Aug 18, 2024 Interviews
Scott's New Book: https://www.claritypress.com/product/...
Kursk is a different type of operation. It is not like the 2023 fall offensive. The idea was to capture some key objectives, such as the Kursk NPP and hold the captured territory, while blackmailing and humiliating Russia and embarrassing Putin. This is a NATO army, trained by British, Americans, French and other instructors, using highly integrated tactics and advanced western weapons and ISR, plus
company-sized French and Polish units, fighting as units. None of this has panned out as envisioned by the collective West. People forget that Russia is not at war. Russia has been fighting a special military operation. The Kursk invasion may have changed all that, and the collective West and Ukraine may finally see what defying Russia means.
Scott Ritter is a former Marine intelligence officer who served in the former Soviet Union, implementing arms control agreements, and on the staff of General Norman Schwartzkopf during the Gulf War, where he played a critical role in the hunt for Iraqi SCUD missiles. From 1991 until 1998, Mr. Ritter served as a Chief Inspector for the United Nations in Iraq, leading the search for Iraq’s proscribed weapons of mass destruction. Mr. Ritter was a vocal critic of the American decision to go to war with Iraq. His new book, Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika: Arms Control and the End of the Soviet Union, is his ninth