Just a quick essay on two men; one a former Army Colonel, Douglas MacGregor, the other a former USMC Major, Scott Ritter. Both of them had at one time enjoyed a much brighter spot in the media and military intelligentsia spotlight, but have fallen quite far due to their actions, statements and even criminal records.
Scott Ritter, who entered the Army as a Private, and then took an Oath as a commissioned Officer in the USMC, had about a 12 to 15 year career, mainly in the military intelligence field. This experience led him to advisory positions and even to a post as a UN weapons inspector in Iraq in the 1990’s. For a time in the 90’s, his word on Iraq’s weapon’s programs led to decisions of consequence by American and other World leaders.
In 2003, however, he spoke out against the planned invasion of Iraq stating that Iraq had no WMD’s. A claim he was later proven to be correct about. This is something he has been using to “ride high” on ever since.
In 2009 though, Ritter took a hard fall. He was caught up in a “to catch a predator” type sting in Pennsylvania. In this, he engaged in both sexual discussion and then sexual behavior online (masturbating in front of a webcam) with a undercover police officer he thought was a 15 year old girl. He was convicted of a felony for this and served time in jail for it.
These days, he spends his time on many fringe social media sites and barely active YOUTUBE channels which are outlets for those of the QANON type. On them, he spreads Russian propaganda about Ukraine, about how NATO and the US plans on using Ukraine as a base for nuclear weapons to flatten Moscow with 5 minute flight time missiles, and how the US is building biological weapons in Uklraine and actively funding Neo Nazi groups there.
He can also be found on several dual use YT channels which have both QANON conspiracy videos and Russian propaganda and fake news in them. In the video linked below, he talks about the Javelin missile and how it is somehow not effective and that, apparently, all the pictures of destroyed Russian tanks by the Javelin system – aren’t?
Moreover, I find it extremely odd, given one of QANON core pillars being anti pedophila (‘pizza gate’, underage sex trafficking, adrenochrome clinics, etc) that those QANON people turn to Ritter’s expertise given his easily found record as a pedophile himself.
Scott Ritter “the Javelin missle myth.”
With Colonel MacGregor, he still seems to have some mainstream appeal, still having some appearances on FOX news with Tucker Carlson, though several other FOX news hosts have rejected him and his “predictions” on Ukraine on air as baseless and without merit.
Of course this from a man, who uses as his main claim to Military fame, as being “the man who planned and directed the Battle of 73 Easting” during Operation Desert Storm. Without going into detail, basically, that battle was not actually planned, but more or less ‘stumbled into’ as US units advanced as part of an overall plan. A plan that was made at a level far higher than where MacGregor was assigned. Perhaps MacGregor suffers from envy as the man who is most notable for this battle is HR McMaster, who was in command of the Troop that led the engagement?
In the video linked below, he is being interviewed by a Far Left politician / YOUTUBER named Jackson Hinkle, a member of the American Democratic Socialist Party and a huge “Ukraine is full of NAZI’s and Putin will save the World” kind of guy.
In it, he dismisses the Russian defeat near Kyiv as a planned retreat, “they didn’t want Kyiv anyhow”. He sheds doubt on the Bucha massacre, he also suggests (as he does elsewhere, like on Tucker Carlson’s show) that Ukraine should surrender and bow to Putin.He also suggests that somehow, the US wants to position missiles in Ukraine that could “reach Moscow within a minute from being launched”. Being a retired Field Artilleryman who more or less keeps up with things, I know of no ground based, surface to surface missile that could range Moscow from Ukrainian territory. Example: The ATACMS missile, fired by the M270 Self Propelled Launcher Loader of our MLRS system, has a range of around 300 kilometers The distance from Kharkiv, Ukraine to Moscow is around 750 kilometers.
Colonel Douglas Macgregor DEBUNKS Ukraine – Russia War Lies
Also of note is how both of these men are so popular in both the QANON world and the extreme Left of American Politics!. How all of the people we see interviewing them, in these videos and others they make, all have the same talking points we hear coming from the Kremlin on Ukraine; NAZI’s, Bioweapons, killing Russian speakers, an engineered Bioweapon based on “Russian DNA (what IS “Russian DNA” vs Ukrainian DNA?)carried by ducks”,NATO will attack Russia, etc.
