➡ Scott Ritter, a former UN Weapons inspector, criticizes the relationship between the U.S. and Israel, suggesting that the U.S. has given too much power to Israel. He expresses concern over the U.S. deferring to Israel on major decisions, particularly regarding the Middle East. Ritter also accuses Israel of exerting control over the U.S. through alleged blackmail operations. He ends by questioning whether the U.S. has sold out to Israel, and expresses his disappointment in the current state of affairs.
➡ The text discusses the Epstein case, suggesting it’s an Israeli intelligence operation aimed at controlling U.S. power through blackmail. It also criticizes the Trump administration’s handling of the case and the media’s role. The text further discusses U.S. diplomacy, suggesting it’s dishonest and untrustworthy, particularly in relation to Iran and Ukraine. Lastly, it mentions the U.S.’s questionable reputation and the potential consequences of its actions.
➡ In an interview, John Mearsheimer discussed Donald Trump’s handling of the Ukraine war. He suggested that Trump is in a difficult position, as he doesn’t want to be the president who loses Ukraine or gets the US into a major war. However, the speaker criticizes Trump, calling him a liar and a con artist, and argues that Trump’s main goal is to promote his own brand rather than end the war. The speaker also disputes Trump’s claims of threatening Russia and China, calling them lies and stating that Trump is the biggest coward to ever occupy the White House.
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Hello, I’m with Scott Ritter. He’s a former UN Weapons inspector and a political analyst and geopolitical analyst. And Scott, thank you for joining the Trends Journal. Thanks for having me. Netanyahu is obviously in Washington this week and this is a question that Trump was asked about a two state solution. And I’d like to hear your response to what Trump said. Do you think that there can be a two state solution that creates an independent. I don’t know. I’d ask maybe that question. You have the greatest man in the world to answer that age old question. Two state.

Go ahead, give him your honest answer. I think Palestinians should have all the powers to govern themselves, but none of the powers should threaten us. That means that certain powers, like overall security, will always remain in our hands. Now that is a fact. And no one in Israel will agree to anything else because we don’t commit suicide. When I heard Trump’s reaction to the reporter, I was surprised that he would defer to Netanyahu with that, with that answer. Were you as surprised? Well, I mean, that’s like, I don’t know, Winston Churchill being asked about, you know, the final solution for the Jews.

He said, well, I’m going to defer to Himmler. Himmler over there. Yeah, you’re the best man for this. Why don’t you tell us how you’re going to kill all the Jews in the Holocaust? You’re the best qualified. And Himmler says, yeah, we’re going to round them up, put them in concentration camps and then we’re going to exterminate them. Yeah, that’s what this is. I mean, Benjamin Netanyahu is a modern day, you know, Heinrich Himmler. He is a mass murdering, genocidal son of a bitch who, he’s been indicted for war crimes. He is the leader of a nation that has been labeled genocidal by the International Court of Justice, sort of the supreme arbitrary arbiter of, of, you know, war crimes in international law.

And he was invited to the United States by a president who just carried out an act of aggression against Iran that violates the Constitution of the United States. It violates international law. So you have a warmonger asking the practitioner of genocide about the final solution of the Palestinian people. That’s it in a nutshell. It’s humiliating for Americans. It should be enraged the entire civilized world that the United States of America, a nation that proclaims itself to be the bastion of democracy, freedom and etcetera, would give the stage to a murderous, genocidal maniac and to defer to this murderous genocidal maniac on the issue of how to resolve the.

The problem that he’s already decided genocide is the solution to. Are you surprised that Trump was so, like the fact that this wasn’t behind the scenes, this was in front of the cameras and, you know, people always had a suspicion that Netanyahu called the shots in Washington when it comes to Middle east policy. Did. Was this an example of that just going to a whole new level, or are you surprised by that element of this, that Trump’s no longer even hiding it, that this is right in front of the press’s face, but nobody’s hiding it. Cash Patel, the FBI director, first question asked, what’s your top priority as the FBI director? To see to the safety and security of Israel.

This is the FBI director, Dan Bongino, his deputy. First question, what’s your top priority? The safety and security of Israel. You know, the. The, the spokesperson of the United States State Department said that Israel is, you know, the. The greatest nation in the world. Donald Trump has called Israel the greatest nation in the world. This is an American president. You know, sometimes people get a little upset when the Americans like to, you know, pound their chest and, you know, are accused of, you know, chauvinism and all that. I’d much rather have a chauvinistic president who proclaimed the glory of the United States of America than a president that sit while he’s sitting as the commander in chief saying, Israel’s the greatest nation in the world.

