritter and McGregor should be validated as speaking truth today? Communists instilled the disinformation campaign against the West after WW2 and our “leaders” have either failed to or are simply ignorant as to that fact when speaking to our own national security.

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      1. brcc66–The long range strategy of the West (particularly the US/UK) is to take apart Russia and break it up into regions administered and exploited by the West. Our leadership has made no secret of this for the last 30 years since the fall of the Soviet Union and has said so bluntly publically numerous times. The RAND corporation (a government think tank) has published detailed plans how to destabilize Russia, so it’s no secret what we intend. And we openly armed the Ukrainian Nazis (descendants of the Ukrainian Nazis of WWII), so how do you think that makes the Russians feel who vividly still remember WWII? Makes us look like a new Nazi army coming at them. JFK once said, we need to learn to “walk in the shoes” of those we call our opponents so that we can approach them rationally. So if Russia has armed itself with hypersonics and nukes, we certainly gave them LOTS of incentive to do so.

        NATO lied to the leaders of the former Soviet Union (as it was breaking up) about not expanding NATO boundaries right up to the Russian border. And we plundered them during the Yelstin years. Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel bragged this year that the Minsk accords (regarding Ukraine) were not signed by the West in good faith with any intention to abide by its terms, but only to buy time to arm Ukraine against Russia. That was a great foreign policy scandal and the Russians have since learned that the West speaks with “forked tongue”. (since treaty-breaking and deception has long been part of our history—e.g. The Indian Wars).

        You made accusations that Ritter is a sex offender and his wife a Soviet agent. Prove that. I am mindful that plenty of whistle blowers have gotten unjustly maligned, imprisoned or assassinated in the past because they went against the accepted narrative. Shall I name them? (Goes back a lot of years starting with Vietnam.) You also attempted to discredit MacGregor for not correctly predicting the quick outcome of the Ukraine war. FYI, as it happened, the Russians didn’t conduct its special military operation according to anyone’s expectations, so the assessments changed as the strategy became clearer. The Russians originally didn’t originally invade like gangbusters and drive all the way to Berlin, but gradually and carefully trying to avoid civilian casualities and excessive infrastructure damage, staying mainly in the eastern sections. All this as they were waiting (in vain) for the West to negotiate with them. As the West utterly refused to negotiate and even sabotaged several attempts last year by the Ukraine to negotiate peace with Russia, it then ramped up its operations into the classic WWI artillery attrition warfare, but still limiting its operations to eastern Ukraine. The Ukrainian current “counter offensive” is proving to be a failure, just like all its other offensives have been costly failures. It lost many key areas, like Bakmut. Thousands have died on both sides, but especially on the Ukrainian side who cannot match Russian artillery output. If Ukraine is “still alive and kicking” it is barely so and soon it will be toast. Even NATO ally Poland is eyeing the western sections to see what it might like to carve off for itself. But the Pentagon vows to continue to fight to the last Ukrainian, which is just like how we fight every other proxy war. Make someone else bleed for our foreign policy idiocy, not us. Which is why the Global South are thoroughly fed up with us and joining BRICS.

        You criticized Bennett for calling Russia a Christian nation. Let’s look at this. The West, which is thoroughly secular—even aggressively secular—certainly sees the Russian Orthodox church as a threat. I remember almost 30 years ago seeing an article in the Wilson Review (a neoliberal/neocon magazine) saying that the revival of Russian Orthodoxy and its past association with monarchy as a threat to “democracy”. Just like the secularist West sees the Roman Catholic church as a threat and has done everything it could to undermine it since the atheistic French Revolution, most especially in the last 60 years since Vatican II. Christianity generally is considered a threat to freemasonry, secularism (which is hard-wired into globalism) and the current pagan revival. That is why Russian Orthodoxy and traditionalist Latin-rite Roman Catholicism (not the freemason-inspired Novus Ordo common today) is particularly slated for destruction. The Bolshevik secularists had almost exterminated Russian Orthodoxy during the Soviet era, so it’s been a miracle that it revived as spectacularly as it did since the fall of the Soviet Union. This is not to say that every Russian today is a firm Orthodox Christian believer, just like there are plenty here indifferent to religion. But Orthodoxy is what made Russia a nation 1000 years ago and that remains its true soul. As Putin said at a conference of the Moscow Patriarchate and the Russian Orthodox diaspora clergy in 2005: “Orthodoxy is Russia and Russia is Orthodoxy”. He is right.