One can only be left to surmise that both of these extreme and in opposition political sides are being informed and/or instructed by Moscow directly.
Another tell of this is how nearly all of these YT activists, both Q and Left, use words. When pronouncing place names for example they make a point to use the Russian pronunciation over the Ukrainian one. ‘Kiev’ instead of ‘Kyiv’, ‘Chernigiv’ v ‘Chernihiv’, ‘Gostomel’ v ‘Hostomel’ and ‘Kharkov’ v ‘Kharkiv’. In the video, we can see MacGregor correct himself on this and switch to a Russian pronunciation.
These thoughts and discussions they are having are NOT opinions, I am sorry, they are just not. Talk like this are for times of peace, not for times of war. Accept it or not, believe it or not, the US is at war with Russia. We may not have our forces fighting engagements, but we are engaged economically, we are providing intel to Ukraine and of course, we are providing weapons. Does either MacGregor or Ritter really want Urkaine to surrender so that US Forces DO end up in combat with Russians – in Ukraine? The Baltics? Poland? Better to defeat the Russian army and diminish their capacity for war elsewhere while they are in Ukraine.
These men both held Commissions as military officers, MacGregor retired and is still drawing ‘military pay’. As such, he can be subjected to recall to active duty and to the UCMJ. It is my view that they should both be, at the very least, investigated and detained for questioning. If they are saying as much as they are in PUBLIC about US weapons systems and capabilities, who knows what they may be saying in PRIVATE to Russia? Especially the felon- Scott Ritter.
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The weapons that DID have that range were banned by the INF Treaty (BGM-109 Gryphon, basically a trailer-launch Tomahawk), not that the Kremlin ever complied with it anyway…
Time to reopen and rebuild the old Matador/Mace missile sites Grandpa worked on in Germany!
While Ritter goes by Scott, his given first name is actually William, also known by his offender ID of 773GM. Pennsylvania’s Vinelink indicates that he is actively supervised by the Pennsylvania Board of Probation & Parole. Traditionally, those convicted of sex offenses against minors that involved the internet have restrictions placed on their internet usage and access.
For those concerned about Mr. Ritter, it might be worth their while to inquire as to his status and conditions there
Excellent point, AC. Perhaps the PA parole board needs some phone calls suggesting they check in on him and make sure he’s not back to his old kiddie-diddling tricks…
Yes, good point!
Probably why he is sticking to the fringes
But how about the hypocrisy of the QANON crowd who are using him as their “military expert” and their purported HATRED of pedophiles?
they do not know or they just don’t care?
And why is Qanon now supporting an accused (by the late Litvinenko, shortly before the polonium pellet) gay pedophile in the Kremlin? At this point I’m not sure if they’re a cult or a classic Putin “foment chaos” desinformatsiya campaign…
there’s a difference between jail bait and pedophilia. a 15 or 16 year old girl is considered marriageable in some cultures, thoiugh the way kids are raised here I don’t think that’s a good idea here too immature. not really good physically for them to give birth that early, but the point is, a girl this age can pass for 18 if she’s precocious enough.
I’d be worried about the state of mind of men who like women with shaved pubes, that looks like prepubescent genitalia and that prepubescent age is real pedophilia, that and pre teen and barely teen.
Ritter sounds like he’s probably promiscuous trash which has no bearing on his competence in other matters, just consider the huge harems of some capable muslim leaders in olf times.
stling them Thing 1 and Thing 2 is cute. But aside from my sense of humor, your complaints have no merit. Zelensky wouldn’t be putting teenagers and aged people into the fray if his forces were doing okay, and is a self admitted coke fiend. And we got a demented old pervert (yep pervert, feels horny smelling children’s hair and his daughter’s diary said he showered with her as a kid, ) close to the culear button under the control of God knows what kind of lunatics.
Col. Macgregor’s predictions failed because the 10 to 15 feet deep mud of Ukraine never froze over enough to be driven on by tanks, it being a mild winter. Now the wait is for it to dry out. Meanwhile these delays have allowed a huge Russian build up and working out a deal with China.
The recently leaked Pentagon documents show Macgregor and Ritter are mostly correct.