That is humiliating. We have debased ourselves beyond belief. So, no, it didn’t surprise me at all. This is a President that is 100% sold out to Israel. We knew this even before we elected him because he surrounded himself with nothing but naked Zionists. And people just straight up said, we are Zionists. We are Israel first. That’s where we are collectively as a nation. So, no, it doesn’t take me by surprise. What surprises me is that we, the people of the United States of America, to be okay with this. I mean, this is literally impeachable offenses. Remember when this very same president was impeached for a phone call he made to Volodymyr Zelensky in which it looked like he was currying favor or doing something like that.

Here’s a man who just straight up kissing the ass of Israel, straight up kissing their ass, doing whatever Israel wants, yielding to them on some of the most fundamental issues pertaining to the security of the United States of America. And Congress is okay with it, because Congress, of course, has been bought by the state of Israel. The pro Israeli lobby bragged about spending $100 billion to buy the best Congress money can buy, and they bought it. So Congress isn’t going to do anything. This president sold out, have the American people sold out. And right now, the answer is yes.

I’d like to be proven wrong on this, but we’ve just basically allowed Israel to take over this country. I wrote about this a while back on my Substack page about parasites that take over the bodies of the hosts. And Israel is one such parasite that has taken over the body of the host. And we look like America. We wrap ourselves in the American flag, but we’re 100% controlled by the Israeli parasite. We knew Trump going into office was going to be pro Israel. We knew that. Has. Has his. Has his support for Israel even surprised you, given what we’ve seen, his decision to go to war with Iran, his support for the genocide currently going on in Gaza.

Are you surprised that. That Trump didn’t have even a little more sway with Netanyahu to calm him down with some of those things? Netanyahu seems like he has right now of the Trump administration. Are you surprised that Trump let that happen? Because he had. Trump was. He has been critical of Netanyahu in the past, and they seemed like years ago that they had some kind of issue, maybe a little bit of a power struggle between the two. That’s all gone now, because even after the Hamas attack back in 2023, Trump said he was surprised that Netanyahu let that happen.

So he showed signs years ago or at times that he could criticize Netanyahu. That seems like it’s no longer even. Yeah. You know, and so you have to ask yourself the question, why is this? Was Trump always a snake oil salesman, a grifter, a con artist? Was he just giving us the big con, the big lie? Or did something happen that. That, you know, prompted his immediate turn? I remember Donald Trump used to be feeding, along with Cash Patel, Dan Bargino, Pam Bondi, and others. You know, feeding the Epstein files to the American public before the election is red meat.

We’re going to get the Epstein files. First thing we’re going to do is release the Epstein files. All those names on that list are coming out. This is going to happen. Trump was saying it. Everybody was saying it. And about the same time that Netanyahu comes in and takes over the United States is when the Attorney General and the head of the FBI have decided that there are files that, you know, Epstein committed suicide that there are no files, there’s no client list, there’s no blackmail list. There’s none of this, which is just a straight up lie.

Because we know there’s an Epstein file. Not. Not the file in the sense that Epstein assembled all these names in a convenient single location that was cross referenced to dates the criminal activity took place with the names of the victims. And evidence of this? No. But there is the record, the judicial record, the documentary record of more than 130 victims. Testimony against the perpetrators of these crimes that were committed against them by people who were operating under the umbrella of Epstein’s, a nefarious operation. We know the names of the people involved. We know their positions. We know the crimes they committed.

We know the list. We, the people of the United States of America, already have this list. And yet we’ve chosen to ignore it, instead buying into the subterfuge, the fiction that there was going to be one great big, beautiful list. Pam Bondi promised it. She handed out the empty binders, promising to fill them up. No, she’s not going to release that. Because as Elon Musk has hinted, maybe name number one on that list is Donald Trump. And there’s other names on that list that they can’t allow to be put out there because of the damage it will do to the institution, the institution that Israel has taken control of through its blackmail operations.

One of the reasons why they will never release or act on the Epstein file is because it’s an Israeli operation. And we just talked about who’s calling the shots. The Epstein entity that he was running still exists. It’s been handed off to the next Epstein, who continues to control everybody in Washington, D.C. to the same level that Epstein did. This is an Israeli intelligence operation. If people can’t see that, if they’re unwilling to understand that, so be it. But I’m going to call it as I see it, and we know for a fact that this is 100% an Israeli intelligence operation designed to control the levers of power in the United States through sexual blackmail.

