Date: Wednesday, 12 June 2024
https://ericzuesse.substack.com/p/scott-ritter-desperate-us-regime
https://theduran.com/scott-ritter-desperate-u-s-regime-gives-arms-to-nazis-against-russia-now/
Scott Ritter: Desperate U.S. Regime Gives Arms to Nazis Against Russia Now
Eric Zuesse (blogs at https://theduran.com/author/eric-zuesse/)
Scott Ritter is the retired U.S. Marine who became a top U.N. Weapons Inspector in Iraq and who in the lead-up to America’s 2003 invasion of Iraq said that the Bush Administration had provided no credible evidence to back up any of its charges that Iraq had WMD after 1998. When then-Senator Joe Biden in 1998 tried to press Ritter to support the PNAC and other neoconservatives’ recommendation for the U.S. to invade iraq, and Biden said then that Ritter was “trying to appropriate the power to decide when to pull the trigger’ of military force against Iraq”, Ritter stood his ground against that pressure. Ritter has many times gone public condemning the U.S. Government’s lies for invading countries it treats as permanent enemies and as mere excuses to expand the American empire even further by additional conquests.
Ritter was interviewed on June 11th about now-President Biden’s bringing the U.S. up to the very brink of nuclear war in order to defeat Russia in the battlefields of Ukraine, and the issue came up of how desperate the U.S. Government — both of its Parties — is to win this war, which Ritter now says that America and NATO are certain to lose or else to escalate it into a nuclear war that will destroy the entire planet. Here the topic arose of the U.S. Government’s now even making common cause with outright Hitler-admiring ‘Neo’-Nazis, arming them in Ukraine so as to stave-off this U.S.-NATO defeat (at least until America’s November 5th elections):
Here is the video, and the transcript of this particular passage in it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSuu4yRwjLY
11:22
INTERVIEWER: What is the significance
11:25
of the latest announcement to come out
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of the White House, which is the
11:29
permission for the the
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Neo-Nazis — some unique Battalion or
11:36
group in the Ukrainian military — that
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have swastikas tattooed on their bodies,
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that they can now use American offensive
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weaponry — why would Biden do that, knowing,
11:49
as he should, the Russian memory for
11:52
history and culture and attitude about
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Nazis? RITTER: Let's just remember that this
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current situation in Ukraine grows out
12:03
of the February 2014 Maidan coup
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that was carried out by Ukrainian
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nationalists, violent extremists
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who are loyal to the memory of Stepan
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Bandera, a Ukrainian nationalist ultra
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nationalist. INTERVIEWER: Let me let me just stop you.
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The American CIA worked with the worst
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elements in Ukraine, these people you’re now
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talking
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about, Victoria Nuland and her folks
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in the State Department as well, to pull
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off this coup. RITTER: Correct. They pulled off
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the coup, and now these people are the
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ones who went into Mariupol and
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terrorized the Russian population there.
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They turned themselves into a
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military unit they called it the Azov,
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being the Sea of Azov, right off the coast
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of the city of Mariupol. They are
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100% you know, Neo-Nazi, they, as you said
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they strut, Hitler, the whole thing,
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they glorify Ukraine, Ukrainian
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nationalist linkage with Hitler,
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and it got so bad that in 2015 when
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the United States started training the
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Ukrainian forces, the United States
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Congress passed an amendment to the
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Defense Authorization Act that said
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we can give money to Ukraine, but we
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can't allow any of that money to be used
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to train the Azov Battalion, because, as the
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United States Congress said, they are
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Neo-Nazi white supremacists, and we can't
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support this, and the Congress passed
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this amendment all the way up until
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2022, when we started supplying
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Ukraine with these weapons.
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The people in Congress who signed
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this Amendment calling the Azov
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Regiment Nazis, when Republicans stood up
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in Congress, said “Why are we funding
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Nazis?” people like Jamie Raskin —
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stood up and said “How dare you say there's Nazis
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there are no Nazis” — he's the one who
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signed the legislation that said we
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can't give money to these Nazis; they're
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the same ones that allowed Azov members
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to come to the United States Congress and be
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14:13
heroes, to hold auctions in the people's
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House, selling memorabilia with the Nazi
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symbology, so we sold Nazi memorabilia in
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the people's House, to raise money for
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Nazis which are what the Azov regiment is.
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For the Ukrainians right now, the Azov
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Battalion, which renamed itself because
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it became too much of a political problem,
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they're now the Third Assault Regiment;
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they are one of the few remaining
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effective units left in the Ukrainians,
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and they are used extensively to launch
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counterattacks and plug holes in the
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battlefield. They need weapons and as
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long as the United States prohibits
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American weapons from being sent to Azov,
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this unit would not be effective, so what
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the Biden Administration has done has
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said “no, we we're going to give weapons
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to these people,” and it's not just them
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it's now the Kraken Regiment which is a
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Nazi regiment; it's the 67th Armored
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Regiment which is a Nazi regiment;
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there's other units of that nature, where
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basically the the surviving mobile
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reserve capacity of the Ukrainian Armed
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Forces is 100% Nazi, and we need to
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ensure that Ukraine has weapons that
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can allow these units to fight. So, yes,
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ladies and gentlemen, you heard me right.
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A week after we celebrated the 80th
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Anniversary of the D-Day invasion where
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our American soldiers went over the
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beach to fight and destroy the Nazi
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scourge that had occupied France and
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pushed them back into Germany, fighting
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alongside our Soviet allies to
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accomplish the same Mission, yes, this
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America today is now deliberately
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providing weapons to units we know are
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Nazi affiliated.
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I recommend the entire 26:30-long interview, because Ritter, as always, and consistently, is a master of his subject, and a hawk-eye for lies by his government —including even about America’s coup that grabbed control of Ukraine in 2014. Furthermore, it’s an interview that is well worth seeing twice.
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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse’s latest book, AMERICA’S EMPIRE OF EVIL: Hitler’s Posthumous Victory, and Why the Social Sciences Need to Change, is about how America took over the world after World War II in order to enslave it to U.S.-and-allied billionaires. Their cartels extract the world’s wealth by control of not only their ‘news’ media but the social ‘sciences’ — duping the public.