        If there is disinformation going on, it is our own Western leadership and their syncophant medias that are propagating this. Neither the Russians or the Chinese control our education institutions or our media; our government does, our corporations do. Ordinary Americans get played like chumps with the constant “left-right” paradigm dumped on us by many sectors of the media and the internet—all to divide this nation into irreconcilable warring factions when in fact, all this turmoil is being controlled from some cabal far above. Fascism, for example, has been largely in control of our foreign policy and military since the end of WWII, most especially after JFK was killed. Fascism became much more visible with the LGBT movement and Covid mandates being suddenly imposed by the corporate world on employees and customers—something unheard of 30 years ago. As for the Marxist/communist/Islamist side, these are puppets on a string who seem to be working hand and glove with fascism. The true picture of our sorry state is that an amalgamation of totalitarianism has occurred and it thirsts for a bloody war to cull the herd. The powers that truly be have made no secret of that.

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      2. Mmmm, One can simply “Google” Ritter’s conviction of explicit messages he exchanged with a detective posing as a 15- yr old girl.

        McGregor has been wrong all along…said the war would be over in 10 days and the Russians were going to win…here we are now, what 15 months later?? Is the war over? Russia won?
        Said the Ukranians would be “wiped out”? Mmmm, no reports of that happening?

        IS Russia a Christian nation as Bennet claims? IS Iran a Christian nation as well?
        Keep believing and defending the propaganda you’re being fed.

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      3. That Ritter got set up in a sting operation to commit a crime (in order to convict him of one) is an oft criticized tactic of the FBI/police. Of course, he admitted exposing himself to what he thought was a teen-aged girl (actually an adult cop, so in theory it can be contested whether he actually committed the crime against a child he was convicted of). His crime was a virtual one, not an actual rape or molestation, but what he did online was stupid and disgusting anyway. He did the time for it and since then has not been hauled in jail for any similar incidents. However, that does not discredit his criticism of the Bush administration’s Iraq policy, which makes me think that he may well have been specifically targeted by law enforcement in a sting operation to shut him up. A common tactic. As a UN weapons inspector he found there were no weapons of mass destruction. Bush was proven to be the actual liar, and on the basis of that lie, thousands died and trillions of US taxpayer dollars lost. Shouldn’t Bush be punished for his evil? Why wasn’t there a sting for him? Now Biden has been found to have taken huge bribes from foreign countries and his depraved son served as his bagman, not to mention his corruption in Ukraine which feeds the war there. We won’t speak about his strange behaviors around little girls. And he had stolen the 2020 election by massive fraud and sits as a usurper in the WH and is attempting to illegally destroy his political opponent with judicial persecution. But you believe his propaganda about Ukraine?? About anything??

        You didn’t read what I said about MacGregor’s early predictions of the Ukraine war, did you? Key sentence: “FYI, as it happened, the Russians didn’t conduct its special military operation according to anyone’s expectations, so the assessments changed as the strategy became clearer.” I have seen a number of Ukraine watchers change their original predictions and assessments as the Russian strategy became clearer in time.

        Regarding Bennett’s assessment that Russia is a Christian nation. Did you read what I said?? And I don’t need his assessment anyway. I personally know about this subject, quite likely a lot better than him, as I’ve studied it for over 20 years. I don’t find online evidence that he said Iran was a Christian nation. It would certainly be untrue, IF he said it. Nevertheless, I don’t need his opinion on that either. Not sure why you brought him up. I never mentioned him in my first comment.

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  2. Leo, I answered someone who directed their comment to me specifically, one I had made yesterday. And I did see links posted in others comments here and other topics on your site. Do you always have this response if someone has a different opinion?
    And I’ve lost a lot of respect for you over this whole conversation and interaction and topic.

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    1. Again, ask your other source if he will allow even one of my articles to be linked on his site — one article of my choice — and you can link three of his on here. I think that’s fair. If you can’t respect me trying to maintain the integrity of my own site, I am sorry, I can’t help you.

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      1. I’ll actually reach out to him to do an interview w you sometime.

        He too has a blog and posts articles weekly. Feel free to interact there. And he has never told me or anyone to not post links that further the discussion.

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  3. Thank you, Leo, for providing this sobering look at just how ill prepared this country could be for waging war. Not only is it possible that conventional weaponry like the Patriot anti-air defense system and others are unreliable, if Ritter is correct, but the viability of our nuclear arsenal is a huge question mark.

    Dr. Peter Pry said in a 2019 article he wrote The Hill (‘Fortress America’ Needs Alternatives to Aging Nukes) that many nuclear weapons scientists “doubt that U.S. nuclear weapons, now decades old and untested, are still safe, reliable and effective. They assert it’s “not correct” to claim that computer models can verify nuclear weapons will work.”