I’m wondering, does Donald Trump. How does he get past this? He said during he had an explosive interaction with a reporter this week, and he said, how could you bring up Epstein again? This guy was a slime ball. And we have flooding and we’re trying to get a ceasefire in Gaza. It just came off as tone deaf because so many people were promised answers, and it just did. He didn’t deliver. And now it looks like the administration is playing this game of cloud cleanup. And I don’t know what the next steps are in how the administration tries to separate itself from this disastrous interaction with the media.

How I’m, I’m trying to. One, I’m wondering, is Pam Bondi going to take the fall? Because it looks like as far as the, the MAGA acolytes out there and the MAGA media, it looks like people are blaming Bondi for over promising that there were never these files and Bondi who’s, I think Megan Kelly said Bondi was this person who wanted the limelight on Fox News and she over promised and now she has to kind of go. So I’m wondering what the administration does to separate themselves further from Epstein, if this will even go away. Well, if you’re going to sacrifice Bondi, you have to sacrifice Cash Patel and Dan Bongino because they’re just as guilty as using their various media platforms and media asset access in the lead up to President Trump’s inauguration, selling the reality of an Epstein and the guarantee that once they get into a position of power, this file will be released.

I mean, Dan Bongino especially has made political hay out of this and Cash Patel as well. So this isn’t simply something that’s going to go away because Pam Bondi is sacrificed. You know, this is a systemic problem that I think the solution is going to be to turtle up and just stop answering questions and say it’s done and watch the American people once again lose focus. And they’ll be assisted in losing focus by a compliant media and establishment which is controlled by the Israelis who will do everything in their power to make this an issue that’s not, given its time in the limelight, that it will be pushed into the shadows and soon forgotten as a non, as a non evented non entity.

So Scott, you mentioned before one of the, obviously the wars that the US got involved recently was for Israel with Iran. And I saw an interview and I always like listening to Professor Morandi speak. I think he makes a lot of sense a lot of times and he was on press tv and I’m going to just play a quick clip of what he said and I’d like to hear your opinion. This is his fault. What he thinks is the fallout with the US’s interaction with Israel for Iran. I think it just tells us and the international community that the United States cannot be trusted at any level.

The United States was staring out negotiations with Iran. We had a series of negotiations between the Iranian foreign minister and Witkoff on behalf of Trump. And Trump said very clearly that he was against an assault on Iran hours before the assault was carried out. And then when the assault was carried out, he gloated about it. And it was clear that he was deeply involved. So it just gives the world a clear indication of how deceitful he is and how dishonest he is and how you cannot trust in the United States at the negotiating table. So that was him.

And it reminded me of a monk debate. I’m sure you know, Mike McFall, the former Obama’s guy in, in Moscow. It reminded me of a monk debate. And this is Mike McFall on stage talking to. About US diplomacy. I’d like to. I’d like you to. In 2021, we kept reiterating that Ukraine was going to join. We kept saying that over and over again. So, Mike, so, Mike, so Mike, so Mike. So our diplomats are lying. Yes. So, yes. That’s the real world, guys. Come on. Come on. But you could wait a sec. Our diplomats are lying all the time.

Time. Yet the Russians should trust them when they offer assurances. No, no, no, no. And we shouldn’t. So that was the interaction. It reminded me of that interaction. So how does the US can it. Or is it even interested in repairing its, its standing diplomatically across the world? How, how would it go about doing that after Iran and its history, even in Ukraine? Is it, is it something that the US Is even interested in doing that? Or, or are we just this country that can’t be trusted going forward? We can’t be trusted. We never could be trusted.

If you remember, Julian Assange was. Hillary Clinton, wanted him killed, wanted him droned. Why? Because he had the audacity to release the diplomatic files that showed that the United States, especially when Hillary Clinton was Secretary of State, all we did is lie. That we would go and say one thing in the public to heads of states and their diplomatic services, and then she would send file reports back that directly contradicted that, that basically said, we’re lying, this is what we really want, et cetera. It humiliated the United States, debased us. You know, we are a nation of grifters.

We are con artists. That’s all we are. We stand for nothing. And it’s been that way for some time now. I understand. You know, diplomacy is the art of, you know, getting what you want done and convincing other people that your way is the best way. You don’t always have to tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, but you can’t lie. You just don’t answer a question or answer it in a different way. Or emphasize one point over and over again without. There’s different tricks that are out there that can save you the embarrassment of being called a liar.

