⁣Oh no! 😱

The Senior Defense Official/Defense Attache and renowned war hero/spy/author, Jeff Fischer (@JeffFisch), blocked me.

I wonder which part of his resume I was calling bullshit on prompted this action?

Zoomies can’t take the heat.

Nickel in the grass…

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⁣The last time I checked, my place of residence is the United States.

Where I exercise to the full extent possible my constitutional right of free speech to hold to account those whom the American people elected to govern in our name.

Jeff, who does not live in the United States, has become a rubber stamp for the establishment point of view.

He mischaracterizes my criticism of my government as borderline treason.

Jeff’s attacks are but the most recent manifestation of a process that has been ongoing for decades.

Sandy Berger, Clinton’s national security advisor, called me the greatest threat to national security for calling out the hypocrisy of the U.S. on Iraq.

Nicholas Burns, at the time the U.S. Ambassador to NATO, called me a known enemy of the state when I challenged the U.S. position on WMD in Iraq.

If calling out the lies and malfeasance of my government is treason, so be it.

Charge me.

But it’s not.

It’s the most patriotic thing a citizen who is empowered with the truth can do.

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⁣🤔 Well, where to begin…

I’m an American.

I fight for my country exclusively.

Been there, done that, got the t-shirt.

I’m not a foreign agent, so why would I register as one?

I’m amazed that someone who markets herself as an Air Force brat doesn’t understand the importance of standing up to your government when it is doing wrong, and how that relates to good citizenship.

By your logic, I should have gone and fought with Iraq when I opposed going to war in Iraq based upon the lies of WMD.

Supporting Ukraine is fundamentally bad policy.

It’s my duty to speak out against it.

Furthering good relations with Russia is good policy.

I will continue to advocate for peaceful U.S.-Russian relations.

It’s the most patriotic thing I can do.

Avoiding nuclear war is my mission.

Maybe someday you’ll thank me for keeping you and your loved ones alive.

And if you’re not so inclined, then why on earth do you follow me?

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The Ritter – Fischer Arms Control Debate

Who won? You decide!

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⁣⁣☄️ Will Iran and Its Allies Have a Measured Response to Israel?
Ask The Inspector Ep. 150 🔠ighlight

Scott's prescient Friday night comments hours into a warning from Iran of a pending retaliatory attack on Israel.

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⁣⁣☄️ Scott Ritter Prediction: Iran Won't Overreact
Ask The Inspector Ep. 150 🔠ighlight

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Iranian missiles hit two of Israel’s most sensitive, heavily guarded military bases.

With seven missiles Israel couldn’t shoot down.

The Iranians sent a message: we can do this anywhere, anytime.

Israel is not retaliating.

Deterrence has been reestablished.

This is an Iranian victory.

To call it anything else is delusional.

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Ben Gurion airport has resumed normal operations.

There will be no Israeli response.

The crisis is over.

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🎙 Israel believed that it could launch a strike against Iran and suffer no consequence - that is no longer the case.

This is deterrence. This means that in the future, if either Israel or the United States plan on carrying out an action against Iran, they have to weigh in the consequences of their actions knowing that Iran has the capacity to reach out and touch any place, any spot, any target in the region in Israel or out of Israel, and there's nothing anybody could do to stop that. This is why president Biden has been on the phone with Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel, telling him, 'Do not retaliate'.

Operation 'True Promise' was an extraordinarily successful operation, not only for Iran, but indeed for the world, because Iranian deterrence now is a reality that can hold Israel and the United States in check.

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✅I spent one decade protecting Israel from Iraqi missiles.

✅I spent another decade trying to protect Israel from Iranian missiles.

All Israel had to do was try to live in peace and harmony with its neighbors.

Israel proved not to be up to the task.

Israel deserves everything it has coming to it.

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⁣Israel is losing this conflict.

Iran’s strategic objectives are best met by locking Israel into a conflict with Hamas, peripherally supported by the axis of resistance, that Israel cannot win.

Allowing this conflict to escalate into a war between Israel and Iran changes the algorithm, and threatens to drown out the Palestinian cause with issues of global energy security, as well as disrupt Iran’s own strategic pivot to BRICS.

Israel is losing this conflict.

Iran wants to make sure this outcome does not change.

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⁣📰 The Missiles of April

I’ve been writing about Iran for more than two decades. In 2005, I made a trip to Iran to ascertain the “ground truth” about that nation, a truth which I then incorporated into a book, Target Iran, laying out the US-Israeli collaboration to craft a justification for a military attack on Iran designed to bring down its theocratic government.

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⚡️ Scott will discuss this article and answer audience questions on Ep. 151 of Ask the Inspector.

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⁣📰 Iran's Retaliatory Attack 'Reestablished Deterrence' to Hold Israel, US in Check

Iran’s mission to the United Nations stated earlier that Tehran’s retaliatory drone and missile attack against Israel had “concluded.”

The “military action” was a response to Israel’s “aggression against our diplomatic premises in Damascus,” it said, adding that the strike “hit designated targets.”

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⁣🎙 THE WORLD HOLDS ITS BREATH - MOATS with George Galloway Ep 334
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⁣The U.S. has an advanced AN/TPY-2 X-band radar stationed at Har Qeren, in the Negev desert.

Its mission is to detect Iranian missile launches, and pass targeting data to Israeli Arrow and David’s Sling and U.S. THAAD ABM batteries deployed to protect sensitive Israeli sites, including Dimona and the Nevatim and Ramon air bases.

Iranian missiles struck both Nevatim and Ramon air bases.

The best surveillance radar in the world, working in concert with the most sophisticated anti-missile defenses in the world, were impotent in the face of the Iranian attack.

✅For all those trying to spin yesterday’s events as an Israeli victory, chew on that fact:

The best missile defense system in the world could not protect the sites they were tasked with protecting from attacks by Iranian missiles.

Who has deterrence supremacy?

It ain’t Israel.

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⁣Square this: the IDF openly says several (i.e., more than one) Iranian missiles hit Nevatim.

You cite a pro-Israel (i.e., bias) “OSINT”
X post using extremely low resolution overhead to gloat about your assessment of the efficacy of the Iranian attack.

You make claims about the destruction of Nevatim that the Iranians never made. They simply say that 5-7 missiles hit the base, something Israel admits.

✅You ignore the fact that Iran was not seeking a knockout blow, but rather a demonstration of capability.

✅You also ignore the fact that Nevatim was defended by the world’s most advanced integrated anti-missile defense shield which incorporated Arrow 2, David’s Sling, THAAD, and Patriot 3 with the AN/TPY-2 X-band surveillance and targeting radar.

✅You also ignore the fact that this system was designed to exclusively defend against the Iranian medium-range ballistic missile threat.

And yet…5-7 missiles hit Nevatim. The Israelis have acknowledged 2 runways and three warehouse structures hit.

Not a knockout blow—it wasn’t intended as such.

But any BDA expert would note that the point of impact was center mass, a clear indication of precision guidance.

5-7 missiles hit the world’s most heavily defended location, defeating an integrated ABM defense that was custom built to defeat the missiles it failed to shoot down.

The point of this exercise is to note that if Iran had send 30 missiles at Nevatim, the base would be inoperable.

Israel knows this.

So does the U.S. Army.

Which is why Iran has achieved strategic deterrence over Israel.

Which was the whole point of the operation.

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🎙 Operation True Promise: Israel taught a lesson
Interview for PressTV

In the latest episode of Spotlight, @ScottRitter, a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer, and Shivan Mahendrajah, a historian, joined us to discuss Iran's retaliatory strikes on occupied territories.

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