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John W.'s avatar

Good thinking.

Good writing.

Thank you.

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Boris Petrov's avatar

Let’s also remember thatZelensky was US/UK puppet, full of cocaine and that the entire media was consolidated by brutal force in a monolith media — fully financed by CIA. That CIA-funded (via US A.I.D.) media was then endlessly quoted by US state media to indoctrinate US public

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rombios's avatar

You have a knack for story telling.

Much respect

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Frank Sailor's avatar

It's never one man, as we all know very well.

But we need a figure to let our brains have compressing a complex situation into a processable minimum.

Volumes will be written about this part of history, one part with a distorted legend to make people believe their story and a few will dive into history and spin the thread clear and logical as their knowledge and experience will allow.

But what have we learned?

Did we learn anything after another war that could have been prevented as all other wars before that one?

Why do we allow that people send other people to a slaughter, are we still that barbaric, uncivilized, stupid, ignorant and despicable as humans?

The script is always the same, it has not changed since ancient times, you people who could be friends, have fun together shooting at each other, killing each other on behalf of old men that know each other well and have a limited time left on earth.

It's also always the working class the 'no names', no Peter Thiel, no Elon Musk, no Eric Schmit and all the other rich folks will ever see a battlefield, they are not the deplorable humans(?) - it's simply disgusting in it's stupidity.

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jesse porter's avatar

Who believes anything from the CIA? Who believes Tulsi Gabbard can or will restore it to its stated mission? And who believes Trump can or will support her? The stated mission is "to gather and share intelligence to protect our Nation from threat." It has never been and will not ever be the true mission. It was in its beginning and still is to feed the permanent war designs of the military industrial complex, including fomenting war whenever and wherever it can.

If Trump truly wants to reign in runaway government, he would do to the CIA what he is appearing to do with USAID and the Dept of Education. Whether we need any clandestine intelligence operations needs honest public debate. Intelligence gathering is one of the most subject to abuse powers of government, and it is hard to see how it can be done short of abuse. A case can be made for military intelligence during conflict--barely. To be effective, it must be done in secret--as does any nefarious operation: crime and corruption, the essence of tyranny.

The CIA is the planner and executioner of the Russia-Ukraine war, and it needs to be ended, not just slowed down. Same with the Israeli-Gazan war, the drug war, the war on poverty, and all other current wars.

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Odysseus's avatar

Thank you Scot Ritter, for everything, from the WMDs period all the way to today.

We all owe you. Even those who do not know or knowledge it.

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Deborah L. Armstrong's avatar

I translated a skit from Servant of the People, in which Zelensky "shoots" everyone in Parliament with a pair of machine guns. After watching it, I cannot imagine a comedian doing something similar in the US without a visit from the Secret Service. Let alone being elected President after broadcasting such a thing...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyvYvhCoZto

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john fiore's avatar

Who Made Boris Johnson the messenger boy for the mob? and why was he willing to do it? because he wanted to be NATO chief?

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Benjamin Treuhaft's avatar

Your recent nativist rant on Dialogue Works was unpardonable. You could have been a great interpreter of these trumpy times if you hadn’t swallowed the anti immigrant kool-aid.

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Bill Jarett's avatar

Inane distraction from this article.

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Benjamin Treuhaft's avatar

You should have heard Scott go on about how Europe is being polluted by wokeness and immigration. You’d be distracted too.

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Frank Sailor's avatar

Europe is woke and full of immigrants, but not by nature, it's men made.

And now the capitalists are at each others throats, playing their game that never ends, the partition of the world and of which part of it I can extract and exploit the most cheap labor & resouces for myself and my ilk.

Nothing new under the sun but people buy into it like they would be part of it and don't ever seem to realize that they are the deplorable people, not asked about anything but used, abused, beaten up and spit on by a class full of disdain and contempt of the people that go up at 6 am every morning to make the world turn around and produce the wealth that those rob from them because they can and people allow it.

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Benjamin Treuhaft's avatar

Whatever the cause im glad Coventry is not so lily white.

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Mike K's avatar

This is very cleverly and indeed brilliantly done. Thank you Mr. Ritter.

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Jazzme's avatar

His own should ghost him

RIP not

Zelensky

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L K's avatar

Well said. You are a great "story teller."

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Ranger1221regnaR's avatar

As always Scott, a most interesting article, which has given me pause to think (I try to use my loaf instead of my paws to think, usually works out better that way).

If only it had been a series derived from the film with Robin Williams - 'Man of The Year' (2006), maybe the whole shebang could have turned out differently.

Based on Scott's fandom of the Nasty-Man's Show, I am downloading and going to watch this trash (with English subs), just to be able to compare what's in the show with what really transpired.

That should clearly prove who intended what. Personally I think Zelensky ripped the idea off from the original creators, and with CIA/MI6 backing, changed the narrative of the original, to suit his plans.

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