✉️ The Russian government has consistently referred to its ongoing military conflict with Ukraine as a “Special Military Operation” (SMO) and not a war.

The SMO is a self-limiting conflict, with Russia’s military and political actions confined to the four corners of the stated objectives.

Russia has long warned about the dangers of escalation when it came to the SMO.

Russia had focused on resolving the problem of anti-Russian Ukrainian ultra-nationalism linked to the Nazi-era ideology of Stepan Bandera, resulting in a conflict which could be localized.

Ukraine, at the behest of and in close coordination with NATO, has launched an invasion of Russia in the Kursk region.

There is no other way to define this aggression.

Russia has not made the SMO an existential conflict.

The NATO-facilitated invasion of Russia by Ukraine has succeeded in making it so.

At this juncture Russia would have every right to transform the SMO into a full-scale war with Ukraine and, by extension, its supporters.

Russia would likely try to keep such a war contained to the defeat of Ukraine, with all that would entail.

How NATO responds to the physical and political destruction of Ukraine will be critical in determining how a Russian-Ukraine war ends.

If NATO becomes directly involved in the fighting, then there is a huge risk of a direct clash between Russian and NATO forces.

Which means there is a risk of nuclear war.

The NATO-facilitated invasion of Russia by Ukraine is one of the most dangerous developments in the SMO to date.

The possibility of this conflict careening out of control is very high.

And the complacency of the West in the face of this danger is alarming.

Ignorance breeds irrationality.

And irrationality never serves the cause of solving complex problems.

There has never been a more important time than now for the people of the West to be fully informed on all matters pertaining to Russia, especially those that impact its relationship with the West.

🔵For the past three years, I have made facilitating processes that contribute to informing audiences in the US and around the World about the Russian reality my prime mission.

And today the US government is seeking to criminalize this mission.

We are on the cusp of a conflict between the West and Russia which could be existential in nature not only for the American and Russian people, but all of humanity.

There has never been a more important time than now to seek to empower people with fact-based information about Russia so that ongoing events might be judged based upon Russian reality, and not Western fiction.

I will continue with mission.

Because preventing a nuclear war is the single most important issue of our time.

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✉️ FBI RAIDS ARE PART AND PARCEL OF US GOV’T’S LARGER PROJECT OF INTIMIDATION

[FBI] talk a lot about my relationship with Sputnik… The US government is clearly unhappy with my message, unhappy with the impact that I'm having, and nervous that they can't control me.

I think that this raid, this search warrant, this ongoing investigation is part and parcel of a larger project of intimidation that unfortunately will continue, I believe, for the near future.

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🐣 The FBI has accused me of behaving as a foreign agent operating in violation of the Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA). They focused on an article I published on my Substack on February 28, 2023. They claim I was directed by Russia to publish this article.

This is absurd. I did meet with Russian officials at the Russian Embassy on February 20, where I briefed them on travel I was planning conducting in Russia in the coming months. The purpose of this briefing was to make sure the Russian government did not misconstrue my trip as a cover for espionage—I was, after all, a former intelligence officer with a history of work in the former Soviet Union.

I also spoke in depth about the importance of this trip as a means to empower myself with the knowledge and information necessary to combat the problem of Russophobia in America today.

I informed the Russian officials that I planned on addressing Russophobia in my writing and talks.

The FBI is under the impression that, in pursuing this topic, I was somehow being directed and/or controlled by the Russian government.

I would direct their, and the broader audience, direction to an article I published in Consortium News on February 14, 2023–six days before the Russian Embassy meeting.

Read my admonitions about the dangers of Russophobia as it relates to the possibility of nuclear war. CLICK HERE to read the article.

And decide for yourself whether my feelings came from the heart of a patriotic American concerned about the direction the country he loves was taking, or an agent of the Russian government, acting on their instructions to unduly influence the minds of an unwitting American public.

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🐣 This is an article I wrote shortly after attending the Defender of the Fatherland Day celebration at the Russian Embassy on February 23.

Again, judge for yourself: American patriot, or controlled Russian agent?

CLICK HERE to read the article.

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✉️ SCOTT RITTER: THE DOJ AND ME
Interview for Judging Freedom

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⁣✉️ ASK THE INSPECTOR EP. 184

Live Stream Scheduled for August 13, 2024 at 3:00pm ET

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✉️ ISRAEL'S ENTIRE FUTURE HANGS IN THE BALANCE. RUSSIA WIPING OUT UKRAINE'S ARMY
Interview for Dialogue Works

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ASK THE INSPECTOR EP. 184

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⁣✉️ THE MURDER OF OTHERS

The U.S. has had a moral obligation to commemorate Nagasaki, but this year the U.S. refused to mark its murder of innocent Japanese by defending its murder of innocent Palestinians.