    If DC/ NATO at the behest of the WEF decided to provoke an outright war with Russia, the U.S. has these other strikes against it:

    § Depletion of weapons stockpiles due to the Ukraine war
    § No manufacturing base (like we had in WWII)
    § Depletion of the SPR (Strategic Petroleum Reserve)
    § Under-recruitment numbers in military branches
    § Lack of a robust economy
    § Deeply divided country politically and culturally

    Pearl Harbor was a wake up call to America, and it responded decisively because it had the will, the patriotic spirit, and manufacturing base to get the war effort underway. Moreover it was a war fought against a regime that sought to enslave. Any war fought now would be on behalf of a regime that seeks to enslave.

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  5. I don’t believe anything I read or video I see regarding military weapons or strategy. I believe Mr. Ritter believes what he is saying. Liars and deception have been normalized. The sitting President is a liar and everyone knows it. These days are marked by dishonesty.

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    1. You are certainly entitled to believe what you want to believe Veronica, but you really need to do some research on Scott Ritter and his background. If you’re willing to invest a little bit of time I’m sure he will find he is not only a highly credible, but he has one of the very best perspectives on that What is actually going on in the world. Just as a little hint, he is a former UN weapons inspector. What that means is that he was one of a contingent that would go into hostile territory for so-called open examinations to see if a party was adhering to every aspect of a treaty. that work entailed being able to see through the deception and make a determination of what was really going on. So my challenge to you is this, are you willing to do any research or are you just going to continue in your self imposed state of disbelief?

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      1. Mr. Knepp it is presumptuous of you to assume I’ve spent no time researching Mr. Ritter, also your “little hint” remark was immature. After Leo said, “We can argue about how much credibility should be assigned to Ritter’s analysis…” he gave a bottom line. I do not want to discuss Mr. Ritter’s credibility. After following the Iraq weapons inspections of the late nineties (how old were you then?) my two main take aways were: the Iraqis did not comply with the rules and the inspectors didn’t make an absolute decision. If you think Mr. Ritter is highly credible and has one of the best perspectives on what is “really” going on thats your prerogative. Many, perhaps most Americans have a false sense of security due to believing the govt. and media lies told since before the cold war. I’m not one of those Americans. I do not believe America has hypersonic weapons. Additionally I can name a dozen people who’s perspective on what is “really” going on in the world is more valuable to me than Mr. Ritter’s. In the future don’t follow through on your inclination to tell me what I “need to” do. I had already concluded criminals are drawing up contracts with our govt. It doesn’t take much research to discover our entire govt. is based on who will get the contract, be it the Dept.of Education or the DOD and everything in between. I resent your snide remark about self imposed state of disbeief. Maybe I should have made myself more clear. I do not believe anything the govt. presents in writing or video under the pretense of informing America. If the presentation is something I am not familiar with and I want to have an opinion on it I shall conduct my due diligence. I don’t need any prodding from the peanut gallery

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      2. Well Veronica that’s a lot to unpack. Where do I start? Before we get into our respective bio’s allow me to surmise there is likely far more that we agree upon than we disagree on, so let’s start with how old I am. I graduated from high school in 1975 (the spring after we allegedly bailed out of Saigon) and immediately enlisted in the Marine Corps. The word allegedly was carefully chosen because I can personally assure you we did not leave Vietnam in any way, shape or form until several years later.

        Your insinuation I’m not old enough to comprehend the fraud perpetrated by our own government, and ultimately used to justify the unjustifiable enrichment of the Bush’s, Cheyney’s, Halliburton, Blackrock and Vanguard et. al are presumptuous and baseless. For one, I am not part of the group you refer to as having a false sense of security. Not even close. Despise is too soft of an adjective for the government I served, albeit under false pretenses. Since the 1980’s I have evolved full circle, from 100% blind loyalty to 100% distrust. Although my service to the nation has ceased, my obligation to defend our Constitution has not, and defend it I will even if it leads to my demise.

        My comments were not intended to offend you, and I apologize if I did. Perhaps I could have chosen to word them differently. Unfortunately I am usually dictating on a mobile device without proofing and editing. I don’t often get to sit in front of my computer often enough, so this is a treat.

        To the subject matter, I believe that Ritter and former CIA analyst Larry Johnson are two of the few people whose work I trust implicitly. Frankly I would not generalize claiming to trust at least a dozen people unless I was willing to name them. You went to great lengths to chastise me, but then you offered little more than what I consider to be rhetoric and hyperbole.

        Why don’t you want to discuss Ritter’s credibility? Although I don’t know him I do know several of his former superior officers who speak highly of him. I also served with the father of one of the heroes of Benghazi, and after meeting with this gentlemen he stipulates Ritter is top notch. There’s far more that goes into my evaluations beside what people write or how they perform in an interview. Ritter’s analysis is spot on. As I said you have the right to disagree, but if you do please enlighten us all in this thread. Why do you disagree with Scott Ritter’s analysis? What is it about his conclusions do you disagree with, and why? Who are the dozen people in whom your trust is greater?

        In closing, that’s my personal perspective from this tiny, secluded little peanut gallery in Nowheresville PA. As the ancient proverb teaches us . . . If we’ve ever walked in a man’s shoes no explanation is necessary – BUT – If we’ve never walked in that man’s shoes no explanation will suffice.

        As I’ve told Leo, this is the exact reason I’m not on social media. Respond if you’d like, but I’m not inclined to further this dialogue. Thank you for your consideration. Wishing you all the best . . .

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  6. The US hasn’t made a nuclear weapon of any type since like 1989.

    Leo, you should immerse yourself in the information, writings, and analysis of JR Nyquist if you really want to know about what’s really going on with the increasing march today of Communism. He’s a geo-political analyst who has studied China and Russia for almost 40 years. He has a blog, written books and articles, contacts and sources there as well as interviewed numerous defectors on what the Soviet grand strategy is and how they still conspire to destroy us. Defectors like former KGB Agent Anatoliy Golitsyn or Czech general Jan Sejna told long ago of this Communist strategy. Communism did not stop after the Cold War.

    Scott Ritter is a tool being used by the Russians to spread their propaganda.

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    1. All I can say is, you’re entitled to your opinion. Thanks for sharing. I am familiar with Nyquist but do not find his research very credible. The enemy in the US over the last 100 years has been the globalists within, not any foreign nation. America has been blessed with the best geographic location of any world power and also it is blessed with natural resources and prosperity. The only way it could be conquered was from within. So those researchers who always steer our attention to the boogie man without are, in my opinion, deceivers.

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      1. Boogie man? Leo, it’s the Communists who have infiltrated every aspect of our society. The globalists as you call them are simply taking orders from the likes of the same Soviet regime of 50 years ago. Again, the Cold War never ended. Tge Weat has been made to believe it did and now here we are way behind Russia and China in terms of amount of nuclear armament. I think it was Lenin who said Treaties are like pie crusts…meant to be broken. Again, read defector literature from former KGB agents and others who left. Anatoliy Golitsyn or Czech general Jan Sejna told long ago of the Communist strategy.

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      2. Again, I know this theory and have studied it from many of its supporters and simply don’t find it credible. It’s other way around: the communists are on a string controlled by the globalists, who control the money. The goal is a global beast system controlled by technocratic digital surveillance. The Marxist agitators will likely be rounded up shot at the appropriate time, after they are no longer useful to the global technocrats. Why do you think the corporations are all in line with the tyranny? Thus technocratic system actually resembles a global fascism more than communism. But there are people who invested a lifetime of research into communism who cannot see this, nor do they want to see it. Putin is a nationalist strongman and has no desire to take over and occupy America. He will do whatever is necessary, though, to protect his country from the cultural poison and filth America is trying to spread around the world (it was on full display over the weekend at the White House).

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      3. And since you’re throwing out names that support your theory of the Russian boogieman, I will suggest a few that you need to look into. You can start by going on YouTube and watching anything from Col. Douglas MacGregor regarding the war in Ukraine. Then watch some of the podcasts from Judge Andrew Napolitano and his interviews with Allistaire Crooke and Ray McGovern and others. I would also advise you to study up on technocracy. A good place to start is with Patrick Wood and his site is technocracy.news. He’s also written four books on the topic starting with “Trilaterals Over Washington” with Dr. Antony Sutton back in the 1970s.

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      4. I’m familiar with each that you named. Followed Judge Nap as well as Patrick Wood a while. Like it or not, Communism is what we are dealing with. And Putin is like all the others before him. Cannot be trusted. WW3 coming soon right here on our own shores. Soviets are masters at strategic planning as well as propaganda as evident with you telling me “booger man”…

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      6. You are aware that China and Russia are present in South America, Mexico, as well as Canada? Cuba? Do they really need a military base? Uh, no. And THEY DO have Hypersonic missiles, loaded with warheads. Our nukes are outdated as well as countermeasures.
        And btw, you do realize Scott Ritter is a convicted sexual offender? Are we really going to let that slip by the wayside?