But apparently we’re not embarrassed by it anymore. We just accept the fact that we. Michael McFaul. Yeah, that’s what we do do. That’s it, man. It’s the real world. As if the world’s supposed to accept that. They’re not going to. You know, there are. You can. You can regain lost wealth, you can recapture lost territory. There’s a whole bunch of things you can do to recoup losses. What you can’t recoup is honor, integrity. Once you’ve been exposed as a liar, you’re a liar for life and nobody will ever believe you. And this is just the sad reality of the United States of America today.

It doesn’t matter if you’re a Republican or Democrat or a MAGA, you’re a liar. Straight up liar, a 100% liar. Nobody should ever trust us again. Nobody should ever trust us again. Now, they can engage in diplomacy and all this stuff, but the idea that when the United States says something that people go, well, that’s got the weight of America behind it, that’s meaningless. Meaningless. It means nothing. The. And now I’d like to just shift, while I still have you, to the Ukraine war and what’s going on there. I’m going to just play. We obviously know that the Trump administration had a hard time trying to figure out which way is up with its weapons.

Pause. And so the most recent video I have is. Here’s Marco Rubio talking about it. I believe it’s either today or yesterday. I didn’t see a date, but here’s Rubio. No, no, I said it was a review. It was a pause pending review. And so we were constantly. The Pentagon is constantly reviewing stockpiles, especially after an engagement such as the one we had in the Middle East. So my point is that there wasn’t a policy decision not to give weapons to Ukraine. It was a review in which certain munitions were temporarily paused for that review and for that purpose.

And this reporting out there that there was no awareness of it is not true now. But no policy decision was made. In essence, no one ever said, we’re not sending weapons to Ukraine. That’s been appropriated by Congress, and that’s continued, and that continues to this very day. But when you’re doing a review, there’s some period of time in which, during that review, it’s possible that some shipping is slowed down, not stopped, but because it’s being reviewed. Someone would say, okay, well, let’s not send it today. Let’s wait a couple days, because we’re conducting the review of that particular munition.

So that’s. So. So that was, that was review. It reminded me of an interview that John Mearsheimer did with Judge Napolitano. And Mearsheimer said he was asked, do you think Trump’s going to be able to end the Ukraine war? And Mearsheimer said, no, I don’t think he’s going to. This is back during the election because he won’t be able to make the concessions that Putin wants and will demand. And Trump doesn’t want to be the president to lose Ukraine. So do you think this is a, this is just an example of. Now Trump is in a position, a tough position, because he doesn’t want to be politically the president to hand over parts of Ukraine to Russia, but he also is trying not to get the US Into a major war.

Is Trump in a very difficult position, and is his administration showing signs of strain in, in dealing with the Ukraine war? Well, let’s answer that question. Remember my, my going in premises. Donald Trump’s a liar, can’t be trust. He’s a con artist, a stakeholder salesman, and, you know, all that. But let’s just put that to the side for a moment and, you know, look at it from Donald Trump’s perspective, his own words. According to Donald Trump, he didn’t start this war. This is Joe Biden’s war, and he’s just trying to finish it. So how, how is he losing Ukraine again? Ukraine’s already lost.

It’s Joe Biden’s war. I mean, if Donald Trump believed this, this is the easiest thing to sell the American people. I’m bringing an end to a war that should never have started but now must come to an end. And it must come to an end based upon ground truth and ground reality. The American people would understand that, accept this and everything. The only person that can’t is the grifter, the con artist, Donald Trump the egomaniac, the narcissist, because, you know, he now has to not just stop a war. His goal is never to stop the war.

Donald Trump doesn’t do anything for the benefit of anybody else. His goal is to come out as a peacemaker. And a peacemaker is somebody that, you know, doesn’t alienate anybody in the process. He needs Russia to yield, to bend the knee, to give in, to concede. He needs Ukraine to view him as the hero, the man who intervened to save the day, you know, and that. That’s his world. That’s his universe, that he’s populated. And as Mr. Mearsheimer suggested, it isn’t going to happen. It’s a mission impossible. But this is why Donald Trump will, you know, never settle for truly ending this conflict, because this isn’t about bringing it into the war.

This is about promoting the Trump brand. And the Trump brand, of course, is that of Wyatt Earp walking down the streets of Dodge, gun on his hips, tough men. I mean, God, this is Donald Trump we’re talking about. Did you know that Donald Trump one time looked Vladimir Putin in the eye and said, if you attack Kiev, I will bomb the shit out of Moscow. I will bomb the shit out of Moscow. And, you know, Vladimir Putin pooped his pants in fear and said, no, you won’t. No way. And Donald Trump came back with a diplomatic way.

And I mean, good God, do you listen to this moron in chief? No way. Way. What’s he talking. Putin. Believe me, 10%, he didn’t say it, but 10% he believed me. Putin. First of all, this conversation never happened. Never happened. It’s made up. It’s Donald Trump just making stuff up. But, you know, he can’t just tell one lie, because once you’re on a roll and telling lies, you might as well just double down on, you know, just being dishonest. Because he had the same conversation with Xi Jinping, you know, the head of China. He said, if you invade Taiwan, I will bomb the shit out of Beijing.

And. And jjping pooped his pants right there. It was amazing. Donald Trump got both Putin and Xi to poop their pants and say, no way. Way. No 10%. Well, Xi Jinping apparently was like 5%. 5%. Yeah. Literally the dumbest man in the world and the worst liar in the world because none of these lies are believable. When were these conversations supposed to have taken place? In what context? Because the entire time that Trump was president, Russia was looking to enforce the Minsk Accords. Russia was making no moves to invade Ukraine or threaten Kiev. They wanted the Minsk Accords to be adhered to.

It was Donald Trump that built 20 CIA bases in Ukraine. Donald Trump that built or trained a battalion of Ukrainian soldiers every 55 days to NATO standard for the purpose of going east to kill Russians in the Donbass. That was Donald Trump. This was Donald Trump that wanted this war, not Joe Biden. Donald Trump made this war happen, not Putin. So what the hell is he talking about? He just made this up. The Same thing. At no time during Donald Trump’s presidency was China threatening to invade Taiwan. They were unhappy with certain aspects of our policy, but they didn’t say, we’re lining up the ships, we’re ready to go.

So where’s the predicate for Donald Trump making? Because literally what he’s doing is threatening the American people with nuclear suicide. Because the appropriate response is somebody who says, I’ll be compelled to bomb the shit out of Moscow is to say, then I’ll be compelled to unleash the totality of these Russian strategic nuclear forces and your entire country will disappear. And I don’t give a flying fuck, because I’ve already said that we’ll be dead, but you’ll be go to hell and we’ll go to heaven as martyrs. If that’s what you want, Mr. Trump, you got it. And I also want to remind the American public, I apologize for that language, but I’m a little mad right now when Gerald Salenti swears worse than that.

So I figure I can do it, you know? Donald Trump met with Vladimir Putin for the first time as president in Helsinki. And if you remember this meeting, it was notable for a couple things where Donald Trump met with only a translator present. But more importantly is the body language. Now, remember, this is Donald Trump. I mean, he’s Mr. Big Hands, and you know what that means. You know, he’s. He’s Mr. Big. He’s huge. He’s got. He’s Donald Trump, man. He’s like, good Lord. He walks into a room and he owns it. Donald Trump. Well, they came walking out.

Putin, who’s shorter than Donald Trump, by the way, came walking. He came out first. Putin walked. As you’d expect a national leader to walk cocky. He got the hitch in his step. Head up, he’s in command. Donald Trump comes out literally. Look at the video. Hunched over, looked down. That’s a man who just got his ass handed to him. What did he. Did he. Did he threaten Putin in that one? Because if he did, apparently Putin said something back that made Donald Trump poop his pants. Because that’s a poopy pap Trump that came out of there literally.

A man who himself in fear. That’s the reality. Donald Trump isn’t man enough to make the statement that he claims to be made, because that takes balls. That takes courage. That takes a man ready to take it to the next level. Donald Trump is never ready to take it to the next level. Even when he took it to the next level with Iran, he didn’t. He bombed three empty sites and gave the Iranians advance notice, gave the Iranians advance notice that seven of the most expensive pieces of American military hardware were going to be flying in a known path over Iranian airspace.

He did it because he knew the Iranians weren’t going to contest it, that the Iranians knew that this was a sham. The get out of jail card for Trump, who would box himself into a tough situation and called the Iranians and said, I got to get out of this war, but I’m going to do it. I got to drop bombs on empty facilities. So here we come. This is the path we’re going to take. Don’t shoot us down. That’s what happened. That’s the reality. That’s not a man. That’s not the guy who’s confident. That’s the act of a coward.

And Donald Trump is the biggest coward that ever occupied the White House in the history of the United States of America. And there’s been some pretty lame people that have occupied that spot, but Donald Trump is the lamest of them all. He never made this statement to Vladimir Putin. He never made this statement to Xi Jinping. And the fact that the media is going to let him get away with this is, again, a humiliation. But I’m not going to let him get away with it. He needs to be asked the question every time, when did you say this to Vladimir Putin? Exactly when.

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