On June 18, 1945, President Harry Truman, who had taken over the presidency in April 1945 following the death of Franklin Roosevelt, convened a meeting in the White House cabinet room of his top military and diplomatic advisers to discuss the endgame strategy for defeating Japan.

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〰️Seeking Truth: The desire to understand the world and its laws, the desire to find answers to important questions.

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⁣✉️ DIANE SARE AND I TALK ABOUT OUR FRIENDSHIP WITH SCOTT RITTER
Issues that Matter with Cynthia Pooler

Scott Ritter is an American military analyst who is a vocal opponent of the war in Ukraine.

He was the first to start telling the truth about the war in Iraq, claiming that there were no weapons of mass destruction there.

Scott Ritter is also a vocal opponent of nuclear war and calls on US presidential candidates to oppose it.

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✉️ THIS WEEK, ASK THE INSPECTOR WILL BE ON THURSDAY INSTEAD OF FRIDAY AS USUAL

Live Stream Scheduled for August 15, 2024 at 8:00pm ET

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✉️ ON KURSK OFFENSIVE UNLEASHING PUTIN'S FURY | IRAN-ISRAEL WAR: END OF IDF?
Interview for Danny Haiphong

We will discuss the FBI raid, warnings of a coming Chernobyl disaster as Ukraine targets Kursk nuclear power plant, Russia’s response to a NATO-backed invasion on its territory, and the coming Israel-Iran war that has the entire collective west in panic. All this and more in a packed geopolitics livestream!

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⁣✉️ SCOTT RITTER SHOW EP. 83

Live Stream Scheduled for August 14, 2024 at 9:00pm ET

On episode 83 of the show we are joined by Franz Klintsevich, a Russian politician, member of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation, Head of the Russian Union of Afghanistan Veterans and a retired colonel of the Russian Airborne Forces.

Klintsevich is also an ex-first deputy chairman of the defense and security committee of the upper house of Russian parliament and a former representative of the Smolensk region administration. He joins us today from Kursk.

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⁣✉️ THE FBI'S RAID ON PEACE

Shortly before 2 pm on August 5, 2024, attorneys from the Northern District of New York, accompanied by agents from the National Security Division of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), gathered in the chambers of Christian F. Hummel, a United States Magistrate Judge for the Northern District of New York.

Hummel was appointed to this position in September 2012. Prior to his appointment, Hummel, a graduate of Albany Law School, had a career in civil litigation as a trial lawyer, before being elected as the Town Justice for the town of East Greenbush. Hummel moved on to be a Rensselaer County Family Court Judge and, later, the Rensselaer County Surrogate, the position he held at the time of his appointment as a US Magistrate Judge.

Scott Ritter will discuss this article and answer audience questions on Ep. 185 of Ask the Inspector on Thursday, August 15 at 8 PM ET

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✉️ ASK THE INSPECTOR EP.184 Highlight

▫️ Did Maverick fail Scott during the FBI raid?

Proof positive that our favorite weapons inspector possesses superb improvisational comedy skills!

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✉️ NATO'S INVASION OF RUSSIA — HAVE HISTORY TAUGHT YOU NOTHING?
Interview for Gegenpol

Topics discussed:

▫️The situation in Kursk: a weak spot in Russian defense;
▫️Mercenaries and war crimes;
▫️Attack on the Zaporizhzhya NPP;
▫️Russia's position and negotiations.

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⁣✉️ ARMS CONTROL OR UKRAINE?

This article was published by Consortium News on the day that I met with Russian diplomats—the meeting that has the FBI in a twist. It provides a good idea what my motivation behind this meeting was.

Apparently trying to prevent nuclear war is a crime.

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⁣✉️ ASK THE INSPECTOR EP. 185

Live Stream Scheduled for August 15, 2024 at 8:00pm ET

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⁣✉️ ONE BIG WAR MACHINE
Interview for Garland Nixon

Topics discussed:

▫️Regional war and strategic goals;
▫️Israel's actions and global consequences;
▫️BRICS influence on world politics;
▫️Corruption and inefficiency;
▫️Ukraine — the situation at the front;
▫️The FBI raid and the fight for freedom of speech.

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