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      7. I do not base my opinions solely on anything Scott Ritter said and even indicated in my article that he may be exaggerating his points. His basic point is true, however, that American military weaponry is overrated. And now you are bringing in China which is a whole other issue. I have been talking about Russia here. I guess the bottom line for me is, what does it matter if Russia or China or some other entity, including our own government is ruling us with an iron rod of tyranny? It’s all tyranny just the same, so why do you and others make the United States out to be so saintly and the torchbearers of freedom in the world? That’s where we have the disconnect. I don’t want my kids to live under tyranny whether of the Russian, Chinese or American variety. And right now, I see the most imminent of the three being the Americans, followed by the Chinese and then the Russians. Once we deal with our own rascals then we can worry about the foreign threats. Start from the inside and work your way out. Whereas you want to start from the outside by bullying other countries to conform to the US way, which really doesn’t accomplish anything when you refuse to acknowledge that the US way (embodied by our government and corporate infrastructure) has become the way of Satan and Luciferianism.

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      8. Where did I say anything of the US bullying the world much less supporting it? I’m trying to tell you that the 2 major Communist superpowers are working in tandem to destroy us and there’s been evidence of this in their own words via defectors and other former military leaders who have lived through it and experienced it themselves.
        Americans have no idea of the threat of an actual invasion on our home shores. Does it alarm you that thousands of military aged Chinese males are coming through our southern border along with the Islamists daily now? The cartels are working hand in hand with China and Russia. Not far from where I live, there’s been Spetsnaz living in a small community supposedly running a rehab facility. They’re here and have been for years, waiting for orders. Just like the Muslims. And yet here you are telling me I’m supporting bullying the rest of the world? I’m scared for my own family and friends for what’s coming here to America.
        Sure, we have issues here. Every aspect of our society is infiltrated courtesy the Marxists. The globalists you fear so much have actually been taught by Marxists when they were young. Schwaub and all the rest of the Young Global Leaders in power today. The WEF is a Communist front. Wake up man.

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      9. I am not saying the Marxists aren’t a problem. Of course they are. But they are not at the top of the food chain. We agree on much, but we will have to agree to disagree on exactly who is at the top. I believe it’s the money men whereas you believe it’s the ideologues. Fair enough. Let’s just agree that whoever is at the top, they are fomenting evil and trying to bring down the United States. I believe they have already largely succeeded. Congress has already passed so many laws going back 100-plus years that undermine the U.S. Constitution, starting with the Federal Reserve Act of 1913 and the Gun Control Act of 1928, 1934, 1968, etc. Then under Reagan they passed the Vaccine Injury Act and then Emergency Services Acts of 1998 and 2004, the USA Patriot Act of 2002, etc. The old United States with strong individual rights and freedoms will never return short of some miracle of God or bloody civil war. I pray for the miracle rather than the blood. Rather than arguing who did all this to us, maybe the bigger question is, how then do we live? What do we do about it? In my opinion these same evildoers have hijacked the elections process. So don’t tell me we just need to “vote harder.” We’ve been doing that for decades. Every election is the make or break election and no matter who wins, we still lose. Sorry, I’m over it. I deal with real concrete issues that we can still control, which right now boils down to where you decide to spend your money and whether or not you comply with the unconstitutional edicts coming down from on high. I never wore a mask. I never got the shot. I won’t shop at any place that asks to see your digital papers, and I won’t spend money with woke corporations. I believe in making an effort to become more self-sustaining and less reliant on the system while speaking out publicly with the truth. Are you speaking out publicly? I notice you use a pseudonym and not your real name. That leads me to believe that maybe you are fearful of putting yourself out there publicly with the truth. That won’t help us defeat the tyranny. Regardless of where the tyranny is coming from, you enable it when you cower in fear.

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      10. Now I’m cowering in fear because I don’t use my real name here? I left the likes of FB and other avenues of social media when Covid became the means for censorship of all. Data mining is the new gold mine and I chose to get out of that digital aspect. And really?
        You know absolutely nothing about me. but I somehow have to justify my opinions here because I don’t cheerlead yours? Truth is, I’ve actually followed you and read your pieces for years, including your book “Stealth Invasion” regarding the infiltration of Muslim invaders here. One last thing:

        My wife and I both work in healthcare and both stood against being forced to take the bioweapon, most call a vaccine, from the beginning of the dictatorial moves via State and Federal government. We were the only ones in our respective departments to do so? Is that ballsy enough for you, Leo? A bioweapon courtesy who? China (oh that’s right, you’re not speaking here of China). Nonetheless, in my own little world I’m very outspoken on a host of issues. We pulled both children out of the local public school system in “my neck of the woods” in 2014 when “Commie Core” was supposedly eliminated by a super majority of Republicans in the Missouri legislature. Who’s the cowards in that scenario? There’s no politicians today that care about liberty and or freedom. Only $$$. Republicans and Democrats are on the take either by lobbyists or foreign governments. There’s no getting back liberty or freedom at the ballot box. Keep dreaming.
        And it’s fascinating to me that you resort to these types of insults toward me in our discussion,comments back and forth here.

        So I’ll stop commenting further as I’ve had enough of your petty insults when anyone that truly knows me knows I stand for what’s right. I owe you nothing, including the few examples I explained in this post. Have a great Thursday.

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      12. For the record, you don’t come onto someone else’s website and tell them they have it all wrong. You started the back and forth and the confrontational approach. There is a way to disagree with civility. It happens all the time on this site if you read the comments. And no, I don’t know you, which was exactly my point. If you’d given a name and greeted me with some grace, I’m sure I would have expressed my differences in a more delicate fashion, but I just don’t have much patience for anonymous debaters. If you’ve been reading my stuff for years, I just wonder what it was that set you off? What did I write, exactly, that pushed your hot button and offended you to the point where you wanted to throw me under the bus? Oh well, it doesn’t matter at this point. A happy Thursday to you as well, dear Sir.

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    2. brcc66 – “Communism did not stop after the Cold War…The globalists as you call them are simply taking orders from the likes of the same Soviet regime of 50 years ago.”

      Just a couple things.

      First, there are two competing entities here: the U.S./European/WEF New World Order and the Russian/Chinese/Iranian World Order. They are playing each other for their own benefit so neither group really takes orders from the other. Putin was courted by Schwab’s cabal when he was younger but he apparently opted out. Xi has also been welcomed by that group, but he’s not satisfied with just a slice of the pie from Klaus because he knows he can get the whole pie.

      Second, I noticed you didn’t mention any spiritual component, so I don’t know whether you ascribe to any particular faith, but those of us who’ve accepted Jesus as Messiah generally believe that the WEF and other Western globalists aligned with them are setting up the one world government, economy, and religion in preparation for the antichrist. Because Satan is behind this world order, the Sino Russian alliance will not prevail over them but will either be destroyed or forced to join at some point.

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      1. Again, the WEF is a front group for the Communists. K Schwab and all of these Young Global Leaders have been schooled in Marxism. Even Tulsi Gabbard who the political Right here in the US has suddenly come to love. Much like so many here who are pro-Russia and pro Putin. We are to believe Russia is no longer a threat to the US? The same Russia who just gave 25 million tons of grain to Cuba, who has military bases in Nicaragua and troops in Venezuela and continues to see Marxist leaders “elected” to power in other Latin American countries? A presence in Mexico and Canada. They infiltrated every avenue of our own society here decades ago, but we are to believe the Russians are no threat anymore. Reagan ended the Cold War, or did he?
        Truth is, Russia never stopped working toward the goal of world wide communism. They’ve surpassed us in nuclear arms and yet they aren’t a threat if one listens to the likes of a Scott Ritter, who btw, is a convicted sex offender.

        Russia, Putin and the Soviet leadership, and Communism are still a threat to our nation.

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      2. Please do not post website links on my website, unless the website you are posting allows links to my website. Fair is fair. And I frankly am finished with this discussion. We are not debating the source of the evil coming at us, all we are debating is the pecking order of that evil. That’s what I call a rabbit hole, and while I can’t speak for you, I am too busy to be distracted by rabbit holes.

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      3. brcc66 – “Again, the WEF is a front group for the Communists. K Schwab and all of these Young Global Leaders have been schooled in Marxism.”

        Yes, we are all aware that Putin, Xi, the Ayatollahs, Kim Jong Un are monsters just as much as Biden/Obama, Gates, Schwab, Harari, Kerry, King Charles, etc. There is speculation that the Chinese men pouring into this country through our border may be setting up for attacks upon this country. Besides China and Russia, Iran is getting a foothold in South America. So we are surrounded on all sides.

        But the greatest danger right now to not only us in this country but to all of humanity is posed by Western globalists who are about to enslave every man, woman and child on this earth in a one-world government with a digital identity tied to digital currency that will be regulated by central banks. Moreover, this cabal is in the process of radical population reduction by mass murder – viruses, vaccines, induced famines and food shortages, possibly even World War III. Not content with that, though, they want to make our slavery complete by altering our brains and bodies through transhumanism so even our very thoughts are monitored and controlled.

        But worst of all, the one who is truly behind them all wants our souls. At some point people will be forced to take a mark of allegiance to one man or be executed in the most grisly manner possible. You don’t seem to be aware of this. That’s why I brought up the subject of the “spiritual component.” If you and your wife and your loved ones don’t have a relationship with the Son of God, you like so many others will be deceived into making a choice that will cost you for all eternity.

        Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but you seem to be clueless as to what is really going on.

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      4. Thanks Anna. Quite the contrary, I am not “clueless”. I am indeed a spiritual person as is the rest of my family. And, I am well aware of the times we live, Biblical prophecy, the mark of the Beast, the coming Anti- Christ, and the correlations that you and other Christians always like to share.

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      5. brcc66 – “Thanks Anna. Quite the contrary, I am not “clueless”. I am indeed a spiritual person as is the rest of my family.”

        I apologize, if I was a little hard on you. But so many people are clueless these days – my own family, for instance. And you were placing so much emphasis on one type of threat to the exclusion of the other which is far more lethal because it has to do with where we will spend eternity.

        Satan is on the prowl seeking who he may destroy. He has his minions who are frantically trying to assemble this whole thing. Much of the world is asleep and unaware of what’s coming.

        Jesus said that unless you are born again, you can’t see the kingdom of heaven. There are a lot of people who still have a choice to make – whether or not they will accept Him as Messiah. It will be much easier to make that decision now, before things start accelerating.

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  7. In today’s vernacular TRUTH is a simple formula: Factual data (what we can prove) + visual observation (what we can see) = actual reality . For hard-hitting reality of where we are look up any interview with both Scott Ritter and Larry Johnson. Larry is a former CIA contractor whose observations have been unimpeachable. Here’s an example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r4lTvmuapY

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  8. There is a 1970s Ron Cobb cartoon depicting two haggard men sitting underneath the remnants of a building, with rubble extending to the horizon, in which one of them says, “There’s a rumor going ’round that we won…”

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  9. I have a cousin stationed in Guam. He has been brainwashed into believing our military can defeat any foe no matter the size or armament….. Mystery Babylon will fall I’m led to believe!
    Time draws short….. deception and lies are everywhere….. as believers and watchmen we must fulfill our commission and warn those with an ear respectively.

    Thx Leo once again!!

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  10. I do understand that anything could happen with an O’biden admin that wants to destroy America so that we no longer get in the way of the globalist agenda, but this sounds a little far fetched.
    It would be shear suicide!! Of course that would definitely take out the 70% that
    is needed before 2025. You are not just talking Russia you are talking China and
    N Korea [who can take out Alaska and Hawaii.]. It would be US against those world ‘powers’, forget NATO or anyone else for that matter.
    Of course whatever is said is overhyped thats called propaganda, and it does not win wars. And those ‘powers’ KNOW our military and the pentegon dopes are half what they once were, and even less now with all the stuff going to Ukraine and Taiwan. They are ready to respond at any moment They choose, and there
    wont be a damn thing we will be able to do about!
    Its in the LORDS hands , but right now He has given this country over to our reprobate minds. Prayer might help, but dont count on it that either. As in Jeremiah God told Jeremiah, “dont even pray for them, because I wont listen
    to you and I wont answer. “my anger has turned to wrath” meaning Judah
    passed the point of no return to God.
    Keep reaching out to people with the Gospel for as long as you can,
    sowing seeds that they may repent and turn to the Lord before its too late.
    The Holy Spirit is still here in this country because God wishes that no one
    would perish. A prayer for forgiveness and accepting Christ is probably
    the only prayer He will answer in this country now.

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    1. Sorry I dont know why my sentences keep getting broken up?
      If there was an edit i could fix that after seeing the posting.

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    2. Marcus – they are delusional, they don’t see it as suicide. The have themselves convinced they (we) are superior and can prevail in any conflict.

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    3. Bo: Many like that brainwashed cousin, over 80% maybe more took an experimental vaccine recently, but most people don’t know we have lost every war since 1950 onward, most were backward countries and we retreated in defeat (V. Nam, Korea, various middle east Muslim countries esp. Afghanistan.) Somalia even “kicked our backside” killing some military. The country is in derailment now. Falling faster than a NY minute. Perversions like flying lgbtq flags next to U.S. flag at the capitol, Smithsonian display of gay pride items made by kids, dismantling confederate monuments, Biden’s insanity and WEF controlled state dept., doj, dept education, incl. congress. Not enough military age patriots to save this country anyway, because most people some say over 90%, don’t care what happens or how their kids future will be. Parents seldom communicate w/ their kids like parents did decades ago, and knew what kids were doing in school,now parents could care less. Otherwise gov. schools would empty out and close.

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    4. Marcus: Agree, many feel this country is past the point of no return, cursed for judgement.

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  11. Even before Biden’s Inauguration, there were articles put out about how first, the USAF could not repel the Chinese over Taiwan. Then articles about how our Navy could not prevail. And so on. Now that the war mongers, MIEC (Military Industrial Everything Complex), OGUS (Occupational Government of the United States), and the criminal syndicate operating within OGUS and with NATO, other cabalists, Congress will bless the bloated NDAA.

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    1. We have no claim or business meddling in Taiwan, the U.S. gov. thinks they own every country in the world and starts no win wars ongoing trying to control other governments, and fail every time since 1950.

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  12. Thanks from a fellow Georgian Leo. I’ve followed Scott Ritter for years and trust his assessments of the military capabilities of the US, NATO & Russia. He and his daughter just returned from a one month tour of Russia to gain insight into what makes Russians tick. As a former combat medic I can verify that our current military is a shell of it’s former self and more concerned with appearance than warfighting ability. Patriotic hetero males are being replaced with sodomites, transgenders and ESG-indoctrinated females, blacks and non-citizen immigrants. The bioweaponized injections are slowly killing and disabling those that are not committing suicide. One very important thing to remember is that the military-industrial complex warning from Eisenhower in 1961 has resulted in vastly overpriced and poorly made weapons and munitions while the Russians and Chinese get more bangs for their bucks. Just as we are now represented by a uniparty political system the government, arms industry and military are also a single entity producing nothing but hype, propaganda and dysfunctional weapons. I fully anticipate Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and other nations to secretly plan and execute an EMP combined with jamming of our nuclear launch systems and physical invasions from land and sea and end our arrogance and hegemony forevermore.

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      1. I think the CCP will come up the rivers in CA, WA and OR. Those states are very engaged and entwined with the CCP as is GA. I believe the top floor of the Pentagon has been polishing logistics of helping the CCP take us, with infrastructure, military bases and hardware intact. Our military, those who are woked and the sleeper Jihadist army has built up from border inffiltration, will round us up using various pretexts, and then eliminate us (the Chinese will harvest organs as well.). They have no use for Big Nosed Barbarians, and they HATE blacks and darker skin tones even more. They will keep some useful people around, but those that are Neo-Maoist Marxist ideologues, took bribes, were useful idiots, will be shot before the rounding up is finished. Marxists have no respect for traitors that sell out their country, they don’t care to return favors, and the don’t want those with good memories of who, what, when etc., around. If the e!itists just read some history they’d realize they and their families are not going to be exempted.

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  13. Well, so does Russia. In fact, you guys oversell their (Russia’s) capabilities to make us fearfool then you go ask for a bigger military budget.

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    1. We all should be very much afraid. We have incompetents and insane people with their thumbs on the nuclear button. I do not fear the Russian , but I fear the insane fools who cannot tell the difference between a man and a woman, among many other things. Go to http://www.nukerefuge.com and download their Nuclear Survival Manual. Trump has warned us we are on the brink of a nuclear war and if this miitary exercise is a prelude to invasion of Russia we’l l be in it next week.

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      1. I worked at Purdue University for many years. We built a Mach 6 quiet wind tunnel around 1996 and did research on hypersonics for the Military. They have just opened a new facility with a Mach 8 quiet wind tunnel just specifically for the hypersonic research. I don’t believe there are any hypersonic weapons even after all the years of research at Purdue.

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      3. I think if we actually had the hypersonics capability, they would have been bragging about it. They have no common sense at all.

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  14. The proxy war waged by the Obiden Junta on behalf of the military indiustrial compex ghouls is not working out so well as the Russians systematically destroy each and every vaunted, hugely overpriced weapon thrown against them Most of the equipment supplied has either been destroyed or rendered useless due a lack of proper training and maintenance or simply because they do not work as advertised. The Obiden Junta is quickly running out of Ulrainains, equipment and muntitions and the Russians will soon have a million battled hardened troops sitting on the Polish border ready and eager to go all the way to Berlin. What’s toi stop them? Our army is made up now mostly of low IQ, obese people who joined up for free drag shows, salute the LGBTQ+ flag, and free sex change operations, not the fight Russians. The Only thing left are nukes and the Obiden Junta is crazy enough to use them. I suggest you head over to http://www.nukerefuge.com and download their Nuclear War Survival Manual and be prepared